Annual Address of Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi 27th Jan 1998

(Recitation)

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Respected Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of Silsila Azeemiya, elders and friends!

You all know that when something is said, it cannot be understood unless both; the speaker and the audience, are not fully attentive to that. It is necessary that the speaker must speak with a neutral approach, presence of mind and clarity of thoughts and the audience must listen to him with focused attention, concentration of mind and interest. Concentration of mind and focused attention is necessary both for the speaker and the audience to be ready to get down to the root of the stated thing.

The main purpose of all that I want to tell you and, you want to hear from me is that I want to tell you about the cognition of Allah and, how to get closer to Him and, if you will act upon them after understanding them, you will indeed get closer to Him.

You have come here from faraway places with the purpose of hearing something, which may open a way so that our efforts and striving may succeed and our connection with our Allah is established. And, for that, as I just submitted, focused attention and undivided concentration is required. And, to have the focused concentration, we will imagine with closed eyes, for five minutes that Allah is watching us. We pray to Allah, what the speaker has to say is from Allah and what the audience listen to, they must infer those meanings, which are pleasing for Allah and His apostle holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

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Imagine with closed eyes that Allah is watching me. Theoretically we all know that Allah is watching over us, He is All-Present, Observing, All-Hearing, All-Knowing and Friend of His creatures but, we have no practical experience of this thing. Therefore, to understand this thing, we plead from the core of our hearts to the soul of Qalandar Baba Auliya to shower his kind blessings upon us to enlighten our minds and hearts with that light, which may help us see His Light. And, what we hear after this brief Muraqba, we may be guided towards Allah's Noor. And, when we leave from here, for most of the time if not for ever, we shall remain in the blissful ecstatic state of mindfulness that our life and every moment of our life is from Allah.

After a brief Muraqba...

(Arabic text) (Surah Noor: 35)

(Arabic text) (Surah Ikhlas: 1-4)

 Allah states in the holy Quran, (Arabic text), Allah is the Noor of the heavens and the earth. And explains what this Noor is? And says, (Arabic text) Allah guides him to His Noor, whosoever He desires. And (Arabic text), He makes things clear by giving examples. (Arabic text) And Allah knows about everything. In the second Surah that I just recited; Surah Ikhlas, Allah says, "O' Prophet! Say, Allah is One." (Arabic text) "Allah is free of all wants." He is free from any need and requirement. (Arabic text) He begets not and nor is He begotten. (Arabic text) And, He has no family.

Now, by the ability that has been blessed upon us by Allah and, in the light of the spiritual sciences of Qalandar Baba Auliya, we shall delve into these verses. (Arabic text) "Allah is the Noor of the heavens and earth." That is, the basis of the movements in heavens and the earth, the creatures in the heavens and the earth and all that is there, is the Noor of Allah. Allah is there in everything with His Nooric Attributes. Anything upon the earth and in the heavens has no exception to this Law. Manifestation of anything is evident upon the fact that, everything has Allah's Noor in it. If Allah's Noor is not there in an object, it cannot exist. (Arabic text) Noor cannot be translated as Light and will make it an allegorical statement. And when we call Noor as Noor, we refer to that reality which is above any allegory and, which cannot be denied.

Amongst all the creatures, only two are ordained creatures. One is the man and, the other one is the jinn. But, when Adam was appointed the vicegerent of Allah and, he was taught that knowledge, which was not known by the angels and the jinns were also unaware of that knowledge and still are, so Adam was declared the most superior to all creatures.

(Arabic text) (Surah Baqra: 31) "And, Adam was taught the knowledge of all Appellations, that is, the knowledge about all Attributes of Allah was granted to Adam." This (Arabic text) hasn't been said about angels, jinns or any other creature, whereas other creatures also have consciousness, senses and are aware of good and bad. For instance, Allah says, (Arabic text) (Surah Ahzab: 72), "We presented Our Trust before the heavens, the earth and the mountains.” (Arabic text) The heavens and all the creatures therein, the earth and all the existents on the earth and the mountains, (Arabic text) they avoided to lift it up and said, (Arabic text), "If we lifted it up, accepted it, we shall be crushed under its weight." Our existence will annihilate. (Arabic text), "And man accepted to lift the Trust." (Arabic text) "Indeed, man is tyrant ignorant."

According to the holy statement of Allah, if the heavens, the earth, the mountains agreed to lift the burden of the trust, they will be crushed into pieces. This proves that they had the conscious. If they hadn't had the conscious, they wouldn't have said that they cannot accept or bear the responsibility. But when man accepted to bear the responsibility, noticing man's haste Allah pronounced him, (Arabic text), "Indeed, he is tyrant ignorant."

This means, on one hand man, according to Allah's saying, is tyrant ignorant and, on the other hand, he is the Allah's trustee. This means, if being the trustee of Allah, he uses the entrusted powers and benefits himself by the trust reposed in him then, he enjoys supremacy. And, if he is not aware of the significance of the entrusted responsibility, he is ignorant, he is tyrant.

Presently, the situation is that despite being the trustee of Allah, man is unaware of the entrusted responsibilities. What is this trust? This is the position of Allah's vicegerent and the ability to deputize Allah. These are the delegated powers and the authority to exercise over the universe and for which the angels prostrated before him. Using these powers he can partake in the Kingdom of Allah.

What is this Trust? (Arabic text) (Surah Baqara: 31), or to say, when man accepted to shoulder the responsibility, Allah entrusted him to be His vicegerent and to be His deputy. And, to teach him about the affairs related to the esteemed post of His deputy, Allah transferred His Attributes, which are termed, (Arabic text) "And Adam was taught the knowledge of all the Appellations."

Angels submitted, "O' Allah Thou are granting this knowledge to the one who will create mischief and shed blood." Upon this Allah asked Adam to demonstrate the knowledge taught to him. When Adam demonstrated the knowledge learned, the angels submitted in humility, "We knew only what Thou have taught us." Or to say, they accepted Adam's supremacy.

What caused them to accept the supremacy of Adam? Was that the man's physical body of flesh and bones? This point is worth considering. Allah says, "We created Adam's effigy from resounding clay." Resounding clay means, Adam was created from an empty void. Then, Allah says, "This void had no sense of hearing, speech or feeling. (Arabic text) (Surah Al-Hajar: 29) We put soul out of Our Soul in that void; in that effigy.

Now you recite the verse, (Arabic text), "Allah is the Noor of the heavens and the earth." That is, the earth and the heavens are active and running because of Allah's Noor. And Allah's putting out of His soul into Adam means, Allah has put His Noor into the effigy of man. Transference of Noor doesn't mean that Allah forbidding, it makes man a god. But, according to Allah's statement, (Arabic text) (Surah Al-Hijar: 29) "Put soul out of Our Soul." And Allah is the Noor. It means, the thing that makes man superior, is the ability to know the Noor of Allah, though everything existing in the universe is made of Allah's Noor, but they don't have the ability of knowing Allah's Noor.

The only creation that has been given the knowledge to witness the Noor flowing in him, benefit from the Noor and exercise his control over the universe, is man. And, about man Allah has said, (Arabic text) (Surah Jasiya: 13) "All that is there in the heavens and the earth has been subjugated for you."

(Arabic text) (Surah Nahal: 12) "And, the Day and the Night have been subjugated for you and, the sun, the moon and the stars have been given to your command." Taking the meanings of subjugation of the sun and moon to rise and set on their time, to provide the sunlight and the moon light, is nothing but short of wisdom, lack of reasoning and ignorance. Sun provides sunlight to all. If it is providing sunlight to birds, does it mean that it is subjugated to birds, too. If it is giving sunlight to cattle, does it make it subjugated to cattle, too? If the sunlight is given to the soil, mud and mire, Allah forbid, will you say that the sun is subjugated to soil and mud?

Sun rises in the east, reaches the meridian, declines and sets in the west. This is perpetual movement that is continuing for the millions of years and this movement is subjugated for man is not tenable. Because every creature on the earth is benefitting from the sun. Conquest means that the personal life of the sun, what the sun is in actual effect, how it rises, what is its actual position? Can man influence the sun? If man can influence the sun, that corroborates the sense of conquest. If man cannot bring any change in the sun, cannot influence its formation then, the sun is subjugated to all.

(Arabic text) (Surah Nahal: 12) " Allah is saying, “We have subjugated the stars too”. He is saying that the earth has also been subjugated to you and the skies have also been given to your command, that means, the creations of the skies have also been given to man's command. That is, the angels have also been subjugated to man. Because (Arabic text) only man can know Allah's Noor, which is flowing through the entire universe and providing life to the cosmos.

(Arabic text) (Surah Baqara: 31) "And Adam was taught all the Appellations." That means, Adam was taught all the formulae and the wisdom upon which the universe is established. For understanding that Noor, we must peep into our inner self. This is not at all difficult. It is quite easy. I am repeating all these things again and again because repetition helps in remembering many things.

Mashallah, so many of you are sitting here. Can someone say, man can move, eat, drink or sleep without soul? No, not a single person can say so. The very soul is Allah's Noor. Then, reality of man is Allah's Noor. Soul is the reality of man. Material body has no significance on its own. If the soul is not transferred to the fetus in the womb of the mother, it will be a still-birth. After one's birth, at any stage, if the soul breaks away its connection with the body, man cannot live any longer and becomes a dead body.

Tell me, have you ever seen any movement in a dead-body? Has any corpse ever been married, given birth to a child, have eaten food or drank water? You may dissect a dead body into pieces with a knife, will it offer any resistance? Then, where does this material body stand? Material body matters only when there is soul in it. And the soul is the (Arabic text), that is, the soul is not only in humans it is there in every creature of the earth and the heavens. Allah's Noor is operating in all.       

Man is superior only because he has been made familiar with the soul, Allah's Noor, in the eternity. When Allah said, 'Kun' (Be!) and the entire universe came into being, including the humans, the trees; everything. Human souls also came into being in billions and trillions.

At this stage, souls were neither able to see, hear nor had any sense of others. They were only aware of themselves. To break their inertia, Allah presented Him before the souls and asked them, (Arabic Text) "I am your Lord?" When the souls heard the voice, they became attentive to Allah. The first ever sound the souls heard was the voice of Allah i.e. the souls have heard the voice of Allah. After hearing the voice of Allah, they became attentive and saw Allah i.e. the first ever thing the souls beheld was Allah. After witnessing Him, the question asked was considered by the souls and they replied in affirmation. (Arabic Text) "Yes! Indeed, You are our Lord!"

That means the first thing the souls heard was the voice of Allah. After hearing the voice of Allah, the first thing the souls saw was Allah. And, after witnessing Him, the first thing they uttered was the acknowledgement of Allah's Lordship. (Arabic text) "Am I not your Lord?" It clearly means, in eternity, souls have heard the voice of Allah, have seen Allah and have acknowledged His Lordship.

Now, please consider, can anybody perform any activity in the world without soul? Tell me, if anyone can do it? Let me hear from you. The real person in us is this physical body or the soul?

Audience... The soul!

The soul has heard the voice of Allah. Soul has seen Allah. After witnessing Allah soul has acknowledged Allah's Lordship. When your real self has heard Allah, has seen Allah, has acknowledged His Lordship then, why can't you see Allah? The first ever target of your sight was Allah. This simply means if a person becomes familiar with his real self, his life, his soul, his inner self and the real person in him then, what will happen?

Audience... Acquaintance with Allah!

Yes. He will be acquainted with Allah. There is not much to think about. Soul is your real self. Tell me! Do you agree that your soul is your real self? Or tell me, can you have food in the absence of your soul? Can you drink water without your soul in you? Can you deliver a baby without having life in you? Can you marry without having a soul in you? Can you labor or do a job with your soulless body? Can you have fever, can you be healthy, can you feel hot or cold without having soul in you?

The physical body is subject to the soul. The physical body has no significance if the soul or life is not there in it. Thus, what's real?

Few of the audience...The soul!

No, all of you tell me.

Audience... The soul!

The real of you; the soul has seen Allah?

Audience...Yes!

Has heard Allah's Voice?

Audience... Yes!

Has acknowledged Allah's Lordship?

Audience...Yes!

Then, why don't you behold Allah when the soul is your real self?

Audience... We are not familiar with the soul.

Everyone is familiar with one's soul, spirit or life. All know when soul quits. Who says you are not familiar? When some relative of yours dies, you say his soul departed. Yes, or no?

Audience...Yes!

That means you are familiar with the soul. But you don't believe it as you should be believing. It is nothing more than hearsay for you. You just hear that soul has departed. The actual reality is that we consider our physical body everything. I did this, I did that. We did that. Now, they recite naats and will say how nicely they recited it. If their soul departs, can they recite it? They will say, "Azeemi Sahib spoke well." If Azeemi Sahib expires now and here, he won't be able to utter a single word. So, how did Azeemi Sahib say?

So, the same soul, spirit or life is operating in all the creatures whether they are in the heavens or the earth. (Arabic text) "Allah is the Noor of the heavens and the earth." Allah's Noor is operating in all. Man is the only creature that has been blessed with the knowledge of the soul, that is, Allah has clearly told us that in the eternity, when the soul had not made the material body its garment. When it had not disguised itself and was the pure soul, this pure soul; the soul had listened to Allah's Voice, beheld Him and after beholding Him, had acknowledged His Lordship.

When the soul came down in the material form, after coming into the material body, our society, our elders, our ancestors didn't tell us that the soul is our real being. They told us that this material body is the reality. To correct this very mistake, Allah sent one hundred and twenty-four thousand prophets. Every apostle taught us that this physical body is not our real self. This physical body is the covering robe, an envelope, a shirt and trousers or a coat. The sleeve of a coat will only move when the coat is worn by a person. When the coat is taken off and is put on a hanger, its sleeve will not move.

Similarly, our physical body is a garment worn by the soul. As long the soul remains in the body, hands, feet, legs will move, eyes will blink, heart will beat, information will come into brain and brain will ascribe meanings to the information received. And, when the soul will take off this robe of physical body and discard it, it will no longer be able to blink eyes, no thought will occur, will not be able to deliver a speech, won't be able to compose any poetry, won't be able to move around, no progress can be made in the field of science, no invention will be there nor any house could be constructed. Nothing will be there. If Allah tells the souls of the citizens of a city to quit their bodies, will there be any festivity in the markets of the city? Will any house be constructed there? Will there be any road and pathway? Will there be any plantation? Will there be any hospital? Will there be anyone sick or healthy? Will there be any marriage? Why? Why? Because the soul, which is the real self, has dissociated itself from the physical body.

In short, this physical body is nothing more than a garment. If the soul is there in the body, man is alive, moves around, thinks, gets angry, feels jealous, hates and loves. Man gives charity, is miser and a saver. It is altogether a different discussion, what's charity or misery? But you tell me. If the soul or the spirit is not there in the body, which body movement can be performed? So, what's your real self?

Audience... The soul!

Soul has witnessed Allah, so in other words, you have seen Allah. When your real self is the soul and, the soul has seen Allah, soul has heard Allah's Voice and has acknowledged Allah's Lordship. And, if man says, he cannot see Allah, cannot hear Allah's Voice and misstates that he hasn't acknowledged Allah's Lordship.

(Arabic text) (Surah Ahzab: 72) "Indeed, it is tyrant ignorance." Spirituality is not an enigma, philosophy or logic. It's very simple. Like one plus one is two, man cannot move without his soul, cannot speak without soul, cannot write without soul, without a soul one cannot think, sleep or awaken. Nothing can be done without the soul.

Soul has witnessed Allah; we only have to do this much that we should acquaint ourselves with our soul. All our relations, like husband and wife, parents, brothers and sisters, friends etc. on one side, are due to the soul and, on the other, due to the physical body. All our physical relations are because of the physical body. The husband and wife, mother and father. Allah says, (Arabic text) (Surah Ikhlas: 1-4) "Say, Allah is one." Whenever the material body is mentioned, it is bound to be in plurality. Material body means plurality. All relations sprout from physical being. The physical body is supposed to be always dependent upon others. Needs resources, needs to eat, needs to drink, needs children, needs parents, needs land, needs rain, needs water, needs air, needs oxygen, needs water, needs clothes, needs hunger and thirst, needs sleep and awakening, or to say, you cannot think of a thing in this life when man is not indigent. Give it a thought. Any phase of life when man is free of wants and needs? Tell me. Come on tell me even a single instance whence man is free of wants and needs. You must have parents for your birth. You need parents after your birth. When you grow a little, when need teachers and schools. When you have grown up, you need to do a job or do a business. Upon maturity you need to be married. The more you grow, the more are your needs.

And, Allah says, (Arabic text) Allah is insouciant. Allah is not dependent upon anyone, not in any manner. Man cannot be one. Material body cannot be one. They are always in plurality. Allah is one, that is, Allah is free from physical existence. (Arabic text) Allah is Insouciant. Creatures cannot be free from need. They cannot live without oxygen, water, air and bread etc.

Now what should man do? There is Noor, soul in man. When soul wears the body as its covering dress, the body becomes dependent upon resources, but the soul remains indigent of resources. Man cannot be one, he is to be in plurality. Creatures must be in plurality. Man cannot be without a father, must have offspring. Man cannot be free from the family ties. It is an attribute of Allah. (Arabic Text) Allah is not needy of anything or anyone. If man could have his expectation banked upon Allah after abandoning his expectation from others, he gets closer to his soul. This is the formula, a spiritual formula that if man relinquishes his expectations from other people and, associates all his expectations with Allah and considers Allah his sole benefactor and, if this certitude establishes in a person that doer of everything is Allah, giver of life is Allah, causing one to born here is Allah, Allah is the provider of resources.

Allah blesses us with children and Allah is causing us to die. And, when this certitude is developed, he will abandon expecting from others and when one stops expecting from others, his expectations will be rested upon Allah. When he feels hungry and will eat something, his mind will automatically turn towards Allah that Allah made him to eat. When he feels thirsty, quenches his thirst by drinking water, his mind automatically turns towards Allah that Allah quenched his thirst and provided him with water. When he has kids, his mind will turn towards Allah that Allah blessed him with kids. When Allah calls him back, he will be happy that Allah has called him back. So, he will return happily.

Thus, this is the point, when man abandons his expectations from others, he becomes acquainted with his soul. It's quite simple but, still man keeps on expecting from others. And this makes it difficult for him. It is not at all difficult. Your connection with Allah will establish when you start considering Allah, sole benefactor after relinquishing all your expectations from others. Not verbally only. Verbally all say that Allah provides, but it will affect only when this becomes one's certitude.

(Arabic text) (Surah Aly Imran: 7) Those who become firm in their knowledge say that it is their observation and so they believe that everything here is from Allah. There is nothing which is beyond the powers of Allah.

You give it consideration, is there anything which is beyond the powers of Allah? The water, air, oxygen, the sun, moon, stars, the earth, fruits and all the sustenance that are blessed to us. You tell me what is your involvement in any of these things? Everything is from Allah.

Qalandar Baba Auliya, explaining Surah Ikhlas has said, if man takes Allah his benefactor, with certitude and rests all his expectations upon Allah alone, he becomes aware of his real self. He becomes acquainted with his soul. And, when he is aware of his soul, the real philosophy of life and death transpires upon him.

No one is alive or dead here. Actually no one knows what's happening here. A child is born today and dies the same day. Next day he is born again and dies again the second day, too. On third day of his life, he is born again and, so on till he becomes one year of his age. See! Child started dying soon after his birth. Becoming young means his childhood passed away. Then, he grows old, which means, his youth also passed away.

After one's death one becomes unseen and doesn't return to his former state. Have you ever seen an old man becoming young again? In short, you must understand with certainty that the material body is not real. The more you ponder upon this, the more it will become clear to you that the material body is not our real-self, soul is our real-self. Soul has sighted Allah. And, in order to have the cognition of the soul, you have to abandon your expectations from others and rest them upon Allah. Love people because they are the creatures of Allah. Help others because Allah likes it. Educate your children because Allah wants you to train them in such a humane manner that they help others.

In short, if you comprehended this small thing, that's all. And, if you do not understand it, then it's nothing. There is a saying, a religious scholar was reading the story of Zulaikha. His sermon kept going the whole night. Near morning, one of the audiences got up and asked, whether this Zulaikha was a male or a female?

Now you tell me. You all tell me. What did you understand of the sermon, of my entire speech or address before you?  

Audience... Soul is the real self.

And what is this physical body?

Audience... It's nothing.

No, it is something.

Audience...It's the covering dress.

Yes. It's the garment of the soul, that is, coat and trouser for men. And, for ladies, Shalwar Qamees and Dopatta (Scarf). So, are you living because of your real-self or for the Scarf?

Audience... Because of the Real self.

No, you are living only for the scarf.

Ok. The soul knows Allah, that means, you also know Allah. And, since we are not familiar with our soul, what is the soul and what is the method to acquaint ourselves with our soul? Yes, what's the method? I just told you now. Tell me!

Audiences opinioned severally.

Have expectations from others as much as Allah wants you to expect from them. Relinquishing expectation doesn't mean that a wife tells her husband that she has no expectations from him so he should simply handover the day long earnings to her and leave without expecting to have dinner. Relinquishing expectations doesn't mean to abandon the reasoning and tear off one another's clothes and reject them saying, you have nothing to do with us, Allah will provide me the resources.

You must have working relations with everyone but don't consider them gods. Man is to help each other. Qalandar Baba Auliya used to say, man is the remedy for one another. Husband and wife have rights. Husbands must fulfill wife's rights and wives must fulfill the rights of their husbands. Because Allah has appointed these responsibilities for them. And other's rights are to be met for the sake of Allah. All that a man must do for his wife and the wife for her husband, must be for the sake of Allah.

If you rear up your children that they will be a support for you in your old age, no one knows whether they will be or not. Now a days, when parents grow old, children drop them in Edhi's old homes, that is, parents want their children to be their support in old age and the children deposit them into old houses. Bring up your children because Allah has appointed you for their bringing up and you must bring them up as a better human being. Make them the type of a person, the way Allah wants them to be. This is how to have expectation from Allah.

Let's resolve yet another problem in a minute or two. Tell me, do you want to get closer to Allah or want to get away from Him?

Audience...want to meet Allah

When can man meets Allah?

Audience... (mixed responses)

When one dies, he meets Allah. Tell me. Do you feel happy or afraid of dying? Tell me honestly, don't lie. Aren't you scared of death? That simply means, you are afraid of going to Allah rather you don't want to go to Him. Think! Every one of us fears dying. No matter how scared you might be of death, ultimately you must die. You believe that we will die, will meet Allah after death. We all know this. Then, doesn't scaring from death mean that we don’t want to meet Allah? Then, aren't we telling lies? Whether we are afraid or not, we must die.

It is the statement of the holy Prophet (PBUH) that a believer longs for death. Believers want to be released from this prison as early as possible so that they can reach Allah. Simply it means that feeling scared of death means one is not a “momin” and doesn't want to meet Allah. Scare of death means that one is considering this world everything though this world is fiction and temporary. Father didn't last, grandfather and great-grandfather didn't last, now I am a father and a grandfather, how can I last forever?

Wishing for the death also doesn't mean to commit suicide by consuming poison. Allah has forbidden that too. It means, live in the world as long as Allah wants you to stay here, stay here and when He calls you back, return to Him delightedly. Be gleeful when the Creator calls you back. Holy Prophet (PBUH) has said, Believer's death is not different than a thread that is being pulled out of a kneaded flour and when a person entangled in the world dies, his death resembles the pulling of the clothe that is spread over a thorny berry and it is all shredded. So, what's need to be scared of death?

Qalandar Baba Auliya used to say that death is the greatest of all guardians. Why? Why? Because Allah has stated, (Arabic text) (Surah Baqara: 24) And, whosoever is born in this world, must remain in this prison for an appointed time. He cannot escape from the prison. If he will escape, the Death Angel will be held responsible, how this man could leave the prison without completing the term. You have a Pakistani Passport; you cannot enter London without a visa. If you get there stealthily, the officials on duty will be taken to the task.

Similarly, if the 'visa' of Alam e Airaf is not there, you cannot enter that realm. It is the System of Allah. It's the Law. You may try, no matter how hard you try, you won't die. You might have read about countless suicidal attempts in the papers. Some jump off the Kemari Bridge, some jump off a twelve storied building, some do this, and some do that and still survive rather they face the charges for attempting suicide. And face the courts for that.

If, you will stop feeling scared of death and start considering death your guard, you will be liberated from the attachments of this world. You'll consider this world an inn, a prison. What's special about this world? Visit any house, you find them complaining and belligerent. Waqar Sahib was telling that Abba Ji responded to 1.8 million letters of people facing different problems. Not one of those 1.8 million letters was from a happy soul. All those 1.8 million were sad and in anguish. I think there are many times more than those 1.8 million. Why are they in anguish? Anguish means that we have taken this world and the material body as everything. Whereas this world is a prison, a tavern, a place to live for a limited time. Everyone who has come here, must leave this world.

(Arabic text) (Surah Zilzal: 7-8)

This is the world where if you do a good like a speck, that is recorded and if you do an evil equal to a speck that too is recorded. (Then, hinting towards the shoulders said,) Karaman Katebeen are sitting here. It is said that they have registers with them. Instead of registers, you can take them as video cameras of Allah. One camera is installed on right hand side and the other one is on the left-hand side and they are recording the film. And, when one dies, these films show him that this is what you have been doing in the world.

(Arabic text) (Surah Zilzal: 7) A deed equal to a speck is recorded and will be shown. It is no different than installing an in-house video camera. Everything will be captured in it, when did you wake up and when you did what, when did you take water, when did you sneeze, when did you leave the house and when did you return, all and everything is recorded. Likewise, Karaman Katebeen; the Cameras of Allah shooting your film, and nothing could remain hidden from them.

You tell me. Do you believe that Allah is watching over us? Yes? Raise your hands if you believe that Allah is watching over us. And, when does one sin? When no one is watching him. Then, when Allah is watching over us, all the time, how can you commit a sin? Thus, once this thing is established in a person, he will not move even his finger against the Will of Allah.

You are saying it verbally only, you don't mean it. You must be testifying to it in your heart that Allah is watching over you. The problem will be solved, and you will learn spirituality as well and, you will reach Allah. And, all that Allah has blessed you with, all the knowledge taught to you as a human, will also be transferred to you.

You all came here from faraway places. We attempted to finish our program by 11 O' clock, but we were late. All that I said, may it be understood by you. All that you heard; may I understand that. Otherwise, let it be for the next time, we'll have a session together. It certainly is a pleasure to talk to you. May Allah accept your coming here and please you for taking pains for the sake of Allah. You have love for Allah in your heart. Indeed, Allah is pleased with you, otherwise how could you have remained seated here for so long. Had Allah not wanted you to sit here, you would not have been able to remain sitting. May Allah bless us the ability to trudge along the straight path having the belief with certitude that our physical body is the dress for the soul and, our soul is our real self.

Let's pray. (Arabic text) (Surah Ikhlas:1-4) (Surah Fateha) (Surah.....: 56) (Darood Shreef x1+3) (Surah Saffat: 180-182)

O' Allah, please accept participation of all of us in this session. O' Allah! Bless us with the ability to understand, accept and act upon all that has been explained in this session.

O' Allah grant us with the ability to follow the footsteps of the holy Prophet (PBUH) in their true spirit and letters. Bless us with the love of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). Bless us with the “Ishq” of the holy Prophet. And enable us to witness him. Grant us the ability to have the benefits of the blessings of Qalandar Baba Auliya.

O' Allah, awaken our spiritual potential in us.

O' Allah, bless us with the ability to understand ourselves and to cognize You.

O' Allah, grant us the insight, vision and power to think.

O' Allah, grant us the ability to read, ponder, understand and act upon the teachings of the holy Quran.

O' Allah, have mercy upon us. and be beneficent to us.

O' Allah, fulfill the purposes of all the participants of this session.

O' Allah, all those who have asked me to pray for them, from Pakistan and abroad, through writing letter or asked me on phone or sent messages through friends, accede to all their prayers and fulfill their desires.

O' Allah bless our children to be spiritual persons and make them obedient and enable them to work for the mission of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).

 O' Allah pardon our mistakes and sins (3times) and bless us with the ability to do good. And grant us the ability to serve the creatures. Bless us with fraternity, sympathy and brotherhood for one another.

O' Allah purge us from prejudices and liberate us from grouping and save us from sectarianism. Bless us with the ability to hold Thy rope collectively and strongly.

O' Allah bless our children with happiness and employment. And, resolve their matrimonial problems, bless them with ease and comfort. Bless the married couples with mental harmony and mutual love among them. Relieve us from anger, hatred and jealousy. Relieve us from the on-rush of doubts and dubiety. Bless us with the ability to read the holy Quran with certitude. Awaken our spiritual potential in us. (2 times)

O' Allah make us a worker in Thy Kingdom (2-Times) and bless us with the ability to learn knowledge and teach it

(Arabic text) (Surah Baqra: 201-202) (Surah Airaf: 23) (Surah Ibrahim: 41) (Surah Baqrah: 286)

O' Allah, all those who cooperated in the arrangements of the Urs of Qalandar Baba Auliya, bless them all and accept their cooperation.

O' Allah first floor of Jamma e Azeemia has completed, and the construction of the second floor is going on. Bless them all who cooperated us building the Mosque by any means.

O' Allah bless them with the employment who are unemployed and whom You have blessed with employment and business opportunities, increase their comforts and ease.

(Arabic text) (Surah....:...)

(Arabic text) (Hadeth Sahih Bukhari: Part 3: 1321)

Thank you all. Stay blessed. Assalam o Alykum wa Rehmatullah wa Barakatuhu!