Annual Address of Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi 27th Jan 2007

(Recitation)

(Arabic text) (Surah Baqara: 1-5)

Translation: "There is no doubt in this Book. It provides guidance to those who are muttaqi. Muttaqi are the people who believe in the unseen and establish salaat and spend from the sustenance that we provide to them. And, they believe in what we revealed upon them and the people before them and they believe in the hereafter. They are the ones who are guided by their Lord, and it is those who will prosper."

  (Arabic text) (Surah Airaf: 56)

"Indeed Mercy of Allah is closer to the virtuous ones."

(Arabic text) (Surah Al Anbiya: 107)

"And, we have sent thee as a Mercy for the worlds."

(Arabic text) (Surah Ahzab: 40)

"Mohammad is not the father of any of your men but he is the messenger of Allah, And, the seal of the prophets and Allah has the full knowledge of all things."

(Arabic text) (Surah Ahzab: 56)

"Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet, O' ye that believe! send ye blessings and salute him with all respect."

(Arabic text) (Darood e Ibrahimi)

Translation: O Allah exalt Mohammad and his progeny like You exalted Ibrahim and his progeny, indeed Thou are the Praiseworthy and Grand. O; Allah bless Mohammad and his progeny the way you blessed Ibrahim and his progeny, indeed Thou are Praiseworthy and Grand."

It is almost midnight. God said to the holy Prophet (PBUH); (Arabic text) (Surah Muzzammil: 1-4)

"O' thou folded in garments, stand to pray by night but not all night. Half of it or a little less or a little more. And, recite the Quran in slow rhythmic tone."

That means, Allah has commanded holy Prophet (PBUH) to pray at midnight. I just recited the first raku of Suraha Baqara. we shall chant a little and perform Muraqba for a while. And, then we shall talk about the relationship of the body and the soul in a manner that you may understand what I'll tell you and I also know of your understanding.

(Arabic text) We shall chant a little of first part of the first creed. It gives peace of heart. (Arabic text) "Heart is consoled by mentioning of Allah. It enlightens the conscious. The lights; of the body of lights covering this physical body, which has been termed as Nasma by Qalandar Baba Auliya and Jism e Misali by Mohaiuddin Ibn e Arabi, are increased. When these lights overflow, man is filled with peace.

 (Arabic text)

La illaha illallah (14 times)

Mohammad dur Rasool ullah

Illallah (30 times)

Mohammad dur Rasool ullah

Everyone enters youth from childhood and becomes old after passing through youth. Youth and childhood are our past, our experience, and is our life and the record of all our emotions and feelings. Now we shall imagine that we are twelve years of age. Recalling the time when we were twelve years of age is not difficult because we entered our thirteenth year after passing the twelfth. So we shall imagine for a few minutes that we are a child of twelve years. When you will think of that age some incident or event will come to your mind, focus on that.

(Muraqba.)   

 Respected ladies and gentlemen, honorable friends, and elders. We just performed the Muraqba of our twelfth year. We performed this Muraqba because in this gathering today, we shall talk about the past. Sparing the future and present aside, we shall be discussing the past. During imagining of your twelfth year, you must have recalled one or more things of that age.

I recalled my home back there in India, there was a staircase. I used to go upstairs and sit quietly. Once, sitting there I was thinking, why does a man die? The reason of this thinking was the death of my grandmother, she used to love me a lot and departing from her was quite saddening for me. And, since her demise was fresh, so I was thinking, why does a man die?

Now tell me, what did you recollect from that age of yours?

(Please switch on the lights, it's quite dark over here.)

Did you recollect anything from that age? How many of you could recall? Please raise your hands. Oh, so many hands, I can't count them all. That means, most of you sitting here were virtually transferred to twelfth year of your age in the past. People in their sixties and seventies and might be a few in their eighties and twenties be here. This is worth considering, how does a man in his thirties can get back to his twelfth year in a few seconds? Secondly, if we subtract 12 from 30, answer will be 18. How did 18 years ago events could be recalled instantly? Thirdly, can we get back to our past? When we can go back by eighteen years, we can also go back by fifty or by two hundred years. Likewise remained sitting here we can go anywhere. I remaining in Karchi had virtually been in India. Some of my brethren and sisters had been in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and, few might have reached America or to Russia. Didn't it happen? Tell me. Yes, or no?

Audience...Yes it happened.

Why did it happen, someone tell me? To travel eighteen years back into past, how much time is required? And, here you close your eyes and there you are in your twelfth year, say eighteen years ago. You also recalled that place where you were by then. Not only that but you also recollected the playful moments of your childhood. If you are asked what did you see, everyone would tell you a different thing. Some will be telling you about seeing them in school and some will tell you of his naughtiness, some might have remembered his mother's snubbing or father's scolding. But the fact is that you travelled eighteen years back in a fraction of a second and, if someone is in his fifties, he travelled back 38 years. This proves one thing that everyone has this ability to travel back into time. Had this ability not been there, you couldn't have reached your twelfth year of age. Yes, or no? Can anybody tell me what did I tell, what I submitted to you?

One of the audience...standing... You said, "If a man had not this ability he could not have gone to his past nor could he crossed twelve, fifteen or eighteen years."

So you got what I said. I asked this so that it be testified that I am not talking absurd and I am talking something sensible which is comprehensible, too.

Let me ask you one thing more. What is your age now, since you are born? If you are thirty years of age, what all those thirty years will be called? Yes? It is the past. We will call it past. It means you were born in the past. You were born, say thirty year ago. This period of the past thirty years is your life, your senses, your emotions and feelings and all your hot and cold, hard and soft sentiments. Whatever you did in these thirty years, where did it go? All that has become a record. Everything said and done has been recorded. Had that record not been there, we couldn't have been able to recollect it by going back to twelfth year.

Isn't that so? We were born in the past. These thirty years are also past. We were of one day then we became of one year. Then we became of five years and, then we were young. What this childhood and youth is? When we grew old, what this youth will be called? Then, after growing old we passed away. What this entire period of time, since our birth till our demise, will be termed? What will you call it?

Say loudly...

Audience... Past

Then, what the present and future are? Be very careful and give it a good thought, what your childhood is? Past! What is your youth? Past! And, what your old age is?

Audience... Past

What these present and future are then? What is that we mention as present and future? Present and future are fiction, only past is real. Present and future are changing. Past is the record. What does all this mean? It simply means, man is nothing but past. Past is the Time. Holy Prophet (PBUH) has stated; (Arabic text) "Don't say bad about time, Allah is the time."

Now, let's move back from our childhood. Where we were before we were born?

Audience...in the realm of souls.

What this realm of souls is? Present or future?

Audience... Past!

What was there before the realm of the souls?

Audience... Allah was there!

Then, what Allah is?

Allah is also in the Past. We cannot term Allah as past, though he is in the Past. Allah is the Time. Thus, our life, our childhood, our youth and, old age is nothing but the Past. In order to understand the Past, reality has been clad into present and future. Had the present and future not been there the past couldn't have been divided into present and future. Age cannot be determined, if the past is not divided, the months and years cannot be counted. The basis of months and years is the past. And this hadith (Arabic text)

"Don't say bad about time, Allah is the time."

You have understood, you came from past into your childhood, youth and old age and, vanished from here; from this world. Where did you go?

Audience... Into the Unseen!

When you went into the unseen, you became unseen. And, what does this going into the unseen mean? It means, you became Unseen. Thus, two things have become clear. One, everybody is past and, everyone is Unseen. Past is the realm of souls, is the eternity. The world after death is also Unseen. Allah is also Eternity and that, too, is Unseen. Thus, Allah is the Unseen, in the Past and after death, too, is the Unseen. Then, what's the basis of man?

Audience... the Unseen.

Ok. When your real base is the unseen then, why can't man know and cognize the Unseen, which is his actual base? Your base is the soul or the physical body? Soul is your base. Soul is the Unseen or the manifested? Physical body is your manifestation. But, under whose control are all the movements of your physical body?

Audience... The Soul!

Soul is the unseen. Then where do you stand? Aren't you also unseen? And, when we are the Unseen, why can't we see the unseen and the ultra-unseen? Hope it isn't a very difficult topic.  How many of you are feeling it difficult to understand? Raise your hands if you feel it is difficult. Mashallah you all are more capable than me.

So we were talking about...man is the past and the past is the unseen. And, all that a man is doing here is also becoming unseen. You drank water, water became unseen. You had meal, the meal became unseen. You went to Nazimabad; you became unseen from here. You are present in Nazimabad. Thus, man's base is the unseen and the display of the unseen is the soul. If we are not willing to know of our basis, our reality, it cannot be the fault of unseen.

Who doesn't know that without the stimuli of the soul, the physical body cannot move. No one can drink water without the stimuli of soul. No one can even think of a thing without the stimuli of the soul. No woman can become mother without the stimuli of the soul. No man becomes a father without the stimuli of soul. And, without the stimuli of the soul no one can be a teacher, professor or lecturer. For instance, a man is a lecturer, if his soul departs can he give lecture? If the soul of a wrestler departs, can he fight when the soul is not there? A person eats and drinks but if his soul departs he cannot eat or drink. A person runs and wrestles, if his soul leaves him he cannot even move.

Thus, our real base is the Unseen. The world of Unseen is the real world of us and the same is our actual life. We are sitting here because of our life. It is said, my hand is moving, I am talking, what if the soul in us departs, I won't be able to move my hand, I cannot talk. What does it mean? The Soul has made this body a flute. Have you seen a flute? How many sounds it emits when it is blown in? If it is not blown in, can there be any sound? Likewise, if the soul is not blowing breath in us, we cannot talk. Now, what does all this mean? Man eats bread but, when he expires he cannot eat. So who ate the bread? Yes?

Audience...Soul!

Who drank water?

Audience...The soul!

The Soul is eating bread, soul is drinking water. You studied and learnt dictionaries, and became graduates but, have you ever given it a thought that I am not eating, it's my soul that's eating, I am not drinking, my soul is drinking. I cannot be a father, it's my soul. I cannot be a mother, it's my soul. I cannot be a professor, it's my soul. I am not the laborer, it's the soul that is laboring. If the soul does not make this body a medium and leaves it, there will be no laborer, no employer, no businessman, no teacher nor any student. No mother, no father. Yes, or no? Now tell me who eats the bread?

Audience... The soul!

And, who drinks water?

Audience... The soul!

But you say, you eat the bread. We all say that we eat. We wear clothes. Who wears the clothes? No dead body has ever worn any clothes or has it? No they didn't.

According to God's system, one hundred and twenty-four thousand prophets of God have come to the world. Not this world only, there are billions of worlds. In all those worlds billions of suns and moons are also there. God's creatures are existing everywhere. This world of ours is not all. Qalandar Baba Auliya told me, our world; this earth is the smallest of all the spheres. And gave me the example of a very big doom, over that tomb, he said, dip a pin in the ink and mark a dot on that doom. Our world is not bigger that that one dot in this universe. Just imagine a huge doom and a tiny dot made by the pin. This means the bigger worlds are also there. And there is only one system operating in every world.

(Arabic text) (Surah Fatir: 43)

God says, the system that I have devised is established one, it does not change nor it suspends. Neither it stops nor it changes. Have you ever seen the sun changing or rising late by two or four hours or changing its direction and rising from the south instead of east?                         

(Arabic text) (Surah Fatir: 43)

There is no change in God's operation nor does it stop. It does not halt. Man is born and passing away perpetually since the creation of the world. They are coming in and going out. A goat is coming and going. This change; coming and going, is continuing. There is no postponement in it.

Please consider, a goat has ears and hears, and man also has ears and hears. A goat has a nose and smells, man, too, smells. Goat has eyes and sees, man, too has eyes and sees. A man has brain, memory and a goat, too, has them. This is another thing; it is less or more. Even in humans, in some it is more or less. Goat has feet and man also has them. Goat has arms, so does a man. Birds, too, have feet and hands. Their claws are their feet and, their wings are their arms. All things like hearing, seeing, touch, taste and movements are the same but still they are different. Why are they different? Process of birth and nursing is the same but still different.

(Arabic text) (Surah Aala: 19)

Translation: "Glorify the name of the Guardian Lord, Most High, who has created things in fixed measures and given order and proportion, who has ordained laws and granted guidance."

 What an amazing artifact, fashioning and the work of nature. Hearing is the same, sources of hearing are the same but the shape of ears is different. Hands are different. Shape of everything is different. Hunger is the same, thirst is the same and urges are the same. Man gets angry, a goat, too, gets enraged. Man loves his children, a goat, too loves her lambs. God has devised a system that depends upon the soul. A man dies after his soul departs, a cat, too, dies when its soul leaves it. Just as a man cannot eat, move around after the soul departs a cat also cannot move around nor can eat.

This proves that the system, in all the worlds, depends upon the soul. This entire system is the spiritual system, it is not a physical one only. Physical system is changing and, the soul is unchanging because the reality is unchanging. Unreal things are changing. Wherever there is change, it is unreal. And, where there is no change that's real.

Man's birth in this world is a perpetual change. Every day, in and out, every second, every year is a change but, in the soul, there is no change. It's the most unfortunate of people that they have taken the change as reality and, are adamant to prove that change is the reality. And, consider this physical body is everything. It is our body that eats and drinks. How strange is that everyone of us sees his father and grandfather passing away. And, he knows well that this life is temporary and, is changing but still considers it everything. He considers this body is real and to provide comfort to this body, he builds the house, does business, amasses wealth and for that cheats and adulterates, sells his nation and himself. When man comes to know of the reality and that all his physical system; be his body, his house, business or property, is temporary and, is to be left behind. When this thing becomes his belief, he will eat well and live well. God will provide him quality sustenance but he will not consider this temporary world as real. This is what one hundred and twenty four thousands prophets of God preached that this world is like an inn, an examination hall, is the place to plough in. What will you harvest, when you will sow the keekar (i.e. Acacia)tree? Obviously, you will have keekar, it won't bear mangoes. When you will sow the mango tree you will have mangoes, it will not have the thrones of keekar.

If you will be enamored by the temporary and perishable things that do not last, will not be faithful to you and your life will become a picture of faithlessness. Your life will become unreal because you didn't pay attention to reality. You didn't try to explore what your reality is? Mashallah so many of you sitting here, you tell me, is your body is real or changing, breakable, rot-able and a pile of stink? If a dead body is left for two days, what will happen to that body? It will stink and stench and will smell all around. It is not something you don't know of it. You do see cats and dogs lying dead and stinking.

After the prophets of God, their companions spread their teachings. After them, Auliya Allah disseminated their teachings. All these teachings, in a nutshell, are that man has come here, in this world, to take an exam and exams cannot be passed without proper preparations. If you will focus on fiction and changing things and take the exam , the result will also be fiction and, you will not get anything out of them.

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

God says, all that ye do here is recorded and, each and every trace of it is saved. If you did a good, equal to a speck that is also saved as a record and if you did wrong like a speck, that is also saved as a record. And, the same record is your life after leaving this world. If there is good in that record, life in the hereafter will all be good for you but if it is evil in your life here, your entire life, in the hereafter, will also be evil.  

You have come from the Unseen and have to return to the Unseen. This coming from the unseen and returning to unseen is the proof that this life is just a passing phase of life in which there is no stay, no permanent stay.

Holy Prophet (PBUH) has said, (Arabic Text) "This world is the farm for hereafter." Whatever you will sow here you will reap in the hereafter. So I was talking about the past. You came from the past; the realm of the souls and when you left this world you actually are gone to the past. For instance, my father; may God bless him, passed away. Then, my mother passed away from this world. They both became past for me. Thus, all the struggling and efforts of your life and, all the affairs, your living, dying, eating and drinking, wedding and bearing children, building of house and its keeping, all these things are temporary or permanent?

Audience... Temporary!

And, the world where you will go after leaving this world, is that temporary or permanent?

Audience... That's permanent!

Once, Qalandar Baba Auliya told me. A traveler passing by a city, saw a hermit on the way, where is the habitat? He asked him. Over there, the hermit pointed in a direction. Following his direction, the traveler reached a graveyard. He felt bad and, returned to the hermit and, scolded him for misleading him. The hermit said, I didn't mislead you, you asked me about the habitat. Habitat is the place where people go and reside. I am sitting here for so many years, I never saw anyone returning from there. Whosoever goes there, never returns and resides there. So that is the real abode and habitat.

Thus, the real abode and habitat for us is the life of the hereafter. God produced resources of all kinds for our consumption, eating and drinking. Has God created them not to use them? God wants His men to use His blessings and, be grateful to Him and, they should also realize that all these things are temporary. Permanent are those blessings that will be there for them in the hereafter. It is the tragedy of the present era that we are unmindful of the hereafter rather have become oblivious of it.

For example, when you have to go to London, you do arrange funds for the trip. But, where we have to go after death, we don't know, how long we have to stay; a million years or only tens of thousands, we have made no arrangement for that and, that will cause problems for us. According to Allah's system, we are duty- bound to get back to our past. When you will get back to your past, you will remember the blessings of God. You will become mindful of your stay in the womb of your mother for nine months. You remember mother's nursing you for two and a quarter year and, you will remember your parent's love and their taking pains in educating you. When you will remember all this you will be grateful to them and to God.

If God had not created your parents where would you have been? If God had not created resources, how could have we survived? The gist of the teachings of all the Auliya Allah and, all that I have studied is; man is required to remember his past. The more you will remember your past the more will you stay at peace and in comfort. The more you will tend to forget your past, the more uneasy and worried will be your life.       

I am feeling exhausted, I just had the medicine for blood pressure.

Briefly, I will submit to you, act upon the program of self-accountability. At night, before going to bed, recall all the blessings of God, which He has blessed upon you since your birth. Think of your eyes. If a man wakes up in the morning and, finds his eyesight gone, everything will become useless for him. Think of the ears, if a man becomes deaf, what will happen? If one's hands or feet stop functioning, what can one do? If the brain stops performing, what can one do? He will be handicapped, won't be able to do any job. When you will count your blessings, you will be linked up with your past. And, when your link with your past will be established, you will get connected with the realm of the souls. After that you will become in touch with the Day of Eternity, when God had asked you, "Am I not your Lord, after presenting Him before the souls of the creatures. What does it mean, "Am I not your Lord?" It means God presented Himself before the creatures. Souls witnessed their Lord and when they witnessed Him, they acknowledged His Lordship saying, " Indeed Thou are our Lord."

When you will advance towards the past and finally reach Eternity, you will know, what happened there. What did God say? I am your Lord. And, what did we say? We said, yes, indeed and we acknowledge Thy Lordship. Did the souls acknowledge Allah's Lordship without seeing Him? Souls were deaf and dumb, had no hearing nor any sight. Just in a state of bewilderment and lost-fullness. Just had the sense of their being that "I am." What I am? Had no sense of that.

 There was no voice, no eyes, no mouth nor was any mind there...It was just a deaf and dumb silhouette. God presented Himself before this silhouette and asked, "Am I not your Lord?" That is, the deaf and dumb souls heard the voice of Allah. When they heard the voice of Allah, their hearing became activated and, they realized that they can hear and they became attentive. It's but obvious, if you call out Doctor sahib! Only the one who is a doctor will become attentive and would look for the caller. When the souls heard the voice of Allah their hearing became active. When souls after hearing the voice of Allah become attentive their sight became active and, the sight witnessed Allah. And the power of articulation also got activated and the souls said, "Indeed, Thou are our Lord!" When the souls spoke after witnessing their Lord, they came to know that they are creatures and He is their Creator. When the souls realized that they are the creatures, they spontaneously acknowledged His Lordship saying, "Indeed Thou are our Lord."

Now you tell me, with whose hearing we hear? Of whose sight, we see, of whose mind, we acknowledge Allah? Allah says in the holy Quran, "You hear by the hearing that I have blessed you with, you see by the sight granted by Me and, you speak by the articulation given by Me." It means you see by the sight given to you by Allah, hear because of the hearing power given to you by Allah and, speak because of the power of speech given to you by Allah. You have witnessed Allah. After witnessing Him, have acknowledged His Lordship and say, no one can see Allah. What does this mean? Yes, you may say, this material or physical eye cannot behold Allah. And, this Allah has clearly stated, (Arabic text) (Surah Inam: 103)

Allah is too subtle for the material eyes to behold Him. Material eyes cannot see Allah but the sight that has seen Allah in Eternity can see Him. That hearing can hear Him, which has heard Him in Eternity and that mouth can acknowledge His Lordship, which has acknowledged His Lordship after beholding him.

Now, you must have understood that this material body is nothing. When a person dies, his eyes or ears do not perish, his lips don't get stuck nor do they dissolve. His brain also remains there. Then, why can't he hear despite having the ears? Why can't he see in spite of having eyes? Why can't he talk when the lips and tongue are intact? Why can't he speak? Tell me!

Audience... The Soul has left the body.

Soul has left means, the ears stop hearing, eyes stop seeing and hand stop holding things. Isn't it so? The soul has witnessed Allah and, it is the soul that witnesses here. This means, soul is seeing here and, it was the soul that saw there. Where is the problem? Problem is with the body. Body cannot hear, body cannot see, body cannot speak and body cannot hold nor can it walk. All is done by the soul and, it's the soul that has seen Allah in eternity, has heard the voice of Allah and, has acknowledged Allah. See! How easy is the formula to get acquainted with your soul! This is spirituality and, this is what the Sufism is.

And, not knowing the soul is not Sufism, is not spirituality. Whatever I want you to learn is and, I tried to make you understand is that, this body is nothing. This all is because of soul. When you are alive, it is because of soul and when you die, you remain under the soul. When this body has no importance then why don't you search for that entity because of which you move around, eat and drink and are alive? When the soul quits, man is no longer alive, he becomes a dead body.

This is what the prophets and Auliya Allah say; Cognize yourself, know your real self, identify your soul. Realize that honor which God has blessed you with.           The first target of your sight and the ultimate destination of your sight is Allah. This first thing that sight beheld was Allah, the first ever voice that was heard was that of Allah. The first thing that our lips and tongue uttered was...Indeed, Thou are our Lord. You have seen Allah, you have heard Him and you have acknowledged and endorsed His Lordship. You accepted Him to be your Creator. You have also come to know of the duality.

What does it mean when the souls acknowledged the Lordship of Allah? Thou are our Lord, Provider of sustenance, our Protector, You are the Creator and we are the creatures. Souls have also acknowledged that they are creatures, not the creator. When you are not the creator, you must not be haughty. When we are not creators, we are not supposed to be arrogant. God says, you cannot tear the earth by walking arrogantly. The earth will not tear under your arrogant feet. And, if you are so strong, get back your food from the fly. God also says, He is so great He does not feel shy in mentioning the flies and mosquitoes. So many of you sitting here tell me, can you get the food back that a fly takes away from you? When you cannot do that, how can you be bigheaded? Your neck becomes stiff.

Remember one thing, a living person is soft and can be molded. He can bend down and turn aside. But, if a person is dead, his neck becomes stiff. Once, his hand gets stiff, you cannot bend it. If someone is stiff and arrogant in his life, he is dead and, one who is dead here, will remain dead in every realm. Dying is one thing and passing away is another. There is a huge difference between the two. Dying is to become lifeless but passing away means to transfer into another realm. When one dies here, his body dies and, the soul passes away. Body does not transfer. Nobody's body has ever transferred.

If you open up a grave after the burial in a week, you find a body. After two years, you may find a few bones in the grave. But, the soul transfers and that cannot be seen. The Body perishes and turns into dust but, the soul remains, is seen in dreams and is mentioned, too. A person who has passed away twenty years ago is being mentioned even today. He was like this or that. He was my uncle, maternal or paternal. Who is being mentioned? The body or the soul? Yes, soul is mentioned and is referred to, not the body. Being arrogant, haughty or stubborn, considering others inferior and yourself superior, being rigid in family norms, killing others are the signs of one's death. If your body becomes stiff after your death or you become rigid in your life, both are the same.

Man dies and becomes dust but his soul transfers and remains forever. All the chiefs of all the Silasils and all their members preach that don't be dead but pass away and transfer to the next phase of life. If man and his life is analyzed, it can be said that man keeps on transferring, and keeps on changing. He was in Eternity, he come down into the realm of the souls. Then, got down to Burzakh and from there transferred into this world of matter. From this world of matter, he transfers to Airaf, from there he goes to Nafakh e Soor and, goes into the Day of Judgment and then, into yom ul meezan, paradise or hell.

What thing is going and transferring? Soul is transferring. It's the quality of the soul that it remains obscure. It doesn't exhibit itself. Since it remains obscure, it builds a medium, a dress or a body for itself. When the soul came here it created a body from the elements of this realm; from stench, clay and rot. And, when the soul will go from here, it will make a dress of lights for itself. In some realms, it makes a body of lights and in some of Noor.

The Soul is real, body is merely a depiction. We all present here and living in this world are only depictions of the soul.  Since we are considering this depiction as real, we are in trouble, in misery and, this is the reason of all our problems and restlessness.

According to the holy statement of God, (Arabic text) (Surah Teen: 4)

"Indeed We created man into best of proportions."

(Arabic text) (Surah Teen: 5)

"Then, he downgraded himself to the lowest of the low."

The life of 'the lowest of the low' is the body and 'the best of proportion' is the soul.

May Allah be pleased with you. You have come from faraway places in this cold weather. I have great regard and I love you a lot. I appreciate your sincerity and sacrifices and, I pray to God, in your presence or absence, may God bless you with delights. My heartfelt feelings for the members of Silsila are that Allah may bless them with every blessing and may grant us the strength to work for the advancement of the mission of Qalandar Baba Auliya. May we be able to share with others that inner peace and tranquility which God has blessed us with!

(Arabic text) (Surah Airaf: 23)

(Arabic text) (Surah Baqara: 201)

(Arabic text) (Darood Shareef)

From me and the management's behalf, thank you for coming. And, that you came here leaving your cozy beds of your homes, I regret the inconvenience to you. Then, there are mosquitoes for which, I apologize to you, on their behalf. May you prosper and Allah bless you with happiness.

About the Silsila things I request you to be punctual in your lessons and be regular in Muraqba. And, all my brethren, must memorize the Rules and Regulations of Silsila by heart and try to act upon them. And, spread the teaching of Silsila using that spiritual identity with which God has blessed you. Excite people, explain things by giving examples, the way I tried to explain things to you. I don't know whether you understood or not, the relationship of soul and body.

Once an elder related a story to me. A preacher kept on describing the story of Zulaikha, the whole night. In the morning one of the audiences got up and asked the preacher to tell whether Zulaikha was a male or female. So is the case with me. Once someone told me that Abba Jan's talks cause pressure upon their minds and they fall asleep. But I keep on shaking you to remain up because I don't want my children to sleep when I don't sleep.

May Allah be pleased with you and bless you all with health and bless you with obedient lucky children and may see them prosper. Children are the comfort of their parents, you all are my children, my friends and my elders. I request you all to pray for me that after my leaving this world I be successful and may Allah accede to your prayers for me.

(Arabic text) (Surah Ibrahim: 41)

Pray for your elders, too. Elders do pray for their children but the children should also pray for their elders. All that you can do to please me, is to spread the message of Silsila as much as you could. When I had started this Silsila, there was only one thing in my mind that I have to strive with so much passion that the name of Qalandar Baba Auliya be known in the world and the heavens. Alhamdulillah God has blessed me with success.

I had no recognition of the tree. First of all tree is to be bought, land is prepared for it and after mixing manure, it is planted. Then, it is watered.  How can a single man do all this? So, it occurred to me that I should scatter the seeds wherever I found the land. If there will be potential in the land, it will grow the seeds into plants. Then, you can separate them and remove the weeds and, there will be plants all over, as a result of your sincerity.

And, when there will be one plant, how many fruits it will have and then, each fruit will bear how many seeds in it. So, your job is to plant trees. It's the duty of nature to grow fruits on them. You fulfill your part of the job; rest is up to the nature to provide resources or not. So when you plant a seed with sincerity, and sacrifice and there is no worldly interest involved, there is the mission of a Qalandar behind it, who is acceptable to God. How can angels dare to disobey him. How can earth deny his orders? About such a person God says, "I become his ears, his eyes, his hands. How can the resources deny him? This thing is manifested before you.

There was a time when, we were only two people. We started performing Muraqba by two of us. The time that was suggested by our Mentor that since 4 am till that time, we used to follow that. Then, see how God blessed us with passion and consistency, sincerity and the patronage of our Mentor.

There are hundreds of Silasil and each one of them is respected by us and they are our ancestors and, we are a continuation of them. Today you can see the Silsila Azeemiya is outstanding amongst them within a few years because of our humbleness, sincerity, our hardworking and our elder's prayers.

(Arabic text)(Surah Ankabot: 69)

And, those who strive and struggle for us, in us Feena...means without asking for any reward...for Me...who struggle for Me...I made it compulsory for Me to guide them... (Arabic Text)subulona...ways...not one way... When they struggle and strive for Allah, ways are opened for them. Thousands of ways are opened for them.

Qalandar Baba Auliya use to say, One man in Silsila is one but two men of Silisila are eleven and three people of Silsila are one hundred and eleven and, so on and so forth.

In a short time your books have been included in the curriculum of schools. I had to work hard for but let me give you the glad tiding by the grace of God and because of your prayers, up to middle classes the books have been written and will be published soon. These books will be taught in hundreds of schools in 7th and 8th classes.

It occurred to me that there be the branches of Azeemiya Public School, Mashallah nine or ten schools have been opened. The network of libraries is also before you. My books haven't reached the colleges yet but have reached the universities. Many children have completed their MPhil degrees about Silsila Azeemiya. And, Alhamdulillah your brother; Bhai Jan has also completed his PhD on Silsila.

What this all is? Have you ever considered, what this all is? It is the passion of a person, love of a person for his mentor. There is no target in my life except that mission of my mentor be achieved and fulfilled.

Let me tell you something. It is quite strange though. After passing away of Qalandar Baba Auliya I used to go to his mausoleum and remained sitting there. Obviously, I was very upset because of his demise. In those days, I used to witness him, just as I am looking at you. He used to tell me that despite his departure from here, he was with me, I might touch him, feel him or embrace him. Anyway it was a new experience for me. Then, my attention was turned toward Silsila. He commanded me to love my wife and children for his sake because everything due to his love, had been deleted from my mind. I was so crazy that my mentor had to order me to love my wife and children. God is great. I am pleased to see that the same passion is being reflected in my Azeemi children.

It is my experience that, in spite of petty differences, they mix up when it comes to the affairs of Silsila or something is to be done about their mentor, as if there was no difference between them. But, as a father, as a teacher, as a mentor, I do wish that there be no difference amongst you. If you feel bad about someone's something, don't gossip about it. Talk to him directly and ask him. If he refutes the allegation, accept it open mindedly and, don't have hard feelings for him. Say Ok.

The main reason for the destruction of all the nations that are ruined is the differences amongst them. These differences do not give you any monetary benefits and, are only the wastage of energy.

This has been clearly mentioned in the Rules and Regulations of the Silsila that Silsila Azeemiya (Arabic Text) wants to gather the mankind on the platform of monotheism. How can we unite the mankind on this, if we have differences amongst us, have complains against each other and, have hypocrisy in us? We are the representatives of Qalandar Baba Auliya and, he is (Arabic Text)Sadar ussador. We are the children of the king of emperors. We are the kings and the kingmakers. It does not suit us to get annoyed by petty things. We have to have the heart of a king. We have to excuse the world, not to hate one another. We are the pillars of Silsila Azeemiya. We are the bricks that will construct a lofty wall. If a single brick is placed wrongly we will be accused of crooking the entire building. And, this building is to last till the Doomsday, not a few years, decades or centuries. If the pillars of the building will not be strong, it will be big a mistake and very disastrous. It will be treachery with our coming generations. Since every member of Silsila is representing Silsila, everyone of us is required to correct himself then, correct your brother.

It has become the custom of the world, everybody is trying to correct others, no one is taking the trouble of correcting himself. When you will correct yourself, your brother will automatically be corrected.

If a father tells lies and asks his kids not to lie. How is it possible? If a father speaks loudly and shouts and, asks his son to be soft-spoken, how is this possible? What if the child retorts and tells him of his shouting? He will be shouting all the more. How can the child be a soft-spoken?

We Azeemies; the individuals of the Silsila at present, are the foundation bricks, cement and the iron bars of the Silsila. Nothing of the building material should be sub-standard. If anything will be of low standard, the building will be weak.

Qalandar Baba Auliya got this Silsila approved by the holy Prophet (PBUH). We are the links of this chain. There mustn't be any mixing, hypocrisy or lying and, no wealth worshipping in us. Earning wealth is not bad but worshipping wealth is wrong. If the Rules and Regulations of Silsila are acted upon and enacted in your lives, In sha Allah it will spread beyond your imagination provided that we must remember them by heart and act upon them. May Allah grant us the strength to enact them.

It's late in the night and, you must be tired, too. Insha Allah we will meet again. May God protect you. Give my regards to your friends and convey my prayers to them and do give my love to your children. It will not be a bad idea to take sweets with you and, give them on my behalf saying, these are for you from Abba ji.

Assalam o Alykum.