Evil Elements in Human Beings

His Holiness Younus AlGohar speaks about the Evil elements in Human Beings, the knowledge of Spirituality and its Importance.

"It is only possible with the knowledge of Spirituality that you will elevate human qualities and human values in you. You think your body is human but what is human in you is dormant, is in sleeping mode. Your soul is human and your soul is dormant. You are living with Devil representation." 

The knowledge of spirituality has never been common, historically speaking. Because this knowledge is not about reading and memorising some stuff, this knowledge is about changing yourself. For example, if you use your left hand as your principle hand, some people are righty, they eat, they write, they sleep on their right hand, and some others are lefty, they eat, write, if they play cricket, the bat with their right hand they bowl with their right hand. If you are lefty it means your principle support comes from your left hand, and now if you want to change it, meaning you want to shift the main principle load from your left hand to your right hand, and now you want to start doing everything with your right hand. So, what happens is if somebody asks you to change this habit and start using your right hand for day-to-day chores of life, it's not easy. And then, if you lie a lot, everybody thinks he is an honest person but believe you me there is nobody in this world who has never lied. However, sometimes you lie in order to avoid mischief, and sometimes you lie to protect your bad deeds, to protect your good name. However, all your actions in the court of God will be judged upon your intentions. Whatever the intention is the action will be judged in accordingly.

And now, in Spirituality the most important factor is that you change your lifestyle, you get rid of all the negative traits in your personality. Some people think when God wants to help you he will say, 'Be' and it will be done. No. God will create your soul and he will say 'Be' and your soul will be created. When you are born into this world, you do not remember the time that you spent in the Higher Realms. Before your soul was transported into this world, you have no clue you, are not aware of your existence. This is because when your soul was transported into this world it was dormant and senseless. Like a baby, although the baby is eating and sleeping, but when it grows up doesn’t remember this, because the baby is senseless. There is naivety in the baby. As the baby grows the intellect comes into action. In a similar way, when your soul is transported. When we say birth it's not actually birth of the soul, it is birth of the body. Do not ever think that the time that your body is born is the first day of your existence because your soul is not born it is transported and shifted into a new house, which of course is the body which is delivered by the mother. Before the transportation of your soul into this world you lived a life in which there was no involvement of Devil. All the souls lived in the Realm of Spirits. Before your birth when your soul was in the realm of spirits, you never knew what is evil, what is bad. And then when your soul is transported into this world and the body is born to a mother, just when the baby comes out from the tummy of baby's mother, right there the appointed angels bring your soul along with other auxiliary souls, plus Subtlety of the Self (Latifa-e-Nafs).

Therefore, by birth you have evil representation. That is why Prophet Mohammad said, nobody is a normal drop of blood. This awareness of the truth is not common. People are born into this world and whatever their parents teach them of course this is what they will learn. If you teach them a true religion they will come to know a religion, if you teach them a sectarian element, they will learn to know the same as they were taught. And if they never come to know about the evil representation in them they will never think their opinions and decisions can have a tint of Devil.

Now, what happens is as the baby grows, that evil soul (Nafs) is in you also grows. With you grows a Devil and that Devil inside you is so close to you that it is almost impossible for you to distinguish at times. For example, you want this luxury. Do you know whether or not it's you or the Devil living inside you who is desiring that luxury and comfort? This is how close that Devil is inside you. And there is no mark of distinction; you cannot distinguish between desires that come from your heart and desires that come from your Nafs.

We have all these religions; Judaism, Christianity Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism, and all these religions ask you to do good and do not do bad. And western civilisation, if you strictly follow your religion, will label it as 'fundamentalism'. I do not call it fundamentalism. To be a fundamentalist is to redress the core issue. Your first job in order to revive human value in you is to determine and scrutinise the representation of devil in you, only then you will be able to adopt the human ways and adopt human qualities. No religion is telling you to change yourself, they are all asking you to do good and do not do bad, but, they do not tell you how do we learn not to do bad. That is why you have all these religions and you have so many religious people and they are trying their level-best to become 'good'. However, there is some evil force in them that creates a hurdle and does not allow them to be successful in their struggle of becoming good. You will see all these individuals who are paying homage to God in Synagogues, Churches, Mosques and Temples, they are in holy places but their heart is not holy, their mind is not holy.

The first job of a man is to understand that he is not alone. You can sit alone and you will see you are not alone. Sometimes you are not just thinking and you see thoughts are just raining like cats and dogs. There is a shower of thoughts. Thoughts you can't even think of! Religions call it Evil Whisper. Somebody is whispering in your heart. But we need to find out who is this whisperer? And why and how this whisperer is inside us? When did it enter our body? I do not know what in the length of time since my birth, 'til date, when this whisperer entered my body? How? I didn't make an effort for that whisperer to come inside me! However I heard I need Divine Help in order to bring God and God's name in my heart. Do you not think the world would have been a better place if we were able to decide as to what should we bring in our hearts? Devil or God? This is a violation! You are not aware, you do not know, this is against your Spiritual Statutory Rights! Without your permission you have been bombarded, there are so many Evil Elements in you, you cannot escape evil. You can't miss it.

Religions are not aware of this. Religions will tell you, if your clothes are dirty you cannot worship, go take a shower, clean yourself and when you are clean then you can worship. But the problem is if your clothes are clean your body is clean, your mind is still wandering about here and there, your heart doesn’t stay in that worship, your mind doesn't stay in that worship. Your mind is not in your control. Your heart is not in your control. I don't know what kind of man you are when your own heart, when your own thoughts and mind are disproportionately out of control, I don't know what kind of manly power you have. No religion will bring human qualities out of a human unless that religion is duly assisted by knowledge of Spirituality.

We need to be aware of the fact that at birth some Evil Elements were hammered into our body, without our permission, without bringing to our knowledge. Don’t you think this is a grave violation against human rights? What can you do? For example, somebody is in a coma and somebody comes and rapes him and people will say he is really bad, he knew he was being raped and he didn't stop it, however nobody will say he was in coma.

God says, 'Man is darkened, man is ignorant.' Did I choose to be an ignorant, or to be left in darkness? Is this by my own choice?  

This is the evil soul in our body, it depends on this evil soul whether or not that person is good or bad. if the evil soul in you has been mortified, purified you are a good person, because there is no element of evil in you, the human and Divine qualities will manifest in your character. Your lifestyle will change you will never hate anybody, you will never harm anybody, you will never have a bad conjecture for anybody. You won't think badly about people. You will not be ridiculing others, and you will not be making a false derogatory judgment, because it's very easy to be judgmental. If you are doing something and people don’t understand it, they will issue a verdict: he is bad. They do not want to go into depth and they do not want to know the reasons why somebody is doing what. They are very quick to jump to conclusions. Whether or not somebody is good depends on his evil Soul. Those who have purified and mortified their evil soul they become human friendly, loving character, they are so kind, they are so often forgiving. They don’t accumulate malice for anybody, they do not hold grudge against anybody. They do not hate anybody, they are not arrogant.

Most subjects of Science, for example Biology, Chemistry and Physics, their study is of two types; theory and practical. If you are learning to repair cars and you are reading books after the theory how much you understood will depend on how well you can put that theory into practice. If you say I read the chapter, 'How to Repair a Car' and you get 100% marks, then comes the practical. But, if you fail the practical, then where is the theory? These religions are very easy; Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, they are very easy, it's for kids, because you are not changing anything. You are not changing yourself. They simply tell you, don't do this and don't do that. However, the desires are still there. Lust is still there. Hatred is still there. Greed is still there. They say in Urdu, 'A thief can stop stealing, but he will not quit his crooked ways.' The religions don't care about your inside. Even if you are an animal, but religion doesn’t care, you must go to the mosque and you must fast, read Quran. Don't look at girls! This is exactly what people do, they are standing they are not doing anything and in their eyes they go the whole hog. And according to Shariah (Black Letter Law) nothing happened.

His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi does not approve of this, this is not cleanliness. It's just a show-off, you are not doing anything wrong because you have been told you will enter hellfire. So, your desires have been suppressed. But then, they look for ways, some people become holy people, they are not holy but they claim to be holy, 'I am eligible to do anything!' So, under the banner of this 'Holy-ism' they do everything to please their Ego.

In short, Spirituality is about changing you and the change will come from within. You will need to introduce yourself into yourself, who are you? For example, if you are hating somebody, you should ask yourself, 'Is this really You?' No! It's not me, I am a man. I am a human being. I cannot do that.

There were so many Adams created by God and God got fed-up with them because they were being naughty and wicked, they wouldn't listen to God. They were disobedient to God and they did not have the knowledge of Spirituality. Therefore, in the absence of Spirituality God could not continue to keep high hopes about them. The progeny of those Adams were involved in all sorts of crimes; moral crimes, all civil crimes, matrimonial crimes. They were killing each other, they were hating each other and they were doing all sorts of bad deeds. God got really upset and he destroyed all those progenies of Adams. And then later on when he destroyed them all, God was advised, maybe somebody from the Unseen World said to him, 'O doctor, what are you doing? You cannot heal these people without medicine.' So, the problem with all those progenies of Adam was that there was a lot of distance between them and God, they could not change themselves. They did not have the Divine Medicine which would cure their hatred. They did not know how to love. Why? Because the love is related to the heart and they did not have the knowledge to put their heart right. Those progenies of Adam were like surgeons without scissors and forceps, without the instruments of surgery. Therefore, somebody from back there advised him (God), 'Create another Adam, and give him the cure and some power to reach you, if you want them to become Godly, clear the way between you and them.'

This time when God got this brilliant idea he created yet another Adam. This time this Adam was not created in this world, this time he created this Adam in the realm of Angels and Angels are pure. Angels have no hint of evil in them they were made of God's Light, therefore, they have the Divine attributes in them. So God wanted to prepare and create this Adam under the effect of Angelic atmosphere which could benefit the body of Adam and he set forth to create a unique Adam. When Angels noticed, 'Oh, yet again God is creating Adam,' they got really pissed and they said to God, 'You are creating Adam again, have you forgotten how mischievous Adam has been? He would do the same as he did before. Hate, bloodshed.' But, this time God was so confident and he said to those Angels, 'No, this time I am giving him such a type of knowledge with the help of which he will ever increase in excellence and eminence. And if you think you are better than him then tell me what that knowledge is!' The Angels, very innocently, said to God, 'How would we know when you did not inform us about that knowledge?' He said, 'I am going to give this Adam the knowledge of my names.'

At that point, the Angels were really sceptical about the creation of Adam because they had already seen how Adams behaved and how mischievous and naughty and wicked they were when they were on earth. They had their reservation, but they had no other option they had to listen to what God was saying. But, this time God said to them this Adam is going to be greater than you are, the Angels were surprised. All of a sudden, worse than a normal creature is going to be greater than us? Do not forget, the Angels were created with God's Light, nothing can be greater than God's light then how and why Adam can be greater than creatures which were made of God's Light? And the reason why Adam can be greater than Angels is that the amount of Light that every Angels has will never increase or decrease, so their Light-hood is stationary. However, God gave Adam seven souls and different names and this methodology by the help of which Adam would be able to produce Divine Light every time his heart beats. So, the only reason why this Adam can be greater than Angels is that one day with the help of these seven souls, he will increase in the quantity and quality of Light.

Now, it doesn't matter what religion you practise because religions don't teach you this. All you need to become a spiritual person and be connected with God is learn the knowledge of Spirituality. Unfortunately, before the advent of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi the knowledge of Spirituality was confined to certain individuals who represented a religion, therefore, people thought spirituality is part of religion. However, this is not true! Spirituality is not dependent on any religion, however, it has always been attached to some religions in order to increase those religions in excellence.  And when these religions stopped practising spirituality, they lost it! And because they lost touch of spirituality in their lives, they became equal to those Adam who were naughty and wicked and they were all sorts of sins and God got fed-up with them and Angels were objecting. Again, in this world when people had forgotten the knowledge of Spirituality, people are doing the same which the progeny of Adam was doing before the advent of Adam Safi Allah; they were confined to exterior form of worship and today religions are confined to external worship only and their heart is not enlightened and they do not have a method by which they can generate Divine Light, they cannot be greater than Angels, they are not even equal to an animal.

According to Quran, 'One who does not remember God is like an animal, in some cases, even worse than an animal.'

God means, remembrance through his souls, otherwise even parrots can repeat the name of God, and he does. If parrot says 'La Ilaha Illa Allah Mohammad Rasool Allah' do you think he will become a Muslim?

My point is, the reason why Allah created Adam Safi Allah was that he was fed up with all those Adams who were created in this world with the clay of this world, and they did not have the knowledge of Spirituality, therefore, they were not able to bring any good change in their character, to wipe out the hatred and they were not able to Love God. If today you lose which was the mark of excellence for you, which was the mark of distinguish for you, if you lose the knowledge of spirituality - which was the only difference between you and those progenies of Adam - then what difference is it between you and them? You will act as wicked and naughty as they used to be. And you can see all these individuals who do not practice spirituality, they are wicked, they do all sorts of crimes. 

Crimes of hatred and crimes of humanity, whether they are Hindus, Christians, Muslims or Jews because they all have hatred, they do not know how to love. They do not know how to enlighten their heart, they do not know how to teach they heart to love because the place of love is their heart. Without this knowledge of Spirituality you cannot become a good human. Why? Because it is only possible with the knowledge of Spirituality that you will elevate human qualities and human values in you. You think your body is human but what is human in you is dormant, is in sleeping mode. Your soul is human and your soul is dormant. You are living with Devil representation. You are going to the mosque and the temple and a church but the representation is coming from the Devil. This is why when you go into the mosque with Devil, you create mischief, you fight, you create opinionated principles of religions, you create sectarianism, you hate people. 

And all these individuals in Islam, who today call themselves Jihadi, who are they? Don't think they are Muslims! They do not practice any religion at all, they are the representatives of Devil, because no religion will allow one man to kill another man in the name of religion.  But, you will see these people they will recite Quran and convince you to kill everybody. You can understand Quran is being used as an instrument. Why is it happening? What has happened to people? Why today a Christian is not a good Christian? Why today a Jewish is not a good Jewish. Why today a Hindu is not a good Hindu? Why today a Muslim is not a good Muslim? Because in all of them human qualities and human values are dormant. You will begin to understand the value of a human life only when the human in him is awakened. The human in human beings is dormant and what is awakened is the Devi, their Ego and their Nafs.

We see it every day, even among our own member because they are not fully enlightened, some portion of them is enlightened and some other portion is still in darkness. They are partially good and they are partially bad, but if they pay more attention on the revival of human values and qualities in them and if they are more prone and inclined towards enlightened and awakening their souls, they will make a rapid progress. But, if you are heedless, if you are not doing enough to elevate yourself to higher spiritual virtues in life, to higher qualities, to the properties of God's Light, then you will remain to be in darkness forever.

I would like to underline the need for raising the awareness for enlightenment among ourselves before we should take this message to others. Some of the vices we have in us are more dangerous than other, for example, if you become stubborn, you do what you want to do and you don't listen to others, then my friend, God will never guide you. HDE Gohar Shahi said it in Taryaq-e-Qalb. And some people are like babies even when they are 20-30 years old, or 70-80 years old you need to emotionally babysit them. You give them a lecture then after a couple of hours they will do the same and then they will need another lecture. This shows how reluctant they are, they are not the genuine seekers, because the genuine seeker is one who once when shown the path does not deviate from the path.

For example, if I tell you 'Do not go near the fire you will hurt yourself,' if you understand it will you ever do that again? No. You allow your kids to play with toys, will you allow your kids to play with guns and weapons? Why? Because you know it will kill. But what is it when you tell our people this is bad if you continue to do this you will end up displeasing your Lord, and then few hours later you find them doing the same thing again? It simply means disinterest. They are not interested. And this message is for everybody. A genuine seeker is one who makes a mistake once only and when the mistake is pointed out to him/her, he/she does not repeat it because God only forgives once. If you keep doing the same thing again God will get upset and fed up and he will not even look at you. God is forgiving but he will forgive you once, if you make a habit of doing that thing again and again then you will not find God to be forgiving. Some people are very quick in holding grudge and in turning their mood to bad from good and getting annoyed by stupid things and some people are just paranoid that's why they do silly things.

I (HH Younus AlGohar) am not selling my time or my lectures. In the West, everything is sold and everything has a price tag. But, what I am doing is a labour of love, based on good intentions.

The problem with people is, if you want to guide them they think you are their enemy, if you want to mislead them they are your friend. They only like those who are misleading them, who are putting them on the wrong path, who are pleasing their ego. And if you are asking them to do something which will please the Lord and displease their Nafs, they will think, 'Oh come on! Look at him, who is talking?' People always come up to me and complain, he said this, she said that. And I say, let them say it! HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'Ba Yazeed Bastami used to pay Wazeefa to those who degraded and defamed him.' You should follow HDE Gohar Shahi's teachings, forget paying them Wazeefa, if somebody says something negative about you, you should at least remain silent. However, everyone wants to exact revenge and a true follower of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi cannot afford such an attitude. This is because a follower of HDE Gohar Shahi will cling to whatever HDE Gohar Shahi has said, he will do exactly what the teachings of HDE require from him, and he will remain steadfast on this journey he won't stray away from it.

However, people wander off from the path, they get upset and hold grudges over small things and they become enveloped in Waswasa (Evil Whispers). This is why God became fed up with human beings and he destroyed many nations; Qom-e-Aadh, Qom-e-Saboot etc. And he also annihilated the entire nation of Prophet Lot.

And today, Imam Mehdi has brought the Eminence which is far greater than the Eminence given to Adam Safi Allah.  The Adams that came before Adam Safi Allah had nothing but Exoteric Knowledge, neither did they have the cure for hatred nor the knowledge of Love, and they didn’t have the Path of Excellence and Eminence. Therefore, Adam Safi Allah was sent with the knowledge of Eminence which was Alam al Asma so that they may be able to generate Divine Light and become greater even than the Angels. And this knowledge of Eminence was granted to the 5 Grand Messengers. A little was given to Adam Safi Allah, and a little increased amount was given to Abraham, and then a little more to Moses and then Jesus, and finally when Prophet Mohammad was sent that was the culmination of the Eminence. The Eminence introduced by these 5 Messengers was the knowledge of Spirituality and when this knowledge was drained from the books, the hearts and the minds of people then the Eminence also disappeared. And human beings went back to the same state as the previous Adams; bloodshed and mischief prevail once again. The Adams that came before Adam Safi Allah, who were created on this earth, whom God became fed up with. Therefore, Imam Mehdi brought Greater Eminence, with the help of which man can progress to the station which the Eminence of the Messengers wasn't able to lead them to.

On behalf of Mehdi Foundation International®
09 March 2013