His Holiness Younus AlGohar answers questions sent in from viewers about life hereafter, self-realisation, and the purpose of our creation.
What happens to a human being after death?
The life of this body is related
to the Arzi Arwah (terrestrial spirits). When the terrestrial spirits are taken
out, the body become lifeless; this is known as death. Then, the Samawi Rouh
(human soul) is taken to the higher realms. The soul does not stay in the
grave. The soul is taken to Alam-e-Baala, specifically Alam-e-Barzakh (the
Realm of Purgation) which includes two stations. If someone is a Dhakir-e-Qalbi
(one who acquired the Initiation of the Heart), possesses the deeds accompanied
by the presence of the heart (Amal-e-Sualeh) and is Sualeh (righteous), then
his soul is kept in Alam-e-Barzarkh, in the Station of Il’liyeen. If someone
was engaged in physical worship only and is not a Momin (True Believer) -
regardless of intense performance of Salat and which religion he practiced - if
he had not acquired Amal-e-Sualeh, and the heart is void of divine light and of
emaan (faith), then the souls of such people are kept in the Station of
Sij’jeen. These souls shall remain there until Youm-e-Mehshar (the Day of
Judgment) and on the Day of Judgment they will face accountability. If these
souls are granted salvation, from there they will be sent into the paradise. If
they are not granted salvation - for example, they may have performed Salat
vigorously, prostrated many times and observed fasting; however, at the same
time, if they kept grudges against the Friends of God, were involved in
backbiting against the Friends of God and were blasphemous to the prophets,
then who would grant salvation to such people?
If someone does not believe in
the prophets or the saints, then neither the prophets nor the saints shall
grant such a person salvation. Hence, such people shall be sent to hellfire.
Those who had the correct tenet, admired Prophet Mohammad, and would recite
Durood-o-Salam (Salutations upon the Prophet) fervently and respected the
saints, someone (Friend of God) shall grant him salvation on the Day of
Judgment as a result of which his soul will enter paradise. However, entering
the paradise does not mean he will have the same benefits available to him that
a Momin would. For such individuals, the Quran says,
‘And do they believe they
will obtain the same rank as the pious ones?’
They will stay there as the
servants.
When the terrestrial spirits have
been taken out from the body, what questions are going to be asked to the body?
The body cannot be asked any questions, the body has died! On the Day of
Judgment, the questions will be directed to the souls. In the grave the
questions will be directed to the Nafs (Self). Then, you are also going to be
shown the face of Prophet Mohammad. Now if you had seen Prophet Mohammad, only
then you would recognise his face. Due to your inner darkness, you have not
even seen the devil, let alone being able to recognise the face of Prophet
Mohammad. People think that they should obtain knowledge about the religion.
Prophet Mohammad did not say to obtain this knowledge by reading numerous
books.
You accumulate so much bookish
knowledge and yet the souls inside remain unaware. This is not knowledge of the
religion!
This misconception is in the
minds of all people today: read this book and you will obtain the knowledge
mentioned within, or memorise the explanation of the Quran and this will count
as being the knowledge of the religion. What is the point of such knowledge
which does not benefit your souls in any way? The souls are dormant, they have
not been revived with God’s love or acquired Irfan-e-Ilahi (Esoteric
Knowledge), nor do they have the inclination of reaching God! The souls
remained in the dormant state in which they were inserted into the body; then,
what is the point of being a scholar of such knowledge?
Prophet Mohammad said that there
are two types of knowledge. One is obligatory upon human beings by God and the
other is Ilm-e-Nafay (Esoteric Knowledge/Knowledge of Mysticism), through which
hearts and souls are revived and enlightened. The Kalima (Declaration of Faith)
recited by the tongue should also be recited by the heart and soul. In the end,
this body will remain in this world. The body will not go up there, the soul
will. If the soul had not recited the Kalima - if only the body was in engaged
in the recitation of the Quran and Hadith while the soul was completely
unaware, then what is the use of such knowledge? There are no benefits of this
type of knowledge.
God has one condition only: for
someone to bring forth a Qalb-e-Saleem (Secured Heart). Bring an enlightened
heart, for God only looks at the hearts. Even in your life, if God was to
glance at you, he would look at your heart; if your heart was shining, God
would become merciful upon you.
Those whose shiny hearts God
looked upon in this world, what accountability would they go through? Such
people are like preapproved, preaccepted credit cards. They are already under
the Merciful Sight of God. I ask you a direct question: of all the books that
you have read and all the knowledge you have in your possession, does the
Kalima resonate in your heart? Has your soul been awakened?
Hadith-e-Qudsi: One who has recognised
his Self (Nafs), it means he has recognised God.
With all the knowledge you have
obtained, try to act upon this Hadith! One who has recognised his Self, it only
means that he has recognised God. You may have acquired a lot of knowledge -
you may have read many books and memorised the Quran and Hadith, but through
all this knowledge, have you recognised your Self? Have you recognised God? I
have understood from this Hadith-e-Qudsi that what God is trying to say to
humanity here is that Self-realisation is actually God-realisation.
Take all of the knowledge you
have acquired and accumulated, and try to recognise your Self. What is the
point of listening to the lectures and sermons of clerics? What did you obtain
out of this? Nothing!
If you don’t know your Self,
forget about knowing God! God said he created this world so that the world may
recognise him. In simple words, the purpose of creation is to recognise God.
According to Hadith-e-Qudsi, 'I
was in the Hidden Treasure and I desired to be known, hence I created Makhlooq
(creation).'
The purpose of your creation is
to recognise God. That is why you were created! Now, you are in the business of
recognising God and you don’t recognise your Self! Read all the books and then
tell me, who are you? Are you a Kafir (Infidel)? Are you a Munafiq (Hypocrite)?
Are you a Momin (True Believer)? Are you a Wali (Saint)? Who are you? One who
does not know whether he is a Momin or a Munafiq, how will the poor guy
recognise God? You may continue to recite, ‘Kul ho Allah ho ahad’ (Quranic
verse), but what will happen? You may receive 10 good deeds, however these
deeds will just be written (in your Book of Deeds). When knowingly or
unknowingly, you were blasphemous to a Friend of God or developed a bad
conjecture about someone who God loves more than you can imagine, in that case,
all your worship is left useless. Read the Quran and its translation: either
the translation of Aala Hazrat, Tahir ul Qadri or anyone else. After reading
it, tell me who you are. The knowledge of Quran is not in the book, the
knowledge of Quran is in the heart of Prophet Mohammad. First you must reach
the Prophet Mohammad and then you shall receive that knowledge from his heart.
Mevlana Rumi said, 'Religion is not found in the books. The books have knowledge and wisdom; religion is granted through Nazar (Merciful Sight) [of a perfect Spiritual Guide].'
Prophet Mohammad mentioned,
‘Acquire knowledge even if you have to travel to China,’ and ‘Acquisition of
knowledge is obligatory upon all Muslim men and women.’ Is the knowledge that
Prophet Mohammad mentioned the same knowledge that you are obtaining? You did
not recognise your Self before this knowledge, and even after reading Quran and
Hadith, you do not have Self-realisation. It is really important - that is why
it has been made obligatory upon you, right? Why is there no difference in you
after [supposedly] obtaining it? You are the same dog today as you were before.
Today you are making the mosques impure in twhe same way as you did by entering
them yesterday.
The Nafs (Self) is in the form of
a dog in spirituality. Shah Abdul Latif Bittayi, a saint, was walking his dog.
He tied his dog to the entrance of a mosque and went to offer Salat. A cleric
said him, ‘What have you done? You have tied a dog to the entrance of the house
of God!’ He said, ‘Yes, and you are sitting with a dog inside!’ A dog is just a
dog; it will not ruin anybody’s faith. However, the dog of the Self that
resides in you, you have to turn that dog into a Muslim. This is real Islam. If
Islam does not turn the dog of your Nafs into Muslim, then it is not Islam; it
is mischief. A Spiritual Guide who cannot turn this dog into human is not a
Spiritual Guide, he is a pimp. It doesn’t matter whose progeny he is from, even
if he is from Hazrat Ali’s progeny. There can be pimps and bastards in the
progeny of Hazrat Ali also. Where is it written in Quran that there cannot be
any pimps in the progeny of Hazrat Ali?
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi says, 'God is not bothered whether you are Syed or Qureshi. There is only the Divine Law, and those who were heedless of your (God) remembrance are animals.'
Whether you are a Syed or
Qureshi, this sort of thing has no value in the eyes of God. Whoever you are,
there is only the Divine Law. Today Arabs consider themselves the champions;
they believe no one knows the religion better than them. Read the Quran and see
what it says!
'The people of Arab consider
themselves as Momin, O’ Prophet tell them, they are not Momin.' [49:14]
On the Akhiri Jummah (Last
Friday), Hujjat ul Widha, Prophet Mohammad said, 'No Arab has superiority over
a non-Arab and the non-Arabs are by no means inferior.' However, if you look at
them today, the Arabs don’t give importance to the non-Arabs. They mistreat
them. They have so much false pride and are full of arrogance. And our nation
(the Pakistani nation) is the same. If someone
leaves Mecca or Medina after taking the course of being a
cleric, he comes out wearing a Saudi outfit and completely forgets Urdu. There
are many such pimps settled in Saudi Arabia; a pimp who sells women and
lives off their earning is not the biggest pimp. In this era, these bearded
pimps are the real pimps!
The knowledge you have in your
possession today - did you recognise yourself through it? The knowledge which
doesn’t give you self-realisation, how will it grant you salvation?
On the other hand, His Divine
Eminence Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi declares, 'It’s not a long story. Take the
Initiation of the Heart (Dhikr-e-Qalb), test your fate and find out in 1-2 days
how merciful God is upon you.'
If God’s name begins to beat in
your heart, then you have been blessed. If God’s name does not enter your
heart, then who knows who you are! Whether you are a Hamman or Firoun, Shadaad
or Yazeed, Abu Jahhal or Abdul Wahhab Najdi, Tahir ul Qadri, Ilyas Qadri or
Shah Tarajbul Haq, or the son of a prostitute - we have no idea who you are. If
God’s name starts within the beating system of your heart, then it does not
matter whether or not you remember the names of your mother and father, in the
eyes of God you are close to God and worthy of respect. Because God’s criteria
is not the progeny you come from; the only criterion in the eyes of God is
Taqwah (Piety). Throwing water over yourself is not piety. Piety is the act of
purifying the dog of your Nafs and cleansing the heart.
Nafs-e-Ammarah (the Commanding
Self) commands you to commit sins - it doesn't matter how hard you try to
refrain from sins and the committance of sins or how much you tell yourself, 'I
will not commit this sin.' Do the Quran and Hadith not tell Muslims to not to
commit adultery? Not to backbite and slander? It is written in the Quran is it
not? 'To slander and to backbite is equal to eating the flesh of your dead
brother,' and even then, people are involved in backbiting and slandering. Why?
The dog inside you forces you to commit evil. If you have read the Quran, but
it had no effect on the one commanding you to commit sins, then what was the
point of reading such a Quran? Find someone who is a dog hunter! One who will
hunt these dogs, grab them by the neck and force them to recite the Kalima. And
one day, through continuous recitation of the Kalima, these dogs will become
human. When a Kamil Dhaat (Perfect Spiritual Guide) forces the dog of the Nafs
to recite the Kalima, the dog becomes a human; however, when a cleric tells
someone to recite the same Kalima, instead of becoming human, they become
Wahhabi, Shiite, Sunni, Barelvi etc. They do not become human.
Which knowledge is it that
Prophet Mohammad made obligatory upon all? Prophet Mohammad said, 'The scholars
are from my chest (heart),' which means, 'A scholar is one who is connected to
my chest; those who obtain Spiritual Grace from my chest shall become
scholars.' Only one who obtained Spiritual Grace from the heart of the Prophet
is a scholar; one who obtains knowledge from Dar ul Uloom (religious madrassa)
is a pimp. What do these people know of spirituality? What do these people know
about recognising Imam Mehdi? These people are scared of those who call them
out as being pimps and womanisers, they don’t dare speak in front of such a
man. But if a personality who is the epitome of humility, who is the embodiment
of God, whose being is the manifestation of the divine attributes, comes in
front of them and says, 'Come, enlighten your heart,' people put Fatwas of Kufr
on Him, and declare Him to be worthy of death! Imam Mehdi knows the world,
hence Imam Mehdi appoints rogues all around him and tames the dogs of their Nafs.
Imam Mehdi has placed His collar on the dogs of these rogues so that now they
are the dogs of Imam Mehdi; they are no longer stray dogs.
'Knowledge' means, 'to know', and
you don’t know your Self. Then what kind of knowledge do you have?
Bulleh Shahi said, 'You need only
Alif for Allah and repeat "Allah, Allah". One day you shall become
enlightened.'
You only need Alif from Alif Laam
Meem, and with that Alif repeat ‘Allah, Allah’ and one day your chest shall
become enlightened. Where will you find the Alif? You have to kiss the ankles
of someone (Friend of God/Spiritual Guide), you have to prostrate to someone!
Sultan Haq Bahu said, 'If you
want to obtain union with God you have to serve a Faqir (Spiritual Man/Friend
of God), you have to become the dirt underneath his feet.'
This is Irfan: knowledge with
observation and experience. For example, if you are saying ‘Allah, Allah’, you
are just saying it. What is Irfan? If you say 'Allah,' and you see Allah, this
is Irfan. This is Martaba-e-Ehsan. This is the knowledge that we are
propagating.
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