Tonight the moon had this amazing ring around it and I took the opportunity for a little amateur photography! Look at how clear the image of Lord Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi on the Moon is! Beautiful.
Showing posts with label Imam Mehdi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imam Mehdi. Show all posts
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
NEW Video: (Urdu) Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi ki Niyari Taleem
Sunday, November 24, 2013
NEW VIDEO: Taleem-e Gohar Shahi Deedar-e-Ilahi se agay ka Ilm Hai (Urdu)
His Holiness Younus AlGohar, the Official Representative of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi, explains the sublimity of HDE Gohar Shahi's teachings and benevolence, which not only enable seekers to see God for themselves, but to also adopt God's lifestyle.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Messiah Foundation USA Participates in the Body, Mind and Spirit Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana
On the 19th to 20th of October, a team from Messiah Foundation USA participated in the Body, Mind and Spirit Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana. At our stall, free literature was available, including the ultimate textbook on spirituality, 'The Religion of God (Divine Love)'. Our team offered free spiritual healing as well.
Our stall was consistently busy throughout the expo! Many people stopped by to pick up our leaflets and investigate the divine signs of the Awaited One, His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi. When told our message of divine love and the spiritual sciences, the response was overwhelming. Our team was also invited by a local radio station that was on-site at the expo, to present our message.
Mr Babar of Messiah Foundation USA said in regards to the expo, 'We are extremely pleased that the message and teachings of divine love is reaching people of all walks of life. We look forward to attending more expos like this one, where the lovely people are so receptive to our message.'
To view the full Flickr album, click here.
Our stall was consistently busy throughout the expo! Many people stopped by to pick up our leaflets and investigate the divine signs of the Awaited One, His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi. When told our message of divine love and the spiritual sciences, the response was overwhelming. Our team was also invited by a local radio station that was on-site at the expo, to present our message.
Mr Babar of Messiah Foundation USA said in regards to the expo, 'We are extremely pleased that the message and teachings of divine love is reaching people of all walks of life. We look forward to attending more expos like this one, where the lovely people are so receptive to our message.'
To view the full Flickr album, click here.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
New Video: Al Isteqamah Fauq Al Karamah
New Video: #AskYounusAlGohar - What is a Sufi?
Friday, September 13, 2013
New Video, Urdu: Shah al Umam
Sunday, September 8, 2013
NEW Video (Urdu): Nazar Al Bashar - Imam Mehdi Ka Tareeqa-e-Faiz
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Friday, September 6, 2013
Kalki Avatar Foundation India Celebrates Shri Krishan Janam
The following is a report from our team partaking in the Shri Krishan Janam Bhoomi Festival in Mathura.
Jai Gohar Shahi!
Today, all throughout India, Hindus have been enthusiastically and zealously celebrating the Shri Krishan Janam (the birthday of Lord Krishna). A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation Delhi went to Mathura to give the message of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi.
With the grace of Kalki Avatar Lord Ra Gohar Shahi, people from all walks of life, young and old, having been presented with the images of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the Moon, Sun and Maha Shiv Lingham, looked with great affection at the image of Bhagwan Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi. Some, at the moment of being told about Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi, began to pray to Him. Those in search of spirituality also gratefully took simran of 'Ra Raam' from the image of Kalki Avatar.
Some asked in astonishment, 'The reincarnation of Kalki is here?' while some others fervently asked, 'How can we meet Maharaj Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi?'
Video: Deedar-e-Illahi (Urdu)
The video is currently in Urdu, but English subtitles and a translated transcript will be uploaded soon.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Video: #AskYounusAlGohar - Jab Tumhari Namazen Be Jaan Ho Jayen (Urdu)
If you would like to ask His Holiness Younus AlGohar a question on Twitter, include '#askYounusAlGohar' in your tweet. You may also email us your questions at info@goharshahi.com.
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His Holiness Younus AlGohar's Comments about the Muslim Ummah
Please read carefully: in religions you follow the Word and Law of God. Opinions of individuals do not have any value. And when the religious belief system is opinionated, it is destroyed and its followers become distant with God.
It is sad that masses do not like to hear the truth! According to authentic traditions, Mohammad (PBUH) is خاتم الانبیا and Imam Mehdi is خاتم الاولیا . I am extremely disappointed when I see people who lack in knowledge yet argue and slip off the truth! It is sad, and very sad.
Most Muslims are Munafiqeen (hypocrites)! And their Islam is nothing but an intended show-off which is aimed at acquiring praise of the public. Muslims today are under severe wrath of God and are humiliated all over the world.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Video Proof : The Saudi Government Painting Over Hajar al Aswad
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: VIDEO PROOF THAT THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT IS PAINTING OVER THE HOLY BLACK STONE (Hajar al Aswad).
Also, His Holiness Younus AlGohar's statement regarding the matter. Please share this! Muslims especially ought to thoroughly investigate the matter, for it closely linked with their faith!
Sunday, August 25, 2013
The Saudi Government's Conspiracy Against Humanity - The Black Stone (Kaaba, Mecca)
His Divine Eminence Sayedna Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi declared that the Saudi Government had painted the Holy Black Stone (Hajre Aswad) after discovering the image of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi on the Holy Black Stone.
This great conspiracy against humanity has been carried out by the Saudi Government for many years, as to deprive the public of being able to recognise Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi through the Holy Black Stone. However, the God-sent truth cannot be suppressed.
The poster above shows three images of the Holy Black Stone taken over the years. One, which was taken from an old textbook on religion (Deeniyat, by the Pakistani Textbook Depot), clearly shows the image of Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi. The others, taken more recently, testify to the fact that the surface of the Holy Black Stone has been painted over.
Remember well: without kissing the Holy Black Stone, Hajj is incomplete. The scholars tell the woman to not paint their nails because if there is nail polish on the nail, the water will not touch the nail; thus ablution would not be made properly. We say, ‘If you have painted over the Hajr-al-Aswad, when you kiss it, you actually kissed the paint, not the Hajr-al-Aswad.’ Therefore, thanks to the actions of the Saudi government, millions are being deprived of completing Hajj and obtaining spiritual grace from Hajr-al-Aswad!
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
#AskYounusAlGohar Question & Answer Session - Part 1
His Holiness Younus AlGohar replies to questions sent in from the public.
1) What Sufi Order does His Divine Eminence Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi belong to? Does HDE Gohar Shahi have a spiritual guide? Does HDE Gohar Shahi come from the Household of the Prophet Mohammad (Ahle Bayt) and how is this proved?
Initially, many Spiritual Orders were established in the Ummah of Prophet Mohammad such as the Farooqi Sufi Order and Usmania Sufi Order, who obtained Spiritual Grace from Usman Ghani. There are many Sufi Orders which have now become extinct. However, four main Sufi Orders were established and a large number of Saints emerged from them.
1 - Qadri Sufi Order:
This Sufi Order is associated with Abdul Qadir Jillani and the Spiritual Grace is directly linked to Prophet Mohammad.
2 - Chishti Sufi Order:
This is a very large Sufi Order which is related to Hazrat Ali. Spiritual dignitaries such as Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki, Nizamuddin Auliya, Khwaja Ghareeb Nawaz and Baba Farid emerged from the Chishti Sufi Order.
3 - Naqshbandi Sufi Order:
This Sufi Order is related to Abu Bakar Siddiq.
4 - Soharwardi Sufi Order:
The interfusion between the Chishti and Naqshbandi Sufi Orders is called the Soharwardi Sufi Order.
Some Arab countries such as Egypt and Syria have the Rafa’i Sufi Order and the Spiritual Grace within it comes from Ahmed Rafa’i.
Now the question is, those who obtained Spiritual Grace from Hazrat Ali were known as Chishti and those who obtained Spiritual Grace from Abu Bakar Siddiq were known as Naqshbandi, but what Sufi Order were Hazrat Ali and Abu Bakar Siddiq from? The answer is that they received Spiritual Grace from Prophet Mohammad. Similarly Prophet Mohammad directly passed on Spiritual Grace to Imam Mehdi and Imam Mehdi is dispensing Spiritual Grace to all Sufi Orders. Imam Mehdi does not belong to any of the above mentioned Sufi Orders.
Prophetic Traditions mention that Imam Mehdi shall resemble Prophet Mohammad from head to toe. The thing to ponder is whether resembling the Prophet physically has any esoteric value? Does this affect anyone’s faith? No Prophetic Tradition mentions the Sufi Order of Imam Mehdi because these Sufi Orders were established after Prophet Mohammad; and during the era of the Prophet there were no Sufi Orders. Such questions are fabrications of the clerics and they are not based on reality.
Imam Mehdi is directly linked to Prophet Mohammad and in various narrations it is said that the spiritual powers and knowledge of all Prophets and Messengers combined will be in Imam Mehdi. Imam Mehdi shall grant all humanity Divine Love and enlighten the hearts and souls with the presence of God. When God enters the heart, this is known as the stage of Ehsaan (Martaba-e-Ehsaan). To recite the Kalima with the tongue is affirmation and the initial stage. To stop here is prohibited. One must obtain the acknowledgement of the heart and to do so you need the stage of Emaan (Martaba-e-Emaan). For this stage, you need a Perfect Spiritual Guide (Murshid-e-Kamil). The spiritual guide takes a pledge of allegiance and revives your heart with the name of God. He enlightens the souls and enables them to make spiritual journeys (Muraqba) to their respective realms. This is spirituality and its culmination is the Stage of Ehsaan. Once you have reached this stage, whenever you worship, you shall see God standing in front of you.
Imam Mehdi has not come to establish a small Sufi Order. Imam Mehdi has come to grant humanity what no prophet or saint has granted before. His Divine Eminence Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi is taking sinners, without the hardships of austerities, to the spiritual stage where even the greatest Saints could not reach, through HDE’s merciful glance (Nazar).
For us, it is not a big deal that Imam Mehdi shall resemble Prophet Mohammad. We believe that Imam Mehdi Himself is Prophet Mohammad. Those who have a spiritual mindset shall understand what this means, because for a disciple, his spiritual guide is equivalent to God. Now, because the presence of God is within the spiritual guide, his company is the company of God. Is it not possible for Imam Mehdi to have the presence of Prophet Mohammad in Him? Imam Mehdi has been awaited for centuries and He shall grant spiritual grace by virtue of His own spiritual authority and power. To physically resemble Prophet Mohammad is not a big deal; but if we go into the depth of this matter, Imam Mehdi is Prophet Mohammad himself.
HDE Gohar Shahi’s image in the Holy Black Stone (Hajre Aswad) has two heads and one body. The Quran says:
وَلَلْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لَّكَ مِنَ الْأُولَى
[93:4]
‘Your second era shall be greater than your first.’
When the Companions of the Prophet inquired about Imam Mehdi’s appearance and personality, the Prophet would reply, ‘Look here.’ The Companions began to ask if the Prophet himself would return in the guise of Imam Mehdi. Prophet Mohammad simply smiled and remained quiet. Now, it is possible the Prophet did not acknowledge this due to some Divine Wisdom. Or perhaps the people sitting in the company of the Prophet were not able to spiritually bear this knowledge. The teachings of HDE Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi help us understand that the Prophet did not acknowledge this because Imam Mehdi is only the partial being of Prophet Mohammad (through the terrestrial souls), not the complete being.
The Quran said:
وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَاهُ فِي إِمَامٍ مُّبِينٍ
[36:12]
‘We have accumulated all the qualities in the Imam un Mubeen.’
Now, when we say that part of the being of Prophet Mohammad is present in Imam Mehdi, the question of whether Imam Mehdi is from the household of the Prophet Mohammad (Ahle Bayt) is self-explanatory. If God is present in somebody’s heart, would you question if he is a Momin (believer) or a Kafir (infidel)? As far as proving it is concerned, nobody can prove anybody is from the household of the Prophet, because this is a blood relation and not that important. Through spiritual methodology, you can prove whether someone is pious or in close proximity of God. The son of Noah was the son of a prophet, but God said he is not from the household of Noah because he is not Sualeh (righteous).
قَالَ يَا نُوحُ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِنْ أَهْلِكَ ۖ إِنَّهُ عَمَلٌ غَيْرُ صَالِحٍ ۖ فَلَا تَسْأَلْنِ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ ۖ إِنِّي أَعِظُكَ أَن تَكُونَ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِينَ
[11:46]
We understand that being Sualeh is more important. For your information, Imam Mehdi is Fatimi, from the progeny of Fatima Zahra. But there are many Fatimi descendents from the household of the Prophet and today they are engaged in sins. It was the immediate household of the Prophet at the time of the Prophet whom God intended to purify. This did not apply to every coming generation. In God’s eyes, the standard and criteria is piety, purification of the heart and Self that makes one a Sualeh and from the Ahle Bayt.
2) Why did God grant man the rank of ‘Elite amongst all Creations’ (Ashraf al Makhlooqat)?
The question arises whether all human beings are ‘elite amongst all creations’? Most people believe God is closer to man than his jugular vein. The story begins with the creation of Adam Safi Allah, when the body of Adam Safi Allah was being created in the heaven and the angels objected. They said, ‘O’ God, you are creating man again. He will cause blood-shed and mischief in the world.’ God replied, ‘You do not know. We are granting him a special knowledge; if you know it, then tell me.’ The angels replied, ‘How would we know of the knowledge which you did not give us?’ God said, ‘I am giving him eminence over all previous Adams. I am giving him the knowledge of my names (Ilamal Asma); the knowledge of producing Divine Light (Noor) from my names.’
But we see today that Muslims such as Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda all believe in prophets, but still there is blood-shed. God said that this Adam would have eminence above all and would not cause blood-shed and mischief, but where do you see the eminence of the progeny of Adam Safi Allah today? There is no other religion like Islam, but where is your eminence today? Why doesn’t your religion reflect in your lives? The eminence of Adam was in the esoteric knowledge he was given, the knowledge of God’s Names. The human beings who obtained this knowledge of God’s names and the method of producing Divine Light became the elite amongst all creations. Such people came in the guise of Saints such as Ghous Pak, Data Sab, Guru Nanak, Sai Baba.
Regardless of religion, if you have the presence of God in your soul, you are ‘Elite amongst all Creations’. Angels are made of God’s Light, but they do not have the presence of God in them. But human beings have the ability to bring God into their hearts, and those who succeed in doing so are Ashraf al Makhlooqat.
3) What is the Kalima of ‘La Ilaha Illa Riaz’? What is Ghaib (Unseen)?
The Quran says that all of the progeny of Adam was but one nation. But as different prophets came, they began to divide into different religions, sects and tribes; and they would never have divided into so many sects had God not been awaiting the Kalima-e-Sabaqah (First and Foremost Declaration of Faith). ‘La Ilaha Illa Riaz’ is the Kalima-e-Sabaqah and it is the Kalima of the Unseen World (Alam-e-Ghaib). Obviously, people used to question the Prophet Mohammad about the Unseen World. This is why the Quran says:
فَقُلْ إِنَّمَا الْغَيْبُ لِلَّهِ
[10:20]
'If anyone asks about the Unseen, then tell them, "this is for God only."'
The Unseen World is one thing and to know of the Unseen World is another. God gave the news about the Unseen World to some of his favourite prophets, but none were able to access it, not even Prophet Mohammad.
Hadith-e-Qudsi: ‘I was inside the hidden treasure.’
God said, 'I was inside a hidden treasure and I wanted to be known'. When he came out of the hidden treasure, he created Makhlooq (creation). When God was inside the hidden treasure and had not created, was there ‘La Ilaha Ilallah’? This question goes to all the scholars and clerics of Islam. When God was inside the hidden treasure, who was he hidden from? ‘La Ilaha Ilallah,’ there is no creator (Ilah) for except God – when there was no one except God, then who was this treasure hidden from? God became a creator when he created the Makhlooq, and he created the Makhlooq when he came out from the hidden treasure. But this Kalima-e-Sabaqah existed before God emerged from the hidden treasure, before he created his Makhlooq.
4) What is the meaning and explanation of Rab al Arbab (Grand God)?
The thing to ponder on is the hidden treasure that God spoke of. A treasure does not consist of just one diamond. There are many diamonds and valuables that make up a treasure. The question is: when God said, ‘I was inside the hidden treasure,’ if he was alone, then there would be no need for him to come out and neither would it have been called a treasure. This means that the Johar (pearls) present in God’s Being were present amongst others in the treasure also; but one of them, God, came out from the hidden treasure. Then God said, ‘I loved to be known.’ Because God loved to be known, he created the Makhlooq and became a creator (Ilah). Then he said, 'There is no creator for except me (La Ilaha Ilallah)'. Because God was the only individual to come out from the hidden treasure and he was the sole creator of his Makhlooq, the Kalima ‘La Ilaha Ilallah’ is the truth. But as long as God was inside the hidden treasure, there was no ‘La Ilaha Ilallah’.
What was present then? Who created this treasure in which God was hidden? The secret of the creator of the hidden treasure lies in the Quran.
الر ۚ تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ الْحَكِيمِ
[10:1]
The creator of the hidden treasure kept Imam Mehdi in His spiritual company. Imam Mehdi became associated with this creator of the hidden treasure. Prophet Mohammad brought the Being of God hidden within him because of which he had eminence over all other prophets. But Imam Mehdi has brought ALRA, the Being of Rab al Arbab hidden within him. All other eminence has been terminated.
The creator of the hidden treasure is the Rab al Arbab (Grand God). Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi is associated with Rab al Arbab and because of our association with Imam Mehdi, we have been fortunate to have been granted this Kalima of ‘La Ilaha Illa Riaz’. The Kalima that pre-existed all else.
5) What are the secrets of Alam-e-Ghaib (Unseen World)?
The secret of the Unseen World is that the other members of the Community of God reside there.
6) It is said that Imam Mehdi shall come in the era of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Jesus has not returned yet, so how can the advent of Imam Mehdi take place?
You know about the advent of Imam Mehdi because we have told you. It has been 16-17 years since the arrival of Jesus into this world, but his mission has not reached you; this is why you are not aware of it. Jesus is spiritually training his followers in the mountains of Sri Lanka and Thailand.
HH Younus AlGohar: I have met Jesus many times, physically and spiritually. Jesus has arrived but his message has not reached you yet.
It is said that Jesus would tell his followers about Imam Mehdi and Imam Mehdi would tell His followers about Jesus. It is not as if the whole world would gather in one field and Jesus and Imam Mehdi would be revealed in front of them. Both Jesus and Imam Mehdi have arrived in this era.
7) What is Alam-e-Wehdat (Realm of Divine Union) and Alam-e-Barzakh (Realm of Purgation)?
Alam-e-Wehdat is also known as the Reality of Mohammad, where the soul of Prophet Mohammad resides. Those who reach Maqam-e-Wasal (Station of Divine Union), there is a river (Behr-e-Wehdat) into which they transfuse and that river is in Alam-e-Wehdat. It is also known as Kousar.
إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ الْكَوْثَرَ
[108:1]
Alam-e-Arwah is the Station of the Souls, where the souls are kept before their arrival into this world. Alam-e-Barzakh is the station where the souls are kept after the person dies. This includes the stations of Sijiyeen and Iliyeen.
8) What is meant by ‘The heart of a Momin is the Throne of God’?
There is a Prophetic Tradition that says the heart of a Momin (Believer) is the throne of God. God has created the Qalb (spiritual heart) of a human being as an imitation of Arsh-e-Ilahi (Throne of God). When the name of God enters the heart and it becomes inscribed on the heart, the echo of God’s name in the heart also echoes in Arsh-e-Ilahi. The heart becomes connected to the Arsh-e-Ilahi. A spiritual guide serves as a medium because he is connected to God; the voice of his heart reaches the Throne of God. People would please the spiritual guide so that through him, they may please God.
9) Why has God created us? What is the purpose of our creation?
In Hadith-e-Qudsi God explained the reason why he created human beings. God said, ‘I loved to be known, hence I created’. God is pleased with those who obtain Esoteric Knowledge (Irfan-e-Ilahi) and reach God. Therefore, those who are involved in wrongful acts and offer prayers without enlightenment of the heart do not know God, and God is displeased with them. The reason why God created you is so that you may recognise him and understand him. Understanding knowledge and understanding God are two different things.
To understand God means to know who he is, to know his divine mercy, to be able to see him and reach his essence. When you bring God into your heart and obtain Divine Union, God is pleased with you. The purpose of our creation is to bring God into our hearts so that we may recognise him.
10) What is the meaning of the word ‘Rab’?
The word ‘Rab’ is an Arabic word that means Provider; one who provides for, spiritually nurtures and protects the soul.
11) Why did Prophet Mohammad say, ‘Rabbi Zidni Ilma (Increase in my knowledge)’?
After seeing God, what is it that the Prophet Mohammad desired when he said, ‘Increase in my knowledge’? To see God is spiritual culmination, but there was some other knowledge that the Prophet Mohammad desired to know and that is the knowledge of the Unseen World.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
A point to ponder upon!
"A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’?" -His Divine Eminence Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi in His book, ‘The Religion of God’
This particular quote really speaks to me. People believe themselves to be better than others because they worship extensively; however, when they finish worshipping God, they have a list of things they want done from God. It is as if worshipping God is a business transaction - a give and take. But what about practically forming a sincere relationship with God?
If you haven't read this book yet, I urge you to check it out! An amazing read, refreshingly clearly written. I cannot recommend it enough to all those searching to spiritualise their lives. It truly is a challenge to those who refute the existence of spirituality.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Concealed Shirk and the Purpose of Fasting
The following is the transcript of His Holiness Younus AlGohar's speech.
Al-Hadith: if one keeps fasting (Soum) and salat and it is nothing but a show off, it is Shirk in the eyes of God.
In our society today, especially in a society where we have so many religions and religious people and their imposition of religious belief system on others, they seem to forget the fact some of these rituals like worship, fasting, prayers- if they do not perform these rituals as per the divine prescription, they are in deep trouble.
It's not just the Quran, the Bible and I believe in all other divine scriptures God must have emphasised on performance of the worship with sincerity and with the utter intentions of pleasing the Lord, not making it a public display to earn praiseworthiness for themselves. It is in human nature: when they do something good they want people to know it and praise it. Oftentimes, when I play well, I come back and ask everybody, 'Did you see my shot?' When you prepare food for somebody, what do you expect at the end? It is like you are trying to say, 'Don't pay for the food, but be sure praise it.' This is the case.
If you did something good and then people praise you, you earned it; but there is a form of corruption even when it comes to emotions. Some people want praiseworthiness without doing anything. This is what God doesn’t want when you come to prayer. You are not doing anything good, but you want people to praise you for something good that you didn’t do. For example, this is what happens in Pakistan: the ministers, politicians and bureaucrats make announcements in the television and media, 'We are going to help 1000 needy people tomorrow.' They make the announcements, everybody claps and they never help them. In a similar way, what God doesn’t want you to do: people go to churches, mosques, synagogues and all the other worship places and they do worship. The problem is when the worship does not reach God and God doesn’t accept it (obviously, when it will reach God, then there will be a question of rejection or acceptance). The worship did not reach God and you do not care whether what you are doing is reaching God; but people witnessed you in the prayer and they are praising you. This is extremely forbidden in all religions and this is regarded as the extremely most hated act in the eyes of God.
I'll give you an example: I give you an envelope and I say, 'There are 100 pounds in the envelope'. I make this announcement in front of everyone and you are very happy. You go home and open the envelope -when you open the envelope, there is nothing. Now you are really upset because everybody knows I was giving you 100 pounds, but you never received it. In the eyes of people, I gave you 100 pounds but you never received it. And if I kept doing it five times a day, every single day, you can understand how upset God would be!
In a similar way, people fast and observe lent. Now, most Muslims think fasting in the holy month of Ramadan is to keep off food and drink, starve for 12-14 hours. But, the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Mohammad said, 'If you are fasting but your fasting turns out to be an act of showing off to others, then you are in trouble'.
We have to examine and determine how does fasting and worship become an act of a showing off and it doesn’t reach God? There were times when interpretation of the words of God and the words of the Prophets and Messengers was explained by the Sufi Masters and learned ones, but for the past few centuries now, there is no understanding of what God is saying.
They are confined to physical performance of the worship, but the core of worship is the spiritual acquisition. They have forgotten the soul of worship, which obviously is spirituality. It is with the help of spirituality that every act of a man reaches God. And without that spiritual connection, no matter how hard you are worshipping God, no matter how long you starve, if this doesn’t reach God, then all sorts of worship and rituals will become an act of showing off. Any worship that doesn’t reach God, but people see it, is a show-off. Why is it a show-off? Because it is a lie. You worshipped, it didn’t reach God but people witnessed you in worship and they are praising you for this.
But, today people have no time to think over this issue. They are just fasting, nothing else. This is not one or two cases today: a majority of people do not want to know whether what they are doing should reach God. They are not in the business of making sure that what they are doing should reach God. It’s like there is a burden and they just want to get rid of this burden by going to the mosque five times a day or by fasting for 30 days. And there is corruption in this: they want to make sure it’s not always 30 days, rather they want it to be 28-29 days. This is why there is a problem with sighting of the Moon. When they want to start the month, they miss one day - so now there are 29 days in the month. And when it is the end of the month, they celebrate a day early, so it is 28 days. This is all corruption. People think God is a fool; honestly, God is not a fool. God is very clever.
In Islam, Judaism and Christianity, God is determined, at least he says so, that he will forgive every other type of sin for except one sin. That one sin that he doesn't want to forgive and he gets really offended by it: that sin is finding a partner with him. In other words, to believe or to perceive that there is somebody else who is equivalent of God.
This kind of belief and perception in the eyes of God is unforgivable; God is not going to forgive it. He said that he would forgive all other types of sins and there are thousands of examples where it is clearly evident that he forgave people who had burden of sins. However, this tiny little sin, that you thought there could be somebody who is equivalent of God, is not forgivable in the eyes of God. The entire building of the Muslim faith is founded in this belief: do not find a partner with God. Which means, 'Do not even perceive that there can be an equivalent of God. There is nobody like God'. It is the same for Christianity and Judaism, because these three religions are the Abrahamic Faiths and come from the same source.
It’s interesting to know that the most detestable, the most ignitable sin in the eyes of God is to commit Shirk, which is to think of somebody as an equivalent of God. If somebody does this, God is not going to forgive him. It is a very sensitive matter to go and worship - either in a mosque, synagogue or a church - but not being able to send it to God. If you perform worship, but you are not able to send it to God, then this in the eyes of God is form of Shirk. Religious people have to be very vigilant, alert and attentive. But people don’t care these days. I don’t see any chances of Muslims verbally saying, 'There is somebody like God', they will never say it. However, when they are fasting and performing Salat and they are not able to send it to God, this is what they are doing!
If you do not know how to drive a car, you better not drive it; because if you drive it, you will screw yourself and the car. I may say to you, 'If you are not a driver, do not drive this car.' Because the chances are, if you do not know driving, you can kill yourself, you can kill others and you can destroy the car. When we say to Muslims, 'Hold on, before you think of fasting or worshipping, make sure your heart is involved in this worship; otherwise you will screw yourself. Such a fasting and prayer which cannot reach God is like paving your way into hellfire', they say, ‘Ah, look at this Mushrik! He is saying "Do not pray, do not fast"! He is Kafir!’ They are very efficient in issuing Fatwas of Kufr. All the bad acts and deeds that you can find in a book, you will see them in today’s Muslim: backbiting, slandering, corruption, cheating God, cheating the Prophet, cheating mothers, cheating husbands, cheating wives, cheating daughters, cheating sons, cheating everybody, cheating themselves! And still they are Momineen (Believers)?
They say, 'A friend in need is a friend indeed'. If you befriend somebody, make sure this relationship is based on sincerity. If you befriend somebody and that relationship between two friends is not based on sincerity and you cheat each other, then that is not friendship; that is concealed enmity.
In a similar way, today, when these Muslims are fasting and they are going to the mosque for prayers, this is Salat and this is Soum, but it is concealed Shirk. Forget about God, even your wife wants you to be sincere with her. When you are married to a woman, that woman wants to make sure that you do not even look at any other woman. What do you think God would think? Do you think God is a fool, that he doesn’t want sincerity from you? You want God to be on your side in all odds, in adversity. At the time of need you call upon God, like God is just on hold! Muslims pray and say, 'Oh God help me'. What do you mean, 'God help me?' Is God on hold for you? [They say], 'No, God said, "Ask me, I will help"'. This is a general practice in our country and in all other countries where Islam is practiced: they pray for 10 minutes, and then after 10 minutes, they raise their hands towards God, towards the sky. You worshipped for 10 minutes and after that, your list of demands lasts for 30 minutes!
Sincerity is the backbone of your worship. But the problem is: people do not know what sincerity is.
To be sincere with men is different from being sincere to God. You see, our relationship with God is different than it is with our fellowmen. If I wanted to be sincere with you, I would make sure that when you are in need, I help you out and I do help you out of no hidden agenda. For example, thinking, 'I can help him today; maybe tomorrow in return he will help me'. So help somebody without this desire of being helped in return; help for the sake of helping others. This I understand is a form of sincerity. But, we strictly follow the law of 'if you scratch my back I will scratch yours'.
So the lesson that we learned today is that any form of worship should not be confined to showing it off only. If you are doing something, make sure what you're doing for God should reach God. And if it doesn't reach God, then it will become an act of showing off.
Danger: when you are performing a form of worship, whether it is invocation, fasting, reading the Holy Scriptures – Bible, Torah, Talmud, Psalms of David, Quran – or any form of worship, if that worship does not reach God but people have seen you worshipping, then that act will become an act of showing off. And that act of showing off, in the eyes of God, is equal to committing Shirk, which is unforgivable. Now, just imagine how sensitive this matter is and how attentive, alert and vigilant one has to be when it comes to performing worship. You can’t take it really lightly, like, ‘Okay, it’s time from prayer, let’s go’, and do it without making sure it’s reaching God. But how many people in religions today think, 'Oh, this is really something sensitive. I want to make sure what I am doing should reach God, because if it doesn’t reach God I will be in trouble'? You are worshipping God, thinking there would be 70 female virgins waiting for you in paradise; but your worship didn’t take you there and you will end up in hellfire.
To summarise: the concealed form of Shirk is to worship God on public display, but not to display your worship to God.
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi’s doctrine that Jesus is God, he comes from the Unseen World and he has his own kingdom is so appealing because no other prophet - if you believe Jesus is a prophet - could do what Jesus did. People couldn't see anything, they were blind; Jesus just touched them and they were able to see. People who couldn’t walk, Jesus just touched them and they were able to walk. And he was making a bird with clay, he breathed into it, it became alive and flew in the air. No other prophet had the ability or the divine, spiritual calibre to do it. Only Jesus did it. Why is it so? Because Jesus is a special prophet? No. Jesus is not a special prophet; Mohammad is a special prophet. But why did Jesus do it then? Because Jesus is God.
Christians are very strict about this theory of one God. But why then do people worship Mother Mary? According to the religious belief system, you can only worship God. But, if you worship somebody, aren’t you indirectly believing that it’s God? It’s contradicting if you worship Mother Mary. From the core of our heart, we respect Mother Mary. Even according to the Quran she is the best woman in the entire Universe and she was elevated above all women. We really respect Mother Mary, but we don’t personally believe she is God; we believe Jesus is God. We have to call spade a spade. Jesus is God. Some people simply say Jesus is Lord, but I find it really blasphemous if we confine Jesus to be Lord.
Q: What does God say about fasting?
According to a hadith, 'If you perform Salat for a show-off, it is Shirk and if you keep a fast for a show-off, it is shirk'. Now, how does Salat become a show-off?
When you perform salat and it does not reach God but people see it, it is a show-off. Prophet Mohammad (SAW) said, 'There is no salat without the presence of heart'.
If your heart is empty of God's light (Noor), Salat will not reach God and God will not see it.
God says that He does not look at your bodies and your deeds, He rather looks at the enlightened hearts and pure intentions.
Roza (fasting) is kept to purify Nafs. When you don't eat food and drink no liquid, you keep off Naar (negative energy), but at the same time, you need Noor (positive energy) to fill the gap created by fasting. If there is no Noor inside to fill the gap, then Shaitan enters the body. And your Roza is wasted and it does not reach God. However, when Noor is created inside the heart and Nafs, it is Noor that sends Roza to God.
According to Quran, and of course according to Bible, God prescribed fasting on believers for one reason: and that is to purify them. It is a path of purification. The question is: if fasting itself will purify human beings, then we shouldn’t eat at all? To refrain from all sorts of foods and liquids for a certain period of time is just one external aspect of very sophisticated sense of purification. The thorough purification, however, is not based on starvation. To starve is not completely purifying yourself. We have to know how it works.
The religions do not speak on this subject, only spirituality does. And whose spirituality? His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi’s spirituality. No other spiritual person went into such lengthy details the way His Divine Eminence has. It’s very systematic and very spiritually mathematical, what actually happens when you refrain from foods for a prescribed duration of time.
There are two types of energy: positive energy and negative energy.
Most people, when their stomach is empty, they feel very low and very humble. Some people are raging when they are hungry, some people are really angry when hungry; but most people are very humble, down-to-earth, they feel very lowly. However as soon as they eat, they start jumping and singing. I have seen it. When I am hungry I am quiet. But once I have eaten, then I starts singing Qasidas and this and that, because the Nafs (Self) is happy. This is very important to understand: when we eat, only negative energy is created by our body. The energy which the food creates in our body, however, is vital to sustain life; but at the same time it is negative.
The whole purpose of fasting is to replace that negative energy with positive energy. Now, how do we do that? Negative energy is physical, positive energy is spiritual. When we eat food, negative energy is created. And when our souls worship God, positive energy is created. Now, just think about a man who doesn’t know the entire regime of fasting: that person is fasting and he is not consuming any food, which means he is not creating any negative energy. However, he doesn’t know that this negative energy is to be replaced by positive energy and he doesn’t know how to produce positive energy. He is naïve, he doesn't have this knowledge. His souls are dormant, not awakened and not involved in any type of spiritual worship. So negative energy comes to a halt for 14-16 hours, and in that duration, it is not replaced by positive energy. So what happens is, as long as you're not eating, negative energy is not created. However, when you eat after 16 hours, you produce negative energy. In your mind, you think you're doing something good; but nothing is happening.
Now the benefits of fasting can only be reaped once you have become a spiritual man and your souls are able to perform internal, spiritual, worship. Because the positive energy is only created when the souls are in worship; the worship of the body is nothing but a physical exercise. By performing physical worship, you do not create positive energy. For positive energy to be created, the souls must be activated.
So what happens is, people who are alien to spirituality, however they have this religiosity in their nature, being naïve of the knowledge, they go on to keep a fast. They refrain from food for 13-16 hours. In that time, they do not create negative energy which is created by consuming food. However, there are so many other holes through which the negative energy keeps barging into their body.
It is not just food, there are so many other things as well that you must stop doing while you are fasting. For example, hurting somebody emotionally or physically – if you are harming somebody, verbally or physically, you are producing negative energy. If you are thinking badly about people, you are consuming negative energy. If you're being dishonest, you are creating negative energy. If you are not good to people, you are creating negative energy. For example, you are fasting - you are not eating any food. So, you have shut one window. However, if you are watching a nude movie, what is the point? The window is shut but the door is open! You are not deterring the negative energy; you have changed the source of negative energy. We are not producing negative energy by eating food but we are producing it by doing something extraordinarily bad.
This is what people need to understand. But they will think about it when they are sincere with the Lord and when they are sincere in purifying themselves. The thing is: people do not have the intent of purifying themselves; they're just doing it as part of rituals. They're not interested; they're just doing it for the sake of doing it. Maybe they're doing it because they think, 'Oh, we've done it. Now we will escape the torment of the grave and the torment of hellfire. We will be sent straight to heaven where 70 virgin damsels are waiting'.
So the purpose of fasting is to purify yourself. For example, if your clothes are dirty and you put them in the washing machine, but there is a lot of water and no soap, what will happen? Some of the really stubborn spots on your clothes will not just go away by putting it in water; you need some kind of detergent. In a similar way, when you to purify yourself, you want to replace the negative energy with positive energy. What are people doing? They're shutting down a door on negative energy, but they're not replacing it with positive energy. When it is not replaced with positive energy, you do not reach purification.
It is like an ill person who is just seeing the doctor, just taking the medicine, but he doesn’t want to know if the medicine is healing him up. Generally, if we have a problem, we see the doctor and the doctor prescribes medicine for us; if that medicine doesn’t work for us, then we complain to the doctor. We say, 'This is not working for me, give me something else'. Why do we say that? Because the medicine is not working for us and we want to heal. We know that if we're going to see a doctor, we're going there for a purpose and that purpose is healing.
Have you ever seen a person who goes to the doctor, takes the medicine, and when the medicine doesn't work, he says 'I don’t care. I'm just concerned about taking the medicine, I don’t care if I die'? This is silly: we don’t see such things in this world. In a similar way, fasting, Salat and all other different types of worship is to arrive at a result; if you are not arriving at a result, then it's useless.
For example, you are working somewhere for 12 hours a day, but you don't get paid. You'll do it for a day or two and then you'll say, 'If you're not paying me, I'm not going to work'. But when it comes to the religions, you're going to the mosque, temples, churches, etc but you are not reaching the goal: you are not acquiring spirituality and purification. Then you should think at least twice: why should you do it? You're just wasting your time.
Q: What is the reason behind His Divine Emiennce Gohar Shahi coming from Pakistan, why not another country like Australia, England or America?
You see, the problem is, the last Adam who was the most eminent one, his progeny is confined to that area. His progeny is there and these people can potentially be more in terms of understanding and in terms of being recipient of the spiritual benefits. Because all the prophets and messengers, including Jesus came from that side. No prophet came to Australia, USA, Africa, or Europe. All these messengers and prophets came to this particular piece of land: Iraq, Jerusalem, Israel and the other side of the Arab peninsula; only this area. This area is where most progeny of the eminent Adam live.
I can give you an example: why are we selling so many dishes of Nihari and Biryani in this area? Because most people here are Pakistanis. If you are selling Nihari in an area where nobody knows Nihari, you won't sell anything. People in America, England, Australia, they come from different Adam so their understanding of the religion is different.
Even the original Christians do not come from Europe, they come from Jerusalem. The way they respect Jesus is different; they almost worship Jesus. The type of love they have for Jesus is amazing. However, with due respect to all other communities in the world, if Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and Britons see their behaviour and love for Jesus, they say, 'Oh, it is a personality cult. They're crazy, they're insane'. To them it appears to be insanity and for them [the original Christians], it is love. They love Jesus to a degree where they cannot see anybody else next to Jesus. But in these areas, they have very calculated belief systems, very calculated emotions, and very calculated love. You cannot love somebody mathematically. You do not measure the intensity of love.
The reason why HDE Gohar Shahi appeared in that area is because the mission of HDE Gohar Shahi is reaching the world through these people. However, HDE has been everywhere: to America, Canada, Europe - all over the world. But all other nations took it really lightly. 'Oh yes, HDE Gohar Shahi came to our church. It was a wonderful speech, we believe what He said.' And that’s it. But people from this area [where HDE Gohar Shahi has come], they say, 'Alright, this is my life; this is what I'm going to do all my life'. In other words, their dedication is more trustworthy. They're more dedicated.
But this type of emotion and dedication is very volatile as well at the same time. If it is mistaken, then it turns into fanaticism and extremism. You see a lot of idiots marching on the road and carrying out arson attacks and suicide bombing. Why? Because they're walking on the path of fire. If you take one wrong step from dedication, you fall into the ditch of extremism and fanaticism. There should be intensity in love, but intensity in love does not mean harming other. You can love your Lord to any degree, to any extent; as long as it does not harm anybody, as long as you do not offend anybody. It should be between you and your Lord. You can go to all lengths in love, you can keep no boundaries in love. As long as you do not harm, disgrace, disrespect or offend anybody. However, when you take one step wrong and you say, 'No, I want everybody to love God the way I do', then this is fanaticism.
HDE Gohar Shahi teaches us the right path: love your Lord to any degree and extent but let others do what they want. And love is a medicine. When love enters the heart, the heart is purified. And when it is purified you do not hold enmity for anybody.
You do not hate anybody, you do not harm anybody, you do not hurt anybody. You do not dislike anybody. But when there is devil in your heart, then you have this compulsion, 'No, I want everybody to become Muslim. If they don't want to convert into Islam, I will kill them'. This is insanity; this is not Islam, this is not humanity, this is not God's word. This is fabrication and an act of stupidity. Stupid is one whom God has deprived of intellect. And all these people have lost their minds. Live and let live; if you want to love God, do it! But don't impose it on others. Let them do what they want to do.
Q: Why did God create man to worship him? Weren't the angels enough to worship him?
According to Quran, the body of Adam Safi Allah was being shaped in the paradise. The angels said to God, 'Why are you creating Adam again? This Adam will create mischief on earth and bloodshed'. And then they said, 'Are we not enough to worship you?' God said, 'You do not know what kind of Adam am I now creating'.
If you pray physically or if the angels pray and they glorify God, it doesn't really please God in the way that it pleasure comes to him when a human heart articulates with his name. If a man is caressing another man's thighs, he won't feel anything good. But if a woman is doing it, he will feel a lot better.
There are all sorts of creatures that God has created to glorify him and they are in all realms that God has created. However the pleasure and ecstasy that God really has is when a human heart articulates in his commemoration. The ecstasy that God enjoys comes from a human heart. God designed his pleasure in the heart to worship him.
The angels do in their own capacity glorify him; but God doesn’t care. Because there is no enjoyment: 1-angels, they don’t have Nafs. When a man with his heart remembers God, he is doing so having neglected the evil nature of his Nafs and having barred himself from so many hurdles. After abridging between good and bad and crossing over so many potential hurdles, and then succeeding to remember God in his heart, obviously it will earn God's favour. These angels don’t have to make an effort because they do not have any evil nature. They don't have any negativity in them; if they remember God, God thinks, 'This is not a big deal because it is easy for them'. If somebody who has a devil touch in them and even then they control their evil nature, they succeed over their evil nature and then they develop love for God and worship God, this earns God's favour and this is what God wants.
Al-Hadith: if one keeps fasting (Soum) and salat and it is nothing but a show off, it is Shirk in the eyes of God.
In our society today, especially in a society where we have so many religions and religious people and their imposition of religious belief system on others, they seem to forget the fact some of these rituals like worship, fasting, prayers- if they do not perform these rituals as per the divine prescription, they are in deep trouble.
It's not just the Quran, the Bible and I believe in all other divine scriptures God must have emphasised on performance of the worship with sincerity and with the utter intentions of pleasing the Lord, not making it a public display to earn praiseworthiness for themselves. It is in human nature: when they do something good they want people to know it and praise it. Oftentimes, when I play well, I come back and ask everybody, 'Did you see my shot?' When you prepare food for somebody, what do you expect at the end? It is like you are trying to say, 'Don't pay for the food, but be sure praise it.' This is the case.
If you did something good and then people praise you, you earned it; but there is a form of corruption even when it comes to emotions. Some people want praiseworthiness without doing anything. This is what God doesn’t want when you come to prayer. You are not doing anything good, but you want people to praise you for something good that you didn’t do. For example, this is what happens in Pakistan: the ministers, politicians and bureaucrats make announcements in the television and media, 'We are going to help 1000 needy people tomorrow.' They make the announcements, everybody claps and they never help them. In a similar way, what God doesn’t want you to do: people go to churches, mosques, synagogues and all the other worship places and they do worship. The problem is when the worship does not reach God and God doesn’t accept it (obviously, when it will reach God, then there will be a question of rejection or acceptance). The worship did not reach God and you do not care whether what you are doing is reaching God; but people witnessed you in the prayer and they are praising you. This is extremely forbidden in all religions and this is regarded as the extremely most hated act in the eyes of God.
I'll give you an example: I give you an envelope and I say, 'There are 100 pounds in the envelope'. I make this announcement in front of everyone and you are very happy. You go home and open the envelope -when you open the envelope, there is nothing. Now you are really upset because everybody knows I was giving you 100 pounds, but you never received it. In the eyes of people, I gave you 100 pounds but you never received it. And if I kept doing it five times a day, every single day, you can understand how upset God would be!
In a similar way, people fast and observe lent. Now, most Muslims think fasting in the holy month of Ramadan is to keep off food and drink, starve for 12-14 hours. But, the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Mohammad said, 'If you are fasting but your fasting turns out to be an act of showing off to others, then you are in trouble'.
We have to examine and determine how does fasting and worship become an act of a showing off and it doesn’t reach God? There were times when interpretation of the words of God and the words of the Prophets and Messengers was explained by the Sufi Masters and learned ones, but for the past few centuries now, there is no understanding of what God is saying.
They are confined to physical performance of the worship, but the core of worship is the spiritual acquisition. They have forgotten the soul of worship, which obviously is spirituality. It is with the help of spirituality that every act of a man reaches God. And without that spiritual connection, no matter how hard you are worshipping God, no matter how long you starve, if this doesn’t reach God, then all sorts of worship and rituals will become an act of showing off. Any worship that doesn’t reach God, but people see it, is a show-off. Why is it a show-off? Because it is a lie. You worshipped, it didn’t reach God but people witnessed you in worship and they are praising you for this.
But, today people have no time to think over this issue. They are just fasting, nothing else. This is not one or two cases today: a majority of people do not want to know whether what they are doing should reach God. They are not in the business of making sure that what they are doing should reach God. It’s like there is a burden and they just want to get rid of this burden by going to the mosque five times a day or by fasting for 30 days. And there is corruption in this: they want to make sure it’s not always 30 days, rather they want it to be 28-29 days. This is why there is a problem with sighting of the Moon. When they want to start the month, they miss one day - so now there are 29 days in the month. And when it is the end of the month, they celebrate a day early, so it is 28 days. This is all corruption. People think God is a fool; honestly, God is not a fool. God is very clever.
In Islam, Judaism and Christianity, God is determined, at least he says so, that he will forgive every other type of sin for except one sin. That one sin that he doesn't want to forgive and he gets really offended by it: that sin is finding a partner with him. In other words, to believe or to perceive that there is somebody else who is equivalent of God.
This kind of belief and perception in the eyes of God is unforgivable; God is not going to forgive it. He said that he would forgive all other types of sins and there are thousands of examples where it is clearly evident that he forgave people who had burden of sins. However, this tiny little sin, that you thought there could be somebody who is equivalent of God, is not forgivable in the eyes of God. The entire building of the Muslim faith is founded in this belief: do not find a partner with God. Which means, 'Do not even perceive that there can be an equivalent of God. There is nobody like God'. It is the same for Christianity and Judaism, because these three religions are the Abrahamic Faiths and come from the same source.
It’s interesting to know that the most detestable, the most ignitable sin in the eyes of God is to commit Shirk, which is to think of somebody as an equivalent of God. If somebody does this, God is not going to forgive him. It is a very sensitive matter to go and worship - either in a mosque, synagogue or a church - but not being able to send it to God. If you perform worship, but you are not able to send it to God, then this in the eyes of God is form of Shirk. Religious people have to be very vigilant, alert and attentive. But people don’t care these days. I don’t see any chances of Muslims verbally saying, 'There is somebody like God', they will never say it. However, when they are fasting and performing Salat and they are not able to send it to God, this is what they are doing!
If you do not know how to drive a car, you better not drive it; because if you drive it, you will screw yourself and the car. I may say to you, 'If you are not a driver, do not drive this car.' Because the chances are, if you do not know driving, you can kill yourself, you can kill others and you can destroy the car. When we say to Muslims, 'Hold on, before you think of fasting or worshipping, make sure your heart is involved in this worship; otherwise you will screw yourself. Such a fasting and prayer which cannot reach God is like paving your way into hellfire', they say, ‘Ah, look at this Mushrik! He is saying "Do not pray, do not fast"! He is Kafir!’ They are very efficient in issuing Fatwas of Kufr. All the bad acts and deeds that you can find in a book, you will see them in today’s Muslim: backbiting, slandering, corruption, cheating God, cheating the Prophet, cheating mothers, cheating husbands, cheating wives, cheating daughters, cheating sons, cheating everybody, cheating themselves! And still they are Momineen (Believers)?
They say, 'A friend in need is a friend indeed'. If you befriend somebody, make sure this relationship is based on sincerity. If you befriend somebody and that relationship between two friends is not based on sincerity and you cheat each other, then that is not friendship; that is concealed enmity.
In a similar way, today, when these Muslims are fasting and they are going to the mosque for prayers, this is Salat and this is Soum, but it is concealed Shirk. Forget about God, even your wife wants you to be sincere with her. When you are married to a woman, that woman wants to make sure that you do not even look at any other woman. What do you think God would think? Do you think God is a fool, that he doesn’t want sincerity from you? You want God to be on your side in all odds, in adversity. At the time of need you call upon God, like God is just on hold! Muslims pray and say, 'Oh God help me'. What do you mean, 'God help me?' Is God on hold for you? [They say], 'No, God said, "Ask me, I will help"'. This is a general practice in our country and in all other countries where Islam is practiced: they pray for 10 minutes, and then after 10 minutes, they raise their hands towards God, towards the sky. You worshipped for 10 minutes and after that, your list of demands lasts for 30 minutes!
Sincerity is the backbone of your worship. But the problem is: people do not know what sincerity is.
To be sincere with men is different from being sincere to God. You see, our relationship with God is different than it is with our fellowmen. If I wanted to be sincere with you, I would make sure that when you are in need, I help you out and I do help you out of no hidden agenda. For example, thinking, 'I can help him today; maybe tomorrow in return he will help me'. So help somebody without this desire of being helped in return; help for the sake of helping others. This I understand is a form of sincerity. But, we strictly follow the law of 'if you scratch my back I will scratch yours'.
So the lesson that we learned today is that any form of worship should not be confined to showing it off only. If you are doing something, make sure what you're doing for God should reach God. And if it doesn't reach God, then it will become an act of showing off.
Danger: when you are performing a form of worship, whether it is invocation, fasting, reading the Holy Scriptures – Bible, Torah, Talmud, Psalms of David, Quran – or any form of worship, if that worship does not reach God but people have seen you worshipping, then that act will become an act of showing off. And that act of showing off, in the eyes of God, is equal to committing Shirk, which is unforgivable. Now, just imagine how sensitive this matter is and how attentive, alert and vigilant one has to be when it comes to performing worship. You can’t take it really lightly, like, ‘Okay, it’s time from prayer, let’s go’, and do it without making sure it’s reaching God. But how many people in religions today think, 'Oh, this is really something sensitive. I want to make sure what I am doing should reach God, because if it doesn’t reach God I will be in trouble'? You are worshipping God, thinking there would be 70 female virgins waiting for you in paradise; but your worship didn’t take you there and you will end up in hellfire.
To summarise: the concealed form of Shirk is to worship God on public display, but not to display your worship to God.
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi’s doctrine that Jesus is God, he comes from the Unseen World and he has his own kingdom is so appealing because no other prophet - if you believe Jesus is a prophet - could do what Jesus did. People couldn't see anything, they were blind; Jesus just touched them and they were able to see. People who couldn’t walk, Jesus just touched them and they were able to walk. And he was making a bird with clay, he breathed into it, it became alive and flew in the air. No other prophet had the ability or the divine, spiritual calibre to do it. Only Jesus did it. Why is it so? Because Jesus is a special prophet? No. Jesus is not a special prophet; Mohammad is a special prophet. But why did Jesus do it then? Because Jesus is God.
Christians are very strict about this theory of one God. But why then do people worship Mother Mary? According to the religious belief system, you can only worship God. But, if you worship somebody, aren’t you indirectly believing that it’s God? It’s contradicting if you worship Mother Mary. From the core of our heart, we respect Mother Mary. Even according to the Quran she is the best woman in the entire Universe and she was elevated above all women. We really respect Mother Mary, but we don’t personally believe she is God; we believe Jesus is God. We have to call spade a spade. Jesus is God. Some people simply say Jesus is Lord, but I find it really blasphemous if we confine Jesus to be Lord.
Q: What does God say about fasting?
According to a hadith, 'If you perform Salat for a show-off, it is Shirk and if you keep a fast for a show-off, it is shirk'. Now, how does Salat become a show-off?
When you perform salat and it does not reach God but people see it, it is a show-off. Prophet Mohammad (SAW) said, 'There is no salat without the presence of heart'.
If your heart is empty of God's light (Noor), Salat will not reach God and God will not see it.
God says that He does not look at your bodies and your deeds, He rather looks at the enlightened hearts and pure intentions.
Roza (fasting) is kept to purify Nafs. When you don't eat food and drink no liquid, you keep off Naar (negative energy), but at the same time, you need Noor (positive energy) to fill the gap created by fasting. If there is no Noor inside to fill the gap, then Shaitan enters the body. And your Roza is wasted and it does not reach God. However, when Noor is created inside the heart and Nafs, it is Noor that sends Roza to God.
According to Quran, and of course according to Bible, God prescribed fasting on believers for one reason: and that is to purify them. It is a path of purification. The question is: if fasting itself will purify human beings, then we shouldn’t eat at all? To refrain from all sorts of foods and liquids for a certain period of time is just one external aspect of very sophisticated sense of purification. The thorough purification, however, is not based on starvation. To starve is not completely purifying yourself. We have to know how it works.
The religions do not speak on this subject, only spirituality does. And whose spirituality? His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi’s spirituality. No other spiritual person went into such lengthy details the way His Divine Eminence has. It’s very systematic and very spiritually mathematical, what actually happens when you refrain from foods for a prescribed duration of time.
There are two types of energy: positive energy and negative energy.
Most people, when their stomach is empty, they feel very low and very humble. Some people are raging when they are hungry, some people are really angry when hungry; but most people are very humble, down-to-earth, they feel very lowly. However as soon as they eat, they start jumping and singing. I have seen it. When I am hungry I am quiet. But once I have eaten, then I starts singing Qasidas and this and that, because the Nafs (Self) is happy. This is very important to understand: when we eat, only negative energy is created by our body. The energy which the food creates in our body, however, is vital to sustain life; but at the same time it is negative.
The whole purpose of fasting is to replace that negative energy with positive energy. Now, how do we do that? Negative energy is physical, positive energy is spiritual. When we eat food, negative energy is created. And when our souls worship God, positive energy is created. Now, just think about a man who doesn’t know the entire regime of fasting: that person is fasting and he is not consuming any food, which means he is not creating any negative energy. However, he doesn’t know that this negative energy is to be replaced by positive energy and he doesn’t know how to produce positive energy. He is naïve, he doesn't have this knowledge. His souls are dormant, not awakened and not involved in any type of spiritual worship. So negative energy comes to a halt for 14-16 hours, and in that duration, it is not replaced by positive energy. So what happens is, as long as you're not eating, negative energy is not created. However, when you eat after 16 hours, you produce negative energy. In your mind, you think you're doing something good; but nothing is happening.
Now the benefits of fasting can only be reaped once you have become a spiritual man and your souls are able to perform internal, spiritual, worship. Because the positive energy is only created when the souls are in worship; the worship of the body is nothing but a physical exercise. By performing physical worship, you do not create positive energy. For positive energy to be created, the souls must be activated.
So what happens is, people who are alien to spirituality, however they have this religiosity in their nature, being naïve of the knowledge, they go on to keep a fast. They refrain from food for 13-16 hours. In that time, they do not create negative energy which is created by consuming food. However, there are so many other holes through which the negative energy keeps barging into their body.
It is not just food, there are so many other things as well that you must stop doing while you are fasting. For example, hurting somebody emotionally or physically – if you are harming somebody, verbally or physically, you are producing negative energy. If you are thinking badly about people, you are consuming negative energy. If you're being dishonest, you are creating negative energy. If you are not good to people, you are creating negative energy. For example, you are fasting - you are not eating any food. So, you have shut one window. However, if you are watching a nude movie, what is the point? The window is shut but the door is open! You are not deterring the negative energy; you have changed the source of negative energy. We are not producing negative energy by eating food but we are producing it by doing something extraordinarily bad.
This is what people need to understand. But they will think about it when they are sincere with the Lord and when they are sincere in purifying themselves. The thing is: people do not have the intent of purifying themselves; they're just doing it as part of rituals. They're not interested; they're just doing it for the sake of doing it. Maybe they're doing it because they think, 'Oh, we've done it. Now we will escape the torment of the grave and the torment of hellfire. We will be sent straight to heaven where 70 virgin damsels are waiting'.
So the purpose of fasting is to purify yourself. For example, if your clothes are dirty and you put them in the washing machine, but there is a lot of water and no soap, what will happen? Some of the really stubborn spots on your clothes will not just go away by putting it in water; you need some kind of detergent. In a similar way, when you to purify yourself, you want to replace the negative energy with positive energy. What are people doing? They're shutting down a door on negative energy, but they're not replacing it with positive energy. When it is not replaced with positive energy, you do not reach purification.
It is like an ill person who is just seeing the doctor, just taking the medicine, but he doesn’t want to know if the medicine is healing him up. Generally, if we have a problem, we see the doctor and the doctor prescribes medicine for us; if that medicine doesn’t work for us, then we complain to the doctor. We say, 'This is not working for me, give me something else'. Why do we say that? Because the medicine is not working for us and we want to heal. We know that if we're going to see a doctor, we're going there for a purpose and that purpose is healing.
Have you ever seen a person who goes to the doctor, takes the medicine, and when the medicine doesn't work, he says 'I don’t care. I'm just concerned about taking the medicine, I don’t care if I die'? This is silly: we don’t see such things in this world. In a similar way, fasting, Salat and all other different types of worship is to arrive at a result; if you are not arriving at a result, then it's useless.
For example, you are working somewhere for 12 hours a day, but you don't get paid. You'll do it for a day or two and then you'll say, 'If you're not paying me, I'm not going to work'. But when it comes to the religions, you're going to the mosque, temples, churches, etc but you are not reaching the goal: you are not acquiring spirituality and purification. Then you should think at least twice: why should you do it? You're just wasting your time.
Q: What is the reason behind His Divine Emiennce Gohar Shahi coming from Pakistan, why not another country like Australia, England or America?
You see, the problem is, the last Adam who was the most eminent one, his progeny is confined to that area. His progeny is there and these people can potentially be more in terms of understanding and in terms of being recipient of the spiritual benefits. Because all the prophets and messengers, including Jesus came from that side. No prophet came to Australia, USA, Africa, or Europe. All these messengers and prophets came to this particular piece of land: Iraq, Jerusalem, Israel and the other side of the Arab peninsula; only this area. This area is where most progeny of the eminent Adam live.
I can give you an example: why are we selling so many dishes of Nihari and Biryani in this area? Because most people here are Pakistanis. If you are selling Nihari in an area where nobody knows Nihari, you won't sell anything. People in America, England, Australia, they come from different Adam so their understanding of the religion is different.
Even the original Christians do not come from Europe, they come from Jerusalem. The way they respect Jesus is different; they almost worship Jesus. The type of love they have for Jesus is amazing. However, with due respect to all other communities in the world, if Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and Britons see their behaviour and love for Jesus, they say, 'Oh, it is a personality cult. They're crazy, they're insane'. To them it appears to be insanity and for them [the original Christians], it is love. They love Jesus to a degree where they cannot see anybody else next to Jesus. But in these areas, they have very calculated belief systems, very calculated emotions, and very calculated love. You cannot love somebody mathematically. You do not measure the intensity of love.
The reason why HDE Gohar Shahi appeared in that area is because the mission of HDE Gohar Shahi is reaching the world through these people. However, HDE has been everywhere: to America, Canada, Europe - all over the world. But all other nations took it really lightly. 'Oh yes, HDE Gohar Shahi came to our church. It was a wonderful speech, we believe what He said.' And that’s it. But people from this area [where HDE Gohar Shahi has come], they say, 'Alright, this is my life; this is what I'm going to do all my life'. In other words, their dedication is more trustworthy. They're more dedicated.
But this type of emotion and dedication is very volatile as well at the same time. If it is mistaken, then it turns into fanaticism and extremism. You see a lot of idiots marching on the road and carrying out arson attacks and suicide bombing. Why? Because they're walking on the path of fire. If you take one wrong step from dedication, you fall into the ditch of extremism and fanaticism. There should be intensity in love, but intensity in love does not mean harming other. You can love your Lord to any degree, to any extent; as long as it does not harm anybody, as long as you do not offend anybody. It should be between you and your Lord. You can go to all lengths in love, you can keep no boundaries in love. As long as you do not harm, disgrace, disrespect or offend anybody. However, when you take one step wrong and you say, 'No, I want everybody to love God the way I do', then this is fanaticism.
HDE Gohar Shahi teaches us the right path: love your Lord to any degree and extent but let others do what they want. And love is a medicine. When love enters the heart, the heart is purified. And when it is purified you do not hold enmity for anybody.
You do not hate anybody, you do not harm anybody, you do not hurt anybody. You do not dislike anybody. But when there is devil in your heart, then you have this compulsion, 'No, I want everybody to become Muslim. If they don't want to convert into Islam, I will kill them'. This is insanity; this is not Islam, this is not humanity, this is not God's word. This is fabrication and an act of stupidity. Stupid is one whom God has deprived of intellect. And all these people have lost their minds. Live and let live; if you want to love God, do it! But don't impose it on others. Let them do what they want to do.
Q: Why did God create man to worship him? Weren't the angels enough to worship him?
According to Quran, the body of Adam Safi Allah was being shaped in the paradise. The angels said to God, 'Why are you creating Adam again? This Adam will create mischief on earth and bloodshed'. And then they said, 'Are we not enough to worship you?' God said, 'You do not know what kind of Adam am I now creating'.
If you pray physically or if the angels pray and they glorify God, it doesn't really please God in the way that it pleasure comes to him when a human heart articulates with his name. If a man is caressing another man's thighs, he won't feel anything good. But if a woman is doing it, he will feel a lot better.
There are all sorts of creatures that God has created to glorify him and they are in all realms that God has created. However the pleasure and ecstasy that God really has is when a human heart articulates in his commemoration. The ecstasy that God enjoys comes from a human heart. God designed his pleasure in the heart to worship him.
The angels do in their own capacity glorify him; but God doesn’t care. Because there is no enjoyment: 1-angels, they don’t have Nafs. When a man with his heart remembers God, he is doing so having neglected the evil nature of his Nafs and having barred himself from so many hurdles. After abridging between good and bad and crossing over so many potential hurdles, and then succeeding to remember God in his heart, obviously it will earn God's favour. These angels don’t have to make an effort because they do not have any evil nature. They don't have any negativity in them; if they remember God, God thinks, 'This is not a big deal because it is easy for them'. If somebody who has a devil touch in them and even then they control their evil nature, they succeed over their evil nature and then they develop love for God and worship God, this earns God's favour and this is what God wants.
Saturday, June 22, 2013
The Perigee Moon (Supermoon)
The Supermoon (Perigee Moon), which can be seen tonight and tomorrow, is the perfect opportunity to observe the image of the Awaited Messiah, Imam Mehdi and Kalki Avatar His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi’s image on the Moon!
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