Is God the Creator of Souls?

The following is an excerpt from His Holiness Younus AlGohar's spoken speech. 

The power of Command BE was granted to God. God used the power of Command BE to bring souls into existence. God uttered the word ‘Kun’ and souls appeared. Does it make God the Creator of Souls?

Let’s talk about the mysterious ways of the art of creation. How the world was brought into existence and how God declared himself to be the creator. It is a very sensitive matter. However this thought, this point, and this doctrine that I mention will keep you vigilant. You cannot get rid of this thought until you submit to it. I give you two sentences; tell me the difference:

1-      You say, ‘YGohar Almadad,’ and His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi comes to help you.

2-      ‘Kun faya kun. Be, so it was.’

You asked for help, help was given; God uttered 'Kun faya kun,' and whatever was in his imagination, the things he wanted, appeared before him. How can you say when God said, 'Kun,' and things appeared, that God is the creator? Can anybody, can any Prophet or Grand Messenger establish it to me that God is the creator? I said, 'YGohar Almadad,' and help appeared. Did I create that help? God said, 'Be, so it was.' When did he create? The words have this power.

Bible says, 'The Word was with God,' (John 1:1). It did not mean God created the Word.

If I give you my credit card, but not the password, it's useless. If I trust you, I'll give you the code; then you will be able to use it. The Grand God gave the Code of Kun to 3-5 individuals. It's all about the code. He is God; he said 'Kun' and things appeared. Fair enough. But some Saints said, 'Kun be izni.' Did they become God? This is code-sharing! Basically, the power of Command BE does not belong to God.

For example, if a Japanese car company opens a plant in Pakistan or India, the technology is Japanese but it is assembled in Pakistan and India. Similarly, the power of Command BE is from Riaz al Jannah and was exercised in Alam-e-Ahdiyat by God.

If you cannot produce children conventionally, you and your wife may try via test tube (i.e. petri dish), whereby semen is donated and inserted in the womb. Your wife would then deliver that baby and become the mother. She is not the creator; the blood does not belong to her. That test tube baby will entitle you in the eyes of the world to be called the father, though you would not be the biological father. In a similar way, God became a test tube creator. The real creator is 'La Ilaha Illa Riaz'! You can believe it, or not- but the day will come when this thought will not let you sleep until you are convinced and you embrace this truth!

I (HH Younus AlGohar) said to His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi, ‘It is a shame I was created by God, not You.’ His Divine Eminence said, ‘No, no you did not understand it.’ I said, ‘I know my reality. I cannot be fortunate enough to have been created by you.’ His Divine Eminence replied, ‘Yes, you were born here but you and everyone else is my creation! Otherwise do you think God would allow this Kalima (Declaration of Faith) “La Ilaha Illa Riaz” to be exercised in the hearts? Do you think God would allow his creation to be transported to Riaz al Jannah?’

The first iPhone was assembled in California, USA. But when Steve Jobs saw that labour was cheap in China, he had them made there.  Similarly the power of Command BE was granted to God by the Grand God, as a result of which you and I came into existence. If the Grand God exercised the same power by Himself, the creation is the same; the power is the same. God doesn't have such powers on his own. This power of Command BE was invested in him by the Grand God. It belongs to the Grand God.

If you buy a table from Ikea, it'll come in a box. You will have to assemble it. When you do, does that make you the creator of that table? The power of Command BE comes from the Grand God. The only creator which is established is the creator who created the source which was used to manifest this creation! What happened on Youm-e-Azal (Primordial Day) was a manifestation of creation. God mirrored the power of the Lord, Grand God Ra Riaz. The original creator is Ra Riaz!

HDE Gohar Shahi’s Statement Regarding His Mehdi-hood

His Divine Eminence Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi said, 'My image is visible with the naked eye on the Moon. Whether one is a Kafir (Infidel), Munafiq (Hypocrite), Momin (Believer), Aashiq (Lover), Saint or Prophet, he is able to see it. Whoever is able to see the Moon is able to see this image and this image is a Divine Sign. Whosoever rejects it is Kazib (denier of the truth).'

HDE Gohar Shahi has clearly stated, 'I have never thought myself to be Imam Mehdi, but when my image became prominent on the Moon, Sun, Mars, Hajre Aswad (Holy Black Stone) and Shiv Temple, I started to think whether God wants to appoint me as the Awaited One, Imam Mehdi.'

The question is, is it possible for His Divine Eminence Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi to be mistaken? 

These images are a Divine Inspiration and evidence that HDE Gohar Shahi is Imam Mehdi. Now what is more important: verification from a saint, or the belief of Imam Mehdi that He is Imam Mehdi? 

Amongst the disciples of Imam Mehdi is Lord Jesus Christ. In El Monte Lodge hotel, a handsome young man appeared before HDE Gohar Shahi in 1997. Now, HDE’s initial reaction was that it was one of His followers. When HDE noticed that somebody was standing there He asked, ‘Who are you?’ The man replied, ‘I am Jesus, son of Mary and I have come to see you.’ Having heard this from the young man HDE said, ‘I felt immense spiritual ecstasy and pleasure, the same spiritual ecstasy and pleasure that you feel when you are in the gathering of Prophets and Messengers in the higher realms. When I felt immense pleasure and ecstasy in my chest, I instantly recognised the handsome young man standing before me was not a common man.’ 

HDE’s understanding developed into believing the fact that the handsome man was at least a Messenger. HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'Then I looked at his face and I tried to find similarities of the face of that young man with the face of Jesus which was manifested by God on the Moon.' There were 100% similarities, therefore HDE said, 'I believed the fact that the handsome young man was nobody else but Jesus Christ himself.' HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'We discussed many points including the point relating to the Community of God,' and HDE said that the details of the meeting were not to be disclosed when this statement was made in 1997. HDE left it until later on. 

Now, I ask you a question: HDE Gohar Shahi has all the tools of the spiritual trade, forehand. HDE Gohar Shahi has the ability and spiritual calibre to recognise a handsome young man to be Jesus Christ, does HDE Gohar Shahi not have this much ability to see why His image has been manifested on the Moon? HDE is able to recognise that handsome young man and this recognition is not dependent on looking at the face. This recognition and finding is based on the spiritual criterion that HDE has explained. HDE felt immense spiritual ecstasy and pleasure that is felt when you are in the gathering of Prophets and Messengers. This planet or the Moon is not greater than any prophet and messenger; they are special deputies, vicegerents of God. They have more divine spiritual value than just a planet made of stone. When HDE Gohar Shahi is able to spiritually suss out who is standing before him then why can’t HDE Gohar Shahi understand the appearance of His image on the moon? 

Obviously HDE knows everything, knows the reasons and purpose of the manifestation of his images in different celestial and terrestrial bodies including the Holy Black Stone and the Moon, Mars, the Sun and many other celestial bodies. The reason why HDE Gohar Shahi has released the information about Him being Mehdi is an act of wisdom. HDE Gohar Shahi has slowly released this information bit by bit, because HDE once told me the purpose of releasing the truth (Haq) is to let humanity benefit from the truth. Therefore the truth should be shared by humanity in such a fashion in which they are able to mentally and spiritually benefit from that truth. And if the truth is blatantly exploded, it may have some negative factors involved. It may spark some negative retaliation and this was the wisdom behind taking measures of revealing the truth upon humanity bit by bit. Because if HDE Gohar Shahi had revealed on people of the world about him being the Awaited One, the only apprehension that HDE had in His heart was that maybe for some reason these individuals who have been awaiting the Awaited One for centuries may not be able to digest it completely and in sheer ignorance they may end up refuting this announcement of Imam Mehdi, and may pave way for themselves to entering hellfire. Therefore HDE Gohar Shahi was very cautious and very wise and very slow in releasing information about the potential truth. 

Love God While You're Still Young!

His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi said to me, 

'A time will come when humanity will be greatly affected by natural disasters, by wars, by crimes of hatred, terrorism, and many other afflictions in this world and the day will come when people will be deprived of even basic necessities of life. They will be stranded, they will have no food, no home, no support, no aid and the night will fall and then in despair they will see the Moon. For that moment I want you to propagate my face so that when in that moment people look at the Moon for help, they should be already aware that the Messianic Figure and his identity has already been propagated about. And in this moment when people look at the Moon in despair and dismay, in sheer helplessness when they will have no other source of help, the only rescue they will think of will come from the Moon. In that moment they should be aware that the image on the Moon is that of the Awaited One.'  

His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi said, 'Take this mission to all corners of the world.'

Now, when you are young your parents don’t want you to become holy. They want you to do every single sin in your life, especially if you are making money. Your parents want you to make more money, keep making money while you still can. If you want to become holy they will say you are wasting your time what are you doing, your whole life is left for you to please God; this is the time for you to please me.

You know all these people no matter if you are 20, 40, 60 or 80 whether or not you want to do it you have this desire that you want to marry a young girl. Some people don’t do it out of fear of what people would say. But everybody wants to do it, barring none everybody wants youth, what about God? Why should God be left behind? God also wants youth to love him. While you are still young, this is when you should learn to love God. You will continue to love God in the old age when you have learnt to love God while you were still young. Often times I hear in films and Pakistani soaps that now I am 70, I have done everything now I will remember God. Now you can't do anything else in your life, now you want to remember God? And you expect God to become excited? This is a battle. Everybody wants you to be loyal to them while you are young. You make money while you are young, when you are old you don’t make enough money. Unfortunately, God also wants the same for you.

We are here for a very brief, very temporal period of time and life hereafter is very dangerous. Touch of eternity. Eternity is a very, very dangerous word isn’t it? If it's good it's good forever but if it's bad it's bad forever, so you want to make sure you are going to get something that is going to stay with you forever. What do you want, happiness or pain? For Example, if God announces tomorrow that he wants to give you something that will stay forever, it will last forever what do you want pain or happiness? We only think about eternity but why don’t we pay attention, what if eternity is associated with pain? Then the pain will become eternal. So, this eternity that we will be introduced after this life, we want to make sure that that eternity must be associated with pleasure, happiness, no pain, no suffering. Haven’t we suffered enough in this world, being human? To be a human means suffering. What did we get out of this practice of being a human? Nothing. The day we are born we start to get old, surprisingly. This is why we say how old is she? How old are you? Every moment which is elapsing you are getting old. The time is flying and soon we will be touching upon eternity. Just think for a moment, that eternity, what if pain is associated with that eternity? We will be in pain forever you can't change it. So, what will be our life like forever depends on what we do today in this short span of life. This is just a prequel, just a preview, preface of life. This is just a trailer. 

God wants you to love him while you are still young you know why it is really funny you have more manly powers when you are young and when you are old you have little power left. It's funny, when you are young your spiritual heart is also powerful and you can love God profusely, but when you get old your heart is also old, now with a leaning heart, a weak heart, the heart is not pulsating properly and you want to love God? This is funny isn’t it? When you are young you have manly powers, in a similar way when you are young your heart is young and you can love God with all your heart and all your soul. With the passage of time as you grow old, your heart beats less; the more you grow old the less your heart beats. When your heart beats less you have less power, you have less agility in the body. You can sin at its best when you are young, and you can love God to its peak when you are young. Learn to love God when you are young even if you want to love God full-fledged later on, but learn to love now when you are still young, because when the weapon is destroyed you can't fight. 

When you reach forty God wants the angels to bring your book and he wants to reward you if you have initiated your heart because forty is the age when God wants to see what have you done to your life, what did you look for while you were in this world, what did you do? And if you didn’t do anything then God becomes fed up with you, so the heart must be initiated before you reach forty. If you reach forty and your heart is still not initiated then my friend you are in deep trouble with God. If you are forty and you are not married people will think you are forty and you are still unmarried, what's wrong with you? 

The most important thing in your life while you are still young is that you must be introduced to your Lord and your Lord must have granted to you his love. When you have acquired it, when you have obtained God's love, then roam about the world, go anywhere in the world. The most important thing in your life is that you must be initiated and you must have learnt how to love God and God should also know about you. When you are introduced to God, your Spiritual Guide will introduce you to God and now you are under divine scrutiny. God has a spy webcam everywhere and when you have been initiated God is aware of your movements.

The most important thing in your life is that you are making genuine efforts to please your Lord and keeping on, don’t stop doing it, this is the most important thing in one's life who wants to care about life hereafter? Most people are just atheist, they don’t think there is life hereafter. For them living a good life here is like living in paradise and suffering in this world is like living in hell. To them, they are their own Spiritual Guide, they are God of themselves. This is their own perception and their own concoction. However, those who believe in God, Jesus and Gohar Shahi, for them the most important thing and most important factor in their life is to make sure they are making enough efforts to please the Lord and while pleasing their Lord, those efforts of pleasing the Lord will not only please the Lord, but will also enlighten your heart, purify your heart and mortify your Self. 

The best way to please the Lord is to propagate these Divine Teachings and the Divine Signs.