Al-Baqiyat (The Everlastings)
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Death is not just the cessation of biological processes, indeed it is
also the cessation of all desires and in particular all yearnings!
Del-Barā (My heart throbbing beloved) the yearning and desire for
everyone and everything you ever loved shall leave you behind at the
very moment of
your death, with however one exception:
Allah said:
For sure the Shauq (Yearning) of
the pious for meeting Me
has been prolonged and I have intense yearning to meet them.
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2 - حديث "يقول الله عز وجل لقد طال شوق
الأبرار إلى لقائي وأنا إلى لقائهم أشد شوقا "
لم أجد له أصلا إلا أن صاحب الفردوس
أخرجه من حديث أبي الدرداء ولم يذكر له ولده في مسند الفردوس إسنادا.
Irfan (Unlearnt Intrinsic Knowledge):
When
Allah
takes away a loved one
we bemoan this loss and wonder why does Allah take a child or a parent
or a beloved away from the lover and the permanent answer and the
incurably atomic (indivisible) answer: had the beloved stayed with us
his or her 3beloved-ness would have soon ended, with utmost of
assurance, we might even turn against that person or that beloved might
abuse us in most unfathomable fashion; alas! Allah takes the beloved
away, so he or she everlasts as a beloved not just a passing
infatuation, for what remains with us shall cease and deplete (even our
beloveds) but what is with Allah is everlasting (including our
beloveds):
16:96. What (is) with you (all)
dwindles away while what (is)
with Allah
everlasts (Bāq)
مَا عِنْدَكُمْ يَنْفَدُ
وَمَا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ بَاقٍ
And when the sands of this evanescing planet brim-fill our complaining
mouths and the sockets of our eyes sated with the dust of one final
darkling satiation, for most nothing is left to yearn after or desire
for, but fortunate few whether living or un-living yearn for Ān
Zibāy-e Āsemāni (That Celestial Beauty) and their primordial yearning
outlasts the last of all ends, for they are no longer humans or corps
or substances, they are Yearners yearning for the first vernal glance
of
the Divine
Face...
There is no Shauq (Yearning)
without knowledge, a lover does not yearn
after a non-existing beloved, and once in love the lover must know all
that there is to know about the beloved
and enrages at the mere thought of someone else knowing something about
the
beloved beyond his knowledge!
Bāq is the non-destructible exotic substance comprised of yearning and
thirsting for knowledge for That Divine Beloved; Bāq is independent of
whether the lover is unborn, living or dead, the alien construction
materials that craft the post-structures of the Voyager (Salik)
after his
death, voyaging the endless knowledge(s) and beauties of the Divine
Presence in ITs
infinite modalities of presence:
Baba Afdhal Kashani
Risala Al-Mufidu Li Al-Mustafid (The
Beneficial for The Beneficiary)
“Know that once the human being reaches the said Maqam (Rank) (of
spiritual behaviour free of daily greed and aggressive competition and
menpleasing and so on), thus his or her Mahab-bat (Divine
Love) and
Ma’rifat (Unlearnt Knowledge Deep Within) being made proper, has still
much further to go; voyaging within the Ghayb (Unseen, Unboservable)
seeking the Ghayb (Unseen), since the universe of Haqiqat
(Emulation-free Reality of
Divine Presence) has no boundaries.
If you had endeavoured for hundreds of millenniums, struggling
seeking after, what you captured (of knowledge) is quite tiny compared
to what remains in Bāq:
18:46. Al-Baqiyat
(Everlastings) and Al-Salihat (Good Deeds) are valued
best with your Lord and Khairun Amalan (best for hope (and yearning))
وَالْبَاقِيَاتُ
الصَّالِحَاتُ
خَيْرٌ
عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابًا وَخَيْرٌ أَمَلًا
This Voyage is not possible unless there is no longer ‘you’, you have
to cease, for as long as there is you, this fantastic Voyage commences
not!”
Remark: Khairun Amalan (best for hope (and
yearning)) is the Voyager’s
Sextant to find the way towards the horizons of Divine Presence, the
skilful use of this navigation tool diverts the person from all forms
of depression or equivalently falling into the depression is indicative
of improper use or abandonment of Khairun Amalan (best for hope (and
yearning)).
Voyage by means of Al-Baqiyat
(Everlastings) discovers (Kashf) three
territories of Malakut (Spiritual
Realm):
Baba Afdhal Kashani
Risala Al-Mufidu Li Al-Mustafid (The
Beneficial for The Beneficiary)
1. ‘Uluhiyat:
A
Kashf
(Uncovering or Discovery) that
makes the deeds of any member of creation annulled and obsolete i.e.
the real deeds and actions and happenings are that of the Primordial
Divine Fā’il (Agent Doer, Allah) and the
objects/subjects of these happenings
retain only their attributes of being an object/subject; this is the
most felicitous state of happiness for a lover who sees his or her
beloved in everything and in every incident, (Beloved) masterfully
manipulating with infinite precision, for the purpose of caressing the
lover by sharing unnumbered many subtle secrets that all happenings are
all about being-ness of a Divine Beloved. And the shared secrets are
for the purpose of cognizance of Wahdat (Oneness
in
doing) of an
autonomous Divine Fa’il (Agent Doer) i.e. Wahda-Hu La Sharika La-Hu (IT
One, No partners for IT); in this rank the soul enrobes the garb of
Khilafa (Becoming a Khalifa Divine Deputy) to drink the Wine
of
Mahab-bat (Divine
Love) broiling midst the flaring flames of Shauq
(Yearning).
2. Ilahiyat:
The Maqam (Permanent
Rank) of Companions
of The Pit—Being slaughtered by the scintillating blade of Tajalli
(Lucent
Manifestations) for the soul to become both Shāhid (Observer)
and Mash-hud (Observed), free of being one vs. the other, by means of
the Tajalli (Lucent
Manifestations) of the Divine Beloved that
obliterates any characterization or definition of a lover! Though
Lover-ness (being a lover) is done away in this state, however the Dhat
(Inmost Core) of the lover still persists, and the latter far happier
and more fortunate than that of being a lover, too close to the Beloved
to be cognizant of being a lover himself—absolute amnesia.
3. Allahiyat:
Return
of
all attributes of being a
human to ‘Adam (Realm of Non-Being), obliteration eradication
annihilation of Servant within the Master, Seeker within the Sought of
After, Lover within the Beloved, the Dawning Tajalli (Lucent
Manifestations) of The Singleton Beloved’s Divine Dhat (Inmost
Core),
free of any burden or activity or volition of a lover: (See
Also:
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75:22.
Faces,
that-day,
Nādhiratun (Verdant)
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاضِرَةٌ
75:23. Glancing towards ‘her’ Lord
إِلَى رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ
Harbinger of glad tidings, for those with high hopes to continue with
acquisition of knowledge well into their graves.
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