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LETTER 5
In a letter to Hazrat Qotb Sahab, Khwaja Moinoddin
Cheshti writes that his morshed Othman Haruni once
was pleased to narrate the following dialogue between a
morshed and a morid:
Hatim Asamm was a morid of Khwaja Shaqiq of Balkh.
One day it so happened, that the morshed inquired from
his morid: Tell me, since how long have you been
engrossed in my love and engaged in my service and have
been hearing my talk and discourses?
He replied: For the last thirty years, morshed.
Khwaja Shaqiq then asked: Now, tell me, during this long
period, what have you gained and what benefits and
blessings have you derived?
Thereupon Hatim Asamm submitted: I have acquired
eight useful and beneficial things, morshed'
The morshed inquired: What are they? Did you not enjoy
and posses them before?
He replied: It is true to say, that I did not enjoy them
before. I am happy and satisfied, morshed. I do not
require anything more.
Khwaja Shaqiq exclaimed: Hatim! I have spent all my life
in your work and in your training. I myself do not want,
that you should acquire more than what you have already
acquired.
Hatim, as a mark of expression of his satisfaction and
gratitude, humbly submitted: This much knowledge is
sufficient unto me, for the salvation of both the worlds is
circumscribed
within
the
eight
beneficial
accomplishments, which fortunately I have acquired in
your blessed company.
Thereupon shaykh Shaqiq asked Hatim Asamm to
describe them and he answered thus:
Morshed, the first thing is this, that when I saw the
people of the world minutely, I found then that everybody
has foolishly made someone his beloved. These so-called
beloveds are of such a type and trait, that some are with
you during your illness, some are with you till your death
and some accompany your funeral to the grave. There is
none, who may go with you inside the grave and partake
of your sorrow and affliction therein and there is none,
who may serve as a lamp in your grave.
Seeing this I thought to myself, that (s)he is indeed a
good beloved, who may be prepared to go with you inside
the grave and be sympathetic to you and be a bright lamp
there in the grave and enable you to overcome hardship
and cross the hurdles. Then I understood, that the
beloveds capable of helping thus are no other than good
actions! So I made them the focus of my attention and
treated them as my beloved and took them as my pleader,
so that they may stand by me in the grave and serve as a
bright lamp therein, be with me at every stage, intercede
for me and may never desert me.
Hearing this Khwaja Shaqiq of Balkh said: Hatim, you
have done very well indeed. Now describe the second
thing.
Hatim then began to describe the second thing thus: The
second thing is this, that when I saw the people of the
world minutely, I found them to be the followers of lust
and the devotees of greed and obeying their own self. I
travelling
travelling
travelling
travelling
kinds
(according
to
Khwaja
with a purpose
for inner contentment
of tariqat
of haqiqat
The heart of the momin (the one with faith) is the house
of unification and in unification of the heart is the hajj of
the poor. It is not for everyone to attain the inner
unification. When the inner attainment of the heart is
reached, then through repeated recitations and
remembrances in the heart and inner obedience the true
seeker reaches the place of unification of unification. That
beauty of beauties is attained in eternal unification and is
the contemplation of real beauty.
O, beloved one! That prayer in which, while performing
the different movements of prayer, the difference between
you and I remains, is not the prayer to God.
When absorbed deeply in the love of God,
Mere formalities of prayer are not observed.
Unless there is strong faith in the Oneness of God
Mere observance of formalities is not the means of
approach to God.
That prayer is not of God which is outwardly worship of
God, but is in reality of the ego.
The praying of lovers is a secret.
It is known only by those who are always praying.
The ignorant worshipper does not know,
That the soul of the lover is always in prayer.
When the lover sees the beauty of his Beloved in
privacy,
No one else should come in between.
Going into retreat is of three kinds, that is to say, retreat
of nasut, of malakut and of jabarut. Abdulah Ansari has
said that, through the training of the murshid the real
seeker reaches the nearness of God in ten years. Shibli
has said that it is in three years and Dhun-Nun al-Mesri
has said that the nearness of God can be attained in the
third retirement.
The weekly portion from: Mo'in ol-Arwah.