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Ain Ul Faqr by Sultan Bahu.Pdf AIN al-FAQR THE SPIRIT OF 'Al-FAQR' By HADRAT SULTAN BAHU Foreword 5 Hadrat Sultan Bahu9 1-Ism-i-Dhat (The Personal Name) 47 and the attainment to Unification, annihilation in Allah. 2- Tajalliyat (The Divine self-disclosure), 63 Detail of stages of the self and about Satan and other than Allah. 3-About the Murshed and the Talib 77 (seeker) of the Path leading towards Allah____ Faqr, annihilation in Allah And to be in permanent state with Allah. 4- On going against the self and bringing95 it under control with the help of Allah. 5- Scholars and Fuqara, and 129 the remembrance of Allah ____ Worthy and Strong and Exalted and Perfect and the Greate 6- Meditation____ Vision (mushahida), 159 ___ Dream and the interpretation____ Absorption in the Unity, the Annihilation in Allah. 7- The remembrance of Allah, the most191 high, with tongue, heart, spirit, in the open and in the secret. Reflection of Kalima Tayyiba (the sacred formula) privately. 8-About the Dhikr with Love, 217 Passion (Ishq): Faqr_____ Annihilation in Allah: Union and other Spiritual States. 9-About wine____ about the truth 241 regarding the Awliya-Allah (The Friends of God) ____ and about giving up all the other than Allah. 10-About the annihilation in Allah____271 Faqr_____ Detachment from all other than Allah. Notes300 Foreword During my travels abroad I often observed that there are only a few people who have formed right opinion about Islam. Then they, on their part, are mostly research scholars. They, of course, have not only studied Islam keeping in view the principles and laws of the religion but they have also understood the real message and spirit of Islam. They know that Islam is the religion of peace. But there are many others and they have been influenced by the politicians and so called think-tanks of western world who consider Islam to be the religion of violence and terror. Every religion person with a beard and turban they come across is a terrorist in their eyes. Now it is the duty of every Muslim whether he is Sufi or a common man to clarify this matter to them as peace loving people with humanitarian outlook. Anybody can see the example in the Muslims’ attitude towards the others. When a Muslim meets a Muslim, he shakes hand with him by saying, “Assalam-o-Alaikom” (peace be to you) and if he meets some non-Muslim, he says “peace to one who follows the guidance.” The “guidance” here means the system of universal moral and spiritual values. There is a misunderstanding among the Western people in general that the Islamic religion was imposed upon the people of the land by sword, conquered by the Muslim kings. This is a grave error to be taken seriously, which is to be rectified through our endeavors at every level, political or intellectual moral or social, so forth and so on. The historical fact is that Islam spread in Asia and Europe through the efforts of Sufi saints who travelled far and wide some times as mere preachers, propagators and teachers and sometimes as traders and merchants. The practicing Sufis amongst them were the real exemplars who entertained all in their company who came to meet and see them. When those people saw them, talked to them and learnt about the peaceful message of Islam, they came to believe in Islam and then they followed then after they had felt a real change in their hearts. At the same time the Muslim world finds itself in anguish and pain due to the misguided interpreters of Islam amongst them. We feel the need of providing correct information to our misled people as well as to those in the West who have misunderstood Islam. In my opinion, what we actually need is to explain to the people that maslak (creed) which I call the Sufis’ view of Islam (sometimes called qalb-i-Islam, the inner aspect of Islam). Islam is peace and rahma (mercy) and its Prophet (PBUH) brought rahma to the world. Sufis all over the world have been the true representatives of this rahma wherever they went or wherever they lived in any community. I belong to Hadhrat Sultan Bahu’s Sufi order called Qadri tariqa and I have devoted each and every moment of my life to preach his views and teachings. Then as a representative of his Sufi order I can also realize my responsibility to persuade and inspire others who are competent to do the work and to co-operate with me in this mission. I am happy that Prof. Syed Ahmad Saeed Hamadani has already written more than a dozen books about the life and work of my Murshid and my illustrious ancestor Hadhrat Sultan Bahu. He is well known among the Sufi Scholars for his knowledge of history and spirit of Sufism. Now he has translated a very important book of Hadhrat Sultan Bahu, Ain al-Faqr, originally in Persian, into English. In fact, it is the first complete and comprehensive book written by Hadhrat Sultan Bahu, which has been translated into English by an eminent scholar like Syed Ahmad Saeed Hamadani. Hadhrat Sultan Bahu The Sultan al-Faqr and Sultan al-Arifin Hadhrat Sultan Bahu is one of the most renowned Sufi saints of the later Mughal period in the history of Indo-Pakistan sub-Continent. He is often called Sultan al-Arifin (the Sultan of Gnostics) in the Sufi circles. His ancestors belonging to a tribe of Alvis called Awan and coming from Arabia via Hira (Afghanistan) had settled in the Soon Sakesar Valley of Khushab District in Punjab. His father Sultan Bazid had served in the army of the Emperor Shah Jahan as a high ranking officer and so in recognition to his services he had been awarded a jagir in the Shorkot area. The family migrated to the place and settled at Qalai Shorkot a settlement at the bank of River Chenab (now in District Jhang, Punjab). Hadhrat Sultan Bahu was born there probably in 1628 AD. Even in the early childhood, it was perceived by all those around him that a strange light shone upon his face which compelled even the Hindus to utter Kalima Tayyiba (There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His messenger) in his presence. His father died when he was just a child but his mother Bibi Rasti, remained alive till he was forty years old. His mother supervised his education but it must have been irregular because he was often found under the influence of ecstatic states. It seems that his education remained informal to the end. Whatever he expressed or wrote after-wards, it was in the light of his own spiritual vision and knowledge. His mother taught him the essential Sufi exercises of dhikr (invocation of Allah and His Names) and he probably needed no more guidance after that. He was initiated to walk the path of Sufis intuitively. His spiritual experiences and vision enriched his mind and spirit with so much knowledge that he far excelled his contemporary Sufi masters and Sufi poets in Tasawuf (Sufism) and Suluk (all about the Sufi Way and its stations and states). In a book he remarks: Though we have little of formal learning, / yet the spirit has been blessed with holiness by esoteric knowledge. In fact he may be called a born saint. He got married in his early youth and twice or thrice afterwards and had sons and daughters but all this did not deter him from his dervish wanderings, to visit the sacred places and look for the spiritual company of his fellow Sufis. He may have met many Sufis and visited many tombs of the saints but he did not come across a Sufi teacher of his own caliber. At the age of thirty he had an extraordinary vision in which he saw Prophet Muhammad (May peace be upon him) through the spiritual recommendations and support of Hadhrat Ali and Hadhrat Sheikh Abd al-Qadir Jilani. The Prophet himself took his bayah and allowed him to pass on the Sufi teachings. He often mentions in his books about his presence in the spiritual meetings presided by the Prophet himself. However, in the treatise “Of the Spirit”, he calls Hadhrat Sheikh Abd al-Qadir Jilani his Murshid (spiritual director). He is always lavish in the praise of Hadhrat Sheikh and calls himself Qadiri. In his eyes the teachings of the Qadiriya order were most effective for the spiritual development of the disciples But at the same time it is evidently clear that by the Qadiriya order he means the one that he himself represented. He names it “Sarwari Qadiri”. During the same period when he was a young man of about thirty, the war of succession between Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb was fought. His later writings are sufficient proof of his moral and spiritual support for Aurangzeb who won and became the Emperor. He himself, however, never cared to have any concern with the court or the courtiers. All his life he kept travelling to the far-flung places initiating disciples and passing on the spiritual knowledge and wisdom to the seekers of truth. He might have written most of his books during such journeys. He never made a permanent khaneqah during his life-time. Sometimes he fell into ecstasy and passed his days and nights in the state of absorption. Many places are still remembered and venerated where he stayed for some long or short periods to contemplate in solitude. In “Manaqibi Sultani” a few of his journeys have been mentioned.
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