عبادت کا صلہ The Reward of Ibada

وہ الله جس کا فرمان یہ ہے کے مزدور کو اس کا پسینہ خشک ہونے سے پہلے اجرت دیدو وہ آدمی کو اس کی عبادت کا صلہ کیوں دیر سے دیگا  – اعمال کا اجر ہمیں فو رَن ملتا ہے – لیکن اکثر لوگ ادرک نہیں رکھتے – اب اگر مزدور یا مستری سارا دیں ہتھیار ہی تیز کرتا رہے تو پسینہ خشک ہونے سے پہلے مزدوری کون سی  لینی ہے ؟ اسی طرح نقص ہماری عبادت میں ہوتا ہے -

حضرت خادم محبّت

That God Who has commanded us to pay the worker his wages before the sweat on his brow dries up, how would he delay the reward of a worshipper?  The reward of our acts appears instantly but most people do not understand. Now  if the worker spends the whole day making his tools ready, what payment can he expect before the drying up of sweat on his brow? Likewise it is our worship that is deficient.

Hz Khadim e Mohabbat

Advice

تین اصول یاد رکھو:

١- حضورصلّ  لللہ  وسلّم  کی محبّت میں کسی لمحہ فرق نہ آے

٢- الله تعالى کو کارساز حقیقی سمجھو

٣- اہل الله کا احترام کرو

حضرت خادم محبّت

Remember three things always:

1- Beware of even a momentary lapse in the love of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salam)

2- Remember that God alone is the real Patron and Helper

3- Maintain proper manners towards the people of God

Hz Khadim e Mohabbat

Urs Mubarik 2009- عرس مبارک

آج یعنی ١٢ دسمبر کو حضرت خادم محبّت رحمت الله علیھ کا عرس مبارک ہے – آج آپ کو دنیا سے رخصت ہوے ٢١ برس بیت گیے مگر محسوس یہی ہوتا ہے کے ابھی کل کی ہی بات ہے -  اور وہ دلوں میں اب بھی زندہ ہیں اور انشااللہ ہمیشہ زندہ رہیں گے کیوں کے جس کا تعلّق باقی کے ساتھ ہو جاتا ہے وہ بھی باقی رہتا ہے – حضرت بابا جی کی عظمت لفظوں میں بیان کرنا مشکل ہے اور خاص کر مجھ جیسے بے بصر کے لئے مگر اس کے سوا چارہ بھی تو نہیں  -

ہر سمت سے میکش آ آ کر عرفان کے ساغر پتے ہیں

توحید کا بادہ  خانہ  ہے  دربار  ہمارے  راجہ  کا

اخلاص و وفا کے ہیروں سے بھر پور ہیں اسکی دوکانیں

ہے شہر تصوّف کے زینت بازار ہمرے راجہ کا

ارباب  وفا  کے ہونٹوں پر ہیں تذکرے انکی عظمت کے

ہر خضر طریقت کرتا ہے پرچار ہمارے راجہ کا

وہ حُسن کے جلووں میں ڈوبا ابھرا تو مجسّم حُسن تھا وہ

اک بار کیا جس نے آ کر دیدار ہمارے راجہ کا

مشرق سے لیکر مغرب تک چرچے ہیں انکی سیرت کے

بے مثل ہے سارے عالم میں کردار ہمارے راجہ کا

ہم لوگ کسی بھی حالت محکوم نہیں ہیں غیروں کے

ہے راج ہماری دنیا میں اے زار ہمارے راجہ کا

Today is the Urs  of Hazrat Khadim e Mohabbat . It is 21 years since is passing from the realm of temporality.Needless to say , those connected to the Everlasting live forever. I hope to post a few fragments from his teachings over the next days.

حب اور علم

علم سے حب رکھنے سے بہتر ہے کا حب کا علم سکھا جائے-

محبّت ایک سوال ہے جس کا جواب صرف محبّت ہے -

علم اتنا  ہی معزز ہو گا جتنا اس کا معلوم-

علم …وصل ے معلوم تک ہے – جس کے بعد اگر اختیار کیا جائے تو قا طہ وصل اور جہالت ہے -

حضرت خادم محبّت

From the Master’s Room (con)

Continuing the series of images from the Shaykh’s room. Here’s a few verses from the renowned sufi poet of the Punjab Hz Bulle Shah (ra).

Famous verses of Hz Bulle Shah (ra)

The verses mean:

Repetition of the Alif* leads to freedom

From this Alif came the twos, threes and fours

then came the the hundreds thousands and millions

multipying then into the countless things

but the secret of Alif is rare and precious

Repeating this Alif leads to freedom.

* the Alif is the first letter of the Singular Divine Name: Allah. This is  according to the sufis the name of the Essence.

From the Master’s Room

Insha’Allah I hope to put up some pics that graced the walls of Hz Khadim-e-Mohabbat (ra). He was very fond of pics of the awliya. To start off though here’s something that a dervish from Sindh who came to visit the shaykh presented to him. The words are in Sindhi and mean: “O Allah only allow such people to enter onto us who cause joy to come to our heart”.

Urs of Hz Khadim-e-Mohabbat (ra)

The master, Hz Khadim-e-Mohabbat, departed from this realm on the 12th of December 1988. Thus today is the twentieth anniversary of his passing. In accordance with sufi custom his Urs is celebrated every year at his tomb in Jhelum, Pakistan. What can a poor lowly beggar offer to a King? These words of Hz Mawlana Rumi (ra), to whom the master was much devoted convey something of that helplessness.

I stand at the door of mysteries

you are light

you are festival

you are fortune, God-confirmed

you’re the bird of Mount Sinai

I the wounded captive in your beak.

I can do no better than to remind myself and others of the teaching of the master which is summed up in these words of his: ” It is better to have knowledge of Love than to have love of knowledge”.

Sulook and Other Related Matters

-What is Sulook? To take out something from a body and enter something into it.

- Try and be of service to others and do not attempt to have others serve you; the more useful you are, the more valuable you will become and thus be made more dearer.

-By subjecting “the good” to our standards we have made it fall from its own standard.

The Greatest Name

Even the Ism al-Azam (Greatest Name) as far as it is only a Name is not beneficial untill and unless its remembrance is in accordance with the courtesies and demands of the Remembered. All this is only possible when one receives knowledge of this Name (directly) which in turn is only possible when one knows the Named and is guided by Him. Any Name that puts right all affairs is certainly praiseworthy.

Hz Khadim-e-Mohabbat (ra)

A Few More Sayings

There have been requests for more sayings of Hz Khadim-e- Mohabbat (ra). Unfortunately heedlessness has prevented me from complying with this so far. Here then are few more gems from the Master.

- The lack of action (amal) gives birth to verbal incontinence (jaryan e kalam); jaryan* is an illness which is an enemy to manhood.

- An angel can never be the “examiner” of the syllabus of Love; if you want to be saved from the questioning of the angels nurture the love of the  Holy Prophet (pbuh)…..and hell is nothing but the disgrace of being questioned.

- Prayer (namaz, salat) does not remove desires from us but rather it purifies them and makes them useful for us and abandoning prayer leads to the impurity and straying of natural desires and instincts. That is why prayer is the cure for impurity and lewedness. Prayer prevents us from shamelessness (be-hayai) by bringing our shame (haya) to life;…..and the constant attention towards the presence of Al-Hayy at the level of complete certainty (haqq al-yaqin) is a type of shame; and in the face of this eternal presence of al-Hayyul Qayyum to be heedless of Him and attentive towards oneself is pure shamelessness.

* jaryan is normally used to describe seminal incontinence (leading to a wastage of this vital fluid).