Documents of the Right Word

unfathomable mysteries and immeasurable blessings. Those who
visit the place and attach their hearts receive this fayz. Those who
are true and just realize this. The precious jewels they are
honoured with obtaining from this occult source of nûr are seldom
come by in countries where other Walîs are. People who are
blessed with a draught of love from this spring of Wilâyat are
disenthralled from âfâqî and enfusî dependencies.
FIRST VOLUME, 128th LETTER
Spiritual states experienced by saliks who have not reached the
rank of Fanâ and Baqâ are of no value. A person who wishes to
attain Haqq ta’âlâ should retreat from His mâ-siwâ [creatures]. A
person who wishes ahwâl (hâls) and mawâjid (raptures, ecstacies)
wishes the mâ-siwâ. Fanâ and Baqâ are necessary. One has to try
to obtain these two. Wilâyat is attained through these two. The
kind of ma’rifat which is the cause of our discovery is attainable by
way of these two. The spiritual states which are caused in the heart
by zeal and love are not necessary. When the beauty is
incomprehensible, love for that beauty will also be of the
incomprehensible sort. Some raptures may be experienced. One
may cry and wail, for instance. Loving one’s nafs very much is
common to everybody. All sorts of love, including one’s love of
property, love of one’s wife and children, are the results of one’s
love for one’s nafs. One’s love for one’s nafs does not produce any
raptures such as crying. Mahbûb-i-haqîqî (The genuine, real
darling) is loved more than the nafs. Fanâ is the outcome of this
love. So is the case with loving the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu
alaihi wa sallam’. It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf, “Unless a person
loves me more than (he loves) his nafs and household and all other
people, he will not have had full îmân in me.” The Murshid is the
representative of the Messenger of Allah. Love for the Murshid,
therefore, should be of the same sort.
Whatsoever is beautiful, except remembering Him,
Is a poison to the soul, be it sweetmeat with cream!
FIRST VOLUME, 130th LETTER
All sorts of perfections, visible or invisible, are within this
brilliant Sharî’at and inherent in adapting oneself to the Last One
of Prophets ‘alaihi wa alaihim-us-salawât wa-l-barakât’. Only
those who follow his way are blessed with Jazba and Sulûk. Fanâ
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