The Ratio of Negativity (ناری تناسب) is directly proportional to the nature and amount of sins which people commit, and at the same time it is also directly proportional to the number of jinn who also dwell in the realm of Nasoot.  Why does the pollution in the spiritual atmosphere have a significant value in ones struggle on the divine path? These are spiritual sciences. You will not find this knowledge in any spiritual book, in any books of a’hadeeth or books of the saints; this knowledge comes from His Holiness Gohar Shahi.

یہ وہ علم ہے جو نہ تو انجیل میں ہے، نہ ہی قران میں ہے ، نہ توریت میں ہے اور نہ ہی کسی اور آسمانی کتاب میں ہے۔ ہو سکتا ہے آپ کو برا لگے لیکن یہ تعلیم محمد رسول اللہ نے بھی بیان نہیں فرمائی۔یہ تعلیم صرف سیدنا گوھر شاہی نے عطا فرمائی ہے۔

And what I am going to say now is very important.  According to a Hadith, the era in which Imam Mehdi is supposed to appear, it is said that the world will be covered with darkness, and there will be a few lamps lit up in this world and those few lamps will be at a considerable distance from each other. People who interpret the Qur’an and Hadith, they think that this darkness is reffered to physical and phenomenal darkness in the world, and these lamps are referred to physical lamps, this is however wrong.  The physical darkness and physical lamps have nothing to do with the advent of Imam Mehdi, there has been darkness before Imam Mehdi’s advent and there can be darkness after Imam Mehdi’s arrived, but it cannot help us understand Imam Mehdi’s arrival. If we interpret this Hadith under the guidance of His Holiness Gohar Shahi and dig out the esoteric meaning of the Hadith said by the Prophet (pbuh); darkness is referred to the darkness of the hearts and hearts are referred to the enlightened hearts (hence, there will be a few enlightened hearts).

The more there are enlightened hearts in the world, the better the spiritual atmosphere is, and the lesser the enlightened hearts are in the world, the worse the spiritual atmosphere becomes.  Now let’s have a look at how the spiritual atmosphere effects on our emaan and our struggle to purify and mortify ourselves. 

We have seven faculties (لطایف) in our skeleton. 6 of them are dormant but the seventh (Latifa-e-Nafs) is very much alive and its origin is Iblis (Satan).  When the body of Adam was created, Iblis spat on his naval point and there was an iblisi germ in the saliva, and it formed the Latifa-e-Nafs. So the seventh latifa is a germ that’s from Iblis. The diet of the nafs is naar (negative energy). This diet can be obtained from any food you consume. It has a heating effect. Even in the air when you inhale oxygen, a considerable amount of naar enters your body and it strengthens your nafs. Every time you breathe you are giving diet to your nafs, and on top of that, when you eat, because all vegetables and fruits need sunlight before they’re worthy of consumption (e.g. if flowers don’t gain sunlight, they don’t have fragrance) similarly, fruits and vegetables, if don’t obtain sunlight aren’t ripe, and due to the heat obtained, naar is produced. Anything heated may earn negative energy.

Now, one thing is very important when there is too much negative energy in this world our nafs becomes strong, hence makes us do bad things. 

Initially, the spiritual sciences were meant to be for Kings, Presidents and sincere intellectual people, and not for ignorant illiterate people.  His Holiness Gohar Shahi said, “If you want to keep your heart happy with God and God happy with your heart, then keep your nafs unhappy.”

گر قلب کو شاد کیا تو نفس کو برباد کیا، گر نفس کو شاد کیا تو قلب کو برباد کیا۔
قلام سیدنا گوھر شاہی۔

If you seek God, keep your nafs unhappy, like it or don’t like it, but this is what spirituality is all about.  And when your nafs is well fed, you talk nonsense. When you’re hungry, you know your value, and when you are well fed, you think about unnecessary things. You may have noticed that when you have eaten stomach-full, you suddenly change and begin to talk and do nonsense.

Your progress is directly dependent upon the effect and affect of this ratio. Now, the problem is, how must we combat the pollution in the atmosphere. In order to cut-down on pollution, one plants trees, and the more trees you have the better the atmosphere. Similarly, there are saints of God. If you want to overcome the pollution in the spiritual atmosphere, (like the trees release oxygen) saints are connected to God, and God sends upon them 360 tajjaliyat, and one tajjali burns seven great sins. If these people knew that the representative of Imam Mehdi has a habal attached to his heart, and sitting next to him burns several hundred great sins, then they would appreciate the company of the representative of Imam Mehdi. To make it easier to understand, saints were attached with one habal from Allah, but the dignitaries of Imam Mehdi are attached with seven habal. Those who sat in the company of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) are known are companions of the Prophet. No matter how great a worshipper you are, you cannot ever be equal to the companions of the Prophet (s), because the companions were under the special sight of God with the Prophet (s). All of the companions of the Prophet went for the pilgrimage of Hajj, they were Musaleen and they also observed Soum, Salat, Zakaat etc. but this did not become their identity. Because if you are in salaat, are observing fast, offering hajj, there is no guarantee that these can burn even one of the great sins, but they sat in the companion of Prophet Mohammad (s) and their great sins were burnt. Those who sat in the company of Prophet Mohammad (s) have gone back to their respective places, earning a greater status than the saints. Now, the question is whose company is greater? Mohammad Rasool Allah’s company is the greatest, because the merciful sight of God was non-stop on the Prophet (s), the merciful sight of God was not constant on any other Prophet.  The greatest companionship is that of Prophet Mohammad (s) because the merciful sight of God is upon him constantly.

Now, remains the matter regarding Imam Mehdi. All the messengers were connected to God through that one habal, and through that one habal they were under the merciful glance. Imam Mehdi said, “One habal comes down from Allah onto Earth, and all the saints were connected with one habal, and seven habal are going upwards from me (Gohar Shahi) to Allah”. On one side, Imam Mehdi is giving his spiritual grace to God through seven ropes, and on one side if you are connected to his heart, then you also become the recipient to the spiritual grace that Allah is receiving. Humans are now given the spiritual grace (in the same intensity and quality) that is given to God.

Ali was the lion of God, not because he was a Mussali, but because he was in the company of Prophet Mohammad (s) more than anyone.

یک زمانہ صحبت با اولیاء ، بہتر از صد سالہ طاعت بےریا۔

What was obtained from the company of the Prophet (s) and the saints? The Divine Theophanies (تجلیاتِ الہی) were obtained from the company of the Prophet and the saints. If they sat in the company for a minute, they’d burn probably 7 great sins, and if 10 minutes, then probably 70 sins, and then when all the sins are burnt, then the company will begin to increase the love of the Prophet and strengthen your faith in your heart. The progress of your faith is not dependent on the quantity of quality of your worship. The quality of the faith and intensity of love is directly proportional on the company of the Prophet. In this company, in one moment, 49 great sins are burnt, what would be the intensity in the company of Imam Mehdi. And what if the sub-spirit of Imam Mehdi settles into your heart? Nothing more can be said.

Question:

جب ولیوں کے مقبرے پر تجلیات پڑتی ہے تو محمد رسول اللہ کے مقبرے پربھی پڑتی ہو گی، پھر اُن کے مقبرے سے لوگوں کے نفوس کیوں نہیں پاک ہوے۔

If theophany falls upon the grave of a kamil zaat (perfect spiritual guide - one who dispenses his spiritual grace to the seekers in life and after demise equally), then Prophet Mohammad is greater than everybody else, so the theophany must fall on his grave too, in that case, why people who stay inside that mosque, their nafoos aren’t purified and their sins not burnt away?

The answer is, spiritual theophanies didn’t fall upon the grave of Prophet Mohammad (s) so as to make the company of the Prophet exclusive to the companions of the Prophet. Spiritual benevolence could have been reaped from the grave of the Prophet, but God decided not to, instead provided the spiritual theophanies and benevolence that are reaped after the death of a saint, from their graves. Hence, those who even lived in the mosque in which the grave of the Prophet lies didn’t purify their nafoos or enlighten their hearts.

سلطان الفقراء محمد رسول اللہ کی برابری نہیں کر سکتا۔ غوث پاک پر ٥٠٠ مرتبہ تجّلی پڑتی تھی طفل نوری کی وجہ سے ۔ اور پھر اُس کا کیا حال ہو گا جس نے محمد کا جھکا ہوا سر اُٹھایا!