Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963-2Now Mohammed has said in Hadith that Holy Qur’an was given in seven dialects and each of thesedialects have an inner and outer meaning. At one the Mullahs will cry in horror saying this meansthe abandoning of Sharia and ultimately we fall into Shiaism or the Qarmati heresy. This is nonsense:For the basis of Holy Qur’an was revealed on “The Grand Night” and in the Grand Nightexperience Mohammed travelled the universe and saw the seven facets of the universe. Thereforehe was trying to give man a synopsis of this universe. And when we say in Fateha, “Rab al-Alamin,”and then refer to some presumable astronomical data or phenomena we are limiting Allah to thecreation of this world (Nasut). Besides the first step toward ignorance is suppressing Islam to makeit conform to Sharia; the next to make it conform with Ijma; and finally to nufsaniat our individualexplanation of things. And while no doubt we have a perfect right to explain many things from theindividual standpoint, we are now so far from Islam that we can only make a travesty of it.One must inform our friend Afridi, that so far as a Sufi is concerned he is interested in Lahut-Jabrut Malakut-Nasut, the last least of all. And to select some polar-earth relations without regard towhat Qur’an itself says concerning light; or what Al-Ghazali has given in his work is to suppress ouroperations to this world and to this world alone.As I am not constrained to follow Al-Ghazali and as I am directed to follow Data Ganj Baksh,instead of being disturbed by Al-Afridi I am taking this opportunity to give my first exposition of“Kashf-ul-Mahjub” and shall comment on it as I see fit, though I may stray far in order to give myversion of Afridi’s paper, remembering it is my version. Nor shall I use such words as “logical; “reasonable,”etc. because unless the subject-matter impresses the reader the whole thing is nufs. WhetherI write on nufs further depends on what may be impressed during the writing that proceeds:Text: The apostle said: “If ye knew God as He ought to be known, ye would walk on the seas,and the mountains would move at your call.” The great division between the people of reason andthe people of insight is that the former are compelled to accept this literally or not, and end by becominghypocrites. They dare not deny what is presumed to have come from Mohammed and theyusually end by saying, “Weak hadith” or a challenge but their own egos they do not challenge. AndI say, “If he knew God as He ought to be known, you would walk on the seas, and the mountainswould move at your call.”The difference between the mystic and the scientist is that while both study phenomena theformer studies them either in relation to the whole, or in feeling toward the whole while the latterstudies everything apart. The Prophet on the Grand Night saw the Seven Aspects of the universeand then he gave the Qur’an, knowing he would have to offer it in the Arabic language and to mostignorant people. For revelation cannot be complete unless it is given to and understood by the mostignorant. This last is clear in the teachings of Isa. Isa did not give his teaching to the ignorant butto the fairly learned and to complete revelation it had to be offered to the most ignorant and at thesame time alludeto the highest wisdom.