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METHODS OF CONCENTRATION ON HIS PERSONAL NAME ALLAH At the time of physical exercise the novice concentrator is highly perplexed as to how to practise concentration of the name of Allah on the heart, brain and other parts of the body and how to impress the figure of His personal name Allah within himself. Whether he should make himself stand before Him in the form of a separate individual and write the figure of His personal name Allah on his heart, brain, breast and other limbs through imagination and meditation, or imagine another person writing on his limbs or how and whence himself to write and impress the name of Allah on his own body. Since these things are highly essential and not to be found in books, we will therefore narrate important and easy methods based on our experience and observations. If the operator and concentrator practise these instructions he will greatly be helped in impressing and writing His personal name Allah and he will very quickly succeed in this blessed mission. These are highly true, useful and valuable informations for concentrating on His personal name Allah which we present to the readers: which have been accumulated after a long time and years of self-practice and exercise. The concentrator on His personal name Allah ought to perform the ablutions; wear clean clothes and sit cross-legged in a clean place. He should empty and distract his heart from all extraneous thoughts, i.e. worldly worries and sensual fancies. To stop the passage of external satanic thoughts and sensual fancies he should form the following safeguard around him, i.e. read the following prayers three times each and blow on the chest and blowing it on the palms of both hands he should rub them on the entire body: - Here we give the above Quranic chapters and verses in Roman characters for the facility of those readers who cannot read Arabic language. (1) Tasmia: - Bismillah-irrahman-irrahim. (2) Surah Fatiha: (3) Ayat Al Kursi: (4) Surah Kafirun (5) Surah Ikhlas: - (6) Surah Falaq: (7) Surah Wannas: (8) Benediction, i.e., Darud on the Prophet: (9) Astaghfar: - Astaghfirullaha rabbi min kulli zambin wa at?bi 'ilaihi. (10) Verse: - Salamun qualam min Rabbir Rahim. (11) Verse: - Wallahul musta anu alamatasifun. (12) Kalima-i-Tamjid: Subhanallahi wal hamdulillahi wa la ilaha illalahu wallaho Akbar wa la haula wa la quwwata illaa billa hil aliyyil azim. (13) Kalima-i-Tauhid: - La ilaha illalahu wahdahu la sharikalahu lahulmulko walahul hamdo yuhyi wa yumato wa howa 'ala kulli shai 'in qadir. (14) Kalima-i-Shahadat: - Ashhado alla ilaha illallaho wa ashhado anna Muhammadan, abduhu wa rasuluh. (15) Kalima-Tayob: - La illaha illallahu Muhammadur Rasulullah. Then closing his eyes he should contemplate observation of God the Most High: the assembly of his Holiness the Prophet (p.b.u.h.), assemblies of the prophets and saints and recollect death, the resurrection, the grave, the revival and similar thoughts and try over and over again to inscribe His personal name Allah on his forehead and his heart; and the name of Muhammad (p.b.u.h.), with the forefinger of imagination. If one's self is head straggling and does not relinquish sinning he should imagine writing His personal name Allah on the seat of the naval. The concentrator should imagine his forefinger to be a pen and the sun as an inkpot in front of him. Dipping his finger in the inkpot of the sun he should write His personal name Allah on his forehead by imagining his head to be a large lantern and sitting therein should inscribe His personal name Allah on the glass in front of him. This will generate terrible attraction. And he should write the prolongated name Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) on his chest so that both the Ms should come on the nipples and the letter D should come on the heart. This will generate cold loving attraction. He should write the name Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) with white lunar colour. But if he experiences difficulty in writing afresh His personal name Allah and the name of Muhammad the Prophet on the abovementioned places, viz. the forehead and breast, he should imagine His personal name Allah written in a large beautiful script as large as the size of the breadth of the forefinger in a red solar colour on his breast or head and trace it with his forefinger, i.e. in his imagination and concentration he should rub the finger on it like a pen. Similarly he should imagine the name Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) written on his chest in a white lunar colour and try to rub the forefinger on it. Some find this second method seems easier. Alongside he should carry on observation of breathing in the heart, i.e. when he inhales he should utter the word Allah ???? in his mind and when he exhales he should mentally pronounce the word 'Hu'. When he practises the name Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) he should utter 'Muhammad the Prophet of Allah' at the time of inhalation and mentally pronounce "Benediction of Allah be upon him and peace" in his mind. Thus through repeated practice His personal name Allah and the name of Muhammad the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) will shine inside the seeker. If the seeker has a perfect guide he should imagine the guide sitting inside his head, chest and heart writing His personal name Allah and the name of his Holiness (p.b.u.h.). This makes it still easier. Simultaneously he should observe his breathing. In this way the seeker succeeds very soon. When the concentration and meditation of the seeker and the attention and power of the perfect guide and the labours of the seeker and the attraction of the guide centralize and unite on His personal name Allah or the name of his Holiness the Prophet (p.b.u.h.), it sometimes generate the light and electricity of awe and drown and stupefy the seeker esoterically. Then he does not remember the esoteric incidents. But if he has been pulled by the electricity of lovable attraction he remembers the esoteric incidents in dream or meditation. The assemblies of the prophets and saints and commemoration then appear to him and the seeker attends the assembly of Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) or the assemblies of prophets and saints. Or the commemoration of the soul or heart or spirit or secret commence. Or the personal, attributive or actional illuminations of God the Most High occur to the seeker. Or the seeker acquires flight and travel in celestial or terrestrial stages. If due to the excess of satanic whims and sensual darkness the impression of His personal name Allah and the name of his Holiness Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) cannot settle in the heart, the seeker ought to commence physical practice, i.e. to impress His personal name Allah on all parts of the body. So that being decorated with His personal name Allah, the whole person should be purified and cleansed and rendered fit for attending the court of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) and observing the True Essence. "The name Allah is a thing pure and does not rest except on a pure place." No time is prescribed for the hobby of concentration on His personal name Allah. It can be practised at all times. But the best time is from dawn to sunrise or an hour or two later. Here we give a sketch of the Holy name. When His personal name Allah gets written on the heart the ethereal personality of the heart blossoms up like a rose flower whereby seven bright ethereal personalities like seven petals, red in colour, scented and odiferous appear around the heart. Every ethereal personality glows with the lights of the seven personal attributes of the light of His personal name Allah. The map of the name written on the circle of the heart, open like the rose flower, with the seven ethereal personalities inscribed with the name Allah around it, is given here: When His personal name Allah gets inscribed on any limb, a flash of light appears from it. The place with that ethereal personality begins to recite the commemoration of Allah or the holy formula and that limb traverses the light of His personal name Allah is revived therein with the ethereal personality of the commemoration of Allah. The seeker should also inscribe the name Allah on the two palms of the hands and the two flanks and the seat of the naval. The seeker should imagine his elemental body to be a garment which the spirit and soul is wearing from top to toe and as if His personal name Allah is printed on the inner side of that garment at the places to be concentrated upon. The seeker should think himself sitting inside that garment and practise drawing from within his index finger on His personal name Allah printed on the places of concentration. God the Most High says: "Remember Me: I will remember thee." We have already amply elucidated this verse stating that with whatever attribute and organ we remember God the Most High, He causes the illumination of that very name to reach that organ which is revived and illuminated with the light of God the Most High. It is related in the tradition of Sahih Bukhari: "God says through excessive commemoration and supererogation a man gets so close to Me that I become his eyes and he sees through Me; I become his ears and he hears through Me; I become his hands and he grasps and walks through Me." God the Most High becoming the limbs and organs of His pious slave means that the name of God the Most High gets written in luminous letters on all limbs of the Gnostic traveller and all his limbs and brain get revived and illuminated through the light of His personal name Allah. It is difficult to inscribe the figure of His personal name Allah on every limb of the body, then the place on which it can easily be written and the name that can be successfully and easily written should be practised first of all. Closing his eyes one should meditate on the written form of His personal name Allah wherever it is possible to do so. When His personal name Allah is written down in luminous letters inside the concentrator, it involuntarily takes hold of its particular part of the body. Also remember that if a seeker is dull-minded and block-headed and unable to concentrate on His personal name Allah, he should place before him a copy of His personal name Allah beautifully written and glazed on a glass pane or paper, for the sake of comparison. At the time of concentration he should try and fix that in himself. By repeatedly doing so the picture of the name of Allah gets established. If greater ease is sought after he should repeatedly write the name of Allah on a slate with a thick pencil or chalk at leisure time during the day or night. He should write it at least sixty six times a day. Thus also His personal name Allah soon comes into concentration. Before going to sleep in the day or night one must practise concentrating on His personal name Allah. Or he should place before him a copy of His personal name Allah beautiful written on a paper or glass and look at it while going to sleep and repeatedly try to get it impressed within himself and go to sleep in that condition. By doing so the name Allah gets illuminated in the sleep also. For concentration there are seven names which are like keys for the seven esoteric treasures. There are separate names for the seven ethereal personalities. The following are the names. Allah, Lillah, Lahu, Hu, Muhammad, Faqr, La illaha illallah Muhammadur Rasoolullah (p.b.u.h.). The ninety nine names of God the most High and the thirty letters of the alphabet are also concentrated upon. Besides these there are various physical drawings. Their mention will result in prolixity. Their concentration brings about unaccountable esoteric benefit. If the seeker desires details of these esoteric treasures he should order and study the book Nurul Huda or Aqli-i-Baidar composed by his Holiness king of Gnostics his eminence Sultan Bahu (p.b.u.h.). The sign of His personal name Allah being properly impressed through concentration is this: that on being written down it shines like the sun and the concentrator immediately gets absorbed and obliterated in God and the ethereal personality of the heart, soul or secret utters the commemoration of Allah or recites the Holy formula and the seeker acquires some sort of observation or revelation during a state of absorption. O blessed seeker! We have narrated the few above-mentioned, most useful, easy, safe, correct and true methods of concentrating on His personal name Allah, which we came to know after spilling our life-blood protractedly. If you realize the worth and act on them you will certainly very soon reach the highest heaven of esoteric travel and spiritualism and attain union with your True Beloved, and enter the assemblies of prophets and saints. You will enjoy such esoteric relishes and spiritual joys as no eyes have ever seen, no ear ever heard and no heart ever thought of. These are the advantages of concentration. It is a highly secret, unhypocritical, safe and quick-acting method of commemoration. Neither it necessitates any particular time or spot nor is there any restriction of ablution, cleanliness of clothes or place. There is no need for stipulated number 317 Concentration on His Personal Name Allah or enumeration of commemoration. Without it the opening of the esoteric ethereal personalities is difficult and impossible. The seeker can never traverse any spiritual stage or station without concentration. If you contemplate over the principles of the esoteric stage and degrees of Islam, faith , certainty , gnosis , proximity , observation of God , union , annihilation , and immortality in God , it transpires that their object and motive is to fix the human attention, concentration, meditation and possession on one point. This is called concentration in religion. For example, behold that Unitarianism is the real thing in Islam, whereupon all Islamic actions and performances depend. That is to say that diverting his attention from the worship of multiple deities one inclines to a single deity. Says God the Most High: "Are numerous and different lords and gods better or the single Omnipotent Essence of One Allah?" Hence for diverting human attention towards a single true deity, Islam has made commemoration incumbent on every action and performance; as we have already narrated in the earlier portions of this book. All the commemorations have been gathered in the commemoration of His personal name Allah; and of all the methods of focusing human attention on a single centre that of concentration is the best of its adoption. In short, if carefully viewed the method of concentration on His personal name Allah is the original, last and comprehensive key for the acquisition of Islam, faith, gnosis, certainty, proximity, observation, union and the degrees and stages, annihilation and eternity. In other words one object of commemoration of His personal name Allah is to bring the seeker from the world of plurality towards the chamber of Unity only. Its second object is to take the seeker from the darkness of opacity towards the light of subtlety as Allah the Most High says: "Allah is the friend of those who have brought faith. He extracts them from the world of darkness and takes them towards the world of Light." Hence the traveller needs the following two unavoidable wings for flying over the two high places of unity of presence and subtlety of light: (1) Concentration of His personal name Allah and (2) Invocations; as God the Most High says: Didn't We provide man with two eye, one tongue and two lips and showed him two paths? Now the path of the eyes is the path of concentration on His personal name Allah and the path of the tongue and two lips is the path of incessant labour and religious duty, i.e. Invocation whereby the traveller comes out of the darkness of the opaque world and enters the luminous world of the invisible world and mixing with the bright invisible creation of the invisible world he derives benefit from them. Hence just as the eyes and light are correlative (i.e. light is useless if eyes are wanting and the world appears to the eyes if there be no light). Similarly the two paths and methods of concentration on His personal name Allah and Invocation are correlative. For the Gnostic they are like wings and feathers. We have already explained the method of concentration on His personal name Allah. Now we will narrate for the readers and seekers the second important path of Invocation of spirits in the second part of our book - Irfan. THE END |
