Loh o Qalam [29]

Lecture 29

Sighting Laws

Universe, in its present form, is the sight. As long as the sight was not granted to the individuals of the universe the entire universe was in a state of bewilderment. When God addressed the universe saying, “Am I not your Lord?” All the souls turned towards the Voice of God and they perceived the presence of God. This very perception is the sight, which is the first dimension and is followed by three other dimensions.

• Dimension No. 1 Sight Observation (Noun)
• Dimension No. 2 Seeing Observation (Verb)
• Dimension No. 3 Spectator Observer
• Dimension No. 4 Scene Observed

Sight, Observation or the Channel of Black Draught (nehr-e-tasweed) or Time is the real foundation stone in the structural formation of the universe. No variation has ever taken place in it nor is likely to take place ever in future. Upon this very principle reality the edifice of other three spaces has been erected. Time is the path and the other three dimensions, which are space, are the passengers traveling on the path. Abstraction (nehr-e-tajreed) or the first space is the basis of seeing or the act of observing. The second space, known as nehr-e-tashheed (Evidence) is the Spectator or the Observer. And, the third space or the fourth dimension, known as neh-e-tazheer (Manifestation) is the Scene or the Observed. This space is the fathomless ocean of light and is considered to be a mirror hat depicts all the other dimensions.

1. Tasweed Time Passage/Path Original Base of the universe (Void of Noor, Spacelessness, Time or the Mind of God)
2. Tajreed 1st. Space Seeing/Act of observing First Spatiality
3. Tashheed 2nd.Space Spectator/Observer Second Spatiality
4. Tazheer 3rd.Space Light/Mirror Third Spatiality

When the term spiritual science is used besides other things it refers to such an approach of thinking that is altogether different from any prevailing approach or knowledge. Physical sciences, psychology and parapsychology believe that our eyes see all that exists in the universe whereas, contrary to this approach, spiritual thinking is that our eyes are only a medium in sighting the things around. When we look towards a hill, in actual effect, we do not see the hill rather the looks of the hill are transferred to us and we see the sighting of the hill.

The direct sight is the cosmic conscious that has universality in it. A hill is a hill not only for the human beings but also for every other creature it is a hill. It has never happened that a lion sees it an ocean or something else that is a hill for the man. This role of the sight is functioning uniformly in every particle of the universe. Just as the iron is felt solid and hard to man’s touch, in the very same manner, it is solid and hard for the touch of any other creature be it an ant or an elephant. This direct approach of sighting is available for the every individual of the universe and the reason for this common feature is that man does not see the ocean but the ocean sees the man and man sees what the ocean sees. All the scenes scattered in the universe are sighted because of the very same law.

A moon is sighted as moon by a partridge just as man witnesses it as a moon. Cattle quench their thirst by drinking water just as man drinks it to quench his thirst and the roots of a tree also assimilate water being water. Plants and trees consume water to grow just like any other creature does so. A snake takes milk as milk just as a child takes milk as milk and nothing else. This is the commonness of the sight that is operative in all the individuals of the universe uniformly without having any variation in it. The direct approach of sighting is that attribute of God, which is the basis of the universality of the sight. This angle of sight despites its presence in every particle of the universe, is invariant. Invariant is such a reality, which does not alter or cease to act under any circumstances.

God has stated: - “Man was taught that knowledge, which he did not know.” To wit, God stored the knowledge in his unconscious. God taught man that knowledge which is not known by any other creature in this universe except man.

God has also stated, “When I have fashioned him in due proportion and breathed into him My Spirit, fall ye down in prostration, in obedience unto him.”

The phrase ‘Breathed into him My Spirit’ is indicative of that knowledge which has not been given to any other creature in the universe except Adam. In this context this also has been stated that God taught Adam the Knowledge of His Names (Attributes). This knowledge refers to that direct approach of thinking and the universal consciousness bestowed upon Adam, which has been granted to mankind only.

After the creation of the universe God came before His creation and said, “Recognize Me, I am your Lord”. It means that God saw His own sighting and the universe witnessed the beholding of God.

The Knowledge of Appellations

Structural Formation of the universe, use of different measures in this formation, species resulting from the arrangements of these measured quantities, particular characteristics and form and features of every species, commonality of certain characteristics in the species, individuals of every species having their individuality and still having correlation with the members of other species; all these things are evident upon this fact that the whole universe is a family, which is patronized by its Patron-in-chief. No single individual or a species can break away from the bondage of this family. Everybody, whether having any awareness about his affinity with the other species and celestial bodies or not, is linked with them in a hidden relationship. Not even a single person can dare to deny the sunlight or the moonlight. If a person witnesses a tree as a tree, every individual of other species also looks at it as a tree. All the species know one another and are serving one another because of this hidden affinity amongst them. Just as everybody knows that survival without air is possible similarly, the air is also aware of its duties like carrying the water vapors from one place to another. Just as man is familiar with the role of air and water in his life similarly the air is also conscious of their role in carrying the water vapors to that place where they could become brooks, streams and rivers but they do not have any knowledge about this consciousness. This knowledge has been given to mankind only. Breathing of the Spirit into the mould of Adam is that knowledge, which is the jointly shared relation in the universe.

God has said, “We have described elaborately everything whether small or big, in the holy Quran.

This knowledge has been classified into three ways.

1. The Presented Knowledge (Ilm-e-hazoori)
2. The Acquired Knowledge (Ilm-e-hasooli)
3. The Revealed Knowledge (Ilm-e-taddalla)

Everybody having any sense knows that he is a member of the cosmic family and anybody who is desirous of knowing the actual location of the universe is bound to consider this question that what is the ultimate basis of the universe.

God says, “I am the Omniscient.”

That mean the source and the origin of Knowledge that has transferred to the creatures, is God. This also is the Proclamation of God, “I am the All-knowing.” Anybody having any idea about the importance of the information knows it well that the whole life is a continuous flow of information. Eating, drinking, sleeping, awakening, loving and disliking are all based upon information that keeps on coming into the mind of a person. Where this information is coming from? The Origin and the source of this information is God, the All-knowing.

Man and the other members of cosmic family are making use of the faculty of sight. When this faculty is taken into consideration it becomes necessary to resolve what is sight, where does it come from and what is the origin of this faculty.

God says, “I am All-Seeing”

That means the source of sight functioning in the members of the cosmos is God, All-seeing. Similarly when man analyzes his life and the life of his ancestors, it is observed that despite having certain powers man is the most helpless creature who has no control over his birth, life and death. This establishes that there must be someone having the authority to control the life and is encompassing the whole universe. The ability to encompass is the Attribute of God and for the very reason He is known as All-encompassing.

Despite having brain and consciousness we really do not have any control over things. All our ambitions and desires are not fulfilled nor we always suffer failure. Man does not have the power to do anything what he might want to do he is ever dependent upon some one who is known as the Omnipotent, in this regards.

God provided light to the universe and this Light is mentioned as Noor saying, “I am the Noor of the earth and the heavens.” Which again establishes that the universe and all its components are located within the peripheries of the Knowledge of God and this is the same knowledge that has not been granted to anybody in this universe save mankind.

Evolution

It becomes explicitly clear when one deliberates in the unconscious after rising above the conscious level that Only One Being is ruling the universe. This Unique Deity has evolved a comprehensive system to run the affairs of the universe. The journey of the universe commences from the beginning of life and ends where the life is concluded.

In the first stage the universe had the realization of its existence only. In the second step it acquired this awareness that it is the creation and God is its Creator. In the third step, the universe developed the perception regarding the species. In the fourth step, the senses of the species were divided into individual senses and every species became aware of the fact that despite having commonness the individuals has their individual identity. When he species developed the individual perception, second phase of the journey of the universe started.

The first phase of this journey was the descending in nature, i.e., the universe got down step-by-step and when the members of the species of the universe came into being in their individual form and every individual perceived its existence, the ascending phase of the journey started. Evolution is the name of the journey of descent and ascent. The journey from the Realm of the Souls to the Material world is one form of evolution similarly the journey from the material world towards the Realm of Souls in the Hereafter is also evolution.

How this evolution is taking place? How the journey of the universe is going on and on?

The evolution of the universe is directly related with the senses and the senses are associated with thoughts. Thoughts are information. And, we have to understand very clearly that the thoughts or the information have their source and origin from where these are relayed.

All the activities of the creatures, which are the means of the journey of the universe, are basically light. We see by means of the light, we hear because of light, we understand due to light and even the tactual feelings are dependent upon the light. Or, in other words, all our senses are nothing but light. If the light were taken away the senses would also come to an end. If the base of light is broken down the whole life would suffer disintegration. When the base is not there, how can the building stay erect? A path is made of the light. The light waves are like the strings of the warp and weft of the fabric of creation. These strings are so close to one another that these cannot be segregated.

If a pencil sketch of a tree is made upon a piece of paper and the colors are filled all around that sketch. What would we see? Obviously, a tree will emerge there. If the colors around the outline of the tree drawn on the paper are erased, leaving the paper white, then the tree will no longer be visible. This is the example of the universe. The colors around the sketch are the light and the empty space between them is the universe. Just as the colors had encompassed the outlines of the tree on the paper, similarly the knowledge of God is encompassing the whole universe. Just as we see an empty space in the form of a tree on the paper, every particle of the universe exists like an empty space within the Knowledge of God, which is nothing but Noor. Just as in spite of the presence of the colors on the paper we do not see the colors but the features of a tree are witnessed similarly we behold the shape and form of the universe and the Noor remains obscure from our sight. Despite the presence of Noor we only see that empty space or the void in which the picture of an object is made. We name these pictures in the void as the celestial bodies, sun, moon, sky, mountains, pastures, rivers, oceans etc.

If colors are painted on a piece of paper in such a manner that the empty space left between them depict an ocean then the viewer would not hesitate to say that he is witnessing an ocean. Similarly, all the species exist in the Noor of God.

Another example, in this regard, could be that of the bubbles in an ocean. The water around the bubbles is the Noor of God encompassing the empty space and causing them to exist