Loh o Qalam [36]

Lecture 36

Timeless Angles

The light that is felt by our eyes is a veil drawn between the Internal Self and the Personal Ego. The concepts are conveyed to the Personal Ego from the Internal Self through the very same light. In other words, information given to the Personal Ego by the Internal Self are carried over to the Personal Ego by this light after given them shape, color and dimension.

It must be kept in mind that the light because of which our eyes see also two planes. The senses of one plane have both the gravity and the dimensions, whereas, the senses of the other plane have only dimensions in them. The dimensions are found in the depths of this very light. The information supplied from the upper plane of light are seen and heard directly but the information dispatched from the lower plane of the light are the obstructed by something due to which the senses fail to grasp them completely. Actually, the information received from the upper plane become a hindrance in the way of the information of the lower plane and a wall-like obstacle is formed which is so hard that our senses in spite of their best efforts cannot overcome it. Information of the upper plane are also of two types.

1. Information pertaining to the motives and interests. Our approach towards these information is partial and biased.

2. Information not associated with individual motives and interests. These attract our impartial attitude and neutral approach.

If, keeping both the types of information in view, we deliberate it would be revealed that man enjoys two angles of perception; one, which is limited within individuality and, the other, which is beyond the limits of individuality. When we look into the individuality, the universe does not partake but when we look out of the confines of the individuality, the universe participates and contributes to our knowledge. The angle in which the universe participates, we perceive ourselves along with all the object and articles of the universe.

On the one hand, we are used to seeing the universe in our individuality and, on the other, we see our individuality in the universal perspective, that is, we represent our individual person, on the one hand and, the universe on the other. When both the representations collide against each other, we tend to come up with vindication and arguments to support the representation of individuality. Supporters of these vindications sometimes find it hard to avoid a clash with their opponents ensuing a conflict of ideologies. Individual approach of thinking and the individual plan of action could be that of a single person, a class of people or an entire nation. The biggest of all the flows of the angle of individuality is that ultimately it renegades other objects of the universe except its own self and the angle of the sight goes wrong from here.

Sight is bound to make mistakes in this angle. Size of an object, for instance, in water appears to be different from the size of the same object in air. But when the angle of the sight is emancipated from the confines of individuality this difference is abolished automatically because such a person knows the reality.

The plane of information received from the light that is before our eyes is known as Space and the plane that is obscure from our sight is termed as Time. When we look at the things around us in this world we find that all the things and we are tied in the strings of Spatiality and the base, upon which all these things are staying, is hidden from our sight.

When the upper level of the Conscious is mentioned, we have to say that the upper level because of its shallowness is not capable of viewing, hearing and comprehending the countless things simultaneously because our senses of sight, hearing and perception are made to see, hear and perceive only one thing at a time though this time is only a millionth fraction of a second.

According to the law of the Preserved Scripturum, our sight is made to see, hear and comprehends things turn by turn. The stages involved in seeing, hearing and understanding a thing are known as interval, period or moment, which are another name of the sequential order of our senses. Actually the cosmic structure is not so complicated but because of its non-familiarity to our conscious it appears to be an intricate complex phenomenon. It is quite simple in its formation and easy to understand and describe.

Perception: a combination of Time and Space

It is one of the statements of God, “Had there not been a period of time over man when he was not worthy to be mentioned even.”

In this state of God, man has been mentioned with the reference of ‘a period of time’, a period in which he was not worthy to be mentioned, that is, the man was not like that as we see him now before us. Man did not exist in form and features. Before his existence in the form and features he existed in the Perception of God. Time is a period that is encompassing the whole universe. The whole period of time from azal (Eternity) to ab’ad (Infinity) is a period of time.

It has been stated by the Holy Prophet (PBUH), “I share Time with God.” And, this time is that period which distinguishes between the Creator and the Creation.

God has said: -

1. ‘Created man from the resounding hard clay.’

2. ‘Has there not been over man a period of time when he was not worthy to be mentioned.’

3. ‘Created thou from the dust and then from the droplet.’

4. ‘Verily, We created man out of a droplet of mingled sperm, turned and made him hearing and seeing.’

When the man is considered in view of these verses of Quran, it is observed that man is a void and the dust or clay from which he has been created, is spending his life and will finally return to it, is hollow in its nature. This very hollowness or the emptiness is termed as Heen (Time) in the holy Quran.

‘We made him hearing and seeing’, means the senses are produced in the hollow of the clay. The senses have been mentioned using the word nutfa ‘droplet of sperm’ and after putting this droplet in a void it is turned around time and again in order to produce senses in it. This droplet is the same thing, which the scientists have identified as the genes. The science has explore gene in the droplet and have observed that every gene contains the information about the form and features of a person so much so the color of the hair, eyeballs and the details of hereditary characteristics including the measurements of size and stature are also contained in this microscopic structure.

Using the scientific terminology it can be said that God created the gene in a void, which multiply them in a geometric progression. Senses are the multiplication of the genes. The basis of these genes is hollowness or a void, which according to the spiritualists is the Non-serial Time and the droplet is the Serial Time. Void is the Noor and the droplet is the Nasma. Here droplet does not signify any embodiment rather it is a focal point of the concepts.

Open and clearly manifested Book (kitab-ul-mubeen) has been referred to in the holy Quran. This book is the complete picture of all the time between Eternities to Infinity. The whole cosmic record of all the times is preserved in this book. When a word is uttered, it represents all the meanings associated with its related concepts for all times. The word is a manifestation and the underlying meanings that it represents are the Unseen. Word is the movement of the mind. When name of a person is mentioned the person of that name is the manifestation and the abilities and potentials in that person are the hidden concepts or the Unseen.

God has stated, ‘ And, when He intends a thing, He commands it to be, and, there it is.’

Deliberation on this verse reveals that when God said, ‘Be!’ something was present there, which was addressed and ordered to express itself. When God commanded ‘kun’ to the images present in His Mind, the universe came into being. The universe at that stage was not orderly arranged; it was in a state of boundlessness. When the Will of God took out the image of the object (universe) from the state of boundlessness, the object was formed into a shape and with that it had the awareness of its existence, that is, the shape of the object took the form of knowledge. When the collective images of the object were molded into knowledge, the word was formed and the existence of the object was arrested in the words and the word brought out the object from the screen of kitab-ul-mubeen.

Words are of three types. Two types of words are words of nominal values and are used after an object has come into existence, for example, good or bad. The word ‘good’ is such a word that confirms and ‘bad’ is a word that negates. Both these words consist of those images and concepts, which have come into being. Words of these two types represent the creations.

It has been mentioned in the holy books and scriptures that God is the one who is the Alpha, the Omega, the Manifested and the Immanent. When these words are meditated upon, no other conclusion can be drawn from these words that God is the All-encompassing and the Perceptive Being. We see the manifest but fail to notice the immanent. Whatsoever that we see, we just view it and do not bother to see that through what are we seeing. We perceive without perceiving that with what do we perceive. If we could perceive the source of our perception, we would surly be able to perceive God Almighty.

In the initial pages of his work “Loh-o-qalum” Qalander Baba Auliya, mentioning the body and soul have stated that the human body, in actual effect, is the robe of the soul. As long as the robe is associated with the body, the dress displays the movements of the body and when the dress is taken off, all its movements are halted. We seldom bother to pay attention to this fact that we are oblivious of the root-cause of that what we are beholding. If we had developed the faculty of sight as much as it was required then we would have been able to see even when the soul discards its dress of the physical body. If we had developed the faculties of our understanding, we would have been able to understand even when the soul leaves the body. The whole history of mankind cannot offer even a single instance whence the body was found to be moving around after the soul had departed from it. When we refer to our self, mentally we refer only to the physical body and not to the soul. This is the reason that our understanding and perception fail to have access to the Realm of Behest.

The words that we use are either to accept or to reject something. The words that we use to negate something contain the images of negation and the words that we use for expressing our acceptance comprises of the images of approval. Whether the words are used in acceptance or in rejection, in both the cases the words represent a creation that has come into being because these are no longer empty voids, these have come into being after their emptiness has been filled with certain images and concepts.

God has stated, “All the affairs return to Him”

It is our general observation that the water is such a shell of the concepts that transforms into that thing in which it enters. It is the characteristics of water that on entering into a flower it is molded into the flower, in a thorn it becomes the thorn, in a stone it is the stone, in gold it is the gold and in a diamond it is the diamond. All these things like flower, thorn, stone, gold, diamond etc. are the collections of concepts that fashion these things. There is a collection of certain images, which we name as gold and there is another set of images, which is called diamond. The words ‘gold’ and ‘diamond’ are the two shells that contain the respective sets of images in them. Every such collection of images is a perception. When the perception is confined in a voice, it becomes a word.

When we think about something, it is in our perception. But when we utter a word, the perception takes the form of a voice, which is heard as a word. A word does not form if the perception is not packed in the voice and when the perception is heard as a voice, we identify it as a word.

Perception in human beings is known as their mind. The mind is so vast that it stretches from one pole to another pole of the universe. Man’s perception is limitlessly vast and encompasses the whole universe. For example, when we happen to think of God, the flight of our imagination getting out of the earthly limits enters the heavens, reaches the High Throne and manages to make its access to the Supreme Being of God.

One side of our mind is associated with the depth i.e., Time and the other side is related with the expanse i.e., Space. Thus, regarding perception, every human being is a collection of Time and Space.