Meaning: Do they not meditate within themselves
that Allah has created the skies and the earth and
whatever is within them, with the Truth and for a
fixed time. No doubt, most of the people deny the
Divine encounter
(the Vision of Allah). (Surah
Rome Verse 8)
In this sacred verse, Allah has invited man to
ponder over the skies and the earth alongwith
whatever is within them, and also upon his own
creation, that everything is created from the Truth
i.e.
The Divine Reality (Allah), but for a certain
fixed period.
It is the saying of the Holy Prophet Sall'Allahu
Alayhi Wa'alihi Wasallam: Meaning: Just meditate upon the Ayats (signs) of
Allah but do not ponder over His Essence (Entity). Meaning: To meditate (upon the signs of Allah)
for a moment is better than to worship Him in
both the worlds. Meaning: To invoke (verbally) without meditation
is like the barking of a dog. (Ain-ul-Faqr)
To learn or to understand the reality of
something, we ponder over it and a kind of
curiosity is created in our minds like, why does it
exist and what is its use? If we concentrate upon
the reality of a minor thing we can find its great
importance but if a very important thing, is not
considered about, even that becomes trivial and
insignificant.
By pondering over the reality of a
thing we can have deeper knowledge about its
attributes.
The more we concentrate upon the
reality and importance of a particular thing, the
more we come to know about it's qualities and
significances.
All the material and scientific
development of today's world is based upon
meditating and thinking about the importance of
different things and their uses.
When a scientist
thinks and meditates upon different aspects of a
problem, only then he can find a solution to it, or
when he ponders over the significance of a thing,
only then brings out its qualities and makes it
useful for mankind. Same is the case with every
invention and discovery that it is based upon
contemplation and concentration of certain
scientist, thinker or philosopher.
So, the whole
development of the world is by virtue of
concentration and meditation. Similarly,
progressing in the way of Faqr i.e.
the way to
Allah, demands concentration and meditation of
the seeker upon every aspect of nature, religion,
inward and outward signs of Allah, reality of the
soul, its relation with Allah, so on and so forth.
Only by meditation, he can come to know about
the will of Allah and the ways to please Him and
find His Qurb (proximity).
Allama Iqbal says: Meaning:
1.
Faqr of the Quran is the mutual blend of
invocation and meditation.
I never found Zikr
(invocation) accomplished without Fikr
(meditation).
Fikr means to concentrate within yourself and to
recognize your soul, whereas, invocation means
the Zikr-e-Ism-e-Zaat (invocation of the
Personal Name of Allah). When the seeker is
attributed with both, he becomes the possessor of
Faqr.
2.
What is invocation? It means to teach your
passion and eagerness, the ways and manners of
Divine Love and presence before Allah, and it is
the job of the soul rather than that of throat and
lips.
It means, according to Iqbal, invocation is not
which is performed verbally by tongue and lips,
instead, it is done by the soul, which is the
invocation of the Personal Name of Allah.
3.
By the invocation (of the Personal Name of Allah),
flame of an intense love arise in the inner self
which enlivens the soul.
The fire of love, raising
from the invocation of Allah, consumes everything
other than Allah but you are not yet capable of
such invocation.
(Javed Nama)
Sultan-ul-Faqr Sixth Hazrat Sakhi Sultan
Mohammad Asghar Ali Rehmat-ul-Allah Alayh
states:
"When we consider something and ponder over it
to learn or understand its reality, this is called
meditation or concentration. The whole material
and scientific development of the world is based
on the concentration of scientists upon matter.
Behind every invention and discovery, meditation
and concentration are hidden. Similarly, Allah
invites man to concentrate within himself.
It is
the Divine saying "Do they never meditate upon
their inner selves?
" When man concentrates upon
his inner self, he finds The Divine Self hidden
within him and reaches to the reality of the secret
which is mentioned in the Qudsi Hadith "Man is
My secret and I am his secret". When man gets
aware of this secret then Allah makes him His
confidant and secret sharer.
Therefore, the Fuqara
(saints) always persuade the mankind to drown in
their hearts, peep through their body's closet and
enter the inward world through recognizing the
reality of the soul.
In the way of Faqr this
meditation of a seeker upon his inner self in a
special manner under the supervision of Murshid
Kamil (the Perfect Mentor) is known as Muraqbah
(concentration).
Muraqbah is, in fact, another
name of Tafakkar (meditation). The initial and
common way of muraqbah is to concentrate on a
point in mind by closing eyes. But the muraqbah
of Arifeen (the knowers) is to view everything of
the inner and outer world with open eyes, as
Hazrat BaYazid Bastami Rehmat-ul-Allah Alayh
expresses "I have been conversing with Allah for
forty years and the people have been
misunderstanding as if, I am talking to them".
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