Universe is such a program that existed and exists in the Mind of God. When God wished to get this program enacted and desired that countless creatures should display themselves according to His program, He told them to be, i.e. He said, “Be (Kun)!” When God uttered kun, all that was there in the mind of God, inscribed upon a screen in the form of definite features of the creatures. The screen upon which the whole program and the characters through which the program is to be carried out are inscribed, in the religious terms is called ‘the Preserved Scripturum’ (Loh-e-Mehfooz).
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The more one grows mature and gets involved in his surroundings, the closer he gets to the reality of the structural formation of things around him. It means that the whole programming of the universe is found in the human mind in a unified form but one cannot see this program only because one does not get a chance to be empty minded. The onrush of thoughts related to with the surrounding environment is permeating the mind and one seldom gets away from them to get a vacated mind, the only condition to acquaint with the higher level of intelligence. So as a matter of law, the more one concentrates consciously on an object, the more facts and realities are revealed upon him according to the degree of his concentration and ability to remain attentive in that particular direction.
When the Conscious is mentioned, the Unconscious automatically comes under consideration. The conscious, as we know of it, is to know anything, which is before our eyes in a solid form. If something is therefore before our eyes, it exists for us and if something cannot be sighted, it is non-existing for us although we do have a sense about the non-existents as well. And, having a sense about something is evident upon the fact that that thing exists somewhere anyhow. Name of this feeling or the sense is the Unconscious. In order to get into the world of the Unconscious, it is necessary that we should be free from the grip of the conscious world.
The summary of the foregoing discussion is that there is one single deity that has complete programming about the universe in His mind. This program is such a complete program that contains all the characteristics of every urge of life; like hunger, thirst, shape, form, features, organs of sight and hearing, eyes and ears, love, affection, hate, cruelty, forgiveness, friendliness, etc. to name a few. This deity has inscribed the whole program in the form of a script of a drama or made a motion picture of all the characters of the drama of life. How this film is being displayed, this will be discussed later on. At the moment just bear in mind that the unified program of the universe is preserved in the form of a film and every individual of the cosmos, be it a goat, sheep, lion or a human being, is one of the characters of this movie. We do know that we are one of the characters of this movie but we are ignorant of the laws and rules that govern our role or about the lights that are causing us to play this role. To know all this, in spiritual terminology, means to have the ability of seeing things in their real perspective and remain aware of mental attitudes. In order to find out the exact position of our role in the scheme of events of the cosmos, we have to have an impartial and neutral approach of thinking. And, for having the impartial approach and a neutral mind, we have to enter the Unconscious realm, after liberating from the clutches of the Conscious and this thing can only be achieved when the ability of Detachment (Istaghna) is produced in a person.
True definition of Detachment or Istaghna is have this realization that God, the Lord Creator is the Provider of subsistence resources for every urge, demand and the need of life. The method of having Istaghna can be explored by taking the 112th Sûrah of the Quran into consideration.
“ (O’ Prophet} Tell that God is the One and Only, Above of all needs, He is neither begotten nor begets. And, there is none like unto Him.”
When the Creator and creature are compared with reference to the above text, five things become explicitly clear. In this text the Creator has been defined. And, from the definition of the Creator, the creatures would be defined inversely, i.e., if God is one, the creatures ought to be multifarious and many. God is not depending and the creatures are dependents; the Creator does not have a procreative source and the creatures have to have one, Creator has no family but the creatures do have one. Creatures are confined within the limits of their needs and they cannot get out of the needs. Every emotion and every step of creatures’ life is a need and necessity. Creatures cannot be associated with the Creator because of their opposing and inverse features but out of these five attributes of the Creator they can associate themselves with the Creator if they could train themselves in considering Him the only one who is the Giver of sustenance.
When we analyse our conscious life, it is observed that our mind remains dishevelled and unkempt because we are tied to with small or large desires and needs in such a way that we cannot get ourselves free from them even for a moment and this leaves no room for the mind to be ever vacant. Our mind remains in pursuit of earning livelihood, making house for us, or to get married and raise children. When a spiritual associate after liberating from the clutches of the conscious grip deliberates, it becomes his certitude that, in actual effect, God is the sole provider of the sustenance. In this regard thousands of examples are taken into consideration. For instance, the life in the womb of mother and after birth the life of infancy, childhood and boyhood, in which no individual exercises any authority or exerts his mind. Similarly, when the life of countless birds is looked at, it also provides an irrefutable proof of the fact that God alone is catering their needs and requirements.
A farmer or a peasant, after harvesting the yield of the crop, gathers all the grains, even the waste are also picked up for the consumption of cattle. This invites us to think, when the farmer collects every grain of the crop then from where do these billions and trillions of birds are pecking their feed?
In order to have an established affinity with God as the Lord Creator, it is necessary that we should get this approach of thinking established in us that God caters for our needs as caringly as He has created us. When this approach starts taking shape in a person, that is, he starts actually believing that there is someone who is catering for our needs and is taking every care of us, then, after getting away from the Conscious, one starts heading towards that One.
When this thinking is established in a person that I am merely a toy in the hands of someone else then his mind sets in one direction. All the lessons that are taught in spiritualism, all the exercises and austere practices that are considered necessary for learning spirituality are aimed only on this one thing that somehow or the other man should be able to negate himself after becoming neutral and learning to be impartial. Self-negation is nothing but to have a vacated and free mind. The more one involves in the program of self-negation, the more features of the Unconscious life are known to him, so much so that he even manages to know the features of the Unseen realm. In order to enter the Unconscious life it is important to perform Murâqaba for having a vacated mind.
There are many types of Murâqaba that are successfully practices by the spiritual associates. The direct method of performing murâqaba is to sit with close eyes and the performer imagines that he/she is a dot of light. This murâqaba is to be performed either after mid night or early in the morning before the sunrise. For performing this murâqaba, the spiritual associate sits in a relaxed and comfortable manner facing the North and, it is imagined by the performer that a black spot is circulating in his/her heart. Success in this murâqaba makes the spiritual associate see that all the signs of life have terminated and he/she is existing only in the form of a dot of light. When this dot becomes clear, the darkness of the dot is replaced by the brightness and the dot starts expanding, finally to take the shape of a screen upon which the whole program of the universe is displaying. It is the very same screen that has been denominated as the ‘Preserved Scripturum’, in the Quran.
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