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saint of Allah is a proof of dignity

Saints of Allah

Saint is a man like us but gifted for his hard struggle and devotion to Allah. He saves himself from sins and all vicious and monotonous deceptions from Satan and ego. He knows his ways towards to God. He becomes purified and holy and restores his position from sins. But his early life is not innocent. He acts like a common man. Good and bad angels come to him as they act like with a commoner. Thus, a saint is a gifted with God’s grandeur and blessing. He is not trained by his self but he becomes someone’s disciple. Then he can change his self means to say that he has to be an obedient to someone. He has his master from whom he learns all teachings and control over his ‘Ego’.

Actually, control over selfishness and you may say ‘Ego’ or uncontrolled wanting self is real thing. According to Islam the here world is not permanent life. The real world, permanent world is last world where we depart after death. This world is a place of examination. But some religions do have different theologies. They say that there is no existence of another world after this one. But in Christianity, it is a strong belief that we will meet our Lord. They are on belief of Christ, Hazrat Issa A.S. it is the creed that takes man in to belief and trust.

God sent many seers and showed his creation the right path. God wants that all His creation should be true and up righteous as He has set his goals. But also that He has created Satan with other creation. The concept of sin is keeping pace with goodness. The saint of Allah is merited with many qualities for example he is

·         Silent- means he speaks little. He avoids more explanations. He speaks in short but with manifold meanings. I mean to say he implies a lot of in future sharing one experiences.

·         Abstemious – means little eat and do not stuff too much for nothing. He eats only for necessary action.

·         Take little sleep- means that only for relaxing body and not for the sake of spending time. It is only to prepare yourself for prayers.

·         Do not mix in people- it means that he avoids company and noise of masses, he wants life of hermit. He wishes to be aloof and lonesome. He can intimate his Creator very well but in the company of people if he does not share talking he has to nod over their mixed dispersions. He does not like it at all.

He is not avaricious and selfish of any worldly mundane pleasure. There is no pet philosophy in his mind that he preaches to people. He is an apostle of His Dear Prophet (peace be upon him) and his Companions. He tries his level best to follow them all. There are many famous saints of God in all over the world. They are Hazrat Data Ganj Bax, Lahore-Pakistan, Hazrat Moeen ud Din Chishti, Ajmeer-India, Hazrat Ghosal Azam, Bhagdad-Iraq and many more others who have great names and eventful histories in the past. They have miracles even which are an evident proof of saintly presence. I am not imposing anyone with the view and writing that reader must accept what I am going to tell you it is only a text and creed. This is a Muslim belief but here in Muslim Community there are many groups who believe in saints and others have no belief. How strange it is that in one community there are differences of religion.

I ask one question to those who are anti of saints and call them atheists. Is it that the saint asks them to follow another different self made creed? Does any saint like Data Sahib says,” leave to say the prayer and do not recite Quran then where is difference?” actually they are themselves the followers of a person namely ‘Wahab’ in Saudi Arabia whose family members were against him. India and now Pakistan are two countries are replete with these people. You find no effect of their prayer on their face they have vacant and staring gazes with emptiness and low-spirited souls. They also have fasts it is a believable  fact and pray five times a day and pay homage and perform pilgrimage every year but when they say that saints are nothing they are avoiding a universal truth.

Even Aldous Huxley in his great work says and even Mathew Arnold with Thomas Carlyle has strong views about one God concept, 19th century English poets about the saints. Aldous calls the saint a mystic, further he says that there are only issues in the whole universe. They are sex, science and religion. But he seems not so clear in his views on mysticism at first.

We have to be very holy and pure such persons of piety and high-standard. They are men of honesty and loyalty. Satan is a great foe of man’s ways to God. He can not let man do any adoption of good work. He has instigated ADAM and EVE from paradise. He does not like that man bows before God according to Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). It is absolute for any Muslim to follow Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) as he was born in Muslim’s home. Every Muslim was born preacher by birth. It is our duty to preach and act on Islamic principles.

In ‘Hundred Great Men’ of the world the name of Holy Prophet peace be upon him is on top of list. It is He Who taught all his companions and we came to learn by chain and grade through generation. It is His age that is called ‘Golden Age’. Now they the foes in jealousy charge that all Muslims are terrorists. It is because of defeat. No, it should not be so that if you can not conquer then you finish and omit somebody from map of world. But it is sorry to say that all foes do not know Prophet’s Power. Even they can not compete against Satan and company.

The detached man (saint) has no relation with the mundane world. He is not avaricious and wants every thing away from him. He loves his God and nothing else. He is related with only necessary things. He has no more dresses, wealth, account, sufficient salary as he can fill his family needs, it is not that he is master of lands and people are gifting him. No, he likes seclusion. People often boast of their position and achievements. But a saint likes to gaze on the creation and for better contemplation he intimates God. He recalls his God. He loves his Lord and avails himself in his court. He likes God’s company and not any one. He calls his God. He even has soliloquy with his Lord. He is called a wanton in this sense. People call him mad in love but his love with Lord is pure and real. He does not care for world and sometimes his belongings. He is quite and lives like a stranger in the world. He becomes the man of other world. He sees woman as unfair creature because he seems not to deserve her is his reaction.

To be enlightened in blessings of spiritualism he is also filled with the illumination. Keeping with pace of light he passes through many enlightened periods. He is caliph of Holy Prophet Peace be upon him and true follower. He leads good life and also instructs people to lead right path of life. His style is soft spoken and mannered. A saint has knowledge, practical action, mildness, religious equity and sacrifice. He has an intact relation with God that is very strong and unbreakable. He is not greedy and does not have seven deadly sins in his life. He is not habitual of stuffing his belly. It means that he is not slave of his ego. He is not sex appetizer and crazes for women to have a line in front of his chamber. He has no effect of satanic attacks to satisfy his soul with the company of women. But in present age some so called saints, the fake ones, have a long line of women in their closet room. According to such saints women are good source of publicity and entertainment.

Saint is not easily found but we have to search such personality with inward eye. Contemplation is a necessary tool to keep a view of saint. Most part of world has no observation about saint. Everybody seems to be saying that he knows, can tell who is a saint but real and true is not known. A saint is in many guises and many kinds. It is not good to claim that he is not an openly personae that you can say easily. He is among us and alone as well. He is not mixed and also not aloof at all. We talk with him, he talks back but it is only for our consolation. He has no care for what we say and value things. He sees any thing with another way. He is seeing the real soul of thing which we can not see. His powers are more than we have. We think that he is not as intelligent as we are. It is because he has no worldly wealth and all luxuries of life. In spite of fact he is contented and engaged in praying to God. Sometimes he talks like miracle that makes us wonderful. He predicts also sometimes of coming future.

This is a distinguishing mark of a saint that he can look into coming times. His thinking powers transcend him to a loftiness peak where he can foretell about any object. His all senses and instincts are sharpened; it is all because of honest contemplation and echo of Godly powers. He closes his eyes and imagines himself in the God Court before God’s bounty. This action is not only a rough experience but a charming, fascinating and pleasant exercise. Saint wants it to continue forever. Saint keeps on playing the flute of Allah, The Almighty, in saying, “Allah Hoo”, “La Ila Ha Ill Lal La Hoo”, “Il lal La Hoo Il Lal La”. He repeats this action many times in his day and tries his best to attach his self with this intimacy.

This is the real secret of a saint that he is a follower of Allah and his Prophet peace be upon him. He recites the Holy Quran and also translates it as follow ship. He intimates with his breathing and tongue the first kalma of Islam. It is a confession and faith. The Muslim says that there is no god but Allah Mohammad peace be upon him is last Prophet of God. Saint recalls it again and again and gets a lot of acknowledgement that has no bounds. It is related with practice and not with oral and verbal things.

If we have contrast of ‘saying’ and ‘doing’, but on the contrary we are going to understand Islam with no contradiction. It is quite evident with history of Islam that many heroes came on scene like Companions of Holy Prophet peace be upon him as Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique R.A, Hazrat Omar R.A, Hazrat Usman R.A, Hazrat Ali R.A, Hazrat Khalid Bin Waleed R.A, hazrat Imam Hussain R.A and many more. What they said they did also. They had serene and solid characters. They sacrificed their lives for the cause of Islam. They did not show any magic or wonder in their life but showed true picture of reality. We have no miraculous story of their life. The event of Karbala is very famous for any student of history. In which we find the fight of 72 holy men for saving the spirit of Islam. If they had not martyred at that time, we would not have any signs of Islam now. Islam needs a strong cause for survival. But all enemies are making propaganda for polluting it.

Saint is a follower of true values and always sees a true picture of the real. Aristotle in his book ’Poetics’ has mentioned a theory about copies of the copy, mimics. In which he describes that God is a maker and man is a creator. When he has thought over he begins to create his imagined copy. It is already in his mind. But this copy comes into his mind through dream. His self is not so independent and powerful that can look into heaven himself. It is Godly power that allows him to view all with permission. Then he can be able to draw all the imagined dreaming. What is real only God knows better. It is man’s gestures and guess and it all depends on ‘may be’. Probability has no place before God it is only man style.

When a man closes to God very much through his day and night worship and intimacy he begins to know a little about the secrecy. If he is true he does not disclose the hidden secrets he only observes the working. It is not heaven work to open the mysteries of people and saint is also silent in his nature. He is also seeing the tangible and thinks not to disclose the complex before commoner. It is not easy to understand the unseen because if he tells any such issue he may be scolded by or upbraided. Saint has a different view of angle than a common man.

For example you repeat God’s name 100 times in one sitting as mentioned earlier you will be also a saint of Allah one day. It is an easy way to be one of the praise-holder. The only thing is the recurrence of Allah’s name. Say again and again “Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo, and Allah Hoo.” It means that nothing has its existence but Allah is present. Its recurrence finishes every fear from heart of worldly worries. It calms your state of mind. It holds its efficacy in your life. It makes you soft and effective. Your views hold great strength. Your fame begins to spread out in our circle. People love to listen to you. It has more like many things which are worthy to be seen.