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An article by Muftiya Nazima Aziz that appeared in the
Urdu newspaper - The Munsif Daily, Hyderabad on 09th Nov, '07.
Translation facilitated by the Team, Khalifatullahmehdi.info
Following are the dialogue between Hazrat Junaid BaghdaadiRH and an unknown traveler
who visits the HazratRH after performing Hajj.
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| Traveler: |
As Salaamalaikum |
| Hazrat: |
Walaikum Assalaam. Where are you coming from? |
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| Traveler: |
Master I'm returning from Hajj Baitullah. |
| Hazrat: |
You've been to Baitullah for Hajj? Have you completed your Hajj? |
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| Traveler: |
Yes master I'm returning from Kabatullah. I've completed all the
essentials [Arkaan] of Hajj and fulfilled the great obligation [azeem farz] of Hajj
and I'm at your service.
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| Hazrat: |
When you left for Hajj, did you also leave all
your big and small sins?
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| Traveler: |
Master I didn't think of this, just thought of Hajj and left my town for Mecca. |
| Hazrat: |
So you never left for Hajj. Well, tell me this:
You spent so many days and nights traveling for Hajj, while at it you went through
various stations and wherever you had to stay during nights, did you then
contemplate ALLAH and did you try to achieve nearness of ALLAH?
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| Traveler: |
Master I never thought of this matter. |
| Hazrat: |
Then you neither travelled towards Kaaba nor
reached any stations towards it. OK! tell me this when you tied ihram [unstitched
cloth] and shed your usual clothing, did you also shed your bad habits and bad
nature or you still had them on in spite of being in ihram?
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| Traveler: |
Master I never imagined all this. |
| Hazrat: |
So you never put on ihram either, when you were
at Arafat did you experience any opening [kashf] of observation [mushahada]?
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| Traveler: |
Master what do you mean by this? |
| Hazrat: |
By this I mean to ask you if you felt the divine
presence of ALLAH in front of your eyes and did your eyes feel illuminated with
divine vision?
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| Traveler: |
Master I never felt any of these experiences,I just did my Hajj as an obligation. |
| Hazrat: |
So you never stationed at Arafat, actually you
never reached Arafat. Did you go to Muzdalifah?
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| Traveler: |
Yes I reached Muzdalifah also. |
| Hazrat: |
When you reached Muzdalifah, did you negate your inner desires? |
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| Traveler: |
No I never paid any attention to it. |
| Hazrat: |
So you haven't been to muzdalifah either. OK,
when you were circumambulating the Kaaba did you envision the enjoyable beauty of
ALLAH?
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| Traveler: |
Master I didn't get it. What do you mean by envisioning or
enjoying the beauty of ALLAH?
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| Hazrat: |
I meant to ask you if you had the vision [jalwa]
of our beloved ALLAH and witness any divine spectacles [Karishma] while
circumambulating the Kaaba.
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| Traveler: |
No master i didn't experience any of these things. |
| Hazrat: |
Then you haven't circumambulated the Kaaba
either. When you did the sa'y [run] in between safa-marwah, did you try to grasp
the truth [haqeeqat], philosophy [hikmat] and purpose [maqsood] behind the
sa'y?
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| Traveler: |
I never thought of these things so how could I grasp the purpose. |
| Hazrat: |
So you haven't done the sa'y either. OK! when you
reached the slaughter grounds for sacrifice, did you sacrifice your sick ego [mauzy
nafs] and its unlimited desires? Did you use the knife to cut both the throat of
the sacrificial animal and your ego or you let loose your desires and cut the
animals throat?
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| Traveler: |
Master I just followed the sacrificial rules and slaughtered the
animal I never thought of my ego or desires.
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| Hazrat: |
If so you haven't offered the sacrifice either.
OK! when you were stoning the Satan did you also throw your lowly desires, bad
company and bad fiends?
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| Traveler: |
No master I didn't think of this. |
| Hazrat: |
So you haven't done ramy [stoning] either. Go
back! go and perform Hajj again. perform it like Hazrat IbrahimAS has done. Keep
his qualities and his spiritual condition in mind and be loyal and self-surrendering
to ALLAH. Your Hajj should be a display of intimate loyalty and total surrender.
ALLAH accepted IbrahimAS loyalty and complete submission and made it witness in the
Holy Qur'an: Wa ibrahimallazee waffa [and of Ibrahim who fulfilled his engagements
(53:37)]
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Here ends the dialogue between the two and the text from Munsif article.
The dialogue reinforces incontrovertibly the Mahdavia creed which revolves around the
quest for the holy vision in every form of worship.
It is narrated that when the ImamAS came for the circumambulation of the Ka'ba
in accordance with the command of Allah, he asked his companion Hazrat Bandagi Miyan
Shah NizamRZ, "You had come to Ka'batullah earlier also. What signs had you seen
then? And what do you see now?" Miyan Shah NizamRZ said, "Miranji! The first time I had
come, I saw Ka'batullah without its Lord. Now I am seeing it with its Lord."
Again Hazrat ImamAS asked, "Miyan NizamRZ! Do you see anything [else]?" He said, "Yes.
Miranji! Ka'batullah is circumambulating around Hazrat MiranAS [the ImamAS],
and is reciting, 'Fal-ya'-buduu Rabba haazal-Bayt'" [Shawhid-Al-Vilayat]
A word of caution: Engage and remain in Zikrullah from the start of your pilgrimage to
the end and beyond. Do not join the congregational prayer lead by non-Mahdavi Imam at
anytime because that's the command of our ImamAS [the glimpse of his exalted status can
be seen in the aforementioned Naql]. Even the Aql [wisdom] keeps one from offering the
prayer behind a person who ardently believe in vision impossibility in the present
world. A clash in the Aquida is the bare-bone necessity to disqualify the prayers.
May ALLAHSWT through the sadaqa of KhatamaenAS and SyedainRZ bless every
Musaddiq-Hajji with a faiz from the Hajj of Bandagi Miyan Hazrat Shah NizamRZ
Aameen Summa Aameen ya Rabbul Aalameen.
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