Kafi-3 Understanding Diwan - i - Farid کافی نمبر3 بن دلبر شکل جہان آیا ہر صورت عین عیان آیا “My beloved has manifested in the form of the outward. He has become openly manifest in each form.” The doctrine of Oneness of Being (wahdat al-wujud) with its corresponding realisation sees the universe including Man as the manifestation of the Absolute and the Infinite. It considers all polarisations as provisional and essentially devoid of being. The metaphysical reality of nothingness constitutes those Possibilities, which have not taken the form of Names or Attributes. To consider the world as absolutely cut off from the Absolute or God is erroneous and is the product of ordinary thinking, which creates an unbridgeable gulf between subject and object. It is metaphysical thought, which posits the possibility of identity between knowledge and being. The beloved has taken the shape of the world and openly manifests in every form. کتھے آدمؑ تے کتھے شیثؑ نبی کتھے نوحؑ کتھاں طوفان آیا “He has manifested in Adam at times and at times in the Prophet Sheesh. His manifestation has been at times in Nuh and at times in the Flood.” He manifests in the form of the Prophets as well in the appearance of cosmic events like ‘the Great Flood.’ There are degrees of His manifestations. He manifests to a greater degree in Man and to much a higher in Perfect Man. His manifestation in any cosmic event is a truth dealt with traditional cosmologies. The universe does not stand in opposition to Him as ‘other’ but reflects Him as if in a mirror. کتھے ابراہیمؑ خلیل نبی کتھے یوسفؑ وچ کنعان آیا “He has manifested at times in the Prophet Ibrahim, the friend of God, and at times in Yousaf of Canaan.” He manifests Himself in forms of prophecy and friendship. He figures in knowledge, sentiment and human interactions. کتھے عیسیٰؑ تے الیاس نبی کتھے لچھمن رام تے کان آیا “He has manifested at times in Isa and the Prophet Ilyas and at times in Lachman Ram and Kaan.” His manifestation is not restricted to any one tradition. He has manifested Himself in all traditions of the world including the Hindu tradition. کتھے ذکریاؑ کتھے یحییٰؑ ہے کتھے موسیٰؑ بن عمران آیا “He has manifested at times in Zachariah and at times in Younis. His manifestation has been at times in Musa bin Imran.” His manifestation has been in the Prophets, their ancestors and their progeny in varying degrees. بوبکرؓ عمرؓ عثمانؓ کتھاں کتھے اسدؓ اﷲ ذیشان آیا “He has manifested at times in Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman. His manifestation has been at times in the glorious lion of God.” He has manifested in the form of the four friends of the Prophet. How one can detest any one of these forms where He has manifested Himself in such a high degree? The truthfulness of these friends has been verified by virtue of spiritual experience. The historical accounts regarding the conflict between the Household of the Prophet and his foremost Companions after the death of the Prophet lack wider perspectives. It was not a conflict between good and evil but it was a divergence between different shades of rightness. They all deserve reverence. It is spiritually fatal to show disrespect to any one of them. کتھے حسنؓ حسینؓ شہید بنے کتھے مرشد فخر جہان آیا “He has manifested at times in the martyrs, Hasan and Husayn, and at times in Fakhr-e-Jehan, my spiritual master.” It was for the time that a conflict between good and evil took place between Husayn and Yezid respectively. He ‘embraced martyrdom’ in the form of Hasan and Husayn. He is eternal but manifest in the temporal. He experiences transcendence and immanence in simultaneity. He cloaks in the form of his murshid Fakhr Jehan. کتھے احمد شاہ رسولاں دا استاد نفوس عقولاں دا محبوب سبھے مقبولاں دا سلطاناں سر سلطان آیا “He has manifested at times in Ahmad: the vanguard of the Messengers, the beloved of all the illustrious, the preceptor of selves and intellects and the sovereign of the sovereigns.” His manifestation in the form of Ahmad has been of the highest degree. He has manifested Himself perfectly in the perfect form of Ahmad. He has contemplated Himself fully in Ahmad’s mirror of the heart. It is He who came in the form of Ahmad and did all wonders. تنزیل کتھاں، جبریل کتھاں آیات کتھاں ترتیل کتھاں توریت زبور انجیل کتھاں حق باطل دا فرقان آیا “He has manifested at times in Revelation and at times in Gabriel. His manifestation has been at times in Torah, David Psalms and New Testament. He has manifested at times in verses and at times in their recital. His manifestation has been at times in the discernment between truth and falsehood.” It is His manifestation in the whole process of religious revelation including the Archangel Gabriel. It is His Divine Speech, which takes the form of Scriptures. It is His manifestation at a certain level, which discerns the true from the false. کل شئے وچ کل شے ظاہر ہے کتھے ناز نیاز دا ماہر ہے سوہنا ظاہر عین مظاہر ہے کتھے درد کتھاں درمان آیا “The Whole illuminates the individual aspects. The Beautiful has manifested itself and has assumed an open form of manifestation. He masterly manifests at times in priding and humility. His manifestation at times is in pain and at times in alleviation.” The Whole lights up everything. It embraces totality. There is nothing outside it otherwise it cannot be metaphysically termed as ‘the Whole’. Beauty itself in its outward form is so openly manifest. He manifests in pride and humility and in pain and its alleviation. He manifests in all things and events---positive and negative--- and nothing can be excluded from it. If His manifestation is a mystery, then His supposed ‘non manifestation’ is a greater mystery because He is ‘the metaphysical Whole’ and nothing can be excluded from it. کتھے ریت پریت دا ویس کرے کتھے گل وچ مارو کیس دھرے کتھے عاشق تھی پردیس پھرے لٹ دھاری تھی مستان آیا “He manifests at times in the tradition of love and at times as lover wandering in alien lands. His manifestation at times is in bewitching dishevelled locks around the neck and in the enraptured one with flowing hair.” He is not partially inward or partially outward but He is absolutely the Inward and totally the Outward. Reason finds it so scandalous. It is the doctrine of Oneness and it is its realisation, by virtue of Intellectual intuition, that makes the metaphysical truth dawn on the percipient. کتھے پنڈت جوسی جوگی ہے کتھے مصر براگی روگی ہے کتھے سامی تے کتھے بھوگی ہے کتھے بید بیاس گیان آیا “He manifests at times as Hindu metaphysician, astrologer and ascetic and at times as religious and at times as worldly. His manifestation is at times as doctor, ascetic and sick and at times as Vedic, Brahman and Knowledge.” He manifests in all forms including positive and negative. The religious consciousness may give a concession in accepting His manifestation in positive forms but finds it highly appalling in attributing His manifestation in negative forms. It fails to understand, for instance, that how could the One, who Himself bestows health manifest in the negative form of a sick person. خاموش ”فرید“ اسرار کنوں پر غافل نہ تھی یار کنوں چپ بیہودہ گفتار کنوں ایہو لاریبی فرمان آیا “Farid! Remain silent and do not disclose these mysteries. You should desist from such outrageous discourse. But, never be oblivious of your friend. Such a (Divine) decree has been made beyond a shadow of a doubt.” He stops short of disclosing these mysteries, which seem so outrageous to ordinary understanding. He reminds the votaries of their foremost duty of never being oblivious of their friend, which is a doubtless decree of the Qur’an. The possibility of friendship with God is readily realised by spiritual consciousness but seems abhorrent to the religious one. The religious psyche remains tied to the relative master-slave polarity and considers it as absolute. The question of a slave loving his master does not arise. The vocation of a slave is just to follow the commandments of his master out of fear for the punishment inflicted upon him if he does otherwise. Friendship with God takes one to a realm where one stands before Him not ‘in fear and trembling’ but in love and poise. He only fears the disruption of his friendly relationship with God, which is qualitatively different from ordinary fear and the religious one. Good is, in the spiritual sense, what fosters friendship and evil is what severs it. Doctrines, rituals and morals essentially become lively in the situation of love and friendship. Muhammad Farooq
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