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| Excrepts from KASHF-AL MAHJUB The oldest persian treatise on Sufism |
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Ali B. Uthman Al-Jullabi Al Hujwary (Popularly known as Hazrat Data Gunj Baksh) |
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| Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson |
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| Waqt (time) is a term is used by Sufis, whereby a man becomes independent of the past and future, e.g. when an influence from God descends into his soul and makes his heart collected (mujtami�) he has no memory of the past and no thought of that which is not yet come. The possessor of the �waqt� may proclaim,
�Our knowledge cannot apprehend the future and the past, and we are happy with God in present (andar waqt).� (1) Abu Said has also advised, �Do not occupy your precious time expect with the most precious of things, and the most precious of human things is the state of being occupied between the past and the future.� |
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| WAQT |
| Waqt has been used by Muslim Mystics to denote the spiritual state in which anyone finds himself, and by which he is dominated at the moment. |
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| The world may become Hell for the possessor of 'waqt' (time), because he is contemplating absence from heaven, or sometimes he may feel like being in Paradise, and every moment to him brings to him a gift and happy message from God. |
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| Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) has said, � I have a time (waqt) with God in which none of the Angels nor any of the Prophets rival me, in which eighteen thousand worlds do not occur to my mind and have no worth in my eyes.� (Qur'an: 53: 7-18) Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) � the chosen one (Mustafa) has been the noblest person and the noble are not engrossed save by that which is noble. Such times (awqat) for noble are two: |
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1. One in the state of loss (faqd), the place of separation
2. One in state of gain (wajd), the place of union |
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| It happens so that his individual volition is cut off from him; it is impossible to invest him with any attribute, and whatever he does or experiences is the result of �waqt�. No man can attain to the reality of �waqt� by exerting his choice, for �waqt� is a thing that does not come within the scope of human acquisition, that it should be gained by effort, nor is it sold in the market, tnhat anyone should give his life in exchange for it, and the will has no power either to attract or to repel it. That is why Sheikhs have said, |
| �Time is a cutting sword�. |
| According to Sahl (ra), �search of the knowledge of the state, i.e. the decision (hukm) of a man�s state. Which exists between him and God in this world and hereafter�. The object of human knowledge should be to know God and his commandments. Knowledge of �time� (ilm-al-aqt) and of all outward and inward circumstances of which the due effect depends on �time�, is incumbent upon everyone. It involves both: making Muslim�s profession of faith through devotion, and attainment of cognition through sincerity of heart. |
| Ibn-al-waqt |
| According to mystic tradition, �Ibn-al-waqt� is a Sufi experiencing unbounded spiritual state, which is reflective of the gifts he has been bestowed. He is more prone to be �reactive� and acquire emotional mode, and is termed as �Qalandar� and �Rind� as well. (Masnavi Maulvi Ma�navi, Urdu Translation & commentary by Qazi Sajjad Hussain, vol.1, p 45. |
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| (1)�Past� hereby may mean time before coming into this world (adam); future therefore is time in world hereafter; So the Sufi is content with the relationship with Divine at present. |
| Pages 367-370 |
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