Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 13
13 Malfuzat – Volume IV ultimately, awe of the Divine dissipates. Such people begin to associate with athe - ists and become permissive, breaking the limits set by God. Hence, this is a most lethal poison. A person may suggest that Hazrat Bayazid Bastami, Khwaja Junaid Baghdadi, or Syed Abdul-Qadir Jilani, may the mercy of Allah be upon them all, have made statements, which the ignorant either deem blasphemous, or like the misguided sect mentioned above derive from them an argument in favour of the Unity of Being (wahdat-e-wujud), as is evident from the words: ِْیْ ْن َاَْعَْظَُمُ َشَْاْ ْا َ ِم ِْْی ْاْن ُسُْبَْحَ Holy am I. How great is my grandeur. Or the statement: َِْتِْی � ْب َاَُہللُ ِفِْیْ ُجُ Under my cloak is Allah. Those who derive an argument in favour of the said concept from these state - ments have misunderstood. Firstly, we do not even know if they made these state - ments or not. However, even if we accept that they actually uttered these words, the spring from which these sorts of statements gush forth is that of love and passion. For example, an ardent admirer, in the passion of their love and wholly absorbed in devotion, can say: �ُدی ُش� �ُدموتاجن ُش� �ُدینمنت ُش� �ُدموتنم ُش� نموت ِرگیی د ِرگیموت د ںینم اتسکوگندیدعباز I have become you, and you me, I the body, you the soul; So that no one can say hereafter, that you are another, and I someone else. This state of being completely absorbed and annihilated is of a unique nature, like the manner in which a mother loves her child. If a mother is unable to see her child even for a little while, her heart begins to sink, and she begins to feel perturbed and restless. The longer this state lasts and the more it continues, so too her anxiety continues to grow and she begins to lose her senses. Now this form of annihilation ( fana) is greater than her own being, but as for the Wujudi, he claims that his state of fana becomes an entity in itself. So statements of this nature uttered by the saintly stem from complete and utter devotion, passion and love, but on account of their flawed understanding, the Wujudis have turned them into something else and presented them in their own favour. They do not p. 288