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Commentator: Zafar Iqbal Zafar
Have you ever looked in the mirror and realized that the reflection in front of you is not your true reality but just a temporary sketch? This lesson, based on the writings of Zainab Jahanzeb, takes us on the path of a mystical journey where a person goes beyond his material existence and reaches the destination of true light and annihilation. This journey is a beautiful process of finding oneself by losing oneself. Understanding the mystical concept of self and existence and knowing how the material reflection hides the true reality. Recognizing the reality of the shadow (Nafs-e-Amara) and achieving awakening by getting rid of it. Understanding pain, silence, and patience as the most important means of spiritual training. Learning the true meaning of annihilation and survival, where fading actually becomes completion.
Human existence is like a mirror, but the colors of the material world create a layer of fog on this mirror. According to Sufi thought, we often take our external reflection to be our true self, even though it is only a temporary and blurred reflection of our true face. When a person journeys towards his inner self, he first has to face his ‘shadow’, the unconscious self. Sufis say that this shadow is actually that part of the darkness where light cannot reach. Until a person acknowledges this shadow of his and dares to face it, the journey of knowledge cannot begin. The waking eye in a dream is actually a metaphor for inner awakening, where the body falls asleep but the soul awakens. An interactive mind map that clarifies the interrelationship between the human self, the unconscious self (shadow), and inner awakening (the waking eye in a dream).
Light and Divine Reality. Light always arises from darkness. According to Sufism, darkness is not the enemy of light, but the silent solitude where light finds its awareness of its existence. When a person, tired of the external lights of the world, descends into the darkness of his inner self, he finds true light. The echo of first love is the basic secret of the creation of the universe. Sophia says that God was a hidden treasure, who created the universe for the recognition of himself. When a person descends deep within himself and touches the light of ‘La Makan’, the secret is revealed to him that that light was not somewhere outside, but was present in the bathroom of his own heart. There is also a world behind the eyes, which is much more real and vast than the external world. A journey from the external to the internal. A slide presentation that explains the stages of reaching the true insight of the inner and ‘Light of La Makan’ from the external vision of the material world through images and important points. Pain, patience, and behavior. Suffering and pain in human life are not just troubles but are a source of purification of the soul and spiritual training. Behind the smiling faces, deep storms are often hidden, and in Sufi behavior, this pain becomes worship when it is accepted with silence. Patience does not mean enduring time under compulsion, but surrendering oneself to time. When a person stops complaining, his heart becomes a cradle of submission and contentment. When the heart becomes a shrine, all kinds of pride and greed disappear from there, and a person finds divine wisdom even in his defeats. The dance of the soul in silence is actually the state where words disappear and only the feeling of God’s presence remains.
The Sufi Importance of Pain and Patience. An audio conversation that discusses how pain, suffering, and patience are seen as tools for refining the human soul and achieving divine closeness in the Sufi tradition. Connection, understanding, and extinction. The final and highest destination of the Sufi journey is ‘annihilation’. Annihilation does not mean physical death, but rather the elimination of the ego, pride, and ‘I’ within oneself. When the inner self of a person is completely destroyed, he does not perish but remains ‘forever’. Having reached this stage, a person cries out: ‘I am not annihilated, I am complete’. When a drop is mixed with the ocean, it no longer remains a drop but becomes the ocean itself. The universe is condensed within a person, and the distances of time are erased.
For the Sufi, this touch leads to immortality and eternal peace where he himself becomes light and sees the manifestation of God in every particle of the universe.: Our material existence and external reflection are not real, but the real truth is hidden deep within. Facing our own self and shadow is the first step towards knowledge and inner awakening. Pain, patience, and silence are essential for the training of the soul, which teach man the lesson of submission and contentment. The real concept of annihilation is to erase one’s ego and merge with the divine truth, which makes man truly perfect.
A small part of all this spiritual information that has come to your mind has been taken from Zainab Jahanzeb’s book, Aina Roshni, and Fana Ka Safar. If you want to fly freely in the spiritual worlds of God, then the book, Aina Roshni, and Fana Ka Safar, has not only given you wings to fly but also guided you on the paths of the heavens. This is an era in which man is unable to reach man, so providing the way and method to reach man to God in a book is no small task.
This book by Zainab Jahanzeb is the book that every man with children should have under his pillow.
