Sunday, July 21, 2019

Couplet 550-552


چونکہ بُوئے بُرد شکرِ آں نہ کرد

And when smelled the odour and don’t offer gratitude



کفرِ نعمت آمد و بینیش خورد


This would be rejection of bounty, and as if he chops his nose

شُکر کن مر شاکراں را بندہ باش

Offer gratitude and be the slave of the saints



پیشِ ایشاں مردہ شو پایندہ باش


Be like a corpse before them and obtain eternal life

چوں وزیر از رہزنی جامہ مساز

Don’t be looters like the vizier



خلق  را تو  برمیاور از نماز


Don’t stop people from offering prayers



                  Now as you have achieved the discrimination of talks of Gnostics (saints) and inspite of knowing this, if you do not recognize him i.e. do not follow him, then it becomes the rejection of bounties (نعمت) and one's power of discrimination will be taken away i.e. this power of his won’t work for him. Allah says in Quran (14:7) –

And [remember] when your Lord proclaimed, 'If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.' "

                  Therefore, it is obligatory on you to offer gratitude and follow them i.e. to become the slave of these saints. One has to finish one’s desires before these saints and become like corpse and thereby obtain the eternal life. And leaving their following, don’t be an inept master (sheikh) yourself, which would be like the vizier in the story to mislead the seekers and don’t stop the seekers from prayers (نماز) i.e. to stop from desiring Truth. As the one who gets trapped in the hands of inept master, he could not be able to go anywhere else to seek guidance.

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