CERTAINTY AND ITS ASTONISHING EFFECTS

As certainty is one of the most fundamental issues and holds extremely significant effects, the discussion regarding this topic will continue here, and in this regard, we present a short introduction here:

            Most of those who have strived through the path of Divine Attainment and spiritual journey, are looking to understand the obstacles of their path, and they wish to find out those factors inside their existence which have restricted them and hindered their spiritual progress, or have rather brought about a situation of spiritual downfall and backwardness.

What are the factors that cause the stagnancy and downfall of a person? And how can we gain awareness regarding them? And above all, how can we manage to eradicate them?

These are one of those significant question that come across the minds of all those who are in quest of spiritual issues and do not know how to solve their problem, and how can they know the answers to their questions?

These questions are followed by a more significant question, whose answer will solve all the previous problems, and that question is: Is it necessary to gain awareness about the hurdles for the purpose of completing a spiritual journey and walking through the path of spirituality? Is it actually important for us know the obstacles of human progress and the causes of their stagnancy and downfall, and to strive for its eradication? Is there a way walking through which all the obstacles will be automatically uprooted even though a person might not have gained awareness regarding them? Is there an antidote which can destroy the effect of all these poisons?

If there exists such a thing which can act as the solution for all the problems and the antidote for all the poisons, we should necessarily strive to acquire it, and after that, there would not remain any need for gaining awareness regarding the type of poison that can harm the humans.

Some clerics believe that there are such ways whose understanding can help us travel the distance of a hundred years within a night; and there are such factors which can help us remove the obstacles from our path, even without gaining awareness regarding them, and can assist us in reaching our desired destination.

Late Mohaddith e Noori considers ‘Yaqeen’ (certainty) as one of those factors and believes that the effect of certainty is so deep that we can eliminate the impacts of the minor obstacles of our path even without gaining awareness regarding them, and attain the path of human progress thereafter.

He said: One who wishes to clean his heart from undesirable attributes and adorn it with the desirable ones, without exhausting himself by trying to understand the minor heart diseases and the ways of its cure and its antidotes and results, he should strive to attain the light of certainty.  

Certainty is such that it automatically removes all impurities and filths from the heart upon entering, and illuminates the light of all the desirable qualities inside it. Without certainty, removal of heart diseases will be worthless and the acquisition of the desirable qualities will not be possible. For this reason, we find in several traditions that all the desirable qualities are the fruits of certainty[1].

 After these words, Late Mohaddith e Noori has said: “To wipe hands on a sheet of thorn is easier than acquiring certainty; but the heart of those who acquire it will become so bright that all the obstacles will be eradicated, or at least become ineffective.

We will suffice here with this brief discussion. One who wishes to gain further awareness regarding certainty and the ways of acquiring it, can refer to the chapter ‘Yaqeen’ of the book ‘Asraar e Muwaffaqiyyat’ (volume one).

 

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