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The Meaning of the Descriptive Title
'Goblets and/or Meters'
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
"Praise be to God Who hath guided us to this (felicity): never could we have found Guidance, had it not been for the Guidance of God." (7:43 Quran)
A famous Afghan scholar asked Mawlana Faizani why he gave his books the descriptive title of 'Goblets and/or Meters.' These are Mawlana Faizani's responses:
Question: Concerning these books, which in reality are just the beginning of 'The Analysis of Man's Atom'1 and a guarantee of man's peace and soundness on ocean and land, can you at least explain this much: why are they called Goblets or Meters?
Answer: We call them Goblets for this reason: because every time a reader engages in the study of one of these Books, the reader's inner being receives an overwhelming luminosity via the attention of the Almighty Revolver, Who provides the reader with assistance and help. This luminosity springs from the knowledge gained through the observation of the metaphysics of creation and of the secrets of nearness to Glorious He. Nothing else has been proven to so easily provide a practitioner with such direct results.
A drunk person, someone who has become high from intoxicating drinks, cannot help but act in a totally scandalous and meaningless manner. However, even though the drunk person is in an ignorant and darkened state, the drunk experiences the state and perceives it with their own senses (however inebriated they may be).
On the other hand, in this school, one becomes drunk with knowledge and purity; with full vigor, a person with faith and conscience can find in his own self the real lumens behind existence and the mysteries of creation. The difference between the two states being that the outcomes of the outward intoxicant are sensual desires and negative wishes leading to depravity and lust, ending in exhaustion and even madness.
But from drinking (reading) each one of the Goblets/books as often as possible, and repeatedly from the beginning to the end, man with the help and assistance of Almighty God begins to find in all things perplexity-in-perplexity, purity-in-purity, and the discovery of Truth Everlasting (from here to infinity; or the upper world). From that, man faces (experiences) such a feeling that only he and his heart know.
As has been said: "Whoever has not tasted, does not know."
Question: My last question is this: why are these Books called 'meters'?
Answer: You know that 'meter' is an English word2. The meaning of the word refers to a tool used in measuring the level of work or operation of something. Likewise, the purpose of these book's contents is to cultivate within the reader the ability to perceive the creations' secrets and to observe the Creator's Beauty in each existent thing, gaining knowledge therein of other secret subjects.
Meaning: When the listener's or reader's spiritual power begins to discover hidden truths and the more he gains inner enlightenment there from; to that same degree the level of his faith (Iman) and quality of spiritual power soar, becoming more and more superior. These types of people have noticeable progress in the fortification of their spiritual strength. But most importantly, the nucleus of Oneness in their own hearts grows in size; greater than before. Therefore, for these reasons we gave the descriptive title of 'Meters' to these Goblets.
Footnotes:
1 Analysis of Man's Atom (or Tajeziya wa Tahleel-e Atom-e Insaan): Highly advanced books on spiritualty written by Mawlana Faizani.
2 These Books were written in Afghanistan in the Farsi/Dari language. This sentence refers to the fact that even in the Farsi/Dari, they used the English word "Meter"
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The Meaning of Goblets and Meters