Dear honorable reader, let there be no doubt: upon deeply studying Mawlana Faizani's eloquent literary works, an excitement appears in your heart. It prompts and compels you from every perspective to adopt the ultimate decision in your life: whether to orient yourself fully towards the Exalted Creator and Sustainer. Indeed, it is the duty of today's faithful youth and intellectual believers to study these books with profound attention. From this study, these thirsty seekers ought to fully acquire perfect enlightenment and achieve the corresponding rise of spiritual powers, all for the purpose of establishing a relationship with the Self-Reliant Being of Him Almighty. They ought to anxiously strengthen more and more their prospect and opinion in spreading these Epistles and in explaining these topics, not reposing until the final instant when the soundness of humanity prevails all over the world. May God continue to guide you and give you success!

It is appropriate now to turn the discussion to this month's Soul Booster, which discusses why mankind, even after acquiring everything in this temporary abode, does not slacken his efforts in gathering more and more properties and wealth by any means possible (whether legitimate or illegitimate). In spite of all senility, oldness, and weakness; and even after accumulating savings and investments for years, decades, or even hundreds of years, yet man feels no let up in the overwhelming desire to gather more comfort, more wealth... And he/she still does not become satisfied.

Hereby, not letting you wander about for the answers, in the Soul Booster below, Mawlana Faizani points out some of the wisdoms behind this human motive. Verily! This entire driving search and realization of ones wishes is born out of an inheritance passed on to human beings as a result of their ancestor's time in Paradise. Such heavenly exposure makes us spiritually apprehensive in this temporary abode.

Some of the Signs of Paradise in Mankind

"Man is a being who has a natural and inherent love of leadership, flying, and being on water. He likes to ride animals, such as horses, camels, and so forth, and to ride in vehicles, such as motorcycles, cars, airplanes, and the like. He is fond of a vast array of foods, drinks, and clothes. He is fond of music and songs. He covets huge gardens and orchards and has a penchant for the best and highest possible apartments and castles. He wishes to be everywhere with his spouse. Also he has a tendency to seek out different natural landscapes so that he might enjoy them as well. These, along with other inherently developed perceptions, are all transferred in essence to him from his father ancestor Adam, peace be upon him. The reason being that all future offspring of Adam, peace be upon him, existed in a special reservoir within Adam's body while he was in Paradise. They too were benefiting from those pleasures and favors.

At most, some of us have benefited more and some have benefited less.

In spite of the fact that Exalted God knew that for the time being the permanent abode for Adam and Eve (peace be upon them) was not eternally in Paradise, yet Exalted God wanted to implant the odor and freshness of that permanent and eternal dwelling into the brain and heart of all human beings. Thus, when the prophets (peace be upon them) and the honorable saints remind us of that Real Abode, those people less spiritually polluted well perceive this Truth, and become inclined in its search, making efforts to acquire it. Without a doubt, if that heart-catching fragrance did not exist in the smelling sense of the offspring of Adam (pbuh), then accepting the call of the Apostles (peace be upon them) would have become difficult in the face of all the inversions carried out by Satan with the cooperation of ego.

Now in this world, Satan deceives the person by inverting the principal of the Soul's demands. Satan makes the person busy with fraudulence, unproductiveness, and gathering property and wealth from illegitimate and legitimate avenues. Satan does not leave the human being an instant to engage in paying attention to the Upper World, and finding the Path of Union with the Glorious Divine Holiness, the Creator of all these favors; nor does Satan want the individual to become aware of this. Indeed, some people are so conquered by Satan and Ego that when this issue is discussed, they try through various tricks and verbosity to make it appear as superstition: senseless and groundless.

Thus, in these circumstances, Satan with the assistance of the ego, makes effort in deceiving the Soul. This means that the soul constantly exerts pressure on the ego and attempts to draw its attention towards the return and the Presence of the Glorious Lord of the lords. However, Satan infuses and misleads the ego, saying for instance, "this discontent you feel is due to not having a spouse." Afterwards, the person tries to get married. Shortly afterward, due to the constant pressure of the soul, the situation worsens. Then Satan says, "You don't have children." The person then tries to have children. Still, the situation worsens. Then, Satan says, "You don't have your own house." He will then make efforts to get his own house. He however never finds the necessary inward peace. In summary, Satan makes him so much entangled in preparing land, garden, position, rank, and taking care of this and that, that no matter how much he tries he does not find a way out of it nor an instant of peace within himself.

The point of our discourse is not to suggest that you must abandon the world or avoid engaging in the necessary businesses of life. This point should not be confused and misinterpreted like some narrow-minded ones. Rather, our goal, aiming for the soundness of Heart, is to achieve the method of "Hands to work and Hearts to God" (Work with one's hands, heart with one's Friend) in such a manner that with all firmness and purity you ought to embody beneficence and generosity toward the Muslim world and all of humanity. If one cannot achieve this position of benefiting others, then kindly not to become harmful, wicked, and ill-speaking. The question, as to how this valuable wealth is obtained, is indeed a great and worthy question. Praise be to God, the comprehensive-word (Qur'an) has presented a summary of how to obtain this wealth, and the Epistles of the University of Insight into God comprehensively deals with all particular questions that arise, presenting them via particular keys as sent to Mawlana Faizani."

— by Mawlana Faizani
Some of the Signs of Paradise in Mankind

Practicing the Soul Booster:

"Such people (the pious) are truly racing towards good deeds, and they outperform (others) therein." (Qur'an, 23:61)

Dear honorable reader, having perfect faith characterizes the highest level of development and intensity of belief an individual can ever attain. Perfect faith enables us to truly comprehend with absolute certainty that Almighty God is the sole Creator and Owner of everything; perfect faith empowers us to feel God's presence at all times, everywhere; perfect faith firmly attaches us to Almighty God and enables us to fear and love Him Almighty more than anything or anyone else; perfect faith ensures complete submission to Him and absolute certainty that Almighty God is rich beyond needs and that we are completely dependent on Him at all times and instances; perfect faith is to be obedient and grateful to Him for every favor and blessing, and etc. Become a practicing member and join Mawlana Faizani and his son Ustad Mazhabi in developing this perfect faith and attaining that moral perfection customary of the prophets of God and coming to worship none other than God, while sincerely striving for His cause.

After explaining these points, we encourage everyone to make this essential decision to become a practicing member. Our stay here on earth is temporary: "a part of a day". During this limited time that we have, we should hasten to acquire the perfect faith in Almighty God, and to fulfill the purpose of our creation by drawing nearer to our Great Exalted, Greatest of Great Creator. We remind ourselves and you of the words of Almighty God: "Answer the call of your Lord, before there comes a Day which there will be no turning back; you shall have no refuge on that day, nor will there be for you any room for denial!" (Quran, 42:47)

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