"Allamah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai's Great Contribution to Esoteric Knowledge"
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| Allamah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai |
A Brief Statistical Survey of His Works:
Suwakuse har durowar mii ruwe chindak gumanis
Surmanas mii numa une gaybe gurin cum dumanis
“(O our Mawla,) be
our soul’s support in every good deed May we initiate the work but its
completion be by your invisible hands.”
Nasire isqe kitab aalamar pharees meymi
Saroose gaybe jahaan cum khabar suwai le saboor
“The book of Nasir
love will spread all over the globe, the good news was brought only yesterday
from the invisible world by a messenger angels.”
Undoubtedly, his work
of poetry and prose are the countless universes of esoteric knowledge. His
writing, lectures on spirituality and supplications have created such an
enormous treasure that it is impossible for an individual to have even a
cursory glance at it in his entire life, let alone understand it duly.
Notwithstanding this, an attempt will be made to present here a statistical
survey of the pages and words, both poetry and prose in order to express profound
gratitude for his bounties of esoteric teachings.
He uses his potent
pen to praise the imam of the time and the expresses his gratitude’s for his
bounties and favors likes pir nasir –I khusraw, the hujjat of khurasan. Pir Nasir
expressing his gratitude to the imam of the time for spiritual and antellectual
bounties writes in his Diwan:
Har ja ki buwam ta biziyam man gah-u bigan
Bar shukar-I tu ranam qalam-u mihbar-u daftar
Wherever and however long I live,
I shell always use my pen, ink-pot and paper in your praise
In the same way, our revered teacher writes:
Ine jaa qalamar qaw eti ke es yatise gucharchi
eer beski mathan gan bila kuli es bese warchi
“if he (my imam of
the time) invites my pen for (his services),
It will walk on its head and will never tier on matter how
Long the path!”
Prior to the statistical survey, it is necessary to present
a brief accounts of the backgrounds of his extraordinary personality in the
light of his own works, so that the readers may be able to appreciate his
unprecedented feats.
Context of his esoteric writings:
Although he was brown in a family which according to that
time was considered learned, because his father Hubb-I ali and grandfather
Muhammad rafi were the khalifahs or representatives of their respective pir,
the standard of khlifahs knowledge’s was so limited that they were unable
to produce any literary work. Therefore,
prior to him there is no trace of any religious literature in hunza. For years prior
to the birth in 1917,the british colonial government had established the only
primary school in the capital of hunza, Baltit. He studied there for ten months
during which he completed third and fourth classes and that was measure of his
entire secular education ! However by God’s special help, through self-study he
advanced in his learning so rapidly that in 1940 he was able to compose a
perfect poetry with all its requirements of metre, rhyme’s etc.thus started the
journey of his esoteric writings with the epoch-makings ginan,which he,with the
imam of time,mawalana sultan Muhammad shah (fadahuarwahuna).this poem was the
first of its kind in the burushaski language.in it he say:
Haazir imaame ishqe phuwan jaa asar balii
Haazir imam jaa gale malyam jaa asar mili
The fire of hazir imam’s love is kindled in my heart,
Hazir Imam is the ointment for my wound,
My heart medicine.
In the same blessed year of 1940, the imam of the time had
sent a secred message through the radio that the light of his kindness and love
would reach the entire jamat of hunza like the sun. the above ginan was indeed
evidence of the imam lights reaching the jamat of hunza, because thereafter the
light of esoteric knowledge began to spread rapidly in this area, culminating
in the foam of the personal resurrection of revered teacher in 1951. 1940 was
the beginning of his spiritual progress in which he began to advance along its
important stages. Among these, 1946 the year of the diamond jubilee of the imam
is extremely important ,because it was during his year that he was blessed with
the didar of the imam of the time in Poona, India during which the experienced
the spiritual zalzalah (quake).subsequently he also received the ism-azam from
the exalted imam in hasanabad ziyarat, Bombay. He also started to composes
poetry in urdu and wrote a moving poem in praise of the Qa’im of the time, entitled
“the colorful, flourishing and pleasing memories of the diamond jubilee
(1946)”, the exordium of which is:
Jis ghari shah ali
jinab-I maydan aya
Mara dil khene laga dekh kih janan aya
The moment shah Ali entered the stadium
My heart said: look the beloved has arrived!
He continued to pass through great spiritual
stages. In 1948, in Kharadhar Jam’at-Khnah, he experienced the first Light. In 1949
he had the golden opportunity to go to China in connection with the
construction of Jama’at-Khanahs and schools for Ismaili Community there. In
Sariqul, China he observed his symbolic sacrifice in a luminous dream, which
was the glad tiding of his practical or great sacrifice ( zibbin azim) during
his personal resurrection. In 1951, as mentioned above, he underwent the
personal resurrection and obtained the everlasting wealth of knowledge and
recognition with which he returned to Hunza 1954. The noble work of expressing
this knowledge of resurrection in the form of prose and poetry continues to
date. He established the Ismailia Darul-Hikmat on 2nd June, 1963 to
facilitate this work, about which Mawlana Hazir Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni in a
taliqah dated 4th October, 1966 says:
“…I have read the report of Ismailia Darul Hikmat
With much interest and pleasure.
I am very happy indeed with your good work
And devoted services, and I gave my most affectionate
Paternal maternal loving blessings to all the members
Of the Ismailia Darul Hikmat for their services.”
Regarding the paramount importance of his poetry,
itmore than suffices to say that Mawlana Hazir Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni in a
taliqah dated 9th October, 1961 has graciously accorded it the
status of ginan, which only a Pir can write. The Imam has said;
“I am very happy to know that you have completed the Ginan Book in Hunza Language.”
Further, about all his works Mawlana Hazir Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni gave the following guidance in 2001 during a special mulaqat in London as mentioned in a letter addressed to him by Vasier Shafiq Sachedina on 16th Agusut, 2004:
“You will recall that Mawlana Hazar Imam was very keen that ways and means should be found whereby your learning and scholarship can receive a wider jamati exposure through collaboration with the Insitute.”
Here it should
also he mentioned that he, in addition to his spiritual discoveries has also
rejected many theories of secular scientists, such as the composition of the
sun, the gravity of the earth, etc.
His published
and unpublished works are based on Qur’anic wisdom, ta’wil, Divine remembrance,
recognition of the Imam, Monoreality, recognition of oneself, recognition of
God, spiritual science and many other such deep subjects.
Published Works:
His published works exceed one hundred and twenty five (125)
books, Sixty (60) of them have been translated into English by Dr. Faqir
Muhammad Hunzai and Rashida Noor Muhammad Hunzai. Akbar Rajan has translated
twenty five (25) books into Gujarati. A few of them have translated into
Arabic, Persian, French, Tajik and Swedish. Altogether the pages of these books
number more than fifteen thousand (15,000) and the words are in the region of
2.6 million. There are nineteen thousand references to the holy Qur’an and six hundred
Ahadith in these works. There is also the mention of a thousand friends who are
linked to him and Khanah-yi Hikmat.
Unpublished Works:
There is a huge number of his unpublished articles, which
also include letters written to this students where he has lifted the veils
from spiritual secrets. There are certain special articles in which he has divulged
his real position. These articles have been compiled in book form by Zahra
Sunderani. Among these are two extremely important works: “Seven oceans of
Luminosity” and “The Psalms of Resurrection”. The former consists of his
private lectures to selected students from 1995 to 1999, specially held on
Saturday Mornings in Karachi. These were recorded by Zahra Sunderani. It
consists of two hundred articles covering seventeen hundred Pages (1700) and
five hundred thousand words (500,000). The latter consist of muajats and
giryah-u zari (supplications with tear), which are recorded in two hundred
audio cassettes, which in transcription will fill twenty one hundred pages
(2100) and total seven hundred thousand words (700,000). The first twenty two cassettes
have been transcribed by Yasmin Sher Wali.
Other titles in this category are: Recognition of the Qa’im
(3 Volumes), Forty Keys of Luminous Ta’wil, Ladies of the Qur’an, Gems of Qur’anic
Knowledge and Wisdom, Confluence of Material and Spiritual Science, The
Knowledge of the Sacred Sanctuary, Secrets of the Living Qur’an, Secrets of the
Intellectual Shari’at, Hidden Book, Gems of the Qur’an, Laws of Paradise, Great
Miracle of Seventy Thousands, Miracles of the Jama’at –khanah in Yarqand, Luminous
Pool, Royal Bungalows in the Living Paradise. These books contain approximately
fifteen thousand pages (15,000) and two million nine hundred thousand words (2,900,000).
Poetry:
He has composed poetry in four languages: Burushaski, Urdu,
Persian and Chinese Turkish. His comilations include Naghmah-yi Israfil,
Manzumat-I Nasiri, Ainah -yi Jamal, Jawahir-I Maarif, Bihiste Asquring, Diwan-I
Nasiri (Burushaski) and Diwan-I Nasiri (Urdu, Twelve volume to date). These
works contain more than three thousand five hundred (3,500) poems and thirty
thousand (30,000) verses.
Digitized Record of His Lectures:
His lectures are recorded in four thousand and five hundred
(4,500) CDs, the duration of which extends to more than six thousand five
hundred hours (6,500). The transcription of these continues by the volunteers
of Karachi and Chitral under supervision of Shahnaz Salim. In terms of pages
these will number one hundred and thirty thousand (130,000) pages and
approximately thirty two and a half million (32,500,000) words.
The approximate pages and words of all these works are one
hundred and sixty thousand (160,000) and thirty eight million (38,000,000)
respectively, Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds!
Recognition of deficiency:
In a statistical Survey of this magnitude, I must have
committed numerous errors an mistakes, for which I most humbly seek the
forgiveness of my revered teacher an master, I also humbly pray that may Allah,
may He be exalted, in His infinite mercy forgive my shortcomings and help me to
serve His sacred religion with His ta’yid. Amin! O the lord of the worlds!
Azeem Ali Lakhani
30th August, 2013
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