The answer, according to me, is Yes! It is written in Quran that:

Kayinat kee her she' ko jode' main bnaya gaya hai (each and everything in this Universe is created in pairs).

So it is obvious that spirit should also have its partner. Who is it? Maybe our body, a mixture of sand and clay. It is very well-known that elements of pairs attract each other, like two opposite charges(+ and -). So our body and our spirit should attract each other all the time, but this is not the case. People who love Allah and His Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. think differently. You would find in most of their writings saying that they feel sometimes that their spirit wants to see and meet its Creator. In other words, spirit is attracted to its Creator.

It can happen because our spirit is created from Light, which is not ordinary like sunlight or moonlight. It is created from A Divine Light.

But if we say that Spirit's partner is his Creator, so we are also saying that Spirit and its Creator are opposites. because always two opposite things attract each other. So is Spirit opposite in its nature than its Creator?

Just think about it and please do not hesitate in writing comments. Because it's my only purpose to start this blog, to get answers to these questions!

I was busy in my studies. Suddenly a thought came in my mind. I am sharing it with you too;

Mind or Power of Brain is like an open stream, which flows from top (of a mountain) to bottom. Either this stream follows the path created by previous streams (broad ones) or creates its own way. I think thoughts of Rumi and Iqbal were like these streams which have created a narrow way. This way would become broad as other thinkers follow it.

Now the question arose in my mind is: You control your mind or your mind controls you?

Khurram Shafiq writes about Iqbal:

It was here, in March 1907, that he finally made the first major breakthrough into the labyrinth of his exquisite mind. He was unsuccessful, he ruthlessly concluded, not because he wasn’t intelligent enough, but rather because he was too intelligent. A powerful mind is a wonderful thing, but there is something else that must be in control of the mind. It is the will power, or the super ego, or as Iqbal later devised a term for it: khudi, or the Self - that illuminated nucleus of one's existence which is the source of all emotion, thought and intuition.”A powerful mind that wanders in every direction is like an epileptic hand that is unable to grasp even a pen and move it from the table. The Self, or the enlightened ego, must control the mind.
(you can read the full article here)

In other words, conclusion would be that The Self gives you a way and path on which your mind can walk upon. I think that it only implies on "The Powerful Minds".

I don't understand one thing that (in first statement in bold) "Khudi must be in control of mind" whereas in last line, it says that "The Self, or the enlightened ego, must control the mind". Which one is right?

Your comments are most welcomed.

As far as I have understood, Republic of Rumi is the name of the nation given by Khurram Shafiq, which means that a nation which Rumi dreamed of. I do not know about his background much, like how did he come to know about such thing, about the existence of Rumi's and Iqbal's dream? Maybe he started his research from the works of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, and found that he has encoded some hints to know the future and....to become immortal. That sounds very odd!

In order to decide whether it is right or wrong, I have decided to read each and every article written by Khurram Shafiq. And will be posting each and every question coming in my mind while reading his articles.

I also invite you to help me in getting the answers of those questions.



The e-group started by Khurram Shafiq:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/therepublicofrumi?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=2
The writings of Khurram Ali Shafiq:
http://www.republicofrumi.com/

About 1 year ago, I came to know that there is a possibility of foreseeing the "future". Sounds pretty awkward! I also thought the same like you.

As usual, I was in my university, doing my routine stuff. One of our teachers told me that we had a guest speaker session that day. "OK ma'am!", we all replied to our teacher and entered into the auditorium, where the session was to take place.

A man with sparkling eyes entered into the auditorium, and started to tell us about the importance of poetry and other works of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. His name was Khurram Shafique, a historian, screenwriter and educationist. He told us that he had been studying the works of Iqbal for many years and found that there was something "hidden" in his works, sort of "codes" I must say.

He then took the example of Iqbal's famous poem starting with the line "Lab pe ati hai dua ban k tamanna meri", and started to talk about some layers, which were according to him, the steps in creation of a new civilization. Actually he was trying to say that the poetry of Iqbal was following a same pattern of layers, in which he had hidden the tools of knowing the future.

I did not understand anything, like my class mates, who were not interested in knowing about those codes. They were not even listening to him anymore, but I was. because I wanted to get answers of a lot of questions circulating in my mind. so I joined the e-group started by him naming "Republic of Rumi" to get those answers.

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