Noor-ul-Huda Qalan in English

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becomes eligible for his propinquity to Allah. If Fakir seconds the propinquity to Allah and enters the arena of the pleasures of Dunya, its lust and desires, he then gets deprivation of Allah�s support and patronage. And on doing so, from literal �Faa� he becomes an Ahl e Fazihat (who go astray and against an advice) i.e. does a shameful act as did by Pharaoh, from alphabet �Qaaf� he becomes guilty to be inflicted with wrath of Allah same as the case of Qaroon, and from literal �Raa� he is regarded as Radd Mardood misl Khabis Iblees i.e. rejected as abject and cursed like malignant Satan.

BAYT
Fukr advances just two steps and earns steadfastness,
He who makes �feet as his head�, he is left with no worries and bothering.

Fakir lifts one step from Dunya and puts in the Hereafter, second step he lifts from the Hereafter with Tawakul and puts half in Marifat and Tauhid. This half step reaches him to the end of the station of Fukr.

HADIS
When Fukr reaches its apex, it is Allah.

BAYT
Cast off Dunya and do not select Uqba even,
The prudent Arif has no liking for both.
 

The writer who is writing on Sufism ought to take two measures, first bring entire knowledge into his command and himself study it, experiment it, test it and examine it so that he may not get any worry or resurrecting reaction (Rija�t) from its application. Afterward he, by writing, printing and imprinting, becomes the �Writer of the book�. Therefore, I myself, in the very beginning, gained the knowledge of Baatin under Zikr of Allah and Hazoor PBUH, by competing with the knowledge of Takraar (argumentation), with the power and Taufiq of Ism e Allah Zaat�s Tassawar and investigation into the Baatin.