The Spiritual Guides of Sarwari Qadri Order/GLOSSARY

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Aab-e-hayat: Water of life. This water springs from The Divine Name

Al-Hayy: ‘The Living’ and symbolizesKnowledge of The Absolute. The one who drinks this water finds eternal life from Al-Hayy.

Aashiq: True Lover, usually refers to The Divine Lover

Abad Eternity

Abd: The Slave of Allah

Abdullah Ain-ul-Ayaan: The Absolute Slave of Allah who can see Him and the whole universe

Abudiat: Slavehood. Derived from ‘Abd’ which refers to the slave or worshipper. Hence, Abudiat is the state of total and utter submission to the Will of Allah.

Ahl-e-Bait: The Sacred Family of The Holy Prophet

Ahl-e-Sunnah wal Jammat: The section of Muslims who follow the entire Sunnahs of The Holy Prophet. It includes all the four schools of thought i.e. Hanfi, Maliki, Shafii, Hambli Ain-ul-yaqeen Faith gained through observation

Akseer Nazar: The sight of alchemy which changes the inner self of a person, just as iron is converted into gold by the process of alchemy.

Alam-e-Jabrut: The world of souls or the connecting world

Alam-e-LaHoot: The world of Absolute Divinity

Alam-e-Malakut: The spiritual world of symbolic forms of bodies which cannot be touched, like that we see in dreams.

Alam-e-Nasut: The world of physical bodies. The world of the five human senses.