Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Three levels of Realization July 4, 2010

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Sirat Ibn Ishaq, p. 276
Quran 2:165 · Al-Baqarah
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No 16747
Quran 2:186 · Al-Baqarah
Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 6463
Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 780
Al-Musannaf Abdur Razzaq, Hadith No. 6173
Al-Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba, Athar No. 37322
Quran 2:7 · Al-Baqarah
Quran 9:18 · At-Tawbah
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Marifat is humanity's greatest unmet need
“Marifat insaan ki sabse badi zaroorat hai”
3 min 19 sec
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The alchemy of the soul: why mystics never found real marifat
“Yahan main aapko misaal doonga alchemy ki”
41 sec
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Alchemists failed because gold was in the mine
“Gold kahan hai? Zameen ke andar, mine mein”
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Three levels of realizing God introduced
“Ek hai ritualistic level, doosra hai rational level, teesra hai intuitional level”
2 min 16 sec
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Mobile azan stickers and empty ritualistic religion
“Aajkal bahut aam hai ke log mobile ke andar azan dial karte hain”
50 sec
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The greatest concern of Islam is Allah
“The greatest concern of Islam is Allah”
5 min 54 sec
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Rational proof of God only reaches fifty percent
“Doosra level jo hai wo hai rational level”
27 sec
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Descartes' logic applied to proving God
“Descartes ne kaha tha: I think, therefore I am”
2 min 2 sec
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Proving God rationally is Rakana's losing wrestling match
“Hamare buzurg kaha karte the ke yeh Rakane ki kashti hai”
2 min 18 sec
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Al-Razi's deathbed doubt and the mother-proof analogy
“Kaha jata hai ke jab Imam Razi ki maut ka waqt aaya, Shaitan un ke paas aaya”
1 min 18 sec
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Consciousness of God is innate like thirst and hunger
“Jis tarah pyaas ka concept insaan ke nature mein interwoven hai”
4 min 25 sec
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Gautam Buddha's dirty milk pot parable on purity
“Mujhe yahan Gautam Buddh ka ek bahut accha waqia pasand hai”
2 min 30 sec
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Purify your inner container to receive divine inspiration
“Jaise physical cheezon mein ek container hota hai, spiritual cheezon mein bhi hota hai”
4 min 31 sec
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Cow culture: convert every negativity instead of abolishing freedom
“Main aksar kaha karta hoon ke aap ko apne andar cow culture paida karna hai”
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In God We Trust is really in dollar we trust
“America mein dollar pe likha jata hai: In God We Trust”
1 min 27 sec
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Sinking ship boy's trust in his captain father
“Maine ek qissa padha tha ke ek martaba jahaz doob raha tha”
2 min 24 sec
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Nearness to God is the price of distance from everything else
“Khuda ki qurbat ghair-khuda se doori ke nateeje mein milti hai”
2 min 20 sec
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Companion's life changed watching an ox get beaten
“Ek sahabi apne ghar ke saamne baithe hue the, ek bail-gaadi guzri”
1 min 48 sec
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Pray before you pray: fixing a distracted namaz
“Dil laga ke namaz padhna farz nahi — magar asal jawab hai: namaz se pehle namaz padho”
3 min 35 sec
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Not all paths lead to God — only right thinking does
“Agar Ishwar ek hai to kya use pane ke tareeqe alag alag ho sakte hain?”
4 min 10 sec
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Real cause of divorce: spoiled upbringing, not incompatibility
“Kya Islam mein talaq aur khula aurat-mard ke jhagde ka civilized solution hai? Hargiz nahi”