mazharshah wrote:
My query is about the quotation of MSMS in KIM that Mowla Ali said," If I do not see Khuda (Allah), I shall not practice His ibadat". I asked, who is that superior God to which Mowla Ali pointed that if do not see Him, he will not do His ibadat. You wrote," it means that if one can not see God then his bandagi is not acknowledged". Poor momin in BK did bandagi for 15/20 years 24/7/365 has no reward because he could not see God.
Actually to see God in reality one would have to become God. Only God can see God. A human being cannot see God in reality by his/her own physical eyes, but he can see with his physical eyes as per MSMS's Farman, if he recognizes the Imam of the time as being God. Hence when he sees the Imam he sees God.
When a person becomes Fanna fi Allah, he constantly 'sees' God with his third eye that is cultivated and developed through Ibadat. It is not the same kind of seeing as through human eyes like we see. Pir Sadardeen refers to this kind of seeing in the verse of the Ginan Sakhee Mahaapad Kerre Vaat
http://ismaili.net/heritage/node/23118:
sakhee kahevaa sareekho nathee ke maaro saamee jee re
eto jovaa sareekho chhe alakh anaamee re.........................12
O beloved ones, my Lord (attained through this experience) does
not bear any telling (as He is undescribable) and He is nameless.
He can only be seen or experienced (through spiritual elevation).
sakhee alakh anaamee saaheb laagyaa mitthaa re
bhanne peer sadardeen shaah, me najare deetthaa re...............13
O beloved ones, this nameless and indescriptible Lord was felt to
be very sweet to me. Peer Sadardeen teaches this ginaan and says:
"I have seen the Lord with my own (spiritual) eyes".
mazharshah wrote:
You wrote."one of the acts of ibadat of the Imam would be to deliver farman"
You mean making farman is the ibadat of Imam. Does he need it? Again question is, when Imam sees superior God and then he starts making farman, because Mowla Ali said," if I do not see God, I shall not practice His ibadat".
As per MHI's Farman the meaning of Ibadat is to carry one's faith in his heart and soul. So as long as the Imam is alive he will always carry his faith in his heart and soul. However the faith of the Fanna invidual such as the Imam is not the same as the faith of an ordinary human being. He carries the faith that he is one with Allah whereas as ordinary person carries the faith that Allah is with him. There is a difference.