Says the Satguru:
Loving devotion dwells in the heart,
Whereby the inner self is consumed with intoxicating love and desire.
With every breath, invoke His Name,
In such a way, that the sound of this invocation should not reach the ears.
In the preceding verse, the Pir reminds his followers that utterance or remembrance of the Name of the Beloved devoid of prem pīḍā (pangs of love) is futile. The consummation of prem pīḍā engenders prem bhagatī or prem bhakti (loving devotion), which is the main theme of this quatrain.
The Pir states that the heart is the seat of loving devotion. The implied meaning here is that the heart of one who is smitten by prem pīḍā (pangs of love) eventually becomes the repository of prem bhakti or loving devotion
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He advises the devotee to meditate and call upon the Name of the Beloved with every breath in such a way that the sound of the jāp (dhikr) should not reach the ears. The word surat, used in the last line, is derived from shruti, which means, ‘sound’, ‘hearing’. Here, the Pir refers to the personal and silent dhikr. This form of dhikr is a personal and intimate bond between a lover and his Beloved, between the dhākir (invoker) and the Madhkūr (the Invoked), between a bhakt and his Lord. Therefore, the invoker should perform the dhikr internally, in a state of utmost humility and unbeknownst to anybody. The Pir says that this dhikr should be so intimate, so private, and so personal, that not only should others be unaware of it, but also one’s own ears should not be able to hear the sound of the dhikr!
The teaching conveyed by the Pir is somewhat similar to the teaching imparted by our first Imam, Mawlana Aly (A.S.):
Sāche Sāhisu jo lagan bā(n)dho,
To zikar karo sās usās.
If you have established a bond of love with the True Lord,
Then perform dhikr with every breath.
Allah also speaks about dhikr-e-khafī in the Holy Qur’an in the following words:
“And invoke thy Lord within thyself, in humility and awe, and beneath thy breath, in the morning and in the
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