111. The Greatest Name of Allah
سینے وِچ مقام ہے کَیندا، سانوں مُرشد گَل سمجھائی ھُو
اِیہو سَاہ جو آوے جاوے، ہور نہیں شے کائی ھُو
اِس نوں اِسم الاعظم آکھن، اِیہو سِرّ ِ اِلٰہی ھُو
اِیہو موت حیاتی بَاھُوؒ، اِیہو بھیت اِلٰہی ھُو
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ਸੀਨੇ ਵਿਚ ਮਕਾਮ ਹੈ ਕੈਂਦਾ, ਸਾਨੂੰ ਮੁਰਸ਼ਦ ਗੱਲ ਸਮਝਾਈ ਹੂ
ਇਹੋ ਸਾਹ ਜੋ ਆਵੇ ਜਾਵੇ, ਹੋਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਸ਼ੈ ਕਾਈ ਹੂ
ਇਸ ਨੂੰ ਇਸਮ ਅਲ-ਆਜ਼ਮ ਆਖਣ, ਇਹੋ ਸਿੱਰ-ਏ ਇਲਾਹੀ ਹੂ
ਇਹੋ ਮੌਤ ਹਯਾਤੀ ਬਾਹੂ(ਰਹ), ਇਹੋ ਭੇਤ ਇਲਾਹੀ ਹੂ
ਸੀਨ
What lies within! My spiritual guide confided in me
The breath that I inhale and exhale is not anything else
Rather it’s the greatest name of Allah. The Divine Secret
Eternity is death in this life, O Bahoo. The Divine Secret
Seen
What lies within! My spiritual guide confided in me
The breath that I inhale and exhale is not anything else
Rather it’s the greatest name of Allah. The Divine Secret
Eternity is death in this life, O Bahoo. The Divine Secret
Explanation by Sultan ul Ashiqeen
The perfect spiritual guide has taught me that it is the inward where Allah dwells. Ism-e-Allah Zaat is the greatest name of Allah whose contemplation and invocation through breaths leads to the secret of Allah as well as life and death. Life means the breath that invokes Ism-e-Allah Zaat and death is the breath that does not. Life is beholding Allah in the inward and death is its deprivation as Ali ibn Abi Talib said, “I beheld the essence in my inward.”
GLOSSARY
| Shahmukhi, Gurmukhi & Transliteration | English |
|---|---|
| سینے ; ਸੀਨੇ ; seene | Chest; inward, spiritual being |
| وِچ ; ਵਿਚ ; wich | In, inside, into |
| مقام ; ਮਕਾਮ ; maqaam | Place, location, waystation |
| ہے ; ਹੈ ; hai | Is |
| کَیندا ; ਕੈਂਦਾ ; kaindaa | Whose |
| سانوں ; ਸਾਨੂੰ ; sanoon | To us, for us |
| مُرشد ; ਮੁਰਸ਼ਦ ; Murshid | Spiritual guide |
| سمجھائی گَل ; ਗੱਲ ਸਮਝਾਈ ; gal samjhaaee | Made us understand or realize |
| اِیہو ; ਇਹੋ ; eyho | This; this one; only this; this very |
| سَاہ ; ਸਾਹ ; saah | Breath |
| جو ; ਜੋ ; jo | Who; that |
| آوے جاوے ; ਆਵੇ ਜਾਵੇ ; aave jaave | Inhale exhale, a reference to the invocation of Hoo with breaths |
| ہور نہیں شے کائی ; ਹੋਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਸ਼ੈ ਕਾਈ ; hor naheen shai kaaee | Not anything else |
| اِس نوں ; ਇਸ ਨੂੰ ; es noon | This, it is |
| اسم الاعظم ; ਇਸਮ ਅਲ-ਆਜ਼ਮ ; Ism al-Azam | The greatest name of Allah; Ism-e-Allah Zaat |
| آکھن ; ਆਖਣ ; aakhan | To say, call, utter; to express; to ask |
| سِرِّ الٰہی ; ਸਿੱਰ-ਏ ਇਲਾਹੀ ; Sir’r-e-Elahi | Secret of God, Divine secret |
| موت ; ਮੌਤ ; maut | Death |
| حیاتی ; ਹਯਾਤੀ ; hayaatee | Life |
| بھیت ; ਭੇਤ ; bhet | Secret, mystery |