Different ways of exercises; zikar, fikar muraqaba, and mujahida

Different ways of exercises; zikar, fikar muraqaba, and mujahida:

These are patterns and manners which few people have adopted; they thought they are better. But in fact you see all Tareeqa’s are one and the same. How can you separate a man of God from the other man of God, except for his rank? We start all together. May be Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, Khawja Moe-u-deen Chishti Ajmeri, and Khawja Faree-ud-deen Ganj Shaker; all these people start as the same simple human beings, whether very very strong desires for God and for love. Now we see there can be no difference between these people. It is not there. No man of God is jealous of another man of God. There are brothers of same profession; of the same trade. So they love each other, according to the verse of Quran.

‘These people love each other for God sake’

So no difference! But the people who came after, they created all these differences. They created all these mannerism in them. You can be balance and you can move without any concentration towards God. It depends on your mind the way you choose; what kind of method. Suppose I feel hungry. My way of removing hunger is; I would eat less, according to the Prophet, I would say its ok! I will not eat full. May be I distribute my food to somebody else, the brother of mine and I eat less and my brother should eat with me that I should not eat full stomach. I should remain under size. The other person will say, No! I will starve, so that I could get over this hunger. Starvation is of harder way, one day; two days; three days and he will persist. They were very strong willed people. They knew they had certain faults which would not go without hard exercises. But people like me very weak. We were very small people and we thought we should only love God more. When I think my body makes a fault, I say I should love God more. I try to compensate things with love to God rather than starving my own self. Because according to Mahatma Siddhartha Buddha; even after twelve years of ‘Tapasia’ he said, ‘ it does not lie in killing in your body; it does not lie in starvation; it does not lie in hanging yourself on the twenty thousand height of Himalaya. It lies in understanding. So, we use our mind rather than starving our self. People have their own means and methods but not all of them turn Sufi out of those means and methods. And as Quran said,

‘These people have taken to the harder way of understanding reality and the truth and some of them got through, some of them fall apart.’