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9. Those who trust God have Allah as their helper. God
will take them out of darkness and bring them to light. 10. In the realm of Allah, that which will go upward is the
Holy Sound. The good deeds take us upward.
The Essence of the Teachings of Islam
The Mystery of Aliph
It is said in the Koran, that ‘in the beginning all people followed one path. Today, however, people have strayed onto many paths and are consequently suffering in many ways. If we could just properly read the first letter of Arabic, aliph, then we could attain knowledge and peace. There was a great fakir (holy man) in Punjab by the name of Bulle Shah. He said that by studying aliph one can attain liberation. We study many books, and receive degrees, and even read aliph many times in a day, but we do not understand the kind of aliph fakir Bulle Shah is speaking about. What kind of aliph could bring liberation from the suffering of this world?
Hajarat Anwar Ali Rohataki, a scholar and devout Muslim, has written a book called Kanune Ishak. In it he says that the aliph which bestows liberation is not simply a letter of the alphabet of Urdu, Persian, or Arabic languages. Neither can it be written on
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