Animosity and aggression are against
the spirit of Quran which is as follows:
"Oh, people of the book! Do
not transgress the bounds of your religion. Speak
nothing but the truth about Allah Tala (God)."(Quran:
4-171)
"There shall be no compulsion
in religion, for the right way is clearly distinguishable
from the wrong way." (Quran)
"Invite people to the way
of Thy Lord in a suitable manner and with tender
exhortation, and discuss things with them in an
agreeable style. Thy Lord Knoweth best who hath
strayed from His path and knoweth best who is
guide a right…(Quran)".
Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A) has said:
"Love of the Beloved takes
us to Kaba and to the temple of idols."
"Lovers of the Friend (God) do
not consider what infidelity and faith is!"
Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A) states that
the Hindus also believe in Oneness of God and he says:
"They confess the Oneness,
the Existence and the Eternity of God. His power
to create, all, after death and one existence.
Love is not like a cup of wine, given to the indiscreet.
Tears are not like rubies gifted to worthless
one."
The Sufis believe that God reveals
His secrets to His lovers. His Holiness, Mehboob-e-Elahi
says: "God gives insight to His lovers, so that
they understand the reality of the whole Universe".
Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A) holds
that, an intellectual even after thinking deeply and
diligently cannot comprehend the mysteries of spiritual
life, and his mental effort to, understanding them
gives him headache. "Wisdom at last becomes headache,
consequently the Gnostics choice is madness of love."
Love of God gradually makes man,–"God-intoxicated"
and he renounces his animal self and tendencies (vasanas).
The lover of God should first subjugate his own self
and renounce every thing except God.
Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A) further
says:
"Put one step on your soul,
the other one in His love.
No other way suits those who
follow the path of love."
Amir Khusro regrets on the hostile
attitude of people towards the lovers of God and says,
"One who laughs at the affairs of lovers should weep
at his own condition." If love is crime and if people
call me an infidel because of it let them do so. I
am not going to utter words in repentance as:
"Be a slave of love, O’Khusro
and put your head beneath the sword."
He addressed the lovers and exclaims
as under:
"Ye who have loving hearts
be ready first to sacrifice your life at the onset.
If at all ye wish to behold the countenance of
thy Beloved."
The colour of Sufism and the
flavour of His Holiness, Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia (R.A)
had intoxicated Hazrat Amir Khusro (R.A). It was Qutubuddin
Mubarak Shah called Khusro when he ascended the throne
in 716 A.H./1316 A.D. Amir Khusro said good bye to
merry making parties and withdrawn himself and said:
"My heart is now satisfied
with all sorts of pleasures and my mind has grown
averse to haughtiness. My ears do not now respond
to the call of Saqi to have a goblet of wine."
"Nor do I respond now to the
bows (salams) of long necked flasks. My intellect
has grown ripe in the fire of my old age. No longer
do I entertain any greed or avarice in my heart."
