Firstly, the spiritual thought and spiritualism is tapering off gradually.

Firstly, the spiritual thought and spiritualism is tapering off gradually. ‘The supremacy of mind over matter’ is a phrase people do use more often than not. But, ‘the supremacy of the spiritual over the material’ is not commonly appreciated. Materialism and materialistic thinking with empirical education is predominating religious education and even the highly educated and learned people examine and scrutinize Islam against materialistic criteria.

Instead of tailoring their worldly affairs according to the Islamic concept of life, they attempt to fit Islamic teachings into the frame of their material interests. Such a worldly wisdom suspends the belief that the spiritual values of life are the greatest factor in the estimate of ‘reality’. It replaces generosity with selfishness and munificence with pride in possession.

The materialist becomes myopic to the fact that the material is ephemeral and relative and the spiritual is eternal and absolute. He fails to comprehend how through all the fire of persecution Ibrahim (D) remained unhurt, how the inanimate world gets under spiritual command and how stones turn into emeralds when touched by Dhun-Noon. The miracles of spiritual might (mo’ojizat) are beyond his dimensioned wisdom. Secondly, in our age, inactivity is coupled with corrupted creeds.

In religious circles, the pseudo monotheists deny the spiritual greatness and dignity of the Auliya and regard their teachings as ‘perverse innovations and atheistic pile of sayings’. These so-called religious intellectuals do not award any status to spiritual systems in Shariah. Nor do they regard it of any historical and religious significance. The damage they have done is beyond estimate.

People have lost the right path; they are deprived of the only chance, before death, of self-purification during their stay on earth. They are inert and inactive towards their life hereafter. Who will reconstruct them into pious souls that Allah so earnestly desires them to become? Only the Auliya Allah bring about the spiritual arrangement for such a rebuilt and reformation of our personalities.

Unfortunately, however, people are being pulled and dragged away from teachings of Allah’s , their divine affiliation and ‘spiritual channels’. The number of people is increasing who question the legitimacy of considering spiritual personalities and mystics as linking channel between Allah and His ‘devotees’. This controversy is confusing the mind of the common man.