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Ilm-e-Dawat (Knowledge of Invocation)

Divine teachings about the spiritual practice of seeking help from sacred shrines

Definition of Ilm-e-Dawat

Ilm-e-dawat is a religious and spiritual act in which verses of the Quran are recited in certain order on the shrine of some Sufi, Mystic, Saint or a Fakir through which the soul in the shrine comes and helps the reciter especially in spiritual matters.

Difference from Kashf-ul-Qaboor

There is a great difference between ilm-e-dawat (seeking help from shrines) and kashf-ul-qaboor (unveiling of states of graves). In the latter, states of the dwellers of graves are witnessed by reciting Quran on the graves of common Muslims.

Permission Requirement

Without the permission of the spiritual guide dawat should never be recited as it can be dangerous. The reciter of dawat should be spiritually sanctified and perfect. If an imperfect will recite dawat, he will only bear loss.

Purposes of Dawat

Dawat can be recited for: 1) Spiritual help, 2) The king of Muslims fighting against infidels, 3) For rafidhi and kharijite that may Allah make them righteous, 4) For hypocrite Islamic scholars, 5) For peace and prosperity, 6) For help of person who became insane during dawat, 7) For Islamic scholar needing religious help.

Role in Path of Faqr

Ilm-e-dawat has an important role on the path of Faqr. It is granted by the spiritual guide when the seeker attains Divine presence on contemplating Ism-e-Allah Zaat. However, the seeker should remember that his yearning must only be the Divine vision and presence in the Mohammadan Assembly.

Basic Rule

The basic rule of ilm-e-dawat is that the seeker receives the answers according to his level of closeness to Allah. The more he is close to Allah, the clearer and accurate will be his dawat and the more he is away from Allah, the more misleading will be his dawat.

Spiritual Guide's Approach

The spiritual guide never reveals anything about the hidden or the future (though he knows). Rather, he humbly says that he knows nothing. Sometimes he sends certain seeker to the shrine of a Saint to recite dawat. The message he receives from the shrine is already in the knowledge of spiritual guide but he chooses to reveal it through someone else.

Warning

The downfall of a seeker begins when he perceives the spiritual powers of dawat and inspiration as his own mystic ascent, assuming he has achieved perfection and starts concealing information from the spiritual guide. Remember! Allah has warned in the Quran, "There is no guide for the one whom Allah holds astray."

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