Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim,
Deedar is a beautiful word. When an aashiq is restless to see his maashuq, and when he gets his deedar, he finds peace. In the earlier times, when there were not even telephones, after engagement two fiancés would long to see each other. In exactly the same way, this is the condition of the soul today.
The zahiri deedar of the Haazir Imam has this kind of importance. It is like a reminder that a drop of our soul has become separated in this world from the spiritual ocean of the Imam. When the news of zahiri deedar comes, the heart and soul are at peace, they are filled with excitement, and at the time of deedar the eyes are filled with tears.
When the Haazir Imam comes to give deedar, He comes to give that same reminder. Why do the eyes cry? On one side, they are tears of happiness that we got a glimpse of the Beloved. And on the other side, the soul cries in restlessness, asking when I will get salvation and when I will get the opportunity to become one again in the soul of the Imam.
When we look at nature, we see that when drops of ocean water come to the shore with the waves, they also run restlessly to go back.
When drops of rain fall on the earth, they keep flowing through rivers and streams to merge into the ocean. Even the dirty water of the streams gets filtered and cleaned in the rivers and joins them. But the water which does not flow, which becomes still or stops for some reason, starts collecting dirt and mosquitoes.
Exactly in the same way are the conditions of the soul. The one who always remains restless to meet his maashuq keeps making efforts in ibaadat and ilm, but when our heart gets trapped in the web created by the world and remains stuck in it, then it becomes a victim of a strange kind of restlessness which is called anxiety and depression.
Restlessness can be positive as well as negative. Positive means the restlessness to attain something, such as receiving the noor of the Imam and becoming fana in it. And negative means remaining in tension among bad thoughts and sorrows.
So, through this zahiri deedar, let us immerse ourselves in the complete ishq of the Imam and keep the desire to become one in His noor.
Deedar Mubarak
Ya Ali Madad.
