His Holiness Younus AlGohar’s Interview with the Sunday Leader

His Holiness Younus AlGohar was recently interviewed by the Nirmala Kannangara from the Sunday Leader in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The original recorded interview.

The following is a transcript of the recording interview.

To read the published interview, click here.

Q: What is your speciality? I came to know that you have divine power and I am not aware of it, could you kindly tell me of it, please?

A: Yes, we are a multi-faith spiritual organisation.

Q: What type of spirituality do you promote?

A: Spiritual knowledge is about enlightening the souls in our body, purifying and connecting hearts with God. This message and practical methodology is for all people of the world, no matter what religion they come from.

Q: Do you think you have some divine power?

A: Divine power, in a sense that we have been granted a special method with which hearts can be connected with God, that’s the divine power we talk about. It’s about bringing spiritual happiness in lives of people, and eliminating the factors of hatred from lives of people, changing their life spiritually. Especially in this scenario that all the contemporary religions we have today- people go to temples, mosques, churches, synagogues etc. but their connection with God is missing; this is why most religions are fighting.

We understand that there are two types of knowledge in every religion. Knowledge number one is religions such are Islam, Christianity, Hinduism etc. – they make you Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims etc. However, knowledge number two is for everybody, whether you’re a Christian, Hindu, Muslim, whether you belong to any religion at all. That’s the main thing and that is the core of every religion.

Our purpose is not to disturb or criticise any religion. We do not do that and we do not promote any specific religion, but what we teach is the core of every religion, divine love. This knowledge of spirituality has become extinct in the present era, as a result of which, people are Muslims, Hindus, but the element of love is missing from their lives.

When you have a religion and you do not or cannot love God, then adopting that religion becomes null and void, because love is the core of life. And we can see, as there are so many sects in Islam, people are fighting and killing each other. When you lose God’s love from your heart, when your heart is occupied by the negative elements, when your mind is controlled by negativity, then even if you follow the best religion, you become corrupt.

I am not saying that there is anything wrong with Islam - what I am saying is, today people who practise Islam are not practising it with the aspect of love. Because we understand that Prophet Mohammad taught love, he did not teach anybody to kill another person in the name of God; but this is what we see today, and we understand this is because their hearts are void of God’s love. It’s not just Muslims that have the element of terrorism or extremism and fanaticism in them; it’s the Hindus as well. Gandhi was killed - that is another example of fanaticism and extremism. But why does it come into religions? It comes into religions when knowledge number two diminishes; when we only know about the rituals, when we lose the knowledge that softens the heart and implants the seed of love. We’re not converting anybody into any new religion, we are teaching them to learn to love God being a Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist etc. That is our message.

Q: So, how are you going to do this?

Lord RaRiaz explains that any name which is used by people to call upon God, all names are worthy of great respect; either you call him Rab, Raam, Allah, God, Aloha or Elohim, whatever name you use to call upon God is worthy of respect.

In the knowledge of spirituality, we have a method: similar to an incident whereby we rub two stones and a spark is created, or when two clouds mingle into each other and we see lightening, in a similar way, when God’s name is