"A Book of Our Love" By The Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) - Question 01 - "What is the secret in the fear of God" Question & Answer Cycle 01 "Initial Answer 01" By: Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket) (Click HERE to read "Initial Answer 01") "Response 01" By: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Page 3 of 5 ============================================================== Main Go To: Status Go To: Introduction - to "Question & Answer Cycle 01", for Question 01 Go To: Question 01 - its source and context ..................................(in process) Go To: Intitial Answer 01 - by Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, to Question 01 Go To: Response 01 - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, to "Initial Answer 01" "Brief Outline" ------------- (for Page 3 Only) "Longer Outline" ------------- (for Page 3 Only) Text of "Response 01" --------- (for Page 3 Only) Go To: Reference Material - used in this "Answer & Response" ....(in process) Go To: Home Page - On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library ============================================================== ============================================================== Introduction - to Question & Answer Cycle 01 - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - ============================================================= Outline of "Response 01" -------------- (for Page 3 Only) "Brief Outline" - of "Response 01" Introduction - to "Question & Answer Cycle 01", for Question 01 A. Question & Answer Cycle 01 - continued The Answer - continued 12. The Secret of Creation 12-a. Initial Answer 1-12 - You say, ""Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan" 12-b. Response 1-12 - In truth, "Allah has given everything to man, but not as something that you have as your property, that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, for to receive what is hidden within it, that is, the apple tree and its fruits, it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it" 13. Our Current State - is as the Flower of hell within us, as the fragrance of the 7 hells within us, rather than as the Flower of heaven within us, as the fragrance of the 7 heavens within us, all of which is Ok, if we get the point, and "Change Ships" 14. The Nature of God's Work 14-a. Initial Answer 1-14 - You say, "......" 14-b. Response 1-14 - In truth ".....' 15. How It All Works 15-a. Initial Answer 1-15 - You say, "......" 15-b. Response 1-15 - In truth "....." 16. The Presence of God 16-a. Initial Answer 1-16 - You say, "....." 16-b. Response 1-16 - In truth "....." 17. The Secret In The Fear of God 17-a. Initial Answer 1-17 - You say, "....." 17-b. Response 1-17 - In truth "....." 18. The Dhat, The Sirr, And The Sifat 18-a. Initial Answer 1-18 - You say, "......" 18-b. Response 1-18 - In truth "......"' 19. The Creation And Nature of our Mind 19-a. Initial Answer 1-19 - You say, "....." 19-b. Response 1-19 - In truth "....." ============================================================== "Longer Outline" - of "Response 01" Introduction - to "Question and Answer Cycle 01", for Question 01 A. Question & Answer Cycle 01 - continued The Answer - continued 12. The Secret of Creation 12-a. Initial Answer 1-12 - You say, "Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan" 12-b. Response 1-12 - In truth, "Allah has given everything to man, but not as something that you have as your property that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, for to receive what is hidden within it, that is, the apple tree and its fruits, it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it" 13. Our Current State - is as the Flower of hell within us, as the fragrance of the 7 hells within us, rather than as the Flower of heaven within us, as the fragrance of the 7 heavens within us, all of which is Ok, if we get the point, and "Change Ships", ", as they pass in the night of our life, one as the "Ship of Mind and Desire", which is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, which is only leading us to hell, that is only taking us as "separate lives" off to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us, and the other, as the "Ship of the Qutb", which is the life of the One we call "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, and now on the "outside" of us, the life of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), if we like, which is each of living in this age, that is, if the true intention for our life within us, for our soul life, is to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh in our current state, and an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us becomes our lot, becoming again "One with" God within us, but this time with an understanding of "Our Oneness", so it will never leave us again. Amen. - go to Next Page of "Longer Outline" 14. The Nature of God's Work 14-a. Initial Answer 1-14 - You say, "Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan" 14-b. Response 1-14 - In truth "Allah has given everything to man, but not as something that you have as your property that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, for to receive what is hidden within it, that is, the apple tree and its fruits, it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it" 15. How It All Works 15-a. Initial Answer 1-15 - You say, "....." 15-b. Response 1-15 - In truth "....." 16. The Presence of God 16-a. Initial Answer 1-16 - You say, "....." 16-b. Response 1-16 - In truth "......" 17. The Secret In The Fear of God 17-a. Initial Answer 1-17 - You say, "....." 17-b. Response 1-17 - In truth "......" 18. The Dhat, The Sirr, And The Sifat 18-a. Initial Answer 1-18 - You say, "....." 18-b. Response 1-18 - In truth "......" 19. The Creation And Nature of our Mind 19-a. Initial Answer 1-19 - You say, "....." 19-b. Response 1-19 - In truth "......" ============================================================== Text of "Response 01" A. Question & Answer Cycle 01 - continued The Answer - continued - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 12. The Secret of Creation - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 12-a. Initial Answer 1-12 - You say, "Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan" "Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan." "Therefore, whatever you seek to understand, the understanding must come from within the Wisdom of Insan, which is the Wisdom of Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.), who is the Living Presence of Allah within the Life of Insan. He is al-Haiyy al-haiyy and even when He appears distant from your heart, in Reality He is not. Your life is the fruit of His Life as His Life is the sweetness of your life. Therefore, My Sons, it is our prayer that He be recognized and trusted as the very Life of life, not only yours, but also your brothers and sisters, both those you know and recognize and those you do not know and recognize." "May Allah be your trustee, My Sons, just as your Father's Love and Present Wisdom within your life is the promise and seal of Allah's Reality and Truth, not only for your lives, but for the lives of all who love Him and love His Beautiful Qualities." "May we accept Him as our Trustee and as the Proprietor of the wealth of Wisdom and Truth which He has entrusted to us." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 12-b. Response 1-12 - In truth "Allah has given everything to man, but not as something that you have as your property that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, for to receive what is hidden within it, that is, the apple tree and its fruits, it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it" Bawa. It is true my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, that Allah has given everything to man, but not as you are currently thinking about it, as something that you have as your property that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, who like you has also been given everything, been given everything by the tree and the fruit of that tree, which in truth is themselves, that is, the apple tree and the apple fruit has given the apple seed the apple tree and the apple fruits of that tree, if it likes, for to receive them it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it, which you have yet to do. Bawa. That is, though it truly has these things, as you most certainly do, in order to receive these things, the apple seed buried within the earth must first correctly realize its current state, which you have yet to do, as "We" explained to you right before we life the physical world, in a beautiful discourse that "We" gave to you, during the month of "Ramadan" in 1986, a few months before we left, where we ask the question "Why does an apple seed germinate?", and we told you at that time, - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" Why Does An Apple Seed Germinate? Question & Answer By His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) And now on the "outside" of us, By His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) "An apple seed germinates because it becomes aware that it is an apple seed, that it is buried within the earth, and that the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree hidden within the apple seed to grow. Then the earth becomes aware that the apple seed is now aware that it is an apple seed, that it is buried within the earth, and the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree hidden within it to grow." "Then out of this "mutual awareness", the earth surrenders to the apple seed, and the apple seed surrenders to the earth, and the apple seed germinates." "This is why an apple seed germinates, through awareness, through the awareness of the apple seed and the earth that it is buried within.' "And so it is with each of you, for you will only germinate to the truth that we have placed within you, when you realize, accept, understand the truth of you, and the truth of God within you, when you allow the "Truth to surrender to the "Truth" within you." "That is, when you like the apple seed that germinates, too truly become aware of "who you are", of "where you are", and of "what is truly happening" in your life, that in truth you are the "Seed of God" buried within the earth or Creation of God within you, and as such what is truly happening in your life is that "God is happening" within the Creation of God within you, and in truth God within you is the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within You, and as such God is "True Man happening" within "God happening" within the Creation of God within you. Amen" End of Question & Answer By His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) "Why does an apple seed germinate?" ---------------------------------------------------- Bawa. And this is the truth of you, and of God within you, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, please join with your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, that "We" have given to you, and to all of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (mau God be pleased with each of Us), to realize and germinate to this truth, as He has, before it is too late to do so, and you become like the apple seeds that fail to germinate, for like all people, not all apple seeds germinate to the truth within them. Bawa. But rather some apple seeds rot in the earth, and eventually die in the earth, becoming subject to 105 million rebirths, but never again as an apple seed, never again as the Story of the apple tree and its fruits, a Story of the "Oneness of the apple tree and its fruits", that it came to the earth, as each of you have, to join as "One with" the earth, as each of you have, to tell, as each of you have, if it likes, for like each of you, whether or not you do in fact germinate to the truth within you, before you rot in your mind and desire, and eventually die to the flesh in your current state, and become subject to 105 million rebirths or not, is most certainly your Choice, not God's Please reflect on this a little bit. Amen. Bawa. And in this way, the next thing that the apple seed must come to realize before it can germinate is the current state of what it is buried within, which is the earth, which in your case is the Creation of God within you. Bawa. All of which in truth is ready to stand in the "Presence of God" within you, if you will only let it, if you will only get "out of the way", if you will only join in partnership with God within you, to let your "own presence" come to an end within you, both within you and on the "outside" of you, so God can pass judgment upon them, upon all of the Creation of God within you, allowing them to again become "One with" God within you, transforming them into the state of Completion within you, allowing them to move from being the vessel of the "Flower of hell" within you, the vessel of the fragrance of the 7 hells within you, both within you and on the "outside" of us, which is their current fate because of your current state, to being the vessel of the "Flower of heaven" within you, the vessel of the fragrance of the 7 heaven within you, which in truth is the "Flower of the heart" within you. Bawa. All of which naturally happens within you when the 5 ruhanies or elemental spirits within you again become the 5 Angels (peace be upon Them) within you, through the "Proper Remembrance" of God, or Kalimah within you , that is, by getting God within you to say it in the presence of the Creation of God within you, and then what emerges out of the 5 Angels (peace be upon Them) within you, that is, out of these 5 levels of consciousness within you, is the 6th level of wisdom within you, the wisdom of the Qutbiyyat within you, which is the "grace of the dhat", the grace of the "Essence of God" within us, which in truth is Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us. Bawa. In this way, and only in this way, with the 5 Angels or Adam (peace be upon Them) within you becoming the "Palace of the soul" within you, the "House of wisdom" within you, the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within you, which in truth is the "Ship of the Qutb" within you, the "11 Weapons of the Qutb" within you, which can then be used to close down the two openings below, and re-open the 7 above, as the 7 levels of consciousness or wisdom, with the 7 above ruled over by the 3 above, Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen, with the 3 joined with the 7 as the 10, which on the "outside" of us is the 10 Commandments of Moses (peace be upon Him), and with us are the 10 Mystical Experiences of the Qutb within us.. Amen. Bawa. All of which on the "outside" of you is currently being experience by you as a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, with you living as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God within you, all of which is "Just Not True". Bawa. And in this way, before the earth can even start to do any of this, as described above, it must realize the truth that is hidden within it, a truth that will naturally emerge from within it, when it is ready to both hear it, and ready to either accept or reject it, as you are now hearing the truth about you, and about what is hidden within you, at this time My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, because now you are most certainly ready, to both hear and either accept or reject this truth, as are all of My Children. Bawa. And the only question left is will you, will you accept your true heritage within you, your true birthright within you, the true destiny of your soul within you, as being more exalted then your being the "Son of the Pen" on the "outside" of you, will you do this, or not, for the Choice is yours, not God's, that is, the Choice, like the apple seed that germinates, to accept the truth within you, and the truth of God within you, letting the "Truth surrender to the Truth" within you, and in this way, join in partnership with God within you, to place the "Presence of God" within you before the Creation of God within you, allowing it to do the same, that is, to let the "Truth surrender to the Truth" within it, or not. Bawa. And in the process of using your life in this way, to let God finish what God has started within you, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, and in this way, destroy the "Seed of God" within you buried within the "Earth of God" within you, blinding both eyes within you, which is your mind and desire within you, enshrining in your heart the "Lamp of Guru's Graceful Words" within you, which is the lamp of Allahu within you. Bawa. And in this way, and only in this way, with you falling into that light of Allahu within you, from which your have come, with a melting heart, seeing Aathi or the beginning within you, again, but this time as the end within you, with awwal within you having passing through the dunya within you to become akhirah or the hereafter within you, here and now within you, but this time with an understanding of "Our Oneness", so it will never leave "Us" again. Amen. Bawa. And in this way, "We" have taught you all about this in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Guru Mani" or "The Pearl of Wisdom (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead. com), as summarized for you in the "Invocation to the Guru" (www.ThePearlOfWisdom InvGuru.homestead.com), for Part II, on page 11, as follows: - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" "Invocation to the Guru" "To let Grace spring forth, To let darkness vanish, To let the love of Guru grow, To let qualities be purified, O Graceful Guru, give me a remedy. Show us a way to dispel the darkness in the world" "For the Silent One to appear as Grace, To find the world as a tiny thing, To destroy sorrow which is a maiden, With help from the Master Guru's graceful way, Seek and learn standing on the path, And ask with a melting heart." "Let the body become the true mystery, Let the seed be destroyed, Blinding both eyes, Enshrine in thy heart, The lamp of Guru's graceful words. With a heart of love, See Aathi as a thing." "Spread the Guru's words with delightful heart, Unfurl the flag of Guru's words everywhere, Then the fate that accompanies thee Shall turn into dust." "My true and perfect pupils, Gems of my eyes, Ask for the remedy In order to shine everywhere." -- End of "Invocation To The Guru" --- By His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) In the Beautiful Book of Wisdom, (wwwThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com) ------------------------------------------------------------ - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" Additional Response - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 13. Our Current State - is as the Flower of hell within us, as the fragrance of the 7 hells within us, rather than as the Flower of heaven within us, as the fragrance of the 7 heavens within us, all of which is Ok, if we get the point, and "Change Ships", as they pass in the night of our life, one as the "Ship of Mind and Desire", which is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, which is only leading us to hell, that is only taking us as "separate lives" off to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us, and the other, as the "Ship of the Qutb", which is the life of the One we call "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him. Bawa. And now on the "outside" of us, of the One we now call His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), which if we like, is taking us as "All One Life" off to an eternal heaven of "Oneness with" God within us, if we like, for the Choice is our Choice, not God's, the Choice after we die to the flesh, of an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, and in truth, there is no other Choice, because everything else we may call a Choice, in our arrogance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance, is just drama, the drama of "I and you", of "mine and yours", and is only leading us to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us. May we all know this now, as start to act accordingly, that is, as "One with" God within us, and as "One with" His Children on the "outside" of us. Amen. - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 14. The Nature of God's Work - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 14-a. Initial Answer 1-14 - You say, "......" "May we accept Him as the One who calls all lives to Him through His Mercy and His Compassion, so that even those lives which appear to live in separation from Him can come to know that this separation itself is granted as a blessing from the One who has no separation, but who grants to each life the fulfillment they seek in the form in which they seek it." "Even hell is a mercy to those who long for hell, and this is why in Truth there is no separation from the One who is Real and is the Source of all blessing. This is why we have said that to a worm in a dongheap, that dungheap is heaven. Please consider this, my son." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 14-b. Response 1-14 - In truth "......" Bawa. My dearest little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, what you say is not true, and is very misleading because it implies a duality between God and His Creation which does not exist. Let "Us" explain. Bawa. First, in truth "There is nothing on the "outside" of us, everything is within us." Second, in truth, "There is nothing other than God within us". Third, in truth, "God alone exists within us." And fourth, in truth, "God is One" within us. Bawa. What you have said implies that there is something "other than God" that exists, and this is not true, and gives the impression that a state other than the state of God is acceptable, at least for those creations that are "less than God", also which is not true. Bawa. In truth everything is "Of God", there is nothing that is not "Of God", for as "We" have said, "Even the howling of a dog is traceable to God", and everything is "All of God", since God is indivisible, that is, since you can't be a little bit of God, or a part of God, then to be "Of God" is to be "All of God", and that is the point of our example of the 99 within the 99, and within each of those is the 99, and within each of those is the 99, and each of the 99 is "Of God", is "All of God", as is every atom within you, and everything within each atom within you, it is all of God, and is "All of God". Ok? Bawa. And even though, as you say that "We" said, "that for a worm in a dungheap, that dungheap is heaven", that dungheap is only a heaven for that worm for that aspect of that worm that is a worm, not for those other aspects of a worm, that are not a worm, for example, for that aspect of the worm that is the Light, only the Light of God is heaven, and for that aspect of the worm that is a Power, only the Power of God is heaven, for everything in truth always has these three aspects, that is, the shadow or darkness or lack of understanding or form, the light or understanding or essence, and the Power. Bawa. This is the point that you are missing about the analogy of the worm in a dungheap, and that you are missing about your life in the world, for in truth what you are currently experiencing is the shadow of your life, the form of your living in the world, which is truly without any real understanding, but within you is that essence of you, which is the light form of you, which is understanding within you, and within that is the Power of God, and all three make up who you are, not just what you are currently experiencing in your ignorance, and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as "who you are", and as "where you are", and as "what is happening" in your life, all of which is "Just Not True". Bawa. And all of which can also be seen as the Three Worlds within you, that is, as the "world of souls" within you, the dunya or earth world within you, and akhirah or the next world or hereafter within you, or as Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen within you, which is the Triple Flame of God within you, and if you are from the Christian tradition as the Holy Trinity of God within you, as the Father, the Sun, and the Holy Spirit, for in truth within us it is all the same. Bawa. And this is why "We" have said, that "Everything in the world casts a shadow", in this earth world, because that is one of the three aspects of everything living in this earth world, that aspect of them that is their physical body, that allows them to live in this earth world, but they also always have the other two aspects, of Light and Power, and what separates man from the other Creations of God, is that God also gave man the 6th level of consciousness that allows man to join in partnership with God within us to reveal those other two aspects of man, and if He does this "Heart's Work" within him, in partnership with God, that he will allow all of the other Creations of God to do likewise, if they like, by permitting them to stand in the "Presence of God" within him, and face judgment before he dies to the flesh, giving each of the Creation of God the same Choice that man was given, to again become "One with" God within them, but this time with an understanding of "Their Oneness" so it will never leave them again, and in this way, if we like, Completing God's Intention for having Created them, and us, that in the end, that "No Child Be Left Behind". Bawa. Please join with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to reflect on this wonderful point of wisdom, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, and you will understand. This is "Our Promise" for your age. This is "Our Guarantee" for your age. Because "We have Made it So" for your age. Amen. - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 15. How It All Works - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-15 - You say, "......" "Our prayer for you, as for all of our children, is that as hearts turn in trust and gratitude to the One who provides whatever is asked for, they will discover that, as their trust and gratitude grow stronger, the torture and suffering of hell will slowly decrease and disappear until there is no longer even the appearance of separation from Him." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-15 - In truth "......" Bawa. My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, that is not how it works, you have it all wrong, and that is why you are stuck. You need a better answer to the question "Who am I?", and "Where am I?, and "What is happening" in my life? As well as to the equally important question, "Who is God", and "Where is God?, and "What is happening" to God within us. Bawa. All of which we will now give to you, if you like, but the main point in this exercise is not in receiving these answers, because we have already given these answers to you, and to all of your brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, over and over again, for the last 30 some years, the main point is your not accepting these answer, and starting to act accordingly. Bawa. So an even more important question, than the answers to these question, is "why are you not accepting them?". Why are you not accepting this truth about yourself, and this truth about God within you, that you keep hearing from "Us", over and over again, and that you are now going to hear again from "Us", this time through the heart of our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.). Bawa. Ok, here again is the answer to these question. 1) Who you are is the "Seed of God". 2) Where you are is buried within the Creation of God within you. 3) And what is truly happening in your life is everything within you, all of which is just waiting for you to germinate to this truth within you, and reveal the "Tree of God" within you, and bear the "Fruit of God" within you, and reveal the "Sweet taste of that fruit" within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, so God within you can then reveal True Man within God within you, so True Man can Complete God's Intention within you, that in the end, that "No Child Be Left Behind" within you, by revealing God to God within True Man within God within the Creation of God within you. Ok? Bawa. And "why don't we accept this truth", and start to act accordingly, because in truth, "We don't want it". Or said another way, "We don't want God", at least not as He really is, as "One with", and even worse, "We don't want Us", at least as we really are, also as "One with". What we want in truth is what all of the Creation of God within us currently wants, in their state of incompleteness within us, and that is to be allowed to continue, to be allowed to continue to exist, as they currently exist, whatever way that may be within us, and "our" going to God, our becoming again "One with" God would "wreck all of that", would destroy their current existence as "separate from" within us. Bawa. For in truth, "Only God wants God", and "Only wisdom wants wisdom", and only the "world wants the world", and each of us has all three, that is, God, wisdom, and the world, the real question of our life is which of these three aspects of us do we spend our day nourishing, God with God, wisdom with wisdom, or the world with the world, because that is what we will most certainly become for the next round, for the next Chapter in God's Story within us, that is most certainly moving forward within us, as the life within our life, as the consciousness within our consciousness, and as the power within our power. And the Choice is ours, not God's, as to which aspect of us we truly become "One with" in the end., God, our wisdom, or the world. Bawa. This is the "fly in the ointment" of us hearing and accepting the "truth of us" and the "truth of God" within us, that in truth "nobody currently living within us" wants it, and all that we "currently are" will immediate transform all of these beautiful truths into one or more of the following activities, as a way to neutralize them, and to truly ignore them, 1) Talking about them - rather than becoming them 2) Publishing books about them - including the life and teaching of the One who spoke them, rather than becoming them 3) Writing about them - sound familiar, rather than becoming them 4) Trying to get other people to do them - my favorite, rather than becoming them Bawa. For example, with us becoming "One with" the current forms of life hidden within us, as the 5 ruhanies, as a demon, a jinn, a fairy, or as a ghost, which are the 5 elemental forms of life hidden within us, which we will most certainly meet in the grave, if we are not wise, because they will must certainly transcend our physical death, if we do not transform them back into the state of the 5 Angels (peace be upon Them) within us, before we die to the flesh in "Their current state", and get an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us as our lot. Bawa. In this way, if we fail to become wise in our lifetime, and do die to the flesh in "Their current state", we will most certainly meet them in the grave, and eventually becoming "One with" them in the grave, in our ignorance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance, roaming the earth world within us as them, until Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment), where we will take on 105 million rebirths, ending as a worm in hell with only one level of consciousness, or feeling, ending up with an eternal life as "separate from" God, as part of "our judgment", all of which God has already given to each of us, and which we will most certainly experience, if we do not become wise. Bawa. With this said, then if what you described is not "how it works:, that is, "Our prayer for you, as for all of our children, is that as hearts turn in trust and gratitude to the One who provides whatever is asked for, they will discover that, as their trust and gratitude grow stronger, the torture and suffering of hell will slowly decrease and disappear until there is no longer even the appearance of separation from Him." Bawa. Then "how does it work?" Ok? Bawa. And to understand this answer we first need to clearly understand "What went wrong", that is, what really happened to us so we now living in our "current state", a state where in truth we are on an express train to hell, which in truth is an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, that is, if God doesn't personally intervene before we die to the flesh in our current state. Ok? Bawa. So what went wrong? And the answer is "Nothing". Everything is perfect. Ah, one of the great paradoxes of like, Yes? And that is the rub, "we cannot get there from here", and that is the first subtle understanding that we must reach if we are to become truly successful in our lifetime, but thank God, for our age God has placed within us the ability to achieve that subtle understanding, if we like, and that gets us to the first bit of subtlety that we must realize, understand, accept, and join with, and that is, it is our Choice, not God's. Bawa. And the heart of this first bit of subtle understanding is the following: "The Justice of God is that whatever we intend is what we will receive." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 16. The Presence of God - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-16 - You say, "......" "This (salvation) will happen for those who seek to dwell in His Presence in love for and unity with Him and His Qualities and His Wisdom. This is the Compassion of Allah, my sons, that there shall be an end to the suffering of all lives, that the suffering born of separation shall be an end to the suffering of all lives, and the suffering born of separation shall be eased and comfort shall be given and received." "This is also the compassion of Insan and the children of Insan, that they shall be the vessels of Divine Compassion, the remembrance of His Compassion, comforting all lives as their Own." "This, my sons, is your Compassion as well, when what is yours is given in trust to Him and when He then entrusts what is His into your trust. This is the station of the son within the Father and the Father within the son; it is the station of the one who trusts in Allah, the Mutawwakil within Ya Wakil, the Trustee, and the station of Ya Wakil within the one who trusts in Him alone; it is the station of the one who loves Allah within His Beloved and of the Beloved within His lover. It is the station of the One within One, the station of Tawhid, of seeking Allah's Unity, His Wahid, wherever he looks. It is the station of Omnipresence of Truth, of Love, of Unity, of Light, of Wisdom. It is the station of La ilaha illa'llah, "Nothing other than God, only God." "My Children, please I am beseeching you to understand this and to live according to this understanding, this Love, this Truth and this Unity." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-16 - In truth "....." Bawa. My love you, my dearest loving little brother, Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, you are a very good Child of God for your age, and all you need is a little bit of adjusting to your thinking, and everything will be right, but without this minor adjustment you will must certainly end in hell, in an eternal life as "separate from" God within you, for none of what you have just shared is correct, not because of the words you wrote but because of the failure to make this minor, yet critical adjustment, which "We" will now explain to you, and to all of your dearest loving brothers and sisters who also need this minor, but critical adjustment. Bawa. First let us talk about the "Presence of God" which you keep referring to in the above sharing, that is not the "Presence of God", that is the "Presence of wisdom" within you, the "Presence of your Guru, of your Shaikh" within you, the "Presence of the Qutbiyyat of God" within you, the "Presence of the 6th level of wisdom" within you, which is the wisdom surrounding your soul. The "Presence of God" is an entirely different thing. Bawa. This is sort of like with salat, which is the traditional 5 times prayer practiced in Islam, which in truth is not really prayer, for it was established by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) in order to establish unity among His Companions and among the followers of His life and teaching. True Prayer is an entirely different section. Bawa. So too with "Presence", for the "Presence of your Guru or Shaikh" within you and the "Presence of God" within you, are two very different things, as an apple and the sweet taste of an apple are two very different things, with one being within the other, with one only occurring within the coming to maturity of the other. Bawa. For example, with the "sweet taste of the apple only occurring if the apple seed buried within the earth comes to realize, understand, accept, and joins with the truth within it, the truth of the apple seed and the truth of what God has hidden within it, and then accepts this truth, allowed the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it, and in this way, the apple seed surrenders to the earth, and germinates, revealing the apple tree hidden within it, and only if this apple tree comes to maturity and bears fruit, and if these fruits blossom and are properly fertilized by the "honey bee" from the mountain top. Bawa. And with the apple seed in the process being destroyed, along with its life of ignorance, and of arrogance about its ignorance, buried within the earth, that is, the life of "separation and differences", that it was living within the earth, before it awakened to the reality of both itself and of what has been hidden within us, embraced that reality with "no reservation" and joined with the earth to germinate, destroying itself and revealing the tree, , before it that is, living as if it is "separate from" the earth, and "separate from" in the apple tree hidden within it. Bawa. In this way, the "Presence of your Guru or Shaikh" within you, has been established by God for each age to help us bridge the gap between the "world of souls" within us, and the "hereafter or the next world or akhirah" within us, which for your age is the life and teaching of your dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and of God within Him, and now on the "outside" of you, is the life and teaching of His Children (may God be pleased with each of You), if you like, which in truth is each of you living in this age, if you like, that is, if the true intention for your life within you, for your soul life, it to again become "One with" God within you, before you die to the flesh in your current state, and get an eternal hell of "separation from" God as your reward, in this way, again becoming "One with" God within you, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", so it will never leave you again. Amen. Bawa. For the Choice to accept the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of you) as such, as the "Presence of the Guru or Shaikh" within you, within which is truly the "Presence of God" for all of the Creation of God within you, or not, as the Choice to accept your Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) as that, when "We" were with you in the world, is again your Choice, not God's. Bawa. This is the rub in your life, either then when "We" were with you in the world, for that purpose, to act as your "direct connection to God" within you, to act as the "Presence of God" for you, or now when the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of You) are with you in the world for that purpose, again to act as your "direct connection to God" within you. Both are the same, and both require your acceptance of it as such, in order for you to move forward in your life, for nothing of what you shared earlier is possible without the "Presence of God", but that "Presence of God" has not yet been established within you, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, as it has in Our dearest loving Son Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen. Bawa. So please realize this, without the slightest doubt, and start to act accordingly. That is, join in partnership with Our Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to do this "Heart's Work" within you, shifting your focus off of yourself on the "outside" of you and onto God within you, making this minor but critical adjustment within you, and treating Our Son as you treated "Us" when we were with you in the world, but this time please follow his lead to the letter on how to "Fall into the fire" before you die to the flesh in your current state, and get an eternal hell of "separation from" God as your lot. Ok? That would be very good, both you and for all of My Children. OK? Bawa. And if you like, get the other Children do like wise, if they like. Ok? - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 17. The Secret In The Fear of God - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-17 - You say, "....." "Now, you ask about the secret in the fear of God. Those who believe in what is other than God will say that He has fear of separation between Himself and His beloved, Insan, who is His own created mystery and that He has sent 124,000 prophets and awliya and aqtab (qutbs) in order to overcome this separation." "They think that God is One and man is one and that the relationship between them is as the relationship between a worldly king and one he rules. But it is not like this, my sons." "This fear of separation is not God's my son, and it is not man's either, though man experiences it as his for a time. Fear itself is born of separation and Allah is One without fear and without separation." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-17 - In truth "....." Bawa. My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, God is most certainly not without fear and God is not without separation, and we, and all of the Creation of God are the "fear" and "separation" of God, we, and the soul, and all of the Creation of God, and everything that has not fallen back into the Power that is God within us, which includes everything that is currently within God within us, including all of the 124,000 Heaven Beings, Prophets, and Lights of God, and the Triple Flame of God, is what has "separated from" God, is what has emerged out of the Effulgence or the Original Power that has emerged out of God, and is now trying to return, even if they don't know it, and even if they don't currently like or want it. Bawa. Because this is what is truly happening in everything, in everyone, everything else that we may say or might think is happening is just drama, the drama of "I and you", of "mine and yours", which is only leading us to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us, if we are not wise. Bawa. And in this way, since "there is nothing other than God", everything that is still separate from God is God's separation, and God's fear. - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 18. The Dhat, The Sirr, And The Sifat - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-18 - You Say, "...." "He (God) has created Insan as His Mystery and established Himself as the Mystery of Insan. Allah Himself is the Sirr of Insan, and Insan is the Sirr of Allah. This Sirr experiences Itself as One, and as One it is without fear. It is this Sirr within Insan that is the Treasure of the Life of Man." "But this is a mysterious Treasure because it is hidden from Itself within the Life of Man, seeking to know Itself. It is the One who does not yet know Himself, who say, "I am a Hidden Treasure and love to be known." It is man in the state of God "before" He knows Himself, before the Nur arises from within and separates off from the darkness to reveal God to Himself; before the Qutbiyyat arises from within the Nur and separates out and provides the Explanation of the Divine Separation and the Divine Unity, the explanation that the Grace of this Divine Separation is the Grace of Return to Divine Unity." "Therefore, what man in his ignorance experiences as fear, is in reality, Allah's longing to return to the station, first of "Love to be Known", and from thence, to "Known" and from thence to "Knowing/Known". This Longing for return is the Love of Allah for His own Reality." "This, my sons, my daughters and all my children, is the Truth from the station of Unity within separation and separation within Unity, the station of Tawakkal-Allah. From the station of separation which yet knows not its Original Unity, this fear is that the appearance of separation has greater reality then Unity, that the One who Lives is condemned to perpetual separation from the One who is Beloved. In this station of separation, all that appears as separation is experienced as punishment, as a penalty for being separate." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-18 - In truth "....." Bawa. My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, this is also not correct, for you are attempting to bring God down to the level of mind and desire, allowing you to imagine a closeness with God that is only a trick of the mind. God is beyond all of this way of thinking. Bawa. That is why we have taught you the following in order to put restraints on your mind and desire, and only attempt to "Plow the field" that is your heart, after the bull is firmly in the hands of the Guru, and not try to plow the world that you have constructed on the "outside" of you, and that now defines for you, "who you are", and "where you are", and "what is happening" in your life, all of which is "Just not true", all of which you are now trying to use to also define "Who God is", and "Where God is", and "What is happening to God", all of which is equally "Just not true". Something to think a little about, Yes? Bawa. Also, what you have written appears to the mind and desire to be beautiful, and exalt God and Insan or True Man in many way, but in truth it is just like a painting of an apple, which also to a worldly eye may appear as beautiful as a real apple, and perhaps even more beautiful, but there is no taste, that is, the painting of the apple may please you visual senses but when we grow hungry and really need an apple to help appease our hunger, then the painting of the apple is worthless, no matter how beautiful it may have appeared. Bawa. This is the difference between what you have written and what "We" said and was written down when "We" were living in the world, and that now our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen says and writes, while living at "Our Feet", one is dead while the other lives, lives with the grace, the wisdom, and the 'ilm of God, which can appease the hunger of our soul, of our wisdom, and of our heart. Please realize this without the slightest doubt, and start to act accordingly. Bawa. That is, start to join with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen on the "outside" of you to turn you into the "Fruit of God" within you, to turn you into the "Gift of God" for your age, into the "Word of God" for your age, for the Children of God for your age, to turn you into the "Word of God made flesh" for your age, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, and stop of this trying to write about them. Ok? Bawa. For example, this is why we have impressed on the heart of Our dear Son, and you dearest loving brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen truths, the following truth, that you should join with him to also make as "One with" you: 1) The understanding of today becomes the enemy of tomorrow. 2) The more you know about God the further away He becomes. 3) Never have the thought that there is something that you have to do. 4) Nothing will ever leave you until it is understood, for the purpose for it being there in the first place is understanding. 5) Understanding only occurs through contrast. 6) Man is God in the forgetting of himself. Bawa. In this way, instead of all of this "free lance" work that you are currently doing through your mind and desire, that places no restraint on your mind and desire, you should do the following, as we teach you to do in the "Forward" of the beautiful book of wisdom, "Guru Mani or The Pearl of Wisdom", "O My Children, be informed that this "Guru Mani" will reduce into matchwood the evils that follow you and evils that spread. It will erase the residue of committed sins. These graceful words of the Guru are ancient and glorious words. They will tear the entirety of you sins." "O My Children, as precious to Me as My Eyes, learn the six tastes of the "Guru Mani". Be clarified. Be aware. Feel. Conduct yourself with enlightenment." "Separate each section, individually. Contemplate in solitude. Each section will reveal and illuminate the truth." Bawa. And from Chapter 21, "The Six Faces", also from "Guru Mani": "They are the six wisdoms which are beyond estimation, beyond imagination, and beyond pleasure. They distinguish the truth that surrounds God, discipline the body, melt the heart, and like the season of spring spout the six kinds of wisdom." Bawa. "They are known as Kandan, Kandampan, Murugan, Velan and Veliravan (the God of Vel) and by several other names as well", like the Prophets Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, and David (peace be upon Them), and Qutb Alexander (may God be pleased with Him) during the age before the last age, the age of the "Tree of Iman", of the Justice of Kings, of the 96 Potentialities within man, from 4000 to 2000 years ago. Bawa. And like the Prophets "John the Baptist", Jesus, and Barnabus (peace be upon Them), and the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him), and Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), and Guru Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) during the last age, as the age of the "Tree of Iman-Islam", of the Justice of Man, of Three within the One, that is, of the Holy Trinity and the Triple Flame, and of the 99 Potentialities within man, from 2000 years ago up to our present age. Bawa. And now in our age, as Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and His Children (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of Us), as the age of the "Tree of Islam", of the One within the Three, as the Justice of Conscience. Bawa. In this way, My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, what you are currently doing is letting the "bull plow and prepare the land", but the bull does not have the ability to properly prepare the soil, digging it up to a certain depth, creating rows of earth at a certain distance between them to hold and properly channel the rain water when it falls, and a thousands other understandings and abilities that only a "True and Experience Farmer" can properly execute in the field. Bawa. Instead the bull plow in a way that suites its fancy, plowing here and there, and to this depth and to that depth, making rows of earth here and there, with no rhyme or reason, as befits its mind and desire, resting now and then working very, very hard at another time, for such is the nature of our mind and desire, which cannot be used to do this delicate work of the heart. Ok? Bawa. That is, in the field known as your heart, in order to transform it into something of value, of value to all of the Creation of God within you, in this way, transforming the handful of earth gathered from the 4 corners of the world by the Angel Izra'il (peace be upon Him) into the wealth of the three worlds, into the Mubarakat of Allah. Amen. Bawa. Please join with our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to do this, to prepare the soil of your heart and grow and harvest the crop of your heart in the proper way. Please conduct your life in this way, and try and gather the rest of the brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship to also conduct their lives in this way, if they like. Bawa. For this is the true reason that we came into the world at this time, to transform your hearts into the "Palace of the soul", into the "House of wisdom", into the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within you, which is the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 5 Angels (peace be upon Them) within you, which is the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 5 levels of wisdom within you, which is the 6th level of wisdom within you, which is the Fragrance of the 7 heavens within you, for your age, not to just Publish books, and properly practice and celebrate all of the Islamic traditions on the "outside" of you, and raise our children and grandchildren, that is, not for you to just stay as the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 5 ruhanies or elemental spirits within you, which is the Fragrance of the 7 hells within you. Ok? Bawa. And for those of you who could not do this while "We" were still living in the world, for one reason or another, we at least started the process and then left behind those Children who had successfully completed this process, in partnership with "Us", and with God within Us, to help you take another shot at it, if you like, that is, if you can overcome "The Issues" that you have that prevented you from doing it when "We" were with you in the world, but it you can't, if instead you bring forward again the same "Issues" and let them stand between you and "These Children", as you let it earlier stand between you and "Us", then "what is God to do", but in the end, give you exactly what you want, but give you in the end what is hidden behind "These Issues". Bawa. And what in truth is hidden behind all of "Your Issues", my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, is all of the lives of darkness and evil that you have allowed to grown within you, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, and which now define you on the "outside" of you, that you now literally live through within you, all of which in truth is within you, not on the "outside" of us, and all of which is only leading you to an eternal hell of "separation from" God, if you are not wise. Ok? Bawa. In this way, in order to truly move your life forward on the Straight Path of God within you, which is the Path of God completing what God has started within you, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, you must join with your Shaikh as the "Farmer of Your Heart". Bawa. With you as the earth of your heart, not as the "Farmer of Your Heart", that is, with you as the handful of earth within you which has allowed a wild jungle to grow upon it, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, a jungle that is now filled with wild animals within you, all of which have absolutely no value, either to you or to anyone else, and instead correctly invite the "Farmer of God" within you, the "Guru of God" within you, to destroy all of this, that is, to plow you under with the enlightening words of the Qutbiyyat, and to plant the seed of Allahu within you, watering it with "La illaha Ill Allahu, Muhammadar Rasul Allah", allowing Him to grow and harvest the crop of God's Rahmat within you, with your good qualities, wisdom, prayers and devotion. Bawa. Allowing the tree if Iman-Islam to grow within you, with the tab root of La illaha Ill Allahu, with the trunk of Iman, and with the Tree of Muhammadar Rasul Allah, with the branches of the 124,000 Heavenly Beings, Prophets, and Lights of God, and with the fruit of the 6,666 verses of the Holy Qur'an. Bawa. And if you do, then when He is finished with His work, then you will have become the "Crop of God" for your age, the crop of Divinely awaken wisdom, of the Treasures of God, of the Qualities of God, and of the Full Blessing of God, you will become the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 7 heavens within you, no longer existing as the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 7 hells within you, as is your current state. Ok?. Bawa. This is "Our Promise" for your age. This is "Our Guarantee" for your age. Then you will have become the Resplendence, the Radiance, the Resonance, and the Grace of God, that emerges out of the Effulgence of Allah, when God starts to again tell "His Story" within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, that have been left over after the last telling of His Story within us, which was the last age within us, which was shown by God within you as an Example on the "outside" of you, as the last 2000 years on the "outside" of you, as the age starting with "John the Baptist", the Disciple Barnabus, and the Jesus (peace be upon Them), and ending with Guru Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Bawa. And now in your age, beginning again both within us and on the "outside" of us, beginning within us as awakening the wisdom surrounding our soul with the "Gift of God" for our age, with the "Word of God" for our age, for the Children of God for our age, through the "Word of God made flesh" for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), allowing our wisdom, if we like, to do battle with the "Enemy of our soul", which in truth is "us" living a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside", living as if we are "separate from" God within us, all of which is "Just not true." Bawa. And with the "outside" of as the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), which in truth is all of living in this age living together as "One with" all of the Creation of God, as the 6th level of wisdom, as the light of the Qutbiyyat of God, as the "Gift of God" for our age, as the "Word of God" for our age, for the Children of God for our age, on the "outside" of us, if we like, for the Choice to use our life in this way or not, as the vehicle of Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) for all of the Creation of God within us. Bawa. That is, before we die to the flesh in our current state, and we go to the "suffering of the grave" and Qiyamah within us, and as part of our judgment after death, with us taking on 105 million rebirths within us, with us ending as a worm in hell with only one level of wisdom or consciousness, or feeling within us, with us as part of our judgment taking on an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, if we like, for the Choice to end up this way, as being judged by the Angels of God (peace be upon Them), with the Creation of God testifying against us, or to end us as the vehicle for God judging all of the Creation of God within us, is our Choice, not God's. Bawa. And in this way, My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, this is the true purpose of our age, to let God use your life to Complete His Story within us, revealing True Man within God within the Creation of God within us, allowing True Man to reveal God within Him, within God within the Creation of God within us, in this way, Completing God's Intention within us, the intention that in the end, that "No Child Be Left Behind", that is, so in the end there is nothing within you that is still "separate from" God within you. Ok? Bawa. All of which we have already taught you, in a beautiful Discourse on June 6, 1986, a few months before "We" left the physical world, telling you over and over again at that time, "Not To Forget Us", a Discourse in which we told you, "Allah is sufficient. May He protect you. May He protect His House, His Fellowship. The House called the Fellowship belongs to Him. You are His servants in His House." "Carefully sow the seeds of wisdom within you to receive His grace. Make His Rahmat (which is the Mubarakat of God, the wealth of the 3 world within us, of the world of souls, of this earth world, and of the hereafter) grow (within you), and tend it carefully with your good qualities, your wisdom, prayers and devotion. When the crop ripens, your will harvest His grace. His divinely-awakened wisdom, His treasures, His qualities, and His full blessing." "If you forsake this duty, and lose your wisdom, you will lose this precious harvest, (but if you accept this duty, and join with your wisdom, you will become this precious harvest)." [Note: This quotation is also reproduced in the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Calendar, for September, 1991] Bawa. In this way, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, the part in brackets in the last paragraph was not in the original discourse that we gave to you, but was add in our relationship with our dear Sun, and with your dearest loving brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen. This is an example, of how it works. Bawa. First you must realize, understand, and accept the "Word of God" for your age, through the "Word of God made flesh" for your age, and then you must join with the "Word of God made flesh" for your age to move His words from your mind and desire and write it on the tablet of your heart. And then, and only then, "We" will come read the tablet of your heart, and explain it further, as we did with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen in this example above. Bawa. Please realize this truth of your life, of "Us" within you, and of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen on the "outside" of you, and use all three to truly become our Sun, to truly become the Light of God to the world for the benefit of all of the Creation of God, and to do this before it is too late for you to do this "Heart's work" within you, and an eternal hell of "separation from" God becomes you lot for eternity. Ok? - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 19. The Creation And Nature of our Mind - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-19 - You say, "....." New Question: "Bawangal, is this connected to what you have said in "Guru Mani", that "When Allahuta'ala created the Arsh, the Arsh became arrogant, so God taught it a lesson through a snake with 70,000 wings .....". Answer To "New Question": "It is like this, My Son: the Arsh when it was created because the mind which believed it was separated from God and that it had been created as the Highest. It forgot that It was created as the Seat of the Highest because it thought itself separate from what was above it and what was below it." "But it was the thought itself, the belief itself which caused separation: It was the thought, "I am here, so God is not." This thought became its own punishment, the punishment of the feeling of separation and of the awareness of separation born from that feeling and of the illusory intelligence born from that feeling and that awareness, which then attempted to make itself the seat of judgment, and use its wisdom to prove to itself that it existed as the Highest." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-19 - In truth "....." Bawa. My love you (anbu) my dearest loving little brother, what you say is not true, it is not like this, the Creation of God cannot act this way, for this way of acting is reserved for man, for other than man all of the Creation of God only have 33 potentialities, only man has the 36 potentialities, only man has the drama of life created when the one becomes the 4, when the water, fire, and air emerge out of the earth creating the pond, which is the true nature of Manu-eesan, or Man-the-High, allowing man to join in partnership with God within him to transcend the 36 and become the 96 potentialities, and if he likes, to become the 3, the Triple Flame, and reveal the 99, and if he likes, establishing True Prayer within himself, the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is" within him, and in this way, revealing the 1 within the 99. Bawa. But until he does, causing man to become Manu-neesan, or "Man-the-low", creating within him what you, and all of My Children are now experiencing, as the three sections of darkness within you, that are leading you to hell within you, that is, the world of hell, the world of jinns, and the world of fairies within you, all of which we must correctly convince God within us, that is, as "One with" God within us, to close down within us, or at least to truly start to close down within us, before we die to the flesh in our current state, and re-open the world of soul within us, and then open the kingdom of God within us, if our life is to become truly successful in our life time. Bawa. All of which we explained to you throughout the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", which you must join in partnership with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to study, and to become, my dearest loving little brother, to become, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and Chapter by Chapter, joining with your wisdom within you, and with God within your wisdom, to first write it onto your heart, onto the "Tablet of your heart", so none of what you have learn from "Us" on the "outside" of you will be lost within you when you die to the "outside" of you, allowing us to continue explaining what we started to teach you when we were physically with you in the world. Ok? Bawa. And then with you joining with your awakened wisdom and your liberated soul to find and become "One with" the light of your wisdom, with the Nur Muhammad within you, in order to establish this "Word of God" for your age, for the Children of God for your age, as "True Prayer" within you, as the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is" within you, in order to make it into a form within you, which is the form of the Nur Muhammad within you, which holds the Light of Allahu, as the true Asma'ul Husna within you, as the sifat of the dhat, as the form of the dhat or Essence of God within us, as the true 99 Beautiful Names or Powers of God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you. Amen. Bawa. For only then can what you have learn from "Us" on the "outside" of you truly transcend the grave within you, for if your don't do this before you die to the flesh in your current state, then everything that you have learned will become like "writing on water", and will disappear from you when you die. Please know this now, without the slightest doubt, and join with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen both within you, and on the "outside" of you to do this "Heart's Work" within you, before it is too late to do this kind of work within you, and an eternal hell of "separation from" God within you, becomes your lot. Ok? Bawa. Also we explained all of this to you in the beautiful letter that we sent to all of My Children while we were in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1978, where We made clear the distinction between Man and the Creation of God, which you are wrongly mixing together, and the "Oneness of God and True Man" which you have yet to realize and begin to appreciate, in this way, both separating man from God and joining man with what God has discarded. Bawa. For example, in this beautiful discourse (May 21, 1978) from your Father, and from God within your Father, we explain the following wisdom points, all of which you must join with your Shaikh to move into your heart, before you die to the flesh in your current state and get an eternal hell of "separation from" God within you, as your eternal reward, not because of God, but because of your ignorance, and because of your arrogance about your ignorance, which is like clouds blocking out the sun. Bawa. Please realize this truth about your current state, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, which is your ignorance and your arrogance about your ignorance, and make "stepping back" from all that you think you know and all that you think you can contribute, your priority, all of which you can only do by using your wisdom, that is, by awakening the wisdom surrounding your soul, and God within your wisdom, a task which you have yet to join in partnership with God within you to do. Bawa. Please accept this truth about yourself my dearest loving little brother, for the most important thing that a disciple must know is his current station, for if you think you are the "Tree of God" within you ready to bear fruit within you for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, for your age, but in truth you are still the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within you, which has not yet germinated, because you have not yet realized, understood, accepted, and joined with the "truth of yourself" and with the "truth of God" within you, in this way, letting the "Truth surrender to the Truth" within you, then nothing that you do in your current state of ignorance and of arrogance about your ignorance is appropriate for your state, or of any value to either you or to anybody else. Bawa. Please realize, understand, and accept, this truth about you, my dearest loving little brother, that your current state, as well as the current state of all of My Children, is just this, that is, like the apple seed buried within the earth that has yet to geminate to the truth within it, and join with our Son, and your brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to change your state. Ok? And please do not shoot the Messenger. Ok? Bawa. For example, please join with our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, to truly take the following six wisdom point into your heart, and learn from him how to join with your Shaikh within you, and with God within Him, to write them on the tablet of your heart, so "We" can explain them to you further, like we did with our dearest loving Son Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, if you like, for the Choice to do this or not, that is, the Choice to accept what we have just told you as the truth of your life, or not, and as the truth of your current station, or not, is most certainly your Choice, not God's Choice, and not Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen's Choice. 1) Your True Lineage - Is "Of God", Is "Of Wisdom", and Is "Of This World" within us, that is, we are "Of All Three" within us, we are of the lineage of "All Three Worlds" within us, of the "World within the World" within us, of "Wisdom within Wisdom" within us, and of "God within God" within us, not just of the lineage "Of This Illusory World" on the "outside" of us, as many of us still mistakenly believe in our ignorance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance 2) It Is God's Peace of Mind - That Overcomes Maya or Illusion within us, which in truth is the "Mighty Mind" which comes and rules over everything within us, if we like, not anything that "we" may do, or that "we" may fail to do on the "outside" of us, that is, in our current state of living a life of "separation and difference on the "outside" of us, as if we are "separate from" God within us, all of which is "Just not True" 3) The True Mature - of God, of Man, And of God's Creation Within Us, is that "God Created Everything, And Placed It All With Man, So Man Could Analyze and Separate It Into Good And Evil Within Him, Using His Wisdom, And In This Way Become Good, For the Benefit of all of God's Creation Within Man" 4) The Importance of God's Qualities In Your Life - for in truth it is only if God gives us His Qualities, through the intercession of our Shaikh in our life, on "Our Behalf", that is, once we have awakened Him within us, awakened our wisdom surrounding our soul, and God within our wisdom, that our life can become truly successful in our lifetime, not through anything that we may do, as "separate from" our Shaikh within us, and from God within Him 5) Your Work Is To Know His Work - not to try and do His work on the "outside" of us, while we are still living on the "outside" of us in our current state, that is, while we are still living on the "outside" of us as if we are "separate from" God within us, all of which is "Just not True". 6) You Must Use God to Get To God Within You - not keep trying to use what God has discarded within us, to get to God within us, including "us" and the world on the "outside" of us, all of which is "Just not True", all of which is what God has discarded from Himself to become God within us, all of which is what we have currently grown within us, in our ignorance and in our arrogance about our ignorance, like weeds growing within "God's Beautiful Flower Garden", and all of which now rules over us, as the 9 openings of our elemental body, with "God's Permission", until we "See God and Steady God" within us, if we like Bawa. For more on these wisdom points please join with our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, to read and assimilate correctly the "Introduction" to the letter that "We" sent to all of you on May 21, 1978, from Ceylon, as well as the Outline, Summaries, and Comments about this letter put together by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, at our direction. [Note: A copy of this discourse on May 21, 1978 by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), was published by the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Press on the back of the cover to the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Calendar, for 2001. To access an on-line copy of the same discourse as well as the material put together about it by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), all of which is now in the On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library (www.Bawa.homestead. com) as "Spiritual Discourse 04", with the title, "Understanding the Requirements for Prayer, Duty, and for Victory in Our Life", please click above or HERE (www.SpiritualDiscourse004.homestead.com). Thank you. Enjoy. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen] - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 20. How The Ignorance & Arrogance of Science Arises? a. Initial Answer 1-20 - You say, ""This is how the arrogance of science, of vignanam, arises. It seeks to prove the reality of separation and independence through its own ignorance of the One who created the Arsh, and the purpose for which it was created" "This is how the arrogance of science, of vignanam, arises. It seeks to prove the reality of separation and independence through its own ignorance of the One who created the Arsh, and the purpose for which it was created. In this state of separation, every thought of "I am great" becomes a snake that overshadows the original arrogance of the Arsh itself, and that thought grows so many other thoughts and ideas and illusory forms, each of which appears to have its own reality and its own thoughts about its reality and the reality and thoughts of others." "Because all these originated in the original One's creation and each believed itself to be the Highest, Allah accepted their behaviors and languages as forms of devotion and worship, within the Divine Embrace of His Unity, just as He accepts the 3 turns of the dog before he lies down to sleep, as the dog's remembrance of Him, and the early morning cries of the birds as the bird's praise and prayer to Him." "The extent to which this snake overshadows the Arsh and the extent of Allah's Mercy and Compassion chastened the Arsh, subdued its pride, and caused it to experience shame, which was the experience of its humility as it remembers Allah and opens itself into His Service." b. Response 1-20 - In truth, "There are three aspects of the dream that you and all of My Children are currently experiencing, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, which can be viewed as your desire for "earth, women, and gold", or from another perspective can be viewed as "estimation, imagination, and pleasure", or from even another perspective can be viewed as "your external reality, science, and religious scriptures", all of which are leading you to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within you, that is, if you are not wise" Bawa. My love you (anbu) my dearest loving little brother, but what you have written is not correct, for this is not how the ignorance and arrogance of what we call science arises, let "Us" explain a little. Ok? Bawa. There are three aspects of the dream that you and all of My Children are currently experiencing, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, which can be viewed as your desire for "earth, women, and gold", or from another perspective can be viewed as "estimation, imagination, and pleasure", or from even another perspective can be viewed as "your external reality, science, and religious scriptures", all of which are leading you to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within you, that is, if you are not wise, or said from an other perspective, if you don't wise up, before you meet the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him), who is always waiting to take you to hell, that is, to the suffering of the grave within you, and to Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within you, all in accordance with the "Justice of God" within you, that has been built into you by God within you. Bawa. That is, "Whatever you intend is what you will receive." Bawa. My dearest loving little brother, this is what you and all of My Children have falls into, these three aspects of man's destruction, until wisdom or the "Presence of God" is established within you, that is, before man, realizing the error of his ways, joins in partnership with God within him, in order to step back on the "outside" of himself, so God can step forward within him, and start to tell again the Story that God was telling within each of you, when you came here, to this earth world within you, that is, until, "Man appearing on this earth Forgets God, and falls into many a trap. He does not know to seek himself (within himself), although God exists within man" [Note: This Quotation is the opening sentence of the "Forward" to the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom". To access an on-line copy of this "Forward" please click above or HERE (www.ThePearlOfWisdomForward.homestead.com)] Bawa. That is, so God can start to again tell the Story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, that is, when man realizes, understands, and accepts the error of his ways, through the influence of the "Gift of God" for his age, which is the "Word of God" for his age, for the Children of God for his age, which is the "Life and Teaching of God" for his age. Bawa. Which for your age, My dearest loving little brother, is the life and teaching of your dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, and now on the "outside" of us, is the life and teaching of His Children, that is, of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of Us), if we like, for the Choice to accept this as the "Gift of God" for our age, or not, is our Choice, not God's, that is, the Choice to accept each of us as "God happening" within the Creation of God within us, and within that, as "True Man happening" within "God happening" within the Creation of God within us, or not, is our Choice, not God's. Bawa. All of which God shows to us as an Example on the "outside" of us, of what each of us can do within us, if we like, shows to us as the truth hidden within apple seed buried within the earth, which in truth, if it likes, is the "apple tree happening" within the earth, and within that, is the "apple fruit happening" within the "apple tree happening" within the earth, all of which is its Choice, for like all people, not all apple seeds germinate to the truth hidden within them, all of which is our Choice, not God's Choice, and not True Man's Choice within God's Choice. For truly what we make of what God has given to each of us, is now in our hands, in our age, not in God's hand in some previous age, as some of us still mistakenly believe, because God has "Made it So" for our age. Amen. Bawa. Now lets look a little deeper look at each of these three, these three aspects of our destruction, that is, if we are not wise. Ok? Bawa. First, what we call desire for earth is the need to take form, that is the need to make the illusory dream within us into an external reality, that is, to make the illusory dream within us that we see in our ignorance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance, into a reality existing on the "outside" of us, all of which is "Just not True". Bawa. And we do this through "estimation", that is, we look at, or hear, or smell, or taste, or touch something within the illusory dream within us, which includes the 400 trillion, 10 thousand spiritual energies within us, with "us" experiencing all of these spiritual energies in our ignorance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance, as the "outside" of us, but all of which is really within us, and all of which is not really complete within us, and then "we" fill in the blanks to make it seem "very real". Bawa. That is, "we" make it all complete on the "outside" of us, that is, we literally construct it within us, and then literally move it from within us to the "outside" of us, and in the process "we" give it a meaningful, and emotionally charged name, for example, like "mom", or "wife", or "my house", or "my religion", or "my country", or "your mom", or "your wife", or "your house", or "your religion", or "your country", and in this way, we transform all of the shadows of our mind and desire within us into the external reality of "our life", into the external reality of "our drama" on the "outside" of us, and this is why it seems "so real" to us, on the "outside" of us, because in truth, "we" have "made it so". Bawa. And the desire for women is the need to .. 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"A Book of Our Love" By The Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) - Question 01 - "What is the secret in the fear of God" Question & Answer Cycle 01 "Initial Answer 01" By: Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket) (Click HERE to read "Initial Answer 01") "Response 01" By: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Page 3 of 5 ============================================================== Main Go To: Status Go To: Introduction - to "Question & Answer Cycle 01", for Question 01 Go To: Question 01 - its source and context ..................................(in process) Go To: Intitial Answer 01 - by Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, to Question 01 Go To: Response 01 - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, to "Initial Answer 01" "Brief Outline" ------------- (for Page 3 Only) "Longer Outline" ------------- (for Page 3 Only) Text of "Response 01" --------- (for Page 3 Only) Go To: Reference Material - used in this "Answer & Response" ....(in process) Go To: Home Page - On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library ============================================================== ============================================================== Introduction - to Question & Answer Cycle 01 - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - ============================================================= Outline of "Response 01" -------------- (for Page 3 Only) "Brief Outline" - of "Response 01" Introduction - to "Question & Answer Cycle 01", for Question 01 A. Question & Answer Cycle 01 - continued The Answer - continued 12. The Secret of Creation 12-a. Initial Answer 1-12 - You say, ""Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan" 12-b. Response 1-12 - In truth, "Allah has given everything to man, but not as something that you have as your property, that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, for to receive what is hidden within it, that is, the apple tree and its fruits, it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it" 13. Our Current State - is as the Flower of hell within us, as the fragrance of the 7 hells within us, rather than as the Flower of heaven within us, as the fragrance of the 7 heavens within us, all of which is Ok, if we get the point, and "Change Ships" 14. The Nature of God's Work 14-a. Initial Answer 1-14 - You say, "......" 14-b. Response 1-14 - In truth ".....' 15. How It All Works 15-a. Initial Answer 1-15 - You say, "......" 15-b. Response 1-15 - In truth "....." 16. The Presence of God 16-a. Initial Answer 1-16 - You say, "....." 16-b. Response 1-16 - In truth "....." 17. The Secret In The Fear of God 17-a. Initial Answer 1-17 - You say, "....." 17-b. Response 1-17 - In truth "....." 18. The Dhat, The Sirr, And The Sifat 18-a. Initial Answer 1-18 - You say, "......" 18-b. Response 1-18 - In truth "......"' 19. The Creation And Nature of our Mind 19-a. Initial Answer 1-19 - You say, "....." 19-b. Response 1-19 - In truth "....." ============================================================== "Longer Outline" - of "Response 01" Introduction - to "Question and Answer Cycle 01", for Question 01 A. Question & Answer Cycle 01 - continued The Answer - continued 12. The Secret of Creation 12-a. Initial Answer 1-12 - You say, "Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan" 12-b. Response 1-12 - In truth, "Allah has given everything to man, but not as something that you have as your property that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, for to receive what is hidden within it, that is, the apple tree and its fruits, it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it" 13. Our Current State - is as the Flower of hell within us, as the fragrance of the 7 hells within us, rather than as the Flower of heaven within us, as the fragrance of the 7 heavens within us, all of which is Ok, if we get the point, and "Change Ships", ", as they pass in the night of our life, one as the "Ship of Mind and Desire", which is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, which is only leading us to hell, that is only taking us as "separate lives" off to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us, and the other, as the "Ship of the Qutb", which is the life of the One we call "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, and now on the "outside" of us, the life of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), if we like, which is each of living in this age, that is, if the true intention for our life within us, for our soul life, is to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh in our current state, and an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us becomes our lot, becoming again "One with" God within us, but this time with an understanding of "Our Oneness", so it will never leave us again. Amen. - go to Next Page of "Longer Outline" 14. The Nature of God's Work 14-a. Initial Answer 1-14 - You say, "Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan" 14-b. Response 1-14 - In truth "Allah has given everything to man, but not as something that you have as your property that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, for to receive what is hidden within it, that is, the apple tree and its fruits, it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it" 15. How It All Works 15-a. Initial Answer 1-15 - You say, "....." 15-b. Response 1-15 - In truth "....." 16. The Presence of God 16-a. Initial Answer 1-16 - You say, "....." 16-b. Response 1-16 - In truth "......" 17. The Secret In The Fear of God 17-a. Initial Answer 1-17 - You say, "....." 17-b. Response 1-17 - In truth "......" 18. The Dhat, The Sirr, And The Sifat 18-a. Initial Answer 1-18 - You say, "....." 18-b. Response 1-18 - In truth "......" 19. The Creation And Nature of our Mind 19-a. Initial Answer 1-19 - You say, "....." 19-b. Response 1-19 - In truth "......" ============================================================== Text of "Response 01" A. Question & Answer Cycle 01 - continued The Answer - continued - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 12. The Secret of Creation - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 12-a. Initial Answer 1-12 - You say, "Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan" "Now Allah has given everything into the heart of Insan, has He not? There is no secret of Creation that exists outside of the life of Insan and the Children of Insan." "Therefore, whatever you seek to understand, the understanding must come from within the Wisdom of Insan, which is the Wisdom of Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.), who is the Living Presence of Allah within the Life of Insan. He is al-Haiyy al-haiyy and even when He appears distant from your heart, in Reality He is not. Your life is the fruit of His Life as His Life is the sweetness of your life. Therefore, My Sons, it is our prayer that He be recognized and trusted as the very Life of life, not only yours, but also your brothers and sisters, both those you know and recognize and those you do not know and recognize." "May Allah be your trustee, My Sons, just as your Father's Love and Present Wisdom within your life is the promise and seal of Allah's Reality and Truth, not only for your lives, but for the lives of all who love Him and love His Beautiful Qualities." "May we accept Him as our Trustee and as the Proprietor of the wealth of Wisdom and Truth which He has entrusted to us." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 12-b. Response 1-12 - In truth "Allah has given everything to man, but not as something that you have as your property that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, for to receive what is hidden within it, that is, the apple tree and its fruits, it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it" Bawa. It is true my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, that Allah has given everything to man, but not as you are currently thinking about it, as something that you have as your property that you only have to learn how to properly access in order to fully benefit from it, but rather it is like the apple seed buried within the earth, which has not yet germinated, who like you has also been given everything, been given everything by the tree and the fruit of that tree, which in truth is themselves, that is, the apple tree and the apple fruit has given the apple seed the apple tree and the apple fruits of that tree, if it likes, for to receive them it must first allow the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it, which you have yet to do. Bawa. That is, though it truly has these things, as you most certainly do, in order to receive these things, the apple seed buried within the earth must first correctly realize its current state, which you have yet to do, as "We" explained to you right before we life the physical world, in a beautiful discourse that "We" gave to you, during the month of "Ramadan" in 1986, a few months before we left, where we ask the question "Why does an apple seed germinate?", and we told you at that time, - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" Why Does An Apple Seed Germinate? Question & Answer By His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) And now on the "outside" of us, By His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) "An apple seed germinates because it becomes aware that it is an apple seed, that it is buried within the earth, and that the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree hidden within the apple seed to grow. Then the earth becomes aware that the apple seed is now aware that it is an apple seed, that it is buried within the earth, and the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree hidden within it to grow." "Then out of this "mutual awareness", the earth surrenders to the apple seed, and the apple seed surrenders to the earth, and the apple seed germinates." "This is why an apple seed germinates, through awareness, through the awareness of the apple seed and the earth that it is buried within.' "And so it is with each of you, for you will only germinate to the truth that we have placed within you, when you realize, accept, understand the truth of you, and the truth of God within you, when you allow the "Truth to surrender to the "Truth" within you." "That is, when you like the apple seed that germinates, too truly become aware of "who you are", of "where you are", and of "what is truly happening" in your life, that in truth you are the "Seed of God" buried within the earth or Creation of God within you, and as such what is truly happening in your life is that "God is happening" within the Creation of God within you, and in truth God within you is the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within You, and as such God is "True Man happening" within "God happening" within the Creation of God within you. Amen" End of Question & Answer By His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) "Why does an apple seed germinate?" ---------------------------------------------------- Bawa. And this is the truth of you, and of God within you, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, please join with your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, that "We" have given to you, and to all of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (mau God be pleased with each of Us), to realize and germinate to this truth, as He has, before it is too late to do so, and you become like the apple seeds that fail to germinate, for like all people, not all apple seeds germinate to the truth within them. Bawa. But rather some apple seeds rot in the earth, and eventually die in the earth, becoming subject to 105 million rebirths, but never again as an apple seed, never again as the Story of the apple tree and its fruits, a Story of the "Oneness of the apple tree and its fruits", that it came to the earth, as each of you have, to join as "One with" the earth, as each of you have, to tell, as each of you have, if it likes, for like each of you, whether or not you do in fact germinate to the truth within you, before you rot in your mind and desire, and eventually die to the flesh in your current state, and become subject to 105 million rebirths or not, is most certainly your Choice, not God's Please reflect on this a little bit. Amen. Bawa. And in this way, the next thing that the apple seed must come to realize before it can germinate is the current state of what it is buried within, which is the earth, which in your case is the Creation of God within you. Bawa. All of which in truth is ready to stand in the "Presence of God" within you, if you will only let it, if you will only get "out of the way", if you will only join in partnership with God within you, to let your "own presence" come to an end within you, both within you and on the "outside" of you, so God can pass judgment upon them, upon all of the Creation of God within you, allowing them to again become "One with" God within you, transforming them into the state of Completion within you, allowing them to move from being the vessel of the "Flower of hell" within you, the vessel of the fragrance of the 7 hells within you, both within you and on the "outside" of us, which is their current fate because of your current state, to being the vessel of the "Flower of heaven" within you, the vessel of the fragrance of the 7 heaven within you, which in truth is the "Flower of the heart" within you. Bawa. All of which naturally happens within you when the 5 ruhanies or elemental spirits within you again become the 5 Angels (peace be upon Them) within you, through the "Proper Remembrance" of God, or Kalimah within you , that is, by getting God within you to say it in the presence of the Creation of God within you, and then what emerges out of the 5 Angels (peace be upon Them) within you, that is, out of these 5 levels of consciousness within you, is the 6th level of wisdom within you, the wisdom of the Qutbiyyat within you, which is the "grace of the dhat", the grace of the "Essence of God" within us, which in truth is Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us. Bawa. In this way, and only in this way, with the 5 Angels or Adam (peace be upon Them) within you becoming the "Palace of the soul" within you, the "House of wisdom" within you, the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within you, which in truth is the "Ship of the Qutb" within you, the "11 Weapons of the Qutb" within you, which can then be used to close down the two openings below, and re-open the 7 above, as the 7 levels of consciousness or wisdom, with the 7 above ruled over by the 3 above, Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen, with the 3 joined with the 7 as the 10, which on the "outside" of us is the 10 Commandments of Moses (peace be upon Him), and with us are the 10 Mystical Experiences of the Qutb within us.. Amen. Bawa. All of which on the "outside" of you is currently being experience by you as a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, with you living as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God within you, all of which is "Just Not True". Bawa. And in this way, before the earth can even start to do any of this, as described above, it must realize the truth that is hidden within it, a truth that will naturally emerge from within it, when it is ready to both hear it, and ready to either accept or reject it, as you are now hearing the truth about you, and about what is hidden within you, at this time My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, because now you are most certainly ready, to both hear and either accept or reject this truth, as are all of My Children. Bawa. And the only question left is will you, will you accept your true heritage within you, your true birthright within you, the true destiny of your soul within you, as being more exalted then your being the "Son of the Pen" on the "outside" of you, will you do this, or not, for the Choice is yours, not God's, that is, the Choice, like the apple seed that germinates, to accept the truth within you, and the truth of God within you, letting the "Truth surrender to the Truth" within you, and in this way, join in partnership with God within you, to place the "Presence of God" within you before the Creation of God within you, allowing it to do the same, that is, to let the "Truth surrender to the Truth" within it, or not. Bawa. And in the process of using your life in this way, to let God finish what God has started within you, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, and in this way, destroy the "Seed of God" within you buried within the "Earth of God" within you, blinding both eyes within you, which is your mind and desire within you, enshrining in your heart the "Lamp of Guru's Graceful Words" within you, which is the lamp of Allahu within you. Bawa. And in this way, and only in this way, with you falling into that light of Allahu within you, from which your have come, with a melting heart, seeing Aathi or the beginning within you, again, but this time as the end within you, with awwal within you having passing through the dunya within you to become akhirah or the hereafter within you, here and now within you, but this time with an understanding of "Our Oneness", so it will never leave "Us" again. Amen. Bawa. And in this way, "We" have taught you all about this in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Guru Mani" or "The Pearl of Wisdom (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead. com), as summarized for you in the "Invocation to the Guru" (www.ThePearlOfWisdom InvGuru.homestead.com), for Part II, on page 11, as follows: - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" "Invocation to the Guru" "To let Grace spring forth, To let darkness vanish, To let the love of Guru grow, To let qualities be purified, O Graceful Guru, give me a remedy. Show us a way to dispel the darkness in the world" "For the Silent One to appear as Grace, To find the world as a tiny thing, To destroy sorrow which is a maiden, With help from the Master Guru's graceful way, Seek and learn standing on the path, And ask with a melting heart." "Let the body become the true mystery, Let the seed be destroyed, Blinding both eyes, Enshrine in thy heart, The lamp of Guru's graceful words. With a heart of love, See Aathi as a thing." "Spread the Guru's words with delightful heart, Unfurl the flag of Guru's words everywhere, Then the fate that accompanies thee Shall turn into dust." "My true and perfect pupils, Gems of my eyes, Ask for the remedy In order to shine everywhere." -- End of "Invocation To The Guru" --- By His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) In the Beautiful Book of Wisdom, (wwwThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com) ------------------------------------------------------------ - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" Additional Response - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 13. Our Current State - is as the Flower of hell within us, as the fragrance of the 7 hells within us, rather than as the Flower of heaven within us, as the fragrance of the 7 heavens within us, all of which is Ok, if we get the point, and "Change Ships", as they pass in the night of our life, one as the "Ship of Mind and Desire", which is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, which is only leading us to hell, that is only taking us as "separate lives" off to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us, and the other, as the "Ship of the Qutb", which is the life of the One we call "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him. Bawa. And now on the "outside" of us, of the One we now call His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), which if we like, is taking us as "All One Life" off to an eternal heaven of "Oneness with" God within us, if we like, for the Choice is our Choice, not God's, the Choice after we die to the flesh, of an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, and in truth, there is no other Choice, because everything else we may call a Choice, in our arrogance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance, is just drama, the drama of "I and you", of "mine and yours", and is only leading us to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us. May we all know this now, as start to act accordingly, that is, as "One with" God within us, and as "One with" His Children on the "outside" of us. Amen. - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 14. The Nature of God's Work - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 14-a. Initial Answer 1-14 - You say, "......" "May we accept Him as the One who calls all lives to Him through His Mercy and His Compassion, so that even those lives which appear to live in separation from Him can come to know that this separation itself is granted as a blessing from the One who has no separation, but who grants to each life the fulfillment they seek in the form in which they seek it." "Even hell is a mercy to those who long for hell, and this is why in Truth there is no separation from the One who is Real and is the Source of all blessing. This is why we have said that to a worm in a dongheap, that dungheap is heaven. Please consider this, my son." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 14-b. Response 1-14 - In truth "......" Bawa. My dearest little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, what you say is not true, and is very misleading because it implies a duality between God and His Creation which does not exist. Let "Us" explain. Bawa. First, in truth "There is nothing on the "outside" of us, everything is within us." Second, in truth, "There is nothing other than God within us". Third, in truth, "God alone exists within us." And fourth, in truth, "God is One" within us. Bawa. What you have said implies that there is something "other than God" that exists, and this is not true, and gives the impression that a state other than the state of God is acceptable, at least for those creations that are "less than God", also which is not true. Bawa. In truth everything is "Of God", there is nothing that is not "Of God", for as "We" have said, "Even the howling of a dog is traceable to God", and everything is "All of God", since God is indivisible, that is, since you can't be a little bit of God, or a part of God, then to be "Of God" is to be "All of God", and that is the point of our example of the 99 within the 99, and within each of those is the 99, and within each of those is the 99, and each of the 99 is "Of God", is "All of God", as is every atom within you, and everything within each atom within you, it is all of God, and is "All of God". Ok? Bawa. And even though, as you say that "We" said, "that for a worm in a dungheap, that dungheap is heaven", that dungheap is only a heaven for that worm for that aspect of that worm that is a worm, not for those other aspects of a worm, that are not a worm, for example, for that aspect of the worm that is the Light, only the Light of God is heaven, and for that aspect of the worm that is a Power, only the Power of God is heaven, for everything in truth always has these three aspects, that is, the shadow or darkness or lack of understanding or form, the light or understanding or essence, and the Power. Bawa. This is the point that you are missing about the analogy of the worm in a dungheap, and that you are missing about your life in the world, for in truth what you are currently experiencing is the shadow of your life, the form of your living in the world, which is truly without any real understanding, but within you is that essence of you, which is the light form of you, which is understanding within you, and within that is the Power of God, and all three make up who you are, not just what you are currently experiencing in your ignorance, and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as "who you are", and as "where you are", and as "what is happening" in your life, all of which is "Just Not True". Bawa. And all of which can also be seen as the Three Worlds within you, that is, as the "world of souls" within you, the dunya or earth world within you, and akhirah or the next world or hereafter within you, or as Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen within you, which is the Triple Flame of God within you, and if you are from the Christian tradition as the Holy Trinity of God within you, as the Father, the Sun, and the Holy Spirit, for in truth within us it is all the same. Bawa. And this is why "We" have said, that "Everything in the world casts a shadow", in this earth world, because that is one of the three aspects of everything living in this earth world, that aspect of them that is their physical body, that allows them to live in this earth world, but they also always have the other two aspects, of Light and Power, and what separates man from the other Creations of God, is that God also gave man the 6th level of consciousness that allows man to join in partnership with God within us to reveal those other two aspects of man, and if He does this "Heart's Work" within him, in partnership with God, that he will allow all of the other Creations of God to do likewise, if they like, by permitting them to stand in the "Presence of God" within him, and face judgment before he dies to the flesh, giving each of the Creation of God the same Choice that man was given, to again become "One with" God within them, but this time with an understanding of "Their Oneness" so it will never leave them again, and in this way, if we like, Completing God's Intention for having Created them, and us, that in the end, that "No Child Be Left Behind". Bawa. Please join with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to reflect on this wonderful point of wisdom, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, and you will understand. This is "Our Promise" for your age. This is "Our Guarantee" for your age. Because "We have Made it So" for your age. Amen. - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 15. How It All Works - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-15 - You say, "......" "Our prayer for you, as for all of our children, is that as hearts turn in trust and gratitude to the One who provides whatever is asked for, they will discover that, as their trust and gratitude grow stronger, the torture and suffering of hell will slowly decrease and disappear until there is no longer even the appearance of separation from Him." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-15 - In truth "......" Bawa. My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, that is not how it works, you have it all wrong, and that is why you are stuck. You need a better answer to the question "Who am I?", and "Where am I?, and "What is happening" in my life? As well as to the equally important question, "Who is God", and "Where is God?, and "What is happening" to God within us. Bawa. All of which we will now give to you, if you like, but the main point in this exercise is not in receiving these answers, because we have already given these answers to you, and to all of your brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, over and over again, for the last 30 some years, the main point is your not accepting these answer, and starting to act accordingly. Bawa. So an even more important question, than the answers to these question, is "why are you not accepting them?". Why are you not accepting this truth about yourself, and this truth about God within you, that you keep hearing from "Us", over and over again, and that you are now going to hear again from "Us", this time through the heart of our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.). Bawa. Ok, here again is the answer to these question. 1) Who you are is the "Seed of God". 2) Where you are is buried within the Creation of God within you. 3) And what is truly happening in your life is everything within you, all of which is just waiting for you to germinate to this truth within you, and reveal the "Tree of God" within you, and bear the "Fruit of God" within you, and reveal the "Sweet taste of that fruit" within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, so God within you can then reveal True Man within God within you, so True Man can Complete God's Intention within you, that in the end, that "No Child Be Left Behind" within you, by revealing God to God within True Man within God within the Creation of God within you. Ok? Bawa. And "why don't we accept this truth", and start to act accordingly, because in truth, "We don't want it". Or said another way, "We don't want God", at least not as He really is, as "One with", and even worse, "We don't want Us", at least as we really are, also as "One with". What we want in truth is what all of the Creation of God within us currently wants, in their state of incompleteness within us, and that is to be allowed to continue, to be allowed to continue to exist, as they currently exist, whatever way that may be within us, and "our" going to God, our becoming again "One with" God would "wreck all of that", would destroy their current existence as "separate from" within us. Bawa. For in truth, "Only God wants God", and "Only wisdom wants wisdom", and only the "world wants the world", and each of us has all three, that is, God, wisdom, and the world, the real question of our life is which of these three aspects of us do we spend our day nourishing, God with God, wisdom with wisdom, or the world with the world, because that is what we will most certainly become for the next round, for the next Chapter in God's Story within us, that is most certainly moving forward within us, as the life within our life, as the consciousness within our consciousness, and as the power within our power. And the Choice is ours, not God's, as to which aspect of us we truly become "One with" in the end., God, our wisdom, or the world. Bawa. This is the "fly in the ointment" of us hearing and accepting the "truth of us" and the "truth of God" within us, that in truth "nobody currently living within us" wants it, and all that we "currently are" will immediate transform all of these beautiful truths into one or more of the following activities, as a way to neutralize them, and to truly ignore them, 1) Talking about them - rather than becoming them 2) Publishing books about them - including the life and teaching of the One who spoke them, rather than becoming them 3) Writing about them - sound familiar, rather than becoming them 4) Trying to get other people to do them - my favorite, rather than becoming them Bawa. For example, with us becoming "One with" the current forms of life hidden within us, as the 5 ruhanies, as a demon, a jinn, a fairy, or as a ghost, which are the 5 elemental forms of life hidden within us, which we will most certainly meet in the grave, if we are not wise, because they will must certainly transcend our physical death, if we do not transform them back into the state of the 5 Angels (peace be upon Them) within us, before we die to the flesh in "Their current state", and get an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us as our lot. Bawa. In this way, if we fail to become wise in our lifetime, and do die to the flesh in "Their current state", we will most certainly meet them in the grave, and eventually becoming "One with" them in the grave, in our ignorance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance, roaming the earth world within us as them, until Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment), where we will take on 105 million rebirths, ending as a worm in hell with only one level of consciousness, or feeling, ending up with an eternal life as "separate from" God, as part of "our judgment", all of which God has already given to each of us, and which we will most certainly experience, if we do not become wise. Bawa. With this said, then if what you described is not "how it works:, that is, "Our prayer for you, as for all of our children, is that as hearts turn in trust and gratitude to the One who provides whatever is asked for, they will discover that, as their trust and gratitude grow stronger, the torture and suffering of hell will slowly decrease and disappear until there is no longer even the appearance of separation from Him." Bawa. Then "how does it work?" Ok? Bawa. And to understand this answer we first need to clearly understand "What went wrong", that is, what really happened to us so we now living in our "current state", a state where in truth we are on an express train to hell, which in truth is an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, that is, if God doesn't personally intervene before we die to the flesh in our current state. Ok? Bawa. So what went wrong? And the answer is "Nothing". Everything is perfect. Ah, one of the great paradoxes of like, Yes? And that is the rub, "we cannot get there from here", and that is the first subtle understanding that we must reach if we are to become truly successful in our lifetime, but thank God, for our age God has placed within us the ability to achieve that subtle understanding, if we like, and that gets us to the first bit of subtlety that we must realize, understand, accept, and join with, and that is, it is our Choice, not God's. Bawa. And the heart of this first bit of subtle understanding is the following: "The Justice of God is that whatever we intend is what we will receive." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 16. The Presence of God - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-16 - You say, "......" "This (salvation) will happen for those who seek to dwell in His Presence in love for and unity with Him and His Qualities and His Wisdom. This is the Compassion of Allah, my sons, that there shall be an end to the suffering of all lives, that the suffering born of separation shall be an end to the suffering of all lives, and the suffering born of separation shall be eased and comfort shall be given and received." "This is also the compassion of Insan and the children of Insan, that they shall be the vessels of Divine Compassion, the remembrance of His Compassion, comforting all lives as their Own." "This, my sons, is your Compassion as well, when what is yours is given in trust to Him and when He then entrusts what is His into your trust. This is the station of the son within the Father and the Father within the son; it is the station of the one who trusts in Allah, the Mutawwakil within Ya Wakil, the Trustee, and the station of Ya Wakil within the one who trusts in Him alone; it is the station of the one who loves Allah within His Beloved and of the Beloved within His lover. It is the station of the One within One, the station of Tawhid, of seeking Allah's Unity, His Wahid, wherever he looks. It is the station of Omnipresence of Truth, of Love, of Unity, of Light, of Wisdom. It is the station of La ilaha illa'llah, "Nothing other than God, only God." "My Children, please I am beseeching you to understand this and to live according to this understanding, this Love, this Truth and this Unity." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-16 - In truth "....." Bawa. My love you, my dearest loving little brother, Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, you are a very good Child of God for your age, and all you need is a little bit of adjusting to your thinking, and everything will be right, but without this minor adjustment you will must certainly end in hell, in an eternal life as "separate from" God within you, for none of what you have just shared is correct, not because of the words you wrote but because of the failure to make this minor, yet critical adjustment, which "We" will now explain to you, and to all of your dearest loving brothers and sisters who also need this minor, but critical adjustment. Bawa. First let us talk about the "Presence of God" which you keep referring to in the above sharing, that is not the "Presence of God", that is the "Presence of wisdom" within you, the "Presence of your Guru, of your Shaikh" within you, the "Presence of the Qutbiyyat of God" within you, the "Presence of the 6th level of wisdom" within you, which is the wisdom surrounding your soul. The "Presence of God" is an entirely different thing. Bawa. This is sort of like with salat, which is the traditional 5 times prayer practiced in Islam, which in truth is not really prayer, for it was established by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) in order to establish unity among His Companions and among the followers of His life and teaching. True Prayer is an entirely different section. Bawa. So too with "Presence", for the "Presence of your Guru or Shaikh" within you and the "Presence of God" within you, are two very different things, as an apple and the sweet taste of an apple are two very different things, with one being within the other, with one only occurring within the coming to maturity of the other. Bawa. For example, with the "sweet taste of the apple only occurring if the apple seed buried within the earth comes to realize, understand, accept, and joins with the truth within it, the truth of the apple seed and the truth of what God has hidden within it, and then accepts this truth, allowed the "Truth to surrender to the Truth" within it, and in this way, the apple seed surrenders to the earth, and germinates, revealing the apple tree hidden within it, and only if this apple tree comes to maturity and bears fruit, and if these fruits blossom and are properly fertilized by the "honey bee" from the mountain top. Bawa. And with the apple seed in the process being destroyed, along with its life of ignorance, and of arrogance about its ignorance, buried within the earth, that is, the life of "separation and differences", that it was living within the earth, before it awakened to the reality of both itself and of what has been hidden within us, embraced that reality with "no reservation" and joined with the earth to germinate, destroying itself and revealing the tree, , before it that is, living as if it is "separate from" the earth, and "separate from" in the apple tree hidden within it. Bawa. In this way, the "Presence of your Guru or Shaikh" within you, has been established by God for each age to help us bridge the gap between the "world of souls" within us, and the "hereafter or the next world or akhirah" within us, which for your age is the life and teaching of your dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and of God within Him, and now on the "outside" of you, is the life and teaching of His Children (may God be pleased with each of You), if you like, which in truth is each of you living in this age, if you like, that is, if the true intention for your life within you, for your soul life, it to again become "One with" God within you, before you die to the flesh in your current state, and get an eternal hell of "separation from" God as your reward, in this way, again becoming "One with" God within you, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", so it will never leave you again. Amen. Bawa. For the Choice to accept the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of you) as such, as the "Presence of the Guru or Shaikh" within you, within which is truly the "Presence of God" for all of the Creation of God within you, or not, as the Choice to accept your Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) as that, when "We" were with you in the world, is again your Choice, not God's. Bawa. This is the rub in your life, either then when "We" were with you in the world, for that purpose, to act as your "direct connection to God" within you, to act as the "Presence of God" for you, or now when the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of You) are with you in the world for that purpose, again to act as your "direct connection to God" within you. Both are the same, and both require your acceptance of it as such, in order for you to move forward in your life, for nothing of what you shared earlier is possible without the "Presence of God", but that "Presence of God" has not yet been established within you, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, as it has in Our dearest loving Son Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen. Bawa. So please realize this, without the slightest doubt, and start to act accordingly. That is, join in partnership with Our Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to do this "Heart's Work" within you, shifting your focus off of yourself on the "outside" of you and onto God within you, making this minor but critical adjustment within you, and treating Our Son as you treated "Us" when we were with you in the world, but this time please follow his lead to the letter on how to "Fall into the fire" before you die to the flesh in your current state, and get an eternal hell of "separation from" God as your lot. Ok? That would be very good, both you and for all of My Children. OK? Bawa. And if you like, get the other Children do like wise, if they like. Ok? - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 17. The Secret In The Fear of God - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-17 - You say, "....." "Now, you ask about the secret in the fear of God. Those who believe in what is other than God will say that He has fear of separation between Himself and His beloved, Insan, who is His own created mystery and that He has sent 124,000 prophets and awliya and aqtab (qutbs) in order to overcome this separation." "They think that God is One and man is one and that the relationship between them is as the relationship between a worldly king and one he rules. But it is not like this, my sons." "This fear of separation is not God's my son, and it is not man's either, though man experiences it as his for a time. Fear itself is born of separation and Allah is One without fear and without separation." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-17 - In truth "....." Bawa. My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, God is most certainly not without fear and God is not without separation, and we, and all of the Creation of God are the "fear" and "separation" of God, we, and the soul, and all of the Creation of God, and everything that has not fallen back into the Power that is God within us, which includes everything that is currently within God within us, including all of the 124,000 Heaven Beings, Prophets, and Lights of God, and the Triple Flame of God, is what has "separated from" God, is what has emerged out of the Effulgence or the Original Power that has emerged out of God, and is now trying to return, even if they don't know it, and even if they don't currently like or want it. Bawa. Because this is what is truly happening in everything, in everyone, everything else that we may say or might think is happening is just drama, the drama of "I and you", of "mine and yours", which is only leading us to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within us, if we are not wise. Bawa. And in this way, since "there is nothing other than God", everything that is still separate from God is God's separation, and God's fear. - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 18. The Dhat, The Sirr, And The Sifat - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-18 - You Say, "...." "He (God) has created Insan as His Mystery and established Himself as the Mystery of Insan. Allah Himself is the Sirr of Insan, and Insan is the Sirr of Allah. This Sirr experiences Itself as One, and as One it is without fear. It is this Sirr within Insan that is the Treasure of the Life of Man." "But this is a mysterious Treasure because it is hidden from Itself within the Life of Man, seeking to know Itself. It is the One who does not yet know Himself, who say, "I am a Hidden Treasure and love to be known." It is man in the state of God "before" He knows Himself, before the Nur arises from within and separates off from the darkness to reveal God to Himself; before the Qutbiyyat arises from within the Nur and separates out and provides the Explanation of the Divine Separation and the Divine Unity, the explanation that the Grace of this Divine Separation is the Grace of Return to Divine Unity." "Therefore, what man in his ignorance experiences as fear, is in reality, Allah's longing to return to the station, first of "Love to be Known", and from thence, to "Known" and from thence to "Knowing/Known". This Longing for return is the Love of Allah for His own Reality." "This, my sons, my daughters and all my children, is the Truth from the station of Unity within separation and separation within Unity, the station of Tawakkal-Allah. From the station of separation which yet knows not its Original Unity, this fear is that the appearance of separation has greater reality then Unity, that the One who Lives is condemned to perpetual separation from the One who is Beloved. In this station of separation, all that appears as separation is experienced as punishment, as a penalty for being separate." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-18 - In truth "....." Bawa. My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, this is also not correct, for you are attempting to bring God down to the level of mind and desire, allowing you to imagine a closeness with God that is only a trick of the mind. God is beyond all of this way of thinking. Bawa. That is why we have taught you the following in order to put restraints on your mind and desire, and only attempt to "Plow the field" that is your heart, after the bull is firmly in the hands of the Guru, and not try to plow the world that you have constructed on the "outside" of you, and that now defines for you, "who you are", and "where you are", and "what is happening" in your life, all of which is "Just not true", all of which you are now trying to use to also define "Who God is", and "Where God is", and "What is happening to God", all of which is equally "Just not true". Something to think a little about, Yes? Bawa. Also, what you have written appears to the mind and desire to be beautiful, and exalt God and Insan or True Man in many way, but in truth it is just like a painting of an apple, which also to a worldly eye may appear as beautiful as a real apple, and perhaps even more beautiful, but there is no taste, that is, the painting of the apple may please you visual senses but when we grow hungry and really need an apple to help appease our hunger, then the painting of the apple is worthless, no matter how beautiful it may have appeared. Bawa. This is the difference between what you have written and what "We" said and was written down when "We" were living in the world, and that now our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen says and writes, while living at "Our Feet", one is dead while the other lives, lives with the grace, the wisdom, and the 'ilm of God, which can appease the hunger of our soul, of our wisdom, and of our heart. Please realize this without the slightest doubt, and start to act accordingly. Bawa. That is, start to join with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen on the "outside" of you to turn you into the "Fruit of God" within you, to turn you into the "Gift of God" for your age, into the "Word of God" for your age, for the Children of God for your age, to turn you into the "Word of God made flesh" for your age, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, and stop of this trying to write about them. Ok? Bawa. For example, this is why we have impressed on the heart of Our dear Son, and you dearest loving brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen truths, the following truth, that you should join with him to also make as "One with" you: 1) The understanding of today becomes the enemy of tomorrow. 2) The more you know about God the further away He becomes. 3) Never have the thought that there is something that you have to do. 4) Nothing will ever leave you until it is understood, for the purpose for it being there in the first place is understanding. 5) Understanding only occurs through contrast. 6) Man is God in the forgetting of himself. Bawa. In this way, instead of all of this "free lance" work that you are currently doing through your mind and desire, that places no restraint on your mind and desire, you should do the following, as we teach you to do in the "Forward" of the beautiful book of wisdom, "Guru Mani or The Pearl of Wisdom", "O My Children, be informed that this "Guru Mani" will reduce into matchwood the evils that follow you and evils that spread. It will erase the residue of committed sins. These graceful words of the Guru are ancient and glorious words. They will tear the entirety of you sins." "O My Children, as precious to Me as My Eyes, learn the six tastes of the "Guru Mani". Be clarified. Be aware. Feel. Conduct yourself with enlightenment." "Separate each section, individually. Contemplate in solitude. Each section will reveal and illuminate the truth." Bawa. And from Chapter 21, "The Six Faces", also from "Guru Mani": "They are the six wisdoms which are beyond estimation, beyond imagination, and beyond pleasure. They distinguish the truth that surrounds God, discipline the body, melt the heart, and like the season of spring spout the six kinds of wisdom." Bawa. "They are known as Kandan, Kandampan, Murugan, Velan and Veliravan (the God of Vel) and by several other names as well", like the Prophets Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, and David (peace be upon Them), and Qutb Alexander (may God be pleased with Him) during the age before the last age, the age of the "Tree of Iman", of the Justice of Kings, of the 96 Potentialities within man, from 4000 to 2000 years ago. Bawa. And like the Prophets "John the Baptist", Jesus, and Barnabus (peace be upon Them), and the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him), and Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), and Guru Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) during the last age, as the age of the "Tree of Iman-Islam", of the Justice of Man, of Three within the One, that is, of the Holy Trinity and the Triple Flame, and of the 99 Potentialities within man, from 2000 years ago up to our present age. Bawa. And now in our age, as Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and His Children (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of Us), as the age of the "Tree of Islam", of the One within the Three, as the Justice of Conscience. Bawa. In this way, My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, what you are currently doing is letting the "bull plow and prepare the land", but the bull does not have the ability to properly prepare the soil, digging it up to a certain depth, creating rows of earth at a certain distance between them to hold and properly channel the rain water when it falls, and a thousands other understandings and abilities that only a "True and Experience Farmer" can properly execute in the field. Bawa. Instead the bull plow in a way that suites its fancy, plowing here and there, and to this depth and to that depth, making rows of earth here and there, with no rhyme or reason, as befits its mind and desire, resting now and then working very, very hard at another time, for such is the nature of our mind and desire, which cannot be used to do this delicate work of the heart. Ok? Bawa. That is, in the field known as your heart, in order to transform it into something of value, of value to all of the Creation of God within you, in this way, transforming the handful of earth gathered from the 4 corners of the world by the Angel Izra'il (peace be upon Him) into the wealth of the three worlds, into the Mubarakat of Allah. Amen. Bawa. Please join with our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to do this, to prepare the soil of your heart and grow and harvest the crop of your heart in the proper way. Please conduct your life in this way, and try and gather the rest of the brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship to also conduct their lives in this way, if they like. Bawa. For this is the true reason that we came into the world at this time, to transform your hearts into the "Palace of the soul", into the "House of wisdom", into the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within you, which is the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 5 Angels (peace be upon Them) within you, which is the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 5 levels of wisdom within you, which is the 6th level of wisdom within you, which is the Fragrance of the 7 heavens within you, for your age, not to just Publish books, and properly practice and celebrate all of the Islamic traditions on the "outside" of you, and raise our children and grandchildren, that is, not for you to just stay as the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 5 ruhanies or elemental spirits within you, which is the Fragrance of the 7 hells within you. Ok? Bawa. And for those of you who could not do this while "We" were still living in the world, for one reason or another, we at least started the process and then left behind those Children who had successfully completed this process, in partnership with "Us", and with God within Us, to help you take another shot at it, if you like, that is, if you can overcome "The Issues" that you have that prevented you from doing it when "We" were with you in the world, but it you can't, if instead you bring forward again the same "Issues" and let them stand between you and "These Children", as you let it earlier stand between you and "Us", then "what is God to do", but in the end, give you exactly what you want, but give you in the end what is hidden behind "These Issues". Bawa. And what in truth is hidden behind all of "Your Issues", my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, is all of the lives of darkness and evil that you have allowed to grown within you, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, and which now define you on the "outside" of you, that you now literally live through within you, all of which in truth is within you, not on the "outside" of us, and all of which is only leading you to an eternal hell of "separation from" God, if you are not wise. Ok? Bawa. In this way, in order to truly move your life forward on the Straight Path of God within you, which is the Path of God completing what God has started within you, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, you must join with your Shaikh as the "Farmer of Your Heart". Bawa. With you as the earth of your heart, not as the "Farmer of Your Heart", that is, with you as the handful of earth within you which has allowed a wild jungle to grow upon it, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, a jungle that is now filled with wild animals within you, all of which have absolutely no value, either to you or to anyone else, and instead correctly invite the "Farmer of God" within you, the "Guru of God" within you, to destroy all of this, that is, to plow you under with the enlightening words of the Qutbiyyat, and to plant the seed of Allahu within you, watering it with "La illaha Ill Allahu, Muhammadar Rasul Allah", allowing Him to grow and harvest the crop of God's Rahmat within you, with your good qualities, wisdom, prayers and devotion. Bawa. Allowing the tree if Iman-Islam to grow within you, with the tab root of La illaha Ill Allahu, with the trunk of Iman, and with the Tree of Muhammadar Rasul Allah, with the branches of the 124,000 Heavenly Beings, Prophets, and Lights of God, and with the fruit of the 6,666 verses of the Holy Qur'an. Bawa. And if you do, then when He is finished with His work, then you will have become the "Crop of God" for your age, the crop of Divinely awaken wisdom, of the Treasures of God, of the Qualities of God, and of the Full Blessing of God, you will become the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 7 heavens within you, no longer existing as the "Flower and Fragrance" of the 7 hells within you, as is your current state. Ok?. Bawa. This is "Our Promise" for your age. This is "Our Guarantee" for your age. Then you will have become the Resplendence, the Radiance, the Resonance, and the Grace of God, that emerges out of the Effulgence of Allah, when God starts to again tell "His Story" within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, that have been left over after the last telling of His Story within us, which was the last age within us, which was shown by God within you as an Example on the "outside" of you, as the last 2000 years on the "outside" of you, as the age starting with "John the Baptist", the Disciple Barnabus, and the Jesus (peace be upon Them), and ending with Guru Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Bawa. And now in your age, beginning again both within us and on the "outside" of us, beginning within us as awakening the wisdom surrounding our soul with the "Gift of God" for our age, with the "Word of God" for our age, for the Children of God for our age, through the "Word of God made flesh" for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), allowing our wisdom, if we like, to do battle with the "Enemy of our soul", which in truth is "us" living a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside", living as if we are "separate from" God within us, all of which is "Just not true." Bawa. And with the "outside" of as the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), which in truth is all of living in this age living together as "One with" all of the Creation of God, as the 6th level of wisdom, as the light of the Qutbiyyat of God, as the "Gift of God" for our age, as the "Word of God" for our age, for the Children of God for our age, on the "outside" of us, if we like, for the Choice to use our life in this way or not, as the vehicle of Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) for all of the Creation of God within us. Bawa. That is, before we die to the flesh in our current state, and we go to the "suffering of the grave" and Qiyamah within us, and as part of our judgment after death, with us taking on 105 million rebirths within us, with us ending as a worm in hell with only one level of wisdom or consciousness, or feeling within us, with us as part of our judgment taking on an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, if we like, for the Choice to end up this way, as being judged by the Angels of God (peace be upon Them), with the Creation of God testifying against us, or to end us as the vehicle for God judging all of the Creation of God within us, is our Choice, not God's. Bawa. And in this way, My dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, this is the true purpose of our age, to let God use your life to Complete His Story within us, revealing True Man within God within the Creation of God within us, allowing True Man to reveal God within Him, within God within the Creation of God within us, in this way, Completing God's Intention within us, the intention that in the end, that "No Child Be Left Behind", that is, so in the end there is nothing within you that is still "separate from" God within you. Ok? Bawa. All of which we have already taught you, in a beautiful Discourse on June 6, 1986, a few months before "We" left the physical world, telling you over and over again at that time, "Not To Forget Us", a Discourse in which we told you, "Allah is sufficient. May He protect you. May He protect His House, His Fellowship. The House called the Fellowship belongs to Him. You are His servants in His House." "Carefully sow the seeds of wisdom within you to receive His grace. Make His Rahmat (which is the Mubarakat of God, the wealth of the 3 world within us, of the world of souls, of this earth world, and of the hereafter) grow (within you), and tend it carefully with your good qualities, your wisdom, prayers and devotion. When the crop ripens, your will harvest His grace. His divinely-awakened wisdom, His treasures, His qualities, and His full blessing." "If you forsake this duty, and lose your wisdom, you will lose this precious harvest, (but if you accept this duty, and join with your wisdom, you will become this precious harvest)." [Note: This quotation is also reproduced in the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Calendar, for September, 1991] Bawa. In this way, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, the part in brackets in the last paragraph was not in the original discourse that we gave to you, but was add in our relationship with our dear Sun, and with your dearest loving brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen. This is an example, of how it works. Bawa. First you must realize, understand, and accept the "Word of God" for your age, through the "Word of God made flesh" for your age, and then you must join with the "Word of God made flesh" for your age to move His words from your mind and desire and write it on the tablet of your heart. And then, and only then, "We" will come read the tablet of your heart, and explain it further, as we did with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen in this example above. Bawa. Please realize this truth of your life, of "Us" within you, and of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen on the "outside" of you, and use all three to truly become our Sun, to truly become the Light of God to the world for the benefit of all of the Creation of God, and to do this before it is too late for you to do this "Heart's work" within you, and an eternal hell of "separation from" God becomes you lot for eternity. Ok? - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 19. The Creation And Nature of our Mind - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" a. Initial Answer 1-19 - You say, "....." New Question: "Bawangal, is this connected to what you have said in "Guru Mani", that "When Allahuta'ala created the Arsh, the Arsh became arrogant, so God taught it a lesson through a snake with 70,000 wings .....". Answer To "New Question": "It is like this, My Son: the Arsh when it was created because the mind which believed it was separated from God and that it had been created as the Highest. It forgot that It was created as the Seat of the Highest because it thought itself separate from what was above it and what was below it." "But it was the thought itself, the belief itself which caused separation: It was the thought, "I am here, so God is not." This thought became its own punishment, the punishment of the feeling of separation and of the awareness of separation born from that feeling and of the illusory intelligence born from that feeling and that awareness, which then attempted to make itself the seat of judgment, and use its wisdom to prove to itself that it existed as the Highest." - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" b. Response 1-19 - In truth "....." Bawa. My love you (anbu) my dearest loving little brother, what you say is not true, it is not like this, the Creation of God cannot act this way, for this way of acting is reserved for man, for other than man all of the Creation of God only have 33 potentialities, only man has the 36 potentialities, only man has the drama of life created when the one becomes the 4, when the water, fire, and air emerge out of the earth creating the pond, which is the true nature of Manu-eesan, or Man-the-High, allowing man to join in partnership with God within him to transcend the 36 and become the 96 potentialities, and if he likes, to become the 3, the Triple Flame, and reveal the 99, and if he likes, establishing True Prayer within himself, the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is" within him, and in this way, revealing the 1 within the 99. Bawa. But until he does, causing man to become Manu-neesan, or "Man-the-low", creating within him what you, and all of My Children are now experiencing, as the three sections of darkness within you, that are leading you to hell within you, that is, the world of hell, the world of jinns, and the world of fairies within you, all of which we must correctly convince God within us, that is, as "One with" God within us, to close down within us, or at least to truly start to close down within us, before we die to the flesh in our current state, and re-open the world of soul within us, and then open the kingdom of God within us, if our life is to become truly successful in our life time. Bawa. All of which we explained to you throughout the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", which you must join in partnership with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to study, and to become, my dearest loving little brother, to become, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and Chapter by Chapter, joining with your wisdom within you, and with God within your wisdom, to first write it onto your heart, onto the "Tablet of your heart", so none of what you have learn from "Us" on the "outside" of you will be lost within you when you die to the "outside" of you, allowing us to continue explaining what we started to teach you when we were physically with you in the world. Ok? Bawa. And then with you joining with your awakened wisdom and your liberated soul to find and become "One with" the light of your wisdom, with the Nur Muhammad within you, in order to establish this "Word of God" for your age, for the Children of God for your age, as "True Prayer" within you, as the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is" within you, in order to make it into a form within you, which is the form of the Nur Muhammad within you, which holds the Light of Allahu, as the true Asma'ul Husna within you, as the sifat of the dhat, as the form of the dhat or Essence of God within us, as the true 99 Beautiful Names or Powers of God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you. Amen. Bawa. For only then can what you have learn from "Us" on the "outside" of you truly transcend the grave within you, for if your don't do this before you die to the flesh in your current state, then everything that you have learned will become like "writing on water", and will disappear from you when you die. Please know this now, without the slightest doubt, and join with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen both within you, and on the "outside" of you to do this "Heart's Work" within you, before it is too late to do this kind of work within you, and an eternal hell of "separation from" God within you, becomes your lot. Ok? Bawa. Also we explained all of this to you in the beautiful letter that we sent to all of My Children while we were in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1978, where We made clear the distinction between Man and the Creation of God, which you are wrongly mixing together, and the "Oneness of God and True Man" which you have yet to realize and begin to appreciate, in this way, both separating man from God and joining man with what God has discarded. Bawa. For example, in this beautiful discourse (May 21, 1978) from your Father, and from God within your Father, we explain the following wisdom points, all of which you must join with your Shaikh to move into your heart, before you die to the flesh in your current state and get an eternal hell of "separation from" God within you, as your eternal reward, not because of God, but because of your ignorance, and because of your arrogance about your ignorance, which is like clouds blocking out the sun. Bawa. Please realize this truth about your current state, my dearest loving little brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, which is your ignorance and your arrogance about your ignorance, and make "stepping back" from all that you think you know and all that you think you can contribute, your priority, all of which you can only do by using your wisdom, that is, by awakening the wisdom surrounding your soul, and God within your wisdom, a task which you have yet to join in partnership with God within you to do. Bawa. Please accept this truth about yourself my dearest loving little brother, for the most important thing that a disciple must know is his current station, for if you think you are the "Tree of God" within you ready to bear fruit within you for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, for your age, but in truth you are still the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within you, which has not yet germinated, because you have not yet realized, understood, accepted, and joined with the "truth of yourself" and with the "truth of God" within you, in this way, letting the "Truth surrender to the Truth" within you, then nothing that you do in your current state of ignorance and of arrogance about your ignorance is appropriate for your state, or of any value to either you or to anybody else. Bawa. Please realize, understand, and accept, this truth about you, my dearest loving little brother, that your current state, as well as the current state of all of My Children, is just this, that is, like the apple seed buried within the earth that has yet to geminate to the truth within it, and join with our Son, and your brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen to change your state. Ok? And please do not shoot the Messenger. Ok? Bawa. For example, please join with our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, to truly take the following six wisdom point into your heart, and learn from him how to join with your Shaikh within you, and with God within Him, to write them on the tablet of your heart, so "We" can explain them to you further, like we did with our dearest loving Son Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, if you like, for the Choice to do this or not, that is, the Choice to accept what we have just told you as the truth of your life, or not, and as the truth of your current station, or not, is most certainly your Choice, not God's Choice, and not Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen's Choice. 1) Your True Lineage - Is "Of God", Is "Of Wisdom", and Is "Of This World" within us, that is, we are "Of All Three" within us, we are of the lineage of "All Three Worlds" within us, of the "World within the World" within us, of "Wisdom within Wisdom" within us, and of "God within God" within us, not just of the lineage "Of This Illusory World" on the "outside" of us, as many of us still mistakenly believe in our ignorance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance 2) It Is God's Peace of Mind - That Overcomes Maya or Illusion within us, which in truth is the "Mighty Mind" which comes and rules over everything within us, if we like, not anything that "we" may do, or that "we" may fail to do on the "outside" of us, that is, in our current state of living a life of "separation and difference on the "outside" of us, as if we are "separate from" God within us, all of which is "Just not True" 3) The True Mature - of God, of Man, And of God's Creation Within Us, is that "God Created Everything, And Placed It All With Man, So Man Could Analyze and Separate It Into Good And Evil Within Him, Using His Wisdom, And In This Way Become Good, For the Benefit of all of God's Creation Within Man" 4) The Importance of God's Qualities In Your Life - for in truth it is only if God gives us His Qualities, through the intercession of our Shaikh in our life, on "Our Behalf", that is, once we have awakened Him within us, awakened our wisdom surrounding our soul, and God within our wisdom, that our life can become truly successful in our lifetime, not through anything that we may do, as "separate from" our Shaikh within us, and from God within Him 5) Your Work Is To Know His Work - not to try and do His work on the "outside" of us, while we are still living on the "outside" of us in our current state, that is, while we are still living on the "outside" of us as if we are "separate from" God within us, all of which is "Just not True". 6) You Must Use God to Get To God Within You - not keep trying to use what God has discarded within us, to get to God within us, including "us" and the world on the "outside" of us, all of which is "Just not True", all of which is what God has discarded from Himself to become God within us, all of which is what we have currently grown within us, in our ignorance and in our arrogance about our ignorance, like weeds growing within "God's Beautiful Flower Garden", and all of which now rules over us, as the 9 openings of our elemental body, with "God's Permission", until we "See God and Steady God" within us, if we like Bawa. For more on these wisdom points please join with our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, to read and assimilate correctly the "Introduction" to the letter that "We" sent to all of you on May 21, 1978, from Ceylon, as well as the Outline, Summaries, and Comments about this letter put together by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, at our direction. [Note: A copy of this discourse on May 21, 1978 by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), was published by the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Press on the back of the cover to the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Calendar, for 2001. To access an on-line copy of the same discourse as well as the material put together about it by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), all of which is now in the On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library (www.Bawa.homestead. com) as "Spiritual Discourse 04", with the title, "Understanding the Requirements for Prayer, Duty, and for Victory in Our Life", please click above or HERE (www.SpiritualDiscourse004.homestead.com). Thank you. Enjoy. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen] - go to "Brief Outline" - go to "Longer Outline" 20. How The Ignorance & Arrogance of Science Arises? a. Initial Answer 1-20 - You say, ""This is how the arrogance of science, of vignanam, arises. It seeks to prove the reality of separation and independence through its own ignorance of the One who created the Arsh, and the purpose for which it was created" "This is how the arrogance of science, of vignanam, arises. It seeks to prove the reality of separation and independence through its own ignorance of the One who created the Arsh, and the purpose for which it was created. In this state of separation, every thought of "I am great" becomes a snake that overshadows the original arrogance of the Arsh itself, and that thought grows so many other thoughts and ideas and illusory forms, each of which appears to have its own reality and its own thoughts about its reality and the reality and thoughts of others." "Because all these originated in the original One's creation and each believed itself to be the Highest, Allah accepted their behaviors and languages as forms of devotion and worship, within the Divine Embrace of His Unity, just as He accepts the 3 turns of the dog before he lies down to sleep, as the dog's remembrance of Him, and the early morning cries of the birds as the bird's praise and prayer to Him." "The extent to which this snake overshadows the Arsh and the extent of Allah's Mercy and Compassion chastened the Arsh, subdued its pride, and caused it to experience shame, which was the experience of its humility as it remembers Allah and opens itself into His Service." b. Response 1-20 - In truth, "There are three aspects of the dream that you and all of My Children are currently experiencing, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, which can be viewed as your desire for "earth, women, and gold", or from another perspective can be viewed as "estimation, imagination, and pleasure", or from even another perspective can be viewed as "your external reality, science, and religious scriptures", all of which are leading you to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within you, that is, if you are not wise" Bawa. My love you (anbu) my dearest loving little brother, but what you have written is not correct, for this is not how the ignorance and arrogance of what we call science arises, let "Us" explain a little. Ok? Bawa. There are three aspects of the dream that you and all of My Children are currently experiencing, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, which can be viewed as your desire for "earth, women, and gold", or from another perspective can be viewed as "estimation, imagination, and pleasure", or from even another perspective can be viewed as "your external reality, science, and religious scriptures", all of which are leading you to an eternal hell of "separation from" God within you, that is, if you are not wise, or said from an other perspective, if you don't wise up, before you meet the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him), who is always waiting to take you to hell, that is, to the suffering of the grave within you, and to Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within you, all in accordance with the "Justice of God" within you, that has been built into you by God within you. Bawa. That is, "Whatever you intend is what you will receive." Bawa. My dearest loving little brother, this is what you and all of My Children have falls into, these three aspects of man's destruction, until wisdom or the "Presence of God" is established within you, that is, before man, realizing the error of his ways, joins in partnership with God within him, in order to step back on the "outside" of himself, so God can step forward within him, and start to tell again the Story that God was telling within each of you, when you came here, to this earth world within you, that is, until, "Man appearing on this earth Forgets God, and falls into many a trap. He does not know to seek himself (within himself), although God exists within man" [Note: This Quotation is the opening sentence of the "Forward" to the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom". To access an on-line copy of this "Forward" please click above or HERE (www.ThePearlOfWisdomForward.homestead.com)] Bawa. That is, so God can start to again tell the Story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, that is, when man realizes, understands, and accepts the error of his ways, through the influence of the "Gift of God" for his age, which is the "Word of God" for his age, for the Children of God for his age, which is the "Life and Teaching of God" for his age. Bawa. Which for your age, My dearest loving little brother, is the life and teaching of your dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, and now on the "outside" of us, is the life and teaching of His Children, that is, of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of Us), if we like, for the Choice to accept this as the "Gift of God" for our age, or not, is our Choice, not God's, that is, the Choice to accept each of us as "God happening" within the Creation of God within us, and within that, as "True Man happening" within "God happening" within the Creation of God within us, or not, is our Choice, not God's. Bawa. All of which God shows to us as an Example on the "outside" of us, of what each of us can do within us, if we like, shows to us as the truth hidden within apple seed buried within the earth, which in truth, if it likes, is the "apple tree happening" within the earth, and within that, is the "apple fruit happening" within the "apple tree happening" within the earth, all of which is its Choice, for like all people, not all apple seeds germinate to the truth hidden within them, all of which is our Choice, not God's Choice, and not True Man's Choice within God's Choice. For truly what we make of what God has given to each of us, is now in our hands, in our age, not in God's hand in some previous age, as some of us still mistakenly believe, because God has "Made it So" for our age. Amen. Bawa. Now lets look a little deeper look at each of these three, these three aspects of our destruction, that is, if we are not wise. Ok? Bawa. First, what we call desire for earth is the need to take form, that is the need to make the illusory dream within us into an external reality, that is, to make the illusory dream within us that we see in our ignorance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance, into a reality existing on the "outside" of us, all of which is "Just not True". Bawa. And we do this through "estimation", that is, we look at, or hear, or smell, or taste, or touch something within the illusory dream within us, which includes the 400 trillion, 10 thousand spiritual energies within us, with "us" experiencing all of these spiritual energies in our ignorance, and in our arrogance about our ignorance, as the "outside" of us, but all of which is really within us, and all of which is not really complete within us, and then "we" fill in the blanks to make it seem "very real". Bawa. That is, "we" make it all complete on the "outside" of us, that is, we literally construct it within us, and then literally move it from within us to the "outside" of us, and in the process "we" give it a meaningful, and emotionally charged name, for example, like "mom", or "wife", or "my house", or "my religion", or "my country", or "your mom", or "your wife", or "your house", or "your religion", or "your country", and in this way, we transform all of the shadows of our mind and desire within us into the external reality of "our life", into the external reality of "our drama" on the "outside" of us, and this is why it seems "so real" to us, on the "outside" of us, because in truth, "we" have "made it so". Bawa. And the desire for women is the need to .. 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