Spiritual Letter 17 - Original version About Spiritual Letter 17 Title: "Becoming God Advocate To All The Lives Within Us", Date: April 17, 2002 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) to Jalaal Deen (Rob Peddle) Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum, my dearest brother Jalaal Deen (Rob Peddle). May the peace and blessings of God be upon us all. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Thank you very much for your letter and your concern, but be assured that all is well in the sharing of the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) with the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us). This sharing of the gift of God for our age is what our life is all about, to become the witness of God to all of the Creation of God within us, to become God's advocate to all of the lives of separation and differences that have grown within us, which includes everything that we now see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, bringing them over to the good side within us, to a life of "oneness with" God within us, explaining to them the truth and majesty of God, of True Man, and of the Creation of God within us. Explaining to them the relationship between the Creation of God and True Man within us, the relationship between the Creation of True Man and God within us, and the relationship between God and True Man within us. This is our real work, my dearest younger brother, as Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us), not to become, as many of us in our ignorance have become, their advocate to God, not to become the advocate of the Creation of God within us to some illusory god "outside" of us, trying to get things for them from god, like a wife or a husband, children, a house or an education, a good job, a good meal, and even a place in some imaginary heaven on the "outside" of us near this illusory god "outside" of us. This "outside" work is certainly not the work of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us). Bawa teaches us that everything that we now see, hear, smell, taste, and touch is what God has discarded, which when wisdom dawns within us, we will also discard. Until then we either embrace or fear everything we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, not knowing in truth what it is, using the life of separation and differences, that in our ignorance has grown within us, the life of "separation from" God within us, that we experience as existing "outside" of us, to deal with it, to deal with everything that comes to us, no matter what it is, either good or bad. It makes no difference to our mind and desire, all of it is just something to consume. But there is another way. Bawa teaches us that "If you have fear you do not have Allah. And if you have Allah you do not have fear." So to fear is to not have Allah. Bawa has come into our life, if we will let Him, to drive away our fear by awaking us to the reality of our life, which is Him within us, which is God in the state of the Dhat within us, which is the grace of God, the wealth of God's purity, and the treasury of God, all existing as One within us. In this way, beginning as "God, the Shaikh, and the Disciple" we become through the grace, wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge of God, the Triple Flame of God within us - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - which in maturity is the Nur Muhammad within us, the seed of Iman or True Man within us, which as One is Allah Muhammad within us, the seed of Islam or of God within us. We must realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth of our life, if we are ever to find peace in our life. This is "who we are", the Triple Flame of God within us becoming the Oneness of God within us, the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God within us, if we will but put down what we have been told about "who we are", about "where we are", and about "what is happening" in our life, by our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders, our wives, our husbands, our bosses, our families, and our friends. It is all false. Your concern, all concern, comes out of fear, fear based on a miss-understanding, on a miss-understanding of "who we are", of "where we are", and of "what is happening" in our life, a miss-understanding which is all false. For Bawa teaches us that, "Not a blade of grass moves without God's permission." So what is there to fear? What is there to be concerned about? Nothing my dearest younger brother. However, we must still be very careful in our life, especially in our current state of ignorance, because nothing is as we see it, or as we know it to be, or as we understand it to be. Bawa teaches us that we must not trust anybody but God within us. Not ourselves, not our parents, not our family, not our teachers, not our religious leaders, not our friends, not our husbands or wives, not anyone, not even anybody at the Fellowship. We must show them all respect, but don't want or expect anything from them. We must take what we need only from God within us. Only then will you, or any of us, be safe. "It is all a lie. It is all false. It is all over. What is next." This is what Bawa teaches us. "God alone is sufficient." This is the truth of your life, of my life, and of all life. Bawa teaches us that the only thing that any of us need is God, not each other, not a Fellowship, not books or discourses, not meetings, not school, not friends, not family, not a religion, not a wife or a husband, not an education, not a job, nothing. So why do we have all of these things? And why has Bawa even at times encouraged us to get these things? The answer is simple. So we could realize through our wisdom that we don't really need any of these things, that all we need is God. That is why. That is why God has sent us to the School of Contrasts that is called the world. To understand who we already are. To use our wisdom to differentiate between heaven and hell within us, between false man and True Man within us, between our wisdom and our mind & desire within us. That is why. Because everything is really within us, nothing is really "outside" of us. But this is also the trap of it, the trap of the place that we have come, for if we don't use our wisdom to come to the correct conclusion, if we don't use our wisdom to realize that it is all false, it is all wrong, it is all a lie, it is all over, and turn away from it, from all of it, turn away from all that we are currently experiencing as "who we are", as "where we are', and as "what is happening" in our life, and ask God within us and only God within us, "What is next?", then our life will end in disaster, we will become subject to the suffering of the grave and an eternal life of "separation from" God. This is why Bawa teaches us, in the opening line of the Forward, in the beautiful new book, The Pearl of Wisdom, on page 6, "Man, appearing on this earth, forgets God and falls into many a trap. He does not know to seek himself, although God exists within man. This 'Guru Mani' is to explain this concept in detail." And to climb out of this trap that we have all fallen into, which is our life as "separate from" God, "separate from" each other, and "separate from" the Creation of God within us, that we all fell into after forgetting God, after forgetting about our life as "one with" God, which is the life we lived in the world of souls, in the womb, and for our first two years on this earth world, to climb out of this trap we must turn away from our life of separation and differences, that we are now experiencing as existing "outside" of us, we must turn away from all that we currently are, from all that we currently know, and from all that we currently do and understand in our ignorance. And to successfully do this, to do this turning away from our life of "separation from" God, we need to use our wisdom. And to activate and use our wisdom we must realize without the slightest doubt, that the life and teaching Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him) is our wisdom, not "us", not "us" living in the world that we currently see as existing "outside" of us, not "us", or anything that we may know, understand, think, or do as "separate from" God. We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that "we" as '"separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God that God has personally placed within each of us, is not wisdom, but is the opposite of wisdom, is the direct connection, not to God and to the stuff of God within us, but to darkness and to the stuff of darkness within us, to all of the lives of separation and differences within us that are nourished by our life of sin, by our every look, sound, smell, taste, and touch of separation and differences, by "us" living our life in a state of "separation from" God, from each other, and from the Creation of God within us. This is why His Holiness teaches us, "All that you see is a dream. All that you do is just a thought within that dream. All that you appear as is hidden. Life is a feast of the world, its medicine is a time after a time." In this way, our current life of sin, our current life of seeing, thinking about, and treating everything and everyone in our life as "separate from" us, is breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all of the lives of separation and differences that we have in our ignorance grown within us, and that now live in the 9 openings of our body, as we live in the dream of "self existence", separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the Creation of God within us, as we live in the illusory world that we see as existing "outside" of us, and sin, and sin, and sin. And the opposite of all this, of our life of separation and differences, of our life of "selfishness", of our "self centered" existence, is wisdom, is the life of wisdom within us, is the life of "oneness with" God within us, is the life within us that is directly connected to God within us, and to all of the stuff of God within us, to all that is "one with" God within us, and for this age, the name of that life of wisdom within us, the name of the place within us where that life of wisdom dwells within us, the name of that tiny adamless point within the center of our innermost heart within us, and the name of all of the stuff of God within us, is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). This is why Bawa teaches us that wisdom is within us, but not resident within us, that wisdom is not like our mind and desire which is always resident within us, is always with us, no matter what we are doing or thinking, any time of the day or night. In this way, our mind and desire, as different from the wisdom within us, is always with us, is always resident within us. But wisdom is different from our mind and desire, wisdom is within us but is not resident within us, is not always with us, is not always connected to what we have become always connected with, which is our mind and desire, which is the life of separation and differences that we have become one with, which includes all of the lives of separation and differences within us, all of the lives of earth, fire, water, air, and ether within us, that have grown and come to maturity within us in our ignorance. Therefore, to access our wisdom we have to call it, we have to first get connected to it, not just try to use it, assuming that we are already connected to it. We have to properly call it to become connected to it, for it to leave its place within us, for it to leave its place within us and come to our place within us, for it to leave its place of "oneness with" God within us, its place of "oneness with" all of the stuff of God within us, which is the stuff of the 7 heavens of God within us, which includes all of the angels, heavenly beings, qutbs, prophets, and lights of God within us. We have to properly call it to become connected to it, for it to leave its realm within us and come to our realm within us, for it to come to our realm within us, which is our mind and desire, because in our current state of "separation from" God we can only be connected to our wisdom when it has come out of its natural realm of "oneness with" God, and come into our natural realm of "separation from" God, into our mind and desire. In this way, we have to call it to become connected to it. And before we call it we must properly set out intention for calling it, because it will only come to do God's work within us, not the work of our mind and desire, not the work of "separation from" God, not the work of sin, not the work of separation and differences that nourish the lives of separation and differences that we in our ignorance have mistakenly grown within us. It will not come to do the work of the world of hell within us, but it will come to complete God's intention within us, it will come to liberate our soul from the cross of our elemental body, and in this way, closing down the world of hell within us, it will come to join with our soul to find and become one with the Nur of God within us, making our life eternal, and in this way, re-opening the world of souls within us, and it will come to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, and in this way, opening the Kingdom of God within us. It will come from these reasons. In this way, when we properly set our intention, when we "intend what God intends" within us, and then properly call our wisdom from within us to complete God's intention within us, when we "intend what God intends" and when we say, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), our wisdom will come out of its place within us and come into our place within us, it will come out of its place of light and purity within us and enter our place of darkness and impurity within us, it will enter our mind and desire, which is our place, and join with us there in what we are doing, it will join with us there in what we have set our intention to accomplish through our wisdom joined in partnership with God. In this way, our wisdom will leave its place within us, its place of light and purity, and join with us in our place within us, our place of darkness and impurity, the place we have build in our ignorance in our mind and desire, to address with wisdom, to address with its direct connection to God, what we have properly called it to do, like "join with us as wisdom, as the direct connection to God within our words, to lovingly answer the phone that is ringing, and guide and comfort whoever is calling us", or "join with us as wisdom, as the direct connection to God within our mind, to say, open, and understand, the Suratal Fatihah within us.", or "join with us as wisdom, as the direct connection to God within our prayers, to perform salat (formal group prayers) or zikr (individual or group affirmation of the Unity of Allah), allowing us to become Your prayer mat, and experience Your prayer of oneness with God, rather than our prayer of separation from God". Then when wisdom is done with the job that we have called it to do, it return to its place of light and purity within us, leaving us behind, leaving us behind in our place of darkness and impurity within us, in our realm of mind and desire within us, in the realm that we have build within us in our ignorance of "who we are", in our realm of the 7 hells that we have build in our ignorance of "where we are", in our realm of separation and differences that we have built in our ignorance of "what is happening" in our life. And wisdom leaves us behind in our realm of "mine and your", of "my family" and "your family", of "my fellowship" and "your fellowship", of "my Bawa and your Bawa", of "my prophet of God and your prophet of God", of "my race and religion and your race and religion", of "my wife or husband" and "your wife or husband", of "my children" and "your children", etc., etc., etc.. Such is our current realm within us. And to bring an end to "our current realm" within us, to our realm of mind and desire, so wisdom never has to leave us behind, but can take us with it when its work is done within us, so wisdom can take us back with it to its realm of light and purity within us, to its realm of "oneness with" God within us, to its realm of oneness and unity, of justice and truth, and of compassion and unity within us, in order for this to happen within us, we have to keep wisdom very, very busy within us. We have to keep wisdom very busy within us completing God's intention within us, before we die, because after we die, nothing can change within us, after we die we just get the house that we have build and/or opened within us, while we were alive in the earth world, and if it is the house of the 7 hells within us, that God has built and personally placed within us, and that we have opened within us in our ignorance, while living in this earth world, than that is our reward. And if it is the house of the 7 heavens within us, that God has also built and personally placed within us, and that we have opened through our divine analytic wisdom, through the grace of the Holy One within us (Ya Quddus), through the grace of our Shaikh within us, the grace of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him) and the Katpaha Virudcham within us (the tree of life within us, that gives us whatever we ask for, whatever we intend in our life), then that is our reward. And beyond the 7 heavens and 7 hells that God has build and personally placed within each of us, if by the time of our death, if the house that we live in has become the 8th heaven or firdaus within us, which is the Kingdom of God within us, that is only build, opened, and enter by True Man within us, which is the Creation of True Man within us, then that is our reward. And if our house has become "God within the Creation of True Man" within us, which is the "Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man" within us, then that is our reward. And finally if our house has become the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which is the completion of the "story of True Man within God and of God within True Man" within us, which is the "Oneness of True Man within God and of God within True Man" within us, which in truth is God within us, which is God within God within us, then that is our reward. The choice is ours. May we both think about this a little, my dearest brother. It is very important. For as His Holiness teaches us, "The justice of God is that whatever we intend is what we receive." So through our wisdom, through the life and teaching of our Shaikh within us, of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), which is the pure original heart within our impure temporary heart, we must get God within us to intend God within us, and make His intention our intention, make God intention our only intention. Then God will complete what He has started within us, guaranteed. Then God will reveal God within God within the wisdom within us, within the heart of our Shaikh, within the heart of our Father within us, within the heart of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within the 18,000 universes within us, and for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man within the Kingdom of God within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. And the job that wisdom must complete within us is the job of completing God's intention within us - like opening our closed heart to God's compassion, to the needs of others, to the seeing of all life as our own life, or the opening of our closed mind to the Primal Ruler in our mind. Which is what Bawa teaches us about in the Invocation To Allah, in the new book, The Pearl of Wisdom, on page 8, which begins with, "O Primordial One, place the Primal Ruler in my mind, the Mighty Mind that comes and rules, casting aside three kinds of fore running conduct, destroying six armies and eliminating the enemy." or transforming our heart into a prayer mat for the feet of Allah. And for this age, the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us), which is each of us, is the prayer mat for the feet of Allah for this age, and the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him) is the feet of Allah for this age. Such is the true relationship that God has given each of us to Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), with the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), if we will but realize, understand, accept, and join with it, a relationship that God has personally placed within each of us, a relationship that is in our hands to either mature or ignore. May we both think about this a little, my dearest loving brother. It is very important. In this way, my dearest loving brother, if we don't make the proper continuous and enlightened effort in our life, literally transforming "our life" into "His Life", into the life of wisdom within us, which is the life of God within us, the life of our soul liberated from the cross of our elemental body joined with our wisdom within us, producing the state of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) and the Katpaha Virudcham within us, the "Shepherd and the Tree" within us, then our wisdom must always leave us behind. This is described beautifully in Chapter 1, "The Shepherd and the Tree", in the book, A Mystical Journey, where on page 9 His Holiness starts by telling us, --------------- Beginning of Quote --------------- "I give you my love, my grandchildren, my sons and daughters, my brothers and sisters. May God help you." "Every single part of your body needs God's help: your heart, your eyes and hands, every muscle, your blood and flesh and bones. You need His grace, His light, and His help, in your every quality and action." "My children, come with me. I have walked along this path before. On this journey there are ten test for cutting illusion or maya, and severing the attachments to the world. The ninth test, which you must now pass, concerns the world, and the nature of the world." "My Shaikh, the light form called Nur Muhammad, explained this test to me long ago. Now it is time to show you what he showed me." --------------- End of Quote --------------- So, after we have properly called our wisdom by saying the word, "Bawa", and properly tasked our wisdom with God's intention within us, and after our wisdom has completed its task within us, after it has completed God's intention within us, our wisdom must leave us behind, when it returns to its realm of light and purity, its realm of "oneness with" God within us. And it must leave us behind because in our state of "separation from" God we cannot yet go to the place of wisdom within us, to the place of light and purity within us, we can only be with our wisdom in our place, in our place of darkness and impurity, in our mind and desire, when we have properly set our intention and have properly called our wisdom, when we have "intended as God intends" within us, and we have called "Bawa" within us, to come and join us, as our direct connection to God within us, in completing God's intention within us. In this way, when our wisdom is done with a job we have properly given it, it must go back to its place alone, leaving us behind, leaving behind our place of darkness and impurity, leaving behind our mind and desire, because its work, the reason we have called it, is done. But we can call it again, and again, and again, until we are calling it with each breath, which is the highest point of the Kalimah within us, the highest point of, "La illaha, Ill Allahu, Muhammadar Rasulullah - I am not, You are Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God (Muhammad is The Triple Flame of God, the Dhat of God, the essence of God - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - the Messenger of God)," Which with wisdom becomes, "Ill Allahu, La illaha, Muhammad Mustafa' Rasul (Sal.), You are True Man, He is One - You are God, There is nothing other than You, Muhammad is the Chosen Messenger of God (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him), You are True Man, He is One." And when we need wisdom to join with us again, for another task that we have set our intention to do, in partnership with God within us, like "joining with us as wisdom, as the direct connection to the grace of God within us, as the nourishment of God within us, to feed the family that has gathered, to feed all of the Creation of God within us, or "joining with us as wisdom, as the direct connection to the words of God within us, to talk to a brother or sister, to teach all of us, what we do not know". Which is what this child is doing right now, my dearest loving brother, calling the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen from within this child (may God be pleased with Him), to "teach us what we do not know." To come into our "mind and desire" within us, to come into the life of separation and differences within us, that we have so beautifully opened within us, in our ignorance of "who we truly are", of "where we truly are", and of "what is truly happening" in our life. To come into our life of "separation from" God within us, of "separation from" each other within us, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, and teach us all, teach all of the Children of God for this age, in this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), teach all of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us, which is all of us, (may God be pleased with Us), teach us all, "what we do not know". And if we do this, if we do it in this way, if we live our life in this way, using our wisdom to live, to work, and to love, instead of using our "mind and desire, then we have "used our wisdom", and when our wisdom is done with its wisdom work, that we have intended it to complete within us, it returns from which it came, it returns to our innermost heart, to our qalb, to wait for its next assignment. So, then we have to properly call our wisdom again, and before calling our wisdom again, we have to properly set our intention to accomplish something in partnership with God within us, we have to again "intend what God intends" within us. We have to again set our intention on a job that is proper for our wisdom to do with us, and to do it in truth within us, not "outside" of us, and then we must call our wisdom again, again say the word, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). My dearest loving brother, this is how it works. This is how we get our wisdom to work within us, this is how to "use our wisdom", not by "us" as "separate from" God within us, or by "us" as separate from "Bawa" within us, trying to be good, or wise, or intelligent, or truthful, or helpful, or honest, or patient, or "anything", but by us realizing the way it works within us, as Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) has told us it works within us, and by acting accordingly. So in this way, and only in this way, can we activate our wisdom, can we use our wisdom to do anything, can we join in partnership with God within us, to complete God's intention within us, which is to reveal God within God within wisdom within us, to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, which is the 18,000 universes that God has personally placed within us or the dunya, and for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man within us, which is the Kingdom of God, the hereafter, or akhirah within us. Then and only then will our life be successful. For as His Holiness teaches us in Chapter 30, "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", on page 111, in the new book, The Pearl of Wisdom, "Life is the victory of wisdom reasoning over fate." In this way, we must get our wisdom to reason over our fate, with our fate being the life of "separation from" God that has grown within us in our ignorance, and our wisdom being the life of "oneness with" God that can be awakened within us through the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), that God has personally placed within the heart of each of His Children for this age, that God has personally placed surrounding the soul of each of His Children for this age, for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). In this way, we must realize, my dearest loving brother, that we can only do this joining with God in this age by joining with the gift of God for this age, by joining with the life and teaching of God for this age, that God has placed within us, which is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), that God has personally placed within each of us, within each of His Children for this age, which is all of us. And we must realize that we can only do this wisdom work within us by first setting our intention for the work of wisdom within us, for the work that is appropriate for the wisdom within us, and then by calling our wisdom from within us to complete God's intention within us, by saying the word, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). And then by again setting our intention for the work of wisdom within us, and then by again calling our wisdom, by again saying the word, "Bawa". And then by again setting our intention for the work of wisdom within us, and then by again calling our wisdom, by again saying the word, "Bawa", etc., etc., etc.. My dearest loving brother Jalaal Deen, this is how it works, this is how we can use our wisdom to successfully live our life in the world of illusion that we now find ourselves surrounded by, this is how we can transcend this world of darkness, evil, and impurity that we have mistakenly opened within us, this is how we can close down the world of hell within us, re-open the world of souls within us, and then open the Kingdom of God within us. There is no other way. This is how our life will become victorious, how our wisdom will reason over our fate. There is no other way. This is what Bawa calls, "The Guru Mantra." Everything else is false. Using anything else will not accomplish this, will not lead us back to God, from which we have all come. Everything else will only lead us to hell, to the suffering of the grave and to an eternal life "separate from" God. May we both think about this a little, my dearest loving brother. It is very important. In this way, we have to call our wisdom within us to leave its realm within us and come to our realm within us, to come to our realm of "mind and desire", to our realm of separation and differences, to our realm of all of the stuff of our mind and desire, which includes all of the 400 trillion, 10 thousand spiritual energies within us, which is the stuff of the 7 hells within us. In this way, we have to be repeatedly setting our intention and calling our wisdom, to deal with the life of separation and differences that we are constantly facing in our life, by repeatedly setting our intention upon God's intention within us, and repeatedly saying the word "Bawa", to get the wisdom within us, to move from its place of light and purity within us, from its place of "oneness with" God within us, to our place of darkness and impurity within us, to our place of "separation from" God within us, to deal with "our place" for us, because "we" in our current state of "separation from" God cannot deal with our current state, but God can, but God as our wisdom can. This is the secret of God. My dearest loving brother Jalaal Deen. There is no other way to deal with "our place" within us, to deal with the place of hell that we have in our ignorance opened within us, that we have opened in our ignorance of "who we truly are", of "where we truly are", and of "what is truly happening" in our life. And we must always remember, and never forget, that the name of our wisdom for this age, for this age of Rahim, for this final age when God calls everything back into Himself from which it has all come, is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). There is no other way to deal with the hell of us, which is all of us, which is all that we currently see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. This is why Bawa told us, right before He left the physical form, "Don't forget Me! Don't forget Me! Don't forget Me!" So unless we call our wisdom before we do anything, unless we properly set our intention to join in partnership with God within us, to complete God's intention within us, not to complete our intention "outside" of us, and unless we start each thing with the word "Bawa", nothing of value gets done in our life, and everything that we do in our life is a sin, whether it is prayer or duty or study or apparent acts of kindness or goodness or play or work. We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that without energizing our wisdom within us in this way, which in truth is energizing our soul life within us, our life of "oneness with" God within us, our life of "oneness with" each other within us, and our life of "oneness with" the Creation of God within us, without doing this, without properly bringing our wisdom into what we are doing, before we do it, all that we do, without our wisdom, is useless and has no value, because "we are doing it", because "we" as '"separate from" God, as "separate from" Bawa or our wisdom, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, are dong it. But once we set our intention properly, on joining in partnership with God within us, to complete God's intention within us, and properly call our wisdom, by saying the word, "Bawa", then "we" as "separate from" God, as "separate from" Bawa, are no longer doing it, now God is doing it, now God, as the power within our wisdom, is doing it. Now Bawa is doing it, now Bawa, as our direct connection with God within us, as the Qutb of the Quddus or Wilayah of God within us, as the Action of the Power of God within us, is doing it, and in this way, the life of "separation from" God within us sits down, and the life of "oneness with" God within us stands up. It is just that simple. This is why Bawa teaches us, "The only way to get your mind and desire to sit down is to get your wisdom to stand up." And we get out wisdom to stand up, by setting our intention on God, on what God is doing within us, which is revealing God within God within our wisdom within us, by revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, so True Man within us can reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, and say the word, "Bawa". For without the supervision of our wisdom, the only value of anything that we do is to nourish the lives of separation and differences within us, is to keep our "separation from" God strong, not to liberate our soul, not to awaken the wisdom surrounding our soul, not to allow our Shaikh to finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal True Man within True Man within us, and not to allow God to finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal God within God within our Shaikh within us. My love you, my dearest brother Jalaal Deen. You are a good child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). May we both read over and over again these beautiful words of wisdom, and reflect on them, reflect on these beautiful words of wisdom coming from the life and teaching of our Father within us, the life and teaching our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, the words of wisdom that have been growing and maturing within the heart of this child over the last 27 years. Please forgive me if anything that has been shared upsets you or offends you, or your family, or any of your friends, in any way. This child is a fool, who sits at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and calls on His protection and guidance in all things. And as Bawa said at the end of the Forward to the book, The Pearl of Wisdom, on page 7, "Forgive me the wrong and accept the good. So I request." Please give my love and salaams to your mother and father, to your brothers and sisters, to your friends, and share and discuss these words of God's grace with them. They are very important words for your life, for my life, and for the life of all of the Children of God for this age, and they most be shared to continue to grow, within me, within you, and within all of us. That also is how it works. So have no fear, God is here, right here within each of us. That is our true birthright, our true heritage. Remember, Bawa teaches us, "The value of God is in the use of God". So in all things use God, not you, not you as "separate from" God. So in all things, use the wisdom that God has personally placed within you, which is "Bawa", which is "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", which is our Father, "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). And in this way, and only in this way, may we both join with God within us, by joining with the wisdom of God within us, the direct connection to God within us, that God has personally placed within each of us, to walk out of this dream of "us", the dream of "us" as "separate from" God, back into the reality of "us" within us, of "us" as "one with" God within us, which in Truth is the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which is God within God within our wisdom within us, completing God's intention within us. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that everything that we need is within us. Nothing that we need is "outside" of us. And finally, His Holiness teaches us, "My words are seeds. If you plant them in your heart they will become the Tree of God's Grace for all of the worlds within you." "Then I will come and join you in tasting the Fruits of this Tree, further explaining them to you in your heart, and we will distribute these fruits together to all of the Creation of God within you, and to all of the Creation of True Man within you, and God will be very pleased." My dearest brother Jalaal Deen, may this become our life, both your life, my life, and the life of all of our brothers and sisters, a fearless life built on iman, on our absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, and in God alone, and on our realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with the gift of God for our age, which is the life and teaching of our Father within us, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), that God has personally placed within each of our hearts. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of Spiritual Letter 17 - original version - .......................... or Go To Spiritual Letter 17: or |
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