Spiritual Letter 17 - Expanded 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) Page 2 of 4 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum. May all the peace and blessings of God be upon us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest brothers and sisters. 10. We Have To Learn How To Properly Call Our Wisdom Within Us We have to learn how to properly call our wisdom within us, and task it to complete God's intention within us, we have to learn how to make our mind and desire sit down within us by getting our wisdom to stand up within us. This is the work of a true human being, one who has become a slave of Allah, one who has completely surrendered to the feet of Allah, to the feet of Allah for this age which is our Shaikh, which is the life and teaching of God for this age to the Children of God for this age, which is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) for the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us). This is the work of a true human being, to become "one with" Allah within us, by becoming one with the wisdom God has placed within us, by "intending what God intends", not forming our own intentions, and by properly calling our wisdom to complete God's intention within us, not by trying to complete God's intention ourselves, "outside" of us, not by trying to do the work that only Allah can do, that only Allah can do either within us or "outside" of us, not trying to work "outside" of us to make ourselves acceptable to Allah, not trying to work "outside" of us for wages to get into some illusory heaven "outside" of us, so we can sit near some illusory god "outside" of us. This is not the work of a Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, of a Child of God for this age. Instead of this, "make God's intention your search", and say, "Bawa". 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. 11. Getting Our Wisdom Not To Leave Us Behind To get wisdom within us not to leave us behind, when it returns to its place of light and purity within us, to its place of "oneness with" God within us, which is the heart of our Shaikh within us, the heart of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), we must disappear into our Shaikh within us, allowing our Shaikh to finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal True Man within True Man within us, so our Shaikh can disappear into God within Him within us. In this way, we must make "our" life into His life within us, we must make "our" intentions into His intentions within us, we must make "our" thoughts into His thoughts within us, allowing our Shaikh within us, which is the flower of our inner heart or of our qalb within us, to bloom and emit God's fragrance within Him within us, making His life into God's life within Him within us, making His intentions into God's intentions within Him within us, making His thoughts into God's thoughts within Him within us, allowing God to finish what God has started within Him within us, which is to reveal God within God within Him within us. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, there is no other way to become One with God within our wisdom within us, by becoming One with our Shaikh 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. 12. The Justice of God Is That Whatever We Intend Is What We Receive The justice of God is that whatever we intend is what we will receive, so what is to become of us, of our life, of our body, of our soul, of all that is within us, is in our hands, not in God's hand, because God has given all of it to each of us. God has given all that He is to each of us, God has given all that is within Him to us, and God has given all that He has discarded from Himself to us, God has given each of us all that discarded from Him and all that He became in revealing Himself as the Dhat of God, as the essence of God, as the Triple Flame of God - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - as the resplendence that emerged out of His effulgence, separating His darkness from Himself revealing His Light. This is "who we truly are", we are "all that is God" , which is all of everything, because, Ill Allahu, You are Allah, La il la ha, there is nothing other than God, Muhammad Mustafa' al-Rasul, 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 this is "where we truly are", we are "within God within the wisdom within us", just waiting to happen, just waiting to be revealed, just waiting for God to reveal God within God within the wisdom within us, And this is "what is truly happening" within us, in our life, in all life, "True Man is happening within the Creation of God within us", and "God is happening within the Creation of True Man within us", and in this way, "God is revealing God within God within the wisdom within us", if we will but join with our Shaikh within us, in what He is doing within us, which is revealing True Man within True Man within us, allowing our Shaikh to join with God within Him within us, in what God is doing within Him, which is revealing God within God within our Shaikh within us. 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. 13. Understanding The Proper Work of Our Wisdom Within Us The proper work of our wisdom is God's work within us, it is the work of God's life within us, it is the work of the life within us that is "one with" God within us, it is not our work "outside" of us, it is not the work of our life as "separate from" God either "outside" or "inside"of us, it is not the work of our life as seen "outside" of us, as "separate from" each other, or as "separate from" the Creation of God, either "outside" or "inside" of us. The proper work of our wisdom is completing God's intention within us, which is revealing God within God within the wisdom within us, by revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, and revealing God within the Creation of True Man within us, and in this way, completing the story of True Man within God within us, and completing the story of God within True Man within us, and in this way, revealing the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God within us. The proper work of our wisdom within us, is not us, as "separate from" God within us, "working for wages to get into heaven", is not us, as "separate from" God within us, living a life of separation and differences in the world that we see as existing "outside" us, or saving the world that we see as existing "outside" of us from the evil that we see in the world "outside" of us, or correcting others, or helping others, or doing anything with others in the world that we see as existing "outside" of us. The proper work of our wisdom is seeing all life in the world, in the world either "outside" or "inside" of us, as really our own life, as really existing within us, not "outside" of us, and in this way, experiencing all suffering as our suffering, all hunger as our hunger, and all happiness, joy, and peace as our happiness, joy, and peace, experiencing all damnation and salvation as truly our damnation and our salvation, for in truth we are One, as God is One. 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 --------------- 14. Understanding Why Our Wisdom Must Leave Us Behind And wisdom must leave us behind because of who we have become, because we have become one with what has separated from God, when God revealed His Light within us, the beauty and qualities of Allah within us, when God revealed Himself within us as His completeness, as His Oneness, as the Nur of Allah, from out of His Wilayah or Power within us, and in this way, revealing the resplendence of God's Oneness and Completeness within us. And which wisdom must again separate from us, when we join with God within us, by joining with the gift of God for this age, with the life and teaching of our Father within us, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), allowing God to reveal the radiance of Allah's essence or Dhat within us, which shines within the resplendence of His truth, as the light of Muhammad within us, called Nur Muhammad within us, the Triple Flame of God within us, which was impressed by God on the forehead of Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him). 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. 15. Learning To Task And Call Our Wisdom With Each Breath This is the true meaning of the Kalimah within us, our tasking and calling our wisdom within us. In this way, we start through wisdom, through our direct connection with God within us, which is our direct connection to our Shaikh within us, to our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), with "La ilaha, Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasulullah - there is nothing other than God, You are Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God." Which through wisdom is seen within us as, "I am not, You are, and Muhammad is Your Messenger, the Triple Flame of God, the dhat of God within us, the resplendence of God that emerges from the effulgence of God within us, the essence of God that emerges from the heart of our Shaikh within us, is the Messenger of God within us, that discourses the explanations of luminous wisdom to the all of the Creation of God within us." Which then becomes through wisdom, "Ill Allahu, La illaha, Muhammad Mustafa' Rasul (Sal.), You are True Man, He is One" - You are Allah, 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. Which through wisdom is seen within us as the love song between God and True Man within us, with True Man within God within us, saying to God within True Man within us, "Ill Allahu" - You are Allah, "La illaha" - all of Creation is You, "Muhammad Mustafa' Rasul (Sal.)" - and all of the Secrets Hidden by You within Your Creation is also You", and with Allah within True Man within us, then saying to True Man within Allah within us, "You are True Man", and with True Man joined as One with Allah within us, and with Allah joined as One with True Man within us, saying together as One, "He is One", affirming the Unity of Allah, or tawhid, which is the principle tenet of Islam. 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, The Triple Flame of God, the Dhat of God - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - Muhammad is 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). End of Page 2 of 4 of Spiritual Letter 17 - expanded version - ............................. or Go To Spiritual Letter 17: or |
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