Spiritual Letter 17 - Outline & Summary 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 3 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. Outline & Summary of Spiritual Letter to use God to get to God, to use what God has personally given us for this age, to get to God, not to rely on what the world gives us or tells us, in all things to make "God alone is sufficient", for our life, for our body, and for our understanding 17. Learning To Use The "Guru Mantra" To Liberate Our Soul - which is saying the name of our Shaikh before we do anything, and in this way inviting our Shaikh to complete what He has started within us, before we die, inviting our Shaikh to "separate from" us all that is separating us from our Shaikh, and from God within our Shaikh, before we die 18. Never Forget That The Name of Our Wisdom Is "Bawa" - or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), not our name, not our name of "separation and differences" that was given to us by the world 19. Only By Using Our Wisdom Will Anything of Value Get Done - because all that is wrong with us is that "appearing on this earth, we have forgotten God, we have fallen into many a trap, and we fail to know to search for ourselves within ourselves, although God exists within us, within our wisdom, within our Shaikh within us" (quote from the Forward of the book, The Pearl of Wisdom, page 6) Text of Spiritual Letter 16. Knowing What It Means When Bawa Tells Us To "Use Your Wisdom" - which is to use God to get to God, to use what God has personally given us for this age, to get to God, not to rely on what the world gives us or tells us, in all things to make "God alone is sufficient", for our life, for our body, and for our understanding To use our wisdom is to use God within us, is to use the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age, is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), that God has personally placed within each of us, within each of the Children of God for this age, which is the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) within us, for this age of the Rahim of God, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), when God pulls all of His Creation back into Himself, from which we have all come. And in this way, ending what God has started within each of us, which is to reveal God within God within True Man within us, separating God again into aathi and anathi, into lightness and darkness, into the understanding of God, and the lack of the understanding of God, but this time within each of us, where either we become "One with" God within us, for eternity, or we become "separate from" God within us, for eternity. Where either we join with our Shaikh within us, we join with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, and then join with True Man within us to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, revealing in this the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God within God within True Man within us, completing what God has started within each of us. Or we stay in our current state, as one with what has "separated from" God within us, and go the way of the 7 hells within us, of the suffering of the grave within us, and of an eternal life of "separation from" God within us, of "separation from" each other within us, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us. May we all realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth of our lives, without the slightest doubt. May we all choose "Oneness with" our Shaikh within us, "oneness with" the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), and "oneness with" the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us, (may God be pleased with each of Us), and in this way, "Oneness with" God within us, "Oneness with" each other within us, and "Oneness with" the Creation of God within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. 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. 17. Learning To Use The "Guru Mantra" To Liberate Our Soul - which is saying the name of our Shaikh before we do anything, and in this way inviting our Shaikh to complete what He has started within us, before we die, inviting our Shaikh to "separate from" us all that is separating us from our Shaikh, and from God within our Shaikh, before we die The name of our Shaikh, followed by the intention of God within us for this age, is the "Guru Mantra" that our Shaikh has taught us to use, to liberate our soul from the cross of our elemental body, from our body of the five elements which has fallen out of the state of the Kalimah within us, out of the remembrance of God within us, out of the affirmation of the Unity of Allah, or "tawhid", within us, which is the principle tenet of Islam within us. The principle tenet of Islam within us, which God originally employed within us, to create the original body of purified earth within us, known as Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him), the original palace of the soul within us where God placed the Light of the Nur, which is the light of our wisdom, the light body of our soul, and within which God placed our soul, and the Light of the Qutb of God, which is the wisdom surrounding our soul, the guardian of our soul, the wisdom which explains within us, which is the grace of the dhat (the essence of God) within us, which awakens the soul within us, the hayah or life of purity within us, and transforms it into the divine vibration, into the "Resonance of Allah" within us. The "Guru Mantra" that starts with the word, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), allowing us to join with our Shaikh to re-establish the Kalimah within us, the Kalimah of, La illaha, Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasulullah - I am not god, You are God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God, causing our body of the 5 elements within us to return to the state of Adam within us before the fall of Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him). Before the spit of satan within us, which is the sperm of our father, which weakened Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him), before the creation of Eve within us (may the blessing of God be upon Her), which is the ovum of our mother fertilized by the sperm of our father, and before the fall of Adam and Eve from the grace of God within us, from the state of "oneness with" God within us, which is our birth into the world of earth with a body of 9 openings, where everything that we see is maya or an illusion. In this way, we start the process of Adam recovering from the fall of Adam within us, (may the blessing of God be upon Him), of our body of 5 elements returning to the state of purity, by setting our intention on affirming the Unity of Allah within us, on re-establishing the state of the Kalimah by the 5 elements within us, and by calling our wisdom to complete this intention of God within us, by saying the word, "Bawa", followed by the words of the Kalimah within us, followed by, "La illaha, Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasulullah" - I am not god, You are God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that God within us, and only God within us, has allowed the life of separation and differences within us to grow and come to maturity within us, to complete what He has started within us, which is to reveal God within God within True Man within us. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that God as Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim within us, as the Creator, the Nourisher, and the Sustainer within each of us, has allowed the life of "separation from" God within us, the life of "separation from" each other within us, and the life of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, to come to life within us, and to rule over us within us, to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" God within us, to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" each other within us, and to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" the Creation of God within us. And in this way to come and rule over the life of grace, of 'ilm or divine knowledge, and of divine wealth within us, that was present within us, in the world of Souls, in the womb, and for the first two years of our life in the world. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that the name of our Shaikh, which is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" within us, (may God be pleased with Him), followed by the intention of God within us, is the "Guru Mantra" that we must use within us, to allow our wisdom to finish what it has started within us, which is to reveal True Man within True Man within us, so God can finish what God has started within our Shaikh, so God can reveal God within God within True Man within 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. 18. Never Forget That The Name of Our Wisdom Is "Bawa" - or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), not our name, not our name of "separation and differences" that was given to us by the world We must never forget, that for this age, the name of our wisdom is "Bawa", because for this age God has set it up this way, because in each age the life and teaching of God comes a new to the Children of God for each age, because that is how the grace of God comes to each age, to move forward what God is doing in each age. And in this way, liberating the Children of God in each age from the mistakes of the past, from what the people have done in the past with the grace of God that came in the previous age, from what the people have done with what God did before for the Children of God in the previous age. And for this age, for this age of the Rahim, what God is now doing in this age, that He didn't do in previous ages, is the work of the Rahim of God, is the work of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), which is pulling back into God everything that has come from God, which is all of everything in all of us. And in this way, separating us from all that separates us from God, from each other, and from the Creation of God within us. And for this age of God, for this age of the Rahim of God, the life and teaching of God for this age, for the Children of God for this age, 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). And for this reason, the name of our wisdom in this age is, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). 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!" 19. Only By Using Our Wisdom Will Anything of Value Get Done - because all that is wrong with us is that "appearing on this earth, we have forgotten God, we have fallen into many a trap, and we fail to know to search for ourselves within ourselves, although God exists within us, within our wisdom, within our Shaikh within us" (quote from the Forward of the book, The Pearl of Wisdom, page 6) We must realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of our life, the truth that God has sent us to a very special school, a school of Contrasts to understand who we already are, because understanding only occurs through contrast, and having learned what we have come here to learn, to leave this special school and return to God, and as a good student, to study what is available in this school, by showing up on time, behaving ourselves, listening to the teachers, and completing our assignments on time and to the best of our ability. Our work is not to play around in school, or miss our classes, or waste our time, by excessively talking to other students, or by smoking cigarettes in the bathroom, or by trying to become attractive to the girls or the boys in the school, or by acing in a way to gain the admiration or envy of other students. Instead, our work is to correctly understand the true nature of this special school, and of the students and teachers who attend this special school, realizing that to become a good student in this special school we must join our wisdom with our soul, because in truth our soul, the hayah or life of purity God has placed within us, is the true student of this special school, not us in a state of "separation from" God. And our wisdom, the gift that God has personally placed surrounding our soul, is the true teacher of this special school, not us in the state of "separation" from Bawa, and the Creation of God, that God has personally placed within each of us, is the true curriculum of this special school, not the things that we currently see as existing "outside" of us. Only then, when our wisdom has awakened within us, and our soul has become the student of our wisdom within us, joining it in completing God's intention within us, which is to liberate our soul from the cross of our elemental body, from our life of separation and differences, from our life of mind and desire, and then as One with our wisdom, to find and become One with the Nur Muhammad within us, which is the light of our wisdom, the light body of our soul, making our life eternal, only then can anything of value occur in our life. Everything else in our life is but a dream of "self existence", whose only value is in its ending. 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. End of Page 3 of 4 of Spiritual Letter 17 - outline & summary version - ...................................... or Go To Spiritual Letter 17: or |
Spiritual Letter 17 - Outline & Summary 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 3 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. Outline & Summary of Spiritual Letter to use God to get to God, to use what God has personally given us for this age, to get to God, not to rely on what the world gives us or tells us, in all things to make "God alone is sufficient", for our life, for our body, and for our understanding 17. Learning To Use The "Guru Mantra" To Liberate Our Soul - which is saying the name of our Shaikh before we do anything, and in this way inviting our Shaikh to complete what He has started within us, before we die, inviting our Shaikh to "separate from" us all that is separating us from our Shaikh, and from God within our Shaikh, before we die 18. Never Forget That The Name of Our Wisdom Is "Bawa" - or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), not our name, not our name of "separation and differences" that was given to us by the world 19. Only By Using Our Wisdom Will Anything of Value Get Done - because all that is wrong with us is that "appearing on this earth, we have forgotten God, we have fallen into many a trap, and we fail to know to search for ourselves within ourselves, although God exists within us, within our wisdom, within our Shaikh within us" (quote from the Forward of the book, The Pearl of Wisdom, page 6) Text of Spiritual Letter 16. Knowing What It Means When Bawa Tells Us To "Use Your Wisdom" - which is to use God to get to God, to use what God has personally given us for this age, to get to God, not to rely on what the world gives us or tells us, in all things to make "God alone is sufficient", for our life, for our body, and for our understanding To use our wisdom is to use God within us, is to use the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age, is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), that God has personally placed within each of us, within each of the Children of God for this age, which is the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) within us, for this age of the Rahim of God, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), when God pulls all of His Creation back into Himself, from which we have all come. And in this way, ending what God has started within each of us, which is to reveal God within God within True Man within us, separating God again into aathi and anathi, into lightness and darkness, into the understanding of God, and the lack of the understanding of God, but this time within each of us, where either we become "One with" God within us, for eternity, or we become "separate from" God within us, for eternity. Where either we join with our Shaikh within us, we join with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, and then join with True Man within us to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, revealing in this the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God within God within True Man within us, completing what God has started within each of us. Or we stay in our current state, as one with what has "separated from" God within us, and go the way of the 7 hells within us, of the suffering of the grave within us, and of an eternal life of "separation from" God within us, of "separation from" each other within us, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us. May we all realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth of our lives, without the slightest doubt. May we all choose "Oneness with" our Shaikh within us, "oneness with" the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), and "oneness with" the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us, (may God be pleased with each of Us), and in this way, "Oneness with" God within us, "Oneness with" each other within us, and "Oneness with" the Creation of God within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. 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. 17. Learning To Use The "Guru Mantra" To Liberate Our Soul - which is saying the name of our Shaikh before we do anything, and in this way inviting our Shaikh to complete what He has started within us, before we die, inviting our Shaikh to "separate from" us all that is separating us from our Shaikh, and from God within our Shaikh, before we die The name of our Shaikh, followed by the intention of God within us for this age, is the "Guru Mantra" that our Shaikh has taught us to use, to liberate our soul from the cross of our elemental body, from our body of the five elements which has fallen out of the state of the Kalimah within us, out of the remembrance of God within us, out of the affirmation of the Unity of Allah, or "tawhid", within us, which is the principle tenet of Islam within us. The principle tenet of Islam within us, which God originally employed within us, to create the original body of purified earth within us, known as Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him), the original palace of the soul within us where God placed the Light of the Nur, which is the light of our wisdom, the light body of our soul, and within which God placed our soul, and the Light of the Qutb of God, which is the wisdom surrounding our soul, the guardian of our soul, the wisdom which explains within us, which is the grace of the dhat (the essence of God) within us, which awakens the soul within us, the hayah or life of purity within us, and transforms it into the divine vibration, into the "Resonance of Allah" within us. The "Guru Mantra" that starts with the word, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), allowing us to join with our Shaikh to re-establish the Kalimah within us, the Kalimah of, La illaha, Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasulullah - I am not god, You are God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God, causing our body of the 5 elements within us to return to the state of Adam within us before the fall of Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him). Before the spit of satan within us, which is the sperm of our father, which weakened Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him), before the creation of Eve within us (may the blessing of God be upon Her), which is the ovum of our mother fertilized by the sperm of our father, and before the fall of Adam and Eve from the grace of God within us, from the state of "oneness with" God within us, which is our birth into the world of earth with a body of 9 openings, where everything that we see is maya or an illusion. In this way, we start the process of Adam recovering from the fall of Adam within us, (may the blessing of God be upon Him), of our body of 5 elements returning to the state of purity, by setting our intention on affirming the Unity of Allah within us, on re-establishing the state of the Kalimah by the 5 elements within us, and by calling our wisdom to complete this intention of God within us, by saying the word, "Bawa", followed by the words of the Kalimah within us, followed by, "La illaha, Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasulullah" - I am not god, You are God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that God within us, and only God within us, has allowed the life of separation and differences within us to grow and come to maturity within us, to complete what He has started within us, which is to reveal God within God within True Man within us. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that God as Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim within us, as the Creator, the Nourisher, and the Sustainer within each of us, has allowed the life of "separation from" God within us, the life of "separation from" each other within us, and the life of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, to come to life within us, and to rule over us within us, to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" God within us, to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" each other within us, and to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" the Creation of God within us. And in this way to come and rule over the life of grace, of 'ilm or divine knowledge, and of divine wealth within us, that was present within us, in the world of Souls, in the womb, and for the first two years of our life in the world. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that the name of our Shaikh, which is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" within us, (may God be pleased with Him), followed by the intention of God within us, is the "Guru Mantra" that we must use within us, to allow our wisdom to finish what it has started within us, which is to reveal True Man within True Man within us, so God can finish what God has started within our Shaikh, so God can reveal God within God within True Man within 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. 18. Never Forget That The Name of Our Wisdom Is "Bawa" - or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), not our name, not our name of "separation and differences" that was given to us by the world We must never forget, that for this age, the name of our wisdom is "Bawa", because for this age God has set it up this way, because in each age the life and teaching of God comes a new to the Children of God for each age, because that is how the grace of God comes to each age, to move forward what God is doing in each age. And in this way, liberating the Children of God in each age from the mistakes of the past, from what the people have done in the past with the grace of God that came in the previous age, from what the people have done with what God did before for the Children of God in the previous age. And for this age, for this age of the Rahim, what God is now doing in this age, that He didn't do in previous ages, is the work of the Rahim of God, is the work of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), which is pulling back into God everything that has come from God, which is all of everything in all of us. And in this way, separating us from all that separates us from God, from each other, and from the Creation of God within us. And for this age of God, for this age of the Rahim of God, the life and teaching of God for this age, for the Children of God for this age, 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). And for this reason, the name of our wisdom in this age is, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). 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!" 19. Only By Using Our Wisdom Will Anything of Value Get Done - because all that is wrong with us is that "appearing on this earth, we have forgotten God, we have fallen into many a trap, and we fail to know to search for ourselves within ourselves, although God exists within us, within our wisdom, within our Shaikh within us" (quote from the Forward of the book, The Pearl of Wisdom, page 6) We must realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of our life, the truth that God has sent us to a very special school, a school of Contrasts to understand who we already are, because understanding only occurs through contrast, and having learned what we have come here to learn, to leave this special school and return to God, and as a good student, to study what is available in this school, by showing up on time, behaving ourselves, listening to the teachers, and completing our assignments on time and to the best of our ability. Our work is not to play around in school, or miss our classes, or waste our time, by excessively talking to other students, or by smoking cigarettes in the bathroom, or by trying to become attractive to the girls or the boys in the school, or by acing in a way to gain the admiration or envy of other students. Instead, our work is to correctly understand the true nature of this special school, and of the students and teachers who attend this special school, realizing that to become a good student in this special school we must join our wisdom with our soul, because in truth our soul, the hayah or life of purity God has placed within us, is the true student of this special school, not us in a state of "separation from" God. And our wisdom, the gift that God has personally placed surrounding our soul, is the true teacher of this special school, not us in the state of "separation" from Bawa, and the Creation of God, that God has personally placed within each of us, is the true curriculum of this special school, not the things that we currently see as existing "outside" of us. Only then, when our wisdom has awakened within us, and our soul has become the student of our wisdom within us, joining it in completing God's intention within us, which is to liberate our soul from the cross of our elemental body, from our life of separation and differences, from our life of mind and desire, and then as One with our wisdom, to find and become One with the Nur Muhammad within us, which is the light of our wisdom, the light body of our soul, making our life eternal, only then can anything of value occur in our life. Everything else in our life is but a dream of "self existence", whose only value is in its ending. 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. End of Page 3 of 4 of Spiritual Letter 17 - outline & summary version - ...................................... or Go To Spiritual Letter 17: or |
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