Finding, Understanding, & Joining With A True Man Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on January 26, 2002 Wisdom Point: We have to discover what is hidden within our body Selection: Related Material of Spiritual Letter 14 - Topic 3 Live with the faith, that your body and your soul do not belong to you, then God will share the suffering that comes to you. Place your trust in God all the time, and in each moment say to God, "This is Your property, Your duty, Your responsibility". One who was born as a man and has lived as a man will exist in this state. For whatever happens he will say with contentment and gratitude, "Al-hamdu lillah - all praise and praising belong to God, and to God alone", and for what might happen in the next moment, he will say, "Tawwakul Allah - it is all Your responsibility, O God", and praise Him. Outline of Topic 3 1. The True Shaikh-Disciple Relationship - is the unity of God and True Man, of our body and our soul, and as such they are one, one within the other, one revealing the other within it, with God becoming the Creation, the body of man, the dunya, hiding the soul or life of God within it, revealing True Man as the Oneness of God and His Creation, then True Man becomes Creation, the body of God, akhirah, hiding the soul or life of True Man within it, revealing God as the Oneness of True Man and His Creation 2. The Gift of The True Human Being - is God, is the Oneness of God and His Creation, which is True Man, which is the divine consciousness of God, of our soul, the life of God within us, the most important gift from God, but to realize the True Man and God within us, we must find and understand such a True Man among the created beings, this is the most difficult task in our life, for unless we find and understand a True Man all is lost, because we will never find our true selves, which is True Man within the Creation of God, or find God within True Man, we will have to sit alone and cry 3. The Gift of Our Body - is the path of God, the path or story of True Man and God within us, of the school of contrasts within us, which is also the most important gift from God, for both of these are really one gift, the gift of the oneness of God and True Man, for without them we can never reach God, like without an apple seed and an apple tree we can never know the sweet taste in the mature apple 4. Learning About The Cage of Our Body - about the eight-span house of our body, about our school, our heaven, our hell, and the kingdom of God within us, about the two-spans that we have become, but that must be understood and removed from within us, and the six-spans that we must understand and become, in order to become a True Human being 5. We Have To Discover What Is Hidden Within This Body - this is what we must learn from a wise man of purity. We must learn this from a pure Father who has a pure heart. To do this, your unity and faith must be strong 6. Establishing The Direct Connection Between Us And Our Father - to do this you must have purity of heart to learn from the purity of the Father. The secret of God, our Father who is purity, must be learned with pure love, pure faith, pure compassion, pure unity, and a pure life The True Shaikh-Disciple Relationship The above quote is from His Holiness, and the following material is from the "Introduction" to the book by His Holiness, "Shaikh and Disciple", pages 5, 6, and 7. Click HERE to go to an on-line version of that book, and read the entire "Introduction". This book explains in detail the Shaikh Disciple Relationship that each of us must establish within our own hearts to be successful in our life, that must be established between our soul, our Shaikh, and God within us, for the Three of God within us to become the One of God within us, for our wisdom to reason over our fate, for our life to be successful. The "Introduction" to this book gives us a glimpse of the path walked by His Holiness as he walked out of a life of "separation from" and into the life of "oneness with", and the role that a True Man, a True Human Being, both in the world and within our hearts, and our body, both "outside" of us and "inside of ", play in this walk. The specific excerpt taken from the "Introduction" and reproduced as part of this letter helps summarize the role of the two gifts of God - our body and our soul; the body of man, with True Man hidden within our body, and our soul, with God hidden within our soul - and in this way we are of two realms, the realm of our body and our soul, and realm of True Man and God, which is this world and the next world or the hereafter, and we must learn to live in both worlds now, not after we die, for after we die there is no moving forward on the path of God, it is over within us, and we just get what we have built, forever, whatever it is - hell, or heaven, or God. All of this is what God has given us, in the journey of our soul back to God, the body of man as the palace or house of the soul, as the school of contrast, as the world of souls or heaven, of the world of hell, and as the spiritual form of the Holy Qur'an, which in maturity is the kingdom of God, and of True Man as the essence of the Holy Qur'an, the Umm al-Qur'an, the Mother of man's wisdom who raises the true believer, the mu'mim, and the consequence of using these gifts from God correctly, and becoming One with God, or incorrectly, and becoming a ruhani, an elemental spirit. The choice is ours, not God's. The Gift of The True Human Being His Holiness teaches us in the "Introduction" to the book, "Shaikh and Disciple", about a True Human being, by sharing with us His story, His awakening to the True Man and God within Him. ------------- beginning of excerpt from "Introduction" --------------- His Holiness: At this point I realized that the most difficult task in life is to find a true man among the created beings. To find a true human being and to understand him is very difficult indeed. Only after realizing the true man and God within myself could I perform true meditation. I had to understand the cage of this body. Outer acts are not real. I had to find the place within to perform true meditation. The Gift of Our Body His Holiness Continues: At this point I was told, "There is a house that was built and given to you. That house is your body." "But this body is only eight spans," I said. "How can I live here?" Then He told me, "Even an ant's body is eight spans of its own hand. The body is a school. It is your house, your heaven, your hell, and my Kingdom. Your freedom is there, yet your slavery is also there. Both your joys and your sorrows are there. Man- animal and Man-God are both there." "All this learning is within this eight-span house of your body. If you become an insan, a true man, you will understand this. You are My Secret. I am a Mystery." Learning About The Cage of Our Body His Holiness Continues: According to His words, I started to learn about the cage of my body. Within this eight-span body, I set out to discover what should be discarded and what should be taken in. I was told, "Within this eight-span house, half a span is your sorrow, half a span is your torpor, and one span is the fire of hell. If you can understand and discard these two spans, then you are left with six." "Once you have understood all that is within the remaining six spans of your body, you can become a man with six levels of wisdom, capable of analyzing and discovering the secrets of the eighteen thousand universes." "Then you will understand that one handful of earth which is your heart. If you do not reach this understanding, you could become a worm in hell with only one level of wisdom. or you could become a jinn, a fairy, a ghost, or a demon. You could become a ruhani, an elemental spirit." "However, if you understand yourself, then you can become a true human being. You can become My messenger, you can become My light, you can merge with Me and we can live together." These were His words. We Have To Discover What Is Hidden Within This Body His Holiness Continues: We have to discover what is hidden within this body. This is what we must learn from a wise man of purity. We must learn this from a pure father who has a pure heart. To do this, your unity and faith must be strong. Children, you must have purity of heart to learn from the purity of the father. The secret of God, our Father who is purity, must be learned with pure love, pure faith, pure compassion, pure unity, and a pure life. This is the only way we can learn and understand that purity, that meditation, that prayer, and that learning. Establishing The Direct Connection Between Us And Our Father His Holiness Continues: If each one of you establishes and understands this state within, then the connection between you and your Father can easily be established. You can conduct your lives with ease and understand all you need to know. You can understand the life in which wisdom, good deeds, our Father, and the Children live together. When love, wisdom, and unity are all together, that is the heaven of gnanam. The Children of the pure Father will live in the paradise of gnanam. That is firdaus, our Father's pure kingdom. We will be given the radiant kingdom of our Father as our prize. You must understand this pure place. When you can establish this within yourself and demonstrate proof of its existence, then your Father's kingdom of wisdom, love, compassion, peace, and iman becomes yours. These are some of the things I have learned through experience. My love you. Think about this. May Allah help you. Amin. ------------- end of excerpt from "Introduction" --------------- End of Related Material - Topic 3 ...................................................... |
This page was last updated on: February 9, 2002
Finding, Understanding, & Joining With A True Man Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on January 26, 2002 Wisdom Point: We have to discover what is hidden within our body Selection: Related Material of Spiritual Letter 14 - Topic 3 Live with the faith, that your body and your soul do not belong to you, then God will share the suffering that comes to you. Place your trust in God all the time, and in each moment say to God, "This is Your property, Your duty, Your responsibility". One who was born as a man and has lived as a man will exist in this state. For whatever happens he will say with contentment and gratitude, "Al-hamdu lillah - all praise and praising belong to God, and to God alone", and for what might happen in the next moment, he will say, "Tawwakul Allah - it is all Your responsibility, O God", and praise Him. Outline of Topic 3 1. The True Shaikh-Disciple Relationship - is the unity of God and True Man, of our body and our soul, and as such they are one, one within the other, one revealing the other within it, with God becoming the Creation, the body of man, the dunya, hiding the soul or life of God within it, revealing True Man as the Oneness of God and His Creation, then True Man becomes Creation, the body of God, akhirah, hiding the soul or life of True Man within it, revealing God as the Oneness of True Man and His Creation 2. The Gift of The True Human Being - is God, is the Oneness of God and His Creation, which is True Man, which is the divine consciousness of God, of our soul, the life of God within us, the most important gift from God, but to realize the True Man and God within us, we must find and understand such a True Man among the created beings, this is the most difficult task in our life, for unless we find and understand a True Man all is lost, because we will never find our true selves, which is True Man within the Creation of God, or find God within True Man, we will have to sit alone and cry 3. The Gift of Our Body - is the path of God, the path or story of True Man and God within us, of the school of contrasts within us, which is also the most important gift from God, for both of these are really one gift, the gift of the oneness of God and True Man, for without them we can never reach God, like without an apple seed and an apple tree we can never know the sweet taste in the mature apple 4. Learning About The Cage of Our Body - about the eight-span house of our body, about our school, our heaven, our hell, and the kingdom of God within us, about the two-spans that we have become, but that must be understood and removed from within us, and the six-spans that we must understand and become, in order to become a True Human being 5. We Have To Discover What Is Hidden Within This Body - this is what we must learn from a wise man of purity. We must learn this from a pure Father who has a pure heart. To do this, your unity and faith must be strong 6. Establishing The Direct Connection Between Us And Our Father - to do this you must have purity of heart to learn from the purity of the Father. The secret of God, our Father who is purity, must be learned with pure love, pure faith, pure compassion, pure unity, and a pure life The True Shaikh-Disciple Relationship The above quote is from His Holiness, and the following material is from the "Introduction" to the book by His Holiness, "Shaikh and Disciple", pages 5, 6, and 7. Click HERE to go to an on-line version of that book, and read the entire "Introduction". This book explains in detail the Shaikh Disciple Relationship that each of us must establish within our own hearts to be successful in our life, that must be established between our soul, our Shaikh, and God within us, for the Three of God within us to become the One of God within us, for our wisdom to reason over our fate, for our life to be successful. The "Introduction" to this book gives us a glimpse of the path walked by His Holiness as he walked out of a life of "separation from" and into the life of "oneness with", and the role that a True Man, a True Human Being, both in the world and within our hearts, and our body, both "outside" of us and "inside of ", play in this walk. The specific excerpt taken from the "Introduction" and reproduced as part of this letter helps summarize the role of the two gifts of God - our body and our soul; the body of man, with True Man hidden within our body, and our soul, with God hidden within our soul - and in this way we are of two realms, the realm of our body and our soul, and realm of True Man and God, which is this world and the next world or the hereafter, and we must learn to live in both worlds now, not after we die, for after we die there is no moving forward on the path of God, it is over within us, and we just get what we have built, forever, whatever it is - hell, or heaven, or God. All of this is what God has given us, in the journey of our soul back to God, the body of man as the palace or house of the soul, as the school of contrast, as the world of souls or heaven, of the world of hell, and as the spiritual form of the Holy Qur'an, which in maturity is the kingdom of God, and of True Man as the essence of the Holy Qur'an, the Umm al-Qur'an, the Mother of man's wisdom who raises the true believer, the mu'mim, and the consequence of using these gifts from God correctly, and becoming One with God, or incorrectly, and becoming a ruhani, an elemental spirit. The choice is ours, not God's. The Gift of The True Human Being His Holiness teaches us in the "Introduction" to the book, "Shaikh and Disciple", about a True Human being, by sharing with us His story, His awakening to the True Man and God within Him. ------------- beginning of excerpt from "Introduction" --------------- His Holiness: At this point I realized that the most difficult task in life is to find a true man among the created beings. To find a true human being and to understand him is very difficult indeed. Only after realizing the true man and God within myself could I perform true meditation. I had to understand the cage of this body. Outer acts are not real. I had to find the place within to perform true meditation. The Gift of Our Body His Holiness Continues: At this point I was told, "There is a house that was built and given to you. That house is your body." "But this body is only eight spans," I said. "How can I live here?" Then He told me, "Even an ant's body is eight spans of its own hand. The body is a school. It is your house, your heaven, your hell, and my Kingdom. Your freedom is there, yet your slavery is also there. Both your joys and your sorrows are there. Man- animal and Man-God are both there." "All this learning is within this eight-span house of your body. If you become an insan, a true man, you will understand this. You are My Secret. I am a Mystery." Learning About The Cage of Our Body His Holiness Continues: According to His words, I started to learn about the cage of my body. Within this eight-span body, I set out to discover what should be discarded and what should be taken in. I was told, "Within this eight-span house, half a span is your sorrow, half a span is your torpor, and one span is the fire of hell. If you can understand and discard these two spans, then you are left with six." "Once you have understood all that is within the remaining six spans of your body, you can become a man with six levels of wisdom, capable of analyzing and discovering the secrets of the eighteen thousand universes." "Then you will understand that one handful of earth which is your heart. If you do not reach this understanding, you could become a worm in hell with only one level of wisdom. or you could become a jinn, a fairy, a ghost, or a demon. You could become a ruhani, an elemental spirit." "However, if you understand yourself, then you can become a true human being. You can become My messenger, you can become My light, you can merge with Me and we can live together." These were His words. We Have To Discover What Is Hidden Within This Body His Holiness Continues: We have to discover what is hidden within this body. This is what we must learn from a wise man of purity. We must learn this from a pure father who has a pure heart. To do this, your unity and faith must be strong. Children, you must have purity of heart to learn from the purity of the father. The secret of God, our Father who is purity, must be learned with pure love, pure faith, pure compassion, pure unity, and a pure life. This is the only way we can learn and understand that purity, that meditation, that prayer, and that learning. Establishing The Direct Connection Between Us And Our Father His Holiness Continues: If each one of you establishes and understands this state within, then the connection between you and your Father can easily be established. You can conduct your lives with ease and understand all you need to know. You can understand the life in which wisdom, good deeds, our Father, and the Children live together. When love, wisdom, and unity are all together, that is the heaven of gnanam. The Children of the pure Father will live in the paradise of gnanam. That is firdaus, our Father's pure kingdom. We will be given the radiant kingdom of our Father as our prize. You must understand this pure place. When you can establish this within yourself and demonstrate proof of its existence, then your Father's kingdom of wisdom, love, compassion, peace, and iman becomes yours. These are some of the things I have learned through experience. My love you. Think about this. May Allah help you. Amin. ------------- end of excerpt from "Introduction" --------------- End of Related Material - Topic 3 ...................................................... |
