Spiritual Letter 14 - text only version About Spiritual Letter 14 Title: "The Why, Where, How, & What of God & True Man" Footnotes For Letter 14 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on February 7, 2002 to Mike Katz Home Page - Spiritual Letters Spiritual Letter 14: Outline & Summary Version Library Navigation Tree Spiritual Letter 14: Related Material Page 2 of 2 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. My love you, my dearest brothers and sisters. The Why, Where, How, and What of God and True Man The why of God is love, the where of God is within us, the how of God is by God becoming us as we become Him, and the what of God is the one within the three and the three within the one. So the big question, in this rambling narrative, which your little brother Louie is sharing with you as it happens, in response to the beautiful letter that you sent, is why? And every more specifically, what is God doing, where is He doing it, why is He doing it, and how is He doing it, and what is True Man doing, where is He doing it, why is He doing it, and how is He doing it. This is what we must understand, my dearest loving brother Mike, the what, were, why, and how of God and True Man, because this is what defines our life, this story of True Man within God and this story of God within True Man, like the story of the apple tree within the apple seed and of the apple seed within the apple tree, defines the apple seed and the apple tree. This is what defines us, not anything else, not what we have been told by anyone, or learned in school, or heard on TV, or read in any book. All of this is false, we must start over. This is why His Holiness teaches us the following things, "The first step for developing wisdom, of establishing a direct connection with God, is to realize that we don't know anything." "The most important thing to do on the path of God is to empty your cup", then God will fill our cup again, and again, and again, each time we empty it, and each time he fills it, He will fill it with a deeper and deeper understanding of who you are, of where you are, and of what is happening in your life, and we can only empty our cup by handing it to God, with the intention that He empty it." "There is absolute no other way to empty our cup. In this way, it is all His work, not ours. Our work is to know that it is all His work, and live that way, to make our life what is handed to God, by God, so God can do His work within us, within Himself within us." "The prerequisite for prayer is to be alone, hungry, and awake", realizing that to be along means that only God is there, not you and God, that all duality has been destroyed, and hunger means that we are living in such a way that the yearning of the soul for God is the driving force of our life, not the needs of our physical body associated with living in the world, and to be awake means we joined in partnership with the wisdom of God within us, and have transcending all illusion. And from the book, "The Golden Words of A Sufi Shaikh", Golden Word Saying 510, "When The Disciple Is Ready, The Shaikh Will Appear By His Side", His Holiness teaches us the following: The outside world is merely an example which illustrates the worlds and universes within us. Every human being, whether it be you or anyone else, carries many worlds and many disciples within himself. Within your mind, you confer with kings, ministers, representatives and messengers. You carry within you princely palaces with towers, infantries, artillery, cavalries, soldier on elephants, navies, airforces and many demonic forces, and you depend on their help. As long as you depend on the world, you are relying on these forces within yourself. But they are changing and perishable and they can let you down. You must place your faith in the one indestructible, imperishable God. To do this, you must stop depending on the kings, forces, and armies within you. When you give up all this and stand defenseless and alone, saying, "O God, it is all Your will," the Shaikh will stand by your side. It is only when you surrender to Allah that the Shaikh who is the explaining wisdom of the Qutbiyyat which guides you on the path to God will come to stand by your side. "Son!" he will say, "now you are ready. Come, let us go." When that time comes, you will no longer be the firewood, you will have become the fire; you will not be the gem, but the light within the gem; you will not be the sun, but the light of the sun; you will not have the world within you, but you will bring resplendence to the world. This is our work, my dearest loving brother Mike, the what, were, why, and how of God and True Man. Only then will we be able to put down the what, were, why, and how of our 400 trillion, 10 thousand false god's and of false man, that have completely taken over our life, so much so, that we don't even see them, for they have become invisible to us, like a man waking on the earth under the sky doesn't see the earth and the sky most of the time, because he is too busy caught up in some drama that is being acted out upon them. Such is the nature of our life in the world of illusion, under the umbrella of our thoughts, they provide a stage for the drama of our life, taking up all of our time, until we die. Lets start this work by making a pass at understanding the what, were, why, and how of God, of God and True Man, because in truth them are one, like the apple seed and the apple tree are one, simply two reflections of the same thing, of the One thing, and lets start this, with a brief look at the "why" of it, which touches upon all of the other things, the what, were, and how, at the same time, because they are in truth one. For once we have a handle on the "why" of it, then the "how" of it starts to emerge from within the "why" of it. And once we know a little about the "why" and the "how" of it, then the "where" starts to reveal itself, and putting all of that together starts to give us a glimpse, and just a glimpse at the " what" of God, but that is all we need to start to weaken, and begin to let go of, the "what" of us. The Love Affair Between God And True Man The "why" of God and man lies in the oneness of God and man, One within the other as One, One revealing the other within it, One hiding oneself within the other as One reveals the other, and as such they are One, as the apple seed, the apple tree, and the apple fruit are One. So lets start with the "why" of God and True Man. Why is all this happening? And the answers is simple, Love. The answer is Love, the love of God and True Man, because that is what God and True Man do, they Love each other, and everything else springs from that. And God shows His love for True Man by revealing True Man and hiding Himself, for the benefit of all of the Creations of God in the 18,000 universes within Him, w hich is the dunya. That is what God does. And True Man shows His Love for God by hiding Himself and revealing God, for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man in the Kingdom of God, which is akhirah. That is what God and True Man do, they love each other, by revealing the Other, and in this way they are one, one within the other as One, one revealing the other within the other, one hiding oneself in order to reveal the other, one hiding oneself within the other as one reveals the other. This is the nature of God and True Man, the Lover and the Beloved. My dearest loving brother Mike, we must realize this without the slightest doubt, and fall into this love affair between God and True Man. Nothing else matters. Only this. Everything else is but a reflection of God love of True Man, and of True Man's love of God, and of God's love for the Creation of God and of True Man's love for the Creation of True Man, a reflection of the Oneness of God, True Man, the Creation of God, and the Creation of True Man, the oneness of the three realms of awwal, dunya, and akhirah, within each of us, the oneness of the world of souls, this earth world, and the hereafter. That God would love His Creation so much that He would hid Himself and reveal Himself, as True Man, as the oneness of God and the Creation of God, for their benefit, by revealing True Man from within them, from within His Creation, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, and that True Man would do the same, allowing True Man to reveal God from within His Creation. This is the love affair between God and True Man, and between God and the Creation of God in the dunya, and between True Man and the Creation of True Man in akhirah, and the creation of God in the dunya and akhirah is the vehicle through which this love is played out, is demonstrated. What a wonder our God is. What a wonder is True Man. What a wonder is the Creation of God,. And what a wonder is the Creation True Man. We can see an analogy of this in the apple tree. For example, what does an apple tree do? It reveals itself for the benefit of all of those who can benefit from an apple tree being revealed. And this is what it has been doing since the very beginning of time. And the question of, "Which came first, the apple tree or the apple seed", is but a reflection of our ignorance of the nature of things, and more importantly, the nature of God and man. The answer is they came as One, because they are one, the apple seed and the apple tree are one, and what we call an apple tree is but the love affair going on between the apple seed and the apple tree, which God created to point to the love affair between God and man, the affair of Oneness, or the "Oneness Affair". My dearest loving brother Mike, only this is can be called love. For as His Holiness teaches us, "Just as the flower and its fragrance are one, two hearts must mingle as one. That alone can be called love". What we see as the apple seed and the apple tree, as separate from each other, are two reflections of the one thing that God sees, Himself, and what He does, and how He does it, and where He does it, which is to hide Himself within Himself, and then reveal Himself within Himself, for the benefit of everyone and everything in His Creation. He hides Himself and then He reveals Himself, just like the apple tree is always showing us the same thing, the One thing, the apple tree hides itself as an apple seed buried in the ripe fruit, and then as an apple seed buried in the earth, and when the apple seed becomes aware of "who it is", of "where it is", and of "what is happening", the apple seed then joins with the earth to germinate, and reveal the apple tree, to reveal itself, to reveal its hidden self, to reveal what was hidden within it. This is what an apple tree does, and God created it in that way, as God has created everything in this way, to point to what God does, to the love affair between God and True Man, which is the same thing. So this is the "why" of God, the "why" of God and True Man, the "why" everything that is happening is happening, because of what God is doing, not because of any thing separate from God, because God is revealing Himself, because all of everything and everyone is but a reflection of this, is but a part of this, of what God is doing, is but a finger pointing to what God does, how He does it, and where He does it, is but a finger pointing to the one thing, the only thing that God does, which is to reveal God, for the benefit of all of His Creation, allowing True Man to reveal True Man for the benefit of all of His Creation, revealing the love affair of God and True Man. In this way, you and I, and everyone one, and everything, and all that is happening to you or to me, or to anyone or to anything, is all but a reflection of the "why", the "how", and the "where" of God, of God and True Man, of God revealing God within the Creation of God for the benefit of all of the Creation of God in the 18,000 universes, within man and within God and within God and within man. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. The Heart of The Matter, of The "How" of God The heart of the matter, of the how of God, is moving from stillness to movement and from movement to stillness, from being hidden to being revealed and from being revealed to being hidden. And "how" God does this, as we started to describe earlier using the apple tree analogy, is to cycle through "hiding" Himself and then "revealing " Himself. Now we may ask, "Why would God hid Himself, from us, or more importantly, from Himself? My dearest loving brother Mike, this is the heart of the matter, this is what makes it all work, this is what brings it all together, what brings God, His Creation, His Prophets, and True Man, and all that we are, or ever could be, together as One. This is what allows us to surrender to God, to pray to God, and to worship God. This understanding is what energizes our whole life into stillness, pulling us out of our "illusory" movement and blasting us irreversibly into stillness. Only when we realize, understand, accept, and join with the answer to this question, that we have asked above, will our life stand still, will wisdom stand up, causing our mind to sit down. How To Make A Grand Entrance Into A Ballroom, Or Open A Closed Heart To make a grand entrance into a ballroom we must first leave the ballroom, and to open a closed heart we must first close the heart, such is the secret relationship between an apple tree and its seed, and between God and each of us. If we want to make a grand entrance into a ballroom, so we can show off all of our beautiful clothes, and all of the wonderful dance movements that we have so meticulously learned, what is the very first thing that we must do? Well what do you think is the answer? Of course there is only one answer. The very first thing that we must do, to make our grand entrance into the ballroom, is leave the ballroom. We can't enter the ballroom as long as we are in the ballroom. Yes? This realization, this understanding, when applied to God, and what He is doing, liberates our soul from the cross of the 5 elements, allowing it to join with wisdom and go in search of the Nur, joining as one with the Nur, allowing the Nur to return to God. All that we are, all that we do, all that we understand, is this. All of everything, other than God, is this, is God in hiding, is God having successfully hidden Himself from Himself, as the very first prerequisite of God revealing Himself. This is why being who we are, and acting as we act, and thinking as we think, is Ok. This is why being created and defined by God through the process of goodness loosing all of the battles with evil for 200 million years is Ok. From God's perspective, the state we are in, and ever more correction, the state that He has put Himself within us within, this lowest of states of degradation, the lowest of states of evil, the worst possible states of separation and differences, is but a victorious conclusion of the process of God hiding God from Himself. First He hid Himself within His Creation, within His light, His Heaven, then within His darkness that separated out of His light, which is His Hell. Then He hid Himself in His goodness which is Adam (may the blessings of God be upon Him), and then within His evil which is Eve (may the blessings of God be upon Her), and finally, He hid Himself with the qualities of actions of man and woman living in the 21st century. God cannot go any further away from Himself than what you, and I, and everyone living in this age represent. We are the bottom of the barrel of God. We represent the crowning conclusion of God hiding Himself from Himself, a exquisite concoction of darkness, of evil, and of the qualities of separation and differences. Bawa teaches us that even satan himself is overwhelmed by the evil and downright wickedness of man, and has to turn away at times in disgust at the state of man, the state of the most exalted of God's creations. The Inner Meaning of The Story of Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz We need to realize that it is all in our hands, not in God's hand because He has put it into our hands, through His love and trust in True Man, as we must now put it back into His hand, through our love and trust in God, and as such, we already have everything we need, to return to God, we just have to learn how to use it. But the real problem of satan isn't his apparent evil, but he doesn't understand. He doesn't know to praise God for this disgusting state of man, for the degenerate state of His most exalted creation, and neither do we. Satan thinks that he is the cause of the downfall of Adam and of man, and so do we, that is just our arrogance. It is all God's doing, it is all according to God's plan, because you can't harvest the wheat plant until you grow the wheat plant, and remember both the cause and the effect are the same, the wheat seed, and both the cause and the effect are within God's tawakkul, God's responsibility. Like this the cause and the effect of the creation of God and of man is the same, is God, God is both the seed of us and the harvest of us, and the plant of us, like with the wheat plant, all that is discarded when we are truly harvested, is necessary to have a harvest, and its value is in its being harvested by God, being discarded by God, before we die, before the wheat plant of us dies, revealing the harvest of us, revealing the wheat seed of us, which is God, which is the same as the cause of us, which is God, but having multiplied in the process. For as His Holiness teaches us, from one wheat seed comes a whole bushel of wheat seeds, which we make into bread to feed many, many people. So is the value of us, as the true harvest of us, as True Man, as the light of God to the world, which will nourish and bring comfort to the hearts of all mankind, to all of the Creation of God. What a wonder is this God of ours, and His harvest, for truly God is the cause and the effect of everything. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. So that is the rub of it, my dearest loving brother Mike, that is the real hell of it, that is where we loose it, because we can't praise God for hell, or for all of the problems, and all of the difficulties and suffering in the world, but if we could but peek behind the curtain, as Dorothy did in Oz, and see what is behind all of the magic of the land of Oz, see what is waiting in the wings to make a grand entrance into the ballroom, we would fall down and weep, we would cry out in ecstasy, we would smile and sing the glory of God, Al-hamdu lillah, Al-hamdu lillah, Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. Because waiting in the wings is True Man, is True Man revealed from within the Creation of God, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, and hidden within that is God, is the Oneness of True Man and His Creation, allowing the Oneness of God and True Man to be revealed, for the benefit of all of the Creations of God in the 18,000 universes, within man and within God and within God and within man. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. It is in this way that Bawa teaches us, that if we realize this truth, the truth that all that we are, and all that everything is, is of God, is of God and what God does, is but God and God in hiding, or God and God being revealed, then we will settle into stillness through the realization that everything is perfect. There isn't anything else. This is what we and everything else truly are, and all of it is completely and beautifully under the watchful eye and control of God. So where is the problem - there isn't any. And all of it is so God can make a grand entrance into the ballroom of our hearts, and reveal all of the glory and beauty that is God, to all of His creations, to all of everything that has come from God, which is everything, and everyone. Then we will become peaceful in our state of hell, in our state of God hiding within us, within the Oneness of God and His Creation, as He reveals false man within us, as the absolute prerequisite of revealing True Man within us, within the Creation of God within us. Only then, when we become peaceful with our hell, with our current state, can God finish within us what He has stated within us, can God make His grand entrance into the ballroom, God can reveal Himself to us, and to all of His Creation through us, and when He does, we will be bedazzled by Him, we will fall into Him, we will be pulled into His light, and from His light we will be pulled into His power, and from His power we will be pulled into Him, into Him who has no form, who has no shape, who has no name, for then, neither do we, neither do we forever, and forever, and for beyond all forevers, for God is beyond anything and everything, and then so are we. Amen. Wow. What a wonder this God of ours is, and what He is doing is, and how he does it is, and "where" He is doing it is, which is within each and every one of His Creations. This is the "why", the "how", and the "where" of God, my dearest loving brothers Mike. Revealing God Within Us By Letting God Re-Fight All of The Lost Battles Within Us We must realize that we have lost all of the battles within us, the battles between good and evil, because we, as separate from God, can only lose them, and losing all of them is what defines us as separate from God, and that God within us can only win them, as one with us, and God winning all of them within us is what re-defines us, as one with God and God as one with us, but God can only fight them within us, as one with us, when we are done fighting them outside of us, as separate from God, and understanding this handing them, handing "us" as separate from God, to God, with the intention that He fight them all again. This is how our wisdom becomes victorious over our fate. We are all so very blessed, we Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, we Children of God for this age, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Al-hamdu lillah. So His Holiness went on to say, that if we realize this, this truth of our life, and understand, accept, and join with it, if we embrace all of it, including our current state of hell, our current state of God in hiding revealing false man as who we are, and if we reject what God has hidden Himself within, which is His Creation, and if we reject this false man that we see in the mirror, this "enemy of the soul", as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, then we will find peace and tranquility in our life. But only when we do this, and do it properly, only when we accept God and reject "us", only when we "Embrace that One God who is without form, which is the highest point of the Kalimah" 01, and reject "us" will we be successful in our life, only when we reject the life of the "enemy of the soul", the life of separation and differences that we are currently experiencing as existing "outside" of us, will we become peaceful, will we become the property of God and in this way become truly valuable to the Creation of God. And only when we do this, in partnership with His Holiness, with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), with the gift of God for our age, and gradually embrace True Man within us, as True Man is revealed within us by God, within the Creation of God within us, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, as the life of our soul, our wisdom and of God's grace within us, joined as one within, as the One having become the Three within us, which is the Triple Flame of God within us, which in maturity is the life of Muhammad as the six faces of God, as the six kinds of Wisdom, which reveal the Truth that surrounds God within us 02, and the body of the Holy Qur'an within us, which is the ocean of 'ilm or divine knowledge, the Guru's Pearl of Wisdom within us, will we be successful in our life. Allowing this Three within us to again become One, when the life of wisdom within us, the life of the soul within us join with the wisdom within us, when the life of the soul within us joined with the wisdom of God within us find and become one with the Nur of God within us, which is the life of the Nur Muhammad within us, which is the seed of Iman within us, the seed of True Man within us, and within that is the life of Allah Muhammad within us, which is the seed of God within us, the seed of Islam within us, as God completes the story of True Man within the Creation of God, and True Man completes the story of God within the Creation of True Man, as an apple seed completes the story of the apple tree, and the apple tree completes the story of the apple seed, and as such they are one, one within the other as one, one revealing the other within it, one hiding itself in the other as one reveals the other within it. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. If we do it in this way, if we conduct our life in this way, in partnership with God by joining in partnership with His Holiness, then, and only then, can God finish what He has started within each of us. The choice is ours, not God. Let Chapter 2 Begin Within You, By Letting Chapter 1 End Within You So we must let Chapter 1 within us, which "we" have become within us, the story of "Everything" within us, end within us, so Chapter 2 within us, the story of the "Essence of Everything" within us, can begin within us, can become "us" within us, we must let "us" as separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the Creation of God end within us, but we will never let Chapter 1 end within us until we are completely done with it, and convince God, by our thoughts, our words, and our actions, that this is true. My dearest loving brother Mike, we must realize that God is done with Chapter 1 of the Story of God and True Man, and so must we be done with Chapter 1. God is done with hiding Himself within His Creation and revealing false man within us. That work is finished, and has been finished for a very, very long time. Now God is ready for Chapter 2, to reveal True Man within the Creation of God, and God within the Creation of True Man, for the benefit of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes, within man and within God and within God and within man. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. If we realize this, with our Iman, with our absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, and in all that God is one with, if we realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth, which is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), if we do this work, which is the only work we can do, and if we hand ourselves completely to God, as this collection of lost battles, then, and only then, God will do His work, the work that only God can do, God will fight again all of these same battles within us, these very same battles that have been earlier fought and lost to evil within us, over the last 200 million years within us, and this time, in every battle, Good will be victorious over evil within us, the qualities of our inner selves, of our selfless selves, will be victorious over the qualities of our outer selves, our selfish selves, this time wisdom will be victorious over our fate. And finally, His Holiness teaches us, that if we do this divine work within us, if we join in partnership with God to let God finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal God, if we give up the idea of ourselves as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God, the ideas that gradually grew into who we current are, currently do, and currently known, as a direct result of each of these lost battles, where the evil within us won over the good within us. If we give up all of this as what define us, as what defines who we are, where we are, and what is happening in our life, and instead embrace God, instead embrace the formless power within us, as what defines us, as what defines who we are, where we are, and what is happening in our life, if we do this, then God will re-fight all of these battles within us, and this time Good will triumph over evil, in every case. And the collection of all of these re-fought battles, of Good winning over evil, the name of this collection of battles, is God, is the Oneness of God and True Man, which is God. Becoming The One Child of God For This Age In this way, we must become One with the One Child of God and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, which is our soul. Only then can our soul be liberated from "us", from the "us" of separation and differences. So it is my dearest loving brother Mike, you have again been very patient with your little brother Louie, as he shares with you what has been shared with Him, and as such we are One, we are the One life that lies hidden within the two of us, and within all of us. This is the truth of you and this child, and of all of our brothers and sisters, we are in truth the One family of God, the one prayer of God, the one life of God within all of His Creation, which for this age is the One Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, the One Child of God for this age, the Oneness of God and True Man for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessings of God be upon us all. Amen. Hearts Work This is what Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), within each of us, within the heart of each of us, tries to teach each of us to do, to do "Heart's Work", to settle into stillness through the realization that everything is perfect, to let God finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal God,, by sitting on God's lap while Bawa teaches us what we do not know. As with all of our previous letters, there are 3 of them now, this letter, along with an outline & summary for this letter, has been put in the Spiritual Letters section of the Children's Part of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library. This letter, as well as the previous two letters have been given the following titles in that library. 1. Spiritual Letter 12: "Overcoming the "Enemy of The Soul" 2. Spiritual Letter 13: "Doing Nothing Correctly Is Doing Everything Right" 3. Spiritual Letter 14: "The What, Where, Why, & How of God & True Man" 4. Spiritual Letter 14: version 2 - which is this letter Also, this letter, as different from the previous letters, has two versions, version 1 and 2, with this being version 2 of Spiritual Letter 14. Version 1 can only be accessed through the Home Page for all Spiritual Letters, www.SpiritualLetters.homestead.com, is shorter in length, with fewer quotations from His Holiness, and is organized differently, using an outline and summary format only. Version 2 can also be accessed through the URL for Spiritual Letters, but also has its own URL, Spiritual Letter 14, www.SpiritualLetter14.homestead.com, which can be accessed directly. Version 2 is a little longer, has more quotations from His Holiness, and is organized differently, with both a text only version, for easy reading, and an outline and summary version, for easier study and review of all of the wonderful parts of Spiritual Letter 14. Try out both versions and let me know what your think, all of these functions are important to use on the path of God - reading, studying, and reviewing the words of the True Shaikh, of the Representative of God, the Messenger of God for our age, which is the life and teaching of His Holiness and of His Children. It is a real wonder this God of ours, His Messenger for our age, our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and the Children of God for this age, which is all of us, for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him and with His Children). Thank you my dearest loving brother Mike, for joining with the heart of this child, with your brother Louie, in the name of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), so this beautiful "Heart's Work" could be done within all of us, as we all sit on God's lap, and Bawa teaches us "what we do not know" 03. This is the only way this kind of work can be done, that this "Heart's work" can be done, within the Children of God for this age, within the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), there is no other way to move forward in our lives, within the One Life, by becoming the One life. For as Bawa teaches us, "If two of you come together in My name, I will be there". And Bawa has most certainly been here with us, with all of us, for this divine work. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of Page 2 of 2 of Spiritual Letter 14 - text only version - .......................... Go To Spiritual Letter 14: Footnotes 01. The True Meaning of The Kalimah - the oneness of God and True Man For as His Holiness teaches us in the book, "Islam and World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi", "We have to embrace that one God who is without form. That is the highest point of the kalimah. Everything but Allah can be destroyed; only that formless One is indestructible. We must prostrate before Allah as His slaves and worship Him alone, in the way that earth, fire, water, air, and ether did." "We must accept our weaknesses, saying 'I am full of faults'. Allah's beautiful qualities must come to bloom within our hearts, and that fragrance must emit a state of peace that will console all hearts. 02. The True Meaning of Muhammad - as the six faces of wisdom within us For as His Holiness teaches us in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom or Guru Mani", Chapter 21, page 72, "Aaru-muham refers to the six wisdoms which are beyond estimation, beyond imagination, and beyond pleasure. They distinguish the truth that surrounds God, discipline the body, melt the heart, and like the seasons of spring, spout the six kinds of wisdom .... They exist in every religion. People refer to them according to the depth of their understanding, but nobody has discovered the true meaning, and reached the end." 03. God Teaches Us What We Do Not Know His Holiness teaches us that the Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him) was first awakened by the Angel Gabriel (may the blessing of God be upon Him), when Muhammad was meditating in a cave near Medina, and this occurred when the Angel Gabriel squeezed the chest of Muhammad from behind, and said to him, "Read! Read! In the name of God, who created man from a sensitive drop of blood and teaches him what he does not know, Read." And from this act Muhammad started to read, although he did not know how to read, as he was unlettered, and yet during His Prophethood he received and recited the 6,666 revelations that came to the people of his age from God through the Angel Gabriel. And like this, these same 6,666 revelation from God to the Prophet Muhammad are again coming to the people of God in this age, but this time, not through the Angel Gabriel, but through the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim, Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. End of Footnotes ............................. |
Spiritual Letter 14 - text only version About Spiritual Letter 14 Title: "The Why, Where, How, & What of God & True Man" Footnotes For Letter 14 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on February 7, 2002 to Mike Katz Home Page - Spiritual Letters Spiritual Letter 14: Outline & Summary Version Library Navigation Tree Spiritual Letter 14: Related Material Page 2 of 2 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. My love you, my dearest brothers and sisters. The Why, Where, How, and What of God and True Man The why of God is love, the where of God is within us, the how of God is by God becoming us as we become Him, and the what of God is the one within the three and the three within the one. So the big question, in this rambling narrative, which your little brother Louie is sharing with you as it happens, in response to the beautiful letter that you sent, is why? And every more specifically, what is God doing, where is He doing it, why is He doing it, and how is He doing it, and what is True Man doing, where is He doing it, why is He doing it, and how is He doing it. This is what we must understand, my dearest loving brother Mike, the what, were, why, and how of God and True Man, because this is what defines our life, this story of True Man within God and this story of God within True Man, like the story of the apple tree within the apple seed and of the apple seed within the apple tree, defines the apple seed and the apple tree. This is what defines us, not anything else, not what we have been told by anyone, or learned in school, or heard on TV, or read in any book. All of this is false, we must start over. This is why His Holiness teaches us the following things, "The first step for developing wisdom, of establishing a direct connection with God, is to realize that we don't know anything." "The most important thing to do on the path of God is to empty your cup", then God will fill our cup again, and again, and again, each time we empty it, and each time he fills it, He will fill it with a deeper and deeper understanding of who you are, of where you are, and of what is happening in your life, and we can only empty our cup by handing it to God, with the intention that He empty it." "There is absolute no other way to empty our cup. In this way, it is all His work, not ours. Our work is to know that it is all His work, and live that way, to make our life what is handed to God, by God, so God can do His work within us, within Himself within us." "The prerequisite for prayer is to be alone, hungry, and awake", realizing that to be along means that only God is there, not you and God, that all duality has been destroyed, and hunger means that we are living in such a way that the yearning of the soul for God is the driving force of our life, not the needs of our physical body associated with living in the world, and to be awake means we joined in partnership with the wisdom of God within us, and have transcending all illusion. And from the book, "The Golden Words of A Sufi Shaikh", Golden Word Saying 510, "When The Disciple Is Ready, The Shaikh Will Appear By His Side", His Holiness teaches us the following: The outside world is merely an example which illustrates the worlds and universes within us. Every human being, whether it be you or anyone else, carries many worlds and many disciples within himself. Within your mind, you confer with kings, ministers, representatives and messengers. You carry within you princely palaces with towers, infantries, artillery, cavalries, soldier on elephants, navies, airforces and many demonic forces, and you depend on their help. As long as you depend on the world, you are relying on these forces within yourself. But they are changing and perishable and they can let you down. You must place your faith in the one indestructible, imperishable God. To do this, you must stop depending on the kings, forces, and armies within you. When you give up all this and stand defenseless and alone, saying, "O God, it is all Your will," the Shaikh will stand by your side. It is only when you surrender to Allah that the Shaikh who is the explaining wisdom of the Qutbiyyat which guides you on the path to God will come to stand by your side. "Son!" he will say, "now you are ready. Come, let us go." When that time comes, you will no longer be the firewood, you will have become the fire; you will not be the gem, but the light within the gem; you will not be the sun, but the light of the sun; you will not have the world within you, but you will bring resplendence to the world. This is our work, my dearest loving brother Mike, the what, were, why, and how of God and True Man. Only then will we be able to put down the what, were, why, and how of our 400 trillion, 10 thousand false god's and of false man, that have completely taken over our life, so much so, that we don't even see them, for they have become invisible to us, like a man waking on the earth under the sky doesn't see the earth and the sky most of the time, because he is too busy caught up in some drama that is being acted out upon them. Such is the nature of our life in the world of illusion, under the umbrella of our thoughts, they provide a stage for the drama of our life, taking up all of our time, until we die. Lets start this work by making a pass at understanding the what, were, why, and how of God, of God and True Man, because in truth them are one, like the apple seed and the apple tree are one, simply two reflections of the same thing, of the One thing, and lets start this, with a brief look at the "why" of it, which touches upon all of the other things, the what, were, and how, at the same time, because they are in truth one. For once we have a handle on the "why" of it, then the "how" of it starts to emerge from within the "why" of it. And once we know a little about the "why" and the "how" of it, then the "where" starts to reveal itself, and putting all of that together starts to give us a glimpse, and just a glimpse at the " what" of God, but that is all we need to start to weaken, and begin to let go of, the "what" of us. The Love Affair Between God And True Man The "why" of God and man lies in the oneness of God and man, One within the other as One, One revealing the other within it, One hiding oneself within the other as One reveals the other, and as such they are One, as the apple seed, the apple tree, and the apple fruit are One. So lets start with the "why" of God and True Man. Why is all this happening? And the answers is simple, Love. The answer is Love, the love of God and True Man, because that is what God and True Man do, they Love each other, and everything else springs from that. And God shows His love for True Man by revealing True Man and hiding Himself, for the benefit of all of the Creations of God in the 18,000 universes within Him, w hich is the dunya. That is what God does. And True Man shows His Love for God by hiding Himself and revealing God, for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man in the Kingdom of God, which is akhirah. That is what God and True Man do, they love each other, by revealing the Other, and in this way they are one, one within the other as One, one revealing the other within the other, one hiding oneself in order to reveal the other, one hiding oneself within the other as one reveals the other. This is the nature of God and True Man, the Lover and the Beloved. My dearest loving brother Mike, we must realize this without the slightest doubt, and fall into this love affair between God and True Man. Nothing else matters. Only this. Everything else is but a reflection of God love of True Man, and of True Man's love of God, and of God's love for the Creation of God and of True Man's love for the Creation of True Man, a reflection of the Oneness of God, True Man, the Creation of God, and the Creation of True Man, the oneness of the three realms of awwal, dunya, and akhirah, within each of us, the oneness of the world of souls, this earth world, and the hereafter. That God would love His Creation so much that He would hid Himself and reveal Himself, as True Man, as the oneness of God and the Creation of God, for their benefit, by revealing True Man from within them, from within His Creation, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, and that True Man would do the same, allowing True Man to reveal God from within His Creation. This is the love affair between God and True Man, and between God and the Creation of God in the dunya, and between True Man and the Creation of True Man in akhirah, and the creation of God in the dunya and akhirah is the vehicle through which this love is played out, is demonstrated. What a wonder our God is. What a wonder is True Man. What a wonder is the Creation of God,. And what a wonder is the Creation True Man. We can see an analogy of this in the apple tree. For example, what does an apple tree do? It reveals itself for the benefit of all of those who can benefit from an apple tree being revealed. And this is what it has been doing since the very beginning of time. And the question of, "Which came first, the apple tree or the apple seed", is but a reflection of our ignorance of the nature of things, and more importantly, the nature of God and man. The answer is they came as One, because they are one, the apple seed and the apple tree are one, and what we call an apple tree is but the love affair going on between the apple seed and the apple tree, which God created to point to the love affair between God and man, the affair of Oneness, or the "Oneness Affair". My dearest loving brother Mike, only this is can be called love. For as His Holiness teaches us, "Just as the flower and its fragrance are one, two hearts must mingle as one. That alone can be called love". What we see as the apple seed and the apple tree, as separate from each other, are two reflections of the one thing that God sees, Himself, and what He does, and how He does it, and where He does it, which is to hide Himself within Himself, and then reveal Himself within Himself, for the benefit of everyone and everything in His Creation. He hides Himself and then He reveals Himself, just like the apple tree is always showing us the same thing, the One thing, the apple tree hides itself as an apple seed buried in the ripe fruit, and then as an apple seed buried in the earth, and when the apple seed becomes aware of "who it is", of "where it is", and of "what is happening", the apple seed then joins with the earth to germinate, and reveal the apple tree, to reveal itself, to reveal its hidden self, to reveal what was hidden within it. This is what an apple tree does, and God created it in that way, as God has created everything in this way, to point to what God does, to the love affair between God and True Man, which is the same thing. So this is the "why" of God, the "why" of God and True Man, the "why" everything that is happening is happening, because of what God is doing, not because of any thing separate from God, because God is revealing Himself, because all of everything and everyone is but a reflection of this, is but a part of this, of what God is doing, is but a finger pointing to what God does, how He does it, and where He does it, is but a finger pointing to the one thing, the only thing that God does, which is to reveal God, for the benefit of all of His Creation, allowing True Man to reveal True Man for the benefit of all of His Creation, revealing the love affair of God and True Man. In this way, you and I, and everyone one, and everything, and all that is happening to you or to me, or to anyone or to anything, is all but a reflection of the "why", the "how", and the "where" of God, of God and True Man, of God revealing God within the Creation of God for the benefit of all of the Creation of God in the 18,000 universes, within man and within God and within God and within man. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. The Heart of The Matter, of The "How" of God The heart of the matter, of the how of God, is moving from stillness to movement and from movement to stillness, from being hidden to being revealed and from being revealed to being hidden. And "how" God does this, as we started to describe earlier using the apple tree analogy, is to cycle through "hiding" Himself and then "revealing " Himself. Now we may ask, "Why would God hid Himself, from us, or more importantly, from Himself? My dearest loving brother Mike, this is the heart of the matter, this is what makes it all work, this is what brings it all together, what brings God, His Creation, His Prophets, and True Man, and all that we are, or ever could be, together as One. This is what allows us to surrender to God, to pray to God, and to worship God. This understanding is what energizes our whole life into stillness, pulling us out of our "illusory" movement and blasting us irreversibly into stillness. Only when we realize, understand, accept, and join with the answer to this question, that we have asked above, will our life stand still, will wisdom stand up, causing our mind to sit down. How To Make A Grand Entrance Into A Ballroom, Or Open A Closed Heart To make a grand entrance into a ballroom we must first leave the ballroom, and to open a closed heart we must first close the heart, such is the secret relationship between an apple tree and its seed, and between God and each of us. If we want to make a grand entrance into a ballroom, so we can show off all of our beautiful clothes, and all of the wonderful dance movements that we have so meticulously learned, what is the very first thing that we must do? Well what do you think is the answer? Of course there is only one answer. The very first thing that we must do, to make our grand entrance into the ballroom, is leave the ballroom. We can't enter the ballroom as long as we are in the ballroom. Yes? This realization, this understanding, when applied to God, and what He is doing, liberates our soul from the cross of the 5 elements, allowing it to join with wisdom and go in search of the Nur, joining as one with the Nur, allowing the Nur to return to God. All that we are, all that we do, all that we understand, is this. All of everything, other than God, is this, is God in hiding, is God having successfully hidden Himself from Himself, as the very first prerequisite of God revealing Himself. This is why being who we are, and acting as we act, and thinking as we think, is Ok. This is why being created and defined by God through the process of goodness loosing all of the battles with evil for 200 million years is Ok. From God's perspective, the state we are in, and ever more correction, the state that He has put Himself within us within, this lowest of states of degradation, the lowest of states of evil, the worst possible states of separation and differences, is but a victorious conclusion of the process of God hiding God from Himself. First He hid Himself within His Creation, within His light, His Heaven, then within His darkness that separated out of His light, which is His Hell. Then He hid Himself in His goodness which is Adam (may the blessings of God be upon Him), and then within His evil which is Eve (may the blessings of God be upon Her), and finally, He hid Himself with the qualities of actions of man and woman living in the 21st century. God cannot go any further away from Himself than what you, and I, and everyone living in this age represent. We are the bottom of the barrel of God. We represent the crowning conclusion of God hiding Himself from Himself, a exquisite concoction of darkness, of evil, and of the qualities of separation and differences. Bawa teaches us that even satan himself is overwhelmed by the evil and downright wickedness of man, and has to turn away at times in disgust at the state of man, the state of the most exalted of God's creations. The Inner Meaning of The Story of Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz We need to realize that it is all in our hands, not in God's hand because He has put it into our hands, through His love and trust in True Man, as we must now put it back into His hand, through our love and trust in God, and as such, we already have everything we need, to return to God, we just have to learn how to use it. But the real problem of satan isn't his apparent evil, but he doesn't understand. He doesn't know to praise God for this disgusting state of man, for the degenerate state of His most exalted creation, and neither do we. Satan thinks that he is the cause of the downfall of Adam and of man, and so do we, that is just our arrogance. It is all God's doing, it is all according to God's plan, because you can't harvest the wheat plant until you grow the wheat plant, and remember both the cause and the effect are the same, the wheat seed, and both the cause and the effect are within God's tawakkul, God's responsibility. Like this the cause and the effect of the creation of God and of man is the same, is God, God is both the seed of us and the harvest of us, and the plant of us, like with the wheat plant, all that is discarded when we are truly harvested, is necessary to have a harvest, and its value is in its being harvested by God, being discarded by God, before we die, before the wheat plant of us dies, revealing the harvest of us, revealing the wheat seed of us, which is God, which is the same as the cause of us, which is God, but having multiplied in the process. For as His Holiness teaches us, from one wheat seed comes a whole bushel of wheat seeds, which we make into bread to feed many, many people. So is the value of us, as the true harvest of us, as True Man, as the light of God to the world, which will nourish and bring comfort to the hearts of all mankind, to all of the Creation of God. What a wonder is this God of ours, and His harvest, for truly God is the cause and the effect of everything. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. So that is the rub of it, my dearest loving brother Mike, that is the real hell of it, that is where we loose it, because we can't praise God for hell, or for all of the problems, and all of the difficulties and suffering in the world, but if we could but peek behind the curtain, as Dorothy did in Oz, and see what is behind all of the magic of the land of Oz, see what is waiting in the wings to make a grand entrance into the ballroom, we would fall down and weep, we would cry out in ecstasy, we would smile and sing the glory of God, Al-hamdu lillah, Al-hamdu lillah, Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. Because waiting in the wings is True Man, is True Man revealed from within the Creation of God, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, and hidden within that is God, is the Oneness of True Man and His Creation, allowing the Oneness of God and True Man to be revealed, for the benefit of all of the Creations of God in the 18,000 universes, within man and within God and within God and within man. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. It is in this way that Bawa teaches us, that if we realize this truth, the truth that all that we are, and all that everything is, is of God, is of God and what God does, is but God and God in hiding, or God and God being revealed, then we will settle into stillness through the realization that everything is perfect. There isn't anything else. This is what we and everything else truly are, and all of it is completely and beautifully under the watchful eye and control of God. So where is the problem - there isn't any. And all of it is so God can make a grand entrance into the ballroom of our hearts, and reveal all of the glory and beauty that is God, to all of His creations, to all of everything that has come from God, which is everything, and everyone. Then we will become peaceful in our state of hell, in our state of God hiding within us, within the Oneness of God and His Creation, as He reveals false man within us, as the absolute prerequisite of revealing True Man within us, within the Creation of God within us. Only then, when we become peaceful with our hell, with our current state, can God finish within us what He has stated within us, can God make His grand entrance into the ballroom, God can reveal Himself to us, and to all of His Creation through us, and when He does, we will be bedazzled by Him, we will fall into Him, we will be pulled into His light, and from His light we will be pulled into His power, and from His power we will be pulled into Him, into Him who has no form, who has no shape, who has no name, for then, neither do we, neither do we forever, and forever, and for beyond all forevers, for God is beyond anything and everything, and then so are we. Amen. Wow. What a wonder this God of ours is, and what He is doing is, and how he does it is, and "where" He is doing it is, which is within each and every one of His Creations. This is the "why", the "how", and the "where" of God, my dearest loving brothers Mike. Revealing God Within Us By Letting God Re-Fight All of The Lost Battles Within Us We must realize that we have lost all of the battles within us, the battles between good and evil, because we, as separate from God, can only lose them, and losing all of them is what defines us as separate from God, and that God within us can only win them, as one with us, and God winning all of them within us is what re-defines us, as one with God and God as one with us, but God can only fight them within us, as one with us, when we are done fighting them outside of us, as separate from God, and understanding this handing them, handing "us" as separate from God, to God, with the intention that He fight them all again. This is how our wisdom becomes victorious over our fate. We are all so very blessed, we Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, we Children of God for this age, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Al-hamdu lillah. So His Holiness went on to say, that if we realize this, this truth of our life, and understand, accept, and join with it, if we embrace all of it, including our current state of hell, our current state of God in hiding revealing false man as who we are, and if we reject what God has hidden Himself within, which is His Creation, and if we reject this false man that we see in the mirror, this "enemy of the soul", as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, then we will find peace and tranquility in our life. But only when we do this, and do it properly, only when we accept God and reject "us", only when we "Embrace that One God who is without form, which is the highest point of the Kalimah" 01, and reject "us" will we be successful in our life, only when we reject the life of the "enemy of the soul", the life of separation and differences that we are currently experiencing as existing "outside" of us, will we become peaceful, will we become the property of God and in this way become truly valuable to the Creation of God. And only when we do this, in partnership with His Holiness, with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), with the gift of God for our age, and gradually embrace True Man within us, as True Man is revealed within us by God, within the Creation of God within us, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, as the life of our soul, our wisdom and of God's grace within us, joined as one within, as the One having become the Three within us, which is the Triple Flame of God within us, which in maturity is the life of Muhammad as the six faces of God, as the six kinds of Wisdom, which reveal the Truth that surrounds God within us 02, and the body of the Holy Qur'an within us, which is the ocean of 'ilm or divine knowledge, the Guru's Pearl of Wisdom within us, will we be successful in our life. Allowing this Three within us to again become One, when the life of wisdom within us, the life of the soul within us join with the wisdom within us, when the life of the soul within us joined with the wisdom of God within us find and become one with the Nur of God within us, which is the life of the Nur Muhammad within us, which is the seed of Iman within us, the seed of True Man within us, and within that is the life of Allah Muhammad within us, which is the seed of God within us, the seed of Islam within us, as God completes the story of True Man within the Creation of God, and True Man completes the story of God within the Creation of True Man, as an apple seed completes the story of the apple tree, and the apple tree completes the story of the apple seed, and as such they are one, one within the other as one, one revealing the other within it, one hiding itself in the other as one reveals the other within it. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. If we do it in this way, if we conduct our life in this way, in partnership with God by joining in partnership with His Holiness, then, and only then, can God finish what He has started within each of us. The choice is ours, not God. Let Chapter 2 Begin Within You, By Letting Chapter 1 End Within You So we must let Chapter 1 within us, which "we" have become within us, the story of "Everything" within us, end within us, so Chapter 2 within us, the story of the "Essence of Everything" within us, can begin within us, can become "us" within us, we must let "us" as separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the Creation of God end within us, but we will never let Chapter 1 end within us until we are completely done with it, and convince God, by our thoughts, our words, and our actions, that this is true. My dearest loving brother Mike, we must realize that God is done with Chapter 1 of the Story of God and True Man, and so must we be done with Chapter 1. God is done with hiding Himself within His Creation and revealing false man within us. That work is finished, and has been finished for a very, very long time. Now God is ready for Chapter 2, to reveal True Man within the Creation of God, and God within the Creation of True Man, for the benefit of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes, within man and within God and within God and within man. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. If we realize this, with our Iman, with our absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, and in all that God is one with, if we realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth, which is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), if we do this work, which is the only work we can do, and if we hand ourselves completely to God, as this collection of lost battles, then, and only then, God will do His work, the work that only God can do, God will fight again all of these same battles within us, these very same battles that have been earlier fought and lost to evil within us, over the last 200 million years within us, and this time, in every battle, Good will be victorious over evil within us, the qualities of our inner selves, of our selfless selves, will be victorious over the qualities of our outer selves, our selfish selves, this time wisdom will be victorious over our fate. And finally, His Holiness teaches us, that if we do this divine work within us, if we join in partnership with God to let God finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal God, if we give up the idea of ourselves as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God, the ideas that gradually grew into who we current are, currently do, and currently known, as a direct result of each of these lost battles, where the evil within us won over the good within us. If we give up all of this as what define us, as what defines who we are, where we are, and what is happening in our life, and instead embrace God, instead embrace the formless power within us, as what defines us, as what defines who we are, where we are, and what is happening in our life, if we do this, then God will re-fight all of these battles within us, and this time Good will triumph over evil, in every case. And the collection of all of these re-fought battles, of Good winning over evil, the name of this collection of battles, is God, is the Oneness of God and True Man, which is God. Becoming The One Child of God For This Age In this way, we must become One with the One Child of God and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, which is our soul. Only then can our soul be liberated from "us", from the "us" of separation and differences. So it is my dearest loving brother Mike, you have again been very patient with your little brother Louie, as he shares with you what has been shared with Him, and as such we are One, we are the One life that lies hidden within the two of us, and within all of us. This is the truth of you and this child, and of all of our brothers and sisters, we are in truth the One family of God, the one prayer of God, the one life of God within all of His Creation, which for this age is the One Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, the One Child of God for this age, the Oneness of God and True Man for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessings of God be upon us all. Amen. Hearts Work This is what Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), within each of us, within the heart of each of us, tries to teach each of us to do, to do "Heart's Work", to settle into stillness through the realization that everything is perfect, to let God finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal God,, by sitting on God's lap while Bawa teaches us what we do not know. As with all of our previous letters, there are 3 of them now, this letter, along with an outline & summary for this letter, has been put in the Spiritual Letters section of the Children's Part of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library. This letter, as well as the previous two letters have been given the following titles in that library. 1. Spiritual Letter 12: "Overcoming the "Enemy of The Soul" 2. Spiritual Letter 13: "Doing Nothing Correctly Is Doing Everything Right" 3. Spiritual Letter 14: "The What, Where, Why, & How of God & True Man" 4. Spiritual Letter 14: version 2 - which is this letter Also, this letter, as different from the previous letters, has two versions, version 1 and 2, with this being version 2 of Spiritual Letter 14. Version 1 can only be accessed through the Home Page for all Spiritual Letters, www.SpiritualLetters.homestead.com, is shorter in length, with fewer quotations from His Holiness, and is organized differently, using an outline and summary format only. Version 2 can also be accessed through the URL for Spiritual Letters, but also has its own URL, Spiritual Letter 14, www.SpiritualLetter14.homestead.com, which can be accessed directly. Version 2 is a little longer, has more quotations from His Holiness, and is organized differently, with both a text only version, for easy reading, and an outline and summary version, for easier study and review of all of the wonderful parts of Spiritual Letter 14. Try out both versions and let me know what your think, all of these functions are important to use on the path of God - reading, studying, and reviewing the words of the True Shaikh, of the Representative of God, the Messenger of God for our age, which is the life and teaching of His Holiness and of His Children. It is a real wonder this God of ours, His Messenger for our age, our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and the Children of God for this age, which is all of us, for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him and with His Children). Thank you my dearest loving brother Mike, for joining with the heart of this child, with your brother Louie, in the name of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), so this beautiful "Heart's Work" could be done within all of us, as we all sit on God's lap, and Bawa teaches us "what we do not know" 03. This is the only way this kind of work can be done, that this "Heart's work" can be done, within the Children of God for this age, within the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), there is no other way to move forward in our lives, within the One Life, by becoming the One life. For as Bawa teaches us, "If two of you come together in My name, I will be there". And Bawa has most certainly been here with us, with all of us, for this divine work. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of Page 2 of 2 of Spiritual Letter 14 - text only version - .......................... Go To Spiritual Letter 14: Footnotes 01. The True Meaning of The Kalimah - the oneness of God and True Man For as His Holiness teaches us in the book, "Islam and World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi", "We have to embrace that one God who is without form. That is the highest point of the kalimah. Everything but Allah can be destroyed; only that formless One is indestructible. We must prostrate before Allah as His slaves and worship Him alone, in the way that earth, fire, water, air, and ether did." "We must accept our weaknesses, saying 'I am full of faults'. Allah's beautiful qualities must come to bloom within our hearts, and that fragrance must emit a state of peace that will console all hearts. 02. The True Meaning of Muhammad - as the six faces of wisdom within us For as His Holiness teaches us in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom or Guru Mani", Chapter 21, page 72, "Aaru-muham refers to the six wisdoms which are beyond estimation, beyond imagination, and beyond pleasure. They distinguish the truth that surrounds God, discipline the body, melt the heart, and like the seasons of spring, spout the six kinds of wisdom .... They exist in every religion. People refer to them according to the depth of their understanding, but nobody has discovered the true meaning, and reached the end." 03. God Teaches Us What We Do Not Know His Holiness teaches us that the Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him) was first awakened by the Angel Gabriel (may the blessing of God be upon Him), when Muhammad was meditating in a cave near Medina, and this occurred when the Angel Gabriel squeezed the chest of Muhammad from behind, and said to him, "Read! Read! In the name of God, who created man from a sensitive drop of blood and teaches him what he does not know, Read." And from this act Muhammad started to read, although he did not know how to read, as he was unlettered, and yet during His Prophethood he received and recited the 6,666 revelations that came to the people of his age from God through the Angel Gabriel. And like this, these same 6,666 revelation from God to the Prophet Muhammad are again coming to the people of God in this age, but this time, not through the Angel Gabriel, but through the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim, Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. End of Footnotes ............................. |
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