The Why, Where, How, And What of God and True Man - Version 1 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on January 19, 2002 to Mike Katz Wisdom Point: The Sufi Is One Who Settles Into Stillness Through The Realization That Everything Is Perfect Selection: Spiritual Letter 14 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Outline For This Letter 2. At All Times Be Peaceful - by knowing what God knows, knowing that pleasure is the dream, and sadness is the darkness of ignorance 3. God Can Do Anything - and through our wisdom, God can destroy us and reveal True Man within us, and God within True Man, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, as the wisdom of God within us, is our Representative to God, is our Ambassador to the Kingdom of God within us, is our Wisdom, is our direct connection to God within us, to all that God is, does, and knows within us, is our Representative to God that we must be directly connect to, within us, in order for us to be directly connected to God within us, because God lives within the Wisdom within us, not within our mind and desire, which now define us. If we establish a direct connection to our wisdom, to Bawa within us, then everything within us will line up properly, and we will most certainly win the game of life 4. Winning The Game of Life - by letting our wisdom reason over our fate Chapter 1: God becomes God in hiding, and True Man becomes false man revealed Chapter 2: God reveals True Man within His Creation, And True Man reveals God within His Creation, revealing the Oneness of God and True Man, revealing Their True Love Chapter 3: God and True Man become One, the true marriage, and consummate their union with a True Son, the Seed of the Oneness of God and True Man 6. The Point of Chapter 1 - "It is all crazy, OK, and over. What's next?." Everything is as it should be, everything is happening according to plan, according to God's plan, God has successfully hidden Himself within His Creation, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, and successfully revealed False Man within what was discarded from His Creation, as the life of separation and differences, as what we are now experiencing as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, and God is now ready to end all of this, this hiding within His Creation and this false life of man, and to reveal True Man within His Creation so True Man can reveal God within His Creation. We must join with God in this divine work, in ending Chapter 1, in letting it go, in letting it end, and in beginning Chapter 2. This is our work now in partnership with Bawa, with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, not living in the world, but leaving it. 7. The Why, Where, How, And What of God And True Man - because of the Love of God, which is the Oneness of God and His Creation, this is what God does, He reveals Himself to Himself in hiding, which is True Man, for the benefit of all of His Creation, by first hiding Himself within His Creation, which is the dunya, the 18,000 universes, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, as True Man, and then revealing Himself within His Creation as True Man, allowing True Man to do the same, to express the Love of True Man in the same way, by revealing Himself to Himself in Hiding, which is God, for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man, by first hiding Himself within the Creation of True Man, which is akhirah or the the Kingdom of God, as The Oneness of True Man and His Creation, and then revealing Himself within His Creation as God, allowing God to again do the same, and in this way, repeatedly revealing the Love of both God and True Man for each other, which in truth is the Onensss of God and True Man, for the benefit of all of Creation 8. The Heart of The Matter - is moving from stillness to movement and from movement to stillness, from being hidden to being revealed and from being revealed to being hidden we must leave the ballroom, first we must close the heart 10. The Inner Meaning of The Story of Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz - is the story of us and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, the story of Bawa teaching us about who we already are, so we can click our heals together and return to our inner Kansas, so we can go back to the place that we came from, which is the Oneness of God and True Man, but this time with an understanding of it, so like Dorothy after here trip to the land of Oz, to "somewhere over the rainbow", we will never want to leave our life of Oneness with God again the battles within us that we can only lose, and that God can only win. This is how our wisdom becomes victorious over our fate 12. Please Let Chapter 2 Begin, By Letting Chapter 1 End - for if the apple seed doesn't germinate before it dies in the earth it will forever break its connection to the story of the apple tree, instead of telling this story it will rot in the earth, be absorbed into the earth, and be reborn as some other aspect of creation, but most certainly not the oneness of the apple seed and the apple tree, and their story. So too, if the seed of God's grace within us, the Seed of Allahu does not germinate within us before we die, revealing the Tree of God within us, revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, and God within the Creation of True Man, which is the Tree of God's grace and the Fruits Tree of God's grace, then we will have forever break our connection to the story of True Man and God within us, we will rot in our mind and desire, be absorbed into the five elements when we die, and end as a worm in hell with only one level of consciousness, all within ourselves and within the justice of God within us, and in this way we will have reaped what we have sown 13. Closing Comments Opening Prayer Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. Al-hamdu lillah. In sha 'allah, ma sha 'allah. Tawakkal-Allah. Allahumma labbaik. In the name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. All praise and praising belong to God and to God alone. If God so wills, whatever God wills. I place my trust in God, and in God alone, and am obedient to His will, and to His will alone. May all responsibility be given to Allah, the One who is limitless grace, and incomparable love, the One who gives us His blessings. At All Times Be Peaceful My love you my dearest brother Mike, you are a very, very, good child. What we have shared is the truth, and it is a happy thing, not something to be sad about, or to grieve about, or even to be concerned about, but rather to become peaceful about. God Can Do Anything - and through our wisdom, God can destroy us and reveal True Man within us, and God within True Man God can do it, we don't have to do, we only need to know, believe, accept, and trust in the truth that He can do it, and like children at the high school football game, who themselves are not strong athletes, cheer on their representatives, their football team to win the game, and their winning is the winning of everyone in the high school, no just of the members of the football team. So is our role, to cheer on our Representatives, our Representatives of God, to cheer them and show our support for their effort to win the game, the game of life over death, the game of God's life over our death, and Their winning is our winning, is the winning of the One that is God, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and all that He is one with, is our team, and we have but to know this, and support this. Winning The Game of Life We have to support Their efforts to win the game of life within us, without the slightest doubt, and to show up, to come to every game, and to always, in each thing, at every moment of your life, to make our life and heart available to Him to play the game correctly and win it, and to cheer Him and His team on, which are the 124,000 Prophets of God within us, all the heavenly beings and lights of God, and all that God is One with, within us, to cheer them all on, as they win the game of life within us, as "our wisdom reasons over our fate". And they will most certainly win the game of life within us, there is no doubt of that, if we but learn to correctly support them. Please know this with your wisdom, with you direct connection to the heart of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, and to the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, because in truth we are all One. The Story of True Man Within God, And The Story of God Within True Man - One day His Holiness told us that the current state of our life was a collection of lost battles, a collection of all the lost battles for the last 200 million years. That over the last 200 million years good and evil have been fighting, and that every one of the battles fought between good and evil over the last 200 million years have been won by evil, and we represent, the idea and life, and actions, and understanding of us as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God, is the outcome, the result, the product, of all these lost battles. This is who we currently are. This is where we currently are. And this is what is currently happening in our life. And Bawa told us that this is OK. Get that OK. This is what defines us, all of these lost battles. This is what produced us, all of these lost battles. This is why we are here in the state that we are in, because of all of these lost battle. We are the opposite of God. We are the opposite of Truth. We are the opposite of Wisdom. We are the opposite of good. This is who we currently are, and it is OK. How can we accept this? How can we be so bad, so evil, so useless, so far away from God? Why would God do this to us? It doesn't make any sense. Right? And it never will make any sense. Right? So what is the point, my dearest loving brother Louie? Where are you taking us? It sounds like you are taking us to hell? Why would you do that? Because hell is the truth of us, and heaven is the truth of God, and until we realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of us, that we are hell, and we are in hell, and everything about us is hell, even our prayers, our love, our duty, our families, our understanding, and even our Fellowship, our Bawa, our Prophet, and our God, is hell. And as long as we don't realize, understand, accept , and join with this truth about who we are, about where we are, and about what it happening in our life, it will never change, and when we die, we will get what we have build, we will get the result of having fought and lost all of these battles, thinking in the process that we have won them, think that who we now are, and where we now are, and what is now happening is something of value, something of God, something of wisdom, something of goodness. But its not, it most certainly is not. The Point of Chapter 1 So what is the point of all this? Why does Bawa tell us that it is still OK? How could being in hell, living a life of hell, and doing all of the things of hell be OK? The answer is so very, very simple. Because these things of hell have nothing to do with us. They have to do with what God is doing, and how He does it, not with us. They have to do with "what God is doing", not with "what we are doing", and as long as we are focused on "us" rather than on "God", the truth of our condition, that we are hell, and all that hell is, and that hell does, knows, and understands, and all that hell ever could be, this truth of our condition will never, ever, make any sense to us, or be accepted by you, or me, or by anyone, as separate from God, and separate form the work and duty of God, or separate from the intention of God, which is to reveal God, for the benefit of all of His Creation. That is why God is unknowable, but can be Known. For as long as we are separate from God, and from all that God is one with, we cannot know God, because God is One, God is Oneness and unity, God is justice and truth, God is compassion and unity, God is "one with", while we are "separate from". But if we become "One with", if we become one with God, if we join in partnership with God to finish what God stated within us, within each one of us, then we can know God, because God can know God. Yes? In this way, our problem is only a problem of perspective, we are looking at everything, and thinking about everything, and doing everything, from the perspective of "us", of "us" as separation and differences, from the perspectives of "mine" and "your", while God is looking at everything from the perspective of "oneness with". What do you think that God sees when He looks at you, or me, or any of His Creation. Do you think He sees you, or me, or any of His Creation as separate from Himself, as "we" do. Of course not. When God looks at you, or me, or any of His Creation He sees Himself, He sees Himself happening, He sees Himself being revealed from within what He has created, and for Him to complete what He has started, within you, and me, and each of His Creation, you, and me, and each of His Creation have but to realize, understand, accept, and join with Him in what He is doing, and put down everything else. This is "La ilaha Ill Allahu - I am not, You are". But only the Creation of God known as man, which God endowed with the 6th level or kind of wisdom or consciousness can do this divine work, can join in partnership with God to finish the work of God, to complete God's intention for His Creation, which is to reveal God. And if man does this unique work, that only man can do, then all of the Creation of God will benefit. That is our part in it, our part in God's intention for His Creation. Such is the exaltedness of man. We must realize this, without the slightest doubt, with our iman, our absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, and with our wisdom, which is our direct connection to the consciousness of God, to the consciousness of oneness and unity, of justice and truth, of compassion and unity, which is our direct connection to the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and stop acting as the rest of the Creation that cannot do this, that cannot do this divine work of joining in partnership with God, because God did not creation them in that way. Then, and only then, will we find peace and tranquility in our life, by acting in the way that God created us to act, as His Representative to the world, as His light to the world, as His Islam reflected in the heart of Iman, as His Muham or face that reflects His Aham or heart, which is the true Muhammad of God, not by acting like the rest of God's creation, that cannot do this divine work. May we both think about this a little bit, my dearest loving brother Mike, it is very, very important. The Why, Where, How, And What of God And True Man So the big question, in this rambling narrative, which your little brother Louie is experiencing as it happens, in response to the beautiful letter that you sent, is why? And once we have a handle on the "why", then "where"? And once we know a little about the "why" and the "where", then "how"? And then finally, the "what" of it. Lets start with the "why". Why is all this happening? And the answers is simple, because that is what God does. He reveals Himself, for the benefit of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within Him. That is what God does. Just like an apple tree. 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 name of things, and more importantly, the nature of God and man. The answer is they came as One, because they are one, just like God and man are One. 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 in 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, to point to what God does, which is the same thing. So this is the "why" of God, 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. 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 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 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 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 action 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 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. That is the rub of it, that is the real hell of it, that is where we loose it, my dearest loving brother Mike, 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 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 Battles Within Us 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. Please Let Chapter 2 Begin, By Letting Chapter 1 End 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. 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. Closing Comments 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. As with all of our previous letters, there are 3 of them now, this letter, along with an outline 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 Why, Where, How, And What of God & True Man (this letter) 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" can be done within all of us, as we sit on God's lap, and He "teaches us what we do not know 03". 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 the two of us for this divine work. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of This Spiritual Letter ............................................... Footnotes: - click on "Back Button" at the top of your browser to return to text. Outline For 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 squezzed 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, 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 ............................... |
The Why, Where, How, And What of God and True Man - Version 1 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on January 19, 2002 to Mike Katz Wisdom Point: The Sufi Is One Who Settles Into Stillness Through The Realization That Everything Is Perfect Selection: Spiritual Letter 14 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Outline For This Letter 2. At All Times Be Peaceful - by knowing what God knows, knowing that pleasure is the dream, and sadness is the darkness of ignorance 3. God Can Do Anything - and through our wisdom, God can destroy us and reveal True Man within us, and God within True Man, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, as the wisdom of God within us, is our Representative to God, is our Ambassador to the Kingdom of God within us, is our Wisdom, is our direct connection to God within us, to all that God is, does, and knows within us, is our Representative to God that we must be directly connect to, within us, in order for us to be directly connected to God within us, because God lives within the Wisdom within us, not within our mind and desire, which now define us. If we establish a direct connection to our wisdom, to Bawa within us, then everything within us will line up properly, and we will most certainly win the game of life 4. Winning The Game of Life - by letting our wisdom reason over our fate Chapter 1: God becomes God in hiding, and True Man becomes false man revealed Chapter 2: God reveals True Man within His Creation, And True Man reveals God within His Creation, revealing the Oneness of God and True Man, revealing Their True Love Chapter 3: God and True Man become One, the true marriage, and consummate their union with a True Son, the Seed of the Oneness of God and True Man 6. The Point of Chapter 1 - "It is all crazy, OK, and over. What's next?." Everything is as it should be, everything is happening according to plan, according to God's plan, God has successfully hidden Himself within His Creation, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, and successfully revealed False Man within what was discarded from His Creation, as the life of separation and differences, as what we are now experiencing as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, and God is now ready to end all of this, this hiding within His Creation and this false life of man, and to reveal True Man within His Creation so True Man can reveal God within His Creation. We must join with God in this divine work, in ending Chapter 1, in letting it go, in letting it end, and in beginning Chapter 2. This is our work now in partnership with Bawa, with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, not living in the world, but leaving it. 7. The Why, Where, How, And What of God And True Man - because of the Love of God, which is the Oneness of God and His Creation, this is what God does, He reveals Himself to Himself in hiding, which is True Man, for the benefit of all of His Creation, by first hiding Himself within His Creation, which is the dunya, the 18,000 universes, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, as True Man, and then revealing Himself within His Creation as True Man, allowing True Man to do the same, to express the Love of True Man in the same way, by revealing Himself to Himself in Hiding, which is God, for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man, by first hiding Himself within the Creation of True Man, which is akhirah or the the Kingdom of God, as The Oneness of True Man and His Creation, and then revealing Himself within His Creation as God, allowing God to again do the same, and in this way, repeatedly revealing the Love of both God and True Man for each other, which in truth is the Onensss of God and True Man, for the benefit of all of Creation 8. The Heart of The Matter - is moving from stillness to movement and from movement to stillness, from being hidden to being revealed and from being revealed to being hidden we must leave the ballroom, first we must close the heart 10. The Inner Meaning of The Story of Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz - is the story of us and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, the story of Bawa teaching us about who we already are, so we can click our heals together and return to our inner Kansas, so we can go back to the place that we came from, which is the Oneness of God and True Man, but this time with an understanding of it, so like Dorothy after here trip to the land of Oz, to "somewhere over the rainbow", we will never want to leave our life of Oneness with God again the battles within us that we can only lose, and that God can only win. This is how our wisdom becomes victorious over our fate 12. Please Let Chapter 2 Begin, By Letting Chapter 1 End - for if the apple seed doesn't germinate before it dies in the earth it will forever break its connection to the story of the apple tree, instead of telling this story it will rot in the earth, be absorbed into the earth, and be reborn as some other aspect of creation, but most certainly not the oneness of the apple seed and the apple tree, and their story. So too, if the seed of God's grace within us, the Seed of Allahu does not germinate within us before we die, revealing the Tree of God within us, revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, and God within the Creation of True Man, which is the Tree of God's grace and the Fruits Tree of God's grace, then we will have forever break our connection to the story of True Man and God within us, we will rot in our mind and desire, be absorbed into the five elements when we die, and end as a worm in hell with only one level of consciousness, all within ourselves and within the justice of God within us, and in this way we will have reaped what we have sown 13. Closing Comments Opening Prayer Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. Al-hamdu lillah. In sha 'allah, ma sha 'allah. Tawakkal-Allah. Allahumma labbaik. In the name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. All praise and praising belong to God and to God alone. If God so wills, whatever God wills. I place my trust in God, and in God alone, and am obedient to His will, and to His will alone. May all responsibility be given to Allah, the One who is limitless grace, and incomparable love, the One who gives us His blessings. At All Times Be Peaceful My love you my dearest brother Mike, you are a very, very, good child. What we have shared is the truth, and it is a happy thing, not something to be sad about, or to grieve about, or even to be concerned about, but rather to become peaceful about. God Can Do Anything - and through our wisdom, God can destroy us and reveal True Man within us, and God within True Man God can do it, we don't have to do, we only need to know, believe, accept, and trust in the truth that He can do it, and like children at the high school football game, who themselves are not strong athletes, cheer on their representatives, their football team to win the game, and their winning is the winning of everyone in the high school, no just of the members of the football team. So is our role, to cheer on our Representatives, our Representatives of God, to cheer them and show our support for their effort to win the game, the game of life over death, the game of God's life over our death, and Their winning is our winning, is the winning of the One that is God, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and all that He is one with, is our team, and we have but to know this, and support this. Winning The Game of Life We have to support Their efforts to win the game of life within us, without the slightest doubt, and to show up, to come to every game, and to always, in each thing, at every moment of your life, to make our life and heart available to Him to play the game correctly and win it, and to cheer Him and His team on, which are the 124,000 Prophets of God within us, all the heavenly beings and lights of God, and all that God is One with, within us, to cheer them all on, as they win the game of life within us, as "our wisdom reasons over our fate". And they will most certainly win the game of life within us, there is no doubt of that, if we but learn to correctly support them. Please know this with your wisdom, with you direct connection to the heart of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, and to the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, because in truth we are all One. The Story of True Man Within God, And The Story of God Within True Man - One day His Holiness told us that the current state of our life was a collection of lost battles, a collection of all the lost battles for the last 200 million years. That over the last 200 million years good and evil have been fighting, and that every one of the battles fought between good and evil over the last 200 million years have been won by evil, and we represent, the idea and life, and actions, and understanding of us as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God, is the outcome, the result, the product, of all these lost battles. This is who we currently are. This is where we currently are. And this is what is currently happening in our life. And Bawa told us that this is OK. Get that OK. This is what defines us, all of these lost battles. This is what produced us, all of these lost battles. This is why we are here in the state that we are in, because of all of these lost battle. We are the opposite of God. We are the opposite of Truth. We are the opposite of Wisdom. We are the opposite of good. This is who we currently are, and it is OK. How can we accept this? How can we be so bad, so evil, so useless, so far away from God? Why would God do this to us? It doesn't make any sense. Right? And it never will make any sense. Right? So what is the point, my dearest loving brother Louie? Where are you taking us? It sounds like you are taking us to hell? Why would you do that? Because hell is the truth of us, and heaven is the truth of God, and until we realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of us, that we are hell, and we are in hell, and everything about us is hell, even our prayers, our love, our duty, our families, our understanding, and even our Fellowship, our Bawa, our Prophet, and our God, is hell. And as long as we don't realize, understand, accept , and join with this truth about who we are, about where we are, and about what it happening in our life, it will never change, and when we die, we will get what we have build, we will get the result of having fought and lost all of these battles, thinking in the process that we have won them, think that who we now are, and where we now are, and what is now happening is something of value, something of God, something of wisdom, something of goodness. But its not, it most certainly is not. The Point of Chapter 1 So what is the point of all this? Why does Bawa tell us that it is still OK? How could being in hell, living a life of hell, and doing all of the things of hell be OK? The answer is so very, very simple. Because these things of hell have nothing to do with us. They have to do with what God is doing, and how He does it, not with us. They have to do with "what God is doing", not with "what we are doing", and as long as we are focused on "us" rather than on "God", the truth of our condition, that we are hell, and all that hell is, and that hell does, knows, and understands, and all that hell ever could be, this truth of our condition will never, ever, make any sense to us, or be accepted by you, or me, or by anyone, as separate from God, and separate form the work and duty of God, or separate from the intention of God, which is to reveal God, for the benefit of all of His Creation. That is why God is unknowable, but can be Known. For as long as we are separate from God, and from all that God is one with, we cannot know God, because God is One, God is Oneness and unity, God is justice and truth, God is compassion and unity, God is "one with", while we are "separate from". But if we become "One with", if we become one with God, if we join in partnership with God to finish what God stated within us, within each one of us, then we can know God, because God can know God. Yes? In this way, our problem is only a problem of perspective, we are looking at everything, and thinking about everything, and doing everything, from the perspective of "us", of "us" as separation and differences, from the perspectives of "mine" and "your", while God is looking at everything from the perspective of "oneness with". What do you think that God sees when He looks at you, or me, or any of His Creation. Do you think He sees you, or me, or any of His Creation as separate from Himself, as "we" do. Of course not. When God looks at you, or me, or any of His Creation He sees Himself, He sees Himself happening, He sees Himself being revealed from within what He has created, and for Him to complete what He has started, within you, and me, and each of His Creation, you, and me, and each of His Creation have but to realize, understand, accept, and join with Him in what He is doing, and put down everything else. This is "La ilaha Ill Allahu - I am not, You are". But only the Creation of God known as man, which God endowed with the 6th level or kind of wisdom or consciousness can do this divine work, can join in partnership with God to finish the work of God, to complete God's intention for His Creation, which is to reveal God. And if man does this unique work, that only man can do, then all of the Creation of God will benefit. That is our part in it, our part in God's intention for His Creation. Such is the exaltedness of man. We must realize this, without the slightest doubt, with our iman, our absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, and with our wisdom, which is our direct connection to the consciousness of God, to the consciousness of oneness and unity, of justice and truth, of compassion and unity, which is our direct connection to the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and stop acting as the rest of the Creation that cannot do this, that cannot do this divine work of joining in partnership with God, because God did not creation them in that way. Then, and only then, will we find peace and tranquility in our life, by acting in the way that God created us to act, as His Representative to the world, as His light to the world, as His Islam reflected in the heart of Iman, as His Muham or face that reflects His Aham or heart, which is the true Muhammad of God, not by acting like the rest of God's creation, that cannot do this divine work. May we both think about this a little bit, my dearest loving brother Mike, it is very, very important. The Why, Where, How, And What of God And True Man So the big question, in this rambling narrative, which your little brother Louie is experiencing as it happens, in response to the beautiful letter that you sent, is why? And once we have a handle on the "why", then "where"? And once we know a little about the "why" and the "where", then "how"? And then finally, the "what" of it. Lets start with the "why". Why is all this happening? And the answers is simple, because that is what God does. He reveals Himself, for the benefit of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within Him. That is what God does. Just like an apple tree. 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 name of things, and more importantly, the nature of God and man. The answer is they came as One, because they are one, just like God and man are One. 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 in 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, to point to what God does, which is the same thing. So this is the "why" of God, 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. 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 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 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 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 action 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 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. That is the rub of it, that is the real hell of it, that is where we loose it, my dearest loving brother Mike, 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 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 Battles Within Us 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. Please Let Chapter 2 Begin, By Letting Chapter 1 End 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. 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. Closing Comments 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. As with all of our previous letters, there are 3 of them now, this letter, along with an outline 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 Why, Where, How, And What of God & True Man (this letter) 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" can be done within all of us, as we sit on God's lap, and He "teaches us what we do not know 03". 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 the two of us for this divine work. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of This Spiritual Letter ............................................... Footnotes: - click on "Back Button" at the top of your browser to return to text. Outline For 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 squezzed 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, 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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