Spiritual Letter 33 - Original Version About Spiritual Letter 33 Title: "To Truly See All People As Our Brothers Is Islam", Date: November 22, 2002 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Written to: The Brothers & Sisters of The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Home Page-Spiriutal Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 34 Letter 33: Outline & Summary Library Navigation Tree Go To Spiritual Letter 32 Letter 33: Expanded Version Page 1 of 4 Go To Table of Contents - Spiritual Letter 33 Related Material 1. Introduction To Spiritual Letter 33 Overview of Topic: "Every human being must strengthen his faith to understand that final destruction, to know how injustice will ultimately destroy injustice, to know how truth and justice will save those with faith in God" Text of Topic: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). We are sending this letter to each of you at the direction of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within the heart of this child, and of God within Him, in order to suggest a new direction for all of the brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, and for all of us living in the world in this age. A new direction that will allow us to become successful in our life, before we die, that will allow our wisdom to reason over our fate, before our fate successfully wins over our wisdom, that will allow the qualities of our inner selves to become victorious over the qualities of our outer selves, before our outer selves successfully win over our inner selves. That will allow us to join with our wisdom and the truth of God within us, to join with our Shaikh within us and with God within Him, to put off the final destruction of the world, until more of us are ready to successfully deal with it, that will allow us to act "wisely and truthfully" in both the world within us and in the world "outside" of us, before the world of darkness hidden "inside" of us erupts and destroys the world of illusion that we all see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us. That will allow us to act as the Umbrella of God's Protection in the world for this age, as the Children of God for this age, for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), as the True Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), before it is too late for all of us. A new direction that will allow us to help stop the world "outside" of us from feeding and bringing to maturity the lives of darkness within us, the elemental lives that were originally hidden by God "inside" of each of us, as the Creation of God, before we in our ignorance brought them to their current state of darkness within us, after we came to this earth world. That will allow us to help the world "outside" of us from taking a wrong turn, like "America invading Iraq", and in this way, from having a serious "accident", like allowing the "beast" that is growing within the "world of darkness" within each of us, from coming into the world of illusion "outside" of all of us, coming from within one of us, and in this way, causing the premature destruction of the world "outside" of us all, ending forever any chance for any of us to get it right before we die. For as Bawa teaches us on page xiv, in the "Preface" to the book, "Maya Veeram or The Forces of Illusion", "Every human being must strengthen his faith to understand that final destruction, to know how injustice will ultimately destroy injustice, to know how truth and justice will save those with faith in God." Finally, concerning the organization of this letter, we have divided each numbered topic in the letter (e.g., 1. Introduction To Spiritual Chat 33) into two parts, first an "Overview of Topic", which provides a summary of the main wisdom points within each topic, and second, "Text of Topic", which provides the actual text of the letter. This organization allows us to continuously work on the letter trying to include in the letter a summary of as many wisdom points as possible, and as much clarity about each wisdom point as is available to this child. Also, to help separate the two parts, the color of the text in the "Overview of Topic" is red and in the "Text of Topic" is black. [Note: we started to write this Spiritual Letter, Spiritual Letter 33, to all of our brothers and sisters at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, over a month ago, and since that time, we have also had two very beautiful Spiritual Chats with our loving sister Rumi Smith. As part of these Spiritual Chats with Rumi we have discussed with her many of the wisdom points included in this Spiritual Letter, Spiritual Letter 33, which has added a lot of clarity to the message presented in this letter. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you also read each of these Spiritual Chats as well as Spiritual Letter 33. You can access these Spiritual Chats with Rumi as a Web Page on the Internet by clicking on the following: Spiritual Chat 32, "Learning To Properly Say No To God", and Spiritual Chat 33, "The Only Way To Win The Drama Is Not To Play". Thank you. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)] 2. The Thrust of Our New Direction Overview of Topic: The thrust of our new direction is becoming One with the "inside" of us, rather than one with the "outside" of us, by learning to do duty "here" from "there", from "inside" of us, from within our Shaikh within us, and from within God within Him, using our wisdom and the truth of God within us, rather than trying to do our duty "here" from "here", from "outside" of us, from within the world that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside of us, with our brothers and sisters, using our mind and desire, using our life of "separation and differences", using our life of sin, "separate from" God, and "separate from" each other, and "separate from" the Creation of God within us. By learning to let "the grace spring forth" within us, to let "the darkness vanish" within us, to let "the love of Guru grow" within us, and to let "the qualities be purified" within us, rather than trying to live and solidify and enhance a life of arrogance, karma, and illusion, a temporary life of "separation from" God, with our brothers and sisters, in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us. (quotes are from page 11, "Invocation To The Guru", in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom"). By learning to let the "Three become One" within our Shaikh within us, and within God within Him, with the "Three of Us" becoming the "One of Us" within us, becoming the Oneness of - the Disciple, Shaikh, and God - within us, and to let the "One become Three" within the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, with the "One of us" becoming the "Three of us", becoming the Triple Flame of God within the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, becoming the Three or Triple Flame of God, of - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - within the "Oneness of God within True Man" within us. By learning to let True Man, or our Shaikh within us, finish what True Man has started within us, which is to reveal God within True Man within us, and to let God within True Man within us, finish what God has started within our Shaikh within us, which is to reveal True Man within God within our Shaikh within us, by letting the "Three become One and the One become Three" within us, three times within us, in awwal, in the the dunya, and in akhirah within us, in the world of soul, in this earth world, and in the hereafter within us. By letting the cycle of God within True Man and True Man within God move forward within us, in the same way that an apple seed germinates in the earth to let the cycle of the apple tree within the apple, and the cycle of the apple within the apple tree move forward within itself. By realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining or surrendering to the truth of us, of God within us, which is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, the truth that True Man is within God, and God is within True Man, and as such they are One. The truth that True Man is within God and God is within True Man, and as such they are One, the truth that True Man is within God, by way of "us" buried within the Creation of God, as the "Seed of True Man" or Iman, and the truth that God is within True Man, by way of our Shaikh buried within us, as the wisdom and truth of God buried within us, as the "Seed of God" or Islam within us, as the apple tree is within the apple fruit and the apple fruit is within the apple tree, and as such they are One, as the apple tree is within the apple fruit, by way of the apple seed buried in the earth, and the apple is within the apple tree by way of the apple flower hidden within the apple tree. So, in this way, we must let the cycle of True Man within God within us move forward within us, by letting God reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, reveal Iman within Islam, within the sirr of the dunya within us, within the Secret World Allah within the earth world or 18,000 universes hidden within us, by letting the "Seed of True Man" or Iman germinate within us, within the world of the Dhat or the essence of God, hidden by God within the sifat or form of the Creation of God within us. And we must let the cycle of God within True Man within us move forward within us, by letting True Man within us, which is our Shaikh within us, reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, reveal Islam within Iman, reveal God or Islam within True Man or Iman, reveal God or Islam within the kingdom of God, within the Creation of True Man which is akhirah or the 8th heaven or the firdaus of Muhammad (Sal) within us. By letting the "Seed of God" or Islam come to flower within Iman within us, within the "Tree of God" known as Muhammadar Rasulullah within us, within True Man within us, within our Shaikh within us, and within God within Him, and by letting the Flower of the Heart, be fertilized by the "Honey Bee" of God within us, by the grace of God that comes from the "Mountain of God" within us, which is the Heart of our Shaikh within us. As the apple seed hidden within the earth lets the cycle of the apple fruit and the apple tree move forward within it, by realizing and by surrendering to the truth of the apple seed within it, which is the "oneness of the apple fruit and apple tree" within it, by germinating within the earth, by joining with the earth to tell the story of the apple tree within the story of the apple fruit. And as the seed of the apple flower hidden within the apple tree lets the cycle of the apple tree and the apple fruit move forward within it, by realizing and by surrendering to the truth of the apple flower within it, which is the "oneness of the apple tree and apple fruit" within it, by coming to flower within the apple tree, by joining with the apple tree to tell the story of the apple fruit within the story of the apple tree. So all of us, as the Children of God for this age, for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), as the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), must allow all of this to occur within each of us, by joining with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him) to let "us" as "separate from" God end, so "us" as "One with" God can begin. In this way, to let "us" as "separate from" God come to an end within us before we physically die within us, so "us" as "One with" God can begin within us before we physically die within us. In this way, to let "us" as "separate from" God die before we die, so "us" as "One with" God can truly live forever. To let "us" as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" our brothers and sisters within us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, come to an end within our Shaikh within us, and God within Him, by letting the world that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us come to an end within our Shaikh within us, and God within Him, and in this way by letting our Shaikh cure Himself of us, of "us" as "separate from" our Shaikh, as the shadow of our Shaikh, so God can cure Himself of our Shaikh, of our Shaikh as "separate from" God, as the Shadow of God, For Bawa teaches us, "The Nur is the Shadow of God, and man is the shadow of the Nur." And we do this, by learning to let the "Three become One" within our Shaikh within us, and within God within Him, with the "Three of Us" becoming the "One of Us" within us, becoming the Oneness of - the Disciple, Shaikh, and God - within us, and to let the "One become Three" within the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, with the "One of us" becoming the "Three of us", becoming the Triple Flame of God within the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, becoming the Three or Triple Flame of God, of - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - within the "Oneness of God within True Man" within us. And we do this, by letting us within our Shaikh become our Shaikh, by letting our Shaikh within us become God within us, and by letting God within our Shaikh within us become the True Disciple within God within our Shaikh within us. For as an apple seed automatically appears again within the mature apple that has grown on the mature apple tree, so too God will automatically appear within us as the True Disciple who needs to be raised by us, and our Shaikh will automatically appear within us as our soul brought to the level of Allahu within us, when we have successfully become our Shaikh within us, when we have become the Nur Muhammad, or Iman within our Shaikh within us. Then God as the True Disciple within us is who we must join with our Shaikh as God within us, to raise to maturity within God within us, through the grace, the wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge of God within us, three times within us, in awwal, in the dunya, and in akhirah within us, by curing ourselves of our Shadow, finally revealing the True Disciple as God within God within us. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. And in this way, we must join with our Shaikh within us, and God within Him, to reveal God and the True Disciple within our Shaikh and within God within us, by willingly letting the false destiny of our mind and desire be destroyed within us, in order to realize our true destiny, the destiny of our soul, of our Shaikh, and of God within us, the destiny within the grace, the wisdom, and the 'ilm or divine knowledge of God within us, which is the story of God and the story of True Man within us, One within the Other as One within us, that we have come to our Shaikh, to join with our Shaikh, to tell. As the apple seed lets itself buried in the earth come to an end within the earth, lets itself as "separate from" the apple tree and the apple fruit within it be destroyed, by surrendering to the earth, by letting itself germinate in the earth in order to reveal the apple tree and apple fruit hidden within it, by letting itself be destroyed in order to realize its true destiny, the story of the apple tree and the story of the apple fruit within it, that it has come to the earth, to join with the earth, to tell. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Text of Topic: My dearest brother and sister, the thrust of this new direction is to shift from the path of living in the world that we currently see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, from the path of talking about the truth of God (the wisdom of truth) with our brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, which is really but a reflection of the world of darkness "inside" of us, and of all the attachments of the Creation of God "inside" of us. To the path of joining with our Shaikh within us, and with God within Him, to act upon the truth of God within us, in order to complete the intention of True Man within us, and of God within True Man within us, which is to reveal True Man within us, and to reveal God within True Man within us, and in this way, in order to reveal the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us. In this way, the thrust of this new direction, is to realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of God hidden by God within our wisdom within us, within our Shaikh within us, in order to move forward the Cycle of True Man and of God within Him, by us allowing "us" to end, by us allowing "us" as "separate from" God to end, like an apple seed germinating within the earth moves forward the cycle of the apple tree and the apple fruit, by allowing itself as the apple seed, by allowing itself as "separate from" the earth, to end. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, the thrust of this new direction is from the path of decorating the world that we currently live in "outside" of us with more and more of the "stuff of us", of decorating our world "outside" of us with more and more of what defines "us" as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, of decorating our word with more and more of what we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, say, think, intend, do, know, and understand in the state of "separation and differences" in the world "outside" of us. To the path of joining with our Shaikh within us, and with God within Him, to close down and destroy the world of darkness, the House of Darkness, "inside" of us, that in truth is decorating the world "outside" of us, with "us" as separate from "God", with "us" as "separate from" each other, and with "us" as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, and to re-open and reveal the world of souls within us, as the House of Light, the House of Wisdom, the Palace of the Soul, the House of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us. And then to open and reveal the kingdom of God within us, to open and reveal God and True Man within us, as the "Power within the Essence of Everything" within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and the Creation of True Man, within man and within God and within God and within man, within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. To the path of joining with our wisdom and with the truth of God within our wisdom, which is our Shaikh within us and God within Him, in order to leave the illusory world of "separation and differences" that we have in our ignorance built and currently inhabit with our brothers and sisters on the "outside" of us, in order to close down the world of hell "inside" of us, as well as, the world of jinns and fairies "inside" of us, that we have mistakenly opened in our ignorance of "who we truly are", of "where we truly are", and of "what is truly happening" in our life. In order to re-open the world of souls within us which is where we once lived as "One with God" within us, but in ignorance of God and of True Man within us, where we once lived as One with God and True Man within us but without any understanding of the Oneness of God and True Man within us, before coming here to God's "School of Contrasts" with us, to learn about who we already are, to learn about the Oneness of God and True Man within us, in order to open the Kingdom of God within us, and in this way, to complete the first part of God's intention within us, which is to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, setting the stage to complete the second part of God's intention within us, for True Man to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us. To the path of destroying the world of darkness within us, the world within us that stays hidden from us, "inside" of us, until we die, a world of darkness "inside" of us that in truth is continually creating and maintaining the world of illusion "outside" of us, for "us", for "us" as its nourishment, and in this way, a world of darkness "inside" of us that is constantly "feasting off" of "us" on the "outside" of us, that is constantly "feasting off" of "us" as the lives of illusion in the world "outside" of us, in the world that we currently inhabit in our ignorance with our brothers and sisters and currently see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us. Such is our fate, our destiny, our karma, our life of "separation and differences", on the "outside" of us, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, until wisdom dawns within us, until we join with our wisdom and with the truth of God within our wisdom, until we join with our Shaikh and with God within Him, to win over our fate, by reasoning over our fate. For as His Holiness teaches us on page 111 in Chapter 30, "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", "Life is the victory of wisdom reasoning over fate." But until this happens within us, until we join with our Shaikh and with God within Him, and make "our life" of "separation and differences" that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, into "Their life" of "Oneness with" in the world of Light within us, then as Bawa teaches us, "All that you see is a dream, all that you do is just a thought within that dream, all that you appear as is hidden ......... life is a feast of the world, its medicine is a time after a time." And we continue to live in our ignorance "outside" of us with our brothers and sisters in order to feed all of the lives of darkness within us, until we die, or until wisdom dawns within us, until we join with our Shaikh within us, and with God within Him, to close down and destroy the world of darkness within us before it permanently destroys us. Or until our "outside" world is prematurely destroyed by one of us, by the "beast" within one of us, by the "beast" within all of us comes to maturity within one of us, before the world "outside" of all of us is destroyed by the "beast" that is being secretly raised within the world of darkness "inside" of all of us, that is being secretly nourished by all the lives of illusion that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, that if not stopped within us, through the wisdom and truth of God within us, will eventually emerge out of one of us, and destroy all of us still living on the "outside" of us. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, in this way, the thrust of this new direction is from the path of ignorance, of nourishing the world of darkness within us, to the path of wisdom and truth, of destroying the world of darkness within us, in order to reveal the world of light within us, in order to reveal the world of light that was hidden by God within the world of darkness within us, that was hidden by God within the world of darkness "inside" of us, which is our closed and impure heart, and that is reflected in our ignorance "outside" of us, as our ugly face, as our "selfish" and "self centered" face, as our life of "separation and differences" in the world of illusion that we share with our brothers and sisters. In order to reveal what was hidden by God within the world of darkness "inside" of us, and within the world of illusion "outside" of us, in order to reveal Muhammad (Sal.) within the Creation of God within us, in order to reveal the ahmad, the open and purified heart of God within us, that is reflected "outside" of us, through the grace, the light, and help of God, that is reflected "outside" of us as the muham, as the face of God's beauty, as the beauty of God's heart reflected in God's face. And in this way, revealing Muhammad (Sal.) within us, allowing us to truly understand the contrast within us, the contrast of the world of darkness and the world of light within us, using our wisdom and the truth of God within us, using our Shaikh within us, and God within Him, allowing us to become One with Muhammad (Sal.) and with the soul of Muhammad (Sal.) within us, within the world of Light within us, and in this way, allowing us to understand this contrast within us, through our wisdom and the truth of God within us, through our Shaikh within us and through God within Him, allowing us to truly understand "who we truly are", to understand that, "we are what is within us". And "what is within us", is our Shaikh, and within our Shaikh is God, and as such, "us", our Shaikh, and God, are One, and as such, "us" as the - Disciple, Shaikh, and God, "us" as the "Three of Us" are in truth One, as within the apple is the apple juice, and within the apple juice is the sweet taste of the apple, and as such, these "Three of the Apple", the apple, its essence or juice, and its taste, are one. As the "Three of Us" within the "Three of God" are also One, The "Three of Us", as the - Disciple, Shaikh, and God - within the Triple Flame of God within us, within - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen, are also in truth One. And, as the Three are One, so the One is Three, as the "Three of Us" and the "Three of God" are One, as the "Three of Us", as the alif, lam, meem, of the Creation of God within us, as the sifat or form, the sirr or essence, and the dhat or power of the Creation of God within us, and the "Three of God", as the Triple Flame of God, as - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - of the Creation of True Man within us, as the sifat or form, the sirr or essence, and the dhat or power of the Creation of True Man within us, are One, so the One is Three. As the Three are One, so the One is Three, as the "One of True Man" or the Movement of God and the "One of God" or the Stillness of True Man are Three, as the Oneness of God and True Man are Three, as - the Ruh or soul, the Wisdom, and the Nur of God or Light of Wisdom. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is the thrust of our new direction, to let God and True Man finish what they have started within us, which is to reveal True Man and God within us, by us letting "us" as "separate from" God end. And in this way, to reveal the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us, as the apple seed lets the apple fruit and the apple tree finish what they have started within the apple seed, which is to reveal the oneness of the apple tree and the apple fruit within it, which in truth is the apple fruit and the apple tree within it, by the apple seed letting itself end, by it letting itself as the apple seed buried in the earth end, by it letting itself as "separate from" the earth end. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is our true heritage and our true birthright, an eternal life of "Oneness with" God and True Man within us, not living out our temporary life of "separation and differences" with our brothers and sisters in the illusory world that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, even if we spend all of our illusory time talking about the truth of God (the wisdom of truth) that we have learned on the "outside" from Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), only to get as our reward the suffering of the grave, the judgment by God of the lives of darkness within us, and Qiyamah, the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment, and eventually an eternal life of "separation from" God. May we all think about this a little. It is very, very important. For as Bawa teaches us in the beautiful "Kalimah Song" (4/26/72) about this cycle of God and True Man within us, and of our role in moving this cycle forward within us, of our role of understanding and rejecting our current life buried in the dream of "self existence" as "separate from" God and True Man within us, of our role of "us" realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), that God has personally and ever so lovingly placed within each of us, before we came to this "School of Contrasts". Of our role of "us" joining with our wisdom, and with the truth of God within us, of "us" joining with our Shaikh within us, and with God within Him, to let our life end, to let the dream of "us" end, to let "us" as "separate from" God end, in order to move forward the cycle of God and True Man within us. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is one of the wisdom meanings that has come into the heart of this child, when we invited Bawa to join with us to listen to this "Kalimah Song" (4/26/72), specifically to the following part of this beautiful song, "In a state of expansion, alif, lam, and meem, and the Triple Flame that has become clear, become the Ruh, the Wisdom, and the Nur, in a most mysterious form of grace. That form of grace becoming Wisdom, Wisdom becoming the Nur, and the Nur will become God." Also, this is also one of the wisdom meanings of the "light box" that Bawa instructed us put up at the Fellowship in 1975, a wisdom meaning that has come into the heart of this child, when we asked Bawa to join with us whenever we looked at the "light box". And this explanation of our role on the path of God, of our role in moving forward the cycle of God and True Man within us, of our role in helping move forward the story of God within True Man within us, and the story of True Man within the story of God within us, is similar to the role of the apple seed in moving forward the cycle of the apple fruit and the apple tree within it, of the role of the apple seed buried in the earth, in moving this cycle forward within it, the role of the apple seed which is to realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth that emerges from within it, with the truth about the nature of the apple seed, the earth, the apple tree, and the apple fruit. For as Bawa told us one day, an apple seed germinates because, "It becomes aware that it is an apple seed, that it is buried within the earth, and that the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree hidden within the apple seed to grow." In this way, we must join with our wisdom and with the truth of God within us, we must join with our Shaikh within us, and with God within Him, to understanding "who we are", to understand that "who we are", like the apple seed, is "what is within us", that "who we are" is "what the Shaikh is doing" within us, which is revealing the Shaikh within us, and if we successfully join with the Shaikh within us, to reveal the Shaikh within the Shaikh within us, then "who we are" changes, for then "who we are" is "what God is doing" within the Shaikh within us, which is revealing God within God within the Shaikh within us. And in the same way, we must join with our Shaikh within us, and with God within Him, to understand "where we currently are", and "where we currently are" is "within our Shaikh within us", as the shadow of our Shaikh within us, and when the shadow of the Shaikh merges back into the Shaikh within us, allowing the Shaikh to understand "who He is" and to understand "where He is", then "where we are" changes, then "we are within God within our Shaikh within us", as the shadow of God within God within our Shaikh within us, for "who our Shaikh is" is "what God is doing within our Shaikh", and "where our Shaikh is", is "within God within our Shaikh", as the shadow of God within God within our Shaikh. For as Bawa teaches us, "Man is the shadow of the Nur, and the Nur is the Shadow of God." And when the cycle of God and True Man moves forward in this way within us, then we have become our Shaikh and our Shaikh has become our soul, then we have become the sifat or form of our Shaikh, which is the qualities and actions of God, the House of Light, the House of Wisdom, the House of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and our Shaikh has become our soul, the soul of Muhammad (Sal.), and in this way, we have become, as Bawa teaches us in the "Kalimah Song" (4/26/72), "The form of the worship of the soul of Muhammad (may all the blessings and peace of God be upon Him)". In this way, and only in this way, do we move forward on the path of God within us, as the sirr or "essence" moving through the sifat or "form" of everything, then as the "power" moving through the "essence" of everything, becoming in the process, as Bawa teaches us, "The Power within the Essence of Everything." And in this way, having first become "separate from" the sifat or form of the Creation of God within us, which is our current state of "separation and differences" in the world of illusion that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, then joining with our wisdom and the truth of God within us, joining with our Shaikh within us and with God within Him, becoming next One with the Creation of God within us, and then becoming One with each "thing of God" within the Creation of God within us, as the cycle of God and True Man within us moves forward within us, becoming first the understanding of the Shaikh within the Shaikh, and then becoming the understanding of God within God. In this way, understanding that who "we are", is "what the Shaikh is doing" within us, that who "we are", is "what the Shaikh within us has allowed to grow within Him", which is the shadow of the Shaikh, or the lack of understanding of the Shaikh, in order for the Shaikh to understand the Shaikh within us, in order for the Shaikh to transcend the Shaikh within us, in order for the Shaikh within us to become again One with God within Him within us, and if we allow the Shaikh to reveal the Shaikh within us, which is the understanding of the Shaikh within the Shaikh within us, then "who we are", changes, and becomes, "what God is doing" within the Shaikh within us. And in this way, understanding that "what is happening" in our life is the "Shaikh is happening", the Shaikh within the Shaikh within us "is happening", which is the understanding of the Shaikh within the Shaikh within us, and "what is happening" in the life of the Shaikh within us, is "God is happening" within God within our Shaikh within us, which is the understanding of God within God within the Shaikh within us, and in this way, allowing us to understanding that "what is happening" within us is the understanding of our Shaikh within our Shaikh within us, not "us" as "separate from" our Shaikh or from God in any way, allowing us to let our life of illusion end, to let our life of "separation and differences" end, to let the life that we have been living with our brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us come to an end. And that "what is happening" within our Shaikh within us, as the understanding of our Shaikh within our Shaikh within us, is the Three becoming the One within our Shaikh within us, which is initially seen within us as the - Disciple, Shaikh, and God - becoming One within our Shaikh within us, which in maturity is seen within us as - Iman, Muhammad (Sal.), and True Man - becoming One within our Shaikh within us. And that "what is happening" within God within our Shaikh within us, as the understanding of God within God within our Shaikh within us, is the One becoming the Three within God within our Shaikh within us. In this way, "what is happening" within us, within our Shaikh, and within God within Him, is all about the Three becoming the One and the One becoming the Three, Three times, in awwal, in the dunya, and in akhirah, in the world of soul, in the earth world, and in the hereafter, all of which Bawa calls the "Sound of God". Allowing True Man within us to finish the last cycle of God and True Man within us, causing the "True Disciple" to disappear within the "True Shaikh" who then disappears within "God", allowing the Three to again become One. And allowing God within us to begin again the next cycle of God and True Man within us, causing God to appear again within the "True Disciple" who then appears again within the "True Shaikh", allowing the One to again become the Three, and in this way, moving forward the cycle of Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim, the cycle of the Creator, the Ruler, and the Sustainer, the cycle of awwal, the dunya, and akhirah within us, and within the cycle of the dunya, of the earth world within us, moving forward the cycle of Muhammad (Sal.) within the Creation of God within us, transforming the 6 faces of illusion into the 6 faces of clarity, into the 6 faces of Muhammad (Sal.), which Bawa beautifully describes at the bottom of page 133, in Chapter 12, "The Inner Qur'an", of the book, "Islam And World Peace: Explanations of Sufi", "The Qur'an appeared as the beginning, the emergence of creation (Awwal Muhammad), as the eternal life, the emergence of the soul (Hayah Muhammad), as the food, the nourishment for all creations (An 'um Muhammad), as the innermost heart (Ahmad), as the beauty of the face which is a reflection of the beauty of the heart (Muhammad), and as the plenitude, the light which became completeness within Allah and then emerged (Nur Muhammad)." All of which Bawa calls the "Sound of God", "The Sound of God is the One becoming the Three and the Three becoming the One, three times, in awwal, in dunya, and in akhirah." This explanation of the cycle of God and True Man within us is like the explanation of the cycle of the apple fruit and the apple tree within the apple seed, with the apple seed becoming aware of its true heritage, its true birthright, which naturally emerges from within it, which is the story of the apple tree and the apple friut, which is the understanding of the apple seed appearing from within the apple seed, allowing the apple seed to germinate and reveal the apple tree, allowing the apple seed to die to itself as "separate from" the earth, and to join with the earth to reveal the apple tree hidden within it, and in this way, allowing the apple tree to become the apple, allowing the apple to become again the apple seed, and allowing this to occur three time, in spring, summer, and fall. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. To shift from the path of talking about the truth of God (the wisdom or consciousness of truth) with our brothers and sisters in the world "outside" of us, of talking about the wisdom of truth which has been given to us "outside" of us by our Shaikh "outside" of us, to the path of joining with God within us, with our Shaikh within us and with God within Him, to act upon the wisdom of truth which has also been personally and ever so lovingly placed by God within each one of us living in the world, before we even came to this world, to this earth world, to this "School of Contrasts", that was given to each of us by God as our birthright, as our heritage. To the path of joining in partnership with God within us, with our Shaikh within us and with God within Him, to act upon the truth of God within us (the action of truth), to complete Their intentions within us, by closing down the world of hell within us, re-opening the world of souls within us, and then opening the kingdom of God within us, and in this way, by revealing the world of Light "inside" of us, that has been hidden by God within the world of darkness within us, by using the wisdom and the truth of God within us, by joining with our Shaikh within us and with God within Him, to move forward and complete the intention of our Shaikh within us and of God within Him, which is to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, and to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. This completes page 1 of 4 of Spiritual Letter 33. 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