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"Fashioning The God We Worship"
"The Adventures of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.)"
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Written by:
Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
on February, 2002
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Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum. May all the peace and blessings of God be upon all of us.
My love you, my dearest brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
"The Outline"
of "The Adventures of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.)"
of Topic 01 - Page 3
02. Quotation From "His Holiness" - From Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.)
03. The Beginning of "The Answer" - To "God's Question" Within Us, of "Who Am I"?
04. God Happening Within Us - Within "The One Child" of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.)
05. The First Part of "God's Answer" - To "God's Question", is "The Nur Muhammad"
06. The Second Part of "God's Answer" - is "Allah Muhammad" or True Man, And The Third Part of "God's Answer" Is God, Is Man-God Or "Insan Kamil"
07. Our Work is Letting It Happen Within Us - Is letting "Everything" become "Nothing"
08. Our Work Is Settling Into Stillness - through the realization that everything is always perfect
09. "The True Meaning of Islam" - is "Al-hamdu lillah - all praise be to God", is
"Allahu Akbar - only God is Great".
'The End"
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"The Body" - of "The Adventures of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.)", Page 3
01. The Adventures of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
As the first topic, Topic 1, of this series of topics, Spiritual Topics, this was a real adventure for this child, and a beautiful glimpse into the workings of God and True Man within us, into the Why, Where, How, and What of God and True Man.
For many a day this child has been reading over and over again, at the feet of His Holiness, pages 72 to 76, in the book, The Pearl of Wisdom, by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), which is Chapter 21, "The Six Faces", and each time the following passage was read, on page 74, something within this child would move, would resonate, would awaken within me, but not manifest in any outwardly way, until now.
02. Quotation From "His Holiness" - From Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.)
"The Beginning"
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Likewise my son, for the word "Kandan", people show a figure with six faces. This is an ancient trick.
The Entity that shines, the Form that moves around without form, the Light of Effulgence, the Father of the Universe, The Father-Light that engulfs all lives, is not this!
Some people in the world mould various figures according to their fancies, using stone and earth, and leave them on plants and garbage. They give them names and call them their "Father".
But the Father who vibrates with love, that Effulgence is not fashioned like this! How can we love or worship any form fathered by these people themselves, having made them out of their own hands?
Which of these two can we worship? Which of these two can we pray to? This is where serious thought, intelligence, intellect and wisdom should be employed,
"The End"
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Specifically, as the following paragraph, from within this quotation from His Holiness, was read, again and again,
"But the Father who vibrates with love, that Effulgence is not fashioned like this! How can we love or worship any form fathered by these people themselves,
The following question began to formulate within me, and gradually emerged,
"How do we currently fashion the God we worship, and how should we?
And for this child, “Spiritual Topic 01” is an answer, an initial answer, to this question that was asked by the life of wisdom within me, and answered by the wisdom within that wisdom, with this child being the witness, claiming nothing as "my" own, not the question, the answer, the one who asked it, or the one who answered it, and certainly not the one who heard it either, because in truth it was heard by everyone, 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.
An answer that was heard within the One Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) for this age, the One Child that His Holiness is every so gradually bringing to maturity within us, within each of us, if we will but let Him, if we will but let it happen within us, if we will but let "us" as "separate from" God within us end, so "us" as "one with" God within us can begin, in this way, destroying "who we aren't" within us and revealing "who we are" within us, which in truth is True Man within the Creation of God within us, which is the Oneness of God and His Creation within us.
03. The Beginning of The Answer - To "God's Question" Within us, of "Who Am I"?
Such is the beginning of the answer to the larger question that God asked in anathi, in the time of darkness or lack of understanding, in the time before the beginningless beginning, before aathi, before the time of light or the understanding of God, the question asked by God, before He became God, the question, "who am I?.
This is the question that God within each of us, must ask within each of us, when each of us realizes, understands, accepts, and joins with the life and teaching of His Holiness within us, allowing the Power of God to resonate within our hearts, allowing God within us to meditate upon Himself, allowing the Nur of God the completeness of God, the understanding of God, to manifest and emerge from within us.
04. God Happening Within Us - Within "The One Child" of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
(Ral.)
But this can only happen within us, within each of us, when each of us realizes through wisdom, through the life and teaching of God for this age, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), that each of us in truth is "God happening".
That each of us is God in anathi waiting to be revealed in aathi, in the Primal Beginning, as Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim, then as God in the dunya, within the Creation of God as True Man, as the Oneness of God and the Creation of God, and finally in akhirah, in the Kingdom of God, as God, as the Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man, if we will but let it happen within us.
05. The First Part of "God's Answer" - To "God's Question" is "The Nur Muhammad"
And the answer that is beginning to emerge from within us, within the One Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within each of us, is the part of the answer that will bring God in anathi within us into God in aathi within us, which is the Nur Muhammad within us, the Light of wisdom within all of us, the body of the soul, the body of the One life within us, within each of us, because in truth there is only One of us, whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not.
And the answer is "Everything and Nothing, and the journey between the two", and the first part of this three part answer, the first part of God's answer to God's question - who am I?, the first part of this journey from Everything to Nothing, is the Essence of Everything, which is the "seed of True Man", the "seed of Iman", as the last part is the Power within the Essence of Everything, which is God.
06. The Second Part of God's Answer - is "Allah Muhammad" or True Man, And The Third Part Is God, Is "Man-God" Or "Insan Kamil"
This first part of God's answer to God's question is the story of True Man within the Creation of God, is revealing the Oneness of God and His Creation, allowing the second part, the next part of God's answer to God's question to occur, which is Allah Muhammad, which is True Man, is the story of God within True Man, is revealing the Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man, which is the "seed of God", the "seed of Islam", and the completion of that story is the third part, which is God.
07. Our Work is Letting It Happen Within Us - Is letting "Everything" become "Nothing"
So we fashion the God we worship by letting it be fashioned within us by the one within us who can fashion it, and we worship the God we have fashioned within us, by letting it be worshipped by the one within us who can worship it, praising God for all of it, but claiming none of it, holding onto none of it, letting none of it define us.
And in this way becoming one with "Everything" within us, and transcending "Everything" within us, becoming one with the "Essence of Everything" within us, and transcending the "Essence of Everything" within us, finally becoming one with the "Power within the Essence of Everything" within us, which has no transcending, but which in God's own way, which is beyond all time, beyond everything, is reveal again.
08. Our Work Is Settling Into Stillness - through the realization that everything is always perfect
And in this way, this way of faith and trust, this way of settling into stillness through the realization that everything is perfect, we must let the journey proceed within us from "Everything" into "Nothing", from "Everything" within us into the "No-thing" hidden within it, revealing the "No-thing" in the process, for the benefit of "Everything" within us, this journey from stillness into movement and from movement back into stillness, realizing that only God can do this Divine work within us, this work of God within God, because only God is Great, all praise and praising be to God and to God alone.
09. "The True Meaning of Islam" - is "Al-hamdu lillah - all praise be to God", Is
"Allahu Akbar - only God is Great".
For His Holiness teaches us in the book,"Islam and World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi" in the "Epilogue", on page 42, that,
"Al-hamdu lillah - all praise be to God.
Allahu Akbar - only God is Great.
This is the true meaning of Islam."May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessings of God be upon us all. Amen
My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen
(Louie Beutler).
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