Spiritual Topic 01
"Fashioning The God We Worship"
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Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler),
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)
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1. Understand How We Currently - Fashion The God We Worship
If we are to properly worship God we must first properly fashion God, or what we end up worshipping is ourselves, some aspect of ourselves, not God, which is something less than God, and then the benefit of our worship of God is greatly reduced, or even possibly eliminated completely.
So the first step in correctly worshipping God is correctly fashioning God, and then our worship will be of value, and improve our life accordingly.
Therefore, the first question we must ask about our current worship of God is,
"How do I fashion the God that I currently worship?"
Do I fashion my worship of God myself, through my personal relationship with God, or with God's Representative for this age, His Messenger for this age, or do I accept and worship God as fashioned by others, by someone other than God or His Representative for my age, someone like my mother or father, my race or religion, my family or friends, my husband or wife, my school or teachers, my country or leaders.
If I do this, if I fail to fashion the God I worship myself, through the God that I know myself,
or the Representative of God for this age that I know myself, which for this age is Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), then I am taking a big risk, because I am trusting in someone other than God to do the work of God, the work which only God can properly do, which is to pray to God.
And if I am failing to properly fashion the God I worship, then my worship of God is wrong,
wrong for me and wrong for everyone else, because then my worship of God only places something more between me and God, something more between everyone and God, which is "me" as separate from God, and "me" as separate from all that God is one with.
We must all realize that only God is God, not anything or anyone else, and when it comes
to God, to the worship of God, we must use God Himself to do this work, not anyone else, because my mother and father aren't God, my race and religion aren't God, my family and friends aren't God, my husband or wife aren't God, my school and teachers aren't God, and my country and leaders aren't God, because only God is God, and Muhammad is
Messenger of God. This and only this makes us a Muslim, a Mu'mim, a true believer. May we all think about this a little, my dearest loving brothers and sisters. It is very important.
And we must all realize that the True Man for each age, that God sends for each age, and He always sends at least One, is the Messenger of God for that age, is Muhammad
(may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him) for that age, and for this age that is
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him).
So if I make these other things God, if I make something other than God and His
Messenger for this age, which is Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him),
into God, and use them, or join with them, to worship God, to do the one thing that can only be done directly with God, which is to worship God, then that is blasphemy, or worshipping
something other than God as God, which is prohibited by the first Commandment of God, and we certainly don't want to break the first Commandment of God as the first step in worshipping God, now do we.
2. Our Problem - In Worshipping God
So this is the problem that we all face in worshipping God, that we must each address and correct if true worship of God is to occur in our life, the problem that we don't use God to fashion the God that we then worship as God, we don't join in partnership with God with an open heart to fashion God and then worship God, but instead we use something or someone other than God to do this very important work for us.
For example, we use the world and the things of the world to support our worship of God, like a particular building or a certain set of books or practices, not God directly, and we use people in the world whom we respect and believe in to do this important work for us, not God directly, allowing them to fashion the God we then worship, but they are wrong for us, because even if they are right for them, they are always wrong for us.
And finally, even more subtlely, we use ourselves to worship God, trying to stand directly in front of God and worship God, in the way satan did, which only succeeded in getting him thrown out of heaven for not praying to God behind Adam (may the blessings of God be upon Him).
And we do all this because we have been improperly told to do this, to use certain things, actions, and beliefs in the world, and to use certain people in the world, and to use ourselves, our life and actions and understanding in the world, to support our worshipping of God.
We are told that we should use certain forms of worship, and respect certain people and believe in them, when in truth we should become formless before the formless One, we should only respect and believe in God, and His Messenger for our age, in our Father,
Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and we must give up "ourselves" as anything of value separate from God, and prostrate before Allah as His slaves, in order to allow God and His Representative for our age to do this divine work for us, this divine work of fashioning the God we then worship, the work that only God in truth, and His Messenger for our age, which is our loving Bawa, can properly do for us, or for anyone living in this age.
And these mistakes in fashioning God for worship changes our worship of God into the worship of some aspect of ourselves, and as a result we don't receive the benefit of fashioning and worshipping God directly through God, through our personal connection to God, our personal relationship with God.
3. Our Direct Connection To Bawa - is Our Direct Connection To God
And for the Children of God for this age, this personal connection to God is our personal connection to Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and this personal relationship with God is our personal relationship with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him).
Please know this now with your iman and wisdom, my dearest loving brothers and sisters,
with your soul and with your heart, because God and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us is
the Father and Mother of our soul, and Muhammadar Rasulullah is our heart, which is the Palace of our soul, and these Three within us are the Triple Flame of God within us.
And only through Them within us can True Prayer occur within us, when these Three of God within us become the One of God within us, become the prayer of the One to the One who is within us, revealing the state of the oneness of God and True Man within us, the state of Man-God/God-Man or Allahu Ill Allahu within us, revealing us as the Truth within the soul of God, as the soul within the soul of God, allowing the story of True Man and God within us to come to completion as God within True Man, and True Man within God.
And none of this can happen within us, unless we join with Them within us, become one with then within us, unless we realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth of our life, unless we join in partnership with the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), within us, which is the gift of God to the Children of God for this age.
In this age, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), there is no other way to do it. May we all reflect on this truth for our life a little, and then act accordingly. Amen.
4. We Must Differentiate Between - The Bird And Its Droppings
This is the real gift of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) to the
Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, His personal connection to God, His personal
relationship with God, and through this direct connection and relationship with God, to allow God to complete what He has started within us, which is True Man, allowing True Man to complete what He has started within us, which is the Oneness of God and True Man.
And this will naturally occur within each of us, as a flower naturally booms, if we will but put down the idea of "ourselves" as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God, and pick up the truth of us as the "oneness of God and True Man", and then join with True Man and God within us to reveal this truth within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, within the 18,000 universes within us.
This is the real gift of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, within each of the Children of God for this age, the gift of God and True Man within us, not anything that Bawa may have left behind when He physically left the world, as the bird dropping of a beautiful and valuable bird are not the bird, but leave a trail of where the bird has been, which if followed correctly may lead us to the bird.
But we must always recognize the difference between the bird and its droppings, my dearest loving brothers and sister, or we will never get to the bird. Instead we may end up with only its droppings, thinking it is the valuable bird. So please be very careful in what you believe in and who you turn to for help. Only the Power of that One God can help us, not anything or anyone else.
5. Use Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) - To Fashion The God of Our Prayer
In this way, through our ignorance we get pulled into worshipping God incorrectly, into using what others have fashioned to worship God, rather than turning to God ourselves to fashion God, rather than turning to Bawa within us to fashion God for us.
In this way, if before we start to pray, we call out to Bawa, who exists in oneness with God within our innermost heart, by simply saying the word "Bawa" before we pray, and invite Him to come out of our innermost heart into our mind and desire, which is all we have to offer, to fashion the God we will then worship, and then pray to the God He has fashioned for us.
It is just this simple, my dearest loving brothers and sisters. Then our prayer will be correct, and our whole life, which in truth are all of the Creation of God within us, within the 18,000 universes within us, will benefit from this True Prayer between God and True Man within us. Only This is True Prayer within us, not anything that we may do as separate from God and True Man, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God.
Please know it now, with your iman and wisdom, my dearest loving brothers and sister, it is very, very important, for there is not a lot of time left to establish this True Prayer within us.
From this moment forward, do it this way, and put down everything else. Fashion and pray to God directly using Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), because you have Him, that is God's gift to the Children of God for this age, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him).
And use this gift from God by asking "Bawa", in this very direct and physical way, to come and fashion and pray to God for us, for all of us, because that is all we have, and all we need, to form the direct connection with God within us, allowing us in this way to become His prayer mat, and experience His prayer of "oneness with" God, as our prayer of "oneness with God", and as we do it in our prayers, do the same thing in everything that we do in our life, then our whole life becomes True Prayer, becomes the prayer of "oneness with",
And if we do our prayers in this way, and live our life in this way, in partnership with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), in partnership with our wisdom, rather than in partnership with our mind and desire, then we no longer needing to experience our life and our prayer of "separation from" God, we no longer need to live the life, and performing the prayers, that only separates us further and further from God, and from all that God is one with. My love you, my dearest brothers and sisters.
In this way, we must realize that getting pulled into the worship of others, of others worship of God, is not worship, that this is wrong and very harmful for our life, and for every other life, as well as harmful for our relationship with God, because we are putting something not of God between us and God.
6. Pick Up The Gift of God For Our Age - And Put Down All Earlier Gifts
Instead of this, if we use Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) to fashion and worship God, we will not make this mistake, because Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is of God, is what God has given us in this age to fashion and worship Him, and in this way we will be using God to worship God, we will not be putting something not of God between God and us.
Finally, it is even wrong for us to use the worship of God fashioned by another, if this other has correctly fashioned his worship of God, by using God Himself to fashion his prayer, or His Representative for this age, to fashion his prayer, which for this age is Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him).
Even this is wrong for us, because each of us must do it ourselves, only then is it correct for us, as each of us must eat for ourselves, or go to the bath room for ourselves, or study or read, or understand, or sleep for ourselves.
Each of us must build a direction and personal relationship with God by building a direct and personal relationship with the gift of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him).
That is the whole point of the gift of God for each age, to accept it as such, accepting it as from God, as of God, as what we in this age must use to re-establish our direct connection to God, allowing us to put down what God sent in previous ages to do the same thing, but over time have become something else, have been turned into the opposite, into but something else that separates us from God.
So, for this age, there is no other way, there is only the gift of God for this age, which is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Everything else, including the gifts of God sent by God to previous age, will only keep us locked into our life of separation and differences, and our prayers of separation and differences, thinking we are living for God, and praying to God, while in truth it is all self worship, not God worship. Know this well, my dearest loving brothers and sisters.
May we all reflect on these beautiful words of wisdom, from the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), they are very, very important for our life.
7. Differentiate Between Worship of God - And Worship of Ourselves
In this way, correctly fashioning the God we worship is something only God can do for us, through His Messenger for our age, through the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and if we don't correctly fashion it this way, then it isn't worship of God, it becomes something else, it becomes some form of worshipping ourselves. We must realize this without the slightest doubt, and through the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) begin to understand why.
The why of this has to do with the difference between a True Man and a false man, between the inner self, the selfless self, and the outer self, the selfless self, between heaven and hell, between good and evil, between the island of hell, which is currently our home, and the 7 hells that God created and placed within us, and the world of souls, which are the 7 heavens that God created and placed within us, and the kingdom of God which is the 8th heaven or firdaus that must be built by Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him) within us.
Joining with the world to fashion the God we worship is natural to the world of "separation from" within us, and is going on all the time within us within the world of hell within us, and in the world of illusion we see as existing "outside" of us, which in truth are all but subtle variations of self worship, and certainly not the fashioning and worshipping of God.
Joining with God, with the oneness of God and His Creation, which is True Man, to fashion and worship God is natural to the world of "oneness with" within us, and is going on all the time in the 7 heavens of God that God has placed within us, and within the 8th heaven that our Father, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is trying to construct within each of our hearts, to the degree that we will let Him, to the degree that we will join with Him to do it within us.
8. Move From the 71st And 72nd Groups - Into The 73rd Group
So the problem is that we are both, we have both realms within us, we as such we are members of the 71st and 72nd groups of the 73 groups within us, with the 71st and 72nd groups having a foot in both worlds, in heaven and in hell, having love for God but also love for the world of hell, and having faith and trust in God, in the world of "oneness with" but also faith and trust in the world of hell, in the world of "separation from". And the work of each of us is to move out of the 71st and 72nd groups before we die, and move into the 73rd group which only has love and trust in God, for the world of "oneness with" not for the world of "separation from".
In this way, prayer from the perspective of the 71st and 72nd groups are prayers of "separation from" even though they are called prayers to God, they are prayers of division and differences, of my race, my religion, my family, and of your race, your religion, and your family, and in this way never reach God, never reach the one who is "oneness with", oneness with all races, all religions, and all families.
And prayers from the perspective of the 73rd group are prayers of "oneness with" an all reaching God, because they are all of God, and of what God is doing, not of man and what man is doing, and what God is doing is revealing True Man within the Creation of God within each of us, and God within True Man. So only by join with this prayer can it correctly be called prayer to God.
9. Join With The Messenger of God - For Our Age, To Access The Power of God
This is the differences that we must learn to understand and clearly see within ourselves, not within others, and that we must overcome within us by joining with the Messenger of God for our age, because only the power of God, the grace of God, the qualities and actions of God, can do this work within us, which is the whole purpose of fashioning God for prayer, and then praying to God.
So fashioning our worship of God ourselves, in partnership with God, rather than doing it with other people in the world, or following the lead of other people in the world, or turning to other people in the world to fashion it for us, is the path of God. And fashioning and worshipping God directly within us using God, in partnership with God, is the way God is, and the way we truly are, and the way worship of God truly is, because God and man and worship are one, not separate.
Worshipping God using anything or anyone other than God Himself separates us from God, separates us from all that God is one with, and separates us from the worship of God, which is already and always going on all the time by all lives that have become one with God.
This is the group we need to join in prayer, the prayer of "oneness with" God, by becoming One with God, not the groups that prays to God separate from God, for their prayer is the prayer of "separation from", the prayer of separation, and joining them in prayer only separates us further from God, further from each other, and further from all of God's creations.
This is the only way that worship to God works, because in truth God is our only true Mother or Father, our only true Race or Religion, our only true Family or Friend, our only true Husband or Wife, our only true School or Teacher, and our only true Country or Leader.
Everything else, anyone else, is less than this, and in truth the only value of these other things in our life, other than God, is that if we look at them with our wisdom, they are all pointing to God, they all act as a finger pointing to God, to the work that God and only God can do, the work of the True Mother, Father, Race, Religion, Family, Friend, Husband, Wife, School, Teacher, Country, and Leader.
In this way, as our partnership with God deepens through our faith, certitude, and determination in God, our Iman, and through our wisdom, our direct relationship with God, then through our worship of God using God, everything other than God, will be gradually cut away from us, and replaced with God, replaced with what they are all pointing to. Then our prayer and our life will be successful.
10. Realize The True Purpose - of Worshipping God
In truth, this is the purpose of worshipping God, to gradually realize that there is nothing other than God, that only God is God, and that God alone is sufficient for our life, for all that we do, for all that we need, and for all that we need to understand, and to affirm this truth of our life in everything that we do, that we need, and that we need to understand, by becoming in each thing a clean slate, and an empty cup, intending that God write upon us, and fill us, again and again and again, for the benefit of all of His Creation, not for the benefit of us as separate from God.
Try to do it this way, my dearest loving brothers and sisters. Join with His Holiness as the way to fashion God for worship, join with the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) as the way to do this, as the way to fall out of the prayer of "separation from" and into the prayer of "oneness with".
11. Learn to Correctly Fashion - The God We Worship
Therefore, the first step in worshipping God is to fashion for ourselves the God that we worship, and to reject for ourselves, not for anyone else, the God that has been fashioned to be worship by anyone else, even if they have fashioned God correctly, for them, not for us, by using God to fashion God.
Having done this, we are ready to fashion the God we will worship, because now our slate is clean, our cup is empty, and we can then invite God to come and write upon our blank slate, and fill our empty cut, there is nothing currently on our slate or in our cup that will interfere with what God is doing, with what God wants to write on us, or fill us with, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us.
12. The Secret - of Worshipping God
And the secret of worshipping God is to do this again, and again, to do this cleaning of our slate and this emptying of our cup, again and again, to do this each time we go to worship God.
Each time we go to worship God, which must eventually become with each breath, we must hand everything that has been written on our slate, even by God, back to God, being in all ways done with it, and in a similar manner, hand everything that has been put into our cup, even by God, back to God, again being in all ways done with it, and start fresh, by inviting God to came again and write upon us with His wisdom, and fill us again with His grace, for the benefit of all of His Creation within us.
Because even if what is currently written on our slate, from the last time of worship, of fashioning the God we worship, is from God, and even if what is currently in our cup is also from God, that was for then, for our last time of worship, our last time of fashioning the God we worship, and this time of prayer is for now, for this time of worship, for this time of fashioning the God we worship, this time of becoming one with God, and all that God is one with, this time of falling into the prayer of "oneness with".
For what was on our slate before from God was to address the state we were in then, the state then of our relationship and understanding of God, not the state we must now assume, not the relationship and understanding that we must now have of God, of the oneness of God and man.
For each time of worship, of fashioning the God we worship, is the time for a new state of oneness with God, a new relationship with God, a new understanding of God, different from what we received and experienced before from God, requiring a new state of worship, a new fashioning of the God we worship, through the grace of God, through the love of God, through the wisdom and light of God, through the 'ilm or divine knowledge of God.
This is why we must always first prepare for the worship of God by fashioning the God we will worship, and by rejecting all previous fashions of God for worship, by others, and by ourselves, because this fashioning of the God we worship, by cleaning our slate and emptying our cup, by handing back to God all that He has handed us, being done with it in every way, is our part, and our only part, in the fashioning of God for worship, everything else is God's part, is in God's hand, everything else God must do, and will do, if we do our part, including writing on our blank tablet, and filling our empty cup, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us.
May we all reflect on these beautiful wisdom points, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, it is very important.
My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
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