Spiritual Topic 03
"Truth Surrendering To Truth",
As the divine handshake between our wisdom and our soul,
between the light form of the Shaikh and the light form of the Disciple
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The concept of "Truth Surrendering to Truth" is the divine handshake between our wisdom and our soul, between the light form of the Shaikh and the light form of the Disciple, that allows God to complete what He has started within us, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, by first revealing True Man to True Man within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man within us. Amen.
It refers to the state of Iman, the state of "absolute and complete unshakable belief in God", the state of absolute faith, certitude, and determination that "God alone exists", the state that in truth there is "nothing other than God", and in that state of Iman, then Islam appears within us, as "Iman-Islam" within us, within the wisdom within us, as the "truth of us" within us surrendering to the "truth of God" within us, with the "truth of us" being that we are of God within us, not of the world "outside" of us, that we are in truth, with "us" as "One with" God within us, are "God happening" within us, and that we in truth, with "us" as "separate from" God within us, are not "us" happening "outside" of us.
That we are in truth not "separate from" God on the "outside" of us, but rather that we are "One with" God within us, and with the "truth of God" within us being what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us.
And to do this, by first revealing True Man within us, within the Creation of God or this world or the dunya within us, to reveal True Man within us as the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, allowing True Man within us to then reveal God within us, within the Creation of True Man or the next world, the hereafter, or akhirah within us, to reveal God as the "Oneness of True Man and His Creation" within us, and in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us. Amen.
And in this way, to be successful in our life, to allow our wisdom to reason over our fate, to allow our true inside to win over our false outside, to allow the qualities of our inner self to be victorious over the qualities of our outer self, we must awaken to the "truth of us" and the "truth of God" within us, we must realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth that naturally emerges from within us, when we are ready to hear it, and ready to either accept or reject it, and having accepted it , we must then join in partnership with God within us to finish what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, by first revealing True Man within us, within the Creation of God within us.
In this way, first revealing the light of God within us, which is the Triple Flame of God within us, within Alif, Lam, Mim within us, thorough the life of grace, wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge within us, finding completion within His grace, finding wisdom within His completion, finding truth within His wisdom, and finding Him as the "Oneness of God and True Man" within His truth, within His wisdom, within His completion, within His grace within us.
In this way, we must join in partnership with what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, and stop joining in partnership with the world of darkness within us, the world of arrogance, karma, and illusion within us, that we see in our collective ignorance as existing "outside" of us, the world of desire for earth, women, and gold within us, the world of body, trick, and danger within us, the evil actions of kalam or time within us that lead us to kalan within us, to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, to the suffering of the grave within us, to Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within us, and to an eternal life of "separation from" God within us.
In this way, we must stop "working for wages to get into heaven" on the "outside" of us, and we do this through the realization, understanding, and acceptance that we are in truth not happening "outside" of us as "separate from" God, as we currently believe and see in our daily life, but rather that we are the witness of God within us, that we are the witness of what God is doing within us, we are the witness of God happening within us, by first witnessing True Man happening within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, the witness of God answering His own question in Anathi or the time of darkness within us, the time of "the lack of understanding" within us, the question, "Who am I?" within us.
Which is the question that God within us asks of Himself within us in order to complete His intention within us, which is to reveal Himself to Himself within us for the benefit of all of His Creation within us, and the witness of all of this, is "us" within us, as "One with" God within us, if we will but realize, understand, accept, and assume that role within us, and willingly, freely give up all other roles "outside" of us, realizing without the slightest doubt that God is doing all of this within us, as "One with" us, not "us" as "separate from" God on the "outside" of us, if we will but let "Him happen" within us, as "One with" us within us, and not stop Him, by continuing to let "us happen" on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" Him within us, as "separate from" our brothers and sisters on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God both within us and "outside" of us. If we will but do this. Amen.
And if we do this, if we join in partnership with God within us, if we become peaceful with our own ending on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God and everything else on the "outside" of us, if we let God move us from the flesh into the spirit, from mind and desire into wisdom, by joining with His "light for the world" in our age, and with His "word for the world" in our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), if we will just do this, if we let our "wisdom reason over our fate, then, and only then, when True Man happens within the Creation of God (the dunya or this world) within us, and God happens within the Creation of True Man (akhirah or the next world) within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and True Man within us, then we will be within Him, then we will spend eternity within us, having successfully moved from our "outside" to our "inside' before we die, having brought back to Him the understanding of God which we will share with Him forever, which is the Deen within the Deen, Muhammad within Muhammad, and True Man within True Man. Amen.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar.
And in this way, then "Truth Surrenders To Truth", then the "truth of us" within us surrenders to the "truth of God" within us, then what God is doing within us moves forward within us, and we become "One with" God within us, who is already "One with" us within Him, and everything of us as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, on the "outside" of us, comes to an end both within us and "outside" of us, and the "truth of us" and the "truth of God" within us, which is God and everything that God is "One with" within us, and everything that God is doing within us, becomes "who we are", and "where we are", and "what is happening" in our life. Amen.
And with the "truth of us" and the "truth of God" having become One within us, having become God doing what God does within us, which is "God happening" within us, which is God revealing God to God within us, by first revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and True Man within us, as an apple seed in truth is the "apple" revealing the "apple" by first revealing the "apple tree" hidden within it, is the "apple happening" within the "apple tree happening" within it, and as such they are One, for the benefit of everything that it touches, for the benefit of the earth, fire, water, air, and ether, and for the benefit of all of the Creation of God that use the apple tree and eat its apples, and for the benefit of man, who tastes the sweet taste of the apples and finds comfort in the shade of its branches, even using its wood at a later time to find shelter and stay warm in the winter. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar.
In truth, such is our life, such is the truth of our life, such is the truth of "us" having realized, understood, accepted, and joined with the "truth of us" within us, and of the "truth of us" within us surrendering to the "truth of God" within us, such is our life being lived at the feet of light and word of God for our age, at the feet of the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us). Amen.
For as Bawa teaches us,
"Can man not do even as much as an apple seed can do, which is to live a selfless life of service to all of Creation."
The choice is man's, as it is for each apple seed, deciding, after realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with the truth of itself that naturally emerges from within it, when it is ready to hear it, and ready to either accept or reject it, the truth 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 it to grow, and to either join with what it is buried within, and germinate, in this way, telling the story of the apple tree that it came to the earth, to join with the earth, to reveal, or to continue in its selfish life buried within the earth, protecting itself from the earth until it dies, until it is absorbed into the earth, forever breaking its connection to the story of the apple tree hidden within it.
But if the apple seed chooses its truth rather than its falsehood, its selfless life within rather than its selfish life "outside", then it germinates, surrendering to the earth that it is buried within, allowing the earth to surrender to the apple seed that is buried within it, which occurs through a mutual awareness of its truth by both, by both the apple seed and the earth, then its life is successful, and the story of the apple tree hidden within it can be told, and in this way, dying to its life of selfishness buried within the earth, in order to give life to the seed within it, giving life to the seed of selflessness hidden within it, rather than continuing to live a life of selfishness in the earth until it dies.
And when it dies, if it has chosen selfishness, gradually being absorbed into what it is buried within, which for the apple seed is the earth, and for us is our mind and desire, forever braking its connection to the truth of itself hidden within its, which for the apple seed is the witness of the apple tree hidden within the apple seed, and of the apple hidden within the apple tree, and which for each of us is the witness of True Man hidden within the Creation of God within us, and of God hidden within the Creation of True Man within us, and in this way, is the witness of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us. Amen.
And for the apple seed this means forever breaking it connection to the story of the apple tree within the story of the apple fruit, and the story of the apple fruit within the story of the apple tree, that it came to the earth, to join with the earth, to tell, and for each of us this means forever breaking our connection to the story of True Man within us, which is the Tree of God within us, within the story of God within us, which is the fruit of True Man within us, and the story of God within the story of True Man within us, as story which we came to the Creation of God, as a Ray from the Sun, to tell.
That came as a Ray from the Sun to join with the Nur Muhammad on the forehead of Adam (peace be upon Him) to tell, to join with God within our wisdom to tell, to join with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) both within and "outside" of us to tell, and now, to join with our brothers and sisters, on the "outside" of us, as the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), and to join with Bawa within us, and God within Him, to tell. Amen.
And like each apple seed buried within the earth, the choice is ours, not God's, the choice has been left to be made by each of one of us, buried within our mind and desire, buried within a life a selfishness, a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, not by God, because God has already made His choice, and He choose "Oneness with" us, that is why we are alive within Him.
Now each of us must decide, before it is too late, before we physically die, a choice of either "Oneness with" or "separation from" God for eternity, because when we die, and we have not correctly chosen God, correctly chosen a life of "Oneness with" God, while we were alive, then our choice is made for us, which is an eternal life of "separation from" God, of eternal "separation from" the truth of our very own life, of eternal "separation from" the reality that we have come here to reveal, which is God within us, which is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which is True Man within the Creation of God within us, within the dunya or earth world within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation", and God within the Creation of True Man, within akhirah or the hereafter within us.
Which can only be revealed within us, and within God within us, through our Iman, through our absolute, complete faith, certitude, and determination in God within us, through our complete trust in God within us, that "only God exists", and that "God is One", and through our wisdom, through our direct connection to all of the "Things of God" within us, to all of the "Stuff of God" within us, that God has personally and ever so lovingly placed within each of us, ever before we were born, even before we came to this earth world or dunya.
May all my dearest loving brothers and sisters, all of the Children of God for this age, all of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), which is everyone living in this age, if we truly want to be His Children for this age, if we want to happily, freely give up our "outside" for our true "inside", all of us, may we clearly realize and understand this truth of our very own lives, and start to act accordingly.
And join with Bawa within us, as He has joined with God within Him, to complete God's intention within the both of us, which is to reveal God to God within us, by first revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and of True Man, within both of Us. And if you do, we will be very, very happy, both now and in the future, for eternity.
Please know this now, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, please know this without the slightest doubt, for as Bawa teaches us,
"If you have doubt, you are out."
Please know this as the grandchildren, sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Please know and do this now, without any delay, and start to act accordingly. There is not much time left for any of us to do this before it is all over, on the "outside" of us. Please try.
For as Bawa teaches us,
"In this way, please join with Me in this way, and with God within Me, before you "say or do" anything, in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" within you before you "say or do" anything. Please do this "Heart's Work" within you, before our time runs out. Amen."
"Please do this, in the Name of God, in the Name of the 124,000 Prophets and lights of God, in the Name of God's eight main Prophets, of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, David, Jesus, and Muhammad (may God be pleased with all of His Prophets), and in the Name of the first and last Prophet of God, which is Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him). Amen."
"And please do this in the name of our Shaikh, Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), and in the name of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of You). Amen".
In this way, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, please realize that we are about what God is about within us, which is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, of God completing God's intention within us, of God answering God's question within us, the question, "Who am I?", we are about God revealing True Man as the "Oneness of God and the Creation of God" within us, and we are about True Man revealing God as the "Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man" within us, and we are not about what "we" as "separate from" God are about "outside" of us.
In this way, we are about God as "One with" us within us, and we are not about "us" as "separate from" God "outside" of us, we are about God completing God's intention within us, and we are not about "us" as "separate from" God outside of us completing "our" intentions "outside" of us.
We are about God finishing what God has already started within each of us, even before He sent any of us here, even before we came to this earth world, to understand in "God's School", in this "School of Contrasts", who we "already are", to this temporary earth world which God both created and then sent us to, because this is where God can complete His intention within us, where God can complete what He is doing within us, which is bringing our soul life to an understanding of itself, so it can go back into God, taking that understanding with it, to share with God for eternity.
And Bawa teaches us in the beautiful "Kalimah Song", that He gave to us on April 26, 1972, that "we will be within it", that when it is all over, we will be within it, we will be within our soul joined with the light of God within us, which is the Nur Muhammad within the Nur Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, and in truth, we will be within the grace of God in the form of light within us, which is the Resonance of Allah within us, which is Allah Muhammad within Allah Muhammad within us, which is True Man within True Man within us.
If we will but join God now within us, in our current state, in our life of selfishness on the "outside" of us, making "us" on the "outside" of us into His problem within us, making it no longer "our" problem on the "outside" of us, by handing it to Him within us before we "say or do" anything, by saying His Name for our age, before we "say or do" anything, which for this age is saying the word "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him) before we "say or do" anything, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything.
In this way, saying the "word of God" that became manifest for our age, so God can end this life of darkness within us, both within us and on the "outside" of us, if we will but truly join in partnership with Him in this grand endeavor, allowing all that is "us" on the "outside" of us to end, allowing all that manifested within us in our ignorance to die within us before we die "outside" of us, allowing our soul to climb off of the cross of this elemental body, that it willingly climbed on so we could sin, allowing our wisdom to pull out the 5 nails of desire to live here, on the "outside" of us and sin, which is to live a life of "separation and differences", allowing our soul life and the wisdom surrounding our soul to join together as the light of man for this age, as our 6th life, as Jesus (peace be upon Him) within us.
Which after finding and merging with the light of wisdom within us, that was placed on the forehead of Adam (peace be upon Him), becoming the beauty of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, becoming the Muham reflected in the Aham, that is, becoming the beauty of God in the heart reflected in the face, becoming Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him, and after Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) goes on Mi'raj, removing the final veil separating a True Man from God, which is our body, becomes the Nur Muhammad, the body of the soul, the seed of Iman, the seed of True Man, becomes the Nur Muhammad within the Nur Muhammad, which is the understanding of the Nur Muhammad.
In this way, our true path, is to join with God within our wisdom within us, before we die, in order to become "One with" our true life, our life of light, our life of selflessness, within us, in this way, allowing us to witness the joining of this life of light within us, which is our soul life, with God within our wisdom within us, which for this age is joining with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) both within us and "outside" of us, and with God within Him, with His Holiness on the "outside" of us now being the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us) on the "outside" of us, allowing us to witness Their joining within us, and our joining with Them within us, with our joining with Them within us, and in what They are doing within us, allowing Them to finish Their work within us, before it is too late, before we physically die, and we will be within Them. Amen.
Because this earth world is where God can complete what He is doing within us, which is God revealing God to God within us for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, making our life successful, and victorious, if we will but willingly, and freely give up, having realize, understood, accepted, and join with the truth of us, and embrace God within our wisdom within us, as our true life, as our true purpose.
If we will but put down "us" outside of us, and our dear "brothers and sisters" outside of us, and what we think in our ignorance that we and our dear brothers and sisters are doing "outside" of us, which in truth is building a house of hell within us, a house of "separation and differences" within us, which we will have to move into when we physically die, for eternity, after experiencing the suffering of the grave, and Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment), and then we will have to experience an eternal life of "separation from" God. May we all think about this a little, it is very, very important.
And in this way, our current life on the "outside" of us, and the lives of all of our brother and sisters on the "outside" of us, as well as the lives of all of the Creation of God "outside" of us, is about God within us, and is about what God is doing within us, is how God completes His intention within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, and is not really about "us" on the "outside" of us, is not really about any of "us", on the "outside" of us, in any way.
For in truth our life, all of our lives, is about "God happening" within us, by first getting "True Man to happen" within us, and it is not really about any of "us" living on the "outside" of us, it is not about us trying to take care of ourselves, trying to protect ourselves from the world and from each other, or trying to work for wages to get into heaven, and in this and many other way, trying to become successful on the "outside" of us.
For in truth this is not the point of our life, of any lives, any more than an apple seed buried within the earth, with an apple tree hidden within it, and with an apple hidden within the apple tree within it, is about its life hidden in the earth trying to protect itself from being destroyed by the earth, trying to delay its death, and its eventual absorption into the earth that surrounds it.
For in truth our lives are not about any of us living as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God, on the "outside" of us, for in truth our life is all about God, all about God within us revealing Himself to Himself within us, it is about God within us revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us.
This is the truth of our life, of each of us, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is our true heritage, our true birth right, the true destiny of our soul. May we all come to realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth of us, before it is too late, before we physically die, because then it is too late to do anything about it, because then we only get to reap what we have sown within us, not "outside" of us, and move into the house that we have built within us, not "outside" of us".
And if we have not joined with God within us before we die, the crop and house that we will have earned for eternity will be of darkness, but if we gone the "Other Way", the way of "Oneness with" God rather than "separation from" God, if we have joined in partnership with God within our wisdom within us, before we die, which for this age is joining with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, which is saying the word "Bawa" or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him) before we "say or do" anything, in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" within us before we "say or do" anything, then we will have earned an eternal life of light, an eternal life of grace, wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge, the life of our soul joined with our light, which in truth is God's grace in the form of light, and we will be within it.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar.
And this explanation from your dear brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) is one way of looking at it, at this concept of "truth surrendering to truth", that His Holiness teaches us about in many of His beautiful discourses, for example, in the discourse that His Holiness gave to us on April 26, 1972, which was given the title, "How to reach and merge with God", which you can access by clicking on the following: Spiritual Discourse 001.
In this way, this brief summary of this concept represents one facet of the gem, so to speak, of this concept of "truth surrendering to the truth", nothing more and nothing less, one facet of the "truth within us surrendering to the truth of God within us", which as His Holiness teaches us many of His discourses, is a prerequisite to seeing our light body.
And then seeing what His Holiness next describes in this beautiful discourse from April 26, 1972, which is seeing all of everything, which is this earth world, the dunya within us, and then the essence of this everything within us, and then the essence of God within us, and then the form of True Man within us, which is the next world, the hereafter or akhirah within us, and then God as the "Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man", in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen.
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