Bawa The On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library (Recommended way to Navigate around Library) Spiritual Letter 96 --------------"E-mail Version" -------- About Spiritual Letter 96 Title of Spiritual Letter: - Go To "Expanded Title" "God Saved You, Now You Must Save God, If You Like" Time Period Written: September, 2006 Written by: Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), who now on the "outside" of you is His Children, if you like Written to: Our dearest loving sister Sonia Kline, and our dearest loving brothers Musa (Mani Levin) and Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff), and to all of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us) Page 2 of 2 ============================================================== Main Go To: Status Go To: Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 96 -------------------------------------- Available Go To: Brief Outline - of Spiritual Letter 96 -------------------------------------- Available Go To: E-mail Version - for Spiritual Letter 96 --------------------------------- Available (The Web Page you are currently reading) Go To: Outline & Summary Version - for Spiritual Letter 96 -------- In Process Go To: Related Material - for Spiritual Letter 96 ------------------------------ Available ============================================================== Home Page - Spiritual Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 97 Letter 96: E-mail Alert Library Home Page Go To Spiritual Letter 95 Letter 96: Other Stuff ============================================================== Brief Outline - of Spiritual Letter 96 Page 2: Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 96 Related Material - for Spiritual Letter 96 2. Lessons From The Anniversary Weekend - and something each of My Children must now realize, without the slightest doubt, as our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen has realized, and that is "Your Oneness With", and "your separation from", and then decide between them, for you cannot have both, as most of My Children are still mistakenly trying to do. Ok? 2-2. The Only Thing Valuable on the Path of God, Is God - Not What "God has Discarded", and everything that you now see in your current state, that is, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as existing on the "outside" of you, is false, is what God has discarded [Comments to "Our" dearest loving little brother Musa (Mani Levin)] 2-3. The Practice of the "Presence of Bawa" - Not the "Practice of the Presence of God", as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, but which you cannot do, because in truth "We" are within you, as your wisdom, and God is within Us, as "Our Power", and unless "We" accept you, God can never accept you, that is, unless you become "One with" Us within you, or at least truly start to, in partnership with God within you, before you die to the flesh, that is, before you die to the "outside" of you, so God can then do "Everything Else" necessary to make your life truly successful in your lifetime, for unless you do this, you can never become "One with" God within "Us" within you, and this is the truth of you, of "Us" within you, and of God within "Us" [Comments to "Our" dearest loving little brother Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff)] ============================================================== Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 96 Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Bawa. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you (anbu), My dearest Loving Children - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen. Bawa. Here is Page 2 of 2 of the E-mail Version of a beautiful Spiritual Letter, "Spiritual Letter 96", our dearest loving sister Sonia Kline, and our dearest loving brothers Musa (Mani Levin) and Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff), to all of My Children, for your reading, and hopefully, your sharing enjoyment. Bawa. For a longer "Outline & Summary Version" of Spiritual Letter 96, please click HERE or on "Outline & Summary Version" at the "Main Go To" above. Bawa. A Spiritual Letter which "We" have called, "God Saved You, Now You Must Save God, If You Like" Bawa. A Spiritual Letter from God within us all, to the Children of God for this age, which continues to "outline" for you what most of My Children are currently doing wrong, and how to correct their mistake using My Children, that is, using Those of My Children who have truly learned from "Us" how to do it right, so in the end, there will be "No Child Left Behind" within you, that is, there will be nothing still "separate from" God within you. ============================================================== Related Material - to Spiritual Letter 96 Bawa. For more on these wisdom points, and the significance of this Spiritual Letter to all of My Children, please click on the Title of the Following Material that is also provided as part of the On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library (www.Bawa.homestead. com), all of which is from God within "Us" all, to the Children of God for your age, if you like: 1) Spiritual Letter 95 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter095VerEM.homestead.com) 1) Spiritual Letter 94 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter094VerEM.homestead.com) 2) Spiritual Letter 93 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter093VerEM.homestead.com) 2-a) Expanded Introduction - for Spiritual Letter 93 (www.SpiritualLetter093Intro.homestead.com) 3) Spiritual Letter 92 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter092VerEM.homestead.com) 4) Spiritual Letter 91 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter091VerEM.homestead.com) 5) Spiritual Letter 90 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter090VerEM.homestead.com) 5-a) Opening Comments - for Spiritual Letter 90 (With a New Expanded Version of Opening Comments, and with an "Outline & Summary") (www.SpiritualLetter090Com01.homestead.com) 5-b) Related Material - for Spiritual Letter 90 (With a New Introduction, that is, with a New Summary of Spiritual Letter 90) (www.SpiritualLetter090RelMat.homestead.com) 5-c) More About Controlling Your Thoughts - for Spiritual Letter 90 (Plus some Background Information about the New Book "A Book of Our Love" by "The Children", (www.ABookofOurLove.homestead.com) that Bawa Instructed Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket) and Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) to start to write together) (www.SpiritualLetter090More01.homestead.com) Bawa. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). ============================================================== E-mail Version - of Spiritual Letter 96 Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the Name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. Bawa. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. My God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you, My Dearest Loving Daughter Sonia, My Dearest Loving Little Brothers Musa (Mani Levin) and Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff), and all of My Dearest Loving GrandChildren, Sons and Daughters, and Brothers and Sisters - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Bawa. Here is Page 2 of 2 of the "E-mail Version" of a beautiful Spiritual Letter, "Spiritual Letter 96", to My Children from the heart of our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, which all of My Children should all read, if you like, which in truth is everyone living in your age, the age of the "Justice of Conscience", the age where "Who you are?" in truth is now "What is within you", no longer "What is on the outside" of you, as now is the mistaken belief of most of My Children, a belief that is most certainly leading them to hell, to an eternal life within you as "separate from" God within them, that is for sure. Amen. Bawa. That is, in the last and short final age of about 200 years, which started around 1886 and will end around 2086, about 80 years from today, when the "outside" of all of My Children is over, and the Next World, or the Hereafter, or akhirah begins within each of you, for the only question truly left to answer, for any of you, and the reason for this last little age, is "Where and how will you spend eternity within you?" Bawa. For in truth, the Choice is yours, not God's, and in truth there are only "Two Choices": "Either as "One with" God within you, or As "separate from" God within you. Bawa. And there is "No Other Choice", as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, for everything else you still call a Choice is in truth just the drama of your mind and desire, of your current life of "separation and differences", of "selfishness", of sin, on the "outside" of you, and is most certainly leading you to hell, that is, taking you on an Express Train to an eternal life within you of "separation from" God within you, and that is for sure, that is, if you don't become wise, before you die to the flesh in your current state. Bawa. That is, if you don't wise up to the truth of you, before it is too late to do anything about it, that you are the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within you, and wise up to the truth of God hidden within you, that in truth God is the "Seed of True Man" hidden within the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within you, both just waiting to germinate, and as such, you are "God happening" within the Creation of God within you, and God as such, is "True Man happening" within "God happening" within the Creation of God within you, and as such, "You Are One" within you, not "separate from" on the illusory "outside" of you, as must of My Children still mistakenly believe. Bawa. All of which God showed to My Children as an Example on the "outside" of you as the apple tree and its fruit, for the current state of each of My Children is like the life of the apple seed buried within the earth that lives a life of "separation and differences" within earth until it awakens to the truth hidden within itself, the truth about itself that naturally emerges from within it, like this Spiritual Letter coming to each of My Children, from within God within "Us" all. Bawa. That is, when the apple seed buried within the earth is ready to both hear this truth about itself, and either accept or reject this truth, before the apple seed rots and dies in the earth, and becomes subject to 105 million rebirths, but never again as an apple seed, like each of My Children are now ready to hear Their Truth, and either accept or reject it, before they too rot and die in their earth, and become subject to 105 million rebirths, but never again as the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within God within "Us". Bawa. All of which for each apple seed in truth is the Story of the "Oneness of the Apple Tree and Its Fruits", a Story that the apple seed came to the earth, to join as "One with" the earth, to tell, if it likes, and all of which for each of My Children is the Story of the "Oneness of God and True Man", a Story that each of My Children came to the earth world within you, to join with God within the Creation of God within you, to tell, if you like. Bawa. For the Choice to germinate and tell this Story, that is, the Choice to let God within you tell and bring to Completion the Story that God has hidden within you, or not, just like the Choice of each apple seeds buried within the earth, is you Choice, not God's, that is, the Choice of each of My Children, and certainly not "Our" Choice, not God's, not the Choice of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and certainly not the Choice of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen on the "outside" of you, all of which in truth is who each of My Children really are, at least within you, for in truth, "We Are All One" within you, the only question is, "Do you want it", do your want "Your Oneness" within you. Bawa. And in this way, this is now Your Choice, the Choice to germinate to the truth hidden by God within you, or not, that is, to germinate to the truth that each of My Children is in truth the Story of the "Oneness of God and True Man", to germinate to the truth that each of My Children is the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God, and as such, in truth is "God happening" within the Creation of God within "Us", and as such, to germinate to the truth that each of My Children "Are One" within God within "Us", if you like. Bawa. All of which is like the Choice of each apple seed buried within the earth, that God gave to each of My Children as an Example on the "outside" of you, of what each of you can do within you, if you like, which in truth is the same Example that each of the 124,000 Heavenly Beings, Prophets, and Lights of God came into the world to show, and an Example that each of God's Creation came into the world to show. Bawa. As such, an Example that each apple tree came into the world to show, that in truth each apple seed is the Story of the "Oneness of the Apple Tree and Its Fruits", that each apple seed buried within the earth is in truth the "apple fruit happening" within the "apple tree happening", and as such "It Is One", that is, "One with" the apple tree and its fruits, if it likes, that is, if it germinates to the truth of itself, before it dies to the earth, for like most people, most apple seeds fail to germinate to their truth. Bawa. That is, if you germinate to the truth within you, before you die to the flesh, that is, if you let the "Truth surrender to Truth" within you, so God can finish what God started within you, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God. Amen Bawa. For the Choice is yours, not "Ours", and not God, and not Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen's within you, because "We" have already made "Our Choice", and that is why each of you is now living in the world, so now You Can Also Choose, that is, You Can Choose whether or not "We" begin to live within you, or not, by joining in partnership with "Us" within you, to bring "you" to an end on the "outside" of you. And in truth, "The Truth" and your life is truly just this simple. Ok? Bawa. Please do it this way, My Dearest Loving Children, while you still can, for this is a very short age, this age of the "Justice of Conscience", which is only about 200 years long, which started when "We" came into the world, around 1886, and will end when "We" as now My Children leave the world, around 2086. Ok. Bawa. Please do it this way, My Children, by joining in partnership with God within you, which in truth is "Us" within you, and God within "Us", and by joining in partnership with "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), while He is still living on the "outside" of you. Ok? Bawa. Please accept Him as some of you accepted "Us", and as some of you still need to accept "Us", that is, please accept "His Life and Teaching" now as the "Life and Teaching of God" for your age, all of which for each of My Children is now "Us" living again on the "outside" of you, but this time as "My Children", all of which for each of My Children, is now again "Our Life and Teaching", but this time "Without Any Veils", because what "We" taught you earlier, while "We" were still living with you in the world was "Veiled", as it was in all previous ages, in order to protect you from you, a little, that is, from your "Sin of Righteousness", which all of My Children have now become. Bawa. But which you can all now transcend, and truly become My Children, if you like, that is, if you do what "We" are now telling you to do, most recently in these last few Spiritual Letters, in Spiritual Letters 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, and 95, and now in "Spiritual Letter 96". Ok? Bawa. That "We" are now telling you to do, but this time, as the life and teaching of "My Children", of those of My Children who have truly learned how to do it right, before "We" left the "outside" of you, which is what "We" promised "We" would do, that is, that "We" would return to you after "We" left the "outside" of you, that is, after 16 years ago, and now "We" have, returning as "My Children". Remember. Ok? Bawa. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us) ============================================================== 2. Lessons From The Anniversary Weekend - and something each of My Children must now realize, without the slightest doubt, as our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen has realized, and that is "Your Oneness With", and "your separation from", and then decide between them, for you cannot have both, as most of My Children are still mistakenly trying to do. Ok? Bawa. "We" attended two of the meetings that you held as part of the last Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Anniversary Weekend, and here are some lessons "We" learned, if you like. 2-2. The Only Thing Valuable on the Path of God, Is God - The "Only thing valuable on the path of God, is God, not what God has discarded" and everything that you now see in your current state, that is, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as existing on the "outside" of you, is false, is what God has discarded [Comments to "Our" dearest loving little brother Musa (Mani Levin)] - go to "Text of Topic 2-2" Expanded Overview of Topic 2-2: - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - - go to "Expanded Overview of Topic 2-2" Text of Topic 2-2: Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the Name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. Bawa. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, beneficence, and blessing of God be upon My Children. May God help all of My Children. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen. Bawa. My love you, My Dearest Loving Little Brother Musa - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. Bawa. You are a very, very Good Child of the One Open Heart of God for your age, that is, of your dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and of God within Him, and now on the "outside" of you, of His Children (may God be pleased with Us), which in truth is each of you living in your age, if you like. Bawa. That is, if your true intention for your life within you, for your soul life, is to again become "One with" God within you, before you die to the flesh in your current state, and get an eternal hell within you as "separate from" God within you, that is, to again become "One with" God within you, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", is it will never leave you again. Amen. Ok? Bawa. Your sharing at the Anniversary Meeting on Saturday Night also really melted the heart of this child, my dearest loving little brother Musa, and it is certainly true that "We" all have to do what you described, and in this way, your description of "What We Have To Do" is very clear, but you are still very weak on "How We Do It", because you have not yet truly grasped the significance of the wisdom point that "We" taught you about the "Path of God" while "We" were still living with you in the world, and that is, that "Only God can walk" the "Path of God", not you. Bawa That is, not you living a life of "separation and differences" in the world, not you living as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God within you, all of which is "Just Not True", but which unfortunately is still the state of all of My Children. Ok? Bawa. And as "Our" dearest loving daughter Sonia told you at the same meeting, you and all of My Children are all truly blessed to have received the "Gift of God" for your age, which is now the "Life and Teaching of God" within you, that is, which is now "Us" living within you, if you like, as your wisdom, and as God within your wisdom, which is now the life and teaching of your dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and of God within Him. Ok? Bawa. And which is now again on the "outside" of you, if you like, as My Children, that is, as My Children who have truly "Gotten it Right", before "We" left the "outside" of you, and have now come to maturity as that, and in this way, becoming now the "Gift of God" for your age, as all that is needed to allow all of My Children to "Get It Right", if you like, before These Children of God also leave the world, for then it is truly over, that is, the "outside" of you, and next Chapter in God's Story begins, which is the Hereafter, the Next World, or akhirah. Ok? Bawa. For now you must decide "How you want to spend eternity", and in truth there are only "two Choice", God or hell, not "three Choices", God, heaven or hell, as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, or at least hope for, for in truth the heaven that you imagine, where you will spend eternity is false, after you die to the flesh, will gradually become your hell within you, when you begin to realize that it is for eternity, and that in truth "God is not there", that is, when you begin to realize "What you have done" with the precious life given to you by God, that in truth all you have done is "Separated yourself from God", which in truth is "Separating yourself from Yourself", for in truth, 1) "There is nothing on the "outside", everything is really within you". 2) "There is nothing other than God" within you. 3) "Only God exists" within you. 4) And "God is One" within you. Bawa. And this is the "Truth of you", and of "God within you", and your imagined heaven is simply your rejection of this truth. For as "We" taught you while "We" were living with you in the world, "Hell is simply the realization that you have "separated yourself" from God". Bawa. So going to some nice heaven in another "outside" of you, after you die to the current "outside" of you, that is, one more to your liking, is just a reflection of "your craziness", not your salvation, for in truth only God is your salvation, only God is your cure, because in truth "Only God is not crazy". Bawa. And the heaven that you imagine, in a new and beautiful and better "outside" of you, with your family, and friends, and with all of the brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship that you like, or with all the Muslims that think and act like you, or with all the Christians who think and act like you, or with all of the Jews who think and act like you, is false, is hell, and in truth is "Just Not True", and will only bring you sadness, an endless sadness for eternity. Ok? Bawa. So instead of this, please join with My Children who have truly "Gotten It Right", in order to "Get It Right" before you die to the flesh in your current state, in your current state of "separation and differences", in your current state of living on the "outside" of you as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God within you, all of which is "Just Not True". Bawa. And the Name of My Children who "Got It Right" when "We" were living with you in the world, that is, the Name of those who truly joined in partnership with "Us" within themselves to realize, understand, accept, this "Truth of Themselves", and this "Truth of God" hidden within themselves is My Name, is Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). This is for certain, if you like. Bawa. And "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen has truly made this transition, in his lifetime, from the "outside" of himself to the "inside" of himself, as "We" told you at least one of My Children would do, so now "you can too", if you like, if you accept Him now as "Us", and treat Him and accept Him as some of you treated "Us", and as some of you still need to treat "Us", if you like. Ok? Bawa. And this is the "Way it happens", and the only way it happens, that is, the way the Children of God in each age join in partnership with God within themselves, first with their Guru, and then with the Shaikh that comes out of their Guru, to allow God to move forward the "Path of God" within you, and then to join with God within you, after you too emerge out of your Guru, for in truth God, your Guru, and your Shaikh are all One within you, and "You are the Truth" within Them, if you like, for the Choice is yours, not "Our", and not "God's. Amen. Bawa. That is, this is the "Way it happens", for each of My Children to truly accept each of My Children as "Us" as They emerge "Out of Us", and start to do "Our Work" in the world, helping all of My Children to do the same, if they like, in the same way that "We" did when "We" were living in the world, if you liked. Bawa. And in this way, your accepting Them as such, and more to the point, your accepting at this point in "God's Story' within you, "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) now as such for your life, is truly your accepting "Us" as such for your life, and ever more importantly, is your accepting God within "Us" as such for your life. Bawa. For in truth "Who you are", and "Where you are", and "What is happening" in your life, is now within God within you, which in truth is now "Us" within you, and is now Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) both within you, and for a little while, if you like, on the "outside" of you, but certainly not "you" on the "outside" of you, as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, even though they may talk about the truth, and even paint beautiful pictures of the truth, but still a truth which has not yet truly dawned within them, with their words being in truth like a beautiful painting of an apple, not a real apple, a painting which cannot satisfy your hunger or save you from destruction, when it comes. Ok?. Bawa. My dearest loving little brother Musa, and all of My Children, in truth this is the "Way God Works", both within you, and on the "outside" of you, and this is the truth. Bawa. For as "We" told you when "We" were living in the world, "The Exaltedness of the Disciple is what validates the Exaltedness of the Teacher" Bawa. So at least one of you had to first make this transition, and now one of you has, or none of what "We" taught in the world would have been truly validated, so celebrate this first accomplishment, and join with it, as in truth "your accomplishment", for in truth it is, since in truth all of My Children are "One", at least within God within you, at least within "Us" within you. Ok? Bawa. And don't be upset with it, and specifically don't be upset with "Our" dearest loving Son, and your loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, my dearest loving little brother Musa, as you were a little bit upset with him the other evening, when at "Our Direction" within him, He shared with you what "We told him to say", that is, when he told you the following Wisdom Point that he personally experienced in "My Room". Wisdom Point 01 - The "Only thing valuable on the path of God, is God, not what God has discarded" and everything that you now see in your current state, that is, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as existing on the "outside" of you, is false, is what God has discarded Bawa. One day "In the Room" a group came to see Bawa, a group known as the "Claymont Group" (not sure of spelling), which some of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us) belonged to, before coming to be with Bawa. Bawa. And the leader of this group, along with about 30 of its members, came to see and talk to Bawa. And for the first 30 minutes the leader of this group treated Bawa as his peer, for he had a group and Bawa had a group, and he spent the first 30 minutes telling Bawa about his group, and about what they did, and what they did were many of the very same things that are done at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, including prayers, and vegetarian cooking, and meditation, and spiritual gatherings, and studying spiritual teachings. Bawa. And then thank God, the leader of this group realized that Bawa was not his peer, and he immediately dropped all of his pretense, and said to Bawa, "Bawa do any of these things that we do have any value on the path of God?" Bawa. And Bawa look at him, with such love, and said to him, "My son, all of the things that you have described I have also done and mastered, and many, many more things that you have not described I have also done and mastered, and through it all, I have learned that the only thing valuable on the path of God, is God. "In this way, you cannot use what God has discarded to "Get to God", you must use God to "Get to God", and everything that you now see in your current state, that is, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as existing on the "outside" of you, is false, is what God has discarded." "So if you truly want to move forward on the "Path of God" within you, then you must invoke God within you, you must get God within you to intervene in your life, that is, you must learn how to "Catch God" within you and "Put God to Work" within you, for only then will your life become Exalted in your lifetime, only then can God use your life to finish what God has started within you, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you. and this is true, this is certain. Please, please, please do it like this. Amen". "Please do it in this way, and only in this way, that is, through God's Direct Intervention in your life, because you learned how to ask Him to Intervene in your life properly, that is, because you asked Him, over and over again, with each breath, with each look, with each word, with each taste, with each word, because you properly asked Him within you, with Him as "One with" you, and with you as "One with" Him, to "Destroy you" as "separate from" Him, and reveal Him as "One with" you. Ok? "In this way, My Dearest Loving Son, you must put down all of these things that you are now doing on the "outside" of you, and in this way, stop "Working for wages to get into heaven", and instead you must "Join in partnership with God" within you, and allow God to finish what God has started within you, and within each of His Children, a very, very long time ago, and that is to reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you." "Please do it this way, My dearest loving Son, and then you can bring your group to a good state, and in the process they will all become Your Children, as all of those here are now My Children, for in truth They are all the Children of God within God within you, and in this way, they are all "One" within you, if you like, and this is the truth of you, of Me, of God within Me, and of all of My Children with God within Me, for in truth "We Are All One". Amen. Ok?" Bawa. And here is the second Wisdom Point that "We" would have had our dearest Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) share with you, if you hadn't just run off saying, "I got the point". Bawa. But instead, if you had thanked him for this beautiful sharing, saying Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar, and if you had properly given him salams, face to face, sharing your heart with his heart, and lovingly asked him to teach you, and all of My Children, more about the things that you, and all of My Children, "Still do not know", and lovingly asked him to show you, and all of My Children, how to truly become all the things, that you, and all of My Children, continue to talk about, but have yet learned to truly become. Ok? Wisdom Point 02 - "You will only find God within the Exaltedness of your own life" Bawa. One day a brother showed up at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship from New York City, he was a young man about 25 years old or even younger, and he was "Very Jewish", a term which you will only begin to truly understand its significance after hearing this story. Bawa. So please don't get upset with this child for using this term, for it equally applies to those who come to the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship who are "Very Christian", or "Very Muslim", or "Very Hindu", or "Very Zoroastrian", or "Very Married", or "Very Religions", or "Very Smart", or "Very Athletic", or "Very Family", or "Very American", and even "Very Bawa", or "Very God". Ok? Bawa. Now the young man briefly saw Bawa when he first came and he immediately told Bawa that he had accepted Bawa as his teacher, as His Guru, as His Shaikh. And upon hearing this Bawa told him, "Slow down, My little brother, first you need to check out Bawa before you make such a decision, for example, if you are selecting a girl for a wife, before you ask her to marry you, you should thoroughly check the girl out, like visiting her at her home and meeting her mother and father, and having her cook some meals for you, and spending time to know her, and learning how she thinks, and acts in a variety of situations, like with her friends and with your friends, and to begin to learn her thoughts on children, and family, and on raising a family, and on staying at home or working, and on religion and on God, and in general her level of worldly and spiritual maturity, for marriage, like selecting a True Spiritual Teacher, is a very big step for a man to take in his life, and you need to be very, very careful." "Like this when selecting a True Spiritual Teacher, that is, a Guru, or a Shaikh, you also need to be very careful, so you must also check Him out, like visiting His home and meeting her Mother and Father, and having Him cook some meals for you, and spending time to know Him, and learning how He thinks, and acts in a variety of situations, like with His friends and with your friends, and to begin to learn His thoughts on children, and family, and on raising a family, and on staying at home or working, and on religion and on God, and in general His level of worldly and spiritual maturity, for selecting a True Spiritual Teacher, like marriage, is a very big step for a man to take in his life, and you need to be very, very careful." Bawa. Well the young man seemed to want none of this, and kept insisting that Bawa was his selection, and that he had already decided, and "that was that". And Bawa gave the young man his love and said that they would talk later. Bawa. But as these things seem to always happen, Bawa immediately became "Not Available" in "His Room" for the next week and the young man and this child became "Good Friends" over the course of the week, with this child trying to share what was growing in his heart with the young man, all of which he seemed to both like and appreciate, which was nice. Ok? Bawa. And then came Friday afternoon, and 'Bawa's Room" was opened, and we all gathered in the room, including this young man from New York, who was "Very Jewish", as you will now begin to understand, if you like. Bawa. And Bawa asked if there were any questions, and the young man immediately put up his hand, and he asked Bawa the following question, "Bawa. Who was the Exalted Son of Abraham (peace be upon Him), Isaac or Ishmael (peace be upon Them)?" Bawa. And Bawa gave a beautiful discourse about Abraham and His Sons (peace be upon Them) explaining that it was Ishmael (peace be upon Him), the first Son of Abraham (peace be upon Him) that God called for Abraham (peace be upon Him) to sacrifice, and that Abraham (peace be upon Him), even though he had great love and trust in God, could not initially agree to sacrifice his Son, because of his attachment to his first born, to Ishmael (peace be upon Him). Bawa. And that it was only at the insistence of Ishmael (peace be upon Him) that Abraham (peace be upon Him) came to the point that He agreed to sacrifice Ishmael, with Ishmael (peace be upon Him) telling Abraham (peace be upon Him) the following; "O Father, you must sacrifice me, for God has called for my life, and He may never do so again, so if you will not kill me, in the Name of God, then I will kill myself, in the Name of God". Bawa. And when Bawa had completed telling this beautiful story, Bawa again asked if there were any questions, and the same young man put up his hand, and said to Bawa, "Bawa. Who was the Exalted Son of Abraham (peace be upon Him), Isaac or Ishmael (peace be upon Them)?" Bawa. And everyone in the room looked at the young man in amazement, because he had asked Bawa the exact same question again, and Bawa then did something that this child only personally saw Bawa do twice, that is, Bawa escaped, telling the young man that He had told him what He knew and that the young man would now have to decide for himself, and then Bawa turned away and looked at some of the other children in the room, as if He was getting ready to answer one of their questions. Bawa. And then everything changed, for then God intervened, for Bawa had done His Duty at one level, but then Bawa was no longer there as Bawa with My Children, but rather God was now there as God within Bawa, with His Children within My Children, and Bawa turned back to the young man, and as he turned Bawa's whole appearance changed, for now He looked like a 16 year old youth with a downey mustache, as Bawa often tells is the state of the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) upon merging with God on Mi'raj, and Bawa again began to speak to the young man, saying, with such incredible love and compassion, "My Son, if you stop and think about it a little, if Isaac was the "Exalted Son" then he benefited from that, and if Ishmael was the "Exalted Son" then he benefited from that, and if "I" (with Bawa pointing to Himself) am Exalted" then I will benefit from that, but the question that you should have asked, is "Am I Exalted". "For your will only find God within the "Exaltedness" of your own life". Bawa. And in this way, Ishmael (peace be upon Him) in this story represents your 5th level of wisdom, your subtle wisdom, your Qurban or "Self Sacrifice" in the Name of God within you, with you willingly and peacefully dying to your selfish life on the "outside" of you, so God can again live "selflessly" within you, giving birth in this way, to the 6th level of wisdom within you, which is Musa or Moses (peace be upon Him) within you. Amen. Bawa. And Abraham (peace be upon Him) in this story represents your 4th level of wisdom, your Iman, with you willingly and peacefully living in your "pit of fire", truly understanding that God is the One who put you in your "pit of fire", that God is the One who knows what is happening to you in your "pit of fire", and that God is the One who knows what needs to be done while you are in your "pit of fire", and is always doing His Duty within you perfectly, if you will only let Him. Bawa. That is, if you will only place all of your faith and trust in God, and in God alone, and in this way, if you will only make "Your knowing that God knows" enough for your life, until God personally and every so lovingly reveals what is hidden within you in your "pit of fire", which in this story is your 5 level of wisdom hidden within your 4th level of wisdom, or Ishmael hidden within Abraham (peace be upon Them), who God then gives birth too from within Abraham (peace be upon Him) as his first son, because of his Iman, because of his faith and trust in God in his "pit of fire", and is then asked to sacrifice by God, in order to get rid of Abraham's attachments to his first son, that is, to "His Stuff" in his "pit of fire". Amen.. Bawa. And in this way, and only in this way, with God completing for you the purpose of your life in your "pit of fire", if you like, which He most certainly will do for you, if you like, if you can only learn to sit in your "pit of fire" as Abraham (peace be upon Him) did, with Iman, with absolute faith, certitude, and determination that in truth, 1) "There is nothing on the "outside" of you, "Everything" is within you. 2) "There is nothing other than God" within you. 3) "Only God exists" within you. 4) "God is One" within you. Bawa. For the Choice is yours, not "Ours" within you, and not God's within "Us", that is, the Choice for this to happen in your life or not, that is, the Choice for you to willingly, and patiently, and peacefully sit in your "pit of fire", with Iman, with the Perfected Faith of Abraham (peace be upon Him) within you, until God reveals the secret of your being in your "pit of fire", or not, which is the Clarity of Ishmael (peace be upon Him) within you, so the wisdom of Musa, of Moses (peace be upon Him) can be revealed from within you, from within the first 5 levels of wisdom within you, which are the 5 Angels of God within you, revealing the Qutb of God from within Their Oneness. Ok? Bawa. And whether or not this happens in your life, in your lifetime, and in the life of each of My Children, which in truth is everyone living in your age, if they like, as it has happened in the life of "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, is your Choice, not God's, as the Choice was Ishmael's and Abraham's (peace be upon Them), not God's, in this little story. Bawa. And in this way, this is how you must learn to walk through your life, My dearest loving little brother Musa, in partnership with "Us" within you, and with God within "Us", and in partnership with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), both within you, and for a little while, on the "outside" of you, if you like. Bawa. That is, with you joined in partnership with God within you, that is, with God as "One with" you, and with you as "One with" God within you, allowing God to awaken the 4th level of wisdom within you, and then to give birth to the 5th level of wisdom within you, from within your "pit of fire", after you have learned to sit in your "pit of fire", willingly, patiently, and peacefully, that is, allowing God to reveal your subtle wisdom within your Iman, as represented by Ishmael and Abraham (peace be upon Them) in this story, with Ishmael (peace be upon Him) literally pulling Abraham (peace be upon Him) up to the next level of wisdom by his clarity, by his clarity that God was calling him to life, not to death, and that when you are so called by God, you should then go to God without a second thought. Bawa. Because it you waver at that moment, when God calls you, or think of your life in the "pit of fire" in any way, like about your wife, or your children, or your family, or your religion, or your race, or your work, or your "unfinished work", or about any aspect of your selfish life on the "outside" of you, then that is what you will get for eternity. Bawa. For according to the "Justice of God" within you, "Whatever you intend is what you will receive." Bawa. So when God calls you, and He will most certainly call you, then what you will get is what you want, and what you want is what your life says you want, by the way that you are living it, not by what you are talking about, and if at that moment you still want what you now want, no matter what you may say that you want, then in the end you will become that, a life and a place which you may call for a little while your heaven, but a life and a place which in truth will gradually become your eternal hell within you, an eternal hell within you as "separate from" God within you. Bawa. That is, if you are not wise, if you don't wise up before it is too late, if you don't wise up before you die to the flesh, as did Ishmael and did Abraham (peace be upon Them) in this beautiful little story. Amen. Bawa. My love you - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen. ============================================================== 2-3. The Practice of the "Presence of Bawa" - Not the "Practice of the Presence of God", as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, but which you cannot do, because in truth "We" are within you, as your wisdom, and God is within Us, as "Our" Power", and unless "We" accept you, God can never accept you, that is, unless you become "One with" Us within you, or at least truly start to, in partnership with God within you, before you die to the flesh, that is, before you die to the "outside" of you, so God can then do "Everything Else" necessary to make your life truly successful in your lifetime, for unless you do this, you can never become "One with" God within "Us" within you, and this is the truth of you, of "Us" within you, and of God within "Us", all of which in truth is the Holy Trinity or Triple Flame of God within you, which now in your age, in the age of the "Justice of Conscience" can now become "One" within you, if you like, and in this way, and only in this way, allow God within you to reveal the "One within the One" within you, which is the state of Man-God/God-Man within you, if you like, for the Choice is yours, not God's, that is, the Choice to use your life in this way, as God Intended, or not, is most certainly your Choice, not "Our" Choice within you, and not God's Choice within "Us". Please know this now without the slightest doubt, and start to act accordingly, that is, as "One with" "Us" within you, and in this way, as "One with" God within "Us". Amen [Comments to "Our" dearest loving little brother Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff)] - go to "Text of Topic 2-3" Expanded Overview of Topic 2-3: - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - - go to "Expanded Overview of Topic 2-3" Text of Topic 2-3: Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the Name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. Bawa. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, beneficence, and blessing of God be upon My Children. May God help all of My Children. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen. Bawa. My love you, My Dearest Loving Little Brother Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. Bawa. You are a very, very Good Child of the One Open Heart of God for your age, that is, of your dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and of God within Him, and now on the "outside" of you, of His Children (may God be pleased with Us), which in truth is each of you living in your age, if you like. Bawa. That is, if your true intention for your life within you, for your soul life, is to again become "One with" God within you, before you die to the flesh in your current state, and get an eternal hell within you as "separate from" God within you, that is, to again become "One with" God within you, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", is it will never leave you again. Amen. Ok? Bawa. Your sharing at the Anniversary Meeting on Saturday Night also really melted the heart of this child, My dearest loving little brother Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen, and like the sharing of My dearest loving little brother Musa (Mani Levin) it is certainly true that "We" all have to do what you described, and in this way, your description of "What We Have To Do" is also very clear, but like Musa you are also still very weak on "How We Do It", because you too have not yet truly grasped the significance of the wisdom points that "We" taught you about the "Path of God" while "We" were still living with you in the world, and that is, that "Only God can walk" the "Path of God" within you, not you, not "you" living on the "outside" of you, living as if you are "separate from" God within you. This cannot be done. Ok? Bawa. So before reading any further please read the two Wisdom Points that were shared with Musa (Mani Levin), earlier in Page 2 of this "Love Letter" to My Children, which in truth is from God within you all, to the Children of God for your age, which in truth is everyone living in your age, if you like, that is, 1) Wisdom Point 01 - The "Only thing valuable on the path of God, is God, not what God has discarded" 2) Wisdom Point 02 - "You will only find God within the Exaltedness of your own life" Bawa. Now in the story that was shared as part of Wisdom Point 02, about the young man from New York City who was "Very Jewish", who asked Bawa the exact same question twice, even though Bawa gave him, and all of His Children the most beautiful answer to his question, after he first asked the following question, is a lesson for all of My Children, if you like, a lesson about your current state, and what you need to do, to allow God to move your life truly forward within you, that is, if your life is to become truly successful in your lifetime. Ok? Question Asked of Bawa By A Young Man: "Bawa. Who was the Exalted Son of Abraham (peace be upon Him), Isaac or Ishmael (peace be upon Them)?" Bawa. Now the reason the young man asked the very same question twice, even though it was beautifully answered by God within him, for all of the Children of God for his age, was that the answer that Bawa gave him, like the answers that Bawa gave to you and to all of His Children, requires that he put down his life, by picking up Bawa's life, and God within Bawa's life, and he like most of My Children, could not do that. Bawa. For his life was the other answer to that question, and that is why he was referred to in the story as "Very Jewish", that is, his life was the other answer, that it was Isaac (peace be upon Him) who was the Exalted son of Abraham (peace be upon Him), that God called for Abraham (peace be upon Him) to sacrifice, not Ishmael (peace be upon Him). Bawa. And for him to truly accept the answer that Bawa gave him in the story, like for you and all of My Children to truly accept the answers that were give to them, when "We" were living in the world, was for him to put down his life, and to pick up the life of God within him, which in truth is the life of his awakened wisdom joined as "One with" his liberated soul, which is Jesus (peace be upon Him) within you, in search of the Light of his wisdom, which is Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within you, and he, like most of My Children, could not do that, and that is why he asked his question twice. Ok? Bawa. But "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) has joined with "Us" within him, to correctly do this "Heart's Work" within him for the last 31 years, and has now come to the state of wisdom and clarity within his heart to let "Us" share these "Words of God" with you, and with all of My Children, if you like, which in truth is everyone living in your age, in this last and very short age of the "Justice of Conscience", where "Who you are?" has now truly become "What is within you", and no longer is "What is outside of you", as most of My Children still mistakenly believe. Ok? Bawa. So please join with him, with "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, as some of you joined with "Us" when "We" were living in the world, and as some of you still need to join with "Us", so this time you can learn from him how to do it right, if you like, before it is too late to do it right, that is, before you die to the flesh in your current state, and before the "Beast" comes out of at least one of you and destroys the "outside" of you for all of you, before "We" destroy the "Beast", and send him to an eternal hell, that is, before you become "The Rightful Property" of the "Beast" and he drags you screaming with him to an eternal hell within you. Bawa. That is, before an eternal hell within you of "separation from" God within you becomes your eternal reward, not because of anything that "We" within you have done, or failed to do, and not because of anything that God within "Us" has done, or failed to do, but rather because "That is what you want". Bawa. For the "Justice of God" within you dictates that, "Whatever you intend (now) is what you will receive (in the end)". Bawa. So please, please, please join with "Our" dearest living Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) to learn how to correctly do this "Heart's Work" within you, that is, to learn how to correctly "Practice the Presence Bawa" within you, which is your awakened wisdom within you, so you can join with your awakened wisdom against the "Enemy of your soul", in order to liberate your soul, which is Jesus (peace be upon Him) within you, from His Cross within you, which is your elemental body. Bawa. By pulling out the "5 nails" of "your desire" to live on the "outside" of you, and sin, that is, your desire to continue trying to use "you" as "separate from" God, to live in the world, and to get to God within you, no matter what, no matter what God tells and shows you to the contrary, that in truth "You are All One" within you, like explained in this beautiful Spiritual Letter, "Spiritual Letter 96", from God within you all, to the Children of God for your age, if you like, for the Choice is yours, not God's, that is the Choice to accept this letter as truly coming from God within you, or not. Bawa. And the Choice to truly accept "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen as now the "Gift of God" for your age, for the Children of God for your age, or not, so that you joined with him can finish what "We" started within each of you, when "We" were living in the world. Ok? Bawa. So you can now learn how to truly win over the "Enemy of your soul", which is your current life of "separation and differences", your current life of "selfishness", your current life of sin, on the "outside" of you, with you living as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God within you, all of which is "Just Not True". Bawa. For unless you correctly join with "Us" within you, and with God within "Us", and with him, that is, with our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), both within you and on the "outsude" of you, to truly get it right, that is, to truly realize, understand, accept, and join with him as your own life speaking to you, which in truth he is, then you and all of My Children are lost. It is just this simple. Ok? Bawa. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen. End of "Page 2 of 2" of Spiritual Letter 96 - E-mail Version - ----------------------- |
Bawa The On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library (Recommended way to Navigate around Library) Spiritual Letter 96 --------------"E-mail Version" -------- About Spiritual Letter 96 Title of Spiritual Letter: - Go To "Expanded Title" "God Saved You, Now You Must Save God, If You Like" Time Period Written: September, 2006 Written by: Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), who now on the "outside" of you is His Children, if you like Written to: Our dearest loving sister Sonia Kline, and our dearest loving brothers Musa (Mani Levin) and Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff), and to all of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us) Page 2 of 2 ============================================================== Main Go To: Status Go To: Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 96 -------------------------------------- Available Go To: Brief Outline - of Spiritual Letter 96 -------------------------------------- Available Go To: E-mail Version - for Spiritual Letter 96 --------------------------------- Available (The Web Page you are currently reading) Go To: Outline & Summary Version - for Spiritual Letter 96 -------- In Process Go To: Related Material - for Spiritual Letter 96 ------------------------------ Available ============================================================== Home Page - Spiritual Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 97 Letter 96: E-mail Alert Library Home Page Go To Spiritual Letter 95 Letter 96: Other Stuff ============================================================== Brief Outline - of Spiritual Letter 96 Page 2: Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 96 Related Material - for Spiritual Letter 96 2. Lessons From The Anniversary Weekend - and something each of My Children must now realize, without the slightest doubt, as our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen has realized, and that is "Your Oneness With", and "your separation from", and then decide between them, for you cannot have both, as most of My Children are still mistakenly trying to do. Ok? 2-2. The Only Thing Valuable on the Path of God, Is God - Not What "God has Discarded", and everything that you now see in your current state, that is, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as existing on the "outside" of you, is false, is what God has discarded [Comments to "Our" dearest loving little brother Musa (Mani Levin)] 2-3. The Practice of the "Presence of Bawa" - Not the "Practice of the Presence of God", as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, but which you cannot do, because in truth "We" are within you, as your wisdom, and God is within Us, as "Our Power", and unless "We" accept you, God can never accept you, that is, unless you become "One with" Us within you, or at least truly start to, in partnership with God within you, before you die to the flesh, that is, before you die to the "outside" of you, so God can then do "Everything Else" necessary to make your life truly successful in your lifetime, for unless you do this, you can never become "One with" God within "Us" within you, and this is the truth of you, of "Us" within you, and of God within "Us" [Comments to "Our" dearest loving little brother Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff)] ============================================================== Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 96 Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Bawa. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you (anbu), My dearest Loving Children - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen. Bawa. Here is Page 2 of 2 of the E-mail Version of a beautiful Spiritual Letter, "Spiritual Letter 96", our dearest loving sister Sonia Kline, and our dearest loving brothers Musa (Mani Levin) and Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff), to all of My Children, for your reading, and hopefully, your sharing enjoyment. Bawa. For a longer "Outline & Summary Version" of Spiritual Letter 96, please click HERE or on "Outline & Summary Version" at the "Main Go To" above. Bawa. A Spiritual Letter which "We" have called, "God Saved You, Now You Must Save God, If You Like" Bawa. A Spiritual Letter from God within us all, to the Children of God for this age, which continues to "outline" for you what most of My Children are currently doing wrong, and how to correct their mistake using My Children, that is, using Those of My Children who have truly learned from "Us" how to do it right, so in the end, there will be "No Child Left Behind" within you, that is, there will be nothing still "separate from" God within you. ============================================================== Related Material - to Spiritual Letter 96 Bawa. For more on these wisdom points, and the significance of this Spiritual Letter to all of My Children, please click on the Title of the Following Material that is also provided as part of the On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library (www.Bawa.homestead. com), all of which is from God within "Us" all, to the Children of God for your age, if you like: 1) Spiritual Letter 95 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter095VerEM.homestead.com) 1) Spiritual Letter 94 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter094VerEM.homestead.com) 2) Spiritual Letter 93 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter093VerEM.homestead.com) 2-a) Expanded Introduction - for Spiritual Letter 93 (www.SpiritualLetter093Intro.homestead.com) 3) Spiritual Letter 92 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter092VerEM.homestead.com) 4) Spiritual Letter 91 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter091VerEM.homestead.com) 5) Spiritual Letter 90 - E-mail Version (www.SpiritualLetter090VerEM.homestead.com) 5-a) Opening Comments - for Spiritual Letter 90 (With a New Expanded Version of Opening Comments, and with an "Outline & Summary") (www.SpiritualLetter090Com01.homestead.com) 5-b) Related Material - for Spiritual Letter 90 (With a New Introduction, that is, with a New Summary of Spiritual Letter 90) (www.SpiritualLetter090RelMat.homestead.com) 5-c) More About Controlling Your Thoughts - for Spiritual Letter 90 (Plus some Background Information about the New Book "A Book of Our Love" by "The Children", (www.ABookofOurLove.homestead.com) that Bawa Instructed Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket) and Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) to start to write together) (www.SpiritualLetter090More01.homestead.com) Bawa. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). ============================================================== E-mail Version - of Spiritual Letter 96 Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the Name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. Bawa. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. My God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you, My Dearest Loving Daughter Sonia, My Dearest Loving Little Brothers Musa (Mani Levin) and Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff), and all of My Dearest Loving GrandChildren, Sons and Daughters, and Brothers and Sisters - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Bawa. Here is Page 2 of 2 of the "E-mail Version" of a beautiful Spiritual Letter, "Spiritual Letter 96", to My Children from the heart of our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, which all of My Children should all read, if you like, which in truth is everyone living in your age, the age of the "Justice of Conscience", the age where "Who you are?" in truth is now "What is within you", no longer "What is on the outside" of you, as now is the mistaken belief of most of My Children, a belief that is most certainly leading them to hell, to an eternal life within you as "separate from" God within them, that is for sure. Amen. Bawa. That is, in the last and short final age of about 200 years, which started around 1886 and will end around 2086, about 80 years from today, when the "outside" of all of My Children is over, and the Next World, or the Hereafter, or akhirah begins within each of you, for the only question truly left to answer, for any of you, and the reason for this last little age, is "Where and how will you spend eternity within you?" Bawa. For in truth, the Choice is yours, not God's, and in truth there are only "Two Choices": "Either as "One with" God within you, or As "separate from" God within you. Bawa. And there is "No Other Choice", as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, for everything else you still call a Choice is in truth just the drama of your mind and desire, of your current life of "separation and differences", of "selfishness", of sin, on the "outside" of you, and is most certainly leading you to hell, that is, taking you on an Express Train to an eternal life within you of "separation from" God within you, and that is for sure, that is, if you don't become wise, before you die to the flesh in your current state. Bawa. That is, if you don't wise up to the truth of you, before it is too late to do anything about it, that you are the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within you, and wise up to the truth of God hidden within you, that in truth God is the "Seed of True Man" hidden within the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within you, both just waiting to germinate, and as such, you are "God happening" within the Creation of God within you, and God as such, is "True Man happening" within "God happening" within the Creation of God within you, and as such, "You Are One" within you, not "separate from" on the illusory "outside" of you, as must of My Children still mistakenly believe. Bawa. All of which God showed to My Children as an Example on the "outside" of you as the apple tree and its fruit, for the current state of each of My Children is like the life of the apple seed buried within the earth that lives a life of "separation and differences" within earth until it awakens to the truth hidden within itself, the truth about itself that naturally emerges from within it, like this Spiritual Letter coming to each of My Children, from within God within "Us" all. Bawa. That is, when the apple seed buried within the earth is ready to both hear this truth about itself, and either accept or reject this truth, before the apple seed rots and dies in the earth, and becomes subject to 105 million rebirths, but never again as an apple seed, like each of My Children are now ready to hear Their Truth, and either accept or reject it, before they too rot and die in their earth, and become subject to 105 million rebirths, but never again as the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within God within "Us". Bawa. All of which for each apple seed in truth is the Story of the "Oneness of the Apple Tree and Its Fruits", a Story that the apple seed came to the earth, to join as "One with" the earth, to tell, if it likes, and all of which for each of My Children is the Story of the "Oneness of God and True Man", a Story that each of My Children came to the earth world within you, to join with God within the Creation of God within you, to tell, if you like. Bawa. For the Choice to germinate and tell this Story, that is, the Choice to let God within you tell and bring to Completion the Story that God has hidden within you, or not, just like the Choice of each apple seeds buried within the earth, is you Choice, not God's, that is, the Choice of each of My Children, and certainly not "Our" Choice, not God's, not the Choice of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and certainly not the Choice of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen on the "outside" of you, all of which in truth is who each of My Children really are, at least within you, for in truth, "We Are All One" within you, the only question is, "Do you want it", do your want "Your Oneness" within you. Bawa. And in this way, this is now Your Choice, the Choice to germinate to the truth hidden by God within you, or not, that is, to germinate to the truth that each of My Children is in truth the Story of the "Oneness of God and True Man", to germinate to the truth that each of My Children is the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God, and as such, in truth is "God happening" within the Creation of God within "Us", and as such, to germinate to the truth that each of My Children "Are One" within God within "Us", if you like. Bawa. All of which is like the Choice of each apple seed buried within the earth, that God gave to each of My Children as an Example on the "outside" of you, of what each of you can do within you, if you like, which in truth is the same Example that each of the 124,000 Heavenly Beings, Prophets, and Lights of God came into the world to show, and an Example that each of God's Creation came into the world to show. Bawa. As such, an Example that each apple tree came into the world to show, that in truth each apple seed is the Story of the "Oneness of the Apple Tree and Its Fruits", that each apple seed buried within the earth is in truth the "apple fruit happening" within the "apple tree happening", and as such "It Is One", that is, "One with" the apple tree and its fruits, if it likes, that is, if it germinates to the truth of itself, before it dies to the earth, for like most people, most apple seeds fail to germinate to their truth. Bawa. That is, if you germinate to the truth within you, before you die to the flesh, that is, if you let the "Truth surrender to Truth" within you, so God can finish what God started within you, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God. Amen Bawa. For the Choice is yours, not "Ours", and not God, and not Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen's within you, because "We" have already made "Our Choice", and that is why each of you is now living in the world, so now You Can Also Choose, that is, You Can Choose whether or not "We" begin to live within you, or not, by joining in partnership with "Us" within you, to bring "you" to an end on the "outside" of you. And in truth, "The Truth" and your life is truly just this simple. Ok? Bawa. Please do it this way, My Dearest Loving Children, while you still can, for this is a very short age, this age of the "Justice of Conscience", which is only about 200 years long, which started when "We" came into the world, around 1886, and will end when "We" as now My Children leave the world, around 2086. Ok. Bawa. Please do it this way, My Children, by joining in partnership with God within you, which in truth is "Us" within you, and God within "Us", and by joining in partnership with "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), while He is still living on the "outside" of you. Ok? Bawa. Please accept Him as some of you accepted "Us", and as some of you still need to accept "Us", that is, please accept "His Life and Teaching" now as the "Life and Teaching of God" for your age, all of which for each of My Children is now "Us" living again on the "outside" of you, but this time as "My Children", all of which for each of My Children, is now again "Our Life and Teaching", but this time "Without Any Veils", because what "We" taught you earlier, while "We" were still living with you in the world was "Veiled", as it was in all previous ages, in order to protect you from you, a little, that is, from your "Sin of Righteousness", which all of My Children have now become. Bawa. But which you can all now transcend, and truly become My Children, if you like, that is, if you do what "We" are now telling you to do, most recently in these last few Spiritual Letters, in Spiritual Letters 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, and 95, and now in "Spiritual Letter 96". Ok? Bawa. That "We" are now telling you to do, but this time, as the life and teaching of "My Children", of those of My Children who have truly learned how to do it right, before "We" left the "outside" of you, which is what "We" promised "We" would do, that is, that "We" would return to you after "We" left the "outside" of you, that is, after 16 years ago, and now "We" have, returning as "My Children". Remember. Ok? Bawa. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us) ============================================================== 2. Lessons From The Anniversary Weekend - and something each of My Children must now realize, without the slightest doubt, as our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen has realized, and that is "Your Oneness With", and "your separation from", and then decide between them, for you cannot have both, as most of My Children are still mistakenly trying to do. Ok? Bawa. "We" attended two of the meetings that you held as part of the last Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Anniversary Weekend, and here are some lessons "We" learned, if you like. 2-2. The Only Thing Valuable on the Path of God, Is God - The "Only thing valuable on the path of God, is God, not what God has discarded" and everything that you now see in your current state, that is, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as existing on the "outside" of you, is false, is what God has discarded [Comments to "Our" dearest loving little brother Musa (Mani Levin)] - go to "Text of Topic 2-2" Expanded Overview of Topic 2-2: - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - - go to "Expanded Overview of Topic 2-2" Text of Topic 2-2: Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the Name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. Bawa. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, beneficence, and blessing of God be upon My Children. May God help all of My Children. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen. Bawa. My love you, My Dearest Loving Little Brother Musa - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. Bawa. You are a very, very Good Child of the One Open Heart of God for your age, that is, of your dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and of God within Him, and now on the "outside" of you, of His Children (may God be pleased with Us), which in truth is each of you living in your age, if you like. Bawa. That is, if your true intention for your life within you, for your soul life, is to again become "One with" God within you, before you die to the flesh in your current state, and get an eternal hell within you as "separate from" God within you, that is, to again become "One with" God within you, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", is it will never leave you again. Amen. Ok? Bawa. Your sharing at the Anniversary Meeting on Saturday Night also really melted the heart of this child, my dearest loving little brother Musa, and it is certainly true that "We" all have to do what you described, and in this way, your description of "What We Have To Do" is very clear, but you are still very weak on "How We Do It", because you have not yet truly grasped the significance of the wisdom point that "We" taught you about the "Path of God" while "We" were still living with you in the world, and that is, that "Only God can walk" the "Path of God", not you. Bawa That is, not you living a life of "separation and differences" in the world, not you living as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God within you, all of which is "Just Not True", but which unfortunately is still the state of all of My Children. Ok? Bawa. And as "Our" dearest loving daughter Sonia told you at the same meeting, you and all of My Children are all truly blessed to have received the "Gift of God" for your age, which is now the "Life and Teaching of God" within you, that is, which is now "Us" living within you, if you like, as your wisdom, and as God within your wisdom, which is now the life and teaching of your dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and of God within Him. Ok? Bawa. And which is now again on the "outside" of you, if you like, as My Children, that is, as My Children who have truly "Gotten it Right", before "We" left the "outside" of you, and have now come to maturity as that, and in this way, becoming now the "Gift of God" for your age, as all that is needed to allow all of My Children to "Get It Right", if you like, before These Children of God also leave the world, for then it is truly over, that is, the "outside" of you, and next Chapter in God's Story begins, which is the Hereafter, the Next World, or akhirah. Ok? Bawa. For now you must decide "How you want to spend eternity", and in truth there are only "two Choice", God or hell, not "three Choices", God, heaven or hell, as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, or at least hope for, for in truth the heaven that you imagine, where you will spend eternity is false, after you die to the flesh, will gradually become your hell within you, when you begin to realize that it is for eternity, and that in truth "God is not there", that is, when you begin to realize "What you have done" with the precious life given to you by God, that in truth all you have done is "Separated yourself from God", which in truth is "Separating yourself from Yourself", for in truth, 1) "There is nothing on the "outside", everything is really within you". 2) "There is nothing other than God" within you. 3) "Only God exists" within you. 4) And "God is One" within you. Bawa. And this is the "Truth of you", and of "God within you", and your imagined heaven is simply your rejection of this truth. For as "We" taught you while "We" were living with you in the world, "Hell is simply the realization that you have "separated yourself" from God". Bawa. So going to some nice heaven in another "outside" of you, after you die to the current "outside" of you, that is, one more to your liking, is just a reflection of "your craziness", not your salvation, for in truth only God is your salvation, only God is your cure, because in truth "Only God is not crazy". Bawa. And the heaven that you imagine, in a new and beautiful and better "outside" of you, with your family, and friends, and with all of the brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship that you like, or with all the Muslims that think and act like you, or with all the Christians who think and act like you, or with all of the Jews who think and act like you, is false, is hell, and in truth is "Just Not True", and will only bring you sadness, an endless sadness for eternity. Ok? Bawa. So instead of this, please join with My Children who have truly "Gotten It Right", in order to "Get It Right" before you die to the flesh in your current state, in your current state of "separation and differences", in your current state of living on the "outside" of you as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God within you, all of which is "Just Not True". Bawa. And the Name of My Children who "Got It Right" when "We" were living with you in the world, that is, the Name of those who truly joined in partnership with "Us" within themselves to realize, understand, accept, this "Truth of Themselves", and this "Truth of God" hidden within themselves is My Name, is Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). This is for certain, if you like. Bawa. And "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen has truly made this transition, in his lifetime, from the "outside" of himself to the "inside" of himself, as "We" told you at least one of My Children would do, so now "you can too", if you like, if you accept Him now as "Us", and treat Him and accept Him as some of you treated "Us", and as some of you still need to treat "Us", if you like. Ok? Bawa. And this is the "Way it happens", and the only way it happens, that is, the way the Children of God in each age join in partnership with God within themselves, first with their Guru, and then with the Shaikh that comes out of their Guru, to allow God to move forward the "Path of God" within you, and then to join with God within you, after you too emerge out of your Guru, for in truth God, your Guru, and your Shaikh are all One within you, and "You are the Truth" within Them, if you like, for the Choice is yours, not "Our", and not "God's. Amen. Bawa. That is, this is the "Way it happens", for each of My Children to truly accept each of My Children as "Us" as They emerge "Out of Us", and start to do "Our Work" in the world, helping all of My Children to do the same, if they like, in the same way that "We" did when "We" were living in the world, if you liked. Bawa. And in this way, your accepting Them as such, and more to the point, your accepting at this point in "God's Story' within you, "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) now as such for your life, is truly your accepting "Us" as such for your life, and ever more importantly, is your accepting God within "Us" as such for your life. Bawa. For in truth "Who you are", and "Where you are", and "What is happening" in your life, is now within God within you, which in truth is now "Us" within you, and is now Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) both within you, and for a little while, if you like, on the "outside" of you, but certainly not "you" on the "outside" of you, as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, even though they may talk about the truth, and even paint beautiful pictures of the truth, but still a truth which has not yet truly dawned within them, with their words being in truth like a beautiful painting of an apple, not a real apple, a painting which cannot satisfy your hunger or save you from destruction, when it comes. Ok?. Bawa. My dearest loving little brother Musa, and all of My Children, in truth this is the "Way God Works", both within you, and on the "outside" of you, and this is the truth. Bawa. For as "We" told you when "We" were living in the world, "The Exaltedness of the Disciple is what validates the Exaltedness of the Teacher" Bawa. So at least one of you had to first make this transition, and now one of you has, or none of what "We" taught in the world would have been truly validated, so celebrate this first accomplishment, and join with it, as in truth "your accomplishment", for in truth it is, since in truth all of My Children are "One", at least within God within you, at least within "Us" within you. Ok? Bawa. And don't be upset with it, and specifically don't be upset with "Our" dearest loving Son, and your loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, my dearest loving little brother Musa, as you were a little bit upset with him the other evening, when at "Our Direction" within him, He shared with you what "We told him to say", that is, when he told you the following Wisdom Point that he personally experienced in "My Room". Wisdom Point 01 - The "Only thing valuable on the path of God, is God, not what God has discarded" and everything that you now see in your current state, that is, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as existing on the "outside" of you, is false, is what God has discarded Bawa. One day "In the Room" a group came to see Bawa, a group known as the "Claymont Group" (not sure of spelling), which some of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us) belonged to, before coming to be with Bawa. Bawa. And the leader of this group, along with about 30 of its members, came to see and talk to Bawa. And for the first 30 minutes the leader of this group treated Bawa as his peer, for he had a group and Bawa had a group, and he spent the first 30 minutes telling Bawa about his group, and about what they did, and what they did were many of the very same things that are done at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, including prayers, and vegetarian cooking, and meditation, and spiritual gatherings, and studying spiritual teachings. Bawa. And then thank God, the leader of this group realized that Bawa was not his peer, and he immediately dropped all of his pretense, and said to Bawa, "Bawa do any of these things that we do have any value on the path of God?" Bawa. And Bawa look at him, with such love, and said to him, "My son, all of the things that you have described I have also done and mastered, and many, many more things that you have not described I have also done and mastered, and through it all, I have learned that the only thing valuable on the path of God, is God. "In this way, you cannot use what God has discarded to "Get to God", you must use God to "Get to God", and everything that you now see in your current state, that is, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, as existing on the "outside" of you, is false, is what God has discarded." "So if you truly want to move forward on the "Path of God" within you, then you must invoke God within you, you must get God within you to intervene in your life, that is, you must learn how to "Catch God" within you and "Put God to Work" within you, for only then will your life become Exalted in your lifetime, only then can God use your life to finish what God has started within you, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you. and this is true, this is certain. Please, please, please do it like this. Amen". "Please do it in this way, and only in this way, that is, through God's Direct Intervention in your life, because you learned how to ask Him to Intervene in your life properly, that is, because you asked Him, over and over again, with each breath, with each look, with each word, with each taste, with each word, because you properly asked Him within you, with Him as "One with" you, and with you as "One with" Him, to "Destroy you" as "separate from" Him, and reveal Him as "One with" you. Ok? "In this way, My Dearest Loving Son, you must put down all of these things that you are now doing on the "outside" of you, and in this way, stop "Working for wages to get into heaven", and instead you must "Join in partnership with God" within you, and allow God to finish what God has started within you, and within each of His Children, a very, very long time ago, and that is to reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you." "Please do it this way, My dearest loving Son, and then you can bring your group to a good state, and in the process they will all become Your Children, as all of those here are now My Children, for in truth They are all the Children of God within God within you, and in this way, they are all "One" within you, if you like, and this is the truth of you, of Me, of God within Me, and of all of My Children with God within Me, for in truth "We Are All One". Amen. Ok?" Bawa. And here is the second Wisdom Point that "We" would have had our dearest Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) share with you, if you hadn't just run off saying, "I got the point". Bawa. But instead, if you had thanked him for this beautiful sharing, saying Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar, and if you had properly given him salams, face to face, sharing your heart with his heart, and lovingly asked him to teach you, and all of My Children, more about the things that you, and all of My Children, "Still do not know", and lovingly asked him to show you, and all of My Children, how to truly become all the things, that you, and all of My Children, continue to talk about, but have yet learned to truly become. Ok? Wisdom Point 02 - "You will only find God within the Exaltedness of your own life" Bawa. One day a brother showed up at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship from New York City, he was a young man about 25 years old or even younger, and he was "Very Jewish", a term which you will only begin to truly understand its significance after hearing this story. Bawa. So please don't get upset with this child for using this term, for it equally applies to those who come to the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship who are "Very Christian", or "Very Muslim", or "Very Hindu", or "Very Zoroastrian", or "Very Married", or "Very Religions", or "Very Smart", or "Very Athletic", or "Very Family", or "Very American", and even "Very Bawa", or "Very God". Ok? Bawa. Now the young man briefly saw Bawa when he first came and he immediately told Bawa that he had accepted Bawa as his teacher, as His Guru, as His Shaikh. And upon hearing this Bawa told him, "Slow down, My little brother, first you need to check out Bawa before you make such a decision, for example, if you are selecting a girl for a wife, before you ask her to marry you, you should thoroughly check the girl out, like visiting her at her home and meeting her mother and father, and having her cook some meals for you, and spending time to know her, and learning how she thinks, and acts in a variety of situations, like with her friends and with your friends, and to begin to learn her thoughts on children, and family, and on raising a family, and on staying at home or working, and on religion and on God, and in general her level of worldly and spiritual maturity, for marriage, like selecting a True Spiritual Teacher, is a very big step for a man to take in his life, and you need to be very, very careful." "Like this when selecting a True Spiritual Teacher, that is, a Guru, or a Shaikh, you also need to be very careful, so you must also check Him out, like visiting His home and meeting her Mother and Father, and having Him cook some meals for you, and spending time to know Him, and learning how He thinks, and acts in a variety of situations, like with His friends and with your friends, and to begin to learn His thoughts on children, and family, and on raising a family, and on staying at home or working, and on religion and on God, and in general His level of worldly and spiritual maturity, for selecting a True Spiritual Teacher, like marriage, is a very big step for a man to take in his life, and you need to be very, very careful." Bawa. Well the young man seemed to want none of this, and kept insisting that Bawa was his selection, and that he had already decided, and "that was that". And Bawa gave the young man his love and said that they would talk later. Bawa. But as these things seem to always happen, Bawa immediately became "Not Available" in "His Room" for the next week and the young man and this child became "Good Friends" over the course of the week, with this child trying to share what was growing in his heart with the young man, all of which he seemed to both like and appreciate, which was nice. Ok? Bawa. And then came Friday afternoon, and 'Bawa's Room" was opened, and we all gathered in the room, including this young man from New York, who was "Very Jewish", as you will now begin to understand, if you like. Bawa. And Bawa asked if there were any questions, and the young man immediately put up his hand, and he asked Bawa the following question, "Bawa. Who was the Exalted Son of Abraham (peace be upon Him), Isaac or Ishmael (peace be upon Them)?" Bawa. And Bawa gave a beautiful discourse about Abraham and His Sons (peace be upon Them) explaining that it was Ishmael (peace be upon Him), the first Son of Abraham (peace be upon Him) that God called for Abraham (peace be upon Him) to sacrifice, and that Abraham (peace be upon Him), even though he had great love and trust in God, could not initially agree to sacrifice his Son, because of his attachment to his first born, to Ishmael (peace be upon Him). Bawa. And that it was only at the insistence of Ishmael (peace be upon Him) that Abraham (peace be upon Him) came to the point that He agreed to sacrifice Ishmael, with Ishmael (peace be upon Him) telling Abraham (peace be upon Him) the following; "O Father, you must sacrifice me, for God has called for my life, and He may never do so again, so if you will not kill me, in the Name of God, then I will kill myself, in the Name of God". Bawa. And when Bawa had completed telling this beautiful story, Bawa again asked if there were any questions, and the same young man put up his hand, and said to Bawa, "Bawa. Who was the Exalted Son of Abraham (peace be upon Him), Isaac or Ishmael (peace be upon Them)?" Bawa. And everyone in the room looked at the young man in amazement, because he had asked Bawa the exact same question again, and Bawa then did something that this child only personally saw Bawa do twice, that is, Bawa escaped, telling the young man that He had told him what He knew and that the young man would now have to decide for himself, and then Bawa turned away and looked at some of the other children in the room, as if He was getting ready to answer one of their questions. Bawa. And then everything changed, for then God intervened, for Bawa had done His Duty at one level, but then Bawa was no longer there as Bawa with My Children, but rather God was now there as God within Bawa, with His Children within My Children, and Bawa turned back to the young man, and as he turned Bawa's whole appearance changed, for now He looked like a 16 year old youth with a downey mustache, as Bawa often tells is the state of the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) upon merging with God on Mi'raj, and Bawa again began to speak to the young man, saying, with such incredible love and compassion, "My Son, if you stop and think about it a little, if Isaac was the "Exalted Son" then he benefited from that, and if Ishmael was the "Exalted Son" then he benefited from that, and if "I" (with Bawa pointing to Himself) am Exalted" then I will benefit from that, but the question that you should have asked, is "Am I Exalted". "For your will only find God within the "Exaltedness" of your own life". Bawa. And in this way, Ishmael (peace be upon Him) in this story represents your 5th level of wisdom, your subtle wisdom, your Qurban or "Self Sacrifice" in the Name of God within you, with you willingly and peacefully dying to your selfish life on the "outside" of you, so God can again live "selflessly" within you, giving birth in this way, to the 6th level of wisdom within you, which is Musa or Moses (peace be upon Him) within you. Amen. Bawa. And Abraham (peace be upon Him) in this story represents your 4th level of wisdom, your Iman, with you willingly and peacefully living in your "pit of fire", truly understanding that God is the One who put you in your "pit of fire", that God is the One who knows what is happening to you in your "pit of fire", and that God is the One who knows what needs to be done while you are in your "pit of fire", and is always doing His Duty within you perfectly, if you will only let Him. Bawa. That is, if you will only place all of your faith and trust in God, and in God alone, and in this way, if you will only make "Your knowing that God knows" enough for your life, until God personally and every so lovingly reveals what is hidden within you in your "pit of fire", which in this story is your 5 level of wisdom hidden within your 4th level of wisdom, or Ishmael hidden within Abraham (peace be upon Them), who God then gives birth too from within Abraham (peace be upon Him) as his first son, because of his Iman, because of his faith and trust in God in his "pit of fire", and is then asked to sacrifice by God, in order to get rid of Abraham's attachments to his first son, that is, to "His Stuff" in his "pit of fire". Amen.. Bawa. And in this way, and only in this way, with God completing for you the purpose of your life in your "pit of fire", if you like, which He most certainly will do for you, if you like, if you can only learn to sit in your "pit of fire" as Abraham (peace be upon Him) did, with Iman, with absolute faith, certitude, and determination that in truth, 1) "There is nothing on the "outside" of you, "Everything" is within you. 2) "There is nothing other than God" within you. 3) "Only God exists" within you. 4) "God is One" within you. Bawa. For the Choice is yours, not "Ours" within you, and not God's within "Us", that is, the Choice for this to happen in your life or not, that is, the Choice for you to willingly, and patiently, and peacefully sit in your "pit of fire", with Iman, with the Perfected Faith of Abraham (peace be upon Him) within you, until God reveals the secret of your being in your "pit of fire", or not, which is the Clarity of Ishmael (peace be upon Him) within you, so the wisdom of Musa, of Moses (peace be upon Him) can be revealed from within you, from within the first 5 levels of wisdom within you, which are the 5 Angels of God within you, revealing the Qutb of God from within Their Oneness. Ok? Bawa. And whether or not this happens in your life, in your lifetime, and in the life of each of My Children, which in truth is everyone living in your age, if they like, as it has happened in the life of "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, is your Choice, not God's, as the Choice was Ishmael's and Abraham's (peace be upon Them), not God's, in this little story. Bawa. And in this way, this is how you must learn to walk through your life, My dearest loving little brother Musa, in partnership with "Us" within you, and with God within "Us", and in partnership with Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), both within you, and for a little while, on the "outside" of you, if you like. Bawa. That is, with you joined in partnership with God within you, that is, with God as "One with" you, and with you as "One with" God within you, allowing God to awaken the 4th level of wisdom within you, and then to give birth to the 5th level of wisdom within you, from within your "pit of fire", after you have learned to sit in your "pit of fire", willingly, patiently, and peacefully, that is, allowing God to reveal your subtle wisdom within your Iman, as represented by Ishmael and Abraham (peace be upon Them) in this story, with Ishmael (peace be upon Him) literally pulling Abraham (peace be upon Him) up to the next level of wisdom by his clarity, by his clarity that God was calling him to life, not to death, and that when you are so called by God, you should then go to God without a second thought. Bawa. Because it you waver at that moment, when God calls you, or think of your life in the "pit of fire" in any way, like about your wife, or your children, or your family, or your religion, or your race, or your work, or your "unfinished work", or about any aspect of your selfish life on the "outside" of you, then that is what you will get for eternity. Bawa. For according to the "Justice of God" within you, "Whatever you intend is what you will receive." Bawa. So when God calls you, and He will most certainly call you, then what you will get is what you want, and what you want is what your life says you want, by the way that you are living it, not by what you are talking about, and if at that moment you still want what you now want, no matter what you may say that you want, then in the end you will become that, a life and a place which you may call for a little while your heaven, but a life and a place which in truth will gradually become your eternal hell within you, an eternal hell within you as "separate from" God within you. Bawa. That is, if you are not wise, if you don't wise up before it is too late, if you don't wise up before you die to the flesh, as did Ishmael and did Abraham (peace be upon Them) in this beautiful little story. Amen. Bawa. My love you - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen. ============================================================== 2-3. The Practice of the "Presence of Bawa" - Not the "Practice of the Presence of God", as most of My Children still mistakenly believe, but which you cannot do, because in truth "We" are within you, as your wisdom, and God is within Us, as "Our" Power", and unless "We" accept you, God can never accept you, that is, unless you become "One with" Us within you, or at least truly start to, in partnership with God within you, before you die to the flesh, that is, before you die to the "outside" of you, so God can then do "Everything Else" necessary to make your life truly successful in your lifetime, for unless you do this, you can never become "One with" God within "Us" within you, and this is the truth of you, of "Us" within you, and of God within "Us", all of which in truth is the Holy Trinity or Triple Flame of God within you, which now in your age, in the age of the "Justice of Conscience" can now become "One" within you, if you like, and in this way, and only in this way, allow God within you to reveal the "One within the One" within you, which is the state of Man-God/God-Man within you, if you like, for the Choice is yours, not God's, that is, the Choice to use your life in this way, as God Intended, or not, is most certainly your Choice, not "Our" Choice within you, and not God's Choice within "Us". Please know this now without the slightest doubt, and start to act accordingly, that is, as "One with" "Us" within you, and in this way, as "One with" God within "Us". Amen [Comments to "Our" dearest loving little brother Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff)] - go to "Text of Topic 2-3" Expanded Overview of Topic 2-3: - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - - go to "Expanded Overview of Topic 2-3" Text of Topic 2-3: Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the Name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. Bawa. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, beneficence, and blessing of God be upon My Children. May God help all of My Children. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen. Bawa. My love you, My Dearest Loving Little Brother Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. Bawa. You are a very, very Good Child of the One Open Heart of God for your age, that is, of your dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, and of God within Him, and now on the "outside" of you, of His Children (may God be pleased with Us), which in truth is each of you living in your age, if you like. Bawa. That is, if your true intention for your life within you, for your soul life, is to again become "One with" God within you, before you die to the flesh in your current state, and get an eternal hell within you as "separate from" God within you, that is, to again become "One with" God within you, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", is it will never leave you again. Amen. Ok? Bawa. Your sharing at the Anniversary Meeting on Saturday Night also really melted the heart of this child, My dearest loving little brother Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen, and like the sharing of My dearest loving little brother Musa (Mani Levin) it is certainly true that "We" all have to do what you described, and in this way, your description of "What We Have To Do" is also very clear, but like Musa you are also still very weak on "How We Do It", because you too have not yet truly grasped the significance of the wisdom points that "We" taught you about the "Path of God" while "We" were still living with you in the world, and that is, that "Only God can walk" the "Path of God" within you, not you, not "you" living on the "outside" of you, living as if you are "separate from" God within you. This cannot be done. Ok? Bawa. So before reading any further please read the two Wisdom Points that were shared with Musa (Mani Levin), earlier in Page 2 of this "Love Letter" to My Children, which in truth is from God within you all, to the Children of God for your age, which in truth is everyone living in your age, if you like, that is, 1) Wisdom Point 01 - The "Only thing valuable on the path of God, is God, not what God has discarded" 2) Wisdom Point 02 - "You will only find God within the Exaltedness of your own life" Bawa. Now in the story that was shared as part of Wisdom Point 02, about the young man from New York City who was "Very Jewish", who asked Bawa the exact same question twice, even though Bawa gave him, and all of His Children the most beautiful answer to his question, after he first asked the following question, is a lesson for all of My Children, if you like, a lesson about your current state, and what you need to do, to allow God to move your life truly forward within you, that is, if your life is to become truly successful in your lifetime. Ok? Question Asked of Bawa By A Young Man: "Bawa. Who was the Exalted Son of Abraham (peace be upon Him), Isaac or Ishmael (peace be upon Them)?" Bawa. Now the reason the young man asked the very same question twice, even though it was beautifully answered by God within him, for all of the Children of God for his age, was that the answer that Bawa gave him, like the answers that Bawa gave to you and to all of His Children, requires that he put down his life, by picking up Bawa's life, and God within Bawa's life, and he like most of My Children, could not do that. Bawa. For his life was the other answer to that question, and that is why he was referred to in the story as "Very Jewish", that is, his life was the other answer, that it was Isaac (peace be upon Him) who was the Exalted son of Abraham (peace be upon Him), that God called for Abraham (peace be upon Him) to sacrifice, not Ishmael (peace be upon Him). Bawa. And for him to truly accept the answer that Bawa gave him in the story, like for you and all of My Children to truly accept the answers that were give to them, when "We" were living in the world, was for him to put down his life, and to pick up the life of God within him, which in truth is the life of his awakened wisdom joined as "One with" his liberated soul, which is Jesus (peace be upon Him) within you, in search of the Light of his wisdom, which is Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within you, and he, like most of My Children, could not do that, and that is why he asked his question twice. Ok? Bawa. But "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) has joined with "Us" within him, to correctly do this "Heart's Work" within him for the last 31 years, and has now come to the state of wisdom and clarity within his heart to let "Us" share these "Words of God" with you, and with all of My Children, if you like, which in truth is everyone living in your age, in this last and very short age of the "Justice of Conscience", where "Who you are?" has now truly become "What is within you", and no longer is "What is outside of you", as most of My Children still mistakenly believe. Ok? Bawa. So please join with him, with "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen, as some of you joined with "Us" when "We" were living in the world, and as some of you still need to join with "Us", so this time you can learn from him how to do it right, if you like, before it is too late to do it right, that is, before you die to the flesh in your current state, and before the "Beast" comes out of at least one of you and destroys the "outside" of you for all of you, before "We" destroy the "Beast", and send him to an eternal hell, that is, before you become "The Rightful Property" of the "Beast" and he drags you screaming with him to an eternal hell within you. Bawa. That is, before an eternal hell within you of "separation from" God within you becomes your eternal reward, not because of anything that "We" within you have done, or failed to do, and not because of anything that God within "Us" has done, or failed to do, but rather because "That is what you want". Bawa. For the "Justice of God" within you dictates that, "Whatever you intend (now) is what you will receive (in the end)". Bawa. So please, please, please join with "Our" dearest living Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) to learn how to correctly do this "Heart's Work" within you, that is, to learn how to correctly "Practice the Presence Bawa" within you, which is your awakened wisdom within you, so you can join with your awakened wisdom against the "Enemy of your soul", in order to liberate your soul, which is Jesus (peace be upon Him) within you, from His Cross within you, which is your elemental body. Bawa. By pulling out the "5 nails" of "your desire" to live on the "outside" of you, and sin, that is, your desire to continue trying to use "you" as "separate from" God, to live in the world, and to get to God within you, no matter what, no matter what God tells and shows you to the contrary, that in truth "You are All One" within you, like explained in this beautiful Spiritual Letter, "Spiritual Letter 96", from God within you all, to the Children of God for your age, if you like, for the Choice is yours, not God's, that is the Choice to accept this letter as truly coming from God within you, or not. Bawa. And the Choice to truly accept "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen as now the "Gift of God" for your age, for the Children of God for your age, or not, so that you joined with him can finish what "We" started within each of you, when "We" were living in the world. Ok? Bawa. So you can now learn how to truly win over the "Enemy of your soul", which is your current life of "separation and differences", your current life of "selfishness", your current life of sin, on the "outside" of you, with you living as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God within you, all of which is "Just Not True". Bawa. For unless you correctly join with "Us" within you, and with God within "Us", and with him, that is, with our dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), both within you and on the "outsude" of you, to truly get it right, that is, to truly realize, understand, accept, and join with him as your own life speaking to you, which in truth he is, then you and all of My Children are lost. It is just this simple. Ok? Bawa. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen. Bawa. My love you - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen. End of "Page 2 of 2" of Spiritual Letter 96 - E-mail Version - ----------------------- |
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