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In the second step (which is also the religion of fire worship), the fire of hell says, 'Bring this, bring that. Bring me this, bring me that.' It demands things.
But you may say to the fire, 'Al-hamdu lillah, you must have shakur. Do not talk to me!'
'Aiyo!' it will cry. 'I don't have this! I'm hungry! Please give me this, please give me that!'
Again you must say, 'Have shakur, do not talk to me. I do not have time to talk to you.'
It will cry, 'Give me meat, give me fish!'
But you must say, 'Please do not talk to me. I do not have time to talk to you.' You must say to the mind, 'Do not talk to me.' Having determined faith in Allah, say, Al-hamdu lillah. Then continue to say, You have been born on earth and you consume the earth; you have been born in fire and you consume the fire; you have been born in fire and you give room to fire; you have been born to air, and you give food to air; you have been born to illusion, and you give food to illusion; you have been born to the clouds, to the seven kinds of colors, and you desire the colors. Do you not have any peace? You only have the qualities of wandering. The oceans become lands. You run here, the air pushes you there, and the wind pushes you over there. Even the water does not stand still; it goes over there. The fire burns everything, the wind blows everything around, and the earth is trembling. Have those qualities not left you, O mind!
You must have sabur and shakur and tell the mind to have sabur and shakur. To do this is tariqat, to make iman firm. Tell the mind to have shakur and to make itself peaceful.
"The third step is haqiqat, the religion of Injil, or Christianity. You must build this mosque. God is a beautiful, mystical thing. He is mystical and has a mysterious beauty. There is nothing which will not fall in love with Him when it sees His beauty. The heavenly beings, the angels, the celestial beings, the prophets, the lights of God, the earth, the sky, the lands, the nether worlds, all are submissive to His beauty. They fall in love with Him when they see Him. When they see His beauty, when they see His qualities, His actions, His duty, and His miracles, they all fall in love. When they see the miracle of His compassionate qualities, the 3,000 qualities of His grace, His good thoughts and His selfless duty, they all fall in love. When they see His compassionate gaze, when they perceive His sweet speech, when they see the beauty of the gaze of His eye, when they see the way He carries us, so beautifully, so sweetly, in our thoughts and in our dreams, in the way that He embraces us and gives us milk, when they see His state of love, everyone will fall in love with His beauty. Haqiqat is to merge with that Beautiful One.
Haqiqat means to merge with Him, to say, 'I am a slave to Your beauty. Your beauty alone do I want. I want Your bliss. I do not see anything other than You. There is no beauty other than Your beauty. There are no qualities other than Your qualities. I have seen no compassion other than Yours. I have seen no action other than Your action. There is no love comparable to Your state of love. There is no wealth other than Your unfathomable qualities of grace. There is no one else who can act with Your perfect actions. O God, there is no god other than You. I love You alone. I must merge with You.'
Build that mosque! These spirits-this pure spirit and that spirit-they are all just creations, and they will all change. He alone is the unchanging Beautiful One. He is the undiminishing Beautiful One. His mystery alone is mystery. His miracle alone is the true miracle. To be in love with the Beloved One, to be blissful with Him, to merge with Him, and to join with Him is Haqiqat. That is Christianity. We are speaking of the state of prayer, not the religion. It is not the religion. There are four steps of prayer which are the four religions: Zabur, Jabrat, Injil, and Furqan. But there is only one God to whom worship belongs, and there are these four steps for us to come to accept Him. Is in the third step that one merges with God. That is Christianity.
The next step is Furqan. Furqan is light, the light which contains no day and no night. It has no darkness. It is also called the state of ma'rifat. In a place without darkness, there is no time and there are no seasons. In a place without time, there is no age. In a place where there is no again, there is no death. In a place where there is no death, there is no birth. In a place where there is no birth and death, there is no time of questioning, there is no judgment. And in a place without judgment, one can eternally exist. That is ma'rifat, where the ten are transcended. Furqan means there is no day and no night, only the light of Allah's seven causal signs.
Sufiyyat
Next is sufiyyat, the place where one disappears into Allah. How does this disappearing take place? Allah is the mysterious treasure; He is the miracle. Actually, God is not a miracle, but a mirror. A miracle simply means magic tricks, and God is not that kind of miracle. He is a mirror. Everyone who goes before that mirror sees his own face. All the worlds can be seen in that mirror. Anyone who looks will see himself. Everyone can see his own surat, his own form, his own actions, his act, his shape and his clothing. He can see whatever he does, he can see whatever he wants. That is the miracle mirror. That miracle and that prayer is sufiyyat.
What is prayer? It is the mercury which is bonded to the mirror. Devotion ('ibadat) is how you can bow to Allah. That is how you can bond yourself to God. That is prayer. That is the mercury. And as soon as that place is touched, that is the miracle mercury of the mirror.
Are the two separate? No. When glass and mercury are bonded, the mirror is formed. Then the mirror becomes crystal, a crystal mirror. Then Allah, prayer, and Insan will be one. A t the time when they work together, the miracle occurs. Prayer is the mercury which must bond with Him. When that state is established, prayer exists."
Copyright: Four Steps to Pure Iman
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Family Newsletter July - August 1997
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