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Spiritual Letter 27 - Original Version                          About Spiritual Letter 27
Title: "The Three Judgments by God", Date: July 29, 2002  
Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
Written to: Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket)

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Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim.  In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all.

My love you (anbu), my dearest brothers and sisters  - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler).

1.  Introduction And Opening Prayer - O our Father, our Shaikh, our Guru, we
          need Your love, please, please, please destroy us and reveal You

Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim.  In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.  Al-salam 'alaykum, my dearest brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler).

This letter represents the 4th of the 5 letters that have been written to you over the last month, from the heart of this child, in response to your last letter to this child.  That is,

          1)  Spiritual Letter 24 - Stop Talking About Being Good, And Instead Become
                    Good
          2)  Spiritual Letter 25 - The One Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Is Not Us, But
                    Is Within Us
          3)  Spiritual Letter 26 - The Three Testaments of God
          4)  Spiritual Letter 27 - The Three Judgments by God (which is this letter).
          5)  Spiritual Letter 28 - The Wisdom of Truth Most Become The Action of Truth

What a wonder is this God of ours, and the gift of God for this age, which is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), for the Children of God for this age, which are the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), which is everyone living in this age.

And the incredible adventure reflected in these 5 letters, the adventure of sitting on the lap of God as Bawa teaches us "what we do not know", all started with the following prayer, in Spiritual Letter 24.

          "O our Father, our Shaikh, our Guru, we need Your love,
          Please, Please, Please Destroy us and reveal You."

          "Destroy us as separate from You and You as separate from us,
          And reveal us as One with You and You as One with us."

          "Destroy the life of separation and differences that You have given us,
          And reveal the life of Oneness and Unity, of Justice and Truth,
          and of Compassion and Unity that You have also given us.

          "Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen.
          Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen.
          Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen.
          Al-hamdu lillah, Allahu Akbar."

2.  The Three Judgments by God of His Creation - is what God has been doing
          on the "outside" of us for the last 4000 years, and He has passed judgment on
          His Creation "outside" of us three times, at 1400 BC, at 600 AD, and at 1986 AD,
          and this same Judgment by God of His Creation is also what God does "within"
          each one of us, three times during our life time, before we are 20, before we are
          40, and before we are 60 years old

The Three Judgments by God of His Creation, as summarized in Table 1 below, is what God has been doing on the "outside" of us for the last 4000 years, from 2000 BC to 2000 AD, up to the present time, passing His judgment on His Creation "outside" of us, three times, at 1400 BC, at 600 AD, and at 1986 AD.

And through this, through His judgment, God has brought what exists "outside" of us, but is really hidden within each one of us, up to its current state, up to this age, up to the current age, up to the current state of the sifat or form of this world or the dunya, as it exists today in our world, which in truth is within us not "outside" of us, up to what we now in our ignorance see as existing "outside" of us, up to what we now call, in our ignorance, in our arrogance, karma, and illusion, the age of science and technology, or the age of capitalism, of freedom, and of democracy, or the age of America as the leader of the free world.

And these same Three Judgments by God is also what God has been doing "within" each one of us, during our life time, passing His judgment on each of us, three times, before we are 20, before we are 40, and before we are 60 years old.  Such is the wonder of our God.

And in this way, through these Three Judgments, both "outside" and "inside" of us, God has been moving what is "outside" of us forward, and what is "inside" of us forward, trying to bring them together as One within us, to bring together the "outside" of us and the "inside" of us as One within us, as the hereafter within us, as the hereafter "here and now" within us, as akhirah, as the grace of True Man within the Kingdom of God within us.

In this way, through these Three Judgments, God has been trying to reveal True Man within His Creation within us, trying to reveal what truly exists "within us", which is the heart of our Shaikh, the Palace of the soul within us, which is the original house of
Adam (peace be upon Him) within us.

Which is the life and teaching of our Shaikh within us, which when seen through our wisdom, which is the consciousness of our Shaikh, the sixth level of consciousness within us, Divine Analytic Wisdom, is the 14 worlds within us, the 18,000 universes within, the dunya or earth world within us, the 14 worlds of Aathi Muhammad within us, which when separated within us by Divine Analytic Wisdom, becomes the 7 heavens and 7 hells of God within us.

With the 7 heavens of God within us becoming the sirr or the Secret world of God within us, the essence of the dunya within us, and the 7 hells of God within us, along with the world of jinns, and the world of fairies within us, being all that God has discarded within us, when the dhat of God, the essence of God, the Rasul or wisdom of God, the resplendence of God within us, emerges out of the effulgence of God within us, out of the heart of our Shaikh within us.

And when these 7 heavens of God within us are themselves further opened by True Man as Muhammad (Sal.) within us, as the Nur Muhammad within us, by the Rasul or Wisdom of God within us, which is the Triple Flame of God within us, by the dhat or essence of God within us, what is seen is the 8th heaven within us, the 8th heaven of
Muhammad (Sal.) within the 7 heavens of God within us, the 8th heaven or firdaus
within us, which is the hereafter or akhirah within us, the kingdom of God within us, which in truth is the Creation of True Man within us.

Such is the work of God and True Man within us, if we will but let Them complete what They have already started within us, which is to complete the story of True Man within the story of God within us, and to complete the story of God within the story of True Man within us, and the completion of the story of True Man within us, is True Man within us, and the completion of the story of God within us, is God within us.

And in this way, bringing what is both "outside" of us and "inside" of us up to this age, to our age, to the age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, to hopefully become One within us, allowing us to again become One with God within us.

And God does this Divine Work both "outside" and "within" us, by asking the same three questions of His Creation, and of each of us, recording their responses and our responses, and treating each accordingly, both "outside" and "within" us.

          1) "Who do you trust - God or the world?"
          2)  "Who do you love - God or the world?"
          3)  "Who have you become - the sifat (form) or the sirr (essence) of the dunya,
                    of the earth world within us, that is, the form or the essence of the earth
                    world within us, of the Creation of God within us, which is the 7 hells and
                    the 7 heavens of God within us, or have you become the 8th heaven of True
                    Man within us, as the Nur Muhammad (Sal.) within us, as the Triple Flame
                    of God within us - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - which is the
                    grace of the Creation of True Man within us, which is akhirah?
 
Or saying question 3 in another way, from "our" current perspective, from "our" current state of consciousness or wisdom, from the perspective of "us" in our ignorance having become One with the sifat or form of the dunya, of "us" having become One with the form of the earth world within us, of "us" have become One with all that God has discarded within us, which are the 7 hells within us, and the 2 worlds of the jinns and the fairies within us, that we mistakenly in our ignorance see as existing "outside" of us,

          3) "Who have you become - your mother or father living in the world, or your
                    Shaikh living in your heart?

Or saying question 3 in still another way, at the feet of our Shaikh, of our Father,
Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him),
of the gift of God for our age, the life and teaching of God for our age,

          3)  "Who have you become - God, or what God has discarded?


Table 1: "The Three Judgments by God"

-------First Judgment ---------------- Second Judgment --------------- Third Judgment----

..On The "Outside" of Us:.........On The "Outside" of Us:.........On The "Outside" of Us:
..........at 1400 BC ...........................at 600 AD .............................at 1986 AD
...at the death of Moses..........at the death of Muhammad........at the death of Bawa
...............................................................................................Muhaiyaddeen
........2400  years ago....................1400 years ago........................16 years ago

.....On The "Inside" of Us:..........On The "Inside" of Us:...........On The "Inside" of Us:
.........before we are 20..................before we are 40...................before we are 60

..In Response To Question:....In Response To Question:......In Response To Question:
........who do you trust?.................who do you love?...............who have you become?

..Outcome of Judgment:..........Outcome of Judgment:..........Outcome of Judgment:
..we failed on the outside,........we failed on the outside,......God excepts us, on both
.......and Therefore:......................and Therefore:............the outside & the inside,
....our outside & inside,..............our outside & inside,......making our outside & inside,
....our words & actions,..............our words & actions,.....our words & our actions One,
.......remain separate,.................remain separate,.............& making God & Us One,
.............Keeping:............................Keeping:.................................If:
.....God & us separate..............God & us separate............we become and stay as,
....................................................................................members of the 73rd group.

..We Got On The Outside:.....We Got On The Outside:...................We Get:
...."The Promised Land"........"The Crucifixion of Jesus".........."The Sirr or Secret"
...."The Old Testament"........."The New Testament"..............."The Dhat or Essence"
."The Sacrifice of Animals"......."The Holy Qur'an"..................."The Sifat of the Dhat"
..........................................."The Holy Struggle or Jihad"......"The Grace of the Dhat"
.........................................................................................."The Power of the Dhat"
.........................................................................................."The Oneness of God
............................................................................................and True Man"

..Becoming In This Way:........ Becoming In This Way:......... Becoming In This Way:
.."The People of the Book"....."The People of the Book".........."The Children of God"
.."Members of 71st Group......"Members of 72nd Group"......."Members of 73rd Group"
....................................................................................."Light of God to The World"
....................................................................................."The One Child of Bawa
..................................................................................... Muhaiyaddeen (may God
.....................................................................................  be pleased with Him)

3.  Entogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - the life of each plant is a recapitulation
          of the development of, the story of, all plants

Within the world of the physical sciences there is the following saying,

          "Entogeny recapitulates Phylogeny",

Which means that the life of each plant is a recapitulation of the development of, the story of, all plants, and in truth so are we, with the life of each of us in truth being a recapitulation of the lives of all of us, from the very beginning, from the appearance of
Adam in the world (peace be upon Him) over 200 million years ago, up to the present time.

In this way, what has happened over the last 4000 years, is replayed out within the life of each of us.  On the "outside" of us, it is our history, with that history being brought forward becoming our present, and becoming the history of those who follow us into this "outside" world, but "within" us it is our life, as it was the life of those who came before us, and will be the life of those who come after us.

In this way, we are all One, simply different reflections of the same thing, of the One thing, and in truth we cannot be separated into individual people, places, and things, which in our ignorance is how we try to live in the world, because like God we are indivisible, we are always all of it, whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not.  We cannot be part of anything, including part of God.

Because in truth we are of God, we are of "one with", we are of the reality known as the Oneness of God and True Man, which is God and which is True Man, we are not of "separation from", we are not from the separation and differences known as the sifat or form of the earth world, which is the falsehood of our current life, of our dream life, of our dream of self existence, our dream of a selfish and self-centered life, "separate from" God, "separate from" each other, and "separate from" the Creation of God, that God has personally and so very lovingly placed within each of us.

With this in mind, let us look at the three judgments by God, the judgment by God of His Creation, three times, judgments that have occurred both "outside" of us three times, as our history becoming our present, and that have and/or will occur "within" each of us three times, as we live out our apparently individual and separate lives, as God asks His Creation and each of us these three questions.

4.  The First Judgment or Question By God - who do you trust, God or the world?

For the First Judgment by God on the "outside" of us, as depicted in Table 2 below, with us as the followers of Moses (peace be upon Him), at the time of the death of
Moses (peace be upon Him), we failed, we failed this first test by God of His Creation, because we chose to trust the world, or both God and the world, but not God alone, and we as the Creation of God received as our reward for this choice of "separation from" God, the "Promised Land" and the Testament of God on the "outside" of us, which in truth are the 7 hells within us, which became in our ignorance what we now all see as existing "outside" of us, which includes what in our ignorance we now all see and refer to as the town of "Jerusalem" and the country of "Israel" in the Middle East of the world, and as the "Old Testament" or the Spiritual Teaching of the Jews.

Rather than as intended by God for the age of Moses (peace be upon Him), rather than the life of God within us for that age, which was the true "Promised Land", and the teaching of God within us for that age, which was the true "First Testament of God", which was the heart and word of God within us for that age, which becomes through the wisdom surrounding our soul, the 7 heavens within us, through the 6th level of wisdom within us known as Divine Analytic Wisdom, the wisdom that explains, which is the life and teaching of our Shaikh within us, which for that age was the Qutb of God as the Prophet Moses (peace be upon Him).

The 7 heavens within us which become, through the wisdom within our wisdom, the 8th heaven within us, become the 8th heaven within us through the 7th level of wisdom within us known as Divine Luminous Wisdom, which is the Rasul of Allah within us, the Messenger of God within us known as the Nur Muhammad within us, which is the resplendence that emerges from the effulgence of God within us, from within the heart of our Shaikh within us, from within the 7 heavens within us, revealing the 8th heaven within us, which is firdaus, or akhirah, or the hereafter, or the Kingdom of God within us.

Instead of this, because we as the Creation of God in that age refused to trust in God alone, our "outside" and our  "inside" remained separate, our words and our actions remained separate within us, keeping the hypocrisy of our life alive - the saying of one thing on the "outside" but the doing of another on the "inside".

And in this way, always keeping God and us separate, and as our reward for our choice of  hypocrisy, our choice of "separation from" God, we as the Creation of God for that age received on the "outside" of us, an eternal hell of "separation from" God, and became known as the "People of The Book", and as members of the 71st group, of the 73 groups within all human lives, we became known as those who trust in God but also trust in the world.

This is the First Judgment by God of His Creation, that occurs on both the "outside" of all of us, as our history, as what occurred on the "outside" of all of us at 1400 BC, as the followers of Moses (peace be upon Him), and what has or will occur within each one of us before we are 20 years old.

In this way, on the "outside" of all of us, as the history of the "outside" of all of us, we as the Creation of God failed this first judgment of God, because we chose to trust the world, or both God and the world, but not God alone, and as a result of failing this first judgment of God, we, as the followers of Moses (peace be upon Him), have all received the "Promised Land" and the "First Testament of God" on the "outside" of us, as what we in our ignorance currently see and experience as existing "outside" of us, as the
sifat of the dunya within us, as the form of the Creation of God, but in truth is but a reflection, a harbinger of the 7 hells within us, which in truth becomes after our death, and after the suffering of the grave, an eternal hell of "separation from" God.

This is what we received as the First Judgment by God of His Creation, an "outside" reflection of hell, which everyone in this age is now experiencing as our "outside", rather than the Promised Land and the First Testament of God within us, rather than the heart and the word of God within us, which is the sirr of the dunya within us, which is the essence of the Creation of God within us, which before our death is a reflection of the 7 heavens within us, but after our death becomes the 7 heavens within us, which we are free to travel within, where we can commune with the 124,000 prophets of God, as well as with the angels, the heavenly being, Qutbs, and lights of God.

Table 2: "The Age of The First Judgment by God"

|..........The Age Before True Man..............|.............The Age of True Man...............|
2000 BC --------------------1400 -------------- 1000 BC --------------------------------------------- 0 BC
0---------------------------------600 ----------------1000 ---------------------------------------------------2000

|.......God reveals True Man In Dunya........|......True Man reveals God In Akhirah.....|
Abraham ..Ishmael.....Moses ................David ............................................. Jesus
shari'at......tariqat ......haqiqat...............ma'rafat
                                                  |
|.........The First Testament of God ...........|
                                                  |
|..........The First Judgment of God ...........|


5.  The New View of The 5 Kalimah's of God For Our Age - is one refection of
          the gift of God for our age, that has come to us from our Father, Shaikh
          Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him),
          through God within Him

This new view of the 5 Kalimah's of God for our age is designed to move forward and finish what God and True Man have started within us, which is to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, and to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, and as such They are One, our Shaikh and God within Him are One, as we and our Shaikh within us are One, One within the Other as One, One revealing the Other within It.

And in this way, we are in truth of the "Oneness" of God and True Man within us, and as such, we are not "separate from" our Shaikh within us, in any way, as He is not separate from God within Him, in any way, as our current life of "separation and differences" in the world that we are currently seeing in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, and as our "separate" relationships with our brothers and sisters living in the world, would have us think.

And this new view of the 5 Kalimah's of God for our age, as the remembrance of the "Oneness" of God and True Man within us, must be brought into our every thought and action, into our every intention and quality, and eventually be reflected in each breath that we take, and it must be understood and applied with our wisdom, through the gift of God for our age, through the life and teaching of God for our age, which is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), that God has personally and ever so lovingly placed within each of us living in this age.

These 5 Kalimah's of God were also given by God in all of the previous ages of mankind, in a way that was appropriate for each of the previous ages of mankind, according to the level of wisdom of the Prophet of God for each age, and of the people living in that age, and God has now given the 5 Kalimah's again, for our age, but this time with a view that is appropriate for our age, this time at the level of the Deen of God within each of us, of the Pure Light of Truth within each of us, and at the level of the
Muhaiyaddeen of God (may God be pleased with Him) within each of us, of the reviver of the Deen within each of us, of the reviver of the Pure Light of Truth within each of us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and of all of the Creation of True Man within each of us.

Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen.  Al-hamdu lillah.  Allahu Akbar.

My dearest loving brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, we must realize this truth about ourselves, that all of us living in this age, as the True Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), as the Children of God for this age, for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), are of the
Deen of God, of the Pure Light of the truth of God, not of the 4 religions of God, and that as the True Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God pleased with each of Us) we have all transcended the 4 religions, the 4 broad groups of man, before coming here.

And that we have been placed here by God in the state of the Deen of God to join with our wisdom, with the Muhaiyaddeen of God for this age (may God be pleased with Him), which is our Shaikh, to reveal the Deen within the Deen, which is the understanding of the Deen, to complete God's intention within us, which is to reveal True Man within the Creation of God, not to practice religion, not to worship God in the state of "separation from" God, of "separation from" each other, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us.

And as such, as the Children of the Wisdom of God for this age, as the Deen within the Wisdom of God for this age, as the Pure Light of Truth within the Nur Muhammad of God for this age, within the Light of the Wisdom of God for this age, we must embrace this new view of the 5 Kalimah's of God for our age, and learn to recited them in partnership with our Shaikh, with our wisdom, with the Muhaiyaddeen of God for our age (may God be pleased with Him), with the life and teaching of God for this age, that God has personally placed within each of us living in this age.

And in this way, we must become them, become the new view of the 5 Kalimah's of God for this age, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God in this world, in the dunya, and for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man in the next world, in akhirah.  Only in this way will our life become successful in this age.  Everything else within us must end, including all of the 4 religions of God, as no longer appropriate for this age, for any of us living in this age, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him).

Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen.  Al-hamdu lillah.  Allahu Akbar.

My dearest loving brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, this is something we all must learn to do, if we are ever to see God again.  There is no other way, my dearest loving brother.

And this new view of the 5 Kalimah's of God is started by first saying the name of our Shaikh, which for this age is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), inviting Him in this way to come into our life of illusion from within our life of truth, causing our mind and desire to sit down, allowing our wisdom to stand up and join with our soul in reciting these 5 Kalimah's, to complete God's intention within us, which is to reveal the
Deen within the Deen, to reveal Muhammad within Muhammad, and to reveal Allahu
within Allahu, revealing in this way True Man within the Creation of God within us, and God within the Creation of True Man within us.

And this new view of the 5 Kalimah's of God for our age, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), can be written and viewed physically in the following way:

          1)  "Bawa, Ill Allahu" - Bawa, You are Allah
          2)  "Bawa, La ilaha"  - Bawa, There is nothing other than You
          3)  "Bawa, Muhammad Mustafa al-Rasul (Salla Allah 'alayhi wa-sallam)"
                    - Bawa, Muhammad is the Chosen Messenger of God (God bless Him and
                    grant Him peace)
          4)  "Bawa, You are True Man"
          5)  "Bawa, You are One"

Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen.  Al-hamdu lillah.  Allahu Akbar.

This is what each of us must now do my dearest loving brother, to bring the collective soul within each of us, which is the life of purity within each of our impure births, the life of purity within each of our individual lives of "separation and differences", that in our ignorance have grown within us, back into the state of the One soul within us, back into the state of Aathi Muhammad within us, but this time with the understanding of
Aathi Muhammad within us, so the One soul will never be subdivided again within us.

And in this way, to bring all of our individual lives within us back into the One life within us, which are all of the lives of the Creation of God within us, which is the dunya within us, back into the state of the One soul within us, back into the state of the One life of God within us, which is akhirah within us, which in maturity is True Man within the Creation of God within us, and as One is God within the Creation of True Man within us.

In this way, becoming the Nur Muhammad within the Nur Muhammad, which is the understanding of the Nur Muhammad, which in truth becomes Allah Muhammad
within Allah Muhammad or True Man within True Man, which is the understanding of
Allah Muhammad or True Man, and finally appearing as the One within the One, which is the understanding of the One, the understanding of the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God within us. 

Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen.  Al-hamdu lillah.  Allahu Akbar.

6.  The Names That Bawa Gave Us Are Not Our Names - but are the names of the
          Lights of God within us who have accepted Bawa's call for help, and have agreed
          to try and pull us up, back into the Oneness of God and True Man, from which we
          have all come

Even our exalted names are not our names, my dearest loving brother.  We must realize this without the slightest doubt, and understand the true significance of the names that Bawa has given us.

Take for example the names given to you (Rick Hacket), to Jonathan Granoff, and to this child (Louie Beutler), by Bawa:

1)   Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen

If we look at the definition of the word Asma'el, as it is given in the Glossary of the book, Islam And World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi, as part of the term Asma al-husna, we get the following:

          "Asma' al-husna (A).  The ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah.  The plenitude
          of the ninety-nine duties of God; the sifat of His dhat, the manifestations of His
          essence.  The states of His qualities are His manifestations which emerge from
          Him.  He performs His duty when these manifestations of His essence are
          brought into action.  They become His wilayat, the actions which stem from the
          manifestations of His essence."

          "The Asma al-husna are the ninety-nine beautiful names of His duties.  They
          were revealed to Prophet Muhammad in the Qur'an, and He explained them to
          His followers.  This is the vast bahr al-dawlah, a very deep ocean of His grace
          and His limitless, infinite, and undiminishing wealth."

          "If we go on cutting one of these ninety-nine wilayat over and over again, taking
          one piece at a time, we will see ninety-nine particles revolving one around the
          other without touching.  This applies to each one of the ninety-nine wilayat. 
          This is the Asma al-husna.  As we go on cutting, we lose ourselves in that. 
          We die in that."

          "How can we ever hope to reach an end of the ninety-nine?  If we receive only
          one drop of that, it will be more than sufficient for us.  The person who has
          touched the smallest, tiniest drop becomes a good one.  These are merely His
          powers. If we go on cutting just one of His powers, it is so powerful that it will
          draw you in.  That power will swallow you up, and you become the power
          (wilayat).  Then you come to the stage at which you can lose yourself within
          Allah; you can disappear within Allah."

And if we look at the definition of the word "Muhaiyaddeen" in the same Glossary,
we get the following:

          "Muhaiyaddeen or Muhyiddin (A).  The pure resplendence called the Qutb." 

          "The one who manifests the wisdom which lies hidden and buried under illusion
          (maya).  The one who give life to that wisdom, and shows it again as a
          resplendence.  The one who revives the life of wisdom, and gives it to someone
          else."

          "Muhaiyaddeen: "Mu" is that which existed earlier; "hayy" is life; "ya" is a title of
          greatness, a title of praise; and "din" means the light (resplendence) which is
          perfectly pure."

          "Din" is what existed in the beginning, the "ancient thing" which was with God
          originally, and is always with Him.  To that purity God gave the name,
          Muhaiyaddeen."

          "Muhaiyaddeen" is that beauty which manifested from Allah, and to which Allah
          gave His wilayat [power]. Lit.: the giver of life to the true belief."

2) Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen

And if we look at the definition of the word "Ahmad" in the same Glossary, we get the following:

          "Ahmad (A).  The state of the heart, the qalb, or aham.  Ahmad is the heart of
          Muhammad.  The beauty of the heart (aham) is the beauty of the countenance
          (muham) of Muhammad.  That is the beauty of Allah's qualities.  This is the
          name that comes within the ocean of 'ilm or divine knowledge (bahr al-'ilm). 
          Allah is the One who is worthy of the praise of the qalb, the heart.  Lit.: most
          praiseworthy."

3)  Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen

This is one of the 11 names given to Qutb Muhaiyaddeen, and if we look at the definition of the word "Qutb" in the same Glossary, we get the following:

          "Qutb (A).  Divine analytic wisdom, the wisdom which explains; that which
          measures the length and breadth of the seven oceans of the nafs, or base
          desires; that which awakens all the truths which have been destroyed and
          buried in the ocean of maya; that which awakens true iman (absolute faith,
          certitude, and determination); that which explains the hayah, the state of purity
          as it existed in al-awwal, the beginning of creation; the grace of the dhat, the
          essence of God, which awakens the hayah of purity, and transforms it into divine
          the divine vibration."

          "Qutb is also a name which has been given to Allah.  He can be addressed as
          Ya Qutb or Ya Quddus, the Holy One.  Quddus is His wilayah, His power or
          miracle, while Qutb is His action.  Wilayah is the power of that action. Lit.: axis,
          axle, pole, pivot.  Also, a title used for the great men of Islam."

So putting all of this together we have:

          1)  Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen - is the sifat or form of the dhat, the 99 beautiful
                    names of Allah, the form of Muhammad (may God be pleased with Him),
                    the 99 of Muhammad (Sal.) as the Rasul, as the dhat, as the resplendence
                    of the effulgence of God.
          2)  Ahmad Muhaiyaddeen - is the treasury of the dhat, the bank of God, is
                    the purity, the wealth of the heart of Muhammad (may God be pleased
                    with Him), of Muhammad (Sal.) as the Rasul, as the dhat, as the
                    resplendence of the effulgence of God.
          3) Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen - is the grace of the dhat, is the action of the
                    power or wilayah of God, is the grace of Muhammad (Sal.) as the Rasul,
                    as the dhat, as the resplendence of the effulgence of God.

And what does all of this have to do with you and I, and with Jonathan Granoff, and with any of our brothers and sisters, as long as we continue to live in the state of "separation and differences", living in the world that we currently see as existing "outside" of us, "separate from" God, and "separate from" each other, and "separate from" the Creation of God, that God has personally and ever so lovingly placed within each of us. 

As long as we remain in our current state living in our mind and desire, then all of this stuff of God, of Bawa, has absolute nothing to do with us, all of this stuff of the 124,000 Prophets of God, that God has personally hidden within our innermost hearts, within our Qalb, has absolute nothing to do with us, in any way, in any sense.

Then why did Bawa give us these names?  This is a very good question, and to help answer this question, let us share the following. 

One day Bawa told us,

          "The names that I have given you, are not your names, they are the names of
          the Lights within you who have agreed, in some cases after much urging,
          pleading, and negotiation on My part, to become your spiritual mentors, to
          become the Ones within you who will look after you while you continue to live in
          the world, and try to pull you out of the world, and back into the Oneness of God
          and True Man from which you all have came."

My dearest loving brother, this is the significance of the names that we have been given by Bawa, they are part of our connection to Bawa, part of the gift of Bawa, but they do not belong to us, they are not our names, they do not belong to the world of hell, the world of mind and desire that we now inhabit, they belong to another world, to the world of grace and purity, of wisdom and clarity, and of divine knowing and understanding or Ilm, that lies hidden within us, that in our ignorance we have all turned away from, that we have all replaced with a life of "separation and differences", in the world you now see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us.

Such is the significance of the names that Bawa has given us.  May we both think about this a little, my dearest loving brother, and learn to use these names in the proper way, and think about these names as part of our connection to God, as the grace of God within us, as part of our connection to God within our Shaikh within us, as part of the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), and not see them or use them to define us, but rather to destroy us, to see them as one of the things that Bawa has given us to leave this world, not to stay in this world, not to live in this world with our brothers and sisters.

For example, whenever someone asked the name of this child, we hand the request to Bawa, and what comes is usually one of the following responses, depending on what God knows and understands within the Shaikh within this child, which is the truth within the wisdom within this child, and on what the Shaikh, which is the life and teaching of God for this age within this child, knows and understands within this child, which for this age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), not on anything personally known or understood by this child:

When asked my name, the response is usually either,

          1) "Bawa gave me the name, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen".
                              or
          2) "My name is Louie"

In this way, whenever the name Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is used by this child, a name which is 1 of the 11 names given by God to Qutb Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), who is the grace of the dhat of God, the action of the power of God, it is always tied to Bawa, to the relationship of this child and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within this child (may God be pleased with Him), and not to this child as "separate from" Bawa, or "separate from" God within Him, in any way.

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Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu.  May all the peace, the beneficence, and blessing of God be upon all of us.  May God help us all. 

Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen.  Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen.  Al-hamdu lillah.  Allahu Akbar.

My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler).


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