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) Home Page-Spiriutal Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 28 Letter 27: Outline & Summary Library Navigation Tree Go To Spiritual Letter 26 Letter 27: Expanded Version Page 3 of 4 Go To Table of Contents - Spiritual Letter 27 Related Material 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. 13. The Judgment by God of The Children of God For This Age - God will accept us both on the "outside" and on the "inside" of us, making us One, making our "outside" and our "inside" One within us, making our words and our actions One within us, and in this way, making God and Us both One within us, if before we die, we gain and maintain our membership in the 73rd group, as those in this age who trust and love in God alone, and not slip back into either the 72nd or 71st groups, not slip back into the 72nd group, originally formed by us as the Muslims and the Christians at the time of the death of Muhammad (may the peace and blessing of God be upon Him), as those in that age who could not love God alone, or slip even further back, into the 71st group, originally formed by us as the Jews at the time of the death of Moses (peace be upon Him), as those in that age who could not trust in God alone To clarify this point a little let us share a short story. One day in the room Bawa awoke from His meditation and He told us that during His meditation He was flying back to heaven with all of His Children flying directly behind Him, but when He turned around to check on them He found that His Children had broken into Three Separate Groups, rather than the One Group which they all should be in on the way back to heaven, from which we have all come. They had broken into the 71st, the 72nd, and the 73rd groups, when they all should have been within the 73rd group, the group which was personally formed and placed within each of us living in this age by Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) during His stay in the world, the only group acceptable to God in this age. (Note: To read a copy of a transcript of this short discourse by His Holiness about this very important vision that He had on May 12, 1986, a little over 7 months before He died, click on the following, Spiritual Discourse 03 - "The Final Judgment by God of The Creation of God". After reading this discourse repeatedly click on the "Back" button at the top of your Web Browser to return to this spot in this letter - Thank you). Now as you remember the 71st group are all of those people living in the world today who trust in God but who also trust in the world, and was originally formed by us as the Jews at the time of the death of Moses (peace be upon Him), by us who failed to trust in God alone, by us who came into the world at that time as the path or the religion of the Judaism. And the 72nd group are all of those living in the world today who love God but who also love the world, and was originally formed by us as the Muslims and the Christians at the time of the death of Muhammad (may the peace and blessing of God be upon Him), by us who failed to love God alone, by us who came into the world at that time as the paths or religions of Christianity and Islam. And the 73rd group are all of those living in the world today who love and trust in God alone, and who no longer love and trust in the world, and in this way, have left this world before they died to live within their own innermost heart. Becoming in this way, all of those living in the world today who have left this world of "separation and differences" that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, and have learned to do duty "here" from "there", not "here" from "here", and are just now beginning to appear in the world as the path or religion of Iman-Islam, as the Children of God for this age, as the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us). This 73rd group are all of the people living in the world today who have left the world and moved into their own hears, before they died, to live as "one with" God, as "one with" each other, and as "one with" the Creation of God within them, it is all those living in the world today who in truth are living in the "hereafter" here and now, within their very own hearts, it is all those living in this age who have become one with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), which God has personally and loving placed within them, as the gift of God for our age to all of the Children of God for this age, it is all those who have learned to live at the feet of God for this age, at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). 14. The Duty of The One True Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) - is to pray to God for all of the Children of God living in this age, for God to awaken them to their true birthright and true heritage, which is the Oneness of God and True Man within them, and to lead them into this Very Special Group within them, this 73rd group of mankind living within them, that God has personally and lovingly established within everyone living in this age, which is the life and teaching of God for this age, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), which is the heart of the True Shaikh within us My dearest loving brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, may we both learn to become members of this very special group within us, this 73rd group within us, the one group within us, out of the 73 groups within us, who trusts and loves only in God, the 73rd group personally formed by our Father for this age, and personally and lovingly placed within each of us living in this age by God, in this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). And in this state of trusting and loving in God alone, no longer trusting and loving in the world that we currently see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, in this state of the 73rd group within us, let us all as the One True Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) for this age, pray to God to help all of our brothers and sisters living in this age to do the same. Within this state of Oneness with God within us, let us all, as the One True Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) for this age, pray to God that all of our brothers and sisters living in this age come to realize their true birthright, their true heritage for this age, before it is too late, before they die and go to the suffering of the grave and Qiyamah, the standing forth within, the Day of Reckoning. That before they die and become eternally "separated from" God, that they come to realize their true birthright and heritage which is their "oneness with" God, which is the Oneness of God and True Man within them, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and of the Creation of True Man within them, which is the true "world" or dunya within them, and the true "hereafter" or akhirah within all of us, that God and True Man have personally and lovingly placed 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, this is the most we can do. First become members of the 73rd group ourselves, and then do Du'as to God, prayers to God, as Bawa did in this story, for all of our brothers and sisters, who have yet to make this transition. from living in the world with their brothers and sisters, to living in their own heart with their Shaikh. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. 15. "There Is Something Wrong With Their Brains, O God, Please Help Them" - such is our problem, which is our trust and love for the world that has again grown within us, like weeds in a beautiful garden, the weeds that keep us out of the 73rd group that is the heart of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), that is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), that Bawa has personally and so lovingly pulled us into, while He was physically with us in the world, the 73rd group of God, that now we have again fallen out of, the 73rd group that now we must again join with the help of our Shaikh, with the help of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), in order to regain our position in this true group of God's Children within us, and learn to stay in that group until we die, before it is too late. Only then can we be saved, only then will we be acceptable to God in this age, to God within the heart of our Shaikh Now the question is, what did Bawa do with this problem, this problem of many of His children moving back into the 71st and 72nd groups after Bawa had personally moved them up into the 73rd group. What did Bawa do at that point? And the answer is very important for our dealing with our brothers and sisters in the world, who are still living in the world with their brothers and sisters, and have not yet left the world to live in their own hearts with their Shaikh, our brothers and sisters who may not be doing the proper things to truly leave the world before they die, so they can do duty "here" from "there", but are still mistakenly in their ignorance trying to do duty "here" from "here". What do we do with them? How do we help them? Well we can only help them the same way Bawa told us that He help us in His meditation, when He saw that we had again broken into three groups, into the 71st, the 72nd, and the 73rd groups. He did Du'as to God. He prayed to God for us, to help us. He told God, "There is something wrong with their brains, O God. Please help them." And when He turned back, after praying to God for us, He saw that some of us had again moved from the 71st and the 72nd groups back into the 73rd groups. This is what He did and this was the result. God had intervened and changed our destiny, because of the prayers of our Shaikh, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and similarly, God will intervene in the lives of our brothers and sisters, and change their destiny, their fate, when we first move into the 73 group ourselves, and then do Du'as to God for them, in the name of God, in the name of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). We must do it like this, we must treat all of our brothers and sisters in the world in this way. Then we will be safe from them, and they will be safe from us, and our souls will be peaceful, and God will intervene to move them forward on the path of God, as much as they will allow Him to bring them back into the Oneness of God and True Man, according to their thoughts, intentions, prayers, and actions. May we both do it like this my dearest brother, like Bawa showed us to do it. Then everyone will be safe. 16. The Nature of The People In The 71st and 72nd Groups - they want to live here, not leave here, they want to trust and love in God, but not in God alone, they also want to trust and love in the world, and only they out of the 73 groups of man, the 71st and the 72nd groups, will go to judgment after they die, for the 73rd group has already gone to heaven, and the 1st to the 70th groups have already gone to hell, even though they may still physically be here In this way, my dearest loving brother, if we want God and God alone, if we love and trust in God alone, if we move into and stay in the 73rd group of God before we die, if we learn to leave here and move into our innermost heart before we die, if we learn to do duty "here" from "there", if we become the One True Child of God for this age, the One True Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) for this age, then the people living in the world, who decide to stay in the world, will always eventually let us down. This is natural, this is the way it is, just as some of the children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) chose to stay in the 71st and 72nd groups even after Bawa did Dua to God on their behalf. Such is their choice and their fate, their fate winning over the wisdom within them, over the Shaikh within them, and over God within their Shaikh. Please realize that this is not a problem, it is just the nature of the world. And realize that this approach to the world is not ignoring a problem, or failing to correct what is wrong, rather it is understanding the nature of the world, the nature of True Man, and the nature of God, all of which are very different. Remember, Bawa teaches us that only God wants God, only wisdom wants wisdom, and only the world wants the world, and we all have all three within us, and each of our brothers and sisters have all three within them. And in our ignorance we never know which one is active in them or in us, at any moment. This is the problem when we try to live in the world and do our duty in the world, when we try to do our duty "here" from "here", rather than "here" from "there", nothing is the way that we think it is or understand it to be. Instead of this, instead of trying to deal with the world while living in the world, instead of trying to move people from the 71st and 72nd groups back into the 73rd group, before we ourselves are firmly within the 73rd group, don't engage the world. Learn to leave it alone. Leave the world alone and spend your time hanging out with the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within you (may God be pleased with Him). Then you will find peace in your life, and everyone will find peace in you. Then you will gradually become valuable to your Shaikh and to the world, as the feet of your Shaikh, as the form of your Shaikh, allowing Him to become your soul, as the life of God within you, allowing the story of God within the story of True Man, and the story of True Man within the story of God to move forward within you, gradually revealing True Man within God and God within True Man within you. May we both learn to do it this way. Then and only then will we be safe from all of the dangerous things that live within us, and want to play with and eat all of the dangerous things that live within each of our brothers and sisters. This is why Bawa told us, "Until wisdom dawns within you and you can see the heart of a person, don't trust anyone living in the world. It could be very dangerous for you." And, "Before you try to protect someone in the world from the things of the world, learn to protect them from you." And, "Life is a feast of the world, its medicine is a time after a time", And, "Life is the victory of wisdom reasoning over fate." And finally, "The pond is the secret of Manu-eesan's (True Man's) appearance and life on earth. Inside this pond are three important things, namely water, fire, and air, which spring forth, overflow, and meander. The earth bears the burden of these elements. Together, these four are the four faiths, the four religions, and the four broad groups of man." (from page 104, Chapter 30, "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). In this way, instead of trusting and relying on the people and things of the world, trust and rely on God, trust and rely on the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you, trust and rely on the direct connection that you have established with God within you for this age, known as the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within you. They will never let you down. May we both come to know this, my dearest loving brother, and act accordingly. And to whatever degree we don't do this, then we must be very, very careful, the state of our eternal life depends on it, for "as we sow so shall we reap", and to reap an eternal life of "oneness with" God, of "oneness with" our brothers and sisters, and of "oneness with" the Creation of God within us, so we must sow, and the only time to sow is now, before we die. May we both learn to give up our life of "separation from", which is the heart of our life in the world, the heart of all of our current relationships in the world, as well as the heart of all of our current thinking, talking, acting, and writing in the world, and turn it all over to God within us, which is our Shaikh within us, which is our wisdom within us. And we do this by handing our life of "separation from", by handing all of our relationships in the world, and by handing all of our current thinking, talking, acting, and writing in the world, to God within us, as we experience them or are confronted by them as we move through our day, our week, our month, and our year, letting Him bring it all to an end within us, which only He can do within us. But this must be our intention within us, for Him to end it within us, for Him to end "us" within us, for Him to destroy "us" within us, to destroy "us" within our mind and desire, which is "us" as "separate from" God within us, and reveal Him within us, reveal Him within our innermost heart or Qalb, which is "us" as "one with" God within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. 17. We Must Empty The Cup, If We Are To Be Successful In Our Life - only then will the life and teaching of God for our age be of any value to us, will the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) liberate our soul from the cross of our elemental body, and allow our soul to join again with the Nur Muhammad, the body of our soul, making our life eternal My love you my dearest brother Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen, we are all very good Children of God, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), but we cannot have it both ways, we cannot have both Bawa and what has come before Bawa, we cannot have both the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) and what has come before the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). It doesn't work that way. We can't live in the world and leave the world at the same time. We can't live in the world with our brothers and sisters and live in our heart with our Shaikh at the same time. We must make a choice, and then stick to it, and only then will we be of any value to anyone else, not by trying to fight their battles, or resolve their differences, when we haven't yet won our own battle and haven't yet resolved our own differences. Bawa stressed this point over and over again. "Physician heal thyself". We must realize that it is only in the purity of the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) that our life will be transformed into the Oneness of God and True Man, not in trying to have it both ways. Bawa told us that this problem of wanting it both ways was like a man with a glass of dirty water, who wanted his water to be pure, but who upon being offered some pure water, only pored out some of his dirty water, and maybe most of the dirty water in his glass, and then pored the pure water that he had been offered into his glass. Now what does he have? He still has a glass of dirty water. In this way, it is the purity of the teaching that will save us, not in mixing it with other things, it is in taking only the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and discarding everything else, that we will be saved. Not in trying to mix what Bawa has given us with what we brought to the table. This way of being with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), of adding Him to what we already have, will never make us successful. May we both know this now, and act accordingly. And Bawa told us that the most difficult part of the path of God is emptying the cup. May we both be very careful about this truth, my dearest loving brother, and join with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) to get Him within us, joined in partnership with God within Him, to completely empty our cup, not try to empty it ourselves, so the purity of our Father, the gift of God for this age, can be placed within us, making our life pure, wise, and complete, without any of the impurities that we have in our ignorance collected, that would keep us forever a glass of dirty water. Remember, Bawa teaches us that a white cow with just one tiny dot of black, is still a black cow. May we both truly become white cows, and become advocates of God to our brothers and sisters, not advocates of our brothers and sisters to God, trying to get God to change so they can be accepted by God without them first becoming One with God, and One with all that God is One with. But God will never change, it is we who must change, and if we do the whole world will accommodate to us, we need not accommodate to the world in any way, at any time, and in any manner. And if we do, if we do try to accommodate to the world, all hope is gone for the world, because only by us standing firm, as God's advocate to the world, never fearful, and always in expectation that the world will change, that it will turn back to God, that all of it will again become One with God and True Man, as it was originally, and always handing to God this intention, never trying to bring it about on our own, as "separate from" God, because only God can do this Divine work within any of us, then the world will change, it will accommodate to God, as much of it that wants to change will change, and what is left is left, left with the world of "separation and differences" for eternity, according to the justice of God. And perhaps, all of it, all of the world this time, will change, and when it is all over, nothing of anything will remain separate from the Oneness of God and True Man. Perhaps that is the point of it all. In this way, my dearest loving brother, may we both become the advocates of God to all of the Creation of God within us, and teach then to sit down, and let God rule and redeem them, by pleading God's case to them, not become their advocates to God, pleading their case to God. This is the work of a fool. So with all of this said, what about us? What about us living in this age? Well the jury is still out for us, for all of us in this age, no matter what race or religion or nationality or country or lineage we may claim, because we in this age, like the Children of God in all earlier ages, have all been given God, the life of God within us, and the Teaching of God for our age, which has come to all of us in this age as the Third and Last Testament of God, which we have all received within our hearts as the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not. It is our birth right, our true heritage, our true destiny, for this age. And in God's time, and in God's way, we will all hear it and understand it also "outside" of us, as did the followers of Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, David, Jesus, Muhammad, (may God be pleased with all His Prophets), and Qutb, Muhaiyaddeen Abdul Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him). The only question left is do we want it. Do we want the life of "oneness with" God, of "oneness with" our brothers and sister, and of "oneness with" the Creation of God, that God has so lovingly placed within us, or do we want to continue to live as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" all of the Creation of God within us, and to do it for eternity. The choice is ours. So whether we truly accept it, and use it to put down the life of "separation and differences" that we have all mistakenly in our ignorance picked up within us, and in this way become again One with God and True Man within us, is still an open issue which has yet to be decided, for each of us, at least for this child. End of Page 3 of 4 of Spiritual Letter 27 - original version - ....................... This completes page 3 of 4 of Spiritual Letter 27. We had to break this letter into parts parts because of the size limitations of the Homestead Web Page Hosting system. Click HERE or below to go to page 4 of 4 of this letter. Please forgive us for this inconvenience. 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. 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