This is an excerpt from Music of the Soul, pages 26 and 27.

The Love

bismi’llah ir-rahman ir-rahim

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

When you find the love, you find yourself.  The secret is in the love.   You are the love, not another.  Everything is in the love, and everyone needs the love.  If you find this, what more could you want?    When you know, what could you want?   When you have the knowledge of the love, you feel peace in your heart.  The jewels are inside you.   This is the holy meaning.  When you understand, then you are the meaning, the holy meaning.  But look and reach so that you find every meaning and do not hesitate because inside every meaning is the quality of the love.  The love has seven qualities and this love knows no differences.  If the Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the people of any other religion, knew their religion well, there would only be one religion, the religion of love and peace and mercy.

Leave everything outside that is not useful and give everything to God to live inside His garden of love.  Remember the name of God at every waking moment, and you will find Him beside you, to help you to walk in the way.  Be courteous with everyone you meet. Give them mercy to help them to know the meaning of this love.  Give and listen to everyone who speaks to you.  Listen with the ear of your heart because this is the voice of God speaking to you, trying to help you to know Him.  If you hear another voice, it is wrong.  Open your heart to God and He will give you everything.   Then your heart will feel quiet and you will only see the love, only the love.

You are the reflection of God. There is nothing, only He.  Where is another?  Give everything to God and you will begin to know yourself.  When God made you, He made beauty.  Live with the people on the outside, but hear only your God.  Those who live in the outside world are like jewels that need cleaning.  They need the fire to burn away all their imperfections so that the jewel may reflect its inner beauty.  If you are not clean, how can you find the love.  The Sufi way is the straight way – walking a straight path to God, letting nothing on either side block the vision of the straight way.  I will ask God to send the mercy and peace to everyone because He is the Peace.

If you want God, remember that He gives you what you want.  Don’t be afraid.  God will not give to you anything that is not good.  We must see God in the face of every human being.  When you walk and when you sleep, remember the name of God because He knows no time.  When you pray to God, pray only to love Him.  Do not pray for Him to put you in the garden.  God throws out a net, and when He catches you in this net, then you are in the garden. Every student needs God.

When He helps you to find Him, then pray, and when you look into another’s eyes, see the reflection of God looking at you.  Understand that inside every word is a message or a sign from God.  See the picture of God in every person that you meet.

All the troubles in the world are necessary.  If there was no darkness, how could there be light?  If you did not see sadness, how could you see happiness? Be courteous to everyone and see the face of God in every person, but know that people on the outside carry two faces.  On the inside they carry the face of God, but on the outside, the face of the shaitan.  Be polite with both faces, and when you see someone angry or shouting, know Who speaks with you.  Everyone has put himself in his place and this is the station for that person.  Be polite with him and give him mercy.  Be with God all the time and do not speak with anyone from the outside unless it is necessary.

Give your time for God and He will change you from station to station, clearing your heart of everything that is not good.  This is the message of the prophets.  It is a difficult way and at the same time a very easy way.  When anyone wants to know God, He will help anyone to walk the straight way.

Follow one guide to take you by the hand, to guide you from the darkness to the light. He will make the walking easy for you and then you can rest.  If you go from here to there, you lose time.  The student of the family of God rests because he lives in the garden.  When anyone knows why he lives and walks in this created world, then he begins to know himself.  We are here only to know Him.  Live all the time in the garden of the love.  When your heart feels love, then everything around you is quiet and at peace.  This is from the message, but not all the message.  Live to love and to know God.

I couldn’t have said it any better.  If you want to be the Love, you need to clean yourself of everything so that your inner jewel, your inner beauty shines for all to see.   You can clean your heart by doing the Remembrance, al-wird, writing the stations, doing the formal/salat prayers, listening to and writing the Wazifa, or getting healings.

If you do this, your light might become that of the “Knowers of God”.  Here is a second except from Music of the Soul, titled,

Anwar al-‘Arif B’llah, The Lights of the Knowers of God.

bismi’llah ir’rahman ir-rahim

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

Let there be no uncertainty, and know, my beloved, that if your heart shines with light, free of the attachments of this world, then the sun of the truth of God reveals itself through your heart and opens everything to His truth within it.  Then you see all the attributes of this existence as the manifestation of the essence of the unlimited divine truth, and you arrive in the station of the illuminated free slaves of God; the knowers of God, to whom Muhammad, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, reveals his original wisdom completely, and the reality of the heavens and the earth become the throne upon which you sit.  Your heart, one with the divine truth, becomes the abode of God and the heart of divine illumination, and you realize the speech of your Lord, “Neither My heavens nor My earth contain Me, but the heart of My illuminated slave contains Me.” Your heart becomes the heart of the knowers, through which the truth shines, which turns with Allah, as He turns all the creation around His throne.  The heart of the illumined free slave is the throne of Allah around which all the universe turns. From here, one is absorbed in the work of creation and all his action is inspired by his Beloved.

The knower of Allah who carries this trust is the holy child of the seed of the essence of the truth, and with the eye of essence within him, he sees how all existence is the emanation of the existence of Allah.  He hears the order of Allah in pre-eternity, “Be!” And directly from the order, he is.  As with all the lovers of Allah, from the moment of their awakening, when they are face to face with their Day of Judgment (Yam-ad-Din), they realize what they were in pre-eternity.  He becomes now, always, what he was in pre-eternity, perfect in the image of his Creator.

Please know, my beloved, that the heart has two doors.  Through the first gate, the knowing of God travels, and through the second gate, the knowledge of everything else other than Him.  If you can, seal the gate outwardly to the dunya, ash-shaitan, and an-nafs, and open the gate inwardly which leads directly to the heart of God.  Then know that the intelligence (al-‘aql) does not have the capacity to touch God because it is bound and imprisoned by the limitations and mental constructs of the finite world, which it has self-created.  But the truth of Allah has no limits or boundaries or definitions, and therefore cannot be contained by human intelligence.  Intelligence sees everything from different points of view and explains this according to its limited understanding.   But know that the heart of the knowers emanates from the perfection of Allah.  It is the manifestation of His boundless truth appearing in discreet form, but in reality, the form of the knower is a pretext and his being is as unlimited as the presence of Allah.  He appears to be a human being, like other human beings, but in reality,he is al-Haqq, the Truth.  And all of his heart is the spring of the mercy of God, and this mercy contains all of existence within it.

The heart of the knower is the throne of al-Haqq.  There are no thoughts in this heart but the truth.   Every action of the knower (al-‘arif), the perfected person (al-insan al-kamil), is moved by his heart and in his heart there is no action – only prayer.  Whatever he appears to be doing, in reality he is praying through this action.  Maybe you see him sleeping or walking but when you look behind, you see the real truth behind him. By this truth, I mean Allah.  In every moment he lives in the essence of the unity. (at-tawhid).

The knower (al-‘arif0, the perfect one (al-insan al-kamil), is the person of his time.  He has realized all the qualities of existence (al-wujud) within himself, and his heart has become a clear mirror.  In this mirror, you can see the real existence, al-wujud illahi, the existence of God.  In him you can see the complete picture, the real picture and not the shadow as you see reflected in the heart of the human being.  The human heart sees a war between the things of the gross and the subtle worlds, and for this reason feels troubled and tired.   In order for the heart truly to rest, to walk, and to know, it is necessary to send all of these things out; to seal the heart’s gate outward, to surrender and to trust the real knowing which comes from the heart of God within the human heart; not to listen to the voice of the shaitan, but to open the inner ear of the heart; once it has been cleaned, to listen to the voice of the perfected one.

If you want to live in peace and safety and to keep the body well, and you feel you cannot travel all the way in the path of the perfected one, then follow a clear person in the path of the shari’a.  But if your travel, it is best to search about these special people, whose hearts are filled with the lights of the knowing (al-anwa al-‘arif b’llah).  Only these people know how to help you completely, to bring you from the darkness to the real life, the life with God.  If you follow people who carry only mind and speak only from the mind, you will not find what you truly seek because the mind is limited and stops with sides.  Life with these people is very difficult and dense, because their religion is filled with differences and numbers.   There is no unity (at-tawhid) in a religion in which everybody hits his brother with his hands, his tongue, and his heart. I mean those who follow the Prophet with the outside religion, stopping with the shari’a only.  They cannot find rest and cannot find peace because the witnessing of these people is only a shadow.

Know beloved, that I want to speak to you now about the Muhammadan soul.  She is the self of the truth and she is very sensitive.  In everything that moves, in every shadow, in every created being, she is the source of the movement, although the shadow is ignorant of its origin.  I mean about this soul, the essence of the presence of the wine of pre-eternity, the secret of the life of the truth of Adam (al-qudsia).   From this first truth came everything and she is in everything.  When anyone asks me to speak about the wine of al-qudsia, I say, “Yes, I can.”  She is deep like an ocean but clearer than a mirror.  She is more subtle than the deep love (al-‘ishq) or the light behind the fire and the spirit.  She has no names.  She is before everything and behind everything, and she is nothing.  She is within you.  She is more than ancient.  She has no color and no body.  Everything needs her because there is no life without her.  She is not self, not heart, not mind, but behind every word, while no word can contain her.  Only when you live with your existence in her existence can you know her well.  What I mean about her is the secret of the truth of God, the soul of God.  She lives inside of you and you carry her, but the self, heart, and soul of the human being are veils to the inner wine of the secret.  Burn these veils to come to be free; then you will see what you are.  In this moment, you become the holy rock and this rock has no sides.  You must let go of everything that you have carried before because God takes all of the coverings from His face, to show you His face in your face, to make you a special slave for Him, and to be Beloved for you.

Now, in this moment, your sun is rising to fill all that you have, and you haven’t anything.  She (your sun) has eaten everything.  This sun is the real sun, not like the sun you knew before.  It is stronger and more sensitive, and no tongue can explain about her unless it becomes her tongue, and no eye can see her unless it comes to be her eye. This sun is the presence of al-itlaq,the holy freedom.  From what I say, understand what you are my beloved, and realize that the self, mind, heart, soul, and secret of Allah are one in this moment.  Even the self of the presence of Allah, and the heart of the presence of Allah, and the soul of the presence of Allah are veils to your ultimate reality, and in this moment, when your sun rises, she consumes every veil.

This is what I mean when I say go behind and behind and behind and behind, to see what is behind your presence and behind the presence of your Beloved, and to see what you are, my beloved, because there is only you in the presence of Allah.  In this moment, you begin to fly, but this flying is different than any flying that you have known before.  As you rise up in the mi’raj, you leave everything that you knew before, down below; your body changes to be He.   This is more than flying in the air, and you come at last to sleep, the deep sleeping in the arms of your Beloved Allah because their is no separation between you and Allah.  When you look in my direction, you see what you have now – the unity (at-tawhid).  You are one with Him.  This is the deep meaning of why Allah made you al-khalifa, because you carry all His secrets, and He wants you to know His secret well, to carry His secret and to be the Bride of His secret.

In this moment, you return to the land of your origin, to your first country, and you find everything that you have been searching for in your origin.  He wants you to know yourself now, not after you die, and that is why He created you.  In this country, you cannot stop, but continue to travel (holy traveling) because you go deeper and deeper into the secret, and no voice can reach you, except your own voice which is the voice of your Beloved.  You leave the earth of your self and the earth of your mind to be with your beloved God all the time, and there is no time.  You travel from this existence to Who made this existence.  And this is what I mean, you are absent about your self, heart, soul and mind, to see the great lights of your Beloved.

Allah