Spiritual Letter 53 - Table of Contents (TOC) About Spiritual Letter 53 Title: "Winning The War On Terrorism" Date: November 26, 2003 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Written to: George W. Bush, President of the United States of America Go To: Table of Contents - for this letter Go To: Copy of The Different Outlines - provided in this Letter Go To: Summary & Text of Bawa Quotations - referenced in this letter Go To: "About" Table of Contents Library Home Page Spiritual Letter 52 Letter 53: Expanded Version Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. 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 us all. May God help us all. This Web Page has the following three sections, which you can access below or at the top of this Web Page: 1) Table of Contents - for this letter 2) Copy of The Different Outlines - provided in this Letter 3) Summary & Text of Bawa Quotations - referenced in this letter For a description of each of these three sections please click HERE. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). - go to Summary of Bawa Quotations Table of Contents - for this letter 1. "About" Spiritual Letter: 2. Original Version of Spiritual Letter: 3. Expanded Version of Spiritual Letter: Page 1 of 5 - in process, not currently available 4. Summary of Spiritual Letter: 5. Related Materials: 6. Speeches by the President: Speech 01 - "America's Actions In The War On Terrorism", given on 9/9/03 Speech 02 - "A Call For The U.N. To Help In Iraq", given on 9/24/03 Copy of The Different Outlines - provided in this Letter List of Outlines: 2. Outline For Spiritual Letter - original version 3. Outline For Spiritual Letter - expanded version (in process, not currently available) Copy of Outlines: 1. Outline for"About" Spiritual Letter Page 1 of 1 - click HERE to go to "About" Spiritual Letter 1. The Significance of This Letter - it is a real turning point in the life of this child 2. Organization of This Letter - it is a culmination of 7 years of writing on the computer, and then of 10 years of writing on the Internet, about His Holiness 2-1. Original Version of The Letter 2-2. Expanded Version of The Letter 2-3. Summary of Spiritual Letter 2-4. Table of Contents 2-5. "About" This Letter 2-6. Related Materials 3. A Little Bit About Louie - so you can fit Louie into what you are currently doing outside of you 4. A little Bit More About Louie - to appreciate what it means to meet His Holiness Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) on the "outside" of us, and to try and live at the feet of His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within our very own life 5. A little Bit More About Bawa - so we can fit us into what Bawa, and into what God within Bawa, are current doing within us, allowing us to become One with the "Three of Us" within us, within the "Three of God" within us, allowing us to become One with "The Disciple, the Shaikh, and God" within the Triple Flame of God within us, within "Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen" within us Excerpt From A Discourse: How To Merge With The Guru (4/26/72) Excerpt from A Book: A Mystical Journey 6. Closing Prayer & Comments - go to previous outline 2. Outline For Spiritual Letter - original version Page 1 of 2 - click HERE to go to Page 1 of 3 Page 2 of 3 - click HERE to go to Page 2 of 3 Page 3 of 3 - click HERE to go to Page 3 of 3 3. Outline For Spiritual Letter - expanded version (in process, not currently available) 4. Outline for Summary of Spiritual Letter 5. Outline For Related Materials Page 1 of 1 - click HERE to go to Related Material 1) Spiritual Letter 51 - "Harvest Our Past To Improve Our Future", to Ahamed Muhaiyaddeen (Jonathan Granoff) 2) Spiritual Letter 47 - "Are You Really Ready To Start Again?", to Ms. Susan Sontag 3) Spiritual Letter 09 - "The Theme is Freedom", to Mr. H. Stanton Evans 4) Learning To Endure The Cure - is the only way to get out of here alive Summary & Text of Bawa Quotations - referenced in this letter Go To: Outline of Bawa Quotations Go To: Text of Bawa Quotations - go to Text of Bawa Quotations Outline (and Summary) of Bawa Quotations: 1. Our Proper Relationship With God - is not being there "separate from" God 2. Our Proper Relationship With The World - is as the witness of what God is doing 3. The Nature of God, of True Man, and of Us - we are One, One within the other as One, One revealing the other within it, One hiding oneself within the Other as One reveals the Other, with faith and trust that the One being revealed will then do the same, will again reveal the One being hidden 4. The Nature of Our Relationship With God - is the ultimate self fulfilling prophesy, whatever we intend is what we receive, making either God or us responsible depending upon whom we love and trust, either God or "us", that is, "us" as "separate from" God, which is the world, is the Creation of God, which is what God has discarded 5. The Relationship Between Our Mind, Wisdom, & God - our mind will sit down only when our wisdom stands up, and our wisdom stands up when we call it, when we say "Bawa", then God is present - go to top of list - go to Outline for Items 10 to XX 6. The True Shaikh Disciple Relationship - to truly join with our Shaikh we must first join with His disciples, with what He is One with, which are all of His Grandchildren, Sons and Daughters, and Brothers and Sisters 7. How We Learn - everyone is sitting on God's lap and our wisdom is teaching us "what we do not know". This is the given of our life, whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not. It is our birth right, our heritage, the true destiny of our soul 8. God Personally Wrote Our Story (The Kalimah) On Our Forehead - before we came into this earth world, when He Created each of us as Adam (peace be upon Him), as His Pure Creation, as Insan Muhammad, from a handful of earth, before God's Pen or Qalam wrote the destiny of our life in this world on our forehead, when we were born into the world, in this way, covering what God wrote earlier, and establishing our connection to our parents and to the place of birth 9. The Nature of Our "Outside" And Our "Inside" - our "outside" is the dream world within us, it is our hell, and Bawa teaches us that we must "close down the world of hell within us, re-open the world of souls within us, and then open the kingdom of God, or akhirah, the next world within us - go to Top of Outline - go to Outline for Items 6 to 9 - go to Outline for Items XX to XX 10. Why Does An Apple Seed Germinate? - because it becomes aware of itself, of its reality, and joins in partnership with its own reality, its "earthness", its "treeness", and its "fruitness", letting its "seedness" end, letting its living in the earth in ignorance of itself end, all the while trying to protect itself from being destroyed by the earth, letting its falsehood end 11. You are The "Oneness of God and True Man" - which is the third and final answer to the question that God asked of God in Anathi, in the time before the beginningless beginning known as Aathi, the question, "Who am I?", with the first answer being, "You are God, the Creator, the Sustainer, and the Redeemer", and the second answer being , "You are True Man", which is the Oneness of God and His Creation - go to Outline of Wisdom Points Text of Bawa Quotation: - go to outline 1. Our Proper Relationship With God - is not being there "separate from" God "If you are there God is not there, and if God is there you are not there." - go to outline 2. Our Proper Relationship With The World - as the witness of what God is doing "Never have the thought that there is something that you have to do." - go to outline 3. The Nature of God, of True Man, and of Us - we are One, One within the other as One, One revealing the other within it, One hiding oneself within the Other as One reveals the Other, with faith and trust that the One being revealed will then do the same, will reveal again the One being hidden "God is the Power within the Essence of Everything" within us. - go to outline 4. The Nature of Our Relationship With God - is the ultimate self fulfilling prophesy, whatever we intend is what we receive, making either God or us responsible depending upon who we love and trust, either God or "us" as "separate from" God "God alone is sufficient, if we believe with our Iman, with absolute faith, certitude, and determination, without the slightest doubt, that this is true. If not, then we must take responsibility for our actions." - go to outline 5. The Relationship Between Our Mind, Wisdom, & God - our mind will sit down only when our wisdom stands up, and our wisdom stands up when we call it, when we say "Bawa", then God is present "In order for the mind and desire of your lower self to sit down, the wisdom of your inner self must stand up." - go to outline 6. The True Shaikh Disciple Relationship - to truly join with our Shaikh we must first truly join with His disciples, with all that He is One with, which are all of the grandchildren, sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of the Shaikh "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be." - go to outline 7. How We Learn - everyone is sitting on God's lap and our wisdom is teaching us "what we do not know". This is the given of our life, whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not. It is our birth right, our heritage, the true destiny of our soul "We must let our wisdom teach us what we do not know." - go to outline 8. God Personally Wrote Our Story (The Kalimah) On Our Forehead - before we came into this earth world, when He Created each of us as Adam (peace be upon Him), as His Pure Creation, as Insan Muhammad, from a handful of earth, before God's Pen or Qalam wrote the destiny of our life in this world on our forehead, when we were born into the world, in this way, covering what God wrote earlier, and establishing our connection to our parents and to the place of birth The Kalimah of God, which is our story within the story of God: "La il la ha, iIl Allahu, Muhammadar Rasulullah - There is nothing other than God, You Are Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God". - go to outline 9. The Nature of Our "Outside" And Our "Inside" - our "outside" is the dream world within us, it is our hell, and Bawa teaches us that we must "close down the world of hell within us, re-open the world of souls within us, and then open the kingdom of God, or akhirah, the next world within us, then, "The alif becomes the pilar of the sukun of the mim." - go to outline 10. Why Does An Apple Seed Germinate? - because it becomes aware of itself, of its reality, and joins in partnership with its own reality, its "earthness", its "treeness", and its "fruitness", letting its "seedness" end, letting its living in the earth in ignorance of itself end, all the while trying to protect itself from being destroyed by the earth, letting its falsehood end "Why does an apple seed germinate?" "An apple seed germinates because it becomes aware that it is an apple seed, that it is buried within the earth, and that the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree within it to grow. Then the earth becomes aware that the apple seed is now aware that it is an apple seed, that it is buried within the earth, and that the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree within it to grow." "Then out of that mutual awareness, the earth surrenders to the apple seed and the apple seed surrenders to the earth, and that is why an apple seed germinate." "That is why an apple seed germinates, my dearest loving children, through awareness, through the realization of the truth that emerges from within it, not because of any influence of the 5 elemental forces that it is buried within." "Like this, in truth man is the seed of God, and He is buried within God, and God contains everything necessary for that seed of God to grow into the Tree of God, which is True Man." "And when man comes to the point in his life when this truth of him emerges from within him, and if at that time he realizes, understands, accepts, and joins with that truth of him, then God within him will realize that man now knows "who he is", that he is the seed of God, and that man now knows "where he is", that he is within God, and God is within him, within the wisdom within him, like the apple fruit is hidden within the apple tree that is hidden within the apple seed that is buried within the earth." "And that man now knows "what is happening", that God is happening, by first allowing True Man to happen, first allowing True Man to be revealed within the Creation of God, first allowing the Tree of God to be revealed from within the Seed of God, so True Man can then reveal God within the Creation of True Man, so the Tree of God can then reveal the Fruit of God from within the Tree of God." "And that man now knows, that God contains everything necessary for that seed of God to grow into the Tree of God, into True Man within the Creation of God, and for the Tree of God to bear fruit, to reveal God within the Creation of True Man." "Then out of this mutual awareness, God surrenders to man and man surrenders to God, and True Man is revealed within the Creation of God, within the 18,000 universes within this world, and then God is revealed within the Creation of True Man, within the 99 qualities of God in the next world, and in this way revealing the Oneness of God and True Man, which in truth is God and True Man". Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. So be it, So be it, O Ruler of the Universes. So be it, So be it, O Most Merciful One. So be it, So be it, O Most Compassionate One. All praise and praising belong to God and to God alone. Only God is great. - go to outline 11. You are The "Oneness of God and True Man" - which is the third and final answer to the question that God asked of God in Anathi, in the time before the beginningless beginning known as Aathi, the question, "Who am I?", with the first answer being, "You are God, the Creator, the Sustainer, and the Redeemer", and the second answer being , "You are True Man", which is the Oneness of God and His Creation - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - End of Table of Contents for Spiritual Letter 53 ............................ or Go To Spiritual Letter 53: Expanded Version or ( a top-down version of the Library Home Page) (a bottom-up version of the Library Home Page) "About" Table of Contents - return to text in letter 1. Description of The Three Sections of This Web Page: a. Table of Contents (TOC) - click HERE to go to TOC The "Table of Contents (TOC)" provides a visually pleasing list of all of the components of the letter, and provided access to each of them. b. Outlines For The Letter - click HERE to go to Oullines The "Outlines For The Letter" provides an alternate way of looking at and accessing the components of the letter, from the perspective of the following 5 different Outlines presented in the letter: 1) The Outline for "About Spiritual Letter" 2) The Outline for "Spiritual Letter" - original version 3) The Outline for "Spiritual Letter" - expanded version 4) Summary of Spiritual Letter 5) The Outline for "Related Materials" c. Summary & Text of Bawa Quotations - click HERE to go to Summary The "Summary & Text of Bawa Quotations" provides an alternate way of reading the letter, by presenting all of the main wisdom points in the letter grouped together in one place, and providing both an "Outline of the Bawa Quotations", with a brief summary of them, and the "Text of the Bawa Quotations", which includes both the summary of each Bawa Quotation and the actual quote drawan from the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and from His Children (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of Us), that forms the basis of the wisdom points provided in the text and summary of the Spiritual Letter. - return to text in letter To learn more "About Spiritual Letter 53", please click HERE End of Support Material for Spiritual Letter 53 ............................ |
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