Spiritual Letter 38 - Expanded Version About Spiritual Letter 38 Title: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) Is Most Certainly "Extreme Sufism" Date: January 3, 2003 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Written to: Muhammad bin Yusuf Home Page-Spiritual Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 39 Letter 38: Original Version Library Navigation Tree Go To Spiritual Letter 37 Letter 38: Related Material Page 1 of 2 Go To Table of Contents - Spiritual Letter 38 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. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Outline of Spiritual Letter: 1. Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 38 2. The Life and Teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) - can certainly be seen as an example of "Extreme Sufism" Text of Spiritual Letter: 1. Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 38 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 loving brother Muhammad bin Yusuf. Your brother of the opening heart, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). We recently visited your web site Muhammad bin Yusuf, at the URL or Web Address: http://baalawy.freeyellow.com/index.html, and found your investigation of Islam, and of the teaching of our Holy Prophet Muhammad (Sal.), admirable. In addition, we read your article called "Sectarianism and Islamic Scholarship (A Personal View)", at the URL or Web Address: http://baalawy.freeyellow.com/sects.html, which was written on March, 8, 1998, as also very informative. 2. The Life and Teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) - can certainly be seen as an example of "Extreme Sufism" We were a little surprised by your characterization of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship and the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) as an example of "Extreme Sufism". However, the more we reflected on what you said the more we tended to agree with you, at least with some of it. The life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is certainly a wonderful example of Sufism taken to the limit, like it has never been done before, in any previous age. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. And not only that, this extreme version of Sufism came into the world in our age, in our life time, to deal with the problems that we are all facing in this age, which are considerable, like "America Invading Iraq", or "The West Going To War With The East", or "Christianity and Judaism Trying To Destroy Islam". For as Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) teaches us, even the Prophet of God, Muhammad (Sal.), did not know the fate of Islam in this age, when asked by His disciple. For when they asked the Holy Prophet (Sal.), how long will Islam last, Bawa teaches us that the Prophet of God (Sal.) responded by saying, "It will certainly last for 1400 years. After that, only God knows." In this way, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) came from God to the children of God for this age, to deal within the problems facing Islam in this age, facing the Children of God in this age, facing all of us living in this age, problems which are enormous for anyone living in this age, not just Muslims, like "America Preparing to Invade Iraq". The life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) did not come for some previous age that we do not really understand, for some other people who we do not really know, to deal with the problems that they were facing in their age, which we really know very little about, like the "magic" being used at the time of Moses (peace be upon Him), the "curing of the sick" being done at the time of Jesus (peace be upon Him), and the use of "poetry and rhyme" at the time of Muhammad (Sal.). And the teaching of God at the time of Moses, of Jesus, and of Muhammad (may God be pleased with all of His Prophets) was then passed down generation after generation, from father to son, and from mother to daughter, from religious leader to his followers, again and again and again, each time shifting its focus, adjusting its public meanings to better address the age, the people of that age, and the problems being faced by the people living in that age. In this way, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) came in our age, to specifically deal with our age, with the people of this age, and with the problems of this age. May we both think about this wisdom point a little, my dearest loving brother Muhammad bin Yusuf. It is very, very important. Ask yourself, my dearest brother, would God not do it this way? This is what God did before, He personally provided what each age needed to successfully deal with the problems, dangers, difficulties, and suffering that the Children of God in each age were all facing. He did not rely on the teaching of God that came at the time of Moses (peace be upon Him) to deal with the problems at the time of Jesus (peace be upon Him), and He did not rely on the teachings of God at the time of Jesus (peace be upon Him) to deal with the problems at the time of Muhammad (God bless Him and grant Him peace). No God did not do that, He gave a teaching for each age, that was appropriate for that age, for the people of that age, and for the specific problems that they were dealing with in that age. For example, Bawa teaches us that at the time of Moses (peace be upon Him), evil had come to maturity in that age as magic, and it was God's Magic that He sent as Moses (peace be upon Him) that destroyed the evil of that time, the Magic of God which was demonstrated by the staff of Moses (A.S.), which turned into a snake and eat the snakes of the King of Egypt. And at the time of Jesus (peace be upon Him), evil had again come to maturity but this time as the power to cure the sick, with the practitioners of this art holding this power over the heads of the Children of God in that age, to control them, and to destroy this form of evil God sent Jesus (peace be upon Him) as God's Grace, as God's cure for all illnesses, repeatedly demonstrating God's Power over the sick by repeatedly allowing Jesus (peace be upon Him) to cure the most sever forms of sickness in that age, like those who were blind, deaf, and mute, and even those who had died. And at the time of Muhammad (God bless Him and grant Him peace), evil had again come to maturity but this time as poetry and rhyme, as the reciting of magical words and incantations to effect the outcome of events, like wars and personal rivalries, and to destroy this form of evil God sent Muhammad (God bless Him and grant Him peace) into the world as the living Poetry of God, as the Holy Qur'an, as the love song between the Nur Muhammad and God. Which was repeatedly demonstrated as the 6,666 verses of the Holy Qur'an that were given to the followers of Muhammad (Sal.) by the Holy Prophet (Sal.), to deal with the specific problems facing the people in that age, transforming the warring desert tribes of that time into an integrated community ruled by the word of God, and by the Messenger of God for that age, by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (God bless Him and grant Him peace), in just 22 years (from 610 AD to 632 AD). This is what God did at the time of Abraham, of Moses, of David, of Jesus, and of Muhammad (may God be pleased with all of His Prophets), 4000, 3400, 3000, and 2000 years ago, and then God did it again, at the time of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), a little over 1000 years ago. He gave the people of each age the understanding of the Qur'an that fit their time and needs, applying the unchanging Qur'an, the Inner Qur'an, the Umm al-Qur'an, to the ever changing needs of the people of each age, "offering an explanation appropriate for every period of time, and for every level of understanding". Would God do any less for us, for the Children of God in the 21st Century? Would He require that we be content using what He provided for all of the previous ages, for the Children of Moses, of David, of Jesus, and of Muhammad (may God be pleased with all of His Prophets), and of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), especially when no age before this age has had to face what we are all facing now, which is the imminent destruction of the world "outside" of us. No, God would not have done that to the Children of God of this age. Instead, He would have directly sent us what we needed today to deal with the problems of today, to truly become the Children of God for our age, to truly become the Light of God for our age, before we die, in order to save our age from its own destruction, from its "self" destruction. May we both also think about this wisdom point a little, my dearest loving brother Muhammad bin Yusuf. It too is very, very important. For as Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) teaches us on page 133, in Chapter 12, "The Inner Qur'an", in the on-line book, "Islam And World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi", "Brothers and sisters in Islam, no matter what changes occur throughout the ages, the Qur'an is one thing that never changes. It is immutable. It offers an explanation appropriate for every period of time and for every level of understanding." "All the meanings it contains could not be written down even if all the oceans of the world were made into ink and all the trees were made into pens." "To comprehend the Qur'an, first we must establish our (Iman) absolute faith, certitude, and determination; then we must acquire wisdom; and finally we must delve deep inside and study it from within." "If we look into the depths of the Qur'an, we will find the complete never-ending wealth and grace of Almighty God (The rahmah of Allah ta'ala). We will find the light of Allah, the resplendence of Allah. We will not find racial or religious prejudices, battles, or fighting of any kind. We will find only the benevolence of all the universes." My dearest brother Muhammad bin Yusuf, in this way, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) came to provide an explanation appropriate for our period of time and for our level of understanding, and to directly deal with the form that evil has taken in our time, in our age, in our age of computers, the internet, globalization, capitalism, democracy, human right, and now with the emergence of one super power in the world like America, with others to follow shortly, like a united Europe, and China. Evil had again come to maturity in our age, but not as magic, or the power to cure the sick, or as poetry and rhyme, as occurred in the three previous ages, now in the 21st Century it has come to maturity in a very different form, a form of evil that needs to be overcome in a very different way, by the gift of God for this age, by 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), by the form of Good for our age. And what is the form that evil has taken in maturity today, in the 21st Century? This is the question that we all need to personally ask of God in our age, and that we all need to get a direct answer from God about. Unless we do that then we are always trying to fight someone else's war, or solve someone else's problem, a war and problem that we never personally came up with but were handed by our ancestors, our parents, our teachers, or our religious leaders, accepting it but not really understanding it, understanding their war or problem, and not really ever being able to solve it, since that particular war and problem doesn' t really exist today. But in the process of doing this, of trying to fight these other wars, and of trying to solve these other problems, from previous ages, we miss a chance to fight and win our true war, to solve our true problems, the true war and problems of our age, we miss the opportunity to be truly successful in our life. For as Bawa teaches us, we miss the opportunity for, "Our wisdom to reason over our fate." And what is the solution to the real war and problems of our age, of the 21st Century, that when applied to the real war and problems of our age, will truly overcome them, and make our life, a life of purity, and our age, the age of the love and compassion of God, an age where akhirah or the hereafter is "here" and "now"? We also need to get these answers directly from God, my dearest loving brother Muhammad bin Yusuf. When this child, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) asked these questions of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) we got our answers, answers which are now guiding everything we do in our life, like writing this love letter to you, my dearest loving brother of the opening heart, and in this way, we got our answers from our wisdom within us, and from the truth of God within our wisdom, we got our answers from our Shaikh within us, and from God within Him, and in this way, and for this age, and only in this way, we got our answers directly from God. This is the belief of this child, of your brother of the opening heart, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), after meeting His Holiness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, at 5820 Overbrook Avenue, in 1975, when this child was at the age of 36, after living at His physical feet for 12 years, until December 8th, 1986, when His Holiness died. After living at His grave site for 12 years, His Mazar or Shrine, which His Children built over His grave site in a suburb of Philadelphia (about an hours ride from Philadelphia), until He told this child in his heart to return to His Fellowship and be with His Children again, to travel to some of the many branches of His Fellowship, to Philadelphia, to Toronto, to Boston, and to California, to be with His Children. And now after sitting in my home for 2 years, at the direction of my Shaikh, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, USA, just "Waiting on His Pleasure", striving to become One with the Prerequisites of Islam: outer patience, inner patience (Sabur), contentment and gratitude (Shukur), trust in God (Tawwakul Allah), the praise of God for whatever happens to us (Al-hamdu lillah), and with the realization that "Only God is Great" (Allahu Akbar), that only God can do anything that needs to be done, not us as "separate from" God, and He will, if we will but join Him, and let Him, becoming like a set of tools patiently sitting in a tool box waiting for the Skilled Carpenter to use them, equally finding peace in either waiting or being used. For this child, my dearest loving brother Muhammad bin Yusuf, that is why in truth the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is most certainly "Extreme Sufism", a level of Sufism that has never come before, because it was never needed before, or could be understood and embrace by the Children of God before, but now they can, now we can, because now it is time to understand the Holy Qur'an at this level, at the level of the Qutb of Allah, at the level of the Nur Muhammad of Allah, the level of the wisdom of God, and the light of God within that wisdom of God. May we both reflect on these beautiful words of wisdom, my dearest loving brother, and share them with our brothers and sisters. It is very, very important that we do this "Heart's Work", and not just do "Head Work", not just try to understand what was said before by God with our intellect, and use it to define us in our age, as many before us have tried to do, and continue to do today, and in this way, let "our" understanding of what came before from God block us from what God is telling us right now, within our own age, within our own life, and in this way, let our "false self" block us from our "true self", let our life of "separation from" God, that we are currently living within our brothers and sisters, in the world that we in our collective ignorance see as existing "outside" of us, instead of joining with our wisdom, and with the truth of God within us, that God has personally and ever so lovingly placed within us, within each of us living in this age, instead of joining with our Shaikh within us, and with God within Him, to become the "living presence" of God in our age. In this way, let us not be like the Jews and Christians at the time of Muhammad (Sal.) who would not accept the "living word of God" at the time of Muhammad (Sal.), and instead stayed "the people of the book", the people who in truth worshipped God through their ancestry, and through their spiritual writings and practices, instead of accepting the gift of God for their age, instead of accepting the life and teaching of Muhammad (Sal.) that God sent to them in their own age, and in this way, through the life and teaching of Muhammad (Sal.) learn to worship God directly, through their open hearts, becoming in this way, the "living presence of God" in their age. Let us not do that, in this age, let us not become the Muslims who are now in this age the "people of the book, the people who in truth worship God through our ancestry, and through our spiritual writings and practices, instead of accepting the gift of God for our age, instead of accepting the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) that God sent to us in this age, and in this way, through the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) learn to worship God directly, through our open hearts, becoming in this way, the "living presence of God" in our age. Let us not do this, let us not make this mistake, let us not be the "Muslims of the book", when in truth all of our ancestry, and our spiritual writings and practices, derived from the age of Muhammad (Sal.), over 1400 years ago, isn't really appropriate for this age, all the while ignoring what is coming now, in our age, in the age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), as the life and teaching of God coming directly from God, for the Children of God for this age, as the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), to solve the problems of Islam, of the whole world, the problems facing all of us in this age. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. This is the significance of the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), that you characterized as "Extreme Sufism", my dearest brother Muhammad bin Yusuf, it is the "living presence of God" for our age, that God sent to the Children of God in this age, which is all of us, in all of the religions, and everyone else not practicing any religion, for all of the Hindus (or the creation worshippers, worshipping the earth within man, the section below the waist), Zoroastrians (or the fire worshippers, worshipping the fire within man, the section of the stomach), Christians (or the air worshippers, worshipping the air within man, the section in the chest). And all of the Jews and Muslims (the light worshippers, worshipping the light or ether within man, which is the section of the head), worshipping God through the 7 openings in the head and the 5 senses, which if they are wise becomes the worship of God through the three eyes of God, through the Triple Fame of God, through the eye of the soul, the eye of the opened heart, and the eye of wisdom on the center of the forehead. And in our age, all of this applies to all religions, to all people living in this age, not to just Muslims, for if anyone living in this age, if any of the Hindus, Zoroastrians, Jews, Christians or Muslims in this age, or people in any other race or religion, if any one of them, become wise before they die, they will become the Light of God to the world, as the Children of God for this age, for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Any one living in this age can now do this, can now do what before, in earlier ages, was not possible, which is to re-establish the direct connection to God within them through their wisdom, that was broken in them at around the age of 2, when their parents pulled them into the world of illusion, into the world of "separation and differences" that we all now see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us. Any one living in this age can now do this, through the life and teaching of God for this age, which is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) that God has personally and ever so lovingly placed on the "inside" and on the "outside" of all of us, allow us, any of us, if that be our true intention, to become those in this age who have truly become members of the 73rd group of man, which are those among us who worship and love only God, not in the world or in themselves or in their families or ancestry or religious scriptures and practices, and not in anything else that God has discarded, in becoming God. Any one living in this age can do this, can now worship God through the Triple Flame of God which God has personally and ever so lovingly placed within each of us, that God has placed on the forehead of Adam (peace be upon Him) within us, as the Nur Muhammad, as the light of His wisdom, at the beginning of Creation, gradually opening the first of His Three Eyes, the Three Eyes of His Triple Flame - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - which is the eye of the heart, as His Ya Rasul, through the coming into the world repeatedly of the 124,000 prophets of God, and finally opening it completely, with the 201st coming into the world of Muhammad (Sal.), which God sent to mankind, a little over 1400 years ago. In this way, coming into the world in 570 AD as the Rasul Allah, as the first of the Three Eyes of God - Ya Rasul - as the Wisdom of God, the Rasul or Dhat of God, the Essence of God, as the Resplendence of God's Affulgence, as the Lam of the Alif, Lam, & Meem of Allah, and as the Sifat or form of the Dhat, as the completion of the Holy Qur'an, as the Asma 'ul Husna, as the 99 attributes of God, as the last Prophet of God, as the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Sal.), as the "living presence of God" within the 6,666 verses of the Holy Qur'an. And 1000 years ago, with the coming into the world of the Action of God's Wisdom, as the "grace of the Dhat of God", which "awakens the hayah (life) of purity and transforms it into the divine vibration", as that which in maturity enters Baghdad as the Flower of God's wisdom, as Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), and in this way, opening the second of the Three eyes of God, of the Triple Flame of God - Ya Muhaiyaddeen - as the eye of the soul life within us, the 6th life within the 6 lives within us, as the Meem of the Alif, Lam, & Meem of Allah within us, as the reviver of the faith, of Iman within us, of absolute faith, certitude, and determination that "God alone exists" within us, as the giver of life back to true belief within us. In this way, revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, as the 6th level of wisdom within us, as Divine Analytic Wisdom within us, the wisdom that explains within us, for the last age, for the kali yuga, the age of destruction within us, which is now, allowing Adam (peace be upon Him) within us to recover from His fall from grace, and again become the House of Wisdom, the Palace of the Soul within us, in order to finish what God started in that age, in order to move the Islam of Muhammad (Sal.) into the Iman-Islam of True Man, preparing the way for the opening of the final of the Three Eyes of God within us, within all of us, of the Triple Flame of God within us, within all of us. And in 1886 A.D, a little over 116 years ago, with the coming into the world of the Power of God's Wisdom, as the wilayah of the Dhat of God, as the Power of God's Action, as the 99 wilayat of God, as True Man having become One with the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us, as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), as that which completes the Triple Flame of God within us - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - within the Triple Flame of God within us - Alif, Lam, Meem - which is the understanding of the Triple Flame of God within us. By opening the final eye of the Three Eyes of God within us, of the Triple Flame of God within us - Ya Allah - as the Alif of the Alif, Lam, & Meem of Allah within us, allowing the Triple Flame within us to again become One within us, to become One with the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, to again become the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, and in this way, revealing God within the Creation of True Man within us, which in truth is the beginning of our age. An age which began in 1986, with the death of our Father, of our Shaikh, of our Guru, of His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and with the birth of His Children, of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), the Children of God for this age, which is all of us living in this age, which includes all of those who today call themselves Hindus, Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and an age that will come to an end in 2086, with the death of these Children of God for this age. May we both reflect on these beautiful wisdom points, my dearest loving brother Muhammad bin Yusuf. It is very, very important. In this way, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, is what God has personally and every so lovingly sent to the Children of God for this age, placing it both "inside" of them and "outside" of them, so they can all get it right before they die, to get it right before it is too late for any of us, before the "beast" that is growing within each of us comes out of one of us, and destroys the world "outside" for all of us, destroying any chance of any of us getting it right before we die. In this way, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) came so we can leave the world before we die, so we can use our wisdom, and the truth of God within us, to transcend death before we die, to let our life of "separation from" God die, giving birth to our life of "Oneness with" God, before we die, allowing all of the Creation of God within us to go to Qiyamah (The Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) now, before we die, so we can move onto an eternal life of "Oneness with" God before we die. It did not come to help us live in the world better, or smarter, or wiser, until we die, until we meet the Angel of Death, experience the suffering of the grave, and go to Qiyamah, along with the Creation of God within us, and eventually to an eternal life of "separation from" God, along with the Creation of God within us. It did not come to do this work, which was the work of everything that God has previously sent to His Children, in previous ages. That is the difference between what has come now and what came before, a choice between an eternal life of "Oneness with" God, or an eternal life of "separation from" God. The choice is ours now, as it has never been before. In this way, what God has sent to His Children in this age, as the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), didn't come to address the world, the people, and the problems of previous ages. It came to address how God completes what He has started within each of us, which is to reveal God to God within us, it came to complete the answer to God's question, that God asked of God in anathi, in the time of darkness or lack of understanding within us, the question that God in ignorance of Himself asked of God not in ignorance of Himself, the question, "Who am I? It came to teach us to trust alone in God, to make "God alone sufficient", to "embrace that One God who has no form", and to "prostrate before God in the way the earth, fire, water, air, and ether did", to "accept our weakness", and to say to God - I am full of faults", to come to the state of the "Iman of the Kalimah", before we die, so we can follow the "Causal Muhammad" before we die, so, having become One with Muhammad (Sal.) within us, we can learn to Truly Pray to God within us. And through this True Prayer, which is the state where God prays to God, without any duality or separation, which is beyond the Salat of Shari'at, "we" as "One with" God within us, can again become One with the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us, in the same way that the rain returns to the ocean, again becoming one with the "oneness of the rain and the ocean", no longer the rain as "separate from" the ocean. In this way, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) did not come to deal with what God had to deal with in previous ages, before this final age of man, which is now, which began just 26 years ago in 1986 when His Holiness physically left the world, giving birth to the Children of God for this age, which includes all of us living in this world, whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not, whether we have even appeared in the world yet, whether we have even been born yet. Because this is now the birth right of each of us, of all of us, the chance to become "One with" God before we die, before we are forced to face the Angel of Death, the suffering of the grave, Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment), and an eternal life of "separation from" God. This is what God has been doing for 200 million years, just waiting for this age to reveal everything again, but this time with no veils, all the while, with the repeated coming into the world of the 124,000 prophets of God, keeping man and the world in previous ages from "self destruction" before this final age, when the final solution could be given, the final solution that can liberate the soul of man from this hell of "separation and differences", from this life of "mine" and "yours" that we are all experiencing. This is what God had to mainly deal with in previous ages, how to help man live here without destroying his soul, how to properly conduct himself while he lived here, as a good Muslim, until we die, not how to properly leave here as a True Man before we die. This was the message from God for all previous ages, for the world, and people, and difficulties of the followers of the Prophet Muhammad (Sal.) 1400 years ago, for the world, the people, and the problems of the followers of Jesus (peace be upon Him) 2000 years ago, and for the world, the people, and the problems of the followers of the Prophets David, Moses, and Abraham (may God be pleased with all of His prophets), 3000, and 3400, and 4000 years ago. But this is not the message of God for today, it is not about living here properly, until we die, it is about leaving here properly before we die. Only then will our life become successful, only then will our "wisdom reason over our fate". And when this child asked the following two questions of his Shaikh within him, and of God within Him, when this child asked the following two questions of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within him, and of God within Him, we got the following two answers, as clear and direct as we are talking to the heart of my dearest loving brothers Muhammad bin Yusuf this very moment: 1) What is the form that evil has taken in maturity today, in the 21st Century? 2) What is the solution to the real war and problems of our age, of the 21st Century? The form that evil has taken today, in the 21st Century, is that in ignorance, as "separate from" God, in the state of "arrogance, karma, and illusion", in this degraded state, man falsely thinks that he is God. And the solution to this war of the heart, to this problem of "separation from" God, of "separation from" each other, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, that man, in truth, as "One with" God, in the state of the Triple Flame of God within the Triple Flame of God, which is the understanding of the Triple Flame of God, the understanding that allows the Three to again become One, to become the "Oneness of God and True Man", in this exalted state of Man-God/God-Man, man in truth is God. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. This completes page 1 of 2 of Spiritual Letter 38. To read page 2 of 2 click HERE or below. Thank you. 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