The Stations of the Secret
1. The World of Al-Azal (pre-eternity):The
Meaning of Bismi’llah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim
When you have reached the last station of the soul (al-fana’), you will
know. I could take you by the hand, but when you are in al-fana’, you will
know what these stations are. Now you walk and you reach a high station and you
can eat. But when I say, eat, I do mean to eat food in the normal way. I want
you to know the meaning of this word. The heart needs to eat, but it is a different
eating. The soul also needs to eat and to drink, but it is a different eating
and drinking. They need to eat from the bread of the truth and to drink from
the wine of the love.
If you reach and if you are special for Allah, there is no difference after that.
When you look inside, you see that there is no inside and no outside. In every
place that you look, you will find that you are and what He is; and there is
no finding, there is only One.
I have said before that there is One, and this is what I want from anyone, to
be One. When you are One, you see nothing but the One. When you are One, you
will find the secret. When you reach to be One, there is no one, after that.
Who is One? When you say, this is one, this is still a thing. But there is no
thing, and you are no thing. What is He and what are you? This is what I want
you to know, but you cannot reach if you are not complete.
Most of the fuqara reach to touch completion because I have given all the meanings
in the way. The word fuqara is taken from the Qur’an, “God is the
Rich and you are the poor (al-fuqara),” (47:38). The word has come to refer
to those who aspire to spiritual poverty or detachment. This has been a short
time, but you do not need a long time to know why you live. Are you dead? Are
you alive? There are many things inside you, asking why are you here and why
are you not there? Who is here? He and you! Also you are He and He is you, but
in the deep meaning.
All this meaning is not revealed in the language of the tongue. I want everyone
to be able to touch this meaning with his hand, but after he has changed his
hand. His hand needs to change in every station. You are born again and again
many times. You are born many times in one day. What does this mean? When I say
that you are born I mean that you are changing. To change is to be born.
I want everyone to return to be a child and to understand every meaning that
I give when I explain everything to you. But it is not I who gives. It is He
Who gives, but I am the mirror of Him. Everyone is the mirror of Him. When you
look at any side, you are the mirror. Look into yourself, if you have anything
to look with in this station. Reach to be the mirror so that you can understand
everything.
You do not need to speak with anyone when you reach. Why speak? You need to speak
only when you do not understand something. Why do you cry? The child cries if
he needs food or water. When you understand, then you know that there is nothing
to cry for because everything is from you to you. When you remember the name,
you remember your name. When you reach, what do you reach? You reach the real
knowledge of yourself. When you know yourself well, you can know your God because
there is no difference. You are the qibla. There is no other place for the qibla.
When you stand to pray, you stand facing yourself. He does not need you to pray
to Him, Every prayer is from you to you. This is from the secret. You will find
everything in one moment. When you reach, you know that Allah is the quality
and you have the same quality.
Every quality of Allah has many meanings. When you reach, the same qualities
and meanings are within you. If you do not walk, you cannot reach. Know that
He as created you to be special for Him, and to be special for you. When He created
you, He wanted to see Himself in your picture. You are the picture of your God.
You are holy, but understand the meaning of the word holy. You are the mosque
and you are the secret. You are! The key is in your heart and you are the door.
Put the key in the door to open this holy place and to pray in this holy place.
You do not need to pray in the mosque or in any other place. You cannot know
God if you do not know this holy place inside you. You need to know that Allah
is in any place you sit. Know! And know! And know!
He gives if you give. If you give God everything, He will also give you everything.
Give to take. If you do not give, how can you take? He wants you to put this
key in the door of the holy tomb to open it. This tomb is the holy secret. What
can I say about this tomb? All the secrets are inside this tomb. You are the
tomb and you live in this tomb. If you do not break this tomb, you cannot open
it. What do I mean by the word break? I mean that I want you to leave everything
outside.
You have lived in the outside, but when you reach a high station there is no
outside. There is no difference between anyone because there are no souls. There
is only one soul. There is no difference between men and women. Where is the
man and where is the woman? This religion does not make a difference between
anyone. If you see a difference, how can you give the truth? Who makes the difference?
The human being is the one who makes differences. Allah does not make differences.
He makes only One. What does He make? He makes His picture, and every side if
you. If you see a side, there is really no side because everything is a picture
of God. When you can see this picture, your payer is from this picture because
this picture is very holy. You are the picture. When you pray, you pray for this
picture because Allah does not need this prayer, but you need the prayer.
Give the mercy because you are the child of Allah. Give the mercy to anyone.
Make peace with anyone and send the love to anyone. Know to whom you really send
the mercy when you send mercy, and also know Who really sends the mercy, only
Allah. When you send mercy, you do not send it to anyone because in reality the
mercy is from you to you. And when you send the love to anyone, you do not really
send love to another person, but you send it to yourself. He loved and He loved
and He loved. Without loving you cannot reach. If you anyone does not love, how
can they reach? Allah is the love and you are the love. Why not send the love,
if you want to know the secret? This is the life. There is no life like this
life. Know that everything is from Him to Him, from you to you. What can I say?
There are many meanings inside my heart, but excuse my simple language. If I
had the English language, I could explain more and more. There is no end and
no beginning! There is only Allah!
2. Laila: The Deep Love
Tonight I want to speak about the deep love. When anyone reaches beyond the station
of al-fana’ and listens to what the secrets reveal, he arrives at the second
station of the secret. As he listens, he begins to know the music of the soul.
This is what she says, “I have put a name inside you. This name is from
the names of God. God carries many names, and this one is special. It is Laila,
and Laila is the song of the soul. Laila carries a very deep meaning.”
I say to you, “I live with Laila, but his Laila is me, not another.” It
is important to know Laila. If you open the heart of your soul, you will see
the meaning of Laila. She returns me to the knowledge of the meaning of everything
from the beginning, yet there is no beginning in the world of the love. She gives
me wine, and this is the wine of truth. She gives me the wine of the truth to
drink, and I want to remain filled with this wine all the time. Drink the wine
of Laila! She pours the wine of the truth!
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When she saw me in her garden, She brought me inside her soul. What does this
mean? It means everything and nothing because she is me and I am her. My nights
are days when I am with Laila because her night is the day. And there is no night
or day when I live with Laila because time is but a minute, and my age, when
I live with Laila, is only a moment.”
It is important to know what I mean. Laila is the name of God but there are no
names, only He. He carries all the names and you can see His face and His soul.
There are no differences in His message if you know what I mean. Understand this
subject because the deep love in Laila is very profound.
My picture is the same picture as Laila because when I return (al-fana’),
there is no picture in the world of Laila. She said to me when I left (and became
subsistent in the baqa’), “Tell anyone about My secret, but if they
cannot understand, do not speak.” Then I gave the promise to not speak
about the secrets to anyone but to the family of Allah who love Laila. When you
love, sometimes you can see the face of Laila in everything. It is from the wisdom
to know the face of Laila in the darkness and to know the face of Laila in the
light.
When you live in the reality, you see that there is no difference between the
darkness and light. He puts you between two sides (qualities), the beauty (al-jamal)
and the severity (al-jalal). If you live in the reality and do not make a difference
between these two sides, then you are the son or the daughter of Laila. But you
are also more than a son or daughter; you are Laila. If you are Laila, what more
do you want? Keep the secret inside you and know! Who is like you are? Give the
secret to those who are like you, who carry what you carry. You are the holy
secret.
You can touch the secret in your hand, but change your hand and wash your hand.
I want you to wash your hand with the water of the truth, and to understand what
I mean when I give you the secret. You cannot know if you do not die. God says, “You
need to die and to be born again. Then you need to die again and to be born again
to see Me in the qualities. All the qualities are My qualities, and you are also
My quality. You are the door and the key is in your hand, but know how to use
the key to reach Me. You cannot reach Me if you are not the mercy, and if you
are not polite, and if you do not give everything to Me.”
Laila says, “I died and then I woke up again, I go and I return again,
I live in every number. I live in everything, but I return to be One. I want
you to be like Me, to be One.”
Be Laila in everything, in every face. She says, “O my son and daughter,
and more than son and daughter, you are Myself. You are My soul, and you are
My heart. Listen to what I say, if you can. Give me what I want. I want you to
be a slave who is special for Me. I want you to leave everything outside and
to know that there is no outside. There is only Me outside and inside. Where
is the inside and the outside if I live in every face and in everything? All
these faces are My face, but know what I mean. Come to Me quickly. Do not lose
the time.”
Time is like a jewel. If you lose the jewel, how can you find it after it is
gone?
Laila says, “I am the truth like you, and you are the truth like Me, after
you wash and pray for me all the time. Do not miss any prayer, and remember Me
all the time. I put you in My eye. You see Me in your eye and you hear Me in
your ear, Know that your body is My body. You do not have anything; everything
is Mine, but I give you the key. Keep what I give you; clean it, and do not lose
anything I give you. You cannot see me if you do not carry My eye. I put My eye
in your heart because your heart is My eye. Many people want to know but do not
have the chance. This is your chance to see Me, to know Me, and to love Me; and
there is nothing you can reach without love.”
I have told you to love, and love, and love, and to not lose any meaning from
the love. This is what I want to say to any student who wants to know the meaning
of Laila. This is the secret. No mind can contain the secret if Laila does not
help. Not only on the earth, but in the heavens the angels do not know the deep
meaning if Laila does not help them. Know what I mean about this name. This is
the name of God. There are no names in the world of Laila, only His, only His
name. This is what I say, “Remember! Remember Allah!”
3. Abu Ar-Ruh: The Father of the Spirit
Now I want to speak to you about the father of the spirit, the first being whom
Allah, Praised and Exalted is He, created. I am speaking about the inside meaning
of the light. Before Adam was created, Allah was Himself alone, and he spoke
to Himself, saying, “I want to see My face in the deep light.” What
is the deep light before everything? It is the light of Muhammad. I am not speaking
about his body because in this religion there is no body, only light. Allah said, “I
want to speak from Myself to Myself. Listen to what I say.” So He took
light from His face and he said, “This is the light of Muhammad, the father
of the light.” Muhammad is the father of all the prophets from the light,
may peace and blessings be upon them, and he is also the son of this light. He
is Muhammad and he is also the light. After that, Allah took the light from the
face of Muhammad, and he said, “Every light is from this face, and everything
is from this face.”
Allah said this thousands of years before He created Adam. This is the reason
Muhammad said, “I was the prophet before Adam was created, but I was from
the light. I am the father of all the prophets, may Allah’s peace and blessings
be upon them all, if you know what I mean.” This is a deep light.
Allah also created the people who live outside and the people who live inside,
all from His light. And He created the angels from this light. He made everything
from this light. Muhammad, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him,
was the first, and he carried the face of your God. Every guide is also the face
of Muhammad, and every guide was born at that time, before the creation. Before
the creation of all the separate beings, Allah had already put every guide in
his right place. Then Allah said, “Everyone of all the people is the son
or daughter of this Prophet.” This has a deep meaning.
If all are the sons, then, why did He put some in the fire and some in the garden?
There is no fire and no garden in the religion because when He puts anyone anywhere.
He puts him in his place, and this place is special for him. When He puts a person
in the darkness, understand with the deep meaning that this is not darkness,
but this also light. Most people do not know what they are. For this reason He
has given the religion to the family of God, to be special for Him, and to carry
His holy message to help the people of this time. Be the mercy, be the love,
and be everything from the inside meaning, but know what He means and walk to
know. But how can you walk if you do not love? First love. Love everything to
know what the love means. When you really love, you love Allah because there
is nothing to love, only He.
I say that the body goes. Why does it go and how does it go? The body changes
in the way from station to station. When your place is to be for Allah, then
you know who the Father is, and you know that you are the son, or the daughter,
and you are also the father. There is no difference between He and he, and He
and she. There is no difference between you and another because there is no other,
only He in the annihilation (al-fana’). There is no difference between
the man and the woman, and there is no man and no woman in the religion, only
you. This is a deep meaning.
You must also return (al-baqa’) so that you are here. You need to live
in the outside world, but know how to live. Live with the people and send the
mercy for anyone. If you want to know, you must give! Give everything to Allah.
You are the meaning. You are! Everything is from you to you. There is only you
in this world.
When Allah created the first father, he was from the light. I am speaking about
this light, not about the body because there is no body. The first body is Adam,
but the first light is Muhammad. Muhammad is the divine presence (al-hadrat).
His presence is very great, yet there is no great and no small. You can see the
face of Muhammad in everything. You are Muhammad. You are the Muhammad of your
time (Muhammad al-waqt), not another. For this reason, he has never left us,
and he is here now. You are the same picture. What is there to say after that?
Everything is inside you and outside you also, and there is no outside and no
inside. Know this because Allah wants you to know. He feels everything you feel – pain,
happiness, generosity, and refusal. He wants you to give, to send the mercy,
and to send the peace to anyone.
Allah is the peace from inside, but the Muslims on the outside do not understand
this meaning. Allah wants you to listen to every order, and to not refuse any
order. Be a candle for the people. Help everyone. You are the One. There is no
second or third. There are no numbers in the religion of Muhammad. Every face
is the face of Muhammad. Jesus (‘Isa) is the face of Muhammad. All are
the face of Muhammad. For example, Muhammad is the rose, and all the prophets
and the guides and the believers are the fragrance of this rose. Now you ask, “Why
did Muhammad come after them? Why did he come last?” I say, “You
smell the fragrance of the rose before you reach the rose.” Muhammad sends
the fragrance before him. The light comes from the great light, and you see this
light before you see the great light. All the prophets are from this light. Allah
sent the prophets, and every one is the son, and also the father. They were one
face, father and son, and there is no difference.
Allah sent all the orders through the prophets, and all the prophets carried
the same order. He gave every prophet the order, and every prophet took it, but
did not explain everything. They knew everything, but the order did not come
from Allah for all of them to explain everything. When Muhammad, may the blessings
and peace of Allah be up on him, come, he took all the holy message from Adam
to Jesus (‘Isa), and he carried all the divine presence (al-hadrat). So
he is the hadrat of all the prophets, he carries all the deep holy message, and
he sent the message to all the people.
What is the deep holy message? This message speaks of love, courtesy, and generosity.
This religion carries all the qualities of Allah (ninety-nine qualities). Muhammad
explained the meaning of every quality for everyone to understand every quality.
Allah wants you to walk in the way, to understand every word He sends, and to
not refuse anything He wants. Listen to everything!
There is work to be done in this message. Everyone who reaches the way needs
to give the message because the people who live in the world are very poor. They
are like people drowning in the sea. They need help and mercy. Why not give them
help? Why not send mercy to anyone. If you are the mercy, you carry the message
for this person. Allah brought you to this religion, so do not lose any time
because He asks you about every minute.
Allah asks you about how you live, what you do, and what you give to the people.
What is your answer? Do you live to eat and sleep, or only to make money? This
is not from your message. I want you to work, but to have money only in your
hands, and not in your heart because this heart is the heart of God. Change you
heart to be the house of your God. Fill your heart with the love and send it
to anyone. Know, my son and my daughter, there is no end to this love and no
beginning.
Allah says, “If anyone does anything, I know of it and I see it because
I do not die.” Death does not come to the family of God because there is
no ding. Why do you not die? The body will die, but the soul returns to the first
world (al-azal) where you live free, face to face with your God.
When a person who lives on the outside dies, and he has not come to know himself,
and he did not want to know Allah, then he has lost his time in this world. When
his body goes, he does not know where he stands. It is like being in the fire.
His soul returns to a place in the world of al-azal made especially for him and
for those who are like him, which is like being in a prison. This is why Allah
says, “Be the slave and be the love.”
After you know all the meanings of the secret, what do you need from Muhammad?
You are Muhammad! You are and there is nothing, only you. I give you everything,
but I leave you heart to taste every word of the message. I give you the whole
message in short and simple words. In these words you can find every meaning,
if you clean your heart, if you are the slave, and if you want to be complete.
If you clean your heart, you can know the meaning of every word I give you. This
is the order from Muhammad and before him, from Allah. Allah has put me on this
mountain to explain what He says. I give my heart to everyone who wants it. What
more can I give?
I give everything, but I want you to know the meaning. I give you the key, but
I want you to know how to use the key to open the door of my heart. This heart
is the heart of your God, and it is the heart of every prophet.
This is what I mean when I say this is a holy message. Be the holy message. Be
holy. Be holy. Be holy. Everything in the family of God is holy and all the time
is holy. Do not lose any minute because the Prophet does not lose any minute.
He lives with Allah face to face and soul to soul. I want to be with Him all
my time, face to face, because my face is the face of the Prophet, may the blessings
and peace of Allah be upon him, and it is also the face of my God. You are holy
and there is no difference between you and me.
I speak with the tongue of my soul and send my soul to anyone. Open the eye of
your soul to know and to see every secret meaning. I give you the key to your
soul. Use the key to open your soul. I give you more than my heart. I give you
my soul. What more can I give you? I give you everything. I want you to give
everything like me. Live for the people who live in the darkness. This is my
life. This is my promise to God. When He gave me this promise, He said, “I
accept your promise to live for the people who are poor and who need help.” Everyone
needs help. Live and give.
This is what He wants from me and from you, but know! This is a holy message
for you, my son. When I say to you, my son, I say this to anyone. Know that there
is no difference when I say my son, I mean my daughter also because Allah is
not a man or a woman, and you are the face. How can I say another word? When
I say my son, this is a holy word This means that you are really the beloved.
Allah!
He wants you to be with Him in everything all the time, when you work, when you
sleep, and when you eat. See the picture of God in every picture. Put the name
in every picture. When you see the name of God in every picture, then His face
is your face. Then God is born inside you, and you carry Him. This is the meaning
of growing deeper in completion.
This is the third station of the secret. I want you to continue in the way because
there is no end to the way. I want you to wake up and to fly with your soul.
Leave your body outside and at the same time, live with your body. Keep your
body and clean it because it is very holy. You need to wash your body and your
heart with every step, if you can, with the water of the truth, and to know the
meaning of this washing. It is also necessary to wash with the outside water
because Allah wants everyone to be clean, and for the people who live outside
to see a beautiful person. Keep clean! What do you want, after that, from Allah?
You can touch every meaning with your hand when you hand changes. Not with the
hand of the body, but when your hand changes to be His hand, you touch every
meaning with His hand, which is your hand. You reach the station of completion.
This is what Allah wants from you. Listen to every word He says. This is Muhammad.
Another guide from the sons of Muhammad will come. He will be a special guide
who will come to help all the people, and to forbid war, and to make peace. He
is al-Mahdi, but know that you are also al-Mahdi. He is a special guide, and
I want you to be from the students of al-Mahdi. Give this message to anyone because
it is the mercy of al-Mahdi. I want you to send this message before he comes.
His time will soon be here. Wait, and walk in the way. This is the way. This
is my message for you. Know what I mean. This is the religion of the love. This
is the deep love. Allah!
4. Al-Qalb As-Sirr: The Heart of the
Secret
The Station of Ibrahim, may blessings and peace be upon him.
For anyone who want to know the truth, your heart must be filled with the deep
love and grow deeper in this love, if you want to reach. First you need to kill
your self, to kill your heart, to kill your soul, and to put all these qualities
outside. What I mean is for you to change from inside to a deeper inside, and
to be born again after you kill all the qualities from your heart and from your
soul, to be a special slave for Allah in every inside meaning. When you give
God everything, God takes everything from you and fills you with the holy meaning.
This meaning is different from the meaning which you have found before in all
the qualities because now you really being to live with Allah, and He is with
you. When you kill everything inside, you live with Allah face to face and soul
to soul. And there is no face and there is no soul, only His soul because you
are inside and God is also inside.
There is no difference because you return to live in the world of al-azal before
you die. This is what I mean when I say, “Kill your self, kill your heart,
and kill your soul with God in everything,” because you are from Him, and
you find Him inside your face, Allah only begins when you kill your self. When
you kill all the qualities, He begins to give you the secrets and to teach you
the meaning of all the secrets.
Allah gives and takes, and when you know this, you live with Him all the time.
When you walk, when you sleep, when you eat, when you work, when you speak, you
know the meaning in everything. Then you touch the truth in your hand. Your hand
has become the hand of God, and you begin to speak with the tongue of God. When
you know what you are, then God shows you His face from the beginning to the
end. This is the meaning of being inside the truth. But there is no outside in
the truth. When you are in the stations of the secrets, you cannot speak because
the language of the speaking has ended. The language of the eye in your heart
begins, and this eye is very deep. There is no speaking, only the love, only
the mercy, only Allah!
This is what I mean when I say kill your self, kill your heart, and kill your
soul, to know the meaning of the fourth station of the secret. This subject is
from my heart, and this heart is different from any other heart. Here I am speaking
about the fourth heart because the human being has four hearts. The first one
is the hart of the self. The second is the heart of the heart. The third is the
heart of the soul. The fourth is the heart of the secret. This station is from
the singing of the Qur’an. All the Qur’an is written in the language
of the love. For anyone who wants to know, I give my heart. Allah!
5. Al-Ma’ Al-Hubb: The Water
of the Love
This is what Muhammad, the guide of the love, may Allah’s blessings and
peace be upon him, said in the hadith about the way of the love. “Follow
me and you will be beloved by Allah.” When Muhammad spoke, he spoke with
two tongues. He spoke with an outside tongue to the people who live only in the
dunya, and he spoke with the tongue of the soul to those who live inside. In
this hadith he explained everything in the Qur’an.
Allah has given a Qur’an in which every word has a deep meaning. For anyone
who cannot understand all that Allah speaks about Himself, He as sent the Prophet
Muhammad, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him. Muhammad shows the
people what Allah means through his perfect surrender and through his perfect
picture. Then Muhammad, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, spoke
about everything outside and inside because he lived in both the outside and
the inside meaning. He reveals this to those who can reach the station of completion.
Muhammad, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, says, “Allah
has given me two messages. One is for the people who live outside and who do
not walk. The second is in the language of the soul which Allah has given me
to speak for the people who live I the soul. If you want to walk in this garden
with quietness and with peace, I will also teach you what your body needs from
the outside in this life.”
Muhammad gave all the people what they needed. He gave the stations of the nafs
to help the people who live only in the dunya and who do not understand. He is
the mercy and he helps everyone. He also gave help to those who live inside through
the stations of the heart. In this language he explained about the garden, which
is more than the garden of the body. He gave as much of the meaning as the people
who live here in this garden can understand. He explained more than in the garden
of the body, but not as completely as in the garden of the soul. He knew that
everyone was different, and he showed them how to live in this garden where they
were.
All the people are in different stations. Allah helps everyone in the way that
they need. Muhammad first spoke about the language of the body and of the heart,
then he spoke about the language of the soul. After you change your self through
the stations, you want to know the deep secret. In the stations of the secrets,
he gives you his heart and he gives you the key. If you can carry this key, you
can open the door of your heart and live in this heart. Only a few people know
what this heart is.
If you see things, then you live in your body. You need to erase everything from
your body and from your heart. After you erase everything from your heart, Muhammad
brings you from one station to another station, and each one is more subtle than
the one before. He begins to give you the holy meaning, and he begins to show
you how to open the door of the truth, the door of the third garden, the garden
of he soul. When you open this door, you begin to know who you are and Who really
is. You can sit in this place quietly, and you feel the peace and the love, but
it is not the complete love. You need to walk and to listen to every word of
the Muhammadan message. After you hearing changes, you need to open it because
Muhammad wants to put a new meaning inside this ear. This new meaning is that
of the purity (as-safa) of the child, the child of the truth.
When this purity is born in your hearing, your hearing becomes the hearing of
Muhammad. Then you know that this teaching is for him, not from any other because
now there is no other. When you keep this purity in your hearing, it grows, like
the child grows. It begins to fill your mind and becomes holy. Then your mind
begins to be the mind of Muhammad. In this mind you being to understand the secrets.
After this purity grows in the mind, your mind becomes the mosque, but this is
a special mosque of Allah. There is nothing in this mind, only He. Only Allah,
because you have erased everything. You have left everything.
When you change, you are like a child inside. You are a newborn child of the
truth. There is nothing in this world, only this child because there is nothing,
only He; and nothing, only Muhammad. But who is Muhammad, really? Where does
he live? In the garden? You are the holy garden, not another, and in this garden
you find many different flowers and roses. In all these flowers, you see the
face of Muhammad, and after that there are no more things, only the love. But
who is the love? The secret of the love is Allah!
When you smell the fragrance of Muhammad you become more and more complete. Everything
is inside your mind. In order for the rosebush to change and to flower, it needs
to be pruned. When you prune this bush, you can touch its fragrance and begin
to live among the flowers. You are the fragrance, and you are the flower.
After everything goes from within, you begin to touch the face of Muhammad in
your face. Do not give this face to anyone, except to those who are like you.
When you reach this station, you are newborn and you must walk. Do not stop after
you know the meaning of the love. You cannot stop after you know the way of the
love and its meaning.
Where is another? There are no men and no women. Where is he and she? There is
only you and there is no other. Everything is the face of Muhammad. The face
of Muhammad is your guide, but after you are born in this station, you become
the face of Muhammad. Muhammad wants to help you become the slave of Allah, and
to be special for him because he has given you his heart. It is important to
keep this heart for yourself and not to give it to anyone who is not trustworthy
and who is not faithful (al-amin). Your heart and your mind change as Muhammad
helps you to be the holy child and to pray for him. This praying is different;
it is the prayer of the deep love. You need to be praying this prayer all the
time. Do not lose any minute because your beloved Prophet Muhammad carries you,
may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Keep praying, and give, so
that you can take the holy meaning and give it to those who want to know the
holy meaning.
You need to be born again and again in the garden of the love. Love and love
and love because there is no life without the love and no meaning without the
love, and nothing without Him, and nothing without you. He wants you to be Him
and to be you, after you wash with the water of the love. There is nothing without
Him. Pray for Him when you reach. Remember the name of the love when you live
in this station. This is the station of the water of the love.
“
Follow me, and you will be beloved by Allah.” This is the hadith about
the way of the love, whose guide is Muhammad, may the blessings and peace of
Allah be upon him. Your walking in this way is holy. Understand what Muhammad
means because Allah asks you about everything. Do not lose anything. Write and
read, and understand everything. Muhammad gives you this station from his mind.
After you know him well, you will understand. Love and love him, and love. What
more do you want from Muhammad after that? Only love! Allah!
6. Al Hadrat Al-Itlaq: The Presence
of Freedom
When you see your face as the moon, you see the real picture inside you. You
can see the face of your guide in this moon because you are the mirror. Now you
see only the name of your God when you look into this moon. This means that you
understand and you know that you are in the station of completion. When you have
reached completion not everyone can see what you see, and not everyone understands
what you understand. When you see the name in everything, you are the moon of
the truth.
When you begin to swim in the ocean, you begin to know the ocean of the truth
and you become the secret of this station. Everything is in the ocean. There
is more in this ocean than on the earth because you have finished the earth of
the truth. You travel from station to station until you reach the holy station
where there is no beginning and no end. Then you are filled with this ocean,
and when you swim you wash yourself in its water, the water of the truth. Within
this water is every deep secret. There is no one who can really live without
this water because this is the water of life. Every one of the beloveds should
be this water. This water is like nectar and everyone needs this nectar. Be like
this in order to give and to take.
Before you take – give. When you have changed to be the water, you carry
the real life for anyone. When you have become like a child, you also drink from
this water. So you are this water and you drink from this water because the water
is from Him to Him. Allah changes you, in this station, to be more and more His
soul. And He can give you another earth, a new and holy earth. You can put anything
in this earth and it will grow. It will give flowers, like roses, with more than
the most beautiful fragrance. Everyone ca live on your heart because your earth
can carry everyone.
You do not care about ‘other’ because your ear is the ear of Allah,
and your eye is the eye of Allah, and your heart is the heart of Allah, and your
soul is the soul of Allah. Now if you ask for anything, Allah gives it to you
because you are very special and your voice is the voice of your God. After that,
Allah gives you a heaven within, which contains seven heavens. In this heaven
you see many stars, a moon and a sun. Each of these stars is a station to know,
and each of them is the light of your brothers and sisters in Him. The moon is
the holy marriage with Him. Together you make the holy family. This means that
you are a complete world. You do not need anything because everything is within
you. Now you can give and you can take.
You reach to be a holy king or a holy queen. There is no difference, and there
is no king or queen in this way because you return to your place. You return
to the first world of al-azal, the place from which Allah sent you to this world.
Now you live in the garden of al-itlaq, the garden of freedom, and there is no
one who can stop you because everything is from Him to Him. You are the love
and you are the peace. Everything is in your hand and there is no other, only
He.
This is what I mean by, “You become the sun of the truth,” because
after you become the sun, you can send your light to any place. You can give
life to anyone because the life is from you and you are the life. After you know
the meaning of what I say, you will need a different love. You need to love yourself
with you look to any side because when you love yourself, you love your God.
In this life, you do not know anything but the love. And you cannot live without
the love. Love and love and love. Everything is from the love. Send the love
to every place, to every person.
In this station, there is no place and no person, only He. When you look, you
see Him. When you look, you see yourself. There is no difference between you
and Him because He put all the secrets inside your soul. Keep these secrets and
do not give them to anyone who cannot keep them. If you do not keep them, Allah
will ask you about that and return you to where you began. But I am sure that
when He brings you to be with Him, soul to soul, He will not leave you because
you are special for Him, and He is special for you. You cannot live without Him
because He is your face and you are His face. Thank Him, and love Him, and ask
Him to keep you with Him all the time. Know that everything is from Him. Pray,
remember, and thank Him because He cares about you. He makes you more and more
special, and more and more complete.
Listen to the song I sing. This is a holy song which everyone needs. When you
live in this station, you sing all the time because you are deeply happy. You
dance with Allah because you know the meaning of your song. It is the prayer.
It is the remembrance.
When you live in this station you need to live outside and inside to return.
It is necessary to see His face in every face, when you work, when you walk,
when you sleep, and when you eat. Do not leave anything He wants from the beginning
to the end. When He sends the order, you are the beginning and you are the end,
so listen to what He sings and know what He means by His song. He sings with
you and for you. If you listen, you can understand every note and every word.
Ask Him to teach you and to give you what He wants from you all the time. Be
in the ocean and do not leave this ocean. If you leave, you will return to feel
the darkness. If you know and understand the meaning of everything in this ocean,
and you remember that you are the ocean, then He will keep you.
Do not be afraid because there is no fear with Him, only peace and mercy. Be
polite when you live in this station. Be One, not another. He wants you to be
One and He loves you. There is only love with Allah. Pray for this holy time.
This is a holy time, so thank Him because He gives you this holy time. Ask Him
to make you holy all the time. This is what I want from my students. I want you
to be like me because this is my life. This is my life with Allah. This is the
station of the presence of freedom, hadrat al-itlaq, a holy station. Allah!
7. As-Shams Al-Haqiqat Al-Qudsiyya:
The Holy Sun of the Truth
“
O my god, help me to hear Your voice, and give me the politeness to understand
what You say about the holy secret with every word You speak. I begin to walk
in the holy station and this is deeper than any other station. I need more and
more mercy and I need more and more love. Clean me of everything but You, so
that I may walk straight in my life and do whatever You want from me, so that
I may be more than a special slave for You.
“
Give me Your heart now, so that I may listen to what You say. And give me Your
soul to be my soul because there is no difference between Your soul and my soul.
My soul is from Your soul from the first world of al-azal. Now, my sun is rising.
“
I cannot live if You do not help me. Show me Your face, my Lord, and change my
face to be Your face. I have lost myself and I leave everything. There is only
You. I have changed everything in my body, and I am born and born again, in a
new an holy body. My heart is also born and born again to be a new heart, to
be a special house for You.
“
My Lord, give me the chance to be with You in every moment of my life. I know
You well now because You have helped me. From the beginning You knew me and loved
me, and have given me all that I want. I do not want anything, only You. I cannot
live without You. I turn to You for everything, and I pray that You will keep
me in prayer all the time, and in remembrance of Your name every moment, every
second, and every breath because there is no life without the remembrance and
without the prayer.
“
Now keep me, my Lord, to now You more and more because I need to be with You
all the time. If You keep me in this life, this is the holy garden. I want to
live in the world of Your soul. After I change everything and know everything,
there are no things, only You in my world. The sun rises, growing bigger and
bigger to show You Yourself. I cannot live without seeing my self and without
seeing You. Discharge everything from me, so that I may be You in everything.
I do not love anything except Your face. I see Your name, Your face, Your soul
and Your heart in everything.
“
O my Lord, free me to know every secret. Teach me and care for me in this station
because I need to know everything to be everything. O my Lord, as my sun rises
I find every secret within it. The deep love is in this sun, and the secret love
is in this sun, and they are one. Change me and make me to be this sun.
“
I thank You, my Lord because You show me myself, the secret self, which is not
like the first self. I hold all the veils, and show everything under these veils.
Who is behind these veils? There is nothing hidden and nothing manifest. You
are under these veils! Excuse me, my Lord; this is the language of my soul when
she knows what You are and what I am. There is nothing, only me, in this world.
Everything else goes. Where does it go? There is no place for it to go, and there
is not time for it to live because everything is You. You are everything, but
everything is different in You.
Now there is only me in this world. This is the picture of You on the earth of
Your sun, and this earth is a special earth. It is the earth of the secret. Teach
me and help me to understand every secret in Your sun. There is no sun, only
You and only me. There is no other. There is nothing inside your clothes, only
Allah. And there is no outside. Allah fills every place, and He is from the beginning
until the end, and there is no beginning and no end.”
In this high station you reach the sun of the truth. This is the picture of God,
and not only the picture, but the reality of Allah – in the water, in the
food, when you sleep, in the flowers, in the birds, and in the animals – in
everything. Be polite with everything. When you walk, walk quietly and give the
mercy to everyone because when you give, you give for Allah. Be the pure picture.
Be the clean picture all the time because you are His picture, and you are really
Him! “I am the Truth! Ana al-Haqq!”
This is the deep secret. Know what you write. Keep this secret inside your heart.
Do not give the secret to anyone who does not know, who is not polite, and who
does not understand. This is a dangerous secret if you give it to someone before
he has reached because he will return and become water, like he was before he
came into this world. Allah will discharge you outside because you did not listen
to what He said.
Now my beloved Lord has given me the order to give you this secret station. It
contains all the mercy. It is the deepest, and contains all the love. What more
could you want after that? This is my heart. Do not lose my heart because when
you lose it, you love your God, and He discharges you, and returns you back to
live in the fire, to live in the darkness, but an even deeper darkness. But I
hope and I know that He will not discharge you after He loves you because everything
is from Him, and you are from Him. You are the holy truth; how could He lose
you? But stay in the remembrance and the prayer and sing because now you understand
what this song means. The meaning of this song is the deep secret prayer. Thank
Him because He teaches you and He gives you what you want. This is your chance
to know everything secret, and you do not need anything after that because He
gives you everything. But be everything. This is the holy message. Do not lose
it, and do not waste your time because it is the time of Allah.
You are the message. You are the sun. Send your light to everyone, to give them
life because everything comes from this light. You are the holy candle, but like
never before. You fill the whole world with your light, the light of the love.
Give your light to everyone. If you find someone who wants and someone who needs,
do not deny anyone because there is no one, only He, in the world. All the people
await you now because you carry the message, and this message means the holy
peace. Everyone needs to live with the peace, to feel this peace, and they need
to live in the garden as you do. Give your fragrance to anyone because your fragrance
is the real fragrance. It is the fragrance of Allah.
Now, when you know most everything, you can walk with yourself, and you do not
need anything because you know the way. If you are the sun, you can take and
you can give. You can know everything because everything is from you to you.
There is no other. If you see another, then you live outside because in the reality,
there is only He. But open the door in your heart with this key because everything
is inside you. Open, and leave nothing closed! From the beginning, through every
station, you have new eyes with which you can see everything, and all these eyes
are one eye, which changes from station to station. Through these eyes, you walk.
When you reach the high station, do not leave the exercises which you have done
before. Keep doing them. Pray and pray and remember, and thank Him. Love and
love and love. Be special for Him because you are a slave, not more. Now you
know what you are. You are the sun. You are the truth. This message is enough
for you to now everything, after you have changed everything and when you reach
to be His slave. Allah! This is the end of the stations, but also the beginning.
Allah!
From Sidi's book Music of the Soul, printed
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