Analysis of “First Wisdom Story”
“The Most Exalted of God's Creations”
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Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
on March 8, 2000,
and updated on November 3, 2001.
Wisdom Point: “Man Is The Most Exalted Of All Of God's Creations”
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Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessings of God be upon all of us.
My love you (anbu), my dearest brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen
(Louie Beutler).
“The Outline”
of Analysis of “The First Wisdom Story”
1. Introduction
a. Analysis of First Wisdom Story: Summary Level
b. Analysis of First Wisdom Story: Detailed Level (in process)
“The End”
of “The Outline”
of Analysis of “The First Wisdom Story”
1. Introduction
In the first Wisdom Story, "The Apple Tree And The Golden Apple", we learned that "True Happiness Comes From The Happiness Of Other", and "True Value Comes From Oneness With God". Let us use this learning as the starting point for our Analysis.
If you have not yet read the “The First Wisdom Story,” Called “The Happy Apple Tree And The Golden Apple”, upon which this Analysis is based, or would like to read the first Wisdom Story again before reading this Analysis of it, please click HERE. When you are done reading it, click on “Go To An Analysis of First Wisdom Story” at the bottom of the last page of the story to come back here.
2. Preparing For Spiritual Analysis
2-a. Make Our Mind Sit Down By Calling Our Wisdom
My dearest loving brothers and sister, to do this work properly we must first join with Wisdom, so our mind will sit down. For as Bawa teaches us,
"The mind will only sit down when Wisdom stands us".
And we get Wisdom to stand up by simply calling it, and its name within us, for this age, this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.), is "Bawa".
And we get it to stay up, to stay standing within us, by tasking it with something that is worthy of Wisdom, something that Wisdom was created by God to do, like destroying the selfish self within us, and revealing the selfless self within us, revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, within God within us, within God as the Oneness of God within the Creation of God within us.
So let us start by calling "Bawa" from the Secret Place within us, which Bawa calls our innermost heart or Qalb, by saying the word "Bawa", allowing Him to join us in our life of mind and desire, allowing our mind to sit down, and task Him with the following prayer, which Bawa told us to say everyday.
2-b. Destroy The Selfish Self By Saying “The Father's Prayer”
In this way, we destroy the self, the selfish self or outer self, that is hiding or covering the selfless self or inner self within us, by saying the following prayer, by saying "Our Father's Prayer", the prayer that Our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) told us to say each day,
"Oh our Father, our Shaikh, our Guru, we need your love, Please, please,
please destroy us, and reveal You."
"Destroy us as separate from You and You as separate from us, and reveal us
as one with You and You as one with us."
"Destroy the life of separation and differences that You have given us, and reveal
the life of oneness and unity, the life of justice and truth, the life of compassion
and unity that You have also given us”.
Amen, Amen,Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen,
Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar."
2-c. Join His Holiness By Setting Our Intention To Live At His Feet
Next, let us set our intention to sit at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), as He explains about the nature of man within God and of God within the wisdom within man.
As His Holiness teaches us about the nature of man, as the most exalted of all of the creations of God, and how that exaltedness within us starts and is first seen within us as the Oneness of God within the Creation of God within us, which is the seed of Iman or True man within us.
And is next revealed and seen within us as three within the One within us, as the Disciple, the Shaikh, and God within that Oneness of God within us, within the seed of Iman or True Man within us.
Coming to maturity within us as the Triple Flame of God within us - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - as True Man within the Creation of God within us, as the Nur Muhammad within the Nur Muhammad within us, which is wisdom within wisdom within us, which is the seed of Islam or God within us, and which can only be revealed within us through the process of finding and joining in partnership with such a True Man, who reveals True Man within us by revealing God within us, a True Man which for this age is His Holiness, is our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him).
And as His Holiness teaches us about the nature of God, as the exaltedness within our exaltedness, as the exaltedness within True Man, as the wisdom within our wisdom, as the soul within our soul, as the heart within our heart, as the Power within the essence of everything, as the Dhat within the Sirr of the Sifat.
For as His Holiness teaches us,
"You will only find God within the exaltedness of your own life."
Amen. May God complete this intention within each of us.
In this way, we must always first join with His Holiness before we do anything, including an analysis of the teaching of His Holiness, for as His Holiness teaches us,
"You must use the life of your Shaikh, which is the wisdom or consciousness
of God within you, to analyze and understand the teaching of your Shaikh,
which is the teaching of God within you."
And as His Holiness teaches us that Jesus (A.S.) said to His disciples,
"If two of you come together in my name, I will be there".
Therefore, let us come together in the name of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and intend that Bawa be there in our hearts teaching us what we need to learn and understand for this moment, remembering not to do it alone, not to do it without our Shaikh. Amen. May God complete this intention within us.
2-d. Get Ready To Do Duty By Performing The Three Steps
Similarly, His Holiness teaches us in the book, "The Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh", on page 73, Number 225, "Understand The Treasure of Peace", that before we do
anything we must always do the following three things:
1. "In every duty, give up the thought that you are doing it."
2. "Instead, act with the thought that God must do it, and give Him the
responsibility."
3. "Then perform the duty."
3. Spiritual Analysis
3-a. Analysis of First Wisdom Story: Summary Level
We have broken this analysis of the first Wisdom Story into two parts, a summary level analysis and a detailed level analysis, and we start here with the summary analysis of the first Wisdom Story.
This summary analysis provides us with a set of short questions and answers about the story, and is designed to start us thinking in the right direction, to get us ready to do a detailed analyze.
Don't spend too much time with this summary analysis, because some of the answers will be much better understood after reading the detailed analysis. It is just meant to start us thinking in the right direction. You can come back to it later after reading the detailed analysis.
1. Question - What is the purpose of this story about the Apple Tree?
a. Short answers - to help us understand:
1) The journey of life that we are currently on.
2) The dangers and traps that can stop, or sidetrack us on the journey.
3) The rewards for successfully completing the journey.
4) The consequences for not successfully completing the journey.
5) How to successfully complete the journey.
2. Question - Who does the Apple Tree represent?
a. Before the Apple Tree overhears the king talking to his son?
1) Short answers:
a) Us before the age of 2 years old.
b) The soul having gone to the school of contrasts but not yet experiencing
the contrasts to purity or selflessness.
c) The soul before it is crucified on the cross of this elemental body.
d) Adam in heaven but before the fall of Adam into hell.
b. After the Apple Tree overhears the king talking to his son, but before the Apple
Tree talks to the travelers.
1) Short answers:
a) Us after the age of 2 years old but before 12, before puberty.
b) The soul having gone to the school of contrasts and just starting to
experience self awareness, just starting to experience the contrasts
to selflessness and impurity which is selfishness and impurity.
c) The soul just starting to be crucified on the cross of this elemental
body with the five nails of desire for the world.
d) Adam after the fall, but before becoming one with Eve and
populating the world of illusion with lives of separation and differences.
c. After the Apple Tree talks to the travelers for the first time.
1) Short answers:
a) Us after the age of 12, after puberty, after being swallowed by the black
snake.
b) The soul in the school of contrasts fully experiencing selfishness and
impurity.
c) The soul crucified on the cross of this elemental body by the five nails of
desire for this world.
d) Adam and Eve as one, joined together for the birth of their children.
d. After the Apple Tree talks to the travelers for the second time
1) Short answers:
a) Us after the age of 12, after puberty, after being swallowed by the black
snake, but having met, accepted, and joined with our Shaikh, with
Wisdom, who is capable of destroying the black snake and extracting us
from its belly.
b) The soul in the school of contrasts but now experiencing the contrast
between the Shaikh and the disciple, between selflessness and
selfishness, between purity and impurity.
c) The wisdom surrounding the soul, which having been awakened by the
words of the Shaikh starts to pull out the five nails of desire for this world
which keep the soul, keep Jesus (A.S.), crucified on the cross of this
elemental body, so we, as one with the lives of darkness with us, can sin,
can live as separate from God, from each other, and as separate from all
of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us.
d) Adam praying to God on Mount Muhaiyaddeen, asking for forgiveness,
asking to be accepted back into heaven.
e. After the Apple Tree becomes One with all lives, and radiates the light of Truth
from within its branches, no longer differentiating itself from anything, no
longer concerned about itself, or its own wealth or property, having become
one with all other live, and in this way viewing the happiness of others, the
wealth of other, the life of others, as its own happiness, its own wealth, its own
life.
1) Short answers:
a) The Triple Flame of God, which in truth is the disciple, the Shaikh, and
God, joined together as One.
b) The state of Allahu Il Allahu, which is the state of True Prayer, the prayer
of the One to the One who is.
c) The state of Man-God/God-Man within us.
3. Question: Who does the king and his sons represent?
a. Short answers:
1) The kingdom of the world ruled by darkness.
2) Satan and the children of darkness.
3) Us having joined in oneness with the lives of darkness within us, the lives of
separation and differences within us.
4) Us in ignorance of ourselves.
4. Question: Who do the two travelers represent?
a. Short answers:
1) The Kingdom of God ruled by the Light of Muhammad, by the Nur
Muhammad.
2) God, and the Triple Flame of God.
3) The disciple and the Shaikh, and God within the Shaikh.
4) The Qutb of God, and the three lights within the Qutb of God, the three
realms of awwal, dunya, and akhirah; the world of souls, this world, and the
hereafter.
5. Question: What does the golden apple represent?
a. Short answers:
1) The life of darkness within hell.
2) The life of arrogance, karma, and illusion.
3) The life of separation and differences
4) The life of 'mine' and 'yours'
3-b. Analysis of First Wisdom Story: Detailed Level (in process)
This completes the Summary level of our Analysis of the First Wisdom Story, which we can use as a good starting point for our Detailed Analysis of the first Wisdom Story.
Note: The Detailed Analysis of the first Wisdom Story is not currently available.
4. Closing Prayer
Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen -
So be it, So be it, Oh Ruler of The Universes.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen -
So be it, So be it, Oh The Mercy of the Universes.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen -
So be it, So be it, Oh The Compassion of the Universes.
Al-hamdu lillah - all praise and praising belong to God alone.
Allahu Akbar - only God is great.
Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluh -
May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessings of God be upon all of us.
My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
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