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Child: I’d like to ask His Holiness about a dream I had approximately a week ago. There was a house with a piece of property next to it, and on the property were fifteen or twenty small wells or springs which were like holes in the ground. I looked into the house and saw a number of people who were very sick, very close to death. Then I looked into each of the wells. They were extremely poisonous, full of demons and viruses. Only one person in the house was able to walk around, and he and I went up to each of the wells. He said the third Kalimah and blew into each well. Then, with a shovel, he cleaned away the debris. Before this, the atmosphere all around had been very thick and heavy. When we were almost finished, we looked back at the area of the yard in which we had been working, and all the darkness had cleared. There was a lot of light and clarity, and the people in the house who had been sick were up and moving around. His Holiness: That is a good dream. The house is the house of Allah, the Fellowship. It is the house of God for all people, for all children who live in the world. They are all afflicted by poisons and disease. They have the poisonous wells of religious and racial differences: my religion, your religion, my race, your race. They drink of these poisonous waters, trying to alleviate their thirst. In the places where they dwell, many diseases, ghosts, demons, evil thoughts, desires, satans, and devils have caught them and are eating them from within, making them very ill. When we try to make their wisdom grow, what do they do? They turn the pure wisdom, the clear water which is being given to them, into poison, and then even divine knowledge is poisoned! They inject their karmic and poisonous qualities into pure wisdom. Instead of accepting the pure water, the pure wisdom, they inject their own religion, caste, fanaticism, bigotry, and biases into the water, making it poisonous. They drop the things of the world into pure wisdom, and they poison the things which belong to the hereafter, making poisonous even the wisdom of the ocean of knowledge. They forget what will appease their thirst, what will ease their fatigue, what will give them life. As a result they drop religion, race, color, and the arrogance of the ego into the well, making poisonous even those things that could appease their thirst. The twenty-four letters in the Kalimah, plus the soul, make twenty-five wells. Karma poisoned and sickened everyone, and they were unable to walk on the path to Allah. Everything was surrounded by darkness. If this is the state in which people exist, what can we do? What shall we do? We must do the Kalimah, the Third Kalimah. It is our qurban, the prayer of perfection which cuts away the animal qualities and the evils within. “Subhanallahi, walhamdu lillahi, wa la ilaha ill Allahu, wallahu akbar, wa hawla wa la quwwata illa billahi, wa huwal ‘aliyyul’azim: Glory be to God; all praise belongs to Him: there is nothing other than You, O God. You are Allah who is most great; none has the majesty or the power to sustain except for God, who is the majesty and supreme glory.” The Third Kalimah is the qurban for all the poisons. When this was recited in your dream, all the poisons, all the corpses inside the wells, and all the debris were swept away. The darkness became light, all the people rose up, their illnesses went away, and the water became tasty. Divine knowledge became radiant, filling everyone with life. This is the meaning of your dream. Therefore, all of you, each child must give up your differences and use the Third Kalimah to cut away all the evil qualities within. Only Allah exists in a state of equality. He is the religion. He is the philosophy. Trust only Him. You must have the determination and the faith to pray to Him alone. He is the only King for everything. He alone is worthy of worship. The world, religious fanaticism, racial differences, desires, and colors must die. They are all poisonous and they must die. If you drink these poisons, you will be sickened for life, living in a deathlike state in which you cannot walk the path to the next world or to God. To remain in that state is hell. All who do not walk toward Allah are dead and in hell. Only those who do walk toward Allah are alive. Accept only Allah. If we reach the state of one family, one God, and one prayer, we will no longer have the illnesses you saw in your dream. “M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen- a Sufi mystic, can best be remembered for his efforts to bring unity through understanding to the faithful of all religions.” Copyright: The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh pg 420-421. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Family Newsletter January – February 2001
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