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517. A sheikh tells his disciple, “Son, in the world there are three kinds of children: the children of the world, the children of the sheikh, and the children of God. “The children of the world are those who are formed from the playing and intermingling of blood ties, the pleasures of sexual games, the pleasures of the arts and sciences, and the pleasures of lust and desire. They are born with and enjoy the sounds, voices, colors, bodies, and faces of those games, appearing and disappearing within them. Their five-element body is nourished with food, blood, fluid, and the milk of maya, or illusion, which is extracted from blood. In this way, attachments to blood ties are poured into these children. This is how worldly parents give birth to and raise their children. This is one group. “But the sheikh makes his children cut away those attachments. The sheikh’s children are formed in his qalb, in his inner heart, existing in the state of wisdom with the beauty of compassion. Theirs is the body of faith, determination, and certitude. They receive wisdom and the qualities of God from the sheikh, who nourishes them and raises them with the splendor of their right to eternal life. Their father, the sheikh, will make them children of resplendent wisdom, children with the clarity of the absolute faith of iman, children of absolute truth. He will feed them with the milk of love and the honey of grace, with patience, with sabur, shakur, and tawakkul-‘alallah, or inner patience, contentment, and trust in God, and with the qualities of God’s grace. He will raise his children without ever deviating from the path of justice. He will raise them within his heart of iman, feeding them with the milk of iman and the honey of wisdom, and make them worthy of receiving the wealth of all three worlds, which is called mubarakat. “Then he will tell them, ‘The father you saw when you were born was made of flesh and blood; he belongs to the world. I am your father of wisdom, the father of the essence of grace. And now you must find the Father of your soul, with whom you were earlier.’ “He will open their wisdom, saying, ‘Look at your Father’s brilliant light: that is your true body form; it is the form of His essence, the resplendent light body you had when you came from the world of the souls. Do you see your rightful body? That is the body in which you must meet the Father of your soul.’ “He will say, ‘I have brought you to this stage. Now you must take on the body of light which you had before.’ Then he will take you and hand you into the care of your original Father in heaven, saying, “My son, this is Allah, the Creator of all the universes, Rabbil-‘alamin. Go and reach Him! Such a child is a baby to the sheikh, light to wisdom, clarity to faith, and a representative of God. “God will accept the child given by the sheikh, and He will teach the child His qualities, His actions, and His ninety-nine powers. He will demonstrate the difference between this world and the next, and raise the child to His own state, so that the child will serve Him and the people who have reached His kingdom. God will make the child His representative in the performance of all His duties. “Thus there are three kinds of fathers who bring you up in three different ways. My son! Children who relish the pleasure of worldly desires are children of hell. Those who learn and receive divine knowledge in the world are the children of the sheikh. Those who receive Allah’s benevolence, qualities, and grace, those who lose themselves in Him, are the children who serve Him as His representatives and messengers.” Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh, revised edition. Philadelphia: The Fellowship Press, 1981, 2006. p. 220-221.
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