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“Son, if you want a house that can be lived in for generation after generation, you must plan it well before you start building. First, you must consult an engineer and an architect. Next, you must get a survey map and a plan, estimate the expenditures, and engage a contractor and many workers. But, even when a house is built with all that care, there is a time limit beyond which it cannot survive. It can last for only so long; it has a fate. This is the way it is. You build a house and prepare to live in it, but it is a house bound by an agreement as to its life-span no matter how well you plan. Is this not so? Therefore, since the soul will live eternally, you must strive to build a beautiful house for it, a house which is not subject to time or to external conditions. For this house, you are the engineer, you are the contractor, and you are the architect; you draw the plan and you set up the system. And when all the planning is completed, you are the one who must construct that house. You must build it alone; no one else can build it for you. The materials you need for such a house are the qualities of God, the actions of God, the behavior of God, the duties of God, and the unselfishness with which God performs His actions. The house of meditation is not built with earth, fire, water, air and ether. It is built with His light, His grace, His wisdom, His compassionate gaze, His thoughts, His intentions, and His prayer. If you build the house correctly, it cannot be destroyed by time and external conditions. Such a house will benefit you throughout all the ages; you will be able to live in it eternally. That will be the house of perfect purity in which you and God dwell in unity. Far, far better than building a house bound by time and external conditions is to build a beautiful, eternal house, a house of heaven in the kingdom of God, a house of prayer, a house of divine wisdom, a house for your soul, a house in which you will dwell forever. If you build a house like that, it will receive the benefit of Allah’s wealth in all three worlds: the world of the souls, this world, and the next. Tomorrow, on the Day of Judgment, Allah will give you the house you built. He will give you the benevolence of His grace. You will not want anything after that. Understand this, and build your house with God’s qualities.” Copyright: The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh Number 799, pg. 357 Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Family Newsletter Nov - Dec 1996
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