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"You may find it difficult to control your mind and fix it on the desired point of focus. Therefore, you will succeed in performing this dhikr correctly only if you can learn to concentrate all your forces with care, faith, and certitude onto this one point. If, without this one-pointed focus, your mind strays here and there, it will not be dhikr. It is only if all the points go to one place that you can do dhikr. All the commanders should be there in attendance. When the King is setting out, all the commanders should be there. That is how the dhikr must be done. All these points—feelings, awareness, intellect, judgment, subtle wisdom, divine analytic wisdom, and divine luminous wisdom must be there. "The inner senses—not those that perceive the world, not this sight, but an inner seeing, not this hearing but an inner listening, an inner nose, an inner tongue—all these senses should be monitoring the dhikr. All these should monitor it. "If you have attained this point your eyes will not see, even though they are open. The inner eye will be seeing, not the physical eyes. The inner eye will be aware of an inner vision. The outer eye may be open, but it will not be seeing—as though it were anesthetized. All the senses will be anesthetized. The nostrils will still inhale and exhale, but the sense of smell will be absent. There will be an inner sense of smell, drawing another fragrance, not the odors of the world. The ears will still be present as before, but they will not hear the world. They will be hearing another sound, from a different place. In the mouth, the tongue will physically be the same, but it will be anesthetized. There will be no speech. The inner tongue will be communing with another source. The dhikr and the mind will exist as before, but an inner qalb will now be functioning at a different point. "Thus, in this state, the entire body stays as it was before. The eyes are there, the nose is there, the ears, the tongue, all are there, but they are not aware of the world. They are anesthetized. Since awareness is directed to an inner level, the point is somewhere else, the senses cannot function in the world. Another level of awareness is now functioning. Thus these physical eyes do not see and physical odors cannot be perceived. The ears do not hear, the tongue does not speak. The qalb is not in the world. "This state is that 'point' which must be attained. We have to subdue our senses and external perceptions in order to do this dhikr. This is the true prayer, or dhikr, wherein all of the King's commanders stand at one point, not scattered and functioning in the world. This is the way you must do the dhikr. This alone is true worship. If you have reached that correct point, you will not hear the outer sounds. You will not hear with these outer ears if you begin to do the dhikr correctly. The outer eyes will have lost the power to see what is here. The sense of smell which perceives the odors of this world will be absent. The tongue will have lost the power to respond to the speech of the world. The mind that runs after the desires and attachments of the world will not function here. Only the Commander, who is God, will exist, and all our perceptions will be focused on Him. When faith, certitude, and determination are functioning steadily, the external functions of the body will be anesthetized, and only the speech that is related to the connection between wisdom and God will exist. All the other section, although not dead, will not be functioning. They will be closed or anesthetized. "This prayer, done with this focus, is true prayer, the original prayer. The dhikr I am describing is not the one done with the senses or with the mind. This is not done by earth, fire, water, air, or ether. This is not done through magic or mantras. It is not done by caste, divisions, or dogmas. It cannot be done through race or religion. This can only be done with the point of iman by having the firm faith, certitude, and determination that there is nothing other than God. This is something that must be done one-pointedly, as Wisdom within wisdom. Understanding through wisdom that Thing which exists as Wisdom within wisdom, the dhikr discovers the One to whom awwal, dunya, and akhir belong. "This is the vannakum, the prayer, that discovers the point which is the One who is the rightful owner of awwal, dunya, and akhir. We must realize God through God. It is with God's truth that God is realized. It is with God's qualities that God is realized. It is with God's actions that God is realized. It is with God's patience that God is realized. It is with God's shakur or contentment that God is realized. It is with God's sabur or patience that God is realized. It is with God's tawakkal or surrender that God is realized. It takes God to realize God. It is with surrender to God that God is realized. It is with God's kalimah that God is realized. It is with His speech that God is realized. It is with His heart, His qalb, that God is realized. God will be seen in the church that He Himself built. God will be realized through His words, "There is nothing other than Me." He will be realized through His name and His words, "There is no God other than Me." It is with the Light of perfect purity known as the Deen that God will be realized. God will be realized through the Light of Islam. God will be realized by dispelling the desires known as isk using the Light known as Lam. Isk is desire; Lam is light. Use Lam or Light to realize Him. Realize Him through His wahi, His revelations. Realize Him and hear Him through His own sounds; see Him through His own sight. Realize Him through His own fragrance. Speak to Him with His tongue and His speech; speak to Him through His tongue of iman. Communicate with Him through His own heart. This is Dhikr. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Family Newsletter Sep – Oct 1997
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