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“A disciple asked his sheikh, ‘What is the intellectual understanding I need to be able to have certitude in God?’ “The sheikh answered, ‘God made this world so vast and created man with such subtlety, God made many kinds of creations, and He has made their eyes, noses, and other features just right, placing them symmetrically on their faces, He did not make them lopsided, did He? No matter in what form God makes men, the eyes and the nose and the mouth and the ears and the face are centered and symmetrical. “God centered man’s qalb, his inner heart, in the same way, and He placed wisdom in the center of the qalb. In the center of wisdom is God and His justice. “You can realize this with your intellect, can you not? The features of the face are not crooked. God did not place them randomly. There is a certain symmetry. Though the elephant’s trunk is quite long, It has be place in the middle of its face. “Son, you must not find fault with any of God’s creations. You must realize that the center is within you. If you open your wisdom, stand in the center, and look intently at yourself, you will understand the point. Do not waste your time trying to analyze other people; if you look at others and try to figure out what they are like, everything will go wrong, because each person sees his own faults in others. “You must try to see your own faults within yourself. If you recognize your faults and force them to leave you, you will not find fault with anyone else. “When your photograph is taken, the shadow of your image goes onto the paper. If you had not been there, would your shadow have gone onto the film? No. There would be no photograph. Is that not so? Like that, the faults you see in others are faults you have within yourself, and they are destroying you. You must look within yourself with your wisdom and throw away all your faults. Stand in the center, look with wisdom into your house, and throw away the quality of fault-finding. “The fault-finding thoughts of your min are biting you like mosquitoes and drinking your blood. Chase them away and you will be free. It is useless to be finding fault with others. Correct your own faults instead.” Copyright: The Golden Words of A Sufi Sheikh (p. 298) Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Family Newsletter July – August 1998
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