Grown Out of the Sorrows of Your Life - By: M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

The Kamil Shaikh Speaks

Only God will know the glory of God.
Only God will know His power and His creation. Amin.

Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.

My children! You are those who have been born as the exalted being that is mankind (insan), to appear and shine in this earth-world. To some of you, the radiance of your life appears to have grown out of the sorrows of your life. That is what the radiance of your wisdom and the understanding you have gained in your life in this birth—understanding gained through your pahuth arivu (divine analytic wisdom) (1) –tells you.

But the kamil shaikh (2) of wisdom understands. He himself analyzes, with divine analytic wisdom, the emergence of his life in this birth, and reaches an understanding of the meanings of the joys and sorrows that occur in his life. Then, seeing the nature and capabilities of the qualities and actions inherent in these sorrows, he scrutinizes them minutely and comes to realize: "This can cause such and such effects, or "That will perish for this reason," and so forth. After that, he begins to understand and realize within his own life the answers to: Where lies the suffering in life? Where lies the joy? Who is it that feels the suffering? Who feels the joy?

Once he understands these, then, existing in the form of the wisdom that arises from the compassionate love inherent in his perception and awareness (unarvu and unarchi), (3) he analyzes his state further—what the final state will be for his life in this birth. Next he goes on to analyze the world and the states of joy and sorrow that come to the human life and other lives that have appeared in it. After this, he reflects and becomes consciously aware of what their intellect is capable of and how clear their wisdom is.

Having come to know all this, the kamil shaikh says:

"O God! Look at these human beings, Your most exalted creations! Their life in this birth and their wisdom are forever desiring and searching for joy and pleasure in this world. But while they hand over to You all their suffering—sufferings caused by their own ignorance—they gladly accept all the pleasures for themselves, claiming them as their own. People with this kind of wisdom give all their sufferings to You. You accept everything they offer yet You give them only Your beneficence, in return. What does all this mean, Ya Rahman, O Merciful One? Why does the radiant wisdom of the exalted beings in Your creation function in this manner?" the kamil shaikh asks, and he reflects upon himself.

He addresses God further, "O Lord! You alone are one without happiness. With the empathy, compassion, love, patience, perception, awareness, clemency, charity of thought and feelings, forbearance (sabur), contentment (shakur), and the glory of millions upon millions of such good and virtuous qualities, You take all these sufferings into You, filling Yourself with them. O Lord, who has ventured to exist forever and ever without seeing a single joy! What does it mean, Ya Rahman, that the beings in Your creation have acquired the kind of wisdom that dares to keep all pleasure for themselves, while giving all suffering to you? What is the significance of the life of man (insan) in this world, Ya Rahman, O Merciful One who created us?" asks the kamil shaikh of Allah, the One of compassionate and beneficent qualities.

"O my God! Since You accept all those sorrows and keep giving Your creations a harvest of joy, Ya Rahman, who is there to take Your sorrows from You? To whom can You tell Your sorrows? When will Your wants be fulfilled? When—in what age—will happiness come to You, Ya Rahman? And what is it that will be Your happiness, Ya Allah?" asks the kamil shaikh of Allah, with the clarity of his divine analytic wisdom (pahuth arivu).

"Your creations—all of them—having accumulated a mixture of joys and sorrows brought about by their ignorance, are living in a state of torment, unable to bear up those joys and sorrows, which they gathered in their paltry week-long existence in the bazaar that is this world, the dunya.

"You, on the other hand, who have no beginning or end, have been existing for millions upon millions of ages, accepting all sorrows that lack joy, making those sorrows Your plenitude, and enjoying the fruits of treating them as Your joys. How merciful are Your qualities! How exalted is Your greatness! You alone are the one who is eternal. If all sorrow belongs to You, then when, in which era, will even a single joy come to You?" wails the kamil shaikh, who, with his wisdom, has contemplated his birth and the God who created him, realized the truth, and appeared in the conscious awareness of that wisdom. Sorrowfully he pleads with Allah further, "O Lord! Who is there to whom You can relate Your sorrows?"

Upon hearing this, Allah replies:

"O kamil shaikh! O light of the clarity of My resplendent wisdom! For as long as you exist, I will exist too. You appearing (from the resplendent light that is My essence) and shining forth is My happiness. It is to you that I will explain My sorrows. As the resplendent wisdom within your wisdom, I will inform your wisdom about the understandings belonging to the wisdom of My creations, and the understandings that issue from My truth. Your explaining all this (and the fruits and rewards thereof) to them, in order to make their wisdom grow in certitude and steadfastness, will be what appeases and satisfies Me. It will also bring clarity to the wisdom of My creations. Therefore you, who will satisfy My wants and appease the grievances of My creations (which stem from their ignorance), will be My true devotee. And to you alone will I relate My sufferings. Only through you can I be relieved of My sorrows. As long as you (My devotee, the manifestation of My wisdom) exist, I will not need anything.

"Some among My creations, who accept only joys, give their sorrows to Me. I will alleviate their sorrows and their needs. And whatever I receive from them I will hand over to you, My true devotee, explaining in detail the significance, the fruits, and the effects of each of those things. Your explaining all this to My creations (thereby making their wisdom shine) will be what brings Me relief from My sorrows," says Allah to His true devotee, the kamil shaikh of radiant wisdom. "I do not have any happiness other than the happiness of My devotees, nor do I have any sorrows of My own. Their happiness is My happiness. Their sorrow is My sorrow," says Allah.

"I am a slave to the lowest slave, a pauper to the pauper, lower than the lowliest one, higher than the highest, a greater king to one who is king, a mendicant to the mendicant. To the poorest beggar I am an even poorer beggar, and to the wealthiest I am even wealthier. Therefore, joy and sorrow do not make Me either elated or depressed. The only thing that truly pleases Me is a true devotee—nothing else," says Allah, standing in the form of His resplendent grace and giving these explanations to the divine luminous wisdom of the kamil shaikh, His humble devotee.

Amin, Ya Rabbal-'alamin
As-salamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullahi
Wa barakatuhu kulluhu.

Footnotes:

1) The sixth of the seven levels of wisdom innate in man; Qutbiyyat, the wisdom that explain the truth of God.

2) Perfected spiritual guide; true guru; a perfect example; a divinely wise spiritual master; one who has developed the 3,000 gracious attributes of Allah; one who, knowing himself and Allah, guides other on the straight path, the path to Allah.

3) The first two of the seven levels of wisdom: unarvu is feelings, or perception; unarchi is awareness.

My children! You are those who have been born as the exalted being that is mankind (insan), to appear and shine in this earth-world. To some of you, the radiance of your life appears to have grown out of the sorrows of your life. That is what the radiance of your wisdom and the understanding you have gained in your life in this birth....

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