Becoming The Physician of The Heart

There are many points of the world and there is one Point if God, The Truth. Until you come to this one Point, you are considered as crazy. But once you reach this one Point, you become the physician, the physician of compassion and love, and then you can give treatment. Then you will not look medicine for the patient.

First, your qalb should go and connect to that love, your smile should go and connect to that smile, your water should go and put out that fire, your compassion should go and cure the suffering, your good qualities should go and change the bitterness within him that prevents him from drinking, and your honey should go and change the water of birth.

In this way, the countless thoughts of God should go and change the thoughts and embrace the heart. Do not embrace the body, embrace the heart. The heart should embrace the heart. If you embrace the heart, the illness will leave. You will not need any medicine. If you can first treat the heart, then giving medicine (later) is easy. The medicine will work later. But if you do not treat the heart, the medicine will not work.

If you add milk to boiling water, the milk will not settle; it will splatter from the pot. First you must still the water before pouring in the milk. Then it will remain in the pot. If you plant a seed while the earth is moving, the seed will be swallowed by the earth. But if you first level he earth and then plant the seed, it will stay where you plant it, and will grow and give benefit. The benefit of medicine is like this, the benefit of wisdom is like this, the benefit of good qualities is like this, and the benefit of curing illness is like this. First you must comfort a person and then treat him. First you must become a doctor and a human being. This learning is learned on the inside. We must think of this.

(Bawa Muhaiyyaddeen. God's Psychology: A Sufi Explanation. p 19-20)

You Are A Book

You are a book
You have to write, nothing else
You have to write what is said, nothing else
The book should not talk
If it does, it wastes time
You have to write...

All That Is Seen Is A Shadow

All the bodies that we saw were shadows
All that we caught hold were shadows
It is the shadows that suffer
All that is seen is a shadow
Everything we do is a shadow.

Everything we see is a series of dreams
We see the scenes of the earth as shadows
We see the scenes of the earth
and then gather them into our thoughts and memories
They are all shadows
We conduct our lives within the territory of our thoughts,
within the darkness of the mind.

That is where we have those dreams
The dreams of our thoughts
are what we inflicted upon the prophets.
The prophets themselves experienced no pain
They had a different inner body - Light
That Light is made of God's word, God's qualities and God's actions.

Therefore, they had no sorrow
They experienced no pain
They did not say, "God, do You even exist? or are You just deaf?"

If You Want God To Work Within You

If you want God to work within you,
the truth must work within you.
If you want the truth to work,
God's qualities must work within you.
For those qualities to work,
compassion must work within you.

If you want compassion to work,
justice must work.
If you want justice to work,
conscience must work.
If you want conscience to work,
love must work.
If you want love to work,
God's qualities, speech, actions
and all that is true must work.
WHen those actions come into being,
God's power will work.

When that Power works,
this is what is called wisdom:
Duty without selfishness.
Prayer without self.
Regarding the lives of others
as one regards one's own life.

Not Every Creation Is Human

The point withing the point within the point that is capable of understanding His creation is what connects man and God; that what is called a human being.
He is human. He is called man.
Not every creation is human.
Only one who has this connection is human.

Not All That Is Learned Is Knowledge

Not all that is learned is knowledge.
Knowing the truth, knowing His grace,
Knowing what is wrong and what is right,
Knowing the happiness and sadness,
Knowing the birth and the death of this life,
Knowing what will die and what will not die is knowledge.
Correctly knowing what is correct and acting accordingly is knowledge.
That is knowledge.

(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)