Hadhrat Bawa Muhaiyaddeen(ra)
Writings
The Three Worlds
That Appear in Man
Hadhrat Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
My precious children, jeweled lights of my eyes, all of us have come to this
world, have we not? But this is only one world; as one looks deeply with wisdom,
three worlds will be seen.
The first is awwal, the world of the souls, the world seen first in äthi,
the time before creation began. The second is dunyä, this world, in which
man’s body has appeared. The third is äkhirah, the world in which
everything is known and understood, the world of the kingdom of God, the world
of God’s undiminishing benevolence.
In äkhirah, men are given their rightful status and live a birthless,
deathless life in eternity. These are the three worlds that appear in man.
Two of these are completely internal and not understood by men. They exist
as a mystery, a secret.
This earthly world is seen both inside and outside man. The arts, the sexual
games, and the four hundred trillion, ten thousand energies and miracles exist
as man’s inner and outer world, and they control him.
In this world of creation are many visible differences and separations. Man
has countless languages, deities, religious teachings, and occult energies.
He has different kinds of intellectual knowledge and methods of learning.
Within him, the energies take many different forms: elemental, illusory, and
artistic. These things change man’s nature and his qualities; they divide
one man from another, section by section; they divide man from God and truth
and then control him.
When man leaves God and truth to hide in the fascinating darkness of birth
and illusion, he loses the original, natural qualities of wisdom that realize
the truth of the one family of man and the one God. He leaves wisdom and travels
on the illusory path of mental torpor. While he lives in his body, his mind
is reborn into various energies and illusoryforms. Forgetting the exaltedness
of his life, he begins to believe in time and to live subject to the influences
of the planets which make him dance and shake. These planets rule him and
cause him to fall into the hands of the Angel of Death. After his death, he
takes countless rebirths, according to the energies to which he surrendered
earlier in his mind.
We who have taken the form of man must understand and study the three worlds
within ourselves and find clarity. We must understand their good and avoid
their evils. The explanation and the learning is all here as the world in
which we live: outside it exists as a show, and inside it exists as a shadow.
The world in which we see things is the dream world. The world in which we
live is the visual world of the fascinating illusions of the mind. The world
in which we study is the world of differences, separations, and killing, the
world of tens of millions of occult energies.
Because we have been given the capacity to understand this, we who have been
born as men must know the real point. There is real truth, and it is inside
us, not in books. Truth exists in a place that mind and desire do not see.
The world of the souls is the world of light rays, a secret mystery world.
The universe of the soul emanates from the grace of Allah as rays of light.
When the soul and the perfect power of God merge, it becomes a mysterious
secret: man who came from God merges back into the power of God.
This power will look at the world of illusion and explain the sights, appearances,
and aspects of all the energies. From within the mystery, it will reveal the
story and the knowledge which exist as a secret, not within the mind, but
within man’s inner heart, his qalb, which is beyond earth, fire, water,
air, ether, mind, and desire.
This is the eighth level, the eighth heaven, firdaus, which has been built
for man by God with God’s qualities, conduct, and actions. If man can
be in firdaus, from there he will be able to see all of everything and receive
the wealth and divine knowledge of the three worlds. Then he will accept nothing
other than Allah.