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Sufi A Brief Explanation
Sufi A Brief Explanation
Sufi A Brief Explanation
The heavenly messengers are also light. They emerged from the element fire, and they are a step lower than Man. Next in power to the heavenly beings are the angels, and even lower are the jinns and fairies; satan has less power than the jinns. Thus at every stage the power of the lives has been gradually reduced. Even satan has power, though of a lower order. This is the order in creation. This is the way in which the six types of lives have been created. The Light of the Power which is called Noor is the Soul of Man. This Power can be likened to the high voltage power produced by electric generators in a power station. The Soul of Man is the Completeness and Fullness of that Power. And, just as the electric current is distributed through wires to cities and towns and the power varies in strength at the different points of delivery, so the power of the several life forms is distributed in varying strengths, some lives being of higher power and others of lower power. This is why grass life, worm life, bird life, and animal life cannot be considered equal to Human Life. The Soul of Man has the capacity to realize all the powers in creation. It has the Power to attract, beckon, and summon the Prophets, the heavenly beings, and all other beings. It has this exalted Power. The Wisdom and Soul of Man has this immense Power because it was created out of the totality of power that is found in all of the different lives. The residue that was left after the Essence of the Perfection that is Man had been filtered away was in turn filtered and distilled to create, in their varying degrees of power, the heavenly beings, the heavenly messengers, the angels, and beings of gradually lesser degrees of power. Thus each successive being that God creates is endowed with gradually diminishing power. Accordingly, their wisdom is also reduced in that order. The Power to control and rule all of these lives, to understand them lovingly, to protect them, to understand both the good and the evil within them; the Wisdom and the Patience to understand and realize all of these things; the Seven States of Consciousness, Wisdom, Patience, God's Compassion, His 3000 Gracious Qualities, His 99 Divine Gracious Names, and the Protective Beneficent Attributes of those Gracious Names; the Quality that protects all lives, the Power that understands various illnesses and gives the appropriate remedy: the Power that has all of this is what is called Man. That is the Soul of Man. One who understands, knows and realizes all of these thing; who knows both himself and God; who understands hell and heaven, lives and creations, satan and the children of satan; who understands and realizes all of those with the full clarity to withdraw and to sink within the Silence of the Perfection of God and to reside in quiescence in that Stillness within the Plenitude of God; one who stays within His Divine Justice, one who reveals His Glory and His Meaning, one who has no praise except in praise of Him; one who is established in that State, one who is fixed in that State, one who has realized that State; one who has seen himself and God and everything within that Perfection that is God, and who, seeing the realizing, takes on the Compassion of God as his own compassion towards all lives, and explains the Stillness of that Silence from the Quiescence of that Stillness: such a one is called "Sufi".
Now, if we call someone "Sufi", all the world should be dead to him. God alone should be living. All the world within him should have died. The maya and karma that we call the world should be dead, while only the Resplendence of God and the Grace of God live on within him undyingly. It is such a State that is called "Sufi". There are so many meanings of "Sufi". This is just a little bit of the meaning. You should understand this Truth. For Sufi there are no differences, there is no world, there is no praise; there is no dancing, no play acting, no marijuana. Sufi does not put on costumes and dance. But whatever are the Qualities of God and whatever is God's Compassionate Benevolence, Sufi is those Qualities. The one who has imbibed those Qualities is Sufi. He does not acknowledge differences of races, religions, or any separations. He embraces only God, His 3000 Gracious Qualities, and His Plenitude. One who has attained this State is Sufi. One who has known and realized this state of: La illaha Nothing other than God Exists. Il Allahu You alone are God. This is Sufi. This is the Word of God. One who loses himself into nothingness, where the state of the self does not exist; one who knows the station where only God remains as that Solitary oneness that is God: this is the explanation of Sufi-a brief explanation. - M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen