The Fifth Station of the Secret

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Reprinted from Music of the Soul by Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal ar-Rifai available at www.sufimaster.org or www.sufigifts.org

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5. Al-Ma` Al-Hubb: The Water of the Love

This is what Muhammad, the guide of the love, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, said in the hadith about the way of the love. “Follow me and you will be beloved by Allah.” When Muhammad spoke, he spoke with two tongues. He spoke with an outside tongue to the people who live only in the dunya, and he spoke with the tongue of the soul to those who live inside. In this hadith he explained everything in the Qur’an.

Allah has given a Qur’an in which every word has a deep meaning. For anyone who cannot understand all that Allah speaks about Himself, He has sent the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him. Muhammad shows the people what Allah means through his perfect surrender and through his perfect picture. Then Muhammad, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, spoke about everything outside and inside because he lived in both the outside meaning and the inside meaning. He reveals this to those who can reach the station of completion.

Muhammad, may Allah’s peace and blessing be upon him, says, “Allah has given me two messages. One is for the people who live outside and who do not walk. The second is in the language of the soul which Allah has given me to speak for the people who live in the soul. If you want to walk in this garden with quietness and with peace, I will also teach you what your body needs from the outside in this life.”

Muhammad gave all the people what they needed. He gave the stations of the nafs to help the people who live only in the dunya and who do not understand. He is the mercy and he helps everyone. He also gave help to those who live inside through the stations of the heart. In this language he explained about the garden, which is more than the garden of the body. He gave as much of the meaning as the people who live here in this garden can understand. He explained more than in the garden of the body, but not as completely as in the garden of the soul. He knew that everyone was different, and he showed them how to live in this garden where they were.

All the people are in different stations. Allah helps everyone in the way that they need. Muhammad first spoke about the language of the body and of the heart, then he spoke about the language of the soul. After you change your self through the stations, you want to know the deep secret. In the stations of the secrets, he gives you his heart and he gives you the key. If you can carry this key, you can open the door of your heart and live in his heart. Only a few people know what this heart is.

If you see things, then you live in your body. You need to erase everything from your body and from your heart. After you erase everything from your heart, Muhammad brings you from one station to another station, and each one is more subtle than the one before. He begins to give you the holy meaning, and he begins to show you how to open the door of the truth, the door of the third garden, the garden of the soul. When you open this door, you begin to know who you are and Who really is. You can sit in this place quietly, and you feel the peace and the love, but it is not the complete love. You need to walk and to listen to every word of the Muhammadan message. After your ear changes, you need to open it because Muhammad wants to put a new meaning inside this ear. This new meaning is that of the purity (as-safa) of the child, the child of the truth.

When this purity is born in your hearing, your hearing becomes the hearing of Muhammad. Then you know that this teaching is from him, not from any other because now there is no other. When you keep this purity in your hearing, it grows, like the child grows. It begins to fill your mind and becomes holy. Then your mind begins to be the mind of Muhammad. In this mind you begin to understand the secrets. After this purity grows in the mind, your mind becomes the mosque, but this is a special mosque of Allah. There is nothing in this mind, only He. Only Allah, because you have erased everything. You have left everything.

When you change, you are like a child inside. You are a newborn child of the truth. There is nothing in this world, only this child because there is nothing, only He; and nothing, only Muhammad. But who is Muhammad, really? Where does he live? In the garden? You are the holy garden, not another, and in this garden you find many different flowers and roses. In all these flowers, you see the face of Muhammad, and after that there are no more things, only the love. But who is the love? The secret of the love is Allah!

When you smell the fragrance of Muhammad you become more and more complete. Everything is inside your mind. In order for the rosebush to change and to flower, it needs to be pruned. When you prune this bush, you can touch its fragrance and begin to live among its flowers. You are the fragrance, and you are the flower.

After everything goes from within, you begin to touch the face of Muhammad in your face. Do not give this face to anyone, except to those who are like you. When you reach this station, you are newborn and you must walk. Do not stop after you know the meaning of the love. You cannot stop after you know the way of the love and its meaning.

Where is another? There are no men and no women. Where is he and she? There is only you and there is no other. Everything is the face of Muhammad. The face of Muhammad is your guide, but after you are born in this station, you become the face of Muhammad. Muhammad wants to help you become the slave of Allah, and to be special for him because he has given you his heart. It is important to keep this heart for yourself and not to give it to anyone who is not trustworthy and who is not faithful (al-amin). Your heart and your mind change as Muhammad helps you to be the holy child and to pray for him. This praying is different; it is the prayer of the deep love. You need to be praying this prayer all the time. Do not lose any minute because your beloved Prophet Muhammad carries you, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Keep praying, and give, so that you can take the holy meaning and give it to those who want to know the holy meaning.

You need to be born again and again in the garden of the love. Love and love and love because there is no life without the love and no meaning without the love, and nothing without Him, and nothing without you. He wants you to be Him and to be you, after you wash with the water of love. There is no one who can carry the real love without this water of love. There is nothing without Him. Pray for Him when you reach. Remember the name of the love when you live in this station. This is the station of the water of the love.

“Follow me, and you will be beloved by Allah.” This is the hadith about the way of the love, whose guide is Muhammad, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him. Your walking in this way is holy. Understand what Muhammad means because Allah asks you about everything. Do not lose anything. Write and read, and understand everything. Muhammad gives you this station from his mind. After you know him well, you will understand. Love and love him, and love. What more do you want from Muhammad after that? Only love! Allah!

The Fourth Station of the Secret

If this is your first visit to this blog I suggest starting with the beginning of this series called the First Station of the Nafs which you can find by CLICKING HERE

To listen to an audio recording of this teaching HOLD YOUR MOUSE OVER HERE and click on the arrow when it comes up.

Reprinted from Music of the Soul by Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal ar-Rifai available at www.sufimaster.org or www.sufigifts.org

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Our guide Sidi, suggests that after reading each station and listening to the audio, that you write each station by hand.

4. Al-Qalb As-Sirr: The Heart of the Secret

The Station of Ibrahim, may blessings and peace be upon him

For anyone who wants to know the truth, your heart must be filled with the deep love and grow deeper in this love, if you want to reach. First you need to kill your self, to kill your heart, and to kill your soul, and to put all these qualities outside. What I mean is for you to change from inside to a deeper inside, and to be born again after you kill all the qualities from your heart and from your soul, to be a special slave for Allah in every inside meaning. When you give God everything, God takes everything from you and fills you with the holy meaning. This meaning is different from the meaning which you have found before in all the qualities because now you really begin to live with Allah, and He is with you. When you kill everything inside, you live with Allah face to face and soul to soul. And there is no face and there is no soul, only His soul because you are inside and God is also inside.

There is no difference because you return to live in the world of al-azal before you die. This is what I mean when I say, “Kill yourself, kill your heart, and kill your soul with God in everything,” because you are from Him, and you find Him inside your face. Allah only begins when you kill your self. When you kill all the qualities, He begins to give you the secrets and to teach you the meaning of all the secrets.

Allah gives and takes, and when you know this, you live with Him all the time. When you walk, when you sleep, when you eat, when you work, when you speak, you know the meaning in everything. Then you touch the truth in your hand. Your hand has become the hand of God, and you begin to speak with the tongue of God. When you know what you are, then God shows you His face from the beginning to the end. This is the meaning of being inside the truth. But there is no outside in the truth. When you are in the stations of the secrets, you cannot speak because the language of speaking has ended. The language of the eye in your heart begins, and this eye is very deep. There is no speaking, only the love, only the mercy, only Allah!

This is what I mean when I say kill your self, kill your heart, and kill your soul, to know the meaning of the fourth station of the secret. This subject is from my heart, and this heart is different from any other heart. Here I am speaking about the fourth heart because the human being has four hearts. The first one is the heart of the self. The second is the heart of the heart. The third is the heart of the soul. The fourth is the heart of the secret. This station is from the singing of the Qur’an. All the Qur’an is written in the language of the love. For anyone who wants to know, I give my heart. Allah!