The Seventh Station of the Secret

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7. As-Shams Al-Haqiqat Al-Qudsiyya:

The Holy Sun of the Truth

“O my God, help me to hear Your voice, and give me the politeness to understand what You say about the holy secret with every word You speak. I begin to walk in the holy station and this is deeper than any other station. I need more and more mercy and I need more and more love. Clean me of everything but You, so that I may walk straight in my life and do whatever You want from me, so that I may be more than a special slave for You.

“Give me Your heart now, so that I may listen to what You say. And give me Your soul to be my soul because there is no difference between Your soul and my soul. My soul is from Your soul from the first world of al-azal. Now, my sun is rising.

“I cannot live if You do not help me. Show me Your face, my Lord, and change my face to be Your face. I have lost myself and I leave everything. There is only You. I have changed everything in my body, and I am born and born again, in a new and holy body. My heart is also born and born again to be a new heart, to be a special house for You.

“My Lord, give me the chance to be with You in every moment of my life. I know You well now because You have helped me. From the beginning You knew me and loved me, and have given me all that I want. I do not want anything, only You. I cannot live without You. I turn to You for everything, and I pray that You will keep me in prayer all the time, and in remembrance of Your name every moment, every second, and every breath because there is no life without the remembrance and without the prayer.

“Now keep me, my Lord, to know You more and more because I need to be with You all the time. If You keep me in this life, this is the holy garden. I want to live in the world of Your soul. After I change everything and know everything, there are no things, only You in my world. The sun rises, growing bigger and bigger to show You Yourself. I cannot live without seeing my self and without seeing You. Discharge everything from me, so that I may be You in everything. I do not love anything except Your face. I see Your name, Your face, Your soul and Your heart in everything.

“O my Lord, free me to know every secret. Teach me and care for me in this station because I need to know everything to be everything. O my Lord, as my sun rises I find every secret within it. The deep love is in this sun, and the secret love is in this sun, and they are one. Change me and make me to be this sun.

“I thank You, my Lord because You show me myself, the secret self, which is not like the first self. I hold all the veils, and show everything under these veils. Who is behind these veils? There is nothing hidden and nothing manifest. You are under these veils! Excuse me, my Lord; this is the language of my soul when she knows what You are and what I am. There is nothing, only me, in this world. Everything else goes. Where does it go? There is no place for it to go, and there is not time for it to live because everything is You. You are everything, but everything is different in You.

“Now there is only me in this world. This is the picture of You on the earth of Your sun, and this earth is a special earth. It is the earth of the secret. Teach me and help me to understand every secret in Your sun. There is no sun, only You and only me. There is no other. There is nothing inside your clothes, only Allah. And there is no outside. Allah fills every place, and He is from the beginning until the end, and there is no beginning and no end.”

In this high station you reach the sun of the truth. This is the picture of God, and not only the picture, but the reality of Allah – in the water, in the food, when you sleep, in the flowers, in the birds, and in the animals – in everything. Be polite with everything. When you walk, walk quietly and give the mercy to everyone because when you give, you give for Allah. Be the pure picture. Be the clean picture all the time because you are His picture, and you are really Him! “I am the Truth! Ana al-Haqq!”

This is the deep secret. Know what you write. Keep this secret inside your heart. Do not give the secret to anyone who does not know, who is not polite, and who does not understand. This is a dangerous secret if you give it to someone before he has reached because he will return and become water, like he was before he came into this world. Allah will discharge you outside because you did not listen to what He said.

Now my beloved Lord has given me the order to give you this secret station. It contains all the mercy. It is the deepest, and contains all the love. What more could you want after that? This is my heart. Do not lose my heart because when you lose it, you lose your God, and He discharges you, and returns you back to live in the fire, to live in the darkness, but an even deeper darkness. But I hope and I know that He will not discharge you after He loves you because everything is from Him, and you are from Him. You are the holy truth; how could He lose you? But stay in the remembrance and the prayer and sing because now you understand what this song means. The meaning of this song is the deep secret prayer. Thank Him because He teaches you and he gives you what you want. This is your chance to know every secret, and you do not need anything after that because He gives you everything. But be everything. This is the holy message. Do not lose it, and do not waste your time because it is the time of Allah.

You are the message. You are the sun. Send your light to everyone, to give them life because everything comes from this light. You are the holy candle, but like never before. You fill the whole world with your light, the light of the love. Give your light to everything. If you find someone who wants and someone who needs, do not deny anyone because there is no one, only He, in the world. All the people await you now because you carry the message, and this message means the holy peace. Everyone needs to live with the peace, to feel this peace, and they need to live in the garden as you do. Give your fragrance to anyone because your fragrance is the real fragrance. It is the fragrance of Allah.

Now, when you know most everything, you can walk with yourself, and you do not need anything because you know the way. If you are the sun, you can take and you can give. You can know everything because everything is from you to you. There is no other. If you see another, then you live outside because in the reality, there is only He. But open the door in your heart with this key because everything is inside you. Open, and leave nothing closed! From the beginning, through every station, you have new eyes with which you can see everything, and all these eyes are one eye, which changes from station to station. Through these eyes, you walk.

When you reach the high station, do not leave the exercises which you have done before. Keep doing them. Pray and pray and remember, and thank Him. Love and love and love. Be special for Him because you are a slave, not more. Now you know what you are. You are the sun. You are the truth. This message is enough for you to know everything, after you have changed everything and when you reach to be His slave. Allah! This is the end of the stations, but also the beginning. Allah!

Allah! Allah! Allah!

The Fifth Station of the Heart

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5. As-Sidq: The Station of Righteousness The right religion is special from Whom, to where and for what? Why do you want the religion? The religion is from God to God, to know the truth of Him, and to know yourself, and to know how you are with the face of Allah. This is a short explanation. The guide of the love says, “What God wants is to teach the religion to anyone who wants. He will give what He wants to give from His special religion. What Allah wants from me, I give. He speaks of good and gives only what is good in the special religion. He gave me the order to give you this special religion and I put it in your heart. I am the servant, and He made me polite. After that He taught me everything I needed from the special religion. The truth is the essence of God. It speaks of the subject of the self and the subject of the soul, and of how to know yourself. Then He told me to teach you this subject of the truth of God because He loves you.”Allah gathers the believers from everywhere to teach them how to live with Him when they walk in the way. Before you sit with Him, you must understand what He says. Listen to every word when He speaks because you are from Him. Then He takes your hand and changes you from station to station, from surrender to belief to divine insight (al-islam to al-iman to al-ihsan).

If He had not given you the right religion, you would not know why you are in this world. He made you to carry the holy message. Give the message of mercy and love to all those who want to change themselves from the darkness to the light. Do not forbid anyone who wants to sit near you because you live in the garden and he has lived in darkness. You are better than the angels, and the angels pray for you. But know the secret. You will not know if you do not follow every order in the holy books, and every order from all the prophets. Change every quality to be like the qualities of God. If you do not do this, then the order only lives on the outside. The orders of Allah carry many, many meanings.

Prayer is an outside order, also fasting in Ramadan and giving charity (az-zakat) are outside orders. But there is a deeper meaning in these orders. The deep meaning in the right religion and the special religion is surrender (al-islam), to give everything for God. This is an inside meaning. It means to go beyond all that you have been and be special for God. Remember His name, and remember that there is no god but He. This is the first station in which you walk and say, “I am a Muslim.” But He needs you to obey His order. When you clean all the qualities in your body, this is al-islam. Do not steal. Be truthful. Be good to people, and help everyone to walk in the way, and be polite when you walk. This is what He wants from you in every quality. Leave everything outside, and refuse all the qualities that are not from the truth. He wants you to stand facing Him in every prayer. Be sincere and empty yourself of everything but God. Speak only His words, and do only what He wants. There is nothing, only He. Leave everything that is not useful and walk in the way. If you change everything, then you are the holy book, and you are the message. Send the message to everyone. Be the message, and give of yourself, and make yourself Him because first He wanted you, and He loved you first.

Then He will take you and put you in the holy garden of the soul. This garden is different from the first garden. It is holy and full of meaning and wisdom. In this station, you can say, “I am running to You, leaving everything I have known before, to be in Your presence. Keep me with You all the time, and help me to give Your holy mercy to anyone who needs it. Please help me my Lord, for there is no life without Your mercy.” These are holy words spoken by the believer, the one who wants to give everything to God. There is no one who can feel this unless he lives in this life. Say, “I ask You, my God, to change every quality, to take me from station to station, and to teach me the holy meaning because I am nothing without You. I am like a camel lost in the desert who has not had a drink for many days. When he finds water, he drinks and drinks until his thirst is quenched. I am like the camel because I have found water in the garden.” Then He gives you the water to help you clean yourself of all unnecessary qualities. The only thing you must do is to pray and to open your heart. He wants you to believe in every order He sends, and He wants you to be certain in your heart when you are with this order.

This is the first order, al-islam. The second order, which is the way of the heart and is special for the heart, is al-iman. O my brother, listen to every word. Every order is from your God to help you to reach Him. If you do not follow what He has sent you, you will not reach Him, and you will live outside His garden. You must leave all the unnecessary qualities of the human being outside, and put in their place special qualities for the soul. You need the real politeness to be with God and the prophets, with your guide and with your brothers and sisters. The picture of the guide is the picture of your brothers and sisters. The picture of the guide is the picture of the prophets, and the picture of the prophets is the picture of God.

Know what I am saying. If you are not polite, you will not reach. I would like you to sit on the holy carpet, but understand what I mean. This is the voice of Allah to you, and you must follow it if you want to have knowledge of Allah. Empty yourself of everything from your past and die to be in the Day of Judgment now. Then you are born again. Break your tomb and wake up from your sleep because you are the jewel, and you are the secret inside the jewel. You cannot know the secret if you do not break this jewel. You are priceless because He wants you. You are also very holy, if you know. You cannot reach until you break the glass inside you, and put everything outside except Allah. After that you can continue, if you are able, and I think you are because He would not have put you in this place if He did not want you. Give your self and your soul and everything that you have to God if you believe in what I say. In this way, you need to be a believer all the time. This is the real station and a very deep station. If anyone does not believe in the truth, he will not reach, and Allah will put him outside and discharge him from the holy garden. This is the fifth station of the heart, as-sidq, the righteousness.

The Fourth Station of the Heart

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4. Al-Khawf: Fear of God If you want to walk in the way of God, you need to know where you sit with God. You need to understand everything that God wants from you. If you are not polite with Allah, He will not give you any of the holy meaning. Above all, you must open your hearing for God’s voice. His voice is different from anything that you have known. Now you begin to speak with Him, and when you sit with Him you must give everything to Him. You must open every quality to hear Him and put everything in its place through the holy meaning. You must look at His face all the time because then you sit in the holy garden, the garden of meaning.

If you lose time when you are with Him, you will not understand why Allah has put you in this place. Then you will not know the message, and you will not know what He wants from you. Allah gives you this station to learn the meaning of the fear of Him. What does He mean by fearing Him? Anyone who sits close to a king fears the power of the king. Yet Allah is not like a king who governs this earth. If anyone does anything wrong, an earthly king will punish him or kill him. Allah will not do what an earthly king would do, but He will discharge anyone from His garden who is not polite. It is very difficult for anyone who has lived in His kingdom to return to live outside. No one can continue to walk or to return to what they had reached before, unless Allah wanted to give them another chance. This is what I mean when I say that you need to fear Him if you want to sit near the holy King, but the difference here is that there is no one, only He, and you are His picture. This picture needs to be clean, and full of the mercy, and full of the secret love, and you must know the meaning of the secret love. I say again and again, when you want to sit with God, be in fear of Him. Yet this is a different fear. You fear Him because you want to be special for Him, and to look only at His face. And there is no more body because your body is broken. You travel on this holy journey all your time.

You sit with your God face to face, but in your soul. Your soul has broken open and has changed. You wake up in another high station and want to reach the holy soul of God because this is the father of your soul. You are from Him and you want to return to Him. If you do not know what I mean, clean your mind because your mind is the picture of your heart. There is no difference between your heart and soul and self if you are with God because He does not know numbers. He is al-Wahid. He is One. Lam yalid wa lam yulad. He begets not, nor is He begotten. And there is no one like Him. There is no one like Him, only His heart. Be the house for His heart. To understand and to reveal what He wants from you, you need to be with Him all the time, and to not lose any time, not one minute. Do not waste any time. Pray to God all the time, when you walk and when you work. Pray when you look at anything because in any quality you can see the face of Allah. Do not miss any prayer, and remember the name of God.

Do not think of other things when you sit in this station. Here you sit between the fire and the garden. Remain in your place because He put you in this place. If you look right or left or behind you, you will fall down and you will touch the fire. This fire discharges you and returns you outside. Then you are lost for the rest of your time. You are like an animal, but an animal is better than you. You have carried the message, whereas an animal does not understand. Why do you not sit and be polite? Why do you lose your time? Why do you look right and left? Be special for Him. This station is very dangerous. Look at your qualities in this station. This is a high station that needs you to break your soul to change everything inside your soul. Do not refuse any order, and do whatever He wants. Listen when He says anything to your heart. Live with Him, for Him. This is what He wants from you. Continue to pray and to remember the name of God. Do not stand still, and be silent because He will speak to you. He loves you. Be with Him all the time. You have no time because every minute is from Him. He wants you to be clean, but what do I mean by clean? Give mercy to everyone and everything. You are the mercy, and everything is inside you. Listen to His voice because He speaks to you every moment.

Listen and, if you can, do not refuse anything when you live in this station. I will ask Him to help you, and to give you what you want, and what He wants. This is the fourth station of the heart, the fear of God, al-khawf. This station is more dangerous than any other station because your body has completely changed to be your soul. The body is like a glass, and when you are not polite, you will break the glass before your time.

The Second Station of the Heart

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2. At-Taslim: Surrender to God If anyone wants to walk in the way and to live in the garden, then he must leave his body, his heart, and his soul, and be only with God, to be with Him face to face. You cannot go left or right. You must walk straight and speak to no one, only to God. You must not see anyone, only God. You must not walk with anyone, only God. When you live in this station, you wonder how you lived before you found the way. Now you can know yourself, and you can change everything from the outside to the inside, and see no difference between the two. There is no difference now between your self and your soul, and there is no difference between anything inside you because there is nothing, only He. He is she, and she is he because He returns everything to the first world – the world of the subtle (al-latif). The return means that you change from the world of the thick body (al-kathif) to the world of the subtle soul (al-latif). You return your being to the place where it was when you were born. But there really is no place where you are born in your soul. You are really nothing and you come from the holy soul in the first world. This is the world of Allah. There is no place, no heaven and no earth, that can contain God because everything is from Him. If everything is from Him, why not give everything back to Him?

Leave everything and give it to God, soul to soul and heart to heart. When you reach this station, you reach the garden of surrender. This surrender is deeper than any other surrender because now you are surrendered in God. No one in this station feels troubles, and everything in your life is peace and love because now your life is the life of your God. This is the station of the secret love. Remember until you know how to fill your heart with this love because this love is deep and it is full of the meaning of Allah’s holy word. This word does not disappear because it is from Allah. When you live in this station you are born many times, and you give the love to many faces because your face is the face of the love.

When you understand what I mean, you will understand the message – a very holy message which is a picture of the first world in which Allah made everything. I want you to return to live in this world. It is the world of the angels and the souls. There is no difference between angels and souls. You are the sun of truth. Know your sun (the deep light of your soul). If your sun rises, then you know why He put you in this world. You understand why He made you. He did not make you to eat and to sleep. He did not make you only to make money. You know what your message is in everything. Give everything and leave everything. When you give everything, you live in the garden of surrender (at-taslim), and this is the garden of knowledge. This is what I want. You could not have reached before. Open everything inside you, and then you find only Allah. Listen to every meaning in every word in every book of the prophets. Then you will know the meaning of the truth. I ask God to give you the meaning of everything. Do not go left or right and do not lose any time because He will ask you about every minute. This is a holy message and this is what He wants from you. In this message you can know everything. This is the station of at-taslim – surrender to God.

The First Station of the Heart

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1. At-Tawba: Return to God

You want to return to God to clean yourself and to wipe away all your mistakes. When anyone wants to change everything from the outside to the inside and wants to live in this station, he needs to be clean and to walk in the way of God. You need to wash your entire body because you have lived in darkness and trouble.

When you want to listen to the voice of God, you must give your hearing to this voice. When He, Praised and Exalted is He, says to you, “Come and listen to what I say,” you must open your hearing because God wants to put holy words inside you. You must clean your hearing because God wants you to hear only His word. First He loved you and wanted you, then you loved and wanted Him, and then He caught you so that you could speak with Him.

First, you must say, “My God, I want to live with You in everything. Clean me and place me inside Your heart. Do with me what You want. I will listen to Your every word. I am Your servant. I want to be a special servant for You; nothing else do I want. I want only to see Your face. Give me love, and help me to know the meaning of this love. I do not know anything if You do not help me.

“My beloved God, I am here, and I am at peace only with You. My soul is with You, and in my heart there is no difference between anything inside or outside me. Clean me with Your water of truth because everyone who wants to see You needs this water.

“Now I am beginning to remember Your name all the time. I do not lose any time. I pray to You. I know that You do not need this praying because this praying is only from me to myself. I ask You to help me to know the meaning of this praying, and to practice it. I am between Your hands. These hands are different from any other hands because they are very holy.

“O my God, everyone needs to know, but who will understand if You do not care about him? I want to walk in Your steps. Give me a strong heart and a quiet heart, and make me polite.

“When I reach this station, I am beginning to know You, and You are what I am. This is the truth. I have searched for a long time. Now I promise to continue in this way, and to not lose any minute because every minute is for You.

“My Lord, help me to open my heart and soul, and to give my heart to anyone who wants to know You. Help me to show the flower inside my heart, so that anyone can take what they need from this flower because everyone needs the fragrance of this flower. This fragrance is different from any other because this is Your fragrance. Put it inside me and help me to know all the stations. This is what I want, nothing else. Keep me, and do not discharge me from this life.

“There are two things in the world between the people – light and darkness. I hope to live all my life in the light, and to give everyone what You give me because You are the Mercy for everyone. Your message is my message, and I will not leave this message if You help me. I want to return my soul to the place where it was when You made me, to the place that Muhammad, the father of my soul, showed me, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him. He is the guide of the love because his face is Your face. I will not refuse any order he gives me, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, because this is what You want. I give everything to this guide because he is a prophet from You. Muhammad, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, sent his sons to this world to give Your message to everyone who wants it. I thank my guide for this chance because he has put me here, and he knows the way of Your love. This is all I want. My God, fill my heart with love and mercy and politeness.

“My tomb is broken and I rise up because my moon is ascending. I see everything in my heart, and my heart begins to speak to You because now my heart is Your house.”

The Seventh Station of the Self

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7. Al-Kamala: The Perfection of the Nafs

Al-kamala is the station of the perfection of the nafs. When you reach completion in the stations of the nafs, all of the nafs become purified. Here, you begin to live completely in the station of the heart. You must walk through every station, not only in words, but in your whole being. I want everyone to know how to walk in this high station.

I know every student before he is born because God gives the guide the knowledge to know all of his students. When you know yourself well, then you are like the guide. Do not only repeat, but live every word that the guide says to you.

This is only a very short explanation and my language is very simple. To explain fully would take a book for each station. But if you open your heart and walk, you will find everything inside.

 

 

The Sixth Station of the Self

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6. Al-Mardiyya: Accepting Without Asking

You listen to the voice of God and you begin to see the picture of the truth. You see the world through the eye of your heart and you begin to speak in the language of the soul. You know that there is no difference between anything, and you say, “I am Your servant. I am the picture of God and there is no difference between the body and the soul.” You start to know that there is no beginning and no ending. You become thirsty for truth, and you stop speaking with yourself. Now you listen to the voice of God. Everything inside you changes, and you see that everything is from God, and that it is God Who is helping you to change. You speak in the tongue of God, but it is not yet complete and you must walk more.

There is no more ash-shaitan here. Where can he be? He is nowhere because he has disappeared. Love conquers everything. It conquers the nafs and the shaitan. After this, you begin to know the secret.