In the Name of AllaaHu, the Elixir of Love, the Fragrance of Love
Hazrat Mawlana Rumi (rahimahullaah) in the presence of Khwaja Khidr (alaihisalaam), the ancient green dervish:
Rumi: "Friend, show me yourself as you really are. I have come with the purpose of making a closer acquaintance."
Khidr: "I am the Abode of Light, you could not endure me."
Rumi: "But show me yourself anyway that I may understand."
Rumi persists on his request but Khwaja Khidr does not reply immediately. Instead he proposes to attune Mawlana to the Mystery which is beyond all possible surface manifestations by remaining in the Great Silence behind all things.
Rumi: "At least reveal to me your real name."
Khidr: "Allaahu! There is no other name, only Allaahu! There is none, only Hu! All We in Hu are but One. Isn't this clear enough to you? Many others have to wait long, really long, before they can realize this, but you have gained the platform O dervish, now you must master being in the Singular Presence, in Hu."
Rumi: "Tell me, how did you develop into the state of Oneness?"
Khidr: "I have come to the Beloved through the Beloved. I don't remember the rest, nor do I want to know it! It is of no value for me any longer. My silence is Hu. My voice is Hu. My coming and going is Hu. My being here is Hu!"
Rumi: "Is it possible for a person in the embodied state to reach your state?"
Khidr: "It is not only possible, but it becomes a necessity at the end of one's long, long journey. I declare once again that ultimately there is none in existence, only Hu!"
Rumi: "Tell me of the secret path, the path of lovers."
Khidr: "Disappearance into the Source of Love, the Heart of Existence! You call it Tasawwuf (Sufism). It is the kernel of your religion, not a dead set of rules, dogmas, and directions. It is the living spiritual science of your religion. Tasawwuf, the Way of Love, is a living tree that takes roots in the heart. It grows even as perspectives widen. It leads to the horizon of becoming, to the unfoldment of Man."
To be a Sufi means to live by the Beauty of Allaahu alone. Wherever the heart of the Sufi turns, there is the Beauty of the Beloved invisible to the ordinary eye. Existence is pervaded with Hu's Beauty which can only be perceived by the eyes of a heart energized by love's sun and soaked with love's rain.
Rumi: "How does a lover breathe?"
Khidr: "His breath is Hu!"
Rumi: "How does a lover rest and move?"
Khidr: "His rest and motion and that which is beyond them are Hu!"
Rumi: "How does a lover see?"
Khidr: "A lover is he who does not take his eyes off the Beauty of the Beloved! He lives by this Beauty alone and because he has been slain by it he sees the Beloved through the Beloved."
Rumi: "Why do you visit this coarse physical plane of existence?"
Khidr: "To permeate the Earth with the Light of Allaahu! Everywhere Hu looks, there I am."
Rumi: "Reveal to me the essence of Union."
Khidr: "No words for it. You must directly experience it. But you may listen to me: First put your mind to silence with the word "Hu" and let the Reality of that word permeate your spiritual heart. Just dissolve your self in the Great Silence of Hu, yes sink, sink deep into it! Blend with Hu completely. Transform all yourself into love and enter Union in that form for in the Kingdom of Love, no other form is welcome. Only love knows how to submerge itself into the Heart of the Absolute and dissolve in it. Only Allaahu remains!"
It is to be understood that the ego of Man is like a shadow, nay, darkness within darkness! Whereas Reality, al-Haqq, is Light upon lights. At this point, we see that it is only Tasawwuf that can bring psychogenetically developed souls to direct cognition of, and mergence with, Reality, with al-Haqq, with Allaahu.
Rumi: "Having cognized al-Haqq, what is the purpose of one's earthly existence?"
Khidr: "The purpose is to let the Flow of Allaahu, the Flow of Love, stream through your body, such that you represent Hu to the people. Discover the interconnectedness between people's different states and then rise from the depths of Union and fill your earthly presence with the Light of Allaahu! Let it be only the Light of Hu, the Light of Reality, to be perceived everywhere inside and outside your body and let people drink from Hu's Fountain of Light, which is your presence. Celebrate life with others this way! Be the Fragrance of Hu wherever you are!"
Rumi: "In other words, the purpose is to make possible for seekers to perceive and experience Hu?"
Khidr: "Indeed, a room can be dark for ages, but when someone enters it with a manifestly clear light, it becomes radiant almost in no time. The hidden treasure which you have discovered within yourself must be shared with others. Never work for the sake of attracting attention. Instead, fill the seekers' hearts with Hu's Light and give them a possibility of experiencing Hu's love. Teach nothing but love. There are what seem to be borders, on this physical plane of existence, between individual beings, but once they allow themselves to sink into al-Haqq, once they allow their individual I's to disappear, nothing remains, only Love, which is Allaahu! Submerge them into the Reality of the Whole!"
Rumi: "Indeed, love has appeared in the mirror of the heart, but often I still find myself trying to construct love with my own mind..."
Khidr: "Beauty works by its own reality and love responds to it in no time. Simply sink into the Essence of your being, Hu, with your love and longing for Hu, let everything else become dust. Then everything becomes effortless. Genuine Beauty lives deeper. In the depth of the expanded spiritual heart you will find the endless source of Beauty! It is a place of vivid colors of joy where the myriad threads of love originating in the depths of Reality shimmer with all of love's colors. Realizing Beauty within yourself, Hu will create beauty with your own hands for the glory of Hu's Self! This is the way spring birds sing, spring butterflies fly, and spring flowers bloom. This is the way anything of beauty fashions itself."
Rumi: "O Master... I now realize that I have died within your presence and you have died within my presence! Everything has ended and there remains only Hu! Hu alone, One, Boundless, Aware, there is nothing but Hu... Now the sun shall rise in the desert for love's sake! Behold Our Self-Aware Light! Allaahu... Allaahu... Allaahu Haqq! Allaahu Akbar! La ilaha illa Huwa!"
At this moment, Hazrat Mawlana Rumi slowly begins to whirl.... and his white light garment flies up and transforms this pure motion of love into gentle waves like those on the surface of a boundless Sea... Mawlana continues to whirl and whirl and whirl...and his garment extends up to the horizon as if it were a transparent cover over the whole manifest existence, under which a Sea of Light waves softly... There is only Light under it to behold... The one whirling is One with the Boundless Reality he represents. Know that the whirling itself is Hu!
No one knows when the whirling will cease, yet when it does cease, the Light shall remain.
A Hadith Qudsi:
He who searches for Me, will find Me.
He who has found Me, will cognize Me.
He who has cognized Me, will fall in love with Me.
He who has fallen in love with Me, will conceive passion for Me.
For him who has conceived passion for Me, I too will conceive passion.
He who is in love with Me, I shall kill.
And to him whom I have killed, I will pay a ransom for his life.
I Myself am the ransom for his life.
Salaam e Ishq,
{Dani}
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