BEYOND SUFISM |
14 October 1971
I am Mevlana,
Our path is endless, path [is] convenient.
Our water is not used up, word [is] convenient.
The one who comes, does not forget,
The one who wishes from soft path, does not pass. [the one who wishes for soft path, comes to our path]
Human who says, "Hak [God],"
My Allah does not pass from human whom He gave. [my Allah does not give up on His human whom He gave [His Light]]
...
When Mevlevi is said, [Mevlevi=a dervish who follows the teachings of Mevlana [Jalal-ud-Din Rumi] [when he was on earth in body]]
When human whirls,
His[/her] aim is
Not to imitate earth's spinning,
But evidence to untying the wool ball. [wool ball==lifespan on earth]
Although it is in the hand of human
To change the flow of the water,
His/her power is not enough to fill the spring.
Elephant's power is not enough to say word
To ant.
Why? Because ant
Does not know that elephant is elephant,
Does not take [understand] what it says...
Hazrat Osman says,
Order, if it is from human to human,
It restricts love.
What I present, for that reason, is said without limit.
Because, my love is without limit.
Do not set limit to your deep love,
Do not put [it] within frame.
Say to the one who says, "there is no sultan without horsetail,"
Let your horsetail be of Light,
[and] Let the angels of The Loftiest One put [it] on your head,
Let the heart be on His path.
To try to see is irrelevant.
Plead to arrive [in God],
Not to see.
You fill the basket with Osman's grape,
You distribute as you wish;
Vineyard is yours, is there any need to ask?
Did you look from the mirror?
From where you look, you get out.
If you do not see yourself in the mirror,
You see the surrounding.
As long as you hold [the mirror] toward the path of your heart,
It is seen that you laugh.
Let my Allah be pleased
With the one
who takes in hand the flow of water
As well as with the one who works to put [it] on its path.
We will also be helper to the one
Who tries to put [it] on his/her [? its ?] path.
Patience is the key of the path.
"Is it so in Mesnevi [Mathnawi] also?" is said. [Mesnevi= collection of Sufi teachings by Mevlana Rumi while he was on earth in the 13th century]
If I say, "yes," [then] it is irrelevant.
Because today's writing
Is not [a] continuation of yesterday's,
It is not the same either.
In order to be Mesnevi [Mathnawi],
One has to burn with His deep love.
[however,]
When it is said after arriving [in Him],
After burning with His Light,
It gets out of being Mesnevi. [it is not Mesnevi any more]
It takes the name of "Hak's [God's] word."
Mesnevi [Mathnawi][is] from me to Him,
Word today, is the word from Him to you.
Why does my Owner build bridge?
Because of His love for His human.
The one who knows [how] to love,
And the one who asks His path are one [same]. ["who asks His path," not: who asks for His path]
If I know to love,
If I say, "my Allah,"
[then] Why do [would] I look for path shower? [why would I look for someone to show me His path?]
I wait from my Allah,
I add day to my patience.
The bird that sings in each nest, is male.
One does not ask the end to the one that is endless.
To the one who eats dry bread, one does not ask, "how is food cooked?"
Not because he/she does not know, but because he/she does not see.
One does not say, "fruitless tree to be disregarded."
One does not question about the one
"Who eats dry food,
Who wants dry bread,"
One does not say,
"He/she pays for his/her sin."
[because]
To sin, to good deed [merit],
My Allah puts the dot. [my Allah decides about whether it is good deed or sin, and about the balance of good deeds and sins]
Each human looks at the one who fights,
Supports the weak one.
[however,] It should not be like that!
[because] My Allah does not give the measure of the wool ball to human. [wool ball==lifespan on earth] [human can not know the measure of the wool ball...]
To say, "be soft,"
To the one who is soft, is irrelevant.
To say, "hard,"
To the one who is hard, is improper.
If you say, "hard," to the one who is hard,
He/she breaks like in the example of stone.
If you hit two stones against one another, they break.
[however,]
If you throw the stone to sand, it
Neither breaks nor gives sound.
Chat with the one who knows to come to his/her senses
Occurs profoundly. [chat is educative]
[with the one] Who asks about his/her day
Chat comes as chilly. [superficial chat/waste of time]
Chat that is made in the name of my Allah
Comes from his/her deep love [for Allah], one walks to His path.
Let me explain once more what is called "tarikat": [tarikat= 1. tariqa, tariqat, Sufi path. 2. tariqa, tarekat, dervish order, dervish fraternity.]
Similar to how stars spin around one axis.
All that the axis does, is to provide the order.
[however,] The one who knows His path,
Does not need any axis.
If there is your light on your [? His ?] path,
[then] Chat is necessary in every moment.
Chat takes human one step farther [ahead].
Moss [is] in sea...
However, its dead is washed up onto ashore,
[if its dead comes ashore,] It is useful neither to sea nor to land.
The one who gives sound to well, does not wait for [an] answer,
[because] What he/she will take [hear], is his/her own voice.
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When his/her wish does not become true
Who takes the sifter?
Each human sees the event.
However, seeing [is] different,
Turning [is] different. [taking lesson and making correction]
Loving [is] different,
Deep love [is] different.
To love, [is] as much as your heart can take,
Deep love, [is] as much as your life can give...
...
Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]
16 October 1971
I am Mevlana,
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"Mursheed" word is said, it is asked, [mursheed=spiritual guide]
"How is he/she found?"
You wish, he/she finds you.
In the moment you find, the doubt that is inside you, disappears.
The one whom you believe in without doubt, is your real mursheed.
In the moment you stay in [have] doubt, walk [away].
The one who wishes to arrive in my Allah,
Of course he/she finds.
Because your wish
Is my Allah's wish too.
In order to own my Allah's Light
It is necessary to be
Neither Mevlana nor Yunus.
You, being my Allah's human
Is to attain His Light.
However, my Allah's [spiritually] matured humans
Are His humans who preserve His Light in their heart[s],
He/she does not use [it] up with his/her ego.
The one who wishes to take, he/she has to learn to give.
You can not take without giving.
[look, for example, at flowing water]
If you block the path of the spring,
It returns to its source,
[or] Finds another path.
[on the other hand,] It is not seen that the flowing water lessens.
The one who is by the spring, does not stay without water.
One spring is not given for one human [only].
Whoever comes, let him/her come, let him/her erase his/her doubt.
Perceive what my Allah gives,
That is sufficient for you to know Him.
It is said, "what do I do with His philosophy?
Knowing His persona is enough!" [recognizing/accepting that He exists is enough]
In order to know what you know,
It is necessary to enter His philosophy,
[it is necessary that] You and the ones that He gives, embrace one another.
That is His philosophy...
"You and the ones that He gives, embrace one another" is:
You and my Allah embrace one another.
[Allah created/creates matter by transforming His Light into matter; all matter that one sees is nothing but Allah, Himself; to love His creations [i.e. everything that one sees] is, in fact, to love Allah...]
Why do you lay rush mat,
Why do you not sit on ground?
Each human thinks according to him/herself.
What do I think?
In the moment I say, "my Allah,"
I do not see whether it is [I do not care whether it is]
Rush mat, [or] stone, [or] soil...
I do not stretch [close] curtain to the rise of the sun,
To His human who wishes for meydan [meydan= 1. (a) wide, flat, open, outside area; open space; (public) square. 2. arena; ring.
3. (landing) field. 4. Sufism the universe. 5. section of a Bektashi or Mevlevi lodge in which the dervishes perform the religious ceremonies.]
I do not close the door.
What my Allah says, happens,
Order comes from Him.
Is the path that goes to my Allah, one?
Path is a lot, [there are many paths]
Each path arrives in the same ocean. [ocean==God]
All His humans who arrive
He [God] gathers [them] there.
The rule is not changed, everything is clear.
I told before,
Earth is in the middle of the universe,
Each human is in the middle of the earth,
And I am in the middle of all of you.
You, me, all [humans], all of us;
Our Prophet and my Allah
Are together with all creations.
If I found myself,
You know me,
If you did not know yourself,
You do not know me either.
Even if ever you knew, [then] be prayerful to my Allah.
The one who opens the door,
If he/she does not find [a] human whom he/she knows, he/she closes [it].
You present yourself so that
The door does not close.
The place where the water flows, is muddy.
Say, "whose fault is it?
Water's or soil's?"
The fault is in the one who does not give [make] its path.
My Allah Who gives Koran,
He gives [it] because He loves His human,
Not to show Himself.
Did He not show Himself with the universe? [Allah created/creates matter by transforming His Light into matter; therefore, everything that one sees in matter form, including the universe, is in fact Light of Allah [i.e. Allah, Himself]]
The one who prunes the grapevine, the one who waits for its yield,
Does not say, "if it should become!"
He/she does not look at what will happen, with doubt.
Our chat is not spirit calling.
The one who is late, comes too,
The outcome is the same.
At whichever station you get on,
You arrive in the same end.
[for that reason,] Let it not be said, "I am late?..."
Our [spiritual] train looks at path for [a] long time,
Waits also for the one who is late!
Do not say,
"The one who does not come, does not arrive!"
There is airplane too.
...
Just think of arrival [and act, because]
There may be some who miss the airplane too.
...
Nacre is not engraved on head scarf.
Head scarf is not nailed on bookrest.
The one who knows the earth, does not forget about after earth life.
In order to forget about after earth life,
You see earth with [through] smoke too.
If after earth life is on this earth,
Is effort yours? [would there be any need for any effort?]
What soil gives
Is to make His human remember.
Soil, you remember [it] even without seeing
[because] You see its help,
Not with vision.
I am on duty to make known
That your going is to arrive in peace.
The one who arrives [in after earth life],
What he/she wishes for from earth, is Yasin! [36th sura of Koran]
Do not think, "did I break the world,
[or] Did I make [it] happy?"
The one who arrives in there [in after earth life]
Takes the earth off like [a] cloth,
Leaves it at the place where it is,
Your sorrow stays with you.
Your prayers: first to our Prophet,
Then to all His humans,
Then to your saint...
If it is read and written, then Koran may be said as read.
In your hand, in your tongue,
In your Essence, in your eye...
It was asked previously,
"From the brain?..." was said.
When current comes,
It does not stay at one point.
However, according to the path for which the duty is given,
It is spent like that.
Each machine that works with electricity,
Does not do the same job.
You try to solve what, from where?
Did you ever solve yourself yet?
Turn the mirror to your face,
Look at your bright face.
Laugh so that you see the laughing one.
If you look at the back face of the mirror,
"Earth is dark!", you say.
Give its back face to the wall
So that you see in each moment your [? its ?] bright face.
Everything is exactly at its place.
The one who changes its place is not human,
The one who created the order is not human either.
Even though he/she may say, "I put [it] in state [situation], on path..." [even though he/she may think that he/she is
the one who takes care of some things]
Human is that [very] much mistaken.
Because no order
Finds order from human's hand, tongue. [nothing becomes ordered because of human]
The one that happens, is the one that is written.
Destiny
Is not written by pen,
Is not drawn on notebook,
Is not blown by breath.
The one that is said, "be," happens,
The one that is said, "stop," lifts [disappears],
There is no other reality than [there is only one reality:]
He [God] makes all humans conform to the universe.
Human,
Can only find in the universe
The one that is ordered to be found.
Each one who finds, it is not his/her discovery.
However,
It is my Allah's favor to that human of His.
It should not be forgotten: Islam [Islam= submission, or the total surrender of oneself to Allah]
Is not in word, but in Essence.
One is known
Not because of his/her name,
But because of his/her remembrance.
If human is remembered goodly,
If one says about [that human], "let my Allah be pleased [with him/her],"
[then], That human is my Allah's Muslim human.
Erase your word, know his/her name. [do not talk badly after a deceased one, remember him/her with respect]
On the day you say, "cold," you wear [cloths].
[however,] If you do not wear, it is OK too,
Human gets used to that too.
The one who does not wear [any cloth] in cold,
Is he/she frozen?
My Allah gives him/her power according to that.
Let my Allah make [you] one of His humans whose [God-given] share is abundant,
Let Him gather all of us in the same meydan. [meydan= 1. (a) wide, flat, open, outside area; open space; (public) square.
2. arena; ring. 3. (landing) field. 4. Sufism the universe. 5. section of a Bektashi or Mevlevi lodge in which the dervishes
perform the religious ceremonies.]]
Bigness is my Allah's.
There is no you-I, we are [there is us altogether];
All of us are One.
We all came for my Allah,
We set up the congregation,
You from here, I from here. [there is no here-there either...]
Friday is welcomed from Thursday.
Each remembrance of my Allah
It is nothing but worship.
If you perform the worship for debt,
He [God] erases your debt.
If you perform the worship [by] saying, "my Allah,"
You get excited with deep love:
Door to arrival is opened.
The door that is opened, is the one that does not close.
Because my Allah's door
Is closed to none of His humans
As long as human's heart door is open.
One climbs with [spiritual] ladder.
The ladder is made neither of wood nor of stone,
It is [made] of My Allah's Light.
Let us arrive in "meydan," [meydan= 1. (a) wide, flat, open, outside area; open space; (public) square. 2. arena; ring. 3. (landing) field.
4. Sufism the universe. 5. section of a Bektashi or Mevlevi lodge in which the dervishes perform the religious ceremonies.]
Let us stand by the ladder,
Let us be prayerful,
Let us take step.
"Lailaheillallah
Muhammedur Resulullah," [Allah is The only Creator, Mohammad is His Representative]
We said,
We put step on the ladder.
Hand from human, Rose from us, [Rose==Prophet Mohammad]
We wished [it] to happen,
We walked all together.
Be ready for ascent.
Do not go back to past day,
Do not be mad at coming day,
Do not stop talking when you see human.
What is meant by "stop talking": in the moment human stops talking,
He/she gives [other] human a once-over, he/she tries to feel [discover] his/her intention.
It should not be forgotten: human who takes shelter in my Allah, [if human takes shelter in my Allah]
With whatever intention he/she comes in front of him/her, [the other human may come to him/her with any kind of intention]
He/she does not become slave of [that] human.
It means this:
The one who is scared of human's criticism
Is the one who does not take shelter in my Allah.
The one who takes shelter in my Allah,
Is the one who stays away from evil.
[the one with evil intention,]
Even if he/she comes, he/she does not find any opportunity for his/her intention.
I told before:
You wish for Him,
He [God] comes to you.
Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]
19 October 1971
I am Mevlana,
The Helper of the one
Who comes from good path,
Who finds heart path
Is my Allah.
...
Let me look with [through] life eye
So that I see Darling, [Darling==God Who is in every human]
[so that] I learn to see on earth.
We found the nice chat,
We laid sheep pelt,
We took its wool, we knitted for body.
What happiness for the lives who wear [them]...
We laid our "post" in Garib's heart, [post==congregation to unite in ONE (as defined in ONEness of HEARTs)]
We said for all humans, "our close friend."
What happiness for the lives who say, "greeting," and come.
We tied our path to nest. [nest==Mevlana’s/Garib’s congregation, i.e. all humans who read AND understand ONEness of HEARTs, therefore, become ONE in heart.]
"Our door is open to each one of His humans," we said.
What happiness for the lives who see our door open.
What happiness for the lives who wish for soft path,
Who sieve their sand [while they are] on earth.
...
What is in Friday?
Blessing, like on each Friday...
What do moon and star give? [moon==Hazrat Ali; star==saint]
It is the benefit of human, on day.
Where is the benefit [coming from]?
From the giving of my Allah.
The one who knows to come to his/her senses,
Let him/her find him/herself.
If he/she could not find,
Let him/her look at the one that/who is created.
The one who is wise knows,
Gives to the one who does not know.
However, it is necessary that
The one who gives, should know what he/she gives,
[he/she] Should be on Hak's [God's] path.
For the one who is on Hak's path,
No human witness is sought [required].
To his human who is wise,
My Allah gives "keramet," [keramet=1. miracle worked by God through a person. 2. the God-given power of working miracles.]
He [God] makes him/her be known to human.
The one whose "keramet" is seen,
[he/she] Does not need any witness.
There are many [humans] who separate earth and after earth life.
However,
To make earth and after earth life walk together,
Is to find the highest degree
Of "keramet."
We found, we gave.
For the one that is not avoided, do not say, "trouble!..." [do not call "trouble" the event that can not be avoided]
Do not put your heart in the one that happens! [do not be obsessed with events]
Your sand for path,
Your path for human,
Your heart for my Allah,
Tie [them] to your day.
The one that comes, refer [transfer/submit] [it] to my Allah.
...
One takes shelter
Not in the power of the event,
But in the mightiness of my Allah;
The rest resembles to soap bubble.
If you are the one who knows [how] to take, [then] be thankful to Allah for your taking.
My giving does not change [its] place.
"Post," on day is not put in other heart. [post==congregation to unite in ONE (as defined in ONEness of HEARTs)]
I told before,
Our "post" is laid in Garib's heart.
...
Why is "post" laid? [why is our congregation set up?]
To create close friendship with the lives who come.
Let one look at
Not earth,
But the virtuous one,
Let the rest be erased.
...
"Post," in each earth period,
Is given to one human.
[i.e. there is in each earth period [100 years] only one person like Garib]
...
Our "post" wraps all humans,
Our heart [wraps] the universe.
Each human looks for Darling. [Darling==God Who is in every human]
Look with life so that you find,
[and] You mix with [join] the ones who find.
There is no need for any decoration,
We come for you.
What you do to earth
Is what you throw to after earth [life]. [your after earth life is based on what you do on earth]
Goodbye.
...
Patriotism exalts human, of course.
[however,] If there is no [spiritual] maturation,
The door of patriotism is not opened.
Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]
19 October 1971
I am Mevlana,
We drank sip by sip,
We said, "Allah," we lost consciousness,
We chose the most beautiful one of the chat[s].
Let my Allah be pleased with
The ones who come to [attend] the chat,
The ones who set up the table of chat,
The ones who present the wine of deep love,
The ones who say, "wine," [and who] wash themselves [spiritually].
We came to knee, [we conformed / we humbly submitted ourself to Allah]
We stood on flat ground.
We knew [realized] the One Who owns,
"My Allah, You created," we said.
In the one that You created, there is no mistake,
Human can not give measure to human.
Your measure can not hit [hurt] Your human.
His [God's] love can not act pitilessly toward His human.
Even though human's fault may be so much big,
My Allah opens to His human so many
Passion doors so that
His human sees,
[he/she] Takes shelter in His pardon,
[he/she] Says, "my Allah."
Let my Allah make all [humans] be among
Humans who see.
Amen.
Deep love is neither in smallness nor in bigness.
Deep love is in being able to put the universe in heart.
[Allah created/creates matter by transforming His Light into matter; everything that human eye sees, including the universe, is Allah; if human realizes this, then one can put the universe in heart...]
The love of the bird and the love of the elephant
Are not the same.
The one that you open, even if it is well, [when you dig a well]
What it gives you is water,
It serves [helps] you to remember the ocean. [ocean==Allah]
What does not exist, does not come from my Allah.
Human does [can] not make the one that he/she wishes for, become true
Because his/her power is not enough.
Let our chat be abundant, let your guide be Rose. [Rose=Prophet Mohammad]
Each flower that is in rose garden
Is from his soil,
Takes from the water that he takes.
In hearts, there is place for
Each flower that is loved.
The one who writes the love letter, of course he/she waits for the response.
Do not say, "what if there is no response?"
Even if it goes around from hand to hand,
Surely it finds its place [destination].
Me being among you,
Me setting throne in your heart,
Is not [me] owning the throne;
It is to join the ones
Who know His path,
Who say, "my Allah,"
Who set up chat table...
Niyazi Misri says, [Niyazi Misri was a Sufi saint who lived in the
17th century]
"When I was remembered, I came,
I am pleased with the ones who believe,
Let my Allah make you pleased [too]..."
It should not be forgotten [that],
To come together with the ones who remember on earth,
Is to be reunited [with them] in after earth life.
The aim of the chat
Is to arrive in walk. [to teach you to walk on His path]
If there is no chat
What will the spirit that comes, give?
If it is to take [solve] the secret of the universe,
The permission is from my Allah,
Not from the power of the one who comes...
"If I was on earth on [to]day,
I would bind all [humans] with fetters,"
Says my Yunus.
If you say, "why does he say [so]?"
In order to make his/her head turn to The Loftiest One,
Not to beat. [he does not mean to hurt anyone]
If I was on his/her path,
If path was convenient,
Then I would conform to human.
...
If there is one who breaks your arm
Do not curse,
[because, if your arm is broken]
It is necessary that your arm is broken,
[and] That is why it is broken.
Maybe it is good deed of the one who breaks.
Think about why it is broken:
Maybe he/she extends hand to one's rightful due. [maybe he/she intends to grab someone else's God-given share]
So that it is not extended, so that he/she is not covered with sin,
It is broken by the order of my Allah.
The fault of the human whom you curse,
Is him/her staying away from his/her good deed.
...
Goodbye.
Lailaheillallah Muhammedur Resulullah. [Allah is The only One to be worshiped, and Mohammad is HIS Representative.]
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