What is true Islam?

[Guest guest]

Dear SYs,

 

i hope i am not boring readers with Islam but we should begin to

realize that true Islam is hardly practised. i hope one day out

Muslim brothers and sister will follow the footsteps of Tamil sufi

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen:

 

" We are not Muslims if we discard someone saying, " He holds another

belief. He belongs to a different religion. His color is not like

ours. " None of that matters; what we need is to be one. The only

real difference between men lies in their conduct and actions, their

qualities, and their faith, certitude, and determination. When these

are correct, then men are one, with no differences. So, we must keep

the good things and wash away the dirt. We must wash our innermost

hearts until they become light. We must make all people one with us.

The Prophet Muhammad explained this to us, but some of us who came

to the world forgot the message Allah sent. We must learn to wash

away our separations and become one again. That is true Islam. True

Islam has never discarded anyone. Once we entrust the kalima to

Allah, we will never again perceive anyone as different from us. We

will begin to love our neighbors as ourselves. "

 

Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a Sufi mystic, can best be

remembered for his efforts to bring unity through understanding to

the faithful of all religions.

 

Little is known of his early personal history. Records of his life

began in the early 1900s when religious pilgrims traveling through

the jungles of Sri Lanka first caught a glimpse of a holy man. They

were overwhelmed by the depth of divine knowledge that he imparted.

Sometime later a pilgrim invited him to a nearby village, and with

that began his public life as a teacher of wisdom. Throughout Sri

Lanka, people from all religious and ethnic traditions would listen

to his public discourses. Many consulted him on how to conduct

life's affairs, including public figures, politicians, the poor, and

the learned.

 

In 1971 Bawa Muhaiyaddeen accepted an invitation to visit the United

States. Here, once again, people from all religious, social, and

ethnic backgrounds would join to hear him speak. Across the United

States, Canada and England, he won recognition from religious

scholars, journalists, educators, and world leaders. The United

Nations' Assistant Secretary General, Robert Muller, asked for Bawa

Muhaiyaddeen's guidance on behalf of all mankind. Time Magazine

turned to him for clarification during the hostage crisis in 1980.

Thousands more were touched by his wise words when interviewed in

Psychology Today, the Harvard Divinity Bulletin, the Philadelphia

Inquirer, and the Pittsburgh Press. Wherever he went, he tirelessly

answered the many personal and mystical questions that people

brought to him until his death on December 8th, 1986. For fifteen

years, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen authored over twenty books, and the

Fellowship he founded recorded thousands of hours of audio and video

discourses. The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship now serves as a

thriving community dedicated to studying and disseminating the vast

treasury of his teachings.

 

The name Muhaiyaddeen literally means 'the giver of life to the true

belief.' And indeed Bawa Muhaiyaddeen did spend his life awakening

and strengthening faith in God within people's hearts. Though he was

an unlettered man, he was able to guide and inspire people from all

walks of life. Many scholars and leaders from the Hindu, Christian,

Judaic, and Islamic communities considered him to be a true saint.

(http://www.penkatali.org/bawa.html)

 

Perhaps one day humankind will understand Shri Mataji's Divine

Message of Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) not only to " bring unity

through understanding to the faithful of all religions " but also the

promise of eternal afterlife.

 

regards to all,

 

 

jagbir

[Guest guest]

shriadishakti , " jagbir singh

<adishakti_org> " <adishakti_org> wrote:

> Dear SYs,

>

> i hope i am not boring readers with Islam

 

 

My dear brother

 

As a fellow Sahaj scholar I welcome your contributions on Islam.

Please do continue.

 

I have included a page of relevant quotations on the theme of 'The

Mother in the Islamic tradition' in the latest version (2.6) of the

Sahaja Book of Prophecies, available for download in the files

section of this .

 

With best wishes, and Jai Shri Mataji!

 

John

'sahajhist'

[Guest guest]

shriadishakti , " sahajhist <sahajhist> "

<sahajhist> wrote:

> shriadishakti , " jagbir singh

> <adishakti_org> " <adishakti_org> wrote:

 

>

> I have included a page of relevant quotations on the theme of 'The

> Mother in the Islamic tradition' in the latest version (2.6) of

> the Sahaja Book of Prophecies, available for download in the files

> section of this .

>

 

Dear John,

 

Jai Shri Mataji!

 

i guess you must be the author of the much welcomed Sahaja Book of

Prophecies. It would be appreciated if you upload the same in Word

so that others like me can use to spread Sahaja Yoga. You should

know that SYs like springingriver have begun school projects on

Sahaja Yoga and Shri Mataji, a very positive step in the right

direction. If Sahaja Book of Prophecies is available in a Word

document it will cut down time and mistakes.

 

Thank you for the support of Islam. It is time we SYs raise the

consciousness to a higher level and be confident enough to face the

religious masses. The most difficult are the Muslims because unlike

other traditions, they demand exacting standards of their followers.

It is not easy to pray five times a day or fast every year for a

month. They are also very demanding of moral standards in the face

of the rising tide of decadence, something that all other religions

have succumbed to varying degrees of desolation. For that they have

earned my respect, although fundamentalism still rears its ugly head.

 

Hinduism will regain its Sanatanna Dharma and prestige, a status now

being restored by Shri Mataji even as the vast majority of Hindus

snore in ignorant slumber. You have to forget about the Sikhs for

the time being as they are still recovering from collective

hangovers. So instead of dealing with Christianity, a religious

regime that will hardly need any nudging this century to topple over

and come crashing down, i have decided to tackle the toughest first -

Islam.

 

Please do not think i am in any way belittling the religions, just

the regimes that run them ............ especially the Catholic

Church. i am also not also trying to uphold the flag of one higher

than the rest, or favoring one over the other. All i am interested

in, my dear SY brothers and sisters, is to uphold the Truth.

 

In the process i have become blind and indifferent to the ranting

and ravings of religious fanatics who will not even allow the

slightest deviation from their version, hell bent on agendas to

convert others to their faith. Only the Truth of their scripture

staring right in their face silences them, never the fear of a sword

to the neck or a gun to the head.

 

Maybe i am also a fanatic in a way, determined as never before to

convert seekers to the Truth. i have found that Truth does not

reason, or is swayed by the conviction of a billion followers. i

will have to say it with fear or favor, just as Shri Mataji has done

so since May 5, 1970. It is just that simple.

 

 

warmest regards,

 

 

 

jagbir

[Guest guest]

shriadishakti , " jagbir singh

<adishakti_org> " <adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> Maybe i am also a fanatic in a way, determined as never before to

> convert seekers to the Truth. i have found that Truth does not

> reason, or is swayed by the conviction of a billion followers. i

> will have to say it with fear or favor, just as Shri Mataji has

> done so since May 5, 1970. It is just that simple.

>

 

Dear all,

 

A few months ago i had a conversation about a Muslim friend who had

come back from Pakistan. This Muslim friend of mine, with whom i had

drunk liquor on a few occasions in the early 90s, was contemptuous

of Pakistani hajis (those who have made a pilgrimage to Mecca). i

was quite surprised, sometimes shocked, at what he told me about

these supposed to be holy men. 

 

Today i remembered that what he told me was true. Even academic

Muslim professors confess so:

 

" On returning home the pilgrim is given the title haji and in

traditional societies treated with respect. Most hajjis become

conscious of their visible role as proper Islamic models on their

return from the haj. In a book based on my anthropological fieldwork

among the Pukhtuns in Pakistan, I described a typical haji and his

attitudes. " Haji Hassan repeatedly quoted the Prophet: 'To respect a

haji means you respect me.' He would start sentences with a self-

conscious 'I cannot tell lies.' Not all Muslims are, however,

impressed. Locally the newly achieved status of the haji is balanced

by the Pukhtun mashar (elder). I heard Shahzada and other mashars in

both area speak cynically about the entire business of haji: 'They

go to smuggle watches and cloth.' They would quote a saying

attributed to the Prophet: 'The haj decides a man's course for the

rest of his life: he either returns very holy or very wicked', and

agree that the hajis they know fell into the later category. " (Prof.

Akbar S. Ahmed, Islam Today)

 

i feel Islam is finally beginning to decay, the last to do so of the

major religions. If a greater number of Muslims returning from Mecca

become more wicked, then Islam will become an empty shell in the

near future. 

 

But why the praise for Muslims in one post, and criticism in the

next? Seems hypocritical, to say the least.

 

My whole point is that if even the profoundly religious Muslims are

succumbing to the ravages of Kaliyuga, what hope is there that

religions can transform humans? Answer: None at all. Humans will

only become more evil and this mighty tide of decay and destruction

will continue to batter the very foundations of humanity. The only

solution is spiritual - self-realization, kundalini awakening,

second birth, the baptism of Allah.

 

But who really wants self-realization, kundalini awakening, second

birth, the baptism of Allah? Very few because there is no sense or

urgency. What is the hurry to get self-realization, kundalini

awakening, second birth, the baptism of Allah? The only solution

then is the Good News of the Last Judgment and Resurrection. The

only solution is to tell the Truth.

 

warmest regards,

 

 

jagbir