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I Am is not within You; nor are You in I Am. I Am does not
exclude You, nor are You excluded from I Am. When You are addressed as You, do
not think that You exist, with an essence and qualities and attributes; for You
never existed, nor do exist, nor ever will exist. You have not entered into I
Am, nor I Am into You. Without being, Your essence is with I Am and in Me. Without having any identity, You are I Am
and I Am You. If You know Your-Self as nothing, then You truly know Your I Am,
otherwise, You truly know I Am not.
You cannot know Your Self by making Your Self nothing. Many a wise man claims that in order to know
One's Self, One must denude One’s Self of the signs of One's existence, efface
One's identity, finally rid One’s Self of One's Self. This is a mistake. How could a thing that does not exist try to
get rid of its existence?
If You think that to
know Allah depends on You ridding I Am of Your Self, then You are guilty of
attributing partners to Your Self, the only unforgivable sin; because You are
claiming that there is another existence besides Your Self, the all-existent;
that there is a You and the I Am.
You presume others
to be other than Allah. There is nothing other than I Am, but You do not know
this. While You are looking at Allah You do not recognize Your Self. When the
secret opens to You, You will know that You are none other than Allah. Then You
will also know that You are the One whom was wished, and that You are forever
and will not disappear with time, for there is no passing of time. Your
attributes are Your own. Without doubt,
Your appearance is the appearance of Allah.
Therefore, do not
think anymore that You need to become nothing; that You need to annihilate Your
Self in Allah. If You thought so, then You would be a veil of Allah, while a
veil over Allah is other than Allah. How could You be a veil that hides
Allah? What hides I Am is I Am being
One alone.
The condition for Self-knowledge is to know that if You had
a being of Your own, independent of other being, then You would neither have
need to annihilate Yourself in Allah nor to know Yourself. You would have been,
as Yourself, a God, self-existent; while it is Allah Most High that is free
from the existence of any other God but Allah.
And when You come to
know Yourself, You will be sure that You neither exist, nor do not exist,
whether now, or before, or in the future. This is the meaning of "la ilaha
il all-ah", There is no God but Allah, there is no being but I Am, nor any
other except I Am, and I Am is the only One.
Know that this existence is neither You, nor other than
You. You do not exist; yet You are also
not a nonexistence. Your existence is not someone else; nor does Your
nonexistence make You someone else. Without being and without not-being, Your
existence and Your nonexistence is Allah's being. Your existence and Your nonexistence is Allah's being.
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Then be, know the difference between right and wrong, and create.
I love you. I try to teach you. Teach me, please.
Read this again. Then read it one more time. Then teach me.
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