1.5.2007

The secret, called Mohammad

(Lecture)

Mohammad’s education began in the Desert. The Desert is a great Master. He lived with its Boundlessness, with its Marvelousness and with all its horrors. All of this is found in the Desert.

Often he was deep in thought, because he loved humankind very much. Mohammad had a very wild energy, he was very passionate, very spontaneous, even at times he had outbursts, but he had two things in himself, for which he was chosen: big sincerity and a big love for Truth, which in time turns into Wisdom.

Mohammad is primal, uncultivated, he has no education – like the Desert itself. As I said, with a wild energy, but very Truthful. And gradually the Desert gave him understanding with itself. As a whole, he is a Great son of the Desert.

In himself, he was one silent and deep Soul, with sparkling eyes, a concealed force of nature, but very, very heartful – there are many tales of this. And very communicative. But he knew, as I hinted, the horrors of the Desert too, and, of course, its marvels. In this Great and Severe Desert he found the answer, from which his inspiration was born.

But let me say first: What is this – the Desert? According to the Sufi – the waters of life, the place of seclusion. Aside from this, it manifests the non-being, the concealed Power of God. It engulfs both time and space, it is the place of Revelation – of course, for the seeker. In the Desert he received both the Revelation and the Inspiration. Truth was instilled into him and later the Quran was born, which is the Divine Will. In this way the Desert taught him to see beyond, because it bound him to understand himself as a seeker. And later he says: Allah is the aim of all striving. Something which is universal and applies to all true religions. God is the aim of all striving. And he also says: If you have Love, the dark face of disbelief will fade out.

If we must compare, Christ had a very heavy task with the hardened Jews, but with Mohammad, things were heavier: amazing Arabs, fearsome fanatics and tribes, exceptional idolaters. But Mohammad succeeded, even though for many years there were threats for his life; for 3 years – 13 disciples and a lot of heavy things. And where do these heavy beings come from, called idolaters and exceptional fanatics? They come from the second branch of Atlantis, Tlavatli – that is what they were called then and they united with the martians, back then. And they come here with their horrors. Mohammad has succeeded today to teach all those many millions of people to pray every day, five times a day, which means that in next reincarnations many, many of them will be born Sufi. And in this moment, the Sufi are over 40 million, and many are these people, obedient to the Quran (later we will see what the word Quran and the word Islam mean). This person even, at times, wanted to give up, because it was too heavy. But when God has a plan, who can ever deny God: not Judas, not Christ, not Lucifer and so on. Each one follows their Way and in the name of humankind. As we will see later, Satan is a being exceptionally loyal to God, while with the person, there is a problem. The person is not loyal to God, nor to Satan, nor to themselves, that is why they are a person.

And then Mohammad says in the desert: There is only one God and He is Great. There is nothing more inexpressible than Him. – This was deeply experienced in the Heart of the Desert, something suffered, something lived. This marvellous son of the Desert understood that God is the only Great Reality and that He has created us and He supports us. And everything else is merely His reflections – sons, Masters, Prophets – these are His reflections. Mohammad even calls them His shadows, which veil His Greatness, the Greatness of the One God.

And in this Desert his Great thought was born, as I said, deeply suffered for, experienced by his marvellous Soul. And he said: ALLAH AKBAR. It seems very simple, it means GOD IS GREAT. But in these words there is a big Secret, gradually sometimes we will comment on them, because they seem very simple, but they are not.

God is Great. And also he said: Islam – i.e., we must completely surrender ourselves into God’s hands. Islam means total obedience, to entirely give ourselves into God’s hands. And all of our strength, says Mohammad, is in this – to humbly give ourselves to Him, whatever He does to us. Because Allah is Akbar, because He is Great, He knows. We do not know, but everything which He does, He knows and therefore, we must give ourselves to Him.

Mohammad often cried in the Desert from this revelation, because it was very suffered for. These are not ordinary words, they have been deeply suffered for. But he knew that the Arabs were big fanatics, full of idols and aside from that, very dangerous. But he wanted to give them the Pure Revelation, the Revelation of the Desert. He glimpsed that the harsh trials in the Desert are also God’s Will. They were granted by God, he also calls it: by Necessity. And because Mohammad was very sincere, he perceived that these were the Wisest conditions. So he did not protest, but he said and he perceived that these are the Wisest conditions.

But what is this, sincerity? Because we are speaking, this is a strong quality of his – what is this, sincerity? Briefly: The beginning of True development starts from it, from sincerity. It is a method, through which the person exits from the world. Again it appears to be some ordinary word, as if we know it, but it is more than a word and an idea. While the rest remain in the world, the sincere ones overcome the world. There is, of course, one ordinary sincerity, but it is without depth; it is a human deed, we are not speaking of it. It flashes and is lost. We are speaking here of the deep, concealed sincerity of the person’s Soul. It connects the person to Eternity, to the Boundlessness, it is moving in that direction. In this sense, sincerity is connected to the inner essence of things and it illumines this essence, the inner essence, and it leads to another land. The sincere person themselves is transfigured and in the end they come to know that they originate from eternity and they return towards it.

The secret of this sincerity is in this that it shapes in the person the true and right purposefulness. Without it the direction is already different, without it you remain in your poor, human nature. You may approve of it, you may like something in sincerity, but if you do not unfold it according to the laws of Truth, you remain in human nature. And sincerity returns the person into the original feeling. And what is it? It is decisive, it captures God. And namely sincerity is a measure. It is a deep reverence towards the inner essence of things. This is sincerity – a deep reverence towards the inner essence of things, towards the true essence.

In the Desert still, Mohammad understood that he must follow God absolutely loyally and without questions, because God is Great. And later this Revelation ‘’God is Great’’ turns into the Soul of Islam and the Soul of Sufi. This simple sentence, that everything which God does, is good and wise – and this really is so – is actually Supreme Wisdom. And this Enlightenment illumined the dark of his own soul. And Mohammad Shone in the severe Desert, and within him, a wellspring began to flow, life and inspiration began to flow. Otherwise this dark threatened with death and destruction. But after this Revelation Mohammad’s whole Soul began to burn, because this was a Great Truth and it gave him something from itself, something so important for his restless and seeking soul. This Revelation saved him from the dark, but would these odd Arabs – these exceptionally wild and dangerous beings with their idols and their fanaticism – would they understand him? Would they accept him, would they accept Islam? He himself did not know this. But he already knew that he was chosen by Allah.

Next time we will have a continuation, another lecture for an interlude, and then we will enter into the exceptionally deep, and I would say, special, secrets of the Quran.

5.6.2007

The secret, called Mohammad

(Lecture)

Mohammad sincerely thirsted to make Allah Akbar, i.e. God is Great, well-known among the difficult, as I told you, Arabic tribes. Mohammad felt Divinely illumined and he already had Al Haqq within himself, i.e. his Truth, and it was experienced.

The Arabs greeted him with mockery. For 3 years – 13 followers and many threats, he had to hide a lot, he had to run to caves and all sorts of places. Later, in a smaller circle, mainly before relatives, at a gathering of around 40 people, Mohammad says of his mission, that it must be transmitted to the whole world. Everyone surrounding him, despite being his close ones, fell silent, because he asked whether they accept his mission. Silence and laughter. But 16 year old Ali stood up and passionately said: I am with you! – And later this turns out to be one of the noblest warrior-knights, loyal to Mohammad and to God. – ‘’I will follow you!”. The rest did not want to be impolite to Mohammad and they were in doubts, because they knew he was unschooled, uneducated, and this is a big endeavour. And everything looked like something very serious and even with heavy consequences.

And so, everything was really happening very slowly. As we will see later on, we will interpret the Quran from the viewpoint of the Sufi, the matter is of something grandiose. The Quraysh, the most dangerous tribes and his enemies, said to themselves: But how can this uneducated person be wiser than all of us? – His uncle, who loved him a lot, Abu Talib, says to him: Aye, can you not be quiet about all of this? Believe in yourself, but do not disturb the higher-ups and do not endanger yourself and all your close ones. – Mohammad said to him that even the sun and the moon themselves could not force him to be quiet, because the Truth wants this, and the Truth is the Sun itself. And that Allah Himself wants this. And when he said this, Mohammad burst into tears, because he knew that his uncle Abu Talib loved him a lot and wished him well. And Mohammad perceived that his mission will be very heavy and very severe.

Then he talked here and there with the ones who wanted to listen to him, and bit by bit his supporters grew in numbers. But he suffered a lot for this, that people did not understand how Great God is. Big contradictions accompanied him. Many apparent and secret enemies appeared. The Quraysh began to scheme about his murder. Many of his close ones were already dead. He even despaired from time to time. It was so heavy for his Soul that he despaired. He was forced to hide, to dress in odd clothes, to run, to go in caves, as I said, to be homeless, to live among constant danger. It even seemed that his mission was not meant for this world and these tribes.

But the plan of God was not such. In these great difficulties and in this great desperation, one hadith, i.e. one record tells the story of the ant: When Mohammad was in the mountain and he sat, again, tired and despairing, on a rock, an ant came along. It carried one big straw and it picked up this straw 99 times, and it did not give up, he counted. And he said to himself: If this ant is so diligent and does not despair, then will I despair? – As you see, when the Spirit has an idea, has a plan, it brought inspiration into Mohammad. Mohammad observed the ant for a long time and said to himself: If it does not give up, I will not give up either! Then I will persevere too.

Despite the big difficulties, Mohammad persevered. He attained a big reliance in his own heart. Despite the external side of things seeming hopeless, he had such a sincere message, and his related tribes did not even want to listen to him, or to even see him. They even threatened his life, but Mohammad said to himself: If the Quraysh use weapons, then so be it! – Mohammad knew that the Truth will develop eternally and what is limited within time, during the wars, will fall to the side, it will learn its lessons. He said to them: Leave the idols. They are worthy only of the flies. Only God is real. He has created us and understand that only God is great and that His Will is the best for all beings. – And gradually millions of wild idolaters, I am saying gradually, began to believe in Allah Akbar, and even more so, they believed with their fiery hearts.

It was full of conflicts around Mohammad. He lived in a big whirlpool, in a big dizzy. But he gave birth from himself to the Quran, God’s Book, God’s Will. The Quran is the fruit of one Great primal Soul and its Love towards God, the fruit of one crude, as I said before, uneducated, wild Soul, who did not even know how to read, but as I said before – a flaming Soul, sincere and truth-loving, a Soul, burning for God. A Soul sincere and seeking and not only seeking, but also having found. And later Mohammad says in the Quran: Whoever has come to know themselves, they have come to know their Lord.

Translated by Ruah Ezekiel