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          Realities of The Circle and
            Secrets of The Hajj
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          In the beginning was a dot:
        all 
          the power of the Quran is in surat al-Fatiha,
        and 
          all the power of Fatiha is in Bismillahi ’r-rahmani ’r-raheem,
        and 
          all the power of Bismillahi ’r-rahmani ’r-raheem is in the bah,
        
        
           and 
          all the power of the bah is in nukta/ Dot. 
        
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            Divine Oneness-  
         
       
        
          
            Wanting to be known
        
          Circumference – is
            
        Shariah 
          or Laws of Nature
        
          Radius – Tariqat of way 
            to Divine
        
          Each Step
            - on the Radius is Marifah Knowledge 
            of the Divine Truth or Haqq
        
          Haqiqat
            or Knowledge of the Truth is , the approach to the 
        
          Divine
            
          Center
        
          Azimah – Is Might and 
            Greatness of The Center or Nucleus of Creation  |    
        Our First Hajj was in The Womb
         
        
           The 
            expansion of creation is the symbolized by the border of the circle, the 
            circumference.   The surat al-Fatiha is symbolized by circles and the 
            Divine kingdom is within.
        
          Outside is the Divine essence which supports creation.
        At 
          the center The Divine said, “I was a hidden 
            treasure wanting to be known.”   The center wants to be known, 
          so direct yourself to the Divine kingdom, seek to find the way to the 
          center!   
         
         The 
          Divine is the center needing to be known and Creation, all the points on 
          the circumference, is in need of The Divine it is 
            the center of Power.  In this relationship based on love, Allah 
          `azza wa jal wants to be known and wants us to be loved.   
         
        
          Don’t be lost in what people define as “religion” as you seek the path to 
          the center.
        
          The line from the center to the perimeter is the radius.  
            Each radius is a Messenger, a Prophet, those with whom Allah is satisfied 
            “Radi”.  They are the Pillars of Creation; they hold the circle together, 
            for without them there can be no circle.  They deliver the message – “This 
            is your Creator, this is who you are to worship, and you must follow this 
            discipline in order to reach the center.” An Atom with a nucleus as it’s 
            center of power.
         
        
          Each radius also leads back into the center; and the Nabi's 
          (Prophets) are the big pillars.  We are taking the main radius of Prophet 
          Muhammad (s) and within that are the “inner ways”, the tariqats. 
          The circle is Shariah and everything 
          to do with the circle is the law, and you cannot go outside it.
         
        
          
            Tariqat-As 
              soon as you say “I want to take the way”, then you are on that way.  You 
              have joined the people of Marifah, on the way to knowledge of the 
              center, Gnosticism.
         
        
          
            Haqiqat- 
              Every step you take on the way is truth, Haqiqat.   When you reach the 
              center you gain Divine Knowledge of the center, 
                which opens Haqaiq/ Realities for you.  Then you have knowledge of 
              the entire circle because you hold all the spokes 
              that reach the circumference. 
        
           
        In 
          this Allah shows you that you cannot 
            be 
        
          outside the circle 
        
          because from the physical level to the atomic level you are in an ocean of 
          atoms. Your smallest level is your atom and it submits better than your 
          physicality. Within its nucleus all the electrons are circumambulating. 
          THAT is the circle of life and there is no escaping it. 
         
        The 
          fastest path to the center is the one with most power and the knowledge of 
          living saints. The Naqshbandi way takes you to the center by way of living 
          connected saints who are full of power.  That is why Naqshbandi 
          associations are alive.  When we begin, with authorization, to do dhikr, 
          they have authority from the Saint of Light to re-synch hearts that are 
          disconnected from universal beat.   This is the Hajj.
         
        
          Hajj is to submit to that reality; you must once in your lifetime open our 
          selves to that understanding.   At Hajj everyone puts on the dress of 
          white – of light – which shows that they are equal in the eyes of Allah 
          (swt) regardless of their education, economic status or skin color. 
        
         
        Al Harmain Mecca- Place of 
          NO-Forbidden "The Heart"
        
           Come to the Holy Precincts – the Ka’bah, with Safa and Marwa; the Ka’bah 
          is mim. The Ka’bah represents the nucleus of your existence; you 
          circumambulate and praise your Lord for your existence in the same way the 
          planets circle the sun/ Light and the electrons whirl around the nucleus 
          of the atom.   As soon as pilgrims begin tawaaf, all individual 
          differences are put aside and the scattered bits of light come together as 
          an Ocean of 
            
              Oneness,  Wahdaniyyah.
        
           
        
          Make tawaaf, circumambulate around the Ahadiyyah, 
            the unique Oneness center, and know that you have approached 
          the unique station of the Kabah.
        
          Mawlana shows us how that is happening every moment of our lives. 
      
         
        
          The 
            Hajj or Pilgrimage of Life The First Hajj is in the Womb
        
          Allah/ The Divine shows us, in the womb of the mother is the same 
          circle, where the Hajj takes place on a microscopic scale.  The 
            Ahadiyyah / Unique Oneness is The Egg and the 500,000 sperm (named 
              mani in Arabic) are hajjis, all vying with each other to reach it in 
          order to be Abdullah/ Servant of God.  The one that reaches the egg will 
          get to the station of creation; that one seed will go into the 
          Ka’bah of the womb, do its khalwah isolation for 9 months and come out as a new creation.
         
        
          You 
            had the winning Gift From The Divine  
              and survived while the other 499,999 did not; you were the 
               miracle, and 
              are already blessed and loved by the Divine.   Mawlana says to you, now do 
              this a second time, I am bringing you to marifah of the soul.
        So 
          take your body and make tawaaf and ask Allah (swt)  “Ya Rabbi/O My 
          Lord, it is not 
          enough to be on the outside. Let me go inside the Ka’bah.”   
        
          This time Allah says, “Yes you can, this Ka’bah represents the heart of 
          Sayyidina Muhammad (s), just as your soul came from mani, Muhammadan
          Nur.”  
         
        All 
          prophets are brothers in the brotherhood of the Prophet (s), and whatever 
          prophet you love is the reality you are seeking.   Everyone around the 
          circle has the same center.  Allah is saying jump into that center, jump 
          into the Ka’bah, the Prophetic station, the lights of marifah/ Gnostics.
        
         
        
          Don’t keep thinking it is Hajj and everybody is going to visit Saudi 
          Arabia.  It is more than that.   Now Mawlana is asking you to be more 
          specific in your request.   “Ya Rabbi, let me go to the heart of Prophet 
          (s), open the doors of Prophet’s (s) heart.”   If you are in this 
          association you have been granted permission to ask that because your soul 
          is from Naqshbandi realities. We are asking to open the door of Sayyidina 
          Muhammad’s (s) heart.
         
        All 
          you see during dhikr is Ka’ba Sharif and you are asking Prophet Muhammad 
          (s) to let you go into his heart, to make tawaaf there with the soul of 
          Sultan al-Awliya and the soul of Mawlana Shaykh Al Qabbani.
        
           
        
          A 
            high reality was reached by those who came here to visit Their Shaykhs ,
          
        
          
            The Shaykhs are the living Kabah and the Qibla. 
            
        
          Furthermore, the one who goes to Cyprus is a real Hajji; that is a gift 
          for the seeker.  One destination is obvious – visited by 3 million people, 
          but only 300 people visited the secret destination.  That is a secret in 
          the night sky - the tiny stars can show you the way.  But during the day 
          there is no guidance like that.  
        You 
          turned to the living Qibla and came to the living Kabah. 
          This is Mawlana Shaykh; he is in the presence 
          of Sayyidina Muhammad (s)   As we make way around our Shaykh with our 
          praise and our love, we are in the presence of Muhammadan reality.   When 
          we pray to Allah and know that Mawlana is our Imam in his direction, it is as if we 
          are praying in the Divine Presence, praying in the presence of Prophet 
          Muhammad (s) to Allah. 
         
        
          Which then is holier, Ka’bah or That which Allah made with His Two Hands?   If you think bricks and stones 
          are holier, which are made from Men, then 
           that is idol worshiping.  It is the presence of 
          Sayyidina Muhammad (s), Rabb al-Bayt, that is what makes the Ka’bah holy.   Then 
          if Prophet [s] emanation is on Bani Adam  whom Allah created with His 
            Two Hands then the Shaykhs secret is much higher.
         
        
          When we accept the guides in our heart, he is the Kabah.  Shaykh al 
          Qabbani is the reflection of Shaykh Nazim al Haqqani, Sultan al-awliya, 
          and when we dress ourselves in the Shaykh  we invite that Ka’bah (Shaykh 
          Nazim) into our lives. 
        
          That is why we go to Mecca before Medina.  
        
          When you believe and understand that he is everything in your life, 
          then Prophet (s) opens the City of 
            
              Lights. Medina Munawira
         
        
          
            Then we need to get into the Ka’bah. 
        
          Once you get into the Ka’bah, there is a secret highway underground to the 
          city of the Prophet (s).   Visualize that you are going into the Prophetic 
          (s) heart, and ask   ”Dress me from Mawlana Shaykh and let me go to the 
          City of Lights, Medina al-Munawira.”    Now He brings His light. That is 
          what we are aspiring to -- these are days of marifah.
         
        
          Arafat is the station of knowing.  We went to the Ka’bah and laid 
          ourselves to be sacrificed like a lamb; let us be halal for Sayyidina 
          Muhammad (s).   Let us each say “Ya Rabbi, my head is on the floor, I 
          don’t know anything nor should I claim to know anything until I have 
          tasted from that reality.  Let the Zabiha (sacrifice) take place and take 
          away “what I think of myself” and “what I don’t know.”  
         
         
        Al-Fatiha.
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