Hazrat Khwaja Himel Shah Al Chishti Nizami
Your knowledge means your identity, your difference, your mystery, self-searching, knowing yourself, self-identity, or knowing yourself. Knowing your knowledge, or gaining self-identity, lies the identity of the Creator. Therefore, it has been seen that the only advice of all religions is to know ‘your knowledge’, or knowing yourself. The main teaching of all the divine great men of the world, or the only religious philosophy, is to gain knowledge of your identity. Because, only if you know your difference, you will know the difference of God; only if you know yourself, you will know Allah. Therefore, the main teaching of all religions is only one; and that is ‘knowing yourself’, or knowing ‘your knowledge’. There is no other religious philosophy other than this.
Revealing the secret of this knowledge, Mahatma Buddha declared, “You know your soul.” While highlighting the importance of knowing oneself, the incarnate Lord Krishna expressed it in simple language, “You will find your Brahma (God) within yourself”. While hinting at this, Jesus Christ expressed it in simple language, “The kingdom of heaven is within you”. The essence of Islam, that is, the Mohammedan religion, was also taught in the words of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), “Man Arafa Nafsuhu, Faqad Arafa Rabbahu” meaning, the one who knows himself knows his God. Without finding the Creator within himself, that is, without knowing his own knowledge, humanity has been made helpless and destitute by establishing God somewhere far away, in the sky, by supposition. But if we can keep the near God away from people and keep him in the seventh heaven, what a great advantage for the religious merchants! If we can keep people in blind faith, in the world of imagination (Hur-Pari), and in the chains of religious fanaticism, then the religious robbers will gain. In fact, the only rule of Islam is to gain the knowledge of the Creator through self-knowledge, which is observed in the lives of yogis, sages, Sufis, and hermits, and this is the only guidance of all religions, including mysticism, and the main teaching of Sufi philosophy.
Only those people who are dedicated to the desire for spiritual liberation are able to attain the luminous, indestructible flame of the Murshid or Guru through intense practice in the meditation of consciousness. By being soaked in the luminous stream of mercy given by the Guru, the fallen man finds the desired liberation. In the desire to know and understand himself, the entire arrangement of worshipping the Guru is carried out with devotion. Only when Adam prostrates himself at the Kaaba does man find the Seratul Mustaqim.
Only when one can bind the Guru firmly in the chains of devotion, faith, and love in this eternal stream of Seratul Mustaqim, can one’s life be blessed. Only when one sacrifices everything for the sake of love and devotion, a person becomes self-conquering. Only self-conquering people become eternal residents of the eternal world and taste immortality. “Apon Khabar” will continue its journey in search of that immortality if it gets your cooperation. Finally, for those who have not yet been able to be immersed in the grace of love, I say this-
“If you can die, my mind, before you die – you will meet your own God, the Seer, the Murshid, in the love of love”