Mystical Teachings of Bawa Mohiyuddin For Peace Between Israel And Palestine – Part 3
By
Kaniz Fatma, New Age Islam
18 October
2023
This Article
Highlights A Few Key Passages From The Letter Sufi Muhammad Raheem Bawa
Mohiyuddin Wrote Some Years Ago In Order To Encourage Middle Eastern And Western
Leaders To Reflect Deeply On The Long-Term Solution And Peace In Gaza, Palestine.
This Letter Was Addressed Specifically To Those Leaders Who Have Faith In God,
Regardless Of Their Affiliation With Any Particular Religion.
Main Points
1. Sufi Bawa's
ideas are crucial for the human community to practice meditation for achieving
lasting peace and resolution in Palestine.
2. Sufi Bawa
advocates for global cooperation for justice, peace, and equality, urging
nations and individuals to work together with UN officials and powerful states
for lasting peace.
3. The letter
emphasizes unity, compassion, faith, justice, conscience, respect, patience,
contentment, trust, and praise for God in a world where everything dies except
for God.
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In a letter
to Middle Eastern and Western leaders, Sufi Bawa urged them to examine their
hearts and consciences, consider war victims, and work towards a peaceful
resolution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Sufi Bawa
addresses the citizens of the world as brothers and sisters, urging them to
consider the current state of the world and the fate of Jerusalem. He expresses
concern over the looming third world war, stating that antichrist groups
disrupt peace, spread despair, destroy good, foster evil, cause suffering, and
infiltrate lands, spreading false propaganda, destroying faith and good,
joining forces with those who lost faith, fostering evil, tearing bodies apart,
and eventually becoming dictators. These Antichrist groups, according to Sufi
Bawa, rule violently and cover the planet in blood, inflicting enormous pain.
Sufi Bawa
expressed these ideas many years ago, yet they are still essential for the
human community to reflect on and practise meditation. We have felt that the
characteristic attitudes of Antichrists are at work behind this bloody game to
push humanity to the brink of total destruction. Under the guise of destroying
Hamas, Israel has intensified its bombardment on Gaza. Although Hamas also
committed crimes, the real concern for Palestinians is the widespread loss of
life and means of subsistence on a daily basis.
Sufi Bawa
appeals to all nations and individuals who have trust in God, who are moral,
just, wise, and compassionate to work together to maintain justice, establish
peace, and promote equality. They must identify issues and offer remedies,
especially when they are caused by evil forces. He suggests that we can cleanse
the globe of its toxicity and lead nations towards peace and unity by working
with UN officials and powerful states, and “Peace will then flourish and
justice will prevail, as it did before. Honesty and integrity will rise again,
and the people of the world will live in a state of lasting peace.”
The
remainder of what he wrote in his letter is as follows:
“England,
France, Israel, the United States, the Arab nations, Canada, Australia, and all
the other countries which still have faith in God must reflect upon this. World
peace, unity, compassion, and goodness are in danger of being lost. If we look
at what has happened in Jerusalem, we will realize how urgent and necessary it
is to take action.”
It is true
that the United States, England, and other countries have at one time or other
engaged in wars, but they have always shown compassion and returned the
conquered countries to independent rule, allowing them to live in freedom. They
have helped to avert other wars which would have come to those lands, and they
have protected them in times of danger. The British Empire grew far and wide,
once extending from sunrise to sunset, but now England has returned to her own
shores, and those colonies have been returned to their own people. However, the
evil germ that has crept in among some of those countries today is creating
endless trouble. This faction disrupts the unity of the world for its own gain,
forever seeking to expand its dominion even further. Ruling by the gun, it
forces people to do as they are told, without protest. It imposes its own
values and its own government upon other countries, denying them any freedom.
If we think
about this, we will recognize the difference between a power that wants to
return freedom to a conquered people and a power that refuses to release the
people. We who have faith in God must see how different these two approaches
are. It was to release us from the tyranny of those who lack faith in God and
deny His existence that every one of the prophets came. They came to release us
from the grip of poverty and the slavery of the soul. They came to release us
from satan, from illusion, from the bondage of our bodies, and from the bondage
of governments. They released us from all these forces that enslaved us and
gave us a place to live in unity and freedom, did they not?
When the
colonists first came to America more than two hundred years ago, they
encountered great hardship. Thinking back on its own history, the United States
must be aware of the plight of other countries and realize that this same
hardship may come to them again one day. We are not different from other
people. Understanding the suffering of others, we all must act with compassion
and love and avoid causing any more suffering to anyone. We must follow what
our conscience tells us is good and strive to allow everyone to live in freedom
and peace.
Living
together in unity as brothers and sisters is a sign of the children who accept
God and who will rule His kingdom. The people of Israel, Egypt, the Arab
nations, the United States, and all countries must reflect deeply on this.
There is
one other area upon which the larger nations need to focus their attention. On
the day that an amicable settlement is achieved between the Palestinians and
Israel, divisiveness will be erased, wars will stop, peace will be assured, and
the destruction will be halted. The only hope for that area lies in convincing
these two groups to live in unity as peaceful neighbours, with border security
maintained between the two lands by a United Nations Peace Force.
Look at
Jerusalem. How many wars have been fought, how many people have ruled, how many
have been enslaved, and how much danger and suffering there has been?! If we
can understand this and bring peace to Jerusalem, then all those who believe in
God can live in unity. Lack of faith in God is the root of all enmity. And that
divisiveness will cease only if those who reject God can be kept from
infiltrating Jerusalem. On the very day that this is realized by all people who
believe in God, no matter what religion they might follow, then religious
differences will disappear and the battles will stop. There will be no more
murders, no more blood baths. All differences will be cut away.
Each one of
you, the United Nations, America, Europe, the African and Arab countries,
Israel, England, and all others who trust in God must realize this basic cause
of enmity and cut it away. I say this because the war of destruction seems to
be imminent, and I can see where the enemy is. All must join in unity, now!
God accepts
Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. All are found in Jerusalem, yet those who
have faith in God as well as those who do not have faith in God continue to
fight over that land, even though it only results in destruction. There have
been many who have ruled that area and many who have even ruled the earth, but
they are all gone. And there are still more to come who will rule and then pass
on. No one can rule forever.
Please
reflect on this and realize that other than God all else will change.
Everything in this world changes; only God remains the same forever. If mankind
will realize this truth, then we can avert disaster by coming together with
faith in God and living in unity and compassion. Do not live divided. With
compassion for each other, live in unity and truth, in the presence of God.
Live according to justice and conscience, respecting the lives and bodies of
all others as your own, and knowing the hunger and the suffering of others as
your own. Have patience, contentment, trust in God, and live praising God at
all times, and peace will be easy.
It is not
customary for me to speak about politics. But when I look at what is happening
now, I see the world threatened by the dangers of atomic energies and the
arrogance of human beings. I see how much suffering is being caused by the
obstinacy and selfishness of mankind. And I see that it will end in
destruction.
This state
is fast approaching, and all of us will die. We must realize this and take the
proper steps to avert disaster before the bombs start falling. Very soon those
bombs might burst in our hands. But if we can establish a state of peace, we
might gain victory over destruction.
All these
things have happened before, and they are happening again. And to what avail?
We must learn to live as one human race, worship one God, and fashion laws of
righteousness and justice which will take us back to our Creator. That will
provide exaltedness to our lives. That will elevate our lives.
We must all
attain this state. This is why I most humbly ask all of you to try to avert the
disaster that threatens us. Let there be unity among mankind. If we live
without the differences between me and you, we can escape from this imminent
destruction. Instead of trying to cure the illness of our differences with the
arrogance that thinks, “We are better than they are!” we must cure that illness
by using God’s tolerance and His other gracious qualities. We must use God’s
power to avert the dangers and disasters that threaten mankind. If we can live
with compassion and justice, then laws of truth will govern, unity will live
on, patience will be eternal, and compassion will never fail. Absolute justice
will reign forever. Mankind must think of this.
All of us
must join together to bring peace to the Holy City.
May God
give His grace, the wealth of the three worlds, undiminishing life, and peace
without sorrow to my loving brothers and sisters, to those who are older than
me, to those who are younger than me, and to all who have been born with me.
Aameen.
I am
writing this letter to show how peace could be brought to the world. If we who
are the human generation can bring such peace to fruition, then we can reach
exaltedness in our lives. Everyone with wisdom and faith must realize this. I
am speaking out of the awareness which comes from my heart. This is not being
said to attack anyone, to find fault with anyone, or to show differences toward
anyone. If there are any faults in what I have said, please forgive me. If
there are mistakes in this letter, I am asking everyone who reads it to please
forgive me. Aameen.
Allah is
sufficient unto all. Aameen.
[End of the
Letter cited in ‘Islam and World Peace, Chapter Jerusalem’ by Sufi Bawa, pages
11-20.]
Other
Parts of the Article:
Bawa Mohiyuddin's Mystical Teachings on Peace
and Harmony – Part 1
Mystical Teachings
Of Bawa Mohiyuddin For Peace Between Israel And Palestine – Part 2
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Kaniz
Fatma is a classic Islamic scholar and a regular columnist for New Age Islam.
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