Sufi Parables

Written down by
Anna Zubkova
Under editorship of
Vladimir Antonov
Translated from Russian
by Anton Teplyy and Vladimir Antonov
Correctors of English translation:
Hiero Nani and Keenan Murphy

2014

Contents
PARABLE ABOUT THE MASTER CASTING NO SHADOWS ........... 4
PARABLE ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL .................................................. 7
PARABLE ABOUT THE SIGHT OF THE MASTER .......................... 13
PARABLE ABOUT HOW TO LEARN TRUE LOVE .......................... 15
PARABLE ABOUT OFFENSE, FORGIVENESS, AND THE
PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL........................................................... 21
PARABLE ABOUT VARIANTS OF TEACHINGS ON ONE TRUTH. 30
PARABLE ABOUT THE SUFI PATH AND THE LIFE IN THE
EMBRACE OF ALLAH ........................................................................ 34

People have different ideas about what their religious life should be.
Some think that it should consist in the participation in rites and violence against other people.
Others the reasonable ones understand that
One Universal God (the Creator, the Primordial Consciousness), called Allah in Arabic, now (and not, for
example, during the formation of Islam) wants from us,
embodied people, quite the contrary. Namely, He wants
everyone to perfect, to develop himself or herself as a
soul.
It is customary in Islam to denominate a war
against people who are considered enemies as external jihad, while internal struggle against ones own imperfections as internal jihad.
Sufism the main branch of Islam is where the
methods of internal jihad are practiced. You can read
about this in the books such as Classics of Spiritual
Philosophy and the Present, Divine Parables, Book of
the Warrior of the Spirit and in others. The parables
published in this book are also dedicated to this theme.
The true methodology of spiritual development
taught to us by Allah is one for all people who seek the
Path of spiritual perfection. Only the external forms of
manifestation of religiosity are different. Yet they were
created by people, and not by Allah, and do not relate
directly to Him.
This book will be useful to all those people who,
in their personal evolutionary development, have become mature enough to practice internal jihad.

Parable about the Master

Casting no Shadows
Shadow cannot fall on the source of light!
Assyris
There were times when many Sufi schools flourished, and people, looking for wisdom, went from one
master to another, choosing the one from whom they
would like to learn.
Once some young men who decided to go on a
journey and find a great and wise sheikh gathered.
They discussed different stories about those
teachers about whom they had heard remarkable legends and were impressed most of all by the legend of
the Master Who was so perfect that He even cast no
shadows!
So they went to Him to become His disciples.
They expected to see a wonderful man a magician who was endowed with great abilities and knowledge by the Grace of Allah.

***
When the travelers approached the house of the
Master, He was standing at the gate. It seemed that He
was waiting for them.
The Master kindly welcomed the travelers.
The sun was shining, and to the disappointment
of the seekers, the shadow of His body followed obediently its every movement
Now the young men did not know what to do
However, the Master cordially invited them to enter, saying:

I knew that I would have some visitors over for

lunch and prepared a meal. Dont upset Me, please, and
eat here with Me! You have made a long journey and
are tired! Your efforts should be rewarded!
To avoid hurting Him and to hide their disappointment, the young men agreed thinking that they
would continue their journey and searches after having
a rest.
They washed their hands near a spring and began
their meal with the Master.
You, probably, were told nonsense about Me,
said the Master, looking at them knowingly. But it
isnt worth believing everything that people say! It is
better to seek the Truth!
A lot of legends are fabricated about each Master
Who works to help people. It is said about Me too that I
can do whatever I want, that I can heal any illness and
return the dead to life Rumors love to crowd around
the Truth!
Yet I never can do only that which people wish! I
always do only that which Allah wishes, and the happiness of My life consists in the fact that My will and the
Will of Allah do not differ anymore. I am just a humble
executor of His Will.

***
When the young men made themselves comfortable in a garden to take a rest after the meal, a sick
person came to the Master. His body was covered with
scabs.
As the Master spoke with him, his face gradually
became brighter and brighter. A smile blossomed on it.
The understanding increased, and the love for Allah
and for all beings in the Creation began to shine in his
heart.
He thanked the Master, bowed low, and walked to
the gate Suddenly his skin became clean!
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Shocked by that miraculous healing, he came

back and thanked the Master once again with tears in
his eyes, hardly believing what had happened
The young men were amazed
Forgive us! they said We were wrong!
You are a great Healer and the One Who knows human
souls! Tell us how You do this!
I helped this man to understand and see the
cause of his disease. When the cause is recognized
and eliminated through the right understanding and
repentance, it is not difficult to heal the body as well.
If the shadow of the past is erased with the help
of repentance and correct understanding of how one
should live and act, then it is possible, by removing the
cause, to change its consequences.
Every action and every thought of a person
leaves traces in the Absolute. Sometimes such traces
are dark, sometimes light, sometimes deep, and sometimes very insignificant. Whatever the case may be,
everything that one did in the past has its influence on
ones present destiny, while the way one thinks and
acts now will have an effect on ones future destiny.
Yet every one of us has the ability to purify and
transform himself or herself as a soul, thus coming
closer to the Purity of Allah!
We can really purify ourselves from the dark
shadows of the past! In this case, our lives will change
for the better!
When such a transformation of the soul is
reached, it becomes possible to heal the body as well.

***
So it happened that the young men stayed with
the Master and became His disciples.
Many years had passed since then. They learned
to see the causes and effects of events, to cleanse the
organs inside human bodies with the Light of Allah, to
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hear His instructions in the silence of their spiritual

hearts, to feel that love for people which, among other
things, impels one to help those who suffer. They also
learned to preach Love and Truth
When, going to the world to serve people by
the knowledge that they had received from the Master,
they turned around they saw Him standing at the
gate of His house like in the first day they met. Behind
His body, they could contemplate the shining Light,
which was similar to the huge risen sun. That was the
Light of Allah, flowing, illuminating and saturating all
around. Indeed, no shadows were seen anywhere!
Now they could see this.

Parable about Good and Evil

The Lord of everything was evident for Me
and I perceived His Presence
in the manifested and in the unmanifested,
in people whom I met on My Path, and in everything
that His generous Hand gave Me!
I did not divide these gifts into good and bad ones,
because Allah does not give
that which should not be received!
Every minute of your life is the message of Allah to
you and your response to Allah.
You can read every moment like the Quran,
because everything around is the Book of Existence,
and He teaches you to read it!
When you learn this, you will
experience only the Bliss of His Love!
And when you talk after that
it will be the song of thankfulness to the Creator!
Haji Bei Murat

Once a woman came to the Master casting no

shadows and brought a sick girl with her.
This woman, who called herself the mother of the
girl, said:
If you really know Allah, heal this child! But if all
that you can do is only to deliver homilies, with which
you deceive those miserable who come to you, then
take this girl! While she was little, I carried her in my
arms, and people used to give me charity out of pity.
Now she has grown, but still cannot walk. I have no
more strength to carry her and nothing to feed her. I
cannot raise the child who is going to be a cripple till
its last day!
This is a very difficult case. It will take a lot of
time to heal her, said the Master quietly.
He looked at the girl attentively, and then He lifted
His eyes to the woman.
Do you really want to leave her to Me? If this
child given to you by Allah is a burden to you
then, well, I agree. But dont regret this later!

***
Many acquaintances of the Master reproached
Him for allowing the sick girl to stay in His house. They
said:
What will those who want to learn from You think
about You? They will think that You are a bad healer
and not a true Master if a cripple lives in Your house!
However, the Master calmly replied:
I accept that which Allah sends Me and thank
Him for His gifts!
The disciples of the Master began to call the girl
Sufy, since she lived in the house of Sufi sheikh. Thus
this endearing nickname had become her spiritual
name long before she received her first serious initiation.

Almost every evening, the Master told stories or

parables to Sufy but never finished them.
He spoke as if the heroes of His stories came to
life, as if the sounds of their speeches were heard and
their figures and movements seen. Even the fragrance
of flowers and a breath of wind seemed to reach the
little listener
The Master ended His every incomplete story with
a question about how this or that hero should continue
to act.
The next day Sufy answered Him, and depending
on her response, the tale took a new turn and had a
happy or bitter end.
The girl got accustomed to thinking about the answers seriously as if a real person, and not a fairy
tale hero, got into troubles or avoided them, depending
on her right or wrong decision. If she made a mistake,
she was very upset and tried to correct it. Then a fairy
tale had a happy end!
Every day the girl was taught by the Master and
His disciples to read and write, to wash and cook. She
tried to do her best, even though she still had little
strength.
Once Sufy asked the Master:
How can I learn to make no mistakes in my answers?
It is difficult or, perhaps even impossible, to
make no mistakes at all Everyone in life learns not
only from his or her right words and acts but also from
the wrong ones.
Do you remember how I once asked you to wash
glass containers for medicine and explained how to do
it better? Yet you were stubborn and broke them I recall that you were very upset then but remembered that
case, and since then you have followed carefully My
advice. When you manage to understand something
important from your own error from that moment on,
you know very well how to behave right!
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Still there is one method that allows one to make

fewer mistakes.
Teach it to me! asked Sufy.
Every human has the spiritual heart. Inside it,
love for everything can be born: for blossoming flowers, tender animals, infinite beauty of nature around us,
kind people, and Allah Himself, Who has created all
this and gives life to everything and everyone! The
spiritual heart is in the chest. You can feel it in that
place to which you inhale and from which you exhale
the air.
Right here, in your chest, you have this especial
center of you as a soul. Love is born in this place.
From here, it grows and embraces those whom we
love, no matter how far they are. If love is strong and
pure it can expand immensely and fill everything
and everyone regardless of distance!
It is in the spiritual heart that one can understand
the advice of Allah. It is here that we can decide how to
act correctly. The Love of Allah can be felt only here as
well in the spiritual heart that became big and developed enough!
So the Master taught Sufy how to submerge oneself into the spiritual heart, how to look with the eyes of
the heart at the world and at people, how to listen to
Allah in the silence of this heart, filled with love and
calm, and how to expand this heart love more and
more.
Sufy mastered all this and changed drastically!
She stopped being a sickly girl, who longed for the
care and special attention from others!
With each day, she became more joyful and
healthier! A smile of happiness lit up her face more
frequently! Soon her pure laughter, similar to a ringing
bell, began to sound in the house of the Master, emphasizing the beauty of the transparent silence that
usually reigned there. Now Sufy gave everyone the
warmth and gentle calm of her heart!
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***
Once Sufy asked the Master:
Why do diseases exist? How nice it would be if
they didnt!
Are you sure?
Yes!
But then you and Me would never have met!
Oh! I didnt think about this
Allah brought many people to Me through their
miseries and diseases, and I was able to help some of
them.
Everything is slightly more complex than people
usually think
When you grow up, Sufy, I will teach you to see
the hidden causes of everything that happens. Now
just remember that everything is connected in this
world, in the world beyond the death of the bodies, and
in the Infinite Light of the Love of Allah! Everything is
created by His Love and rests on the foundation made
of this Great Love! Therefore, no matter how difficult
and hopeless a situation seems to be love allows
you to resolve it!
I too wish that diseases and misfortunes didnt
exist However, many things must be changed in the
world and in people living in it so that they never forget
about kindness

***
Time passed by
The Master taught Sufy other methods of purification of the body and soul. She grew and became a
beautiful girl. The light of her spiritual heart was transforming and healing her body each time more, but she
still walked with great difficulty
In those days, sheikhs sometimes sent their
disciples to learn from other sheikhs. In this way, by
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listening about the Truth from other sources and learning from different teachers, disciples could obtain
wider vision and knowledge of life.
And so it happened that the Master and Sufy were
alone in the house that day. The Master was writing a
book while Sufi was washing in the patio when burglars entered the house.
Since deep silence was there, they did not suspect that the Master was in one of the rooms. They
were quickly putting in their bags all that they believed
were of value. (People often thanked the Master with
different gifts; therefore, in the house there were items
that could be sold at a high price).
Having gathered all that they found, they suddenly
saw the Master Who came up to meet them like welcome and kind guests.
The burglars behaved in the same way as people
led by fear usually behave One of them, having approached the Master from the back, hit Him on the
head with a heavy lamp The Master fell and lost consciousness. The bandits hurriedly ran away taking the
stolen with them
Sufy heard a strange noise and ran into the
house She saw the body of the Master on the floor
with trickles of blood around She ran up to Him
This is the end, My girl! said the Master happily, having opened His eyes
No, no, dont die!
I am not going to die! Dont be afraid! The wound
is superficial! Yet now you are completely healed!
Only in this moment Sufy realized that she could
move freely on her legs!

***
Look how beautiful todays gift of Allah is!
said the Master, while Sufy bandaged the wound.
People often cry and complain when difficulties and
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adversities befall them They talk about how terrible

the evil is! However, the good and the evil often exist
in this world as two sides of one hand of destiny. This
hand acts in accordance with the Will of Allah and the
laws of the existence of the universe created by Him.
So lets thank Him! If these thieves hadnt come we
would have to spend some more years, trying to heal
you
But what about them? By causing harm to You,
they caused great harm to themselves, to their destinies
Today they did what they have been doing always. But those gifts of love and gratitude that they
stole will change their lives in some way. We will see
this soon
Sufy finished bandaging the wound and looked
anxiously at the face of the Master. He smiled reassuringly. At this point, He mentally observed the sixteen
years of their common hard work and the sudden complete recovery of Sufy
The girl wanted to suggest that the Master lay
down, but she heard from Him something so familiar:
Well, its time for you and Me to start working!
Lets put the things in order and clean the house!
Cleanliness everywhere and in everything brings us
closer to the Perfection!

Parable about the Sight

of the Master
You are completely dirty, said the Master to a
disciple.
Absolutely not! Its not worth mentioning! Its
just a speck! he objected looking at a small dark
spot on his white clothes.
Let Me repeat it again: you are shockingly dirty!
Go and clean this dirt right now!
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You are wrong, Teacher! Its just an insignificant

speck! Perhaps, You cant see well
No, My friend, I see everything well enough to
warn you about great danger and will be happy if you
hear My advice!
When a drop of dirt stains white clothes it is
clearly visible and easy to be washed off.
However, if even a small drop of pride or selfconceit contaminates the pure waters of the soul, then
it dissolves in them and turns into turbidity, becoming
barely noticeable. Then it is not easy to remove it!
If you want to keep learning from Me, you have to
get accustomed to the fact that My sight is like a magnifying glass.
If I see a vice of My disciple, I increase it with My
attentive sight to such an extent that a disciple understands the pernicious character of this vice and thus
can destroy that which darkens his or her spiritual purity.
On the contrary, if I look at the achievements and
successes of My disciple, My sight makes them small
and insignificant in comparison with the wide expanse
that Allah opens for the future attainments of the soul.
On the other hand, I am not forcing you, and you
can continue to consider yourself pure and innocent
and live in an illusory world, cherishing your imperfections But then Allah will give you those lessons that
will help you to understand the truth through your pain
and disappointments.
The young man lowered his head and obediently
hastened to act upon the Masters advice. He washed
the speck on his clothes in running water for a long
time, cleansing himself simultaneously of the sprouts
of pride and self-conceit that had appeared in him
The Sight of the Master has great power. It can
help a disciple to see his or her problem before it turns
into an illness or other affliction.

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However, only a disciple alone can erase a certain

vice and cleanse his or her own future!

Parable about How

to Learn True Love
Once a man came to the Master casting no shadows to ask for His help and advice.
You are a wise Master, so help me! I see my imperfections and weaknesses, but I cant handle them! I
have tried for many years to restrain myself from manifesting my bad emotions or perverted desires, but
when a new situation sent to me by God overtakes me
suddenly I repeat the same mistakes! I repent after
each one of these situations and promise to myself not
to sin anymore, but again and again anger, irritation,
and fear overcome me. Strong desires and little whims
enslave my will and force me to fulfill them until I become satisfied. Am I hopeless and is there no salvation
or remedy for me? I wish to become better very
much
The Master looked kindly at that man. They were
near a beautiful pond. Wonderful white and pale-pink
lilies bloomed in water, whose smooth surface was
calm and clear like a mirror.
The Master said to the man:
Look at your reflection.
Now make this reflection raise its hands to its
face without moving your body!
But this is impossible!
Then move your body, but order the reflection to
remain motionless!
This cant be done because the reflection repeats
all the actions of my body!
Yes. In the situation of you and your reflection,
you are the cause, and the reflection in water is the effect.
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The correlation between the qualities of you as a

soul and your emotions, thoughts, and actions is the
same.
You need to change yourself as a soul and
then all your emotions, thoughts, and actions will be
beautiful.
If you want, stay with Me. I can show you the
techniques that will help you in this.
However, you need to take into account one
thing
Look, this bud of a white lily is not open yet
And even if you desire this intensively it will not
open its petals immediately.
It takes time for a flower to form. The sun needs
to caress it every day and water needs to nourish its
roots! Only then, over time, a beautiful flower will be
born! Only then its petals will open, and all its inner
beauty will be visible!
Similarly, the transformation of the soul takes a
lot of time and effort. So, be patient

***
The man stayed in the house of the Master, and
He began to teach His new disciple to move the center
of the soul to the spiritual heart.
He explained:
To start the transformation of the soul, it is necessary to know that one can live perceiving the world
not only with the mind, eyes, and ears of the body, but
also by the loving soul that consists of the spiritual
heart!
Now inhale deeply and exhale. Do this several
times.
Feel that space inside your body to which the air
is inhaled and from which it is exhaled. Now try to inhale the light, similar to the one radiated by the sun, in
the same way you inhale the air.
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Let that part of the light which you inhale stay

forever in your chest. Get accustomed to the fact that
you as a soul live now there. Love is born there too. Let
it illuminate your life path among all other people and
among all other living beings on the Earth and even in
intangible spaces.
After that, each day you can learn to radiate this
light, as if a tender sun were inside you, shining from
within.
Then you should expand this light to all directions as far as your strength allows you.
You can learn to live inside this space of light, to
perceive yourself there, to look from it, to speak from
it, to stretch the caring arms of the soul from it and caress everything in the Creation of Allah!

***
The new disciple of the Master began to repeat
these exercises every day.
A new fascinating perception of the world started
arising in him! It was an amazingly joyful and blissful
contact of the soul, which consisted of tenderness and
calm, with everything and everyone!
Meanwhile, the Master kept showing His disciple
new methods for cleansing the energy of the body and
expansion of the consciousness.
The flower of the soul began blossoming and giving off the fragrance of Divine Love. It became possible, because the love for Allah arose in this man and
got stronger every day!
Now he endeavored to never forget about the
Love of the Creator, Who is always around and inside
each one of us!
Gradually, this man learned to encompass every
situation with his love and calm.
It became easy for him to cope with his evil
thoughts and emotions that still arose sometimes, and
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these negative states appeared in him less and less

frequently.
Later on, he did not need even to make special effort to look at everything with the eyes of love from his
spiritual heart that grew many times!
Thus he cognized great bliss, in which a spiritual
warrior can live on the Path to Allah! He mastered that
state in which one can always feel the presence of the
Almighty and find in Him the Support in every life situation.
One year went by. This man cognized a lot, living
in the house of the Master casting no shadows together with other disciples.

***
Once his Teacher said to him:
You have mastered the first stage of discipleship: you have learned to be stably in the center of
calm and love, called the spiritual heart. However, you
have mastered this in the conditions of the ashram,
where harmony always reigns.
Now you may go into the world where ordinary
people live and learn to maintain these states also in
those situations in which not everything is favorable.
Moreover, you may teach what you have learned
to those people who will ask for your help.
Are You sending me away, my Master? But I still
know and can do only a little!
Im not sending you away! Im just giving you the
next task: to learn to do all the same but without My
help. Ill meet you here again when youre ready to continue.
How will I know this? I still cannot perceive always the Thoughts of Allah and His Words! I havent
learned enough! How will I distinguish between the
right and the wrong? How can I learn to act correctly if
I cant ask Your advice?
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Allah can speak with the soul not only with the
help of the words.
Those who have mastered the ability to be love
can easily master the rest!
Do you remember that day when you came to Me
for the first time?
You then looked at your reflection
Thats how most people live in the world. They
live as if they are looking only at their reflections in
everything. Their horizons are limited. This is how
small individual souls who think only about themselves
live. Such souls perceive everything in the world in relation to how it concerns them personally: People love
me or people dont love me, Im pleased by someone or Im not pleased, I want this and that and
that
This happens because one usually sees only
what one looks at!
If you, for example, look now at the reflection in
the pond, you will see much more than you saw before,
wont you?
Yes, now I will also see the reflection of this
beautiful sky with light clouds and soaring birds, as
well as tender flowers, which are reflecting so amazingly on this smooth surface, as if they were growing in
Heaven! All this beauty and harmony is like music that
glorifies the Creator! I also see You and myself with
You. I cant see yet the One Who has created all this,
but I know that He is reflected here as well! He is always with us, and I feel His Presence in everything
Well, now you can assess how your horizons
have expanded!
In all that surrounds you, in all that happens to
you you can now learn to see the Manifestation of
the Will of Allah, of His Power, Beauty and Wisdom!
The whole Creation is the Manifestation of His
Plan!

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The entire world around you is like the message

of Allah to you! You can learn to perceive it. Once you
ask a question to Allah be sure that you will receive
His answer after a while!
Even if you still cant hear the revelations from
Him in the inner silent space of your spiritual heart
you, though, will be able to understand His answer!
This answer may come to you through the words
of people whom you will meet, through a book opened
to the right page, or through some other event big or
small that will answer your question and suggest a
solution.
Dont be afraid of the lessons of Allah! Dont be
afraid of your own mistakes! In this case, you will learn
gradually to hear clearly His Voice and know His Desires always!

***
After a while, the Master continued:
True love is devoid of selfishness. This is the criterion that always permits one to differentiate between
the right and the wrong in oneself and in others.
You should love in this way!
Help others to cognize such pure love!
In this case, the Laws of Kindness and Care that
you have mastered by learning from Me will never let
you fail!
Now you can learn to live feeling the presence of
Allah always!
You will be able to feel Him and simultaneously
to walk or to sit, to be silent or to speak, to eat or just
to admire the beauty!
You will be able to see the Manifestation of the
Will of Allah in everything around you and in everything coming to you! The understanding of His Love
and Wisdom will grow in you every day!

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Live in this way and help all other beings that will
be sent to your destiny by Allah!
Thus you will prepare yourself for that time when
you are ready to see the Manifestation of Allah in yourself as well. You will cognize Him as your own Higher
I1, identical to the Universal I! Then we will meet
again!

Parable about Offense,

Forgiveness, and the Purification
of the Soul
One day a middle-aged woman came to the Master
casting no shadows.
She told Him her sad story about her life:
I came to You for help, because my life is full of
sorrow and makes no sense. I dont cherish any hope
that someday everything will change and Allah will
send happiness to my home
I am a widow
My father was a Sufi. He taught me the love for
Allah that lives in the beauty of nature, of music, of
words, and of wise thoughts. He taught me to read and
write, to perform music and beautiful dances
However, he died early, and then my relatives
married me off. I was very young, almost a child, and
obeyed My husband was much older than I. I was to
him like a slave-concubine that fulfilled his indisputable will obediently even when everything inside me
resisted I couldnt even imagine then that a woman
can really love her husband Time went on My husband became old and no longer ordered me about as
before, but I continued to serve him
We didnt have children
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Or Higher Self.
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 Then he died and I stayed all alone.

At that time, I woke up from a bad dream. I
started, as in my childhood, seeing the beauty around,
hearing the singing of birds and the murmur of water in
a river. I began to see stars and the sun. This beauty
gave me the hope
I fell in love with one man, my neighbor. We
could have become a good match We spoke about
the important It seemed to me that we always understood each other It seemed to me that he loved me
too and that he wanted to marry me and soon would
offer me to unite our lives
The time was passing, but he still did not speak
about the marriage
And then he married a young girl Yes, she
was very beautiful, but this was her only virtue She
was moody and not very clever She ordered her
husband about and made him satisfy all her whims
I still loved him It was the light in my life, even
though my love was not reciprocated. I forgave him for
his choice. We remained good friends.
Then one day he offended me gravely. It was as if
the light grew dark in the soul I realized that I no
longer could, as before, live by love that I gave to him,
because he didnt need my love
Even now his contemptuous and angry words
continue to sound in the soul and poison my life!
I will never be young and beautiful again. No one
needs my skills Loneliness and emptiness is all that
awaits me I dont know how to live out the time that
is left for me on the Earth I almost have no means of
livelihood. I cannot maintain the property of my exhusband, which has already fallen into decay
Do you know that you came to a Sufi? I will not
give you advice on how and where you can find a husband. Ill talk with you about something else. Do you
want to change your life before the Eyes of Allah?

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Yes, I want to try if something still can be

done
The first thing you need to learn is to forgive offenses. Look, everything bad that happens to you now
comes from your resentment!
Everyone should learn to change situations in
his or her own life from his or her end.
It often happens that we cannot change the
events that come into our lives, because they are beyond our control. However, we always can choose our
own point of view on those events, our attitude to what
is going on.
And we should always remember that everything
that comes to our lives is sent by Allah and that He
sends it for our good!
For example, it is raining. You can be sad that
the weather is not good and that you cant even leave
your house. Or you can be happy that this living moisture is nourishing crops and grasses, trees and
shrubs.
You can be sad because the intense heat does
not let you enjoy a stroll. Or you can be glad that this
warmth will help the harvest to ripen.
You are speaking like my father, and I am listening to you like a little girl!
You were offended, and I even know that what
happened to you was unfair if we look at this situation
with the eyes of an ordinary person. Nevertheless, it
depends on you whether you continue accumulating
the bile of bitter resentment and suffer because of it
or forgive and let the whole situation go so that you
can open yourself for a new and clean life in harmony
with Allah!
Many people live dreaming of revenge for years,
hatching up plans of murder You are not like them:
you do not want to harm that man. Still youre doing
bad to yourself! You harm yourself by spoiling all the
best that is in you! This is a sin before Allah! You poi23

son the soul slowly with your state of resentment! This

can result in a serious illness and then in an untimely
death of your body.
Its up to you to continue being offended or to
forgive! You managed to forgive him when he didnt
choose you as his helpmate. So, why not forgive him
right now as well?
Each time we can decide how to react to what is
sent by Allah to our lives, and the only correct decision
in each case is to thank Him for all that He sends.
Thanks to these lessons, we can become better
kinder and cleverer!
It is completely in our power to choose how to
react to what comes to us from Him! You once were
learning to do this a long time ago.
You dont know yet what a wonderful gift from
Allah came to your life with that event and that now
you have an opportunity to change a lot in your destiny!
Your father was a great master and could teach
you how to live by the spiritual heart. A heart with
wings is a symbol of Sufis. This heart can soar in the
world of Love and Light even when everything around
takes a very unfavorable turn!
However, you have recalled the lessons of your
father only a few times during your entire adult life!
This is why many things in it were not as good as they
could have been
Now you can recollect how you were taught to
live being full of love for Allah and for everything
around you! You can live as the developed spiritual
heart and no longer break down due to outside events
that seem to be unwanted at first sight
You should see and understand what happens
when a soul submerges into the emotions of resentment, anger, sadness, despair, desire to get, or
envy Any low state of a soul makes this soul move to
that layer of the multidimensional universe where the
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winds of the same emotions reign. They capture this

soul, enslave it and do not let it swim out to the light, to
the joy of life in Purity and Love
One should learn to purify oneself as a soul, accustoming oneself to living in the Subtlety and Light,
so that the layers of Love, Harmony, Tenderness, and
Care will become ones natural habitat!
Look, the one who lives being entangled with low
emotional states, such as depression, creates around
oneself similar dull and lifeless space The same can
be said about a soul that splashes the filth of hatred
and anger around itself. Those black and sticky states
pollute intensively the surrounding area! This evil affects negatively other people and all other souls, including plants, animals, and other beings! Thus sadness and filth multiply in the space of our planet!
The longer the soul resides in heavy and dirty
states, the harder it will be for it to stand up, to cleanse
and accustom itself to living in the transparent purity,
kindness, and tenderness!
Sufi path is the Path of Purity!
So you need to begin with obtaining the purity of
yourself as a soul! Only then you will be able to transform the surrounding space with this purity!
If one, having woken up in the morning, opens
ones spiritual heart, fills it with calm, love, and tenderness, and sends these emotions to all directions
forward, backward, left, right, up, and down wishing
to give love and calm to everything around then the
pure and subtle space of the spiritual heart opens, and
Allah joyfully fills it with Himself!
You can also learn to merge with the Flow of
Light of Allah that runs from top to bottom and ask Him
to help you in the purification of your body and the
soul. Then a waterfall of Purity will flow down abundantly! This Shining Flow will help you to cleanse your
body and the soul, to wash yourself with the Light and
become filled with It!
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All this is very simple! You should do it every

day!
Having filled yourself with Purity, you will be able
to merge with the River of the Divine Light That flows
above the expanse of fields, meadows, steppes, or deserts. In this way, you also will be able to give love
together with Allah to everything and everyone
around you!
To begin with, these several methods of purification of the soul will be enough for you. Then I will teach
you other methods. There are many of them! This is the
Path of Purity the Path of a Sufi!
Right now another very simple technique can
help you. If suddenly dark and heavy thoughts and
emotions due to your habit formed during years
try to overcome you once again, then you can cultivate
a habit of appealing immediately to Allah in such situations. Exclaim in your spiritual heart: Allah Akbar!
and then thank Him, remembering that He Great and
Omnipresent is looking at you, loving you, and wanting to help you His reciprocal Love then will kindle
every time in your heart!
You will be able to do this if you want!
All this is great, but Id like to bring at least some
benefit to others! Its so hard to live, knowing that you
are useless, that your life does not warm anyone, does
not give fruits!
You received a good education. Could you rewrite some of the books that contain wise sayings of
Sufi Masters and some edifying stories? I have very
valuable manuscripts that exist only in one or few copies in the entire world. You could help a lot of people to
become familiar with that wisdom which is contained in
them
Yes, Ill be able to do this well!
Then My disciples will bring you the texts and
some money so that you do not have to think about
what to buy food with This work is very important for
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many people. It will also bring great benefit to you if

you do not just copy these texts but use the wisdom
contained in them in your life.
The Master gave her one of the manuscripts,
and she, full of gratitude, went home to try to start a
new life.

***
Some time passed since then. On the surface,
almost nothing had changed in her life, but her attitude
to everything that was happening became quite different.
The disciples of the Master brought her new
books and some money from time to time and helped
her with housework. Besides, at the request of the
Master, they explained the new methods of cleansing
and development of the soul to her.
She also quite often found valuable advice on the
pages of the books that she copied for others. When
she was working with those texts, it seemed to her that
she was speaking with the Master and that He was indicating what she should pay special attention to. She
tried to follow His advice at all times.
However, one day a young disciple gave her latest
work back to her, saying that the Master was not satisfied with the ornament, in whose design, according to
Him, there was no harmony. That is why He was asking
her to do this work over again
The young man left without lingering on.
She stayed alone
Despair seized her: Can it really be true that I
wasnt able to do even this simple work? Oh Allah! Is
there any hope for me?
Tears streamed from her eyes
Then she set to work again, trying hard to feel
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She repainted the ornament and then began to

rewrite a new text. The words were falling into place,
forming nice and neat lines. The text was saying the
following:
If a person makes a mistake and then understands it and repents, unavoidably there will be a similar situation in his or her life in which he or she should
act correctly. In that way, this person will prove to Allah that His lesson was learned.
If, on the other hand, the mistake persists, then
the tests will be also repeated until this person erases
all the facets of this vice of the soul.
The same thing will happen with every vice.
As a result, the soul should become like a crystal
clear glass vessel, in which the Light of Allah shines!
The one who understands this accepts difficulties of these tests with joy and humility and praises Allah for every possibility to become better!
She laughed happily, realizing that she had understood the idea of this lesson received from Allah:
she repeated her mistake! How unstable her achieved
level of purity and love turned out to be!
She saw the smiling face of the Master that consisted of Light and thanked Him for this lesson!
Light and Love filled her! She comprehended how
Allah was helping her to become better!
The happiness of life under His Guidance flooded
her, and she continued her work.

***
Time went by She kept learning to feel the Will
of Allah and the joy of life dedicated to Him.
The disciples of the Master liked to be in her
house. They liked simplicity and purity that now
reigned there. They also liked how she rewrote books,
how she decorated them with delicate ornaments, and

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how she took part in discussions by expressing humbly and simply wise thoughts sometimes.
The Master was also pleased with the success of
His female disciple
Villagers started coming to her with their requests
or questions, and she never refused anyone and explained to them what she knew. She also retold stories
that she copied. She told them in a very simple way,
and what was difficult to understand turned into wise
tales or parables from her lips
Now children frequently visited her! They loved
her stories and fairy tales very much! Thus her house
became filled with laughter and joy, and she could
teach those children the Laws of Love of Allah Even
though they were not her own, they loved her and
called her among themselves Sufi storyteller.
Her neighbor changed as well. He apologized for
having offended her once and even offered her to become his second wife She answered him kindly that
she no longer remembered that offense, but the past
could not be returned, and now both he and she
had new lives
One day some travelers from the distant land
came to that village and began to ask where the famous Sufi woman lived. All local people were very surprised and did not know what to answer them

***
It so happened that the Master sent to her a new
disciple who was not young already. He was traversing
the path of the heart slowly, since in all his born days
earthly love had never happened to him, and therefore
his love for Allah also was not filled with vivid emotions. His efforts were either obedient execution of the
instructions or the attempts to conquer his bad qualities He succeeded greatly in the understanding of
ethical truths and was diligent, but he tried to perform
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the meditative trainings taught by the Master as just

some given tasks. His spiritual heart did not start singing because of the love for Allah He asked again and
again new initiations from the Master, for he truly
wanted to become better
The Master once suggested that he live in the
house of that woman and learn her simple way of life,
in which she did everything only for Allah. He also emphasized that she had visited Him only once and had
not looked for new initiations. In spite of this, she was
one of His best disciples: she successfully developed
herself as the soul and helped others to do the same.
And Allah guided her!
What happened next was the gift of Allah for
those who seek to become better and perform the acts
of kindness: their mutual love tinged their life together!
All around them was lit up by the Presence of Allah, since they lived and worked for Him!

Parable about Variants

of Teachings on One Truth
One day the disciples asked the Master casting no
shadows:
Why are there so many differences in the Teachings about God and the Path to Him? Why even among
Sufi teachers are there so many variants of what they
teach, not to mention various religious faiths of different people? They argue and quarrel with each other
about how to worship God! Why does this happen?
Well, Ill tell you about this later, not right now.
My close friend invited us to visit his home. So prepare
yourselves for the road!
The next morning the Master and His disciples
went on their way. A beautiful valley spread out before
them. The majestic mountains were seen far away
cloaked in the blue haze. The sun, rising over the tops
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of mountains, gently lighted all around. The road on

which the Master and His disciples walked was illuminated by the sunlight. It was so beautiful that it seemed
that this light united the surface of the planet with the
shining disk of the sun!
The Master suggested that His disciples admire
this beauty and imprint its majesty:
Here it is the road to the source of light!
By evening, they reached the house of the Masters friend. A lovely supper and wise conversations
awaited them.
After the meal, they all went to a garden.
Blossoming fragrant trees, flowerbeds, and small
babbling fountains created a blissful atmosphere of
beauty and harmony. The rays of the setting sun
painted the garden with golden glow. The path, which
was faced with flat stones arranged with elaborate patterns, was lit up so beautifully that it seemed it was
possible to enter the golden shine of the sunset directly
The Master said:
Remember this picture too! This is another road
that also leads to the source of light!
They stayed in the house of the Masters friend for
some days and then started making their way home.
When they were close to the house of the Master,
He again suggested that they admire the beautiful
scenery spread out before them. The sun illuminated
the path gently and endearingly, as if welcoming them
back home. The happiness of seeing this beauty overfilled them all again!
The Master asked:
Do you still remember that you asked Me why
there are different beliefs about the Path of the cognition of One God? Should I speak more about this now
or, perhaps, some of you can explain this?
The disciple of the Master called Sufy replied:
Can I try to say what I have understood?
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The Master smiled tenderly:

Well, try to convey what you have comprehended
to others!
Sufy began to speak:
When one of the spiritual seekers comes to the
end of the Path towards the Light, to the direct cognition of Allah he or she becomes fascinated with the
Beauty of the Beloved and wants to tell everyone about
how it is possible to cognize His Blissful Love! So this
seeker describes his or her own Path and everything
that helped him or her on it.
Another seeker also cognizes the Wonderful and
Great Light of Love of Allah and describes for people
everything that has helped him or her, every detail of
the Path that seems important to this person!
This is similar to the beautiful views of the sunrise or sunset that we contemplated. So one could see
the sunrise in the east, another the sunset in the
west In one case, the path led to the mountain peaks;
in another, it passes through the quiet contemplation
in the midst of a blooming garden
Many call the spiritual Path the road to their true
Home, the Way Home! And there is no greater joy than
to merge with the Greatest Beloved in His Abode,
where the soul obtains the Highest Happiness of Mergence and the complete understanding of the Truth,
Which is Allah!
All successful seekers of the Truth cognize the
same Universal Creator, in the same way we have seen
the beauty and splendor of the same sun but with little
differences.
If the followers of Those Who have cognized the
Creator also saw and understood the essence themselves, then they would see the shining Splendor of the
Divine Love and Wisdom. In this case, there would be
no disagreement among them.
But in reality people begin to argue about the direction in which a body should be turned while wor32

shiping or about the stones with which the steps of the

staircase are faced In such cases, discordances multiply infinitely.
Well done, Sufy! You can explain complicated
things with simple examples!
But You are the One Who showed this to us!
Allah has showed this during thousands of
years. In spite of this, bloody discords that happen due
to the differences in faith and that are stirred up by
people living in the states of hatred and aggression
continue taking place up to this day.
We should learn to see and distinguish the true
and the false in the teachings about the cognition of
the Divine!
While doing this, we should remember that the
Truth always shines with the Light of Love!
That variant of the spiritual advancement is true
in which the basis is the ethical purity and the development of oneself as a spiritual heart. This is the Path
of Love, the Path of the Spiritual Heart! This is the
Straight Path!
Yes, such a Path may have variations, and it
makes sense to know and use them intelligently. Each
next generation of the spiritual seekers will be able to
benefit from the experience of their predecessors and
make their own contribution to the treasury of knowledge about the purification of the souls and about the
Path that allows one to come closer to the Divinity. All
this helps to accelerate the progress of the true spiritual seekers on the Path of Evolution of the Universal
Consciousness!

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Parable about the Sufi Path

and the Life in the Embrace of
Allah
Everything that you see, taste, touch,
and hear is I!
Yet I am much bigger than all this!
I am Boundless!
When you being in the great love for Me disappear in My Primordial Calm,
you are born again
and become One with Me!
Grand Master of Sufism
In the house of the Master casting no shadows,
there were different disciples boys and mature men.
Yet only one girl was among them. Her name was Sufy,
and she had lived with the Master since a very early
age.
One day the male disciples began to talk about
the place of women on the spiritual Path. They were
saying that women undoubtedly could follow the Sufi
Path but that none of them would ever become a Master who can teach others. Having heard this, Sufy became slightly sad.
The Master Himself was not present during that
conversation and, seemingly, did not hear their statements.
However, the next day He began to tell the disciples a story about the Beloved of Allah:
An unusual girl was born in one village from
quite ordinary parents. When she grew up a little, it became clear that she did not resemble in any way to her
parents or to her brothers and sisters.
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That girl had a gift of prophecy and could easily

read other peoples thoughts.
Once, when guests were in her fathers house, the
girl came close to one of them and said:
I feel sorry for you, since they are going to cut off
your arm!
The guests were so surprised to hear this that
they even forgot to scold the girl for entering a room
and breaking into the conversation without permission.
They asked her:
What are you talking about?
He took the box with someone elses jewels and
pretended that robbers had done this.
A few moments before, the guests had just been
discussing that incident.
What nonsense you are saying! Apologize immediately! How can you insult like this my honorable
guest?! the girls father exclaimed in anger.
How can I apologize if I am telling the truth? The
box is buried in his garden under the plum tree, on that
side where the sun rises!
Of course, they decided to verify this and
found the box!
This story caused quite a stir in that village.
After some similar cases, in which the girl, having
been asked by adults, named easily those who had
committed a theft or fraud or in which she said to the
faces of influential people about their evil thoughts and
intentions, everyone became afraid of her and started
avoiding her.
Soon her parents began even to lock her in their
house so that she could not create any additional problems for them. Only occasionally they tried to use her
insights for their own sake.
All people feared her and almost no one loved her.
Growing up, the girl gradually realized what a
stranger she was in her family and in the entire surrounding world
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One day a Sufi Master came to their village and

had a long talk with that girl.
Since then she changed, and her parents could
not be happier with their daughter. She did not lose her
abilities but did not create any problems for people
around her anymore. Calm and stable light of heart
love flared up in her and burnt brighter and brighter
day after day. From that moment on, she helped only
those who had asked her for help and only sometimes
warned good people about future undesirable events...
Yet no one knew about her inner life.
When her parents decided to marry her off, she
suddenly refused point-blank and then even left her
home.
She moved to a secluded place. Here only Allah
was her Beloved, and she began to compose poems
about her love for Him.
Having loved the spiritual heights inaccessible to
ordinary people, she started living as a hermitess.
Enraptured by the Divine, she was not alone in her
solitude: her Beloved was always there with her!
She cognized that the life of the soul can be like
a smooth dance in the Embrace of Allah.
She cognized how wonderful it is to live in the ecstasy of Union with the Beloved or in the tender calm
of being dissolved in Him.
In this case, the corporal container of the soul becomes filled with His Love and Light so fully that no
room remains inside it for the former I!
When the life of the soul reaches this limit, the Divine Light begins to flow through the body of such a
person.
Here are her words with which she expressed
what she felt, but only being the spiritual heart, you will
be able to perceive the One Who is behind them.
Oh, my Beloved!
I look at You
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And cant stop looking!

Oh, my Beloved!
I kiss Your lips
And drink the nectar of Your Bliss!
Oh, my Beloved!
I breathe You,
And I am flying on the wings of happiness!
Oh, my Beloved!
I tremble in the Flame of Your Love
And flow in the River of Your Light!
Oh, my Beloved!
I embrace You
And cant encompass Your Infinity!
Oh, my Beloved!
I want to give all myself to You,
And then I become filled with You!
Oh, my Beloved!
You kiss me,
And I forget myself in Your Bliss!
Oh, my Beloved!
You embrace me,
And I disappear in Your Embrace!
Oh, my Beloved!
You absorb me,
And I submerge into the Depths of Your Calm!
Oh, my Beloved!
Our hearts have merged inside the Ocean of Your
Fire
And live now as One Heart!
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Amazed by this story and ashamed of their yesterdays conversation, the disciples asked the Master:
Whose words are these? Are You telling us a
made-up story to heal our arrogance or such a Sufi
woman actually lived?
Do you really need to see to be sure? Well, you
will have this possibility. Her name is Sulia. She asked
Me to send someone of My disciples after the book that
she wrote down listening to the words of her Master
Grand Master of Sufism Who isnt embodied right
now.

***
The next day those disciples who had wished so
went on a journey to learn from the Sufi woman whose
name was Sulia. The girl Sufy was also among them.
The path promised to be long.
On their way to those lands, the disciples asked
sheikhs and murids about this Sufi woman but did not
find out much. They were only told that she lived a solitary life and that sometimes people came to her for advice and healing.
After a long travel, they came to the village that
was, as they found out, the closest one to the house of
Sulia. Here they began to ask how to find a way to her
house. One local female dweller said to them:
Why are you looking for this woman? She has
neither husband nor children and lives all alone. What
can a lonely woman understand in life? Perhaps, she is
not too happy, since her destiny and the circumstances of her life werent good, as it seems.
You look healthy. Usually sick people come to
her, and she can heal their illnesses.
She gathers herbs and prepares remedies. Or
maybe you too want to become healers like she?

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In spite of everything, this woman, keeping wondering, led them to the path to the house of Sulia.
When they came, she joyfully welcomed them:
Im so glad to see you, friends! This is so great
that you have come!
They had lunch. Even the most ordinary activities seemed to be sacred in the marvelous harmony of
her house. Sulia gave them very simple and modest
food she had: honey, nuts, and dried fruits.
The disciples themselves brought with them all
kinds of eatables that they bought, but very simple
food of Sulia was much more delicious!
When they had taken a rest and then gathered
near the hearth, Sulia began to tell them about the
book:
My Grand Master dictated me a book about the
Sufi Path. I will pass it on to your Master through you.
Once, in my childhood, your Master helped me a lot! I
know that He is a Great Teacher and will be able to use
and guard this knowledge, which was given to people
from the One Who has maintained the purity and wisdom of Sufi teachings for centuries.
Sulia gave them the book.
The disciples passed it around carefully and read
from it aloud as much as every one of them felt by the
inner desire:
Love for all that exists in the Creation of Allah is
the first stage of the ascension of the soul to the Path.
Let the one who had the courage to start this
Path become a brother or sister to each tree growing
on earth, to each bird singing in branches or flying in
the celestial expanse, to each lizard scurrying in desert
sands, and to each flower blossoming in a garden!
Every living creature of Allah begins to have
meaning in the lives of such spiritual seekers and is
perceived by them as a great miracle created by Allah
for His and our own development!
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Every person then is seen not just as a relative

or a stranger, a friend or an outsider, but as a child of
the Creator!
The one who wishes no evil to anyone and commits no evil acts is worthy of rising over the vanity of
momentary needs and desires and begins going to the
Light!
On the contrary, the one who causes intentional
harm to other beings wounds in this way the Almighty,
Who is present in each of His creatures by a small Part
of Himself!
Having realized this, a Sufi causes no evil to
anyone either by act, word, or even thought!
Accept gifts with gratitude! And let this gratitude
be not just words on your lips but the love song of
your hearts!
Give also from the heart!
If there is no love in what you give, then this gift
is useless!
Any stone in a desert is more valuable than the
gift that is not filled with love!
Help others in such a way that they do not feel as
your debtors!
Be grateful to Allah for the opportunity to help
that He gives you!
Be grateful to whom you give for the opportunity
to manifest your love! If they had not agreed to accept
your help, you would not have acquired new skills in
giving the good!
You need to learn to be grateful to everyone for
the lessons of wisdom that this person consciously
or unconsciously brings to your life. You also
should be thankful to Allah for all events that fill every
day of your life with these lessons!

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Beauty can teach the soul many things! It is so,

because beauty is the bridge from the world that is
visible through the eyes of the body to the world
that is Divine and perceived by the heart love only.
Blessed are those who create true beauty! They
help the Light of Allah to be seen by those who were
previously blind to It!
One should grow as the soul before becoming
worthy of Freedom.
Only one alone makes oneself a slave or free
person!
While one is a slave of ones own emotions and
desires, one can only dream about Freedom.
There is external and internal freedom.
Internal freedom is much more important for the
soul than external one.
When a soul attains total internal freedom, the
external does not affect it negatively anymore. Then
this person becomes truly FREE!
Other people will not be able to limit the freedom
of such a person anymore.
Internal freedom begins in the silence of the
spiritual heart. While one is not free from the crowds of
thoughts and the perturbing sea of emotions, all these
torturers will be with one wherever one goes.
Only when the mind has stopped talking and
there is only the silence of the heart, a possibility to
gain Freedom emerges!
Freedom is necessary, among other things, to be
able to spread the wings of the soul in the Light!
When one becomes so strong that one can gain
freedom from a former oneself oneself as a worthless slave of ones fate and circumstances, desires and
passions and, more importantly, when one becomes
really loving, only then can one begin to cognize the
Divine Oneself!

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Silence that exists in the expanded spiritual heart

is not empty! It is full of Love! It is possible to feel Allah there, and then the soul becomes aware of His
Boundlessness!
The death of the lower I is not the end but the
beginning of a different life of the soul.
A river, having flowed into the Ocean, does not
die but only begins its new life in the Unity with the
Ocean!
What can be more beautiful than dissolution in
love?
About the Grand Dissolution, My word will be today.
If the heart of a Sufi is flooded with love for the
Almighty and the Loving One, then such a little heart
can cognize the Unity with the Great Heart!
Small love, having cognized the Great Love, forgets its previous smallness and attains the Omnipresence and Calm of Allah!
Just as a river should surrender to the ocean,
when, having lost its shores and moderated its pace, it
sinks in its waters, so the soul should lose its limiting
shells and learn to dissolve itself in the Love of Allah!
In the same way, the coastal sand surrenders to
the ocean tide and allows it to flood itself with gentle
waves. And then this is not the shore anymore but the
ocean floor, which extends to the greatest depths!
Similarly, a Sufi should allow the Greatness of
Allah to absorb the separateness of the soul!
The one who has been able to surrender oneself
to the authority of Allah and aspires inside Him to
the cognition of His Boundlessness is so beautiful!
Men and women who revere Allah, what do you
do to show Him your devotion?
Does He need your praises?

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Does He need your prayers and material offerings?

Or is this a way in which you in your weakness and naivety want to approach Him by bringing
donations to the temples and asking for mercy for
yourselves?
There is only one gift that delights the Almighty:
this is the gift from the soul, the gift that is called
HEART LOVE!
It is not enough for this just to utter some words!
Think deeply about which of your todays deeds
will please the Almighty!
Today My word will be about the heart, but not
about that heart which beats in your chest and pumps
blood through your body! I will speak about that heart
which should become home for the Almighty. This is
the spiritual heart, the heart of the soul!
Do you know your spiritual heart?
Do you know how to clothe yourself in the quietness by submerging in the silence of this heart?
Do you hear in the silence of this heart the
voice of the One Who wants to tell you about His Love?
He is always there! He is where your body is,
where your heart is, where billions of stars shine in the
eternal spaciousness of the universe!
Beneath everything, He, the invisible One, abides
forever!
The one who can open for Him ones expanded
spiritual heart will be able to see Him!
Let the soul take off all its coarse and vicious
shells stained by the sins of a former life!
Let the soul cleanse itself of all vices and become pure and transparent!
Then it will not be ashamed before its Beloved
and Friend!

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Let human bodies become like vessels filled with

the Light of Life of the All-creating One!
Whose fault is this that your vessel is dirty?
If, on the other hand, Allah began to live in your
heart, then guard this Lamp and dont let the winds of
life blow it out and the torrents of human malice extinguish it!
If one always keeps the Fire of Allahs Love in
ones heart, then ones entire life becomes transformed!
Such one becomes similar to a new star that ignited in the universe and should allow the Light of Allah to shine with all Its fullness and power!
Allah loves all His children!
The sun equally caresses mighty trees and small
flowers.
Rain makes no difference between vineyard and
small blades of grass when it shares its life-giving
moisture.
The one who receives the Love of Allah as food
for the growth and maturation of the soul can bear
great fruits with time!
The Love of Allah is like the light of the sun: the
one who looks at it sees its source, but the one who
does not look at it does not see it.
The one who is not spiritually awakened does
not know the causes of all that happens. That person
also does not see the One Who gives life to everything.
On the contrary, the one who has come close to
Allah burns out completely in His Love and becomes
Him!
It is so, because there is no room for two there!
Thus one becomes a Part of the Shining Source
of Life!
Divine Wisdom is like water.
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Some receive it with joy and gratitude, but some

avoid its cleansing and nourishing streams.
When the soul reaches the Creator of everything
in His Universal Abode, it like a river that flowed into
the ocean gives Him everything valuable that it has
accumulated during many lives. In return, the soul receives all the Wisdom, Love and Power of the Ocean!
Thus the Ocean the Great United We is enriched over and over again!
All external love that nourishes you can quench
your thirst only temporarily, since you wish more of it
after some time!
Your thirst for love can be completely slaked
only in the Great Source, the entrance to which is in
your spiritual heart!
Only there the soul can merge with the Love of
Allah!
The Higher Divine I abides in the world of the
Great Silence.
The silence of your mouth does not give a possibility to touch It. Only the silence of the mind uncovers
the Infinity of the Silence of Allah!
His thoughts then acquire sound and become
words on your lips.
His Silence embraces your heart with calm.
Oh, how beautiful He is, the One Who dwells in
everything! See His countless Faces in the world where
you live and then this world will shine with Love and
Light!
Behind all the beauty of the world, beauty that
was created by Allah, He Himself the Primordial
Beauty is shining!
His Silence has no boundaries, but His Voice
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His loving Eyes are everywhere and see you always!

He hears each of your thoughts!
Dont try to hide anything from the Beloved because there are no secrets for Him!
In your spiritual heart, there is the Door to the
world of your Beloved!
While your heart is pure, the Beloved does not
leave it!
So purify the temple of your heart, and then Allah
will be able to look from it into the world of His Creation!
They finished reading and kept sitting without
saying a word for a long time. The silence was filled
with the Presence of non-incarnate Grand Master.
Then Sulia passed the book to Sufy:
Take it, my girl! The time will come and you will
fulfill all this!
Tell us a little more about Yourself, about Your
Path! asked the disciples.
Your Master has already told you almost everything about me!
It took me many lives to traverse this Path. Yet
everything was quite easy in my last incarnation:
In the beginning, there lived on earth a girl who
felt like a stranger in this world. She lived among people who were interested only in futilities of life...
Then your Master opened for me a life in the
Light of Love and taught me to see and hear the disembodied One Who was my Teacher in my several past
lives. At that time, I found again my Grand Master!
Since then my life became filled with the love for
Him.
During the first meetings of this kind, every contact of the developed Consciousnesses gives the
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Later on the Mergence interrupts only to say one

to another about love over and over again and after
this to lose oneself again in the Embrace of the Beloved!
As the lovers separate their lips only to unite
them again in a kiss, in the same way the soul seeks
for the Unity again and again to experience the ecstasy
of Mergence!
This is the most enjoyable stage of the Path
when all around give the Bliss of the Connection with
the Divine!
The body then seems to be soaring in the transparent Fire of Allah! This Fire does not burn, since It
almost coincides with the fire of your love.
However, the soul attains complete happiness
only when it has submerged into the Depths of the Almighty, and even the memory of its separateness
abandons it.
I asked Allah: Oh Allah shining in my heart! Take
my entire body and use it so that this receptacle belonging to You can let Your Love manifest Itself and
shine in Your Creation!
Let Your Eyes look through my eyes at this
world! Let Your Lips tell people with my lips what You
want to tell!
In this way, my life was passing.
One day my Grand Master said that once He had
written a book about the Sufi Path, but it did not remain
on paper so that people could read it. Those thoughts
and sayings about the Truth asked again and again to
be manifested in the form of words and lines on paper.
I saw Him sitting at a table over the book and
writing those words. The rays of the sun were falling
on it. The book was shining! The lines under His hand
were lying on the pages. Allah was in Him and the
Words of Allah were becoming visible.
I took a pen and paper then and began to rewrite
this Book.
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Now I give you this major work of my life. Guard

it not only as words written on paper, but as the Path of
Heart, which is waiting to be traversed by each of you!
Then Sulia stopped talking and continued Her
story without words.
They were sitting in silence. Each one perceived
what he or she could perceive from the infinite Source
of Wisdom called Sulia:
I feel each of you as Allah feels!
I know about you that which is still hidden even
from you yourselves, because His Love opened for Me
all secrets.
You, as souls, are naked before Me!
I know your past, all your burdens and sorrows!
I know your accomplishments and your desires!
Even your innermost thoughts are not hidden
from Me!
Allah lives in Me, shines with His Flame through
My Heart, and looks through My eyes! My lips utter His
Words!
We have not separated for so long that I even
forgot about how it is to be separated!
I am the One Who left myself, and therefore only
Allah abides here now!
My thoughts are filled with His wisdom!
My arms are united with His Power, and My heart
is merged with the Boundless Ocean of His Love,
Which has no limits in the universe!
I gave Him My life entirely and in return received
His Life in Me!
I am like the bottomless Vessel that is full of
Love of Allah! You can drink from It!
It will never be empty! I want to bring it to the lips
of everyone who is thirsty!
I am like the Lamp in which His tenderest and infinite Flame is burning! You can also light your lamps
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Everyone needs to find God within himself or

herself! Carry the Flame of His Love in your hearts! Let
the heart be filled with the Flame of Love of Allah!
I am one of Those Who cognized His Infinity!
We all in Him are equal and merged!
The cognition of His Love awaits each of you!
A few days later, when the disciples were returning home, they were recalling the Greatness of the
One with Whom they had spoken.
They remembered how the Almighty had smiled
with Her smile and looked with Her eyes! They remembered how the Ocean of His Love had flowed from Her
spiritual heart, how Her hands had served and keep
serving Him through every action, and how Their
united Light had embraced them from all sides!

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