 Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw organic grass fat and grass finished freeze dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new Manus Bobby guys, today we're going to react again to my favorite and your most hated video topic. We're going to react to Sufism today with a video on the supreme identity by Emir Abdul Qadr on the absolutely mind blowing YouTube channel Let's Talk Religion. But to the Sufi haters here, guys, don't tune out just yet, look into the biography of Emir Abdul Qadr. Emir Abdul Qadr was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algeria in the early 19th century. As an Islamic scholar and Sufi who unexpectedly found himself leading a military campaign, he built up a collection of Algerian tribesmen that for many years successfully held out against one of the most advanced armies in Europe. His consistent regard for what would now be called human rights, especially as regards his Christian opponents, drew widespread admiration and crucial intervention to save the Christian community of Damascus from a massacre in 1860 brought honors and awards from around the world. Within Algeria, his efforts to unite the country against French invaders saw him hailed as the modern yugurta and his ability to combine religious and political authority has led to him being acclaimed as the saint among the princes, the prince among the saints. So as you can see, this man was not just a Sufi philosopher meditating all day, but he found himself fighting the French army. Guys, I'm super excited for today's video. With no further ado, let's have a look. Emir Abdul Qadr Al-Jazari was an Algerian Muslim military commander, writer and spiritual teacher who is mostly famous for resisting the French colonial invasion of Algeria in the 19th century. His chivalric behavior as well as an incident where he shielded Christians in his home in Damascus during a riot. He was also a Sufi master who followed the philosophical mystical school of the Andalusian master Ibn al-Arabi and was buried next to him in Damascus. I absolutely love Ibn al-Arabi. In his book, Kitab al-Muafik Abdul Qadr explains the metaphysical doctrine of the unity of being, Wohdad al-Wujud, strongly associated with Ibn al-Arabi and his school. The following is an excerpt from that book, tackling the God-slash-creation relationship from this perspective and taking the form of a poetic conversation between God and the author on the supreme identity. God, may he be exalted, said to me, do you know who you are? I replied, yes, I am the non-being which is manifested by your manifestation. I am the darkness which your light illuminates. Then he said to me, since you know this, persevere firmly in this knowledge and be careful not to claim that which does not belong to you, for the deposit must be returned to its owner and the loan must be paid back. The name contingent being has always belonged to you and always will belong to you. He said to me again, do you know who you are? I replied, yes, I am in reality God, but metaphorically and in relation to the way I am creature. I am a contingent being with respect to my form, but I cannot not be the necessary being. It is the divine name on Haqq which belongs to me by original right. The name of creature is only a borrowed name and a formula of differentiation. He said to me, veil this symbol and let the wall fall down and bury this treasure in order that only he will be able to extract it who has put his soul through severe trials and looked his death in the face. All right, there's of course a lot to unpack here. Guys, disclaimer first, I'm not a religious scholar, let alone a Christian or Muslim scholar. I'm not talking as an authority on Islam here. I want to make that very, very clear. Please understand and this is why this channel is called Bobby's Perspective. All I am contributing here is my perspective. I'm talking about my experience with spirituality, with certain medicinal plans, with shamanism and other mystical states of altered consciousness. Moreover, I'm not making truth claims either. Please keep that in mind whilst listening to me. I'm simply sharing what has happened and I'm not indicating that therefore it must be true. All of that being said, I can absolutely relate to those statements made here. However, when you read them in your everyday consciousness, they seem almost blasphemous of course, because here you can see the creature, the human, claiming to be God. So how can that even be? Before that, they talked about the illumination of light and that that creature, the darkness, cannot exist without the light from the necessary being. So to put this truly into simple words and explain it is actually impossible. This can only be experienced. However, nevertheless, I'm still going to try to explain this phenomena. What he is describing here is that God is al-Hak, that God is the ultimate truth and that he is the only truth, that he is the necessary being. What does that mean? It means that God is the original existence. So God is existence in himself. That means if we experience existence, we only experience it based upon him. If he wouldn't be there, if he wouldn't exist, existence wouldn't exist at all. And therefore keeping this in mind, it means that he, God, is the substrate, the life giver to everything you see around here, almost, and this, of course, a downgraded example, as air. If there was no air, we would not function. Therefore, in a way, we are oxygen as well. Of course, we are not oxygen at the same time. However, oxygen is found within our bodies and without oxygen we would not live. Therefore, we are contingent upon oxygen. Of course, this is an extremely downgraded, simplified example. However, I'm using this example to paint the picture of what it means when the creature says it is God. It is not blasphemous if you understand the underlying meaning here, even though it appears as such at first. All the creature is realizing is that the creature itself is non-existent, that the creature itself is the ego, that the creature itself is the darkness, that only God exists. He is the ultimate reality and through him we experience existence. We are ultimately like a vessel being filled by God's existence. Without him, we wouldn't even exist. I am the necessary being who epiphanizes himself. My necessity proceeds from the necessity of your essence and my eternity from the eternity of your knowledge and your attributes. With respect to me, I am pure non-being who has never breathed the perfume of existence, the adventitious being who remains non-existence. It is adventitiousness. I only possess being so long as I am present with you and for you. Left to myself and absent from you, I am one who is not, even while he is. And yet again I'm gonna try to put this into simple words, I'm gonna fail anyways. But the point of the story is that he is distinguishing here between the true self, the higher self if you will, and his ego. He is describing that the ego itself dies with the body. When we are dying, all of this dies as well. I'm not taking my beard into the afterlife nor am I taking Bobby into the afterlife either. This is a name that has been given to me. Look at it, I can change my name here if I wanted to. Those are temporal things. They are bound to this time and space and we're not taking anything with us. If I lose my hand right now, I'm still Bobby, am I not? But I'm certainly not taking my hand into the afterlife nor am I taking my body, nor am I taking this mind, nor am I taking this ego. And therefore he understands that the ego, this self, is absolute non-existence, non-being. And this is him in regards to his own ego. However, if he goes within and finds his true self, he understands that he and God is absolutely inseparable because this is the true reality. And in the true reality we have a union, we have only one and if we have only one there is no separation and therefore there is no other. Then he said to me, and who am I? I replied, you are the being necessary through yourself, alone perfect in its essence and its attributes. Better yet you transcend by the perfection of your essence, the perfection of your attributes. You are the perfect in every state, the transcendent with respect to everything which can come to the mind. Exactly right. And now he is describing God in his essence, the absolute perfection that even transcends perfection itself. There are absolutely no words that you can attest to God. He is the absolute transcendent. So this is a dualistic understanding. In this life here, there is of course a distinction between creator and creation and of course creator and creature. He understands that he is the opposite of that perfection. He is flawed. He is in a separated state which can come to the mind. He replied to me, you do not know me. I said to him without fear of being disrespectful, you are he in whose likeness all contingent creatures are. You are Lord and the servant, the near and the far. You are the one and the multiple, the sublime and the lowly, the rich and the poor, the worshipper and the worshipped, the contemplator and the contemplated. In you are joined the contrary and the opposite. For you are the apparent and the hidden, the voyager and the sedentary. He who sows and he who cultivates. You are he who plays, who tricks and who deceives. You are the supreme reality and I am the supreme reality. You are creature and I am creature. You are neither this nor that and I am neither this nor that. He said to me, that is enough. You know me. Hide me from those who know me not. For lordship has a secret and if it were revealed, lordship would be annihilated. And servitude also has a secret and if it were revealed, servitude would be annihilated. Praise us for what we have taught you about ourselves. For you cannot know us by any other than us. Nothing leads to us except ourselves. Alright, this is it. The video finishes here. That being said, the last passage is of course mind-blowingly deep. In this dialogue slash monologue with God, he comes to the conclusion that this is a secret that has to be kept and therefore ultimately, even though I'm sitting here trying to frame this somehow, put it into simplistic words, I really believe that those mystical experiences are not for everyone, obviously. And there is a beautiful passage here in the end. Praise us for what we have taught you about ourselves. For you cannot know us by any other than us. And this of course could lead us back to the Quran to simply worship God the way that it is displayed within Islam here, for example. Because as it is so beautifully put here, for Lordship has a secret and if it were revealed, Lordship would be annihilated. And servitude also has a secret and if it were revealed, servitude would be annihilated. So this is really something that I experienced within the New Age movement. People go out into the world and they're having all kinds of spiritual psychedelic experiences and ultimately they start worshiping themselves or they start worshiping the universe, life and whatnot. They don't understand the value of submitting your will to God and they don't understand the value of the dichotomy between a servant and a Lord. They don't understand why they would worship something greater than them and like that they suffer. This reminds me of the Surah in the Quran which states, and whoever turns away from my remembrance, indeed he will have a depressed life. And this truly can happen when you start inhaling all kinds of different concepts out of Hinduism, Buddhism, drug culture and whatnot. You forget that you are this little measly creature that has to worship its Lord. This is of course lost as well when people simply read those texts with no understanding. Those texts are metaphorical descriptions of the supreme reality or as he likes to call it the supreme identity and cannot be understood in a literal sense. And therefore I'm gonna cut off this video here because ultimately it makes no sense talking about it. Anyways guys this is it. If you liked the video leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already guys please do so and if you want to support this channel via Patreon for example all the links are in the description box below. Thank you so much for your ongoing support guys and as always may God bless you all. Much love and peace.