God wants us to find Him and know Him. To do that, we must forget ourselves.
“If you want to meet Me, call My Name.” He said, there is no other possibility.
The only source of trouble, suffering, and insecurity, is nothing but ourselves.
Once we take the right direction, things will sort out by themselves.
That does not necessarily mean that things become better; sometimes they even get worse, but now we understand their meaning. All that happens will hurt us less, and that is when we discover the Real Joy.
Everything has been created through His Names, as well as each one of us. The knowledge of that particular divine attribute, allows us to see our destination and to reach it.
With that Name, we can do anything, there are no limits to God. But to find Him, we have to overcome the narrow limits of our ego and dive into the depths of His Oceans: there we find God, the only Existence.
Singing makes us happy, and we need a certain dosage of happiness to move, and with that, you move everywhere.
The Chisti say that if a dervish is not singing or listening to the kawali music for three days his soul dies.
So therefore this is why they sing.
If you simply recite the Names, even if you do it thousands of times, at the same time you keep thinking of something else and this is why they don’t work for us. But if we sing them, like the angels do, they will go deep inside us. After a while, you will realize that you are stoned.
So sing, and be happy!
Sheikh Burhanuddin.
