SUFI STORY (ENGLISH)
SUFI STORY
A man came to Bahaudin Naqshband, and said,
"I have traveled from one teacher to another teacher,
and I have studied many paths, all of which have given me great
benefits and many advantages of all kinds."
"I now wish to be enrolled as one of your disciples, so that
I may drink from the well of knowledge, and thus make myself
more and more advanced in the TARIQA, the mistic way."
Bahaudin, instead of answering the question directry,
called for dinner to be served.
When the dish of rice and meat stew was brought, he pressed
plateful after plateful upon his guest.
Then he gave him fruits and pastries, and then he
called for more pilau, and more and more courses of food,
vegetable and salads, confitures.
At first the man was flattered, and as Bahaudin showed
pleasure at every mouthful he swallowed, he ate as much as he
could.
When his eating slowed down, the sufi sheikh seemed
very annoyed, and to avoid his displeasure, the unfortunate man
ate virtually another meal.
When he could not swallow another grain of rice,
and rolled in great discomfort upon a cushion,
Bahaudin addressed him in this manner :
"When you came to see me, you were as full of undigested
teachings as you now are with meat, rice, and fruit.
you felt discomfort, and because you are unaccustomed to
spiritual discomfort of the real kind, you interpreted
this as a hunger for more knowledge.
Indigestion was your real condition.
"I can teach you if you will now follow my instructions
and stay here with me digesting by means of activities
which will not seem to you to be initiatory, but which
will be equal to tke eating of something which will enable
your meal to be digested and transformed into nutrition,
not,weight."
The man agreed.
He told his story many decades later,
When he became famous as the great teacher Sufi Khalil Ashrafzada.
===Rumi said===
If you are not one with the Beloved
Seek!
And if you are in Union,
Rejoice!
===and Sufi Mystic says,===
I thought of you so often
that I completely became You.
Little by little You drew near
and slowly but slowly I passed away.
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