There is no judgement in a shahid. No evaluation. It's simply, it's very objective. I can bear witness that...so and so. And, of course, a guarantee of the authenticity of one's testimonial is, of course, that one's truth...

One's glance needs to be purified with the truth before it can truly converge the divine glance. Otherwise, as I said, the divine glance can get distorted in one's glance. And it's a very dangerous thing, a kind of possessive or domineering glance that you find, that I found, of course, a lot among the spiritually, people claiming a high degree of spirituality.

That's where I sometimes I find that looking at a photograph of Murshid, I see the glance is so direct. There is no judgement. And in some of them there is absolutely no judgement. Sometimes he looks as though he didn't approve of you. It's really that you are picking up something about yourself. Perhaps you're reading into his glance some that you are supposed to read. But most of the time it's...

I remember the there was a wonderful German leader who had attended that Summer School in 1926 when Saturday evening Pir o Murshid just sat there and each mureed would come in turn and sit in front of him and would open his eyes and look for one minute and close his eyes again. He said it was just like looking into heaven.

So the two stages here are first of all purifying the glance with the truth and the second one is, of course, thrusting light through one's glance. So the second one we did earlier on if you remember we were trying to, in our, I think it was yesterday morning when we were working with light with our aura, simply just looking into a bright light and casting light through our glance, well we even did it this morning, but now what we're saying is that one first has to purify one's glance because otherwise the light that one casts through one's glance is Luciferian. Luciferian light looks very beautiful. It's very deceiving. Of course sometimes you see a kind of shadow in the glance of a person if they are manipulating you or deceiving you. You just feel a kind of shadow in them, their glance. They can't look at you straight.

You see it is in Islam that the idea of the shahid comes in very strongly. You know in the prayer one says As shadhu la ilaha illa 'llah Hu. As shadhu means that I am the witness that God is, is the Only One and so on, and then you can ask well then how can you witness that?

And so this is all tied up with that, how can I say, that credo, I suppose, well it's not just a credo, that thought that you find in the Qu'ran Sherif that God spoke to men, well humans, when they were still in the loins of Adam, that is when they were still potentialities and he said will you respect my sovereignty and the answer was I will; but somtimes the answer is interpreted I witness that which has been asked of me because, well, you can never make a promise unless you can hold it.

So that, I just want to say why I feel that this is a case where you could think of Prophet Mohammed as the Master, as the Prophet, for Ya Shahid.

Ya Shahid goes right through Islam, for example Al Hallaj, who died as a Shahid, as a Witness of his experience of the Presence of God. He stood witness, whatever were the consequences. He was accused of revealing the divine secret. And all that he did was he witnessed what he experienced. He wasn't saying I believe or what he was just saying this is what I experienced.

So there's no judgement in this you see. It's a very wonderful thing to associate the power of truth, which is the power of the dervish, with the glance.

Of course there is no landscape but for Haqq, but sometimes I think of the Night on the Bear Mountain, where the devil was operating in the dark and when the light of the dawn came he had to shuffle away. So there's a kind of saying the truth will show itself in the end.

In fact there is a saying all of this is a test in which ultimately the truth will aver itself to be true.

So this is the transpiring of that which transpires through that which appears. So what appears might be a mask, but one could say that it is unmasking the hoax by the power of truth. And then one becomes the witness when one has unmasked the masquerade that is covering the truth.

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