The hidden thread between Kabbala Islam and Sufism - Salman S. Sheikh

We trace the historical links between Kabbalah and Sufism and argue that key parts of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life take shape inside the Islamic Golden Age, then develop further in Moorish Spain. We also challenge modern gatekeeping around “who owns” esoteric knowledge and point listeners back to study, sources, and lived spiritual practice. 
• a disclaimer on entertainment, education, and open inquiry 
• why rejecting Kabbalah can mean rejecting shared Semitic intellectual history 
• pre Kabbalah Jewish mysticism through Hekhalot and Merkaba traditions 
• Baghdad under the Abbasids as a melting pot for translation and mysticism 
• Saadia Gaon and Judeo Arabic scholars as the bridge for new Kabbalistic structure 
• Al Farabi’s ten intellects mapped to the ten sefirot and Tree of Life logic 
• Sefer Yetzirah and early texts framed through Arabic and Islamic philosophical currents 
• Moorish Spain as the environment where Kabbalah matures into later classics 
• Ibn Arabi’s cosmology and how “trees” can be compared or merged 
• Suhrawardi’s illuminationism and divine light as a shared metaphor system 
• the four worlds in Kabbalah alongside the four realms in esoteric Islam 
• tarot and playing cards traced through Islamic North Africa into Renaissance Europe 
• istikhara, dream work, and the debate around divination in Muslim communities 
• symbols like the pentagram read through Islamic esoteric meaning 
• ego death, pain as alchemy, unity of being, and the divine feminine 
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Transcript

Welcome, Dedication, And Guest Intro

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Peace, we're how you doing it's your brother Mikey Fever. Welcome to another episode of NYP Talk Show, the most realist, the rarest podcast within this so-called conscious sphere. Peace to the nation of God's earth, peace to the nation of Islam, Salamalakum. I believe my Haitian voodoo practitioners, practitioners of Hulu, you know, peace to the Santa Ria community, Lokimi, Lokimi, and shout out to the Apollo. And you know, peace of the world, man. I'm happy to have you all come back by the time you see this episode, you watch it, you analyze it and enjoy it. Rest in peace to Mother Khadija, the wife of Minister Lewis Farrakhan. You know, prayers, love and light to that family, condolences and all. And you know, we're here to rock out, man. We got our good brother here with us. I call him, I call him Sheikh, right? It's called to call you Sheikh. This brother's very knowledgeable within his um field. A lot tons of information, and I respect this brother's work, man. So welcome, my brother. Solomon Sheikh, right? If I said it correctly, right? I don't want to know what's your name, brother.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Yes, my brother, and greetings and peace to everyone, to the NYP family, to Brother Mikey Fever, peace to the gods, the nation of gods and earth. Rest in peace to Mother Khatija, Salam Alaikum, to all beloved brothers and sisters, brother Ron, and all of us as a whole. Today's presentation I dedicate to all of you, to Sheikh Wahid Azal of the Fatimiyya Sufi order, to my sheikhs in the East. And today we'll be basically talking about the parallel teachings of Kabbalah and Sufism, and how basically they take that from the Moors in Spain and also the Sufis in Baghdad. And because the Western um esoteric and occult societies, they never give the East any credit. And I put together a beautiful presentation for all of you that you can benefit from. So, inshallah, without further ado, let's go do a screen share. Let's go, let's go. Okay. Do you see? Do you see this, Brother Ron?

SPEAKER_02 2:33

Oh my gosh, right here.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

Oh I got you. Okay. Uh all right. Slideshow. Let me start this. So do is this coming up now?

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Yeah, I got it. It's up, it's up here. Slideshow is there.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

Perfect, perfect. So, yeah, without further ado, you know, let's uh let's get into it.

Why These Traditions Connect

SPEAKER_00 2:56

So, first I would like to talk about this shared tree of reality, Sufism and Kabbalah, where I welcome you and peace be upon you all. And I would say that before we embark on this profound historical and spiritual journey, I must present a brief disclaimer that the following presentation is intended strictly for entertainment, free speech, and educational purposes. The historical narratives, esoteric concepts, and religious parallels discussed today are designed to provoke deep thought, encourage unity, and explore the hidden intersections of our shared spiritual heritage. We are stepping into the realms of mysticism where history and the divine intertwine, requiring an open heart and an open mind. I ask that you leave behind any preconceived notions or dogmatic rigidies. We are here to explore the gold ages of human thought, tracing lineages and lines of intellectual and spiritual inheritance that have intentionally or unintentionally been obscured by time, politics, and historical division. The information presented is a synthesis of academic research, esoteric tradition, and historical analysis meant to illuminate the profound connections between Islamic Sufism and the Jewish Kabbalah. So let us begin this journey of illumination.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Beautifully said.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Now, to shun the Kabbalah is to shun a mirror, reflecting our own esoteric history. And by anti-Semitism, I mean our own people, our black and brown people, not the European impostors that are in the Zionist state of Israel. So we must appreciate our Semitic traditions that belong to us, not them. The profound truth that modern historical scholarship is now firmly establishing is this the sefirodic Kabbalah, the system of the ten spheres and the 22 paths, actually originate within the Muslim world. This system belongs as much to the Muslims as it does to the Jews by clinging to sectarian divides. Critics isolate themselves from an intellectual cross-fertilization that once defined the greatest era of human enlightenment. Today, we dismantle these walls and trace the roots of the tree of life directly into the heart of Islamic civilization.

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Got you. With that being said, right there, tracing the call the Kabbalah back into the Islamic State. Um, correct me if I'm wrong. I could be jumping out the window with this one. But I um have read somewhere, and I believe in the last show that we did, done some research that it stems back into the practice of the practice of Sufism within Islam and to uh uh an author back in um I believe Iran. Am I correct? Mm-hmm. I forgot I forgot his name.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Yeah, yeah, that's that that that's absolutely correct. Because unfortunately, see, even um when I was uh a part of mainstream masonry, even in those esoteric and occult groups, they they're never gonna talk about disinformation or give the East or our African or Semitic brothers any credit. So basically, what we must do through the education is reclaim our heritage through education. We don't feed into the haters, we don't feed into the detractors, we continue to keep up the work through the books, lectures, presentations. Let your success and your work be the greatest revenge.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

I'm glad you said that. Continue, my brother.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Yes, yes, sir.

Pre Kabbalah Jewish Mysticism Explained

SPEAKER_00 7:37

So the pre-Kabbalistic era, the Hekolot and the Merkaba, let me clarify that Jewish mysticism certainly existed before the emergence of the Sephirothic Kabbalah, but it looked vastly different than the system we know today. From roughly a century before the birth of Jesus Christ up until the eighth or ninth centuries of the common era, the predominant system of Jewish mysticism and Gnosticism was a system known as the Hekalot. This was a deeply dualist Gnostic framework based heavily on the visions and speculations surrounding the throne chariot of God, the Merkava, as described in the visions of the biblical prophet Ezekiel, right? The wheel of Ezekiel that even our NOI brothers give credence to. During this Hekolot period, we do not find anything resembling the structured system of the Sephirotic Tree of Life with its descending spheres and the interconnected pathways. The book of Ezekiel was the central text, and the mysticism was heavily visionary, focusing on ascending through heavenly places rather than mapping the emanations of divine attributes. It wasn't until the mystical traditions encountered the intellectual crucible of the Islamic Empire that the Kabbalah as a structured esoteric science began to truly take form. So this is like the pre-Kabbala era.

SPEAKER_02 9:06

Yeah, I see that because that tree of life, that concept of the tree of life came about later on.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

Yes, sir, definitely.

Baghdad As The Fusion Engine

SPEAKER_00 9:14

And what we do is uh we analyze the golden age of Islam in Baghdad, right? The melting pot of mysticism, where our story truly begins in the melting pot of late antiquity, specifically during the Abbasid, you know, the Abbasid Caliphate years of the Islamic Empire in the glorious city of Baghdad. Baghdad was the center of the world, a place of unprecedented intellectual fusion and discourse where scholars of every faith gathered to translate, debate, and synthesize the wisdom of the ancients. It is here among the bustling markets and quiet libraries that the genesis of the Kabbalah occurred, a fact that is now widely recognized as a consensus among modern historians. In this golden age, Muslims and Jews did not merely coexist. They lived together, ate together, debated in the same circles, and in many cases even married amongst each other, despite traditional prohibitions against marrying outside of one's faith. This intense intimate proximity fostered an intellectual cross-fertilization that changed the course of the esoteric history. The lines between Islamic philosophy and Jewish mysticism began to blur, creating a shared spiritual language that would soon give birth to text that shaped the Western esoteric tradition. And this is the point because before 1948, before the creation of the modern state of Israel, right, the European colonization project, Muslims and Jews were living peacefully with each other. And the golden age of Baghdad is just, you know, one example of that. Wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

I kind of figured that. Um during a time in antiquity that, you know, we know that the um the Greeks and the Greeks and many other groups went over to um ancient Egypt to learn Kemet that we know in the Middle East. And they picked up these practices, because a lot of these practices are from the East as well. But they always try to like wash it, like I'm gonna say whitewash it or somehow downplay it to something that's considered pagan-like.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

Oh, yeah, definitely. Because uh, of course, with the European, you know, they want to show stuff that makes them look good and feel good, right? I mean, it's just like Pythagoras, right? He came out with the theorem, A square, B square, C square, but the pyramids were already made before Pythagoras, and he studied 20 years in Kemet before becoming the master of numbers. So he he they took it all from uh North Africa and the Middle East, what we know as the Asiatic Semitic cultures, you know, people that look like you and I.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

Even down to um the story of Moses when he was um picked up as a child, was raised amongst the Egyptians that taught him the sciences, and he later came back, you know, went into adventures people, but he did learn the sciences from the Egyptians.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

Def definitely, brother. Yeah, all interconnected. Um, I want I want to plug in um a book called Stolen Legacy by Professor GM James.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

A wonderful human being, and he was a brother Mason too, and he breaks that down step by step, you know, where they took it, how they took it, in which manner they took it. So just wanted to plug that in as well. Gotcha, my brother. So, yeah, we're

Saadia Gaon And The Baghdad Circle

SPEAKER_00 12:45

moving on. We talk about Sadia Gaon and the Baghdad circle. Now, the specific origin point of this Kabbalistic Genesis can be traced to the inner circle of a highly eminent Jewish scholar and philosopher named Sadia ben Gaon Al-Fayumi. Sa'ya Gaon was the pre-eminent rabbi of Baghdad during most of the 10th century, passing away around the 940s of the Common Era. He was deeply immersed in the Judeo-Arabic culture of his time, writing heavily in Arabic and engaging directly with Islamic theology and Greek philosophy, which had been preserved and expanded by Muslim scholars. His circle of students and successors are now widely recognized by scholars as the progenitors of what we understand today as the Sephara Kabbalah. These Mu'Arabis or Judeo-Arabs were uniquely positioned to absorb the explosive and the explosive philosophical developments happening in the Islamic world and translate them into a Jewish theological context. They were the bridge, the vital link that took the metaphysical frameworks of Islamic philosophers and began to weave them into the fabric of Jewish Gnosticism. So it was during that time of Sa'diya Gaun and the Baghdad circle where many of these ideas, the foundation developed. Now we have Abu Nasr

Al Farabi And The Tenfold Cosmos

SPEAKER_00 14:13

al-Farabi, the second teacher. To understand how the Kabbalistic tree of life got its ten spheres, we must look to a titan of Islamic philosophy, Abu Nasr al-Farabi. Al-Farabi was a Turco-Iranian polymath born in what is today Kazakhstan, but he spent most of his life in Damascus, which was in close intellectual proximity to Baghdad. Scholars constantly traveled between these two great cities, allowing Al-Farabi's groundbreaking ideas to exert a massive direct influence on the Jewish scholarly circles in Baghdad. In the Muslim world, Al-Farrabi is revered as Mu'alim al-Tani, the second teacher, second only to Aristotle himself. While Greek philosophy was already being translated, it was Al-Farabi who became the real mover and shaker, providing the vital commentaries and frameworks that defined all subsequent Muslim metaphysics. His reading of Aristotelian texts, particularly the theology of Aristotle, which was actually the Eniads of the Neoplatonist Plotinus, provided the exact cosmological structure that early Kabbalists would soon adapt. Now the parallel teachings one, the ten intellects and the ten sephirot. Here is where the history becomes undeniably intertwined. Based on his Neoplatonic reading of Aristotle, Al-Farabi posited a grand cosmology from the Godhead or the unmoved mover. There proceeds a series of ten descending intellects. These ten intellects cascade from the eternal divine realms all the way down into the temporal material realms we inhabit. This concept was absolutely revolutionary, and its influence on the Jewish scholars of Baghdad was immediate and profound. This Islamic metaphysical structure was directly mapped onto what would become the sephirotic tree of life. The early Kabbalists took Al-Farabi's concept of the ten descending intellects and restructured it into the ten sefirot, the divine spheres that descend vertically from Ketur, the crown at the very top, all the way down to Malkut, the kingdom or dominion at the bottom. The architecture of the Kabbalah is in its very bones, the architecture of golden age Islamic philosophy. The active intelligence and the archangelic parallels. Let us dive deeper into this parallel. In Al-Farabi's system and later built upon by Evicna ibn Sinna, the tenth and final intellect at the bottom of the descent is designated as the active intelligence or Eq al-Fadl. This sublunary intelligence was deemed responsible for the creation of the material world and was heavily associated by Islamic philosophers with the archangel Gabriel. This is the exact function of the final sphere in the Kabbalah. In the Kabbalistic tree of life within the realms stretching from Khetar down to Malkut, we see the exact same archangelic resonance occurring. The Kabbalist associated this culminating realm with the archangel Metatron, or what we know as Enoch, or as the supreme manifestation of the Shekinah, the divine presence on earth. The Akal of Father of the Muslims became the Malkuth and Metatron of the Jews, a perfect translation of esoteric cosmology across religious lines during an era of unprecedented unity.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

Wow, it's all this all decrypton as you're talking about is all the Krypton down to the positioning of the Malkut coming from the Keta down to the Malkut. The philosophers linking it to the um Archangel Gabriel and Metatron. I want those who are studying to hold your thought for a second. Those who do want to know about Kabbalah, you learn more. The Kabbalah is so interlaced in every other form of religion that you see, that framework is in there.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

You know, uh that's definitely true, brother, because you know, if we see these teachings, um, I think once we reclaim this intellectual heritage, I think that basically that is gaining freedom for our people. First, we free the minds, yeah, and everything else follows after that.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Talk about

Sefer Yetzirah, Bahir, And Reclaiming Credit

SPEAKER_02 18:57

it.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

So the genesis of the Sephiroth Yetzira, around the 10th century, we see the emergence of a foundational Hebrew text known as the Sephar Yetzirah or the book of creation. For centuries, tradition attributed this text to the patriarch Abraham himself. However, modern scholarship over the last two decades has provided decisive historiography, painting a very different yet equally fascinating picture of its origins. The Sefer Yetsirah is now understood to be a Hebrew pericope or redaction of a pseudo-Apol Apollo text written in Arabic known as the Sur-Al-Kalika or Sur-Falakia, the secret of creation. The Judeo-Arabic scholars were deeply inspired by this Arabic text, which was attributed to Apollonius of Tayana, and they utilized its concepts to formulate a brand new Hebrew cosmology of letters, numbers, spheres, and realms. Thus, the very bedrock of Kabbalistic literature was birthed directly from an Islamic Arabic era manuscript. But also keep in mind, um, you know, just to add something here, is that even though the Islamic scholars were translating Greek philosophy, Greek philosophy itself comes from Kemet, you know, it's Eastern origin. So it's not like me saying Greek philosophy is giving credit to the European. That's actually our own philosophy, right? Which they kind of um they just take take the paper, erase our name, and wrote their name on it. Exactly. So what the Islamic scholars at that time were doing is doing the same thing that we are, is reclaiming the intellectual heritage.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

That's a fact. And I want to add this too. I know we you know we're going back and forth, and it can sound like it's all over the place, but if people are privy to this information, and when I say privy, you go out there and you immerse yourself into the studies. There was a book I read years ago, um The Eleven The Eleven Laws of Matt, or 12 Laws of Matt, I believe, from Naeem Akbar. Is that what I'm saying? No, Ra Amir Nefer.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

He had the the um the book of Mott and then uh Metuneta, and they had that breakdown of the tree of life with their name in it, you know, and it made so much sense on on what he was um conveying within that book the information. So basically, he was like saying uh remove what you've been told about the Jewish names that were in the book, that understanding of the uh Judaic point of view, and he added a comedic value in there, and it that book right there blew my mind. It put me on this journey.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Yeah, you that's definitely right. And uh besides Stolen Legacy, I recommend that book as well to the listeners and viewers that are uh that will be watching this. So as we continue with the Bahir and the Judeo. Arabs, you know, following the Sephiroth Zira, the next seminal text of the Kabbalah to emerge was the Bahir, also known as the Book of Splendor. Much like its predecessor, the Bahir did not emerge from a vacuum in ancient Israel, but rather it crystallized out of that same exact circle of Murabis, you know, the Judeo-Arabs of Baghdad. These were mystics who were natively speaking Arabic, thinking in Arabic philosophical terms and breathing the era of Islamic esotericism. The formative foundational texts of the Kabbalah all find their genesis within the Muslim world. This is why any modern Muslim who feels uneasy when the Kabbalah is brought up must realize the historical reality. The Kabbalah is very much our system as much as it is a Jewish one. Its birth occurred in our part of the world, crafted by people living alongside and deeply learning from Muslim masters. To reject it is to reject a vital piece of our own intellectual heritage.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

So before you proceed, brothers do, Islamic brothers do reject the Kabbalah, the signs of it. Uh-huh. Is that common?

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Uh you do you do have that aspect. Um, it's like you know, the conscious community, brother Mike. It's everything is like all over the place, and everyone believes you know what they want to believe. But we must realize that we're all of these religions, fraternities, secret societies, um, all of that in between, esoteric teachings. Um, I I even covered this in my work as well, whether it was Freemasonry, Resocrucianism, OTO with Crowley, Talema. There was always that bridge to the East. They always went to the East, claimed the knowledge, brought it back to the West, and like kind of pre-packaged it and watered it down. So I think what it is, like even with Kabbalah, is that um it's mostly associated these days with the European spiritual community, whether it's the mainstream masons, uh, with their little esoteric groups or like uh whatever occult groups that are out there, they try to claim Kabbalah as like a European heritage thing, like they do with Greek philosophy. They don't want to give credit to anything else. So we have to realize that even that itself is a system that was derived in our presence.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Of course, they gotta it has been um not afraid to say it, it's been perverted, whitewashed, and distorted to make it seem as if you don't you haven't contributed contributed to anything intellectually into this world or scientifically. So I get that aspect. And we know about these different religious groups, and may some conscious community may reject this concept of Kabbalah whatsoever, right? But how how is that some can reject that, but they will believe in the existence of Martians coming out of space to come rescue you? You get what I'm saying? They'll believe a particular individual or person or persons are actually from space.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

I think it's just the um uh just the cognitive dissonance that our communities are dealing with, and what years of I guess controlled. We gotta realize that our whole life and our whole existence, Brother Mike, uh our history was taught to us by the enemy, who was right, who was wrong, the history books, the school, the education, the medical system, our entire existence from conception up until adulthood, we were not given the correct information of the who, what, where, and why. So this is why I tell people that you must be humble enough to unlearn, learn, unlearn, and learn at the same time in order to kind of reclaim your identity, which was put under amnesia. And I saw that, you know, in my own experience, uh, whether it was with the mainstream Masons or anyone else, I'm thinking like, okay, they're telling me all these good things. What is it that they're not telling me or that they're hiding from me? That's what I want to get to the bottom of. And that's when I started, you know, making the videos and the books and YouTube and all of that. So I think we all have that individual responsibility to kind of uh, especially these days, you know, having access to a medium or social media, we got to reclaim that heritage and not feel any type of way that uh this is evil or that is evil. Keep in mind that since conception, everything that you were taught was taught to you by the enemy. So you gotta unlearn, learn, and relearn at the same time.

Why People Reject Kabbalah Today

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

Yes, man.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

So as as we move on and give credit to our Moorish brothers and sisters, the shift to Moorish Spain, El Andalusia, as we move forward through the centuries, the center of esoteric gravity shifted from the east to the west, specifically to Moorish Spain or El Andalus. This was another golden age, a time of like a convention, right? Like, and especially bringing the Europeans out of darkness into the Renaissance, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived in relative harmony while other populations of Europe were being persecuted by the church. This community demonstrated everyone living together in harmony, sparking a profound renaissance in art, science, and mysticism. The Jewish Kabbalists flourishing in Spain were inextricably linked to the atmosphere created by the ruling Islamic culture. You know, our brothers, the Moors. During this time, the Jewish mystics of

Moorish Spain And The Zohar

SPEAKER_00 27:57

Andalusia were heavily influenced by the local Sufi movements. Even Jumatria comes from the Abjad numerology system. One of the most prominent examples was the Sufi school of Almiria, a mystical epicenter in Spain that laid the intellectual groundwork for some of the greatest spiritual giants in history. The esoteric ambiance of Moorish Spain provided the perfect fertile soil for the Kabbalah to evolve from its Baghdadi roots into a highly complex systematic theology of divine light. So as we see that the seed was planted in Baghdad, but the seed was actually watered and turned into a plant and a tree in Moorish Spain. So a big, big credit of what we know as Kabbalah today, the credit goes to the Moors. And you know, even Madame Blavatsky, right, herself gives credits to the Moors as ones who were the you know the founders of the great schools of magic.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

So we know Madame Blavatsky study from the East, right? And many other um, as they put it, the yogis that came over that already had their sciences in place that came to the US or the you know these western shores, as we put it. Are there any schools of thought today or these schools of mysteries that are following these these paths to this day? And I don't I don't mean mainstream, but the others. Are they are there any schools out there one can go can one can join to learn?

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Um honestly, my brother Mike, um I haven't found anything here in America. Like, even with me, I traveled to Pakistan and studied under the Sufis and the Sheikhs over there, like, and they have so much divine illumination and wisdom. So even myself being from the East, I went to the East, traveled to the East, grabbed the knowledge and the light, brought it back to the West. So, you know, the people wandering in darkness in the West, I could show them the light. So there is nothing here, you know, on the top of my head. But I think at the same time, then that kind of gives us an opportunity or a responsibility to create create something of our own, where we're we're basically we're those um scientists, right? The NOI speaks of those scientists. So that is our responsibility then to create Mecca and Medina and the light of Islam here in the West. So if there's nothing here, then I think uh that's where brothers like you and I and Brother Ron and other brothers come in, you know. We'll we'll create it here.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

We have to. That's an idea right there.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

Yeah, yeah. We you know, if it's not here, then you know we're gonna do it. Something that's uh free, you know, to everyone for access to so they can better themselves and their character.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

Definitely it's important because I I believe this right here will help the revolution that people do speak of, it must start in the heart and in the mind first before you proceed any further, because it's it's it's deepening just the physical aspect of it. It may sound far-fetched, but it's also spiritual. It's how you think your rhythm, yeah, you know, how you move this. It's all cosmic.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

It it it is, brother. And you know, as we move on, we um look at Moses de Lyon and the emergence of the Zohar. Now, it is in this Andalusian environment around the 14th century that a group of very eminent Jewish Kabbalists and activists congregated around a figure in northern Spain named Moses de Lyon. One of these key individuals had even traveled all the way from Iran to Spain, demonstrating the vast interconnected network of esoteric transmission at that time. This group was responsible for writing and compiling the text that would become the central pillar of Kabbalah, the Zohar, or the Book of Splendor. Although the Zohar itself claims vast antiquity, attributing its ideas to the first century rabbi Akiba ben Yohai, historical reality shows that its genesis occurred in northern Spain. This was just a few decades removed from the reconquista of Spain by the House of Aragon. The Zohar was birthed in an environment thoroughly saturated with Sufi metaphysics, representing the ultimate culmination of centuries of Islamic Jewish mystical dialogue. So it all culminated, it started in Baghdad, right, with Sadia Gaon. And then over time, as the Moors went to Spain, those ideas continued to culminate, and that's where a lot of that fruition of that labor came in, especially in Moorish Spain. And that was one of the goals of the Catholic Church to kick the Moors out of Spain because they brought Europe out of darkness into the light. All these communities were living peacefully, sharing ideas. They even taught them how to bathe, right? And even the graduation robes that they wear, those are that's Islamic clothing, right? So the loose robes and the Islamic clothing, that's where it all comes from.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

Civilized them and in return, they murdered them. Crazy, man.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

You know, it's crazy because one of the goals of 1492, the Reconquista, was to remove the Islamic presence and the Moorish presence, not only in Spain, but also here in the New World. And you see many Native American clothing or symbols that have the Islamic crescent star and moon. So a lot a lot of it, because the Native Americans themselves believed in the one true God, the great spirit, Tawhid. So it's it's all interconnected, and even the Jesuits were influenced. Uh their inception in Spain, they were in uh Ignatius of Loyola was influenced by the Moorish environment of that time. Even uh, even Yaske, right? Yasuke, uh the Moorish uh samurai that went to Japan. He was under the Jesus, he was under the Jesuits, and um they even showed him in the latest uh Assassin's Creed video game. So Yasuke himself was uh you know a product of that time.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

That's a fact. That game right there has so much gyms they drop in that gym, in that game itself. A lot of um messages, a lot of cryptic messages to decipher. Definitely as we put it with the what what took place in antiquity um Spain after the um the collapse of Granada of trying to wipe out the culture, even into Masonry with um we said it before in the show with Mr. Demolet, Jack's Demolet. Yes, and him being taken out by the Catholic Church, and you know, as we heard many years later down the line, that if you want to know about your history, who has a hold of it is the Catholic, the Vatican has a whole of the history, and we can't forget that the um the Greeks also have a whole of our history, too. You know, later on down the line.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

Yeah, definitely. And you know what's funny? That's exactly what the 33rd degree of Masonry is, like the Catholic cronies, the knights of Malta, the hospitals, they're literally, you know, the ops. And and and they, you know, in 33rd degree, that's basically, you know, you're revealed your true identity of being a knight's templar and how you must take revenge against the Knights of Malta and all of that in between to honor Jaqdi Malay. So as we move on, we talk about Ibn Arabi, the Sheikh al-Akbar,

Ibn Arabi And Merging The Trees

SPEAKER_00 35:44

the great Sheikh. Now, we cannot discuss the cross-pollination of Kabbalah and Sufism without centering on one of the most monumental figures in human spiritual history, Muhayudin ibn Arabi, known as the Sheikh al-Akbar or the greatest master. Ibn Arabi was heavily influenced by the exact same Sufi school of Almiria that was inspiring the local Jewish Kabbalist. Because of this shared intellectual lineage, Ibn Arabi himself must be viewed as a central figure in the broader context of Kabbalistic history. Before traveling to the east while still in the Maghrib, Ibn Arabi pinned some of his most esoteric works in Kitab al-An al-Anka al-Maghrib, the book of the fabulous Griffin, and Kitab Insha Al-Dawa'ir, the book of the encompassing spheres. Ibn Arabi posits his own mystical diagram. He outlines a tree of life consisting of 13 spheres and 32 paths, a structure that runs astonishingly parallel to the Jewish sephirotic tree. This tree became a meta historical structure for his dialogues on the names and attributes of God. So Ibn Arabi, like what we know as the 13 spheres and the 32 paths, like Ibn Arabi designed it originally.

SPEAKER_02 37:09

That's dope, right there. And they only that tree of life relates to the human body, the anatomy, if people really pay attention to it.

SPEAKER_00 37:17

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 37:18

That's what it correlates to when I first looked at it. I'm like, oh, this is going up a spinal spinal column.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

Yeah, definitely. Because it's it's it's it's all us, you know, all of the um the what we know as God, devil, angels, and demons and prophets, those are all energies that operate through the human being, the physical vessel. So depending on what you want to tap into, that's the reality that you create with your free will and accord with the accol or intellect God has given you. So as we see the parallel teachings too, the merging the trees of reality, you place the sephirotic side by side, Ibn Arabi's tree of cosmological rhyming is is breathtaking. While Ibn Arabi did not attribute specific letters or numbers to his thirty-two paths in the same way the Sephirotzirah did, the underlying geometry of divine emanation is structurally harmonious. Both systems seek to map how the ultimate unknowable one God steps down its light into the realm of multiplicity. For the modern esoteric practitioner, these are not competing systems, they are two sides of the same exact coin. As Sheikh Wahid Azal discovered in his own profound meditations, it is entirely possible to meld both of these trees together into a singular, unified tree of reality. By rewriting the concepts of the Sephirotzirah through the philosophical prism of Ibn Arabi, one achieves a master key that unlocks the deepest mystical realities of both the Islamic and Jewish traditions.

SPEAKER_02 39:03

I like that the concept of one God and making through many others. So he's the light, that light, that divine light, as we put it, that Holy Spirit light is passing through the prism and separates and separates into multiple lights. So this is coming out of the kettle, and it's it's a separation. All right, got it. Continue, just making sure.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

You know, it's interesting because um in Hinduism, just like how you have the many different gods and you have Brahma, who's the ultimate godhead, yeah. Um, in Hinduism, all of those gods are attributes of that same God. You know, one is the creator, one is the destroyer. In Islam, you also have the one true God Allah. But then you have the 99 names, right? One is the helper, one is the destroyer, one is this, one is that. So it's basically it's the same concept of these lights all emanating from the same source. Gotcha. So we move

Suhrawardi And Illuminationist Light

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on now with Suharwardi, the master of illumination, Ishraq. Let us turn our gaze to another monumental figure in the genealogy of Kabbalah, Shahab al-Din Yahya al-Suharwardi, known as the Master of Illumination or Sheikh al-Ishrak. Suharwardi was a brilliant young Iranian mystic who achieved something extraordinary. He fused the ancient names of Zaratustra with the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. He brought together Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, and Zoroastrian theology into a singular, coherent Islamic system known as Illuminationism. Tragically, Suhardi's massive influence on Malik Azzahir, the son of Saladin ruling in Aleppo, drew the lethal ire of the Orthodox religious scholars. Fearing his esoteric power, they forced Saladin to issue an ultimatum, resulting in Suharwardi being put to death at merely 35 or 36 years old. His shrine in Aleppo was a place of pilgrimage for centuries. Though it was sadly destroyed in recent conflicts by Techfiri extremists, yet they could not destroy his light, which would soon ignite the Kabbalistic world.

SPEAKER_02 41:23

That's deep right there, God. So the translation is a lot a lot of things were replaced by translation. Yes. I want to get down to this purest form. That's what I'm trying to look for.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

And you know, that's the thing, because uh at that time, if a lot of these uh Moors and like mystics, Sufi mystics did not translate or preserve this knowledge, like there wouldn't be none of this stuff here today, like some of the esoteric sciences that we have. So we we owe a great debt to them. And I think it's our responsibility in today's world to make sure that with the internet now that we're putting this stuff out there so future generations can like you know look back on it and benefit from it as well.

SPEAKER_02 42:10

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

I'm with you, God. We may continue, God. Uh yes, sir. So the transmission of light via Memunidis. Now, how did a martyred Islamic illuminationist shape Jewish Kabbalah, right? Suhawardi, who was put to death, we discussed in the previous slide. We owe an immense debt of gratitude to a philosopher named Ibn Kamuna, a Jewish convert to Islam in Baghdad. Roughly seven years after Suharwarthi's death in 1191, Ibn Kamuna traveled to Aleppo, retrieved all the surviving works of the master of illumination, and brought them back to Baghdad. In the 13th century, these retrieved works found their way into the hands of Abraham Memmonitis, the son of the legendary Jewish philosopher Moses Memonides, the Rambam. Upon reading Suharwordi, Abraham was absolutely, you know, gobsmacked. He was also so moved by the profound truth of Illuminationism that he actively began recommending not just Suhardi's works, but Sufism in general. To his correspondence, to early Hasidic Jews in Europe, the transmission of esoteric light across religious boundaries was direct, intentional, and documented. So with Suhar Wordi's teachings, it's basically, you know, that we are all lights finding our way back to God. And even if you read Dr. York's book, Dr. Malachi Z. York's book, the you know, the Book of Light, it resonates heavily with what Suhar Wardi was talking about, that we are all lights finding our way back to the one great light, which is Allah.

SPEAKER_02 43:55

I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, you know, check that book out then if you're saying all that.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Yep, yeah. So I also recommend uh not only uh Suraworthy, you know, his uh teachings on illuminationism, that we are all lights finding our way back to God. Uh another book I recommend is Dr. Malachaize York's The Book of Light, kind of touches upon the same things.

SPEAKER_02 44:20

You know, that dude's name is very controversial, so I have no comments. I'm gonna leave it right there.

SPEAKER_00 44:27

So we we move on with Joseph, Gikatilla, and the Gates of Light. Now, because of the efforts of Ibn Kamuna and Abraham Ammonitis, Soharwadi's works circulated rapidly among Jewish communities in the Middle East, North Africa, and eventually Europe. This brings us to a second generation of highly developed Kabbalists in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, most notably Joseph Gigatila. Now, Gigatila authored a like one of the most important and influential Kabbalistic texts in history, known as the Sha're Ora or the Gates of Light. When you read this text carefully, equipped with an understanding of Islamic philosophy, the direct intellectual influence of Surahwardi's illuminationism jumps off the page. The Kabbalistic understanding of divine light emanating through the spheres is deeply indebted to the Ishraq philosophy of the martyred Sufi master. It is only in the last few decades that academic scholars have finally begun to bring these critical points of history into the light.

Four Worlds And Daily Prayer Codes

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So as we move on, parallel teachings three, the four worlds, let us examine one of the most stunning parallel teachings between these two traditions, the concept of the four worlds. In both Kabbalah and Sufism, creation is not a single act, but a cascading emanation through the four distinct realms of reality, stepping down from the pure divine essence into the physical universe. In the sephirotic Kabbalah, we have the four worlds, the Azzilut, the world of emanation, the biriyah, the world of creation, the yetzira, the world of formation, and the asiya, the world of action. In the esoteric Islamic tradition, these exact four worlds correspond perfectly to the realms of Lahut, the divine nature, Jabarut, the archangelic intellectual world, Malakut, the angelic world, and the Nasut, the human material world. The systems are virtually identical, merely clothed in the respective languages of Hebrew and Arabic. When you let these two systems talk to each other, the results are nothing short of magical.

SPEAKER_02 46:56

Sounds like that that um oh the the you know when they say creation within the Kabbalah, and when he's using in the magical sense in the creation of the world, Yodhe Vahe, those four characters, which are you know represents the four elements.

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Uh-huh.

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Tetragrammaton.

SPEAKER_00 47:15

Yeah, yes. The the tetragrammaton and uh 72 uh being that holy number, and I think it's all intertwined with each other, right? The yodhe yodhe wahe and the even the letter Sheen, sheen is very powerful.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

Yes, how these how these four realities kind of correspond with each other, and directional, which if you look at it, if you look at it from the directional context, it also represents the archangels, the main four. Yes, you know, that the human being knows of. Yeah. Definitely.

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So as we move on, we look at the tasbi of Fatima and the four worlds. Now, this correspondence goes even deeper when we look at daily Islamic practice. Consider the four phrases of the tasbih al-Fatimah, which Muslims recite daily. Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, Lailaha Illallah, and Allahu Akbar. Esoterically, you know, from the esoteric perspective, each of these four phrases refers directly to one of the four worlds. Subhanallah connects to the realm of Lahut. Alhamdulillah refers to the world of Jabarut, the archangelic intellects, La Illallah, the tahliel resonates with the angelic world of Malakut. And finally, Allahu Akbar brings us down to the physical world of Nasut. Furthermore, if you take the first letter of the first phrase, you know, the scene in subhanallah, and the last letter of the final phrase, the Ra in Akbar, you get the word sir, which means secret. The deepest esoteric architectures of the universe are hidden right within the most common daily prayers.

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Yeah, the frequency tapped into that sound.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

Yeah, yeah, definitely. And even like after each prayer, you do the tasbi 33 times, and how they tell us that when we die, when we go to heaven, all of us are gonna be at the age of 33. We're all gonna be 33 years old, and it's the tasbih that we do after prayer, the subhanallah, alhamdulillah, staqfur allah, it's all done in cycles of 33.

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It's all mathematics, people.

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It's all all mathematics, and even you know, the 33rd degree, you know, the motto in the Scottish Rite, it's called God and my right. So basically, you know, it's you directly infusing yourself with God.

SPEAKER_02 49:46

Mm-hmm. Reintegration of man.

SPEAKER_00 49:49

Definitely, brother.

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That's it.

Tarot Origins, Divination, And Istikhara

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So as we move on, we look at the tarot, you know, the Islamic origins and playing cards. Now we must turn to another massive pillar of Western esoteric tradition, heavily intertwined with Kabbalah, the tarot. Much of the received opinion in modern occult circles regarding the antiquity of the tarot is ahistorical and wrong. Historically, there is no evidence of a system of tarot divination in Europe prior to the 18th century. However, the playing cards themselves, the taroki or the Nairobi, were highly predominant in Islamic North Africa and parts of Palestine from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Around the middle of the 14th century, these Islamic cards suddenly found themselves in Italy, introducing playing cards to Europe. The foundational structure of the deck, the suits, the numbers, the court cards, was a direct import from the Moorish and Mamluk Islamic world into the heart of Renaissance Europe. So even the Kabbalists, you know, they're doing all that tarot stuff, even that comes from Islam. Of course.

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Everything, everything I see. From you know, from my travels, I see a lot of Islamic influence in there.

SPEAKER_00 51:09

And you know, you know what's interesting, brother? If you look at there, there's one state in America that celebrates an Islam Day every year. It's like a state, state holiday, Islam Day. Guess which state that is?

SPEAKER_02 51:22

Is it in the south or in the east?

SPEAKER_00 51:25

Uh it's it's in the south, but take a guess. Um, I want to say Texas, not Texas, Hawaii, because before America captured the Kingdom of Hawaii, it was actually Moors that ruled over there. And if you go to Hawaii, you look at some of the names and the street signs, you see a lot of the Islamic parallels in the Kingdom of Hawaii. So keep keep in mind with the Inquisition, the goal was not only Spain, wherever the Moors were, the goal was to go and wipe out everything.

SPEAKER_02 52:01

That's crazy, bro.

SPEAKER_00 52:03

Yep. So Hawaii celebrates Islam Day every September.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

Gotta take a trip out there, go see for myself.

SPEAKER_00 52:13

And if you look at the banner of the Kingdom of Hawaii, like an old one, you see two dark-skinned Moors like wearing the red feathers and holding up the Kingdom of Hawaii banner. So, yeah, you know, it's all interconnected, and you know, our history's just been taken from us, and we just gotta take it back.

SPEAKER_02 52:32

Exactly. And that's that's what NYP is here to do. And with brothers like you, yes, brother. The chicken or the egg, we're here just to give the information. It's your job out there to go do the research, people. Nobody's gonna spoon feed you.

SPEAKER_00 52:51

And um, you know, uh, before I, you know, move on, this is the reason why I have everything in a professional, you know, uh, that way I'm not uh doing the ums and uh, you know, I'm communicating directly to you. And you can take screenshots of every slide with the information that I've written down and provided so you could do your own individual research. That's why I, you know, I write everything the way that I speak. So that way you could basically take snapshots of the transcript and you know, research the individual slides on your own.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

No, we're good, brother. We're good, we're good.

SPEAKER_00 53:28

As we move on with Ibn Arabi and the Major Arcana, you know, while while standard playing cards came from the Muslim world, what about the mystical 22 cards of the major arcana? This is where the scholarship of the late Gerald Elmore provides an absolute game changer. In his brilliant academic articles, Elmore uncovered that several of the major arcana cards in their origin actually resonate directly with certain elements of the philosophy of Ibn Arabi. This completely rewrites the dialogue between the Western Hermetic tradition and esoteric Islam. We are looking at a profound possibility that the archetypal images used for deep spiritual meditation in the West have roots, resting firmly in the metaphysics of the Sheikh El Akbar. Whether studying uh Aliphus Levi's Transcendental Magic, Alistair Crowley's Book of Thoth, or Meditations on the Tarot, one must realize that this symbolic mandala is fundamentally intertwined with Islamic esoteric archetypes.

SPEAKER_02 54:36

That's a fact. Life is heavy, heavy in the game.

SPEAKER_00 54:42

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Um, and you know, as as we move on, my brother, we look at divination, istikara, and the interconnected oracle. For many in the modern Orthodox Muslim world, subjects like tarot and divination are immediately written off as haram, forbidden due to social programming and a loss of esoteric heritage. However, during the Islamic Golden Age, scholars and mystics were completely open to these ideas, driven by the Prophet's command to seek knowledge, even if it be as far as China. Divination, particularly istikara, seeking counsel from Allah, has always been a vital part of the tradition. It is entirely possible and incredibly powerful to let Quranic symbolism and archetypes dialogue, you know, directly with systems like the tarot. When you perform istikara by opening the Quran to specific verses, calculating the numerological values of the words and letters, and corresponding those numbers to Kabbalistic paths or tarot trumps, a highly sophisticated multi-layered oracle emerges. Everything is submitted towards the spirit. Nothing is outside of Islam as an existential condition of universal truth. So even the istikara is it's even you have Muslims today that do that divination system of istikara, and then they watch their dreams and see what happens in their dreams.

SPEAKER_02 56:15

I respect that.

SPEAKER_00 56:17

So now we see the esoteric symbolism, my brother, the pentagram.

Pentagram Symbolism And Divine Polarity

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Let us look at a symbol commonly shared across pagan traditions, Freemasonry, right, with the Eastern Star and esoteric Islam, the pentagram. For the uninitiated, it is often misunderstood. But in the Islamic esoteric tradition, particularly in the Bayani Tariqah of Sheikh Wahid Azal, it holds immense sacred significance. Outwardly, the shape of the pentagram represents the Arabic letter he, and inwardly the letter wa, six, which combined five plus six is eleven, represents high magic in Hermetic systems. Most importantly, each point of the pentagram represents one of the five companions of the cloak, the Panchtan. The top point is Prophet Muhammad, on the right is Ali, on the left is Fatima, and at the bottom feet are Hassan and Hussein. The pentagram and the hand of Fatima, the Hamza, are in essence the exact same symbol configured differently. They serve as a geometric talismans of divine protection and intercession.

SPEAKER_02 57:30

Very much so.

SPEAKER_00 57:33

And as we move on, my brother, with the order within chaos, Jalal and Jamal, in studying the Kabbalistic Tree, we see the pillars of like severity and mercy, form and force. This reflects a fundamental truth. There is a divine economy and ecology to the universe where one cannot exist without the other. In Sufism, particularly through Ibn Arabi, this is understood as the polarity between jalal, majesty and rigor, and jamal, which is beauty and mercy. Because of this polarity, there is absolutely no randomness or chaos in the universe. Even things we perceive as dark or evil serve the ultimate purpose of the Almighty. As it is noted in the Quran, it is nineteen angels, not demons, who guard the gates of hell, meaning even the infernal realms are strictly in the service of Allah. The trials, the darkness, the bad days, and good days, like the black and white tiles of a Masonic lodge, are all tools meant to forge you into the being you are destined to become.

SPEAKER_02 58:44

That's a fact. Duality, polarity.

SPEAKER_00 58:49

Yes, brother. And even what we know as Lucifer or Iblis in this realm, uh, even you know, that force works for Allah. Nothing happens without the permission of the Creator, the true divine, supreme creator. And that free will and accord that's been given to us, that's our path to decide, you know, where we want to go. But see, good and bad serves its purpose, you know, one cannot exist without the other.

SPEAKER_02 59:17

That's a fact, complete fact, because in this world, you gotta know what's good in order to know what's bad, and vice versa. You can't just be like, I'm gonna step in the light without knowing darkness, because even within the light, there's darkness within that light. Yes, there's light within the darkness.

SPEAKER_00 59:31

And you know, in Sufism, there's also the left-hand path, Sufism, the calundaries, and there's a few other groups as well. So, you know, that duality, the right hand path, the left hand path, um, it all goes back to God ultimately.

SPEAKER_02 59:47

I'm telling I'm telling people, man, if you go, you know, this is for the world, for those who get caught up so caught up in the conspiracy theories and who who black this that's demonic. Go read the greater keys of Solomon. You see, everything comes from out of these religious texts from the Christian perspective from the Bible. They always tell you that even when you're evoking or summoning certain energies, you must cover yourself under God.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:14

So I don't know where people get these ideas from when they assume that whether you're a Mason or not means you're evil, you sold your soul, or whatever the case may be. Yeah, I think for you people go out there and read a book. My brother, you did a great job, man, tonight. Beautifully put. I love the presentation, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:31

Thank you, brother. And you know, as I continue, you know, with the alchemy of pain, die before you die.

Pain, Ego Death, Unity, And The Feminine

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Now, this divine rigor brings us to a vital esoteric necessity, pain. In our modern, comfortable world, we flee from pain and hardship, leading to a profound spiritual and mental fragility. But on the initiatic path, you are put through austerities and the dark night of the soul. This pain is the alchemical process of, you know, the calcination, the necessary dissolution of the false self before you can be coagulated back into your true divine form, solve and dissolve. This is the great secret of the prophet's command, die before you die. When you seek the death of the ego, it transforms you. It is fascinating that when deciphering the name of Baphomet into Arabic letters, it spells out Fajib Mot, Death Answers. The true initiatic death is the one that is transformative, the one that answers your mortality with the eternal life of the spirit. When the tower falls in your life, do not flee. Embrace the destruction of the illusion, for a better foundation will be built.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:46

Brother, we gotta come back for a part two of this, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:50

Definitely, brother. And you know, with Wahadat Al-Waju, the unity of being, you know, why all this multiplicity, why the division of religions, fears, paths, and pain on the ultimate level, everything is one single being, one universal soul, dispersed into different bodies to experience the multiplicity of phenomena. We are, as the Quran states, created from a single soul, separated into tribes and nations, strictly to know each other. The animating purpose of all creation is beautifully summarized in a famous hadith kudsi spoken to the prophet David. When asked why God created the world, the Almighty responded, I was a hidden treasure and I love to be known. Therefore I created the world in order to be known. We are the Loki, the living temples of man and woman, through which the divine experiences its own love and manifestation. Kabbalah, Sufism, tarot, these are just different lenses allowing the divine to gaze upon its own hidden treasure. And as I hit the conclusion, the future and the divine feminine, now as we look to the future, we realize that we are exiting an age of rigid patriarchy and entering a new spiritual epoch, what we call the age of Fatima, the rise of the divine feminine and esoteric leadership. It is a time for the female spiritual guides to step forward and balance the scales, bringing us closer to that ultimate unity. Whether you walk the path of the Sufi, the Kabbalist, the Hermeticist, or the Freemason, the goal remains identical. Strip away the ego, find the pearl of truth within yourself, and recognize the divine light in the eyes of your brother and sister. The truth always wins, and the seeds of unity we plant today across all geographic and sectarian lines will eventually bloom into a global renaissance. Let us walk this path together with open hearts as one unified umma, as one community.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:49

That's peace right there. My brother, hold on, let me give you a see if I find a proper sound for you. I appreciate you for really coming out here tonight with a nice presentation, breaking it down for our listeners and viewers, even for me, and for giving out the bigger picture of what it really is. It's just one story that has been fragmented. It's up to the individual to go out there and pick up the pieces and put the put them together to get the big picture. Yes. Not to be out here divided, fighting over a religion whatsoever. And I'm glad that you broke it down for us with this. For viewers, you go out there and pick up the books that we have suggested that the brother has suggested for you to read to you know

Closing Thanks And How To Support

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to enlighten you more about this, and from there you'll be able to maneuver with in all circles without having any discrimination.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:38

So and uh also take a moment to uh take a snapshot of the academic references and acknowledgement that I have listed in this slide, including the books. And I also recommend checking out Sheikh Wahid Azal's lecture, Kabbalah and Sufism. And, you know, I dedicate this to him, the brothers of NYP, brother Mike and Ron, our brothers and sisters who come from all backgrounds. The honor and privilege is mine. And you know, I I appreciate you all. I love you all very much. And you know, I hope I was able to, you know, deliver something meaningful here.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:17

Now you did, brother. You did beautifully said, man. Everything was beautiful, beautifully put. The presentation itself was very insightful, very knowledgeable, a lot of detailed information. And what I like about it, how you when you when you give your presentation, you're not doing it in an entertaining fashion where your voice is going high. It's just very direct, it's not performative, and I like that. You know what I'm saying? Everyone learns differently, but this is important. You give it to them raw, so it's not performative, and that's dope. Oh man, with that being said, people don't forget to comment, like, share, and subscribe. We got super chats, support the music, the movement, part of me. Check out the brother, he got some great work. Follow him if you can on social media. He's on he's on social media himself. And do return for the for part two. We gotta go deeper into this. My brother, the shake. I love and appreciate you for coming out tonight, brother. You know what I'm saying? With that being said, NYP family, we out. One.