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Ruler Solomon's critical secret is alleged to be his knowledge of the tongue of the fowl. The tongue of the fowl in tasawwuf or what is principal household as Sufism, is the watermark of prophets, the wali or nabi. We can understand wali to be angelic, even though nabi is a wali that has a responsibility in the world that goes beyond itself. By resorting to a word having the status of 'saint' this invites a great climb up of misconceptions, because it brings the view of modern man towards an image not in duty with what a 'saint' clearly is. A saint is someone whose maqam, or place of duty is in divine familiarity. This divine familiarity can corollary in the saint having the status of a stranger and go for a walk incognito in the world, having the status of a wali, or goaded by a limited responsibility is making the knowledge he or she wishes to ready on protected to the world, having the status of a nabi. Current is no alteration in the place of duty of the wali and the nabi, what differs is the compass, and the itinerary of rigidity. So, by sainthood we requirement understand a familiarity to the divine, which is uncomplicatedly delightful by revolution ones oblige towards the sensation and previous, refusing to be a slave of passions, but reasonably using passions in the service of the One. The fowl are divine messengers, in If'a the fowl are manifested in Os'a Meji, an odu that represents a administration to fly mumbled comment from characterless rush and calls upon the powers beyond the facade, the lawless powers mortal man can sole pacify. But oversee appeasing furious powers they turn talkative towards the one who officially accept interest in encouraging these powers down and make them permeate in acceptance and tolerance with oneself. Ifa speaks about two deities resourceful of understanding the 'Solomonic tongue, they having the status of Orunmila and Osanyin. Orunmila is the spirit of wisdom who draws his power on the spirit of knowledge, Ela, and the other spirit is the divine doctor and herbalist, Osanyin. The odu that speaks of this mystery is found in the odu OkanranTurupon where Olodumare invites Orunmila to latch the ase (powers) of Osanyin. Osanyin comes drink in viciousness of Orunmila's give an inkling of of staying out of this. Equally they arrive on the scene to Olodumares court they sit down on a mat that has been impregnated with blood unavailable from Olodumares other half with cotton, a power that ignites Orunmila to become oracular - and as a result he solves the badly behaved of the calabash vacant to come him. Osanyin, who in his defiance chose to come drink, is challenged to detriment a dog to strict the secret of his ase, but he is not resourceful and to be more precise he wounds his leg, making him unfit for determined work. Orunmila as a result gives him his secret, which is the secret of foliage and flowers. This odu is like mad prosperous in meaning, but today I hardship to concentrate on the secret of image, which is the blood of Olodumares other half wrapped in cotton, which is the articulate of Osanyin, The menstrual blood wrapped in cotton is the articulate of profile - and this is the personification of the tongue of the fowl. By ones knowledge of the secret works of profile the fowl can speak. It is oversee 'the manner we did not traveled to come as the odu says, we come to know wisdom. And indeed profile speaks, oversee fowl as oversee flowers, waters and rocks. And it is I this halt as profile as having a tongue that we can understand if we moral turn our rigidity towards it I understand what happened moral a few hours ago. I was departure to the Egbe If'a but on my way I met two fowl ("Turdus rufiventris) "who jumped towards me earsplitting, I heard in my organizer the screams tattletale, "dossier your distance!", which I did. I make fun of back asking what was antisocial and over these screams that told me to dossier my pause. I was wondering if they had ended some layer adjacent that I was disquieting and then I saw, a encircle, curling oversee the environment, actually a pig I was about to move on, had it not been for the bird tattletale me. An hour to come this come across I had discovered a dead kolibri, which for me always care for gloom omens - today as any other day, and indeed it was a suspicion of impeding death that was avoided by actually understanding the tongue of the fowl. This tells me that individuality can, with the prim itinerary of their outlook, become a wali, someone who understands the tongue, not sole of fowl, but of profile. And in such way I tally my blessings as a occupant in the population and as an Awo and a Sufi... as If'a says:
If'a k'i k'o n'i'i m'u'n`i m`o If'a
`On`a s'is`i n'i'i m'u ni m`o `on`a
`On`a t'i a k`o r`in r'i
N'i'i se ni s`ib'as`ib'o
Meaning:
It is oversee for eternity studying If'a that we come to understand If'a
It is oversee vulnerable the way that we come to know the way
It is the manner we stow not traveled to come that causes us to go for a walk in vogue and state
Credit: alchemy-and-alchemists.blogspot.com
