What Does "Rabb" Mean?Even though the meanings of the Names belong to that Essence, you can observe that essence behind the curtain of the Names.
But how about knowing this Essence at the level of the Attributes rather than watching behind the curtain of the Names?
As long as you are confined to your compositional boundary and conditioning, even though you may know your essence at the level of the Attributes you will never go any further than just knowing.
Indeed, he who knows his Rabb knows Allah!
Knowing your Rabb doesn't free you from hell! You must go beyond just knowing; you must overcome the boundaries of your Rabb, i.e. your compositional make-up!
But this is only possible through first knowing your Rabb, then knowing the One denoted by the name Allah, and escaping the limits of your Rabb in compliance with the commands of Allah.
Thus, to become "moralized with the morals of Allah" is to observe and witness that within your constitution and essential reality, there is no other than Allah, and that all the divine names that are manifest in the domain of Acts are in perfect balance, perfect state, and everything is exactly the way it is intended to be.
This observation is only possible after foregoing your delusional individuality, your relative illusory identity, and your sense of "I".
You must witness that there is no other existence besides that of Allah... You must be freed of your delusive conception of 'others' spawned from your conditioned sensory perception, the limited five senses.
You must see that the entire existence is a single wholeness. When someone speaks of the One, the Absolute Reality, you must see that One within your own being. Only then you can experience the reality. Otherwise it is merely knowing, learning, accepting and imitating, no application and experience!
To experience this, to feel this, to observe this at the level of acts, the illusory identity, the 'person' must dissolve! There is no other way around it!
Once the 'inexistence' of the person is understood with certainty, all of the attributes, the temperament, the personal nature pertaining to that program also dissolves.
But without this liberty one cannot experience "unity". First cleanse yourself from your ego-identity, then the meanings of the Names will express themselves through you as actions.
What do we mean by cleansing?
Essentially there is nothing to cleanse, as it doesn't exist in the first place!
The purpose of cleansing yourself from your ego is to balance the meanings that you express. To strengthen the weak expressions and lessen the forceful ones. When the heavy forceful meanings are lessened, you make room for newer expressions to come through!
For example, stinginess is an attribute resulting from the weak expression of a particular meaning. So, when this weak expression is strengthened the resulting output, in this case 'stinginess' is lifted, the person is cleansed from this attribute. In fact, as it strengthens, the opposite quality is produced and the person becomes very benevolent, giving and philanthropic... This process is achieved with the practice of dhikr. Dhikr intercepts the automated brain program and re-programs it.
So how do we express our inactive dormant qualities, strengthen the weak ones, and balance the deficiencies to allow new expressions to take place?
How to become moralized with the morals of Allah?
There are two ways:
1. From the outside in
2. From the inside out
The first is relatively easier to achieve. The most effective way is to find someone, a master, who has already achieved this, and submit to him. Constantly following his orders, doing things that go against your comfort zone, conditionings and egoistic tendencies allows one to move to a higher more refined level. Consequently, new meanings will begin to reveal and express themselves.
"The hue of Allah! And what can be better than being colored with the hue of Allah?"[1]
