“Do not say two, Say One!”: These were the words my late father and teacher Syed Hasan Askari uttered to me in a fading voice a few days before his passing from this life in Feb’2008.
“Do not say two, Say ONE!”
From where does peace descend? From what hidden depths of Light does 
sakina* rise? Indirectly it comes, gently, unexpected. A bird approaching with caution to an open palm. Companion of Attar.
Awake! Awake! For if not now when? Awake! Awake! If hope for the “hereafter” why not here and now? Soul then and now, here and there, One Soul. Do not abandon this world.
Awake! Awake! For there is no then and now. No here or hereafter after body’s mode. Awake! Awake! We have slept a half sleep long enough through this life. Awake! Awake! O Soul.
Let us meet and speak facing one another with eyes closed. Speaking from and to our inner realities. Through our outer appearances of speech, name, histories, collective identities. Let us see to our indivisible, invisible, immaterial centre of Being. Our Soul. One Soul.
From that station known each other thus let us utter, “Peace be upon you”. What else is there to say? Is it not so we already know each other? Our source is One. Our return as soul to the One.
“Do not say two, Say One!”The One is above peace, it envelopes peace.
“Do not say two, Say One!”It is “That” to which peace looks before it knows itself as peace and is filled with peace.
“Do not say two, Say One!” First the “Word” – “Let there be Light!”
“Do not say two, Say One!” As like that advancing light before dawn.
“Do not say two, Say One!” Then, there is “Light!”. Blinding “Light!”
“Do not say two, Say One!” Fortunate it was we met with eyes closed.
“Do not say two, Say One!” O Soul had it not been so I fear we may have missed seeing one another in this life.
O Baba, O Baba, I hear you still, “Do not say two, Say One!”
(* “sakina” – a “quietness, repose of the soul” – see page 51, Ismaili Initiation Esotericism and the Word by Henry Corbin, 1981)
* (… it happens, as if a man slept a life through, and took the dream world in perfect trust; wake him, and he would refuse belief to the report of his open eyes and settle down to sleep again.” Plotinus)
Spiritual Human 
“At any time when we have not been in direct vision of that sphere, memory is the source of its activity within us; when we have possessed that vision, its presence is due to the principle by which we enjoyed it: this principle awakens where it wakens; and it alone has vision in that order; for this is no matter to be brought to us by way of analogy, or by the syllogistic reasoning whose grounds lie elsewhere; the power which we possess of discoursing upon the Intellectual Beings, so far as such discourse is here possible, is vested in that principle which alone is capable of their contemplation. That we must awaken, so to speak, and thus attain the vision of the Supreme, as one, standing on some lofty height and lifting his eyes, sees what to those that have not mounted with him is invisible.” Plotinus (The Enneads).
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