The Veil Of Conditionings

It is essential to be aware of the fact that:

It is all our PRECONDITIONING and HABITS that prevent us most from reaching our goals and causes us to live in a "veiled" state.

Even they turn us into a person who spends all his lifetime looking for his glasses sitting on top of his head!

Of course, we must clearly comprehend that:

As far as this is not realized, one will neither be able to attain the reality of his own "self" nor understand the One denoted through the name ALLAH that Hazrat MOHAMMED informed.

Thinking that he knows, he will say "ALLAH" at every breath but will waste his lifetime to nothing by giving that name to an imagined GOD in his mind due to his misconceptions!

Unless MOHAMMED's ALLAH is properly understood and comprehended, there is no gain in labeling and calling a god by the name "ALLAH" that one fancies, creates in his own mind associated with his inner inclinations and under the influence of his conditioning (preconceptions). Because, as it is said in the Koran:

There is no possibility for anyone to recognize the origin of his own consciousness, to make a leap to the dimension of cosmic consciousness and to appreciate the universe through its true value until what is denoted by the name ALLAH is understood and comprehended as informed by Hazrat MOHAMMED!

Because the illusion of GOD he created and labeled as "ALLAH" in his mind will never let him get out of his cocoon and experience the truth!

The only way that Man can get out of his cocoon that is woven by his PRECONDITIONINGS is that the information (ilm) about truth (Haqiqat) reaches him, and further he reflects on these facts and lives its effect!

Yet, we all know that people usually do not REFLECT ON and neither do they like reflecting on matters requiring questioning and deep comprehension, as the ability to use the power of thought is not recognized and people are commonly educated by means of memorization.

For this very reason, people conduct themselves with reference to the behavior of others in their environment, that is "everybody".

Everyone adopts and imitates what "EVERYBODY" says and does!

Eventually they become almost a worshiper of the "Idol EVERYBODY!"

Believing that the elders always do what is right since the early ages of childhood, every individual takes up the behavior of others around by way of conditioning and begin to perform them. So in the process, they acquire others' perspectives, opinions of value as absolute facts!

All these conclusions and behavior acquired by way of habituating progressively urge the individual into a SUPPOSITION which is completely opposite to the TRUTH.

And finally the person is imprisoned in a cocoon that was woven with the thread of his SUPPOSITIONs and he begins to mourn words such as:

"Why should I spend all my life worshipping GOD! Somehow or other I will do something good in the end and get thorough safely by acquiring merit in God's sight!"

These are all fictitious CONJECTUREs (zann) which have no basis in truth and they are all caused by false information acquired by way of conditioning.

However, the Koran warns that a life built on such preconceptions (conditionings) and false CONJECTUREs will bring severely sorrowful consequences; that here are a few of these signs:

This is why nothing can cause more harms on ourselves than our preconditionings!

Simply by conjecturing ourselves as visible material beings composed of flesh and blood as imposed by our surroundings, we believe that there is a GOD-up-there residing above the world, and further we take to worshipping such a god off in the sky somewhere, within the characteristics of our physical bodies!

We get angry with SUCH A GOD, judge SUCH A GOD, and even criticize and accuse SUCH A GOD of his achieving irrelevant and untimely deeds!

We never realize that SUCH A GOD could never be there at all.

We never pay attention to Hazrat Mohammed's warning that there is no such a GOD in the sky!

Because of this, we keep on making immense mistakes that cannot be made up for later.

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If nothing else, one should take the following fact into account:

What land would a single man occupy on earth?

Consider that there is only one man on the planet earth and try to imagine the land he occupies. Then think that there were a GOD as big as this planet. What would then a man’s place represent beside such a GOD?

Go on and think of the Sun afterwards, being a mass 1,313 thousand times greater than the earth. How does the earth compare to such a mass? Besides, try to imagine the position and size of a person beside such an immense mass that is 1,313 thousand times greater than the earth? It seems to correspond, as if to only one chromosome in a cell in comparison to a human body!

Moreover, think further of the position of the Sun in a galaxy made up of 400 billion stars like the Sun itself?

And question now: If such a galaxy consisted of 400 billions of suns —that no one can comprehend this—, happened to be a GOD, how then would the Sun compare to its magnificence anyway?

And let us now try to understand what it would mean if the sun worshipped, glorified and exalted such a god, or if he denied, resisted and cursed against it!

And what is the place of a man beside such a GOD assumed as great as a galaxy?

Please consider these seriously and in a realistic sense!

If we can grasp this point, we will simply realize that the tasks offered in religion which are known as "prayers" are not arranged to worship or to please a GOD further away, at a distance!

Likewise, you might have heard from the elders that "ALLAH is not in need of your practices, but you need to fulfill them for the good of yourself, for your own future!"

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Of course, you are in need of "practices" (ibadat); it is you who need them, not the one informed through the name "ALLAH!"

If you do not assign the essential importance to them, you will have oppressed your own "soul" (nafs) for you will have not earned the countless qualities and potencies that your soul naturally merits.

Only the practices that were carried out through you, will enable you to understand the verity (haqiqat) of your self (nafs), make you find countless properties within yourself and consequently make you reach out to a life of paradise!

You need to achieve those practices for yourself, for your own benefit.

If you do not practice them, then you are the only one to undergo its loss! Because, there is no GOD-out-there, nor a GOD afar-off you! Therefore, you are not fulfilling those practices in order to please a GOD.

It must be clearly understood now that:

If you quit all your deeds after you realized that there is no GOD-out-there BEYOND yourself, this time you are face to face with a great loss!

Because, those practices that you used to consider as "worshipping," are of great importance for your future indeed. Never should they be neglected!

However, you have had a misunderstanding about it: You have previously PRESUMED that the performance of those practices called "prayers," had been to please a GOD. Now you know that, all those practices are not for a GOD at a distance or a God beyond yourself, but they are directly for your own, personal future!