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Religious Misunderstandings
Ahmed Hulusi, translated by Ahmed Baki

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UNIVERSAL

One cannot understand without thinking…

The meaning that the Deen-i Islam is universal!

The Deen-i Islam is not a kind of information of system that came to a specific tribe or nation to speak to their particular understanding and is not aimed at guiding some of them in particular!.

Nor is the Deen-i Islam an understanding of religion that came specifically to speak to some nations of Arabs, Persians, Turks, Malaysians or some others!.

Deen-i Islam is a name given to the universal system and order that Allah created… People acquire for themselves the necessary means of attainment for peace and felicity in the dimensions of this world and beyond death, insofar as they could understand that system and mechanism.

Those who approach the Deen-i Islam with some racial (national), customary, cultural or relational (comparative) prejudice and judgements, can never realize the value of universal realities which are meant to be informed in origin

Within the conceptual confusion of our day, the Deen-i Islam has almost been invisible behind people's value judgements built on their parroting (taqlid) it afar from deep thought and questioning.

Just for the sake of conversation it is said that the Deen-i Islam is universal!

As this fact is denied without realizing with almost every following idea!

What is meant by a Universal Deen?..

It means the Deen that speaks to a Turk, an Arab, an American, a Mexican, an Eskimo, a Japan, Chinese, in short, to each and every nation from an equal distance and that aims for benefit to them all!

This is the understanding of Deen that takes source from the universal realities and that is based on the universal system. Because:

It does not come under restriction by the customs, habits and traditions of Turks!

It does not come under restriction by the customs, habits and traditions of Arabs!

It does not come under restriction by the customs, habits and traditions of Asians or Eskimos!..

As the Rasul of Allah Hazrat Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him) descended from the generation of Hazrat Abraham in an Arabic community, the understanding of Deen that he communicated has been mistakenly appropriated for Arabic communities as a great misjudgment and has then been blended with the customs, habits and traditions of Arabs, and so has it been tried to inject people universally in such a form!

People have been invited to a Muslimism that is blended with Arab people's customs, habits and traditions, under the term that it is the Deen-i Islam.

This gave rise to an assumption of peoples that look from outside as that the Deen-i Islam were an Arabic Religion!

The Deen-i Islam is the explanation of the universal system and mechanism to the entire humanity by the Rasul of Allah… It is the announcement to all humankind without any racial consideration, that they who organize their lives taking these realities into account (live under the guidance of those realities) will attain the eternal peace and felicity…

Moses (peace be upon him) is a Rasul and Nabii of Jewish race, as he has came to only one race!

However, as a Rasul of Allah, universal human Mohammed (peace be upon him) has come to the entire human race, not only to one race, and he has been explaining the Universal System and Order that is created by the One that is referred to as "ALLAH".

Hazrat Mohammed (peace be upon him) is a "UNIVERSAL RASUL". He invites people to see the universal realities! Never to see the customs, habits and the traditions of Arabs!

The customs, habits and the traditions of Arabs are their own business, regardless of whether they may be right or wrong; and they do not matter for the universal human!..

The customs, habits and the traditions of Turks are their own business, either right or wrong, they do not matter for the universal human!..

The customs, habits and the traditions of Far Easterners, Eskimos or the grandchildren of Incas are their own business, either right or wrong, they do not matter for the universal human!..

The Deen of the universal human is the Deen-i Islam that is universal! He does not veil, deform or degenerate the Universal Deen Islam with some local, attributional values or judgements; he does neither downgrade It by depreciating, not even unknowingly!

All people are unavoidably dependent on (under the authority of) the system and mechanism informed by the Deen and besides, they will have to pay for the cost of neglecting its requirements as to the degree of their negligence!

The Muslimism, that is advertised as the true religion in market after it is blended with some national customs, habits and traditions of nations, differs from the universal Deen-i Islam in quite many aspects and it therefore fails to receive a universal acceptance and is rejected!

If this Muslimism that is blended with some national (racial) features and though imposed after being labeled as the "universal religion of Islam" has not received and is not receiving widespread approval by the majority of the world's people on this day, it is because of the presentation of the Deen-i Islam in the form of a National Religion!.. People are invited to the Arab Muslimism under the term of "Deen-i Islam". As a result of this, they have been fighting against each other all the time! This is a very big malfeasance!

It is extremely difficult for the people that have not reached the universality, to estimate and appreciate the universal Rasul of Allah!.. So is for them to understand the Universal Deen, as a consequence.

Though the universal humans who could grasp this, show respect to all the customs, habits and traditions, they never depend on such local and RELATIVE (ATTIBUTIONAL) values; same as Jalaluddini Rumi, Shamsi Tabrizi, Yunus Emre, Hadji Baktash Wali did!..

Rasul of Allah, the universal human Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him)… The universal awliyah (friends) of Allah... Universal humans... Universal Book... The Speech that is full of Universal Mysteries... And its "READers"...

The religions of races or nations… Prophets of nations!.. Imitator (muqallid) members of religions… National awliyah along with those qutb, ghauws and mahdis of every district… Distorted translations of the Koran

Along with some religious understandings based on Totems or a "Sky-God", that are born out of the consideration of a God, the prophet of that God and the translations of the Koran prescribing a God as a He-God!

Besides is the exhibition of all those in a basket with a label that it is the Religion of Islam.

In order to be able to "READ" the Deen-i Islam that explains the universal realities as informed by the universal Rasul of Allah Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him), and the universal Book the Koran al Karim, first of all, it is necessary for us to understand, learn and digest in moderation what the universality is and how it is to be; and then, to consider that Book with such a viewing!..

It is necessary to comprehend and digest in moderation that the sunnat of RasulAllah Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him) is not Arabian customs and habits but the Sunnat of Allah, along with the meaning of what the "Sunnat of Allah" is!.

It is necessary to "READ" (iqraa) the Rasul of Allah Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him)!.

So that from then onward one could perceive what the Universal Deen-i Islam is… And only after than that this reality that is perceived, can be confirmed or rejected!

"Alhamdulillah, I am a Muslim!"

"Inshaallah you are a Muslim!!???."

If these are mere words uttered on parroting, the state of one who utters them is like a person who says he knows swimming but in actuality he has never seen a sea in his life and who thus informs his own reality!.

It is a very important question to answer what benefit can come through putting and repeating some certain words into a person's brain which is conditioned and blocked with some local and RELATIVE judgements and who has not heard of what universality is.

It is impossible for a person who is not aware of what it is to be "universal", to realize the value of the Universal Deen, the Universal Rasul and the universal human!.

Actually, the universal Rasul of Allah, universal Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him) invites people to confirm Islam as the universal Deen and to live its effect!.

Therefore, we need urgently to refine ourselves from our national understanding of religion in order to realize and grasp the universal Deen-i Islam and we should try to "READ" (iqraa) Rasul of Allah Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him) with respect to his universality rather than his Arabic hereditary, so that we may begin to realize some certain facts.

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