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Let us examine the subject from the beginning, or in other words,
from its basis.
A
belief centered on god?
Otherwise...
An
understanding of RELIGION centered on Mohammed (peace be upon him)?
“Yes, once again we bring out a new subject! You are right… Sorry to
say, but the difference between these two is important at the very
most!
What's more, without comprehending the exact difference between
these two, one cannot abandon “religious understandings” and
attain the true concept of “RELIGION”!
Let us study this important difference thoroughly…
First, look at the common acceptance of Muslimism in which “religious
understanding centered on god” is effective.
According to this view, even though it is said that God
–which is labeled with the name “Allah”– is everywhere, it is
in practice always some place above. Its followers believe in a god
at a distance, somewhere above them. However, accepting a god at a
distance is directly dualism (shirk-i khafi). Almost
everybody who has that concept of dualistic theism (shirk),
has a God –that they call as “Allah”– determined by
their cultures, environments and their judgment and envision.
As
the explanations in the Koran about this subject are not
thought in depth due to prohibitions brought by some people based on
their made-up reasons, the image of “personified-god” in
people’s minds remains as it is, and does never develop. As
maintained by those peoples’ misunderstandings and assumptions,
their man-like god out there chooses a prophet among
people on earth by means of his angels beside himself and assigns
him with the duty of a messenger or postman to make
people obey his orders. And that process is done through SENDING
one of his angels to this prophet! A messenger angel from his
side sent to the prophet chosen on earth!
Let us clarify something at this point! UFOlogists and some people
believing in the existence of aliens coming from outer space,
suggest by immediately taking advantage of that perception that,
angels and the gods accepted by people on earth are some superior
races coming from skies.
We
should emphasize that:
There might be some creatures who have come or will come from outer
space! It is illogical and irrational to reject it. But, it is an
absolute mistake to accept those who have come or will come, as a
“god” or an “angel”; because, as I will try to explain it below,
these acceptances has nothing to do with the notifications of
Rasul of Allah. This should be realized and understood properly.
Likewise, even the creature who is named Dajjal (Anti-Christ)
and who will claim that he is God and he has come among his servants
on earth, will exploit these religious beliefs centered on god!
He will make those believing a god out there, above the earth
dependent on him. There will be few people on earth who will be able
to refuse to believe in him.
Today, the one whom the Jews and Christians wait for with the
epithet “Messiah”, in fact, is not Isa (Jesus), but
Dajjal (Anti-Christ) himself. Jesus (peace be upon
him) will come along after Dajjal’s appearance with the claim that
he is “God”! The elimination of the creature with the epithet
Dajjal, who asserts that he is the expected God, will be
fulfilled by Isa personally, who will appear on earth at the
age of 33. After that, Jesus will come and act together with the
last Mujaddid (Renovator) known by the epithet Mahdi
for seven or eleven years. At the mean time, the invasion of Middle
East by the race known as Gog and Magog will be observed through
their move from the east of Asia. After this is passed over, Isa
(peace be upon him) will live on earth for forty more years till the
age of seventy-three as said by RasulAllah in his
explanations. Hadithes about the subject can be read in our book
“MYSTERIES OF MAN” under the topic
Signs of Doomsday.
Well, let us return to our main subject…
Understanding of a materialistic system is the basis of the
religious belief centered on god!
Everything is in word meaning in hadithes and the Koran for the
religious belief centered on god.
God has hands in religious belief centered on god!
God has a pair of scales at religious belief centered on god
[to weigh people’s sins and virtues in the afterlife]! (God
has failed to predict the digital scales or better ones, yet!)
It
is never noticed, considered or accepted that such accounts were
just illustrations and parables used to clarify some facts to
humans.
In
short, everything told in religious beliefs centered on god,
is measured by the facts of material world! There is no
interrogation, trying to understand, knowing what it is, or
pondering, in such religious beliefs. There are orders to obey and
their applications! All the matters that are not clarified in the
verses of the Koran, have been interpreted under the name of
Comparative Laws (qıyas-i fiqh) within the standards of the
conditions of the time that is lived and even that interpretations
were accepted under the scope of Religion (Deen) – Laws (Shariat).
The interpretation of the verses or hadithes in so far as the
understandings and conditions of those ages has been assumed to be
the statements of religion.
Salaat
(ritual prayer) is a debt paid to god, and fasting is a debt needed
to be paid back in the religious understanding centered on god.
Unless you pay back your debt, god puts you into jail, pardon me, in
hell!
Religious understanding centered on god
says this: “We only obey and apply the rules and do not think about
the rest of it. God knows what is what. We do not need to seek to
know further. If we were to know, he would also inform us of them.
What we only need to do is to follow the orders and perform the
religious tasks as we are ordered. It’s none of our business to
question more of them, to probe the mystery and the reasoning behind
them, to think deep and to gain insight about other matters…”
The presumption that “We will die and when we resurrect in
doomsday, everything will be uncovered” is the outcome of this
religious understanding centered on god!.
When it comes to the understanding of RELIGION centered on
Mohammed (peace be upon him) who is the Rasul and the last Nabi of
Allah, beyond any kind of materialistic religious understanding
which has been created to apply to the realities of the physical
world…
Within this understanding, as said by all Sufi masters having the
wisdom of truth (haqiqat), (including Hadji Baktash Wali,
Imam Ghazali, Abdukadir Geylani, Shah Bahaaddin Nakshebandy, who
said “this is not arrogance but the self-esteem” as an answer to the
question about him seeming arrogant, and many others whom we cannot
name here)…
At
the age of 39, Mohammad (peace be upon him), who lived in an
idolater tribe as a perceiver of the fact that there is no god or
the concept of deity owing to his khaneef (rejecting gods)
origin declared the truth that “there is no god or concept of
goodness, only the One named ‘Allah’ ” (la ilaha
ill–Allah) to this idolater society that worshiped various kinds
of gods.
It
is the most essential point here to notice what the One named “Allah”
is. If this point is examined carefully, it will be seen that the
One named “Allah” is not a god at a distance that should be
comprehended but is the potential power, force (qudrat)
within the origin, source of everything and every individual. All
entities and individuals can attain that potential power and force
by turning toward their origin and core, rather than turning toward
exterior dimensions outside… And, if they can achieve that
attainment, they will realize the “nonexistence” of their individual
beings in the presence (at the sight) of Allah. They would then
say “it is only Allah that exists” as perceivers of oneness (muwahhid)!..
In
this understanding, there are potential powers, knowledge (ilm)
(which is the quality of Gabriel), descending – revealing (tanazzul)
from the core and origin of humans toward their minds
(consciousness), there are not any angels coming from skies. A brain
will observe angels in forms of images (surat), because, as a
result of the attribute of Musawwir brains always
reveal what is received to their database and what is given out of
their database by showing them up in forms of images in the mind.
“Rasul of Allah” is the one who fulfills the articulation of the
reality (haqiqat) in his essence that is the One named Allah.
The revelation of the attribute of knowledge in form of divine
inspiration (wahy) from within his truth (haqiqah), is
what the “risalat” (the function of Rasul – Rasulhood) is all
about.
This process is from the unseen (batin) toward the visible (zaheer),
not from skies towards the flesh and bone human body on earth.
If
the knowledge of that truth is aimed at “reading” the
unaltered laws of the One named “Allah” (sunnatallah)
within the multiverse of universes and also at declaring
humans what should be performed along the lines of these laws, it is
called Nubuwwat (Nabihood).
Allah, that is the absolute Unknown (ghaib) from the aspect
of His essence (dhat),
could be known by us only as much as the Rasul of Allah declared
and within the scope of the knowledge he has revealed!
Without having a vision of god in our imaginations and fancies, we
try to understand the One named “Allah” by reflecting under
the guidance of declarations of Rasul of Allah (through the Koran
and Hadithes) and will never restrict the result with the knowledge
we have had.
In
the understanding centered on RasulAllah,
the Religion (deen) is the name of the system and
order in the multiverse of universes (alam) in dimensional
terms! The name of this system is ISLAM as the ‘multiverse of
universes’ and all that dwells in them carry on their existence as a
work and servant of (with a total surrender to) the SINGLE one
knowledge and power (qudraat).
“In
the sight of Allah, the Religion is Islam” emphasizes this
truth.
Because of this, the Religion is the “understanding
centered on RasulAllah” while the other forms of beliefs based
on a god are only “religion-like understandings”.
Secondly significant point in the understanding centered on
RasulAllah is about human’s “caliphate”. All units and
atoms, as in the explanation of holographic truth and told in the
hadith “a particle mirrors the whole”, are the revelations as
reflectors of Attributes and Names (asma) of the One named
Allah.
The only way of realizing this subject is through the ability to
think from the point of oneness toward multitudes (through wholeness
toward individuals).
If
this could be understood, it will also be realized that the
Attributes and Names (asma) –stated to pertain to the One
named “Allah”–, as well as the powers (angels) which are like
some spiritual dimensions and stations (martaba) in the
revelations of those Names and Attributes, are creatures that
originate from the database of human beings within their essence and
reveals towards their minds.
Archangel Gabriel is like that, which are potential powers
originated from the names Alim, Mumit and Hasib sequentially;
Azrael (that regenerates) is like that and also Munker and
Nakir (reckoning angels in the grave) is like that.
Within the understanding of Religion centered on RasulAllah
there is not any lifeless or mindless creature, because each
individual being is present with the properties of the “Names of
Allah”.
“Human” is the only being having the emotions of pity and mercy
as well as the capacity of observing Allah’s magnificent
SunnatAllah among all creatures on earth. Because of this,
“human” is the most honored of all creation (ashraf-i mahluk).
These warnings of Rasul of Allah should be assessed and
understood very well:
“One, who doesn’t show mercy, wouldn’t be shown mercy.”
Also for insects; “Kill each of the harmful!”
In
the understanding centered on RasulAllah,
everyone who has respect for other’s living right, has the right of
living!.
In
the understanding of RELIGION centered on RasulAllah, it is
made easy for each and every individual to fulfill the purpose for
which it was created by its creator, –by its Rabb (that is the
composition of Names originating from the dimension of asma
in its essence)– and so each one of them carry out the purpose in
their creation properly. This might bring either happiness or
unhappiness. That is their absolute “servitude”.
As
a result of the understanding of RELIGION centered on RasulAllah,
all the spiritual practices and devotions such as zhikr,
salaat (ritual prayers) fasting, etc., are fulfilled to
manifest the potential powers and divine attributes already
available in our essence, without ever being to satisfy the
heart’s desire of a god or to pay debt to him. What is mentioned as
“for the sake (ridha) of Allah” is what is convenient for the
spiritual perfection of our true self. As the result of putting
behavior in harmony to that spiritual perfection, a character trait
automatically comes out in us in agreement with the perfection of
that truth.
The verse that means “nothing can be mentioned for a human other
than the result of his own practice” is a warning open enough
for the thinking brains about what the matter is.
In
short, “religious understandings centered on god” are the
life styles of societies who turn toward a god at a distance.
But the understanding of RELIGION centered on Mohammed, the Rasul
of Allah, is for the “human”s who can set off from the point
of having faith in Allah as RasulAllah explained, and turn
toward discovering the spiritual levels (dimensions) within their
essence and the potential powers of perfection in those spiritual
levels, as we understood…
AHMED HULUSI
July 29, 2005
Raleigh, NC |
