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We
should know it for certain that those that do not have faith in
Hadrat Mohammad (peace be upon him) cannot have faith in Allah.
They could have their own gods.
Why is this like that?
Because there is no “God”! God has never existed.
People, of course, may have their own gods which they have created
in their minds as befits their world of imagination. Even, a great
majority of people living on earth as members of various beliefs
already have such a god. But their assumption is certainly not true
and has no connection with the truth of matter.
Hadrat
Mohammed (peace be upon him) performed his mission with the aim of
keeping people away from spending their lives in vain in a way of
life depending on a belief of a concept of god, and he tried to warn
the people who believed in him by way of the word “la ilaha”.
As
I have tried to explain in my book entitled “Allah as Introduced by
Mohammed”, the One denoted by the name “ALLAH” is certainly not a
sky-god or a heavenly god.
While the people of the past ages, as well as those of the present
day, believed in a heavenly god and accepted a SON of that sky-god
as a result of their belief, whom God has sent, as well as the
angels having wings, our Rasul has briefly and clearly emphasized
with the Chapter of Oneness in the Koran (Surah Ikhlas)
that these kind of beliefs hold no truth.
Belief in God takes a person finally to disappointment! Because, in
consequence of such a belief, an expectation from a being afar
off is constructed in mind as a thought. And this results in
inactivity, lethargy and laziness. Instead, everything lies within
the secret at the core of human beings. Not far away! Human beings
have the capacity and the ability of doing many things always with
this secret that they have within.
When those who had a belief in God, realize that such a god never
existed, they will face a big frustration along with a huge
disappointment.
No
god has ever existed, who lived in the outer space or in another
galaxy and who sent a delegate or a son from there down to earth.
For this reason, they who had faith in Hadrat Mohammad
(peace be upon him) and hence in “ALLAH” as introduced by
Mohammed, have definitely a different and inconsistent faith from
those who had an imagination of a heavenly god that is far away.
They who did not have faith in Hadrat Mohammad (p.b.u.h.) and
did not accept and confirm that Mohammed is the Rasul and
Nabi of Allah, have not accepted the concept of “Allah” that is
introduced by Mohammed, either.
That unbelief subsequently results in an image of god in the
universe people create fittingly in their minds, as long as they do
not accept and confirm Mohammad’s (p.b.u.h.) mission as a Rasul, and
so they consequently create a lifestyle which depends on the concept
of their assumption.
Hadrat
Mohammad stated that “men qaala la ilaha ill-allah faqad dahale
jannah,” meaning “who ever states La ilaha ill-Allah will
reach to Heaven.”
However, this does not mean that the ones who believe in god will
reach to heaven!
There is a nuance in here that is to be noticed:
With his explanation above, Hadrat Mohammad (p.b.u.h.) calls
attention to the need of disengagement from the concept of a “god”,
which is purification from shirk (associating partners).
When a person comprehends the meaning of the “Surah Ihlas”,
he will also realize that there is no god that is beyond or far away
from him.
From beginning to its end, the holy Koran is full of verses
emphasizing that the concept of god gives rise to shirq
(the creation of a being at the side of “ALLAH”) and that once
we commit shirq, we will undergo a life of hell.
Why will the ones committing shirq, that is, creating a being
beside “ALLAH” in their heads, remain in hell forever?
As
there is no god, then what is the reason of staying eternally in the
dimension which is called hell, and suffering from it?
These facts need to be thought seriously and comprehended.
As
far as someone does not have faith in Hadrat Mohammad
(p.b.u.h.) and that he is the Rasul and Nabi of ALLAH
and even does not bear “witness” (shahadah) to this reality,
then he is considered as an unbeliever of the Deen of Islam,
which also means the SunatAllah (the system and the
order) as introduced by the Rasul of Allah. And as far as he does
not acknowledge that system and order, he lives through his own
beliefs and conclusively reach the consequences of his life.
We
can neither make someone reach to heaven nor get him into hell.
Everybody will construct their heaven, or else intensify their hell
through their capacity of comprehension and through their lifestyles
that they lead accordingly.
Without having faith in Hadrat Mohammad (p.b.u.h.) and
without bearing witness that Mohammed is the Rasul and
Nabi of Allah, everyone will be doomed to believe a god
only as they will create and characterize in their dreams,
because, without faith, they will not be able to discover and
comprehend the one pointed to with the name “ALLAH” as
Mohammad informed. From then onward, they will not be pleased with
the god in their imaginations, find him wrong or find his mistakes
and start to criticize him.
All the laws and principles, the systems that we live within, of
which we perceive some but we do not most, is actually the “system
and order” called as “SunnatAllah” in the Koran. It is what we know
as the “DEEN”.
The one we were communicated to by the name “ALLAH”, created
all the existence which was described as “universes within
universes” in the past and known as the “parallel universes”
in contemporary terms, by Hu’s ilm (intelligence –
knowledge), from Hu’s ilm and in Hu’s ilm within the
timeless dimension of “AN” (moment).
Based on the hologram principle, every bit of the universe enfolds
the entire universe.
RasulAllah (p.b.u.h.) had referred to this reality 14 hundreds years
ago by saying “a bit mirrors the whole”. For detailed
information you may read my book called “The Journey of the One”.
All of the universes which are created from a single “POINT”
carry out their functions through the laws of the “SunnatAllah”
according to their purpose of being.
Likewise in the example of “K”, similar to the formation which we
call “line” comes from one single point in a “row of points”, all of
the universes are just inside of one single angle. And there are
countless points like this in a long line.
The rest is beyond our comprehension. The name of “ALLAH” at
least signals to a being or existence like that.
So
the one referred by the name “ALLAH” is so magnificent that,
HU is surely independent of being considered as a god.
Each individual including all human beings is like a cone.
Nevertheless, some of them consider themselves not like a cone but
like the two dimensional base of a cone, in other words as a body
only made of flesh and bone. But some of them have realized that
they are cones. They watch the “World of Names” (alam asma)
from all the dimensions of the cone up to the “point”.
What we have to do is, to have faith in the Rasul of Allah Hadrat
Mohammad and in the One he named as “ALLAH” and
introduced, and to direct our lives under the guidance of these
realities that have been communicated.
When the prayer is fulfilled together by those who have faith in the
Rasul of Allah, Hadrat Mohammad (p.b.u.h.), and
in the reality that “there is no god, only Allah” as he
stated, the Imam will never read the “B-ismi-llah”
loudly at the beginning of Fatiha, but will start reading it
from “Elhamdu...” onward.
Why?
Because “B-ismi-llah” encloses the mystery of “B” within and
every person needs to “read” and experience “B-ismi-llah” for
himself depending on the mystery which exists within himself.
Salaat
(daily regular prayers) can only be fulfilled by “reading”
the Fatiha (the Opening) and therefore the Rasul of
Allah stated that “salaat is impossible without Fatiha”.
The way that takes us to “ALLAH” is not outward reaching a distance
but inward, from the consciousness of us toward within ourselves.
The believers of god however, will face outward toward some place in
space [instead of looking inward].
The concept has no relation with being Turkish, Arabic or some other
nationality. The name “ALLAH” is a proper name. Proper names
do not change in any language, they can not be interpreted and they
are always used as they are.
I
have no further words to say to those whom I have not managed yet to
explain the difference between the meaning that the proper name “ALLAH”
denotes and the general concept of “GOD”.
(However, I think that God(!) will arrive on Earth in a time not too
distant... But Tthis is a subject of another article.)
AHMED HULUSI
March 4, 2005
NC, USA
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