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Within the religious
understanding based on the concept of “God”, there is an image
of a special night called “the night of the Qadr” (laylat-ul
qadr) which is as follows:
God Almighty prepares a
special gift for a few of its select servants on Earth who worship
Him the most. This great divine gift is called “Qadr”
(spiritual power, credit, blessing).
The
angels bringing(!) that blessing arrive at the region where Muslims
live, at a holy night when the minarets are illuminated –because
these angels go bad when they are exposed to sunlight, just like
vitamin C!
This Qadr, which
has never seen sunlight, is something more beneficial than one
thousand months, that is, eighty three years of worshiping.
Every
year, on the 27th of the month of Ramadan, with the order of God
Almighty, the angels, taking the Spirit also with them, head
towards the planet Earth. They travel thousands of years of distance
flapping their wings and with a swift run. When they land on their
destination on earth at that night, they begin investigating the
people who are busy worshiping, one by one going from one house to
another.
Meanwhile, the people
living on the side of Earth with sunlight, of course get nothing!
If the angels find
someone worshiping sincerely and matching the list of conditions
they have at hand, they immediately ask God: “Shall we give this
one the Qadr?”… If God allows it, they give the gift called as
Qadr to that individual without delay. The searching of each
home and the distribution of the Qadr in this manner
continues until sunrise.
No one knows how many
people receive the Qadr that night. It is also unknown what
changes for the ones receiving the Qadr, either. When the
angels and the spirit see the sunlight, they immediately head back
to their home where God Almighty lives.
In the meantime,
believers travel from one mosque to another entertaining their
chance to find the gift of Qadr in one of those mosques.
…
The following is how “the night of Qadr” is deciphered by the
spiritual masters (ahlullah –the people of Allah) as seen
from the understanding of Religion (the Deen) based on
the Rasul of Allah Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him).
(The
Surah Qadr as seen on its English translations: We have
indeed descended (revealed) It in the Night of Qadr. And what
will explain to you what the Night of Power is? The Night of Power
is beneficial than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit
descend therein, by the permission of their Lord, with all decrees.
Peace until the rising of the dawn.)
“We
revealed the complete secrets referred to as the Koran
and the truth of a person within (We have descended –
anzalna HU) to him in his mind, his consciousness when he
realized the non-existence (night – layl) of his own being.
The warning that “Quran and a human being are twins” should
be remembered here.
Do
you know what this truth, this secret (Qadr) is?
The duration of
Qadr, when the darkness (night) of non-existence is
experienced, is more worthy and beneficial than what can be
experienced in a thousand months (which is the equivalent of a
lifetime of a human being, approximately 80 years).
Angels
(spiritual potencies, –the wings describe the two, three, four or
more aspects of these forces) and Spirit (the essence, the
meaning of the absolute truth, the identity “HU” in one’s being)
emerge in the person’s mind as much as his Rabb (the
collections of names, the Names of Allah that create his being)
allows it (based on his capacity). Consequently, the person
experiences the absolute being of Allah in addition to
feeling his own non-existence in a state of surrender to
(reaching safety from) all of what is decreed.
This
experience lasts until the thought and feeling of self return
(rising of the dawn –return to fajr) to the person.
Look for this
opportunity every night of the year, in other words, in every moment
that you can feel and experience your non-existence at the
One referred to as Allah. This is the warning to “seek for
the night of Qadr in every night of the year” in the
hadith.
As
for the warning to “seek for it during Ramadan” in the
hadith … Having fasted true to its meaning, try to
capture this state while trying to rid yourself of all aspects of
human conditions [limitations placed on us as human beings] and feel
the absolute truth within.
The
warning to “look for it in the last days of Ramadan”… Having
fasted through Ramadan knowing what it actually is rather than
simply imitating, seek for this state in the final stages of this
spiritual purification process.
Now,
let us try to explain what we understand from what the “Surah
Qadr” is trying to tell us using metaphors:
There is a moment (the
moment of Qadr) which is much more beneficial than an entire
lifetime of a human. During the period of this momentary leap or
opening of consciousness, the knowledge pertaining to one’s truth (haqiqat)
is revealed to the person, from his essence to his consciousness.
This is the true identity denoted by HU.
That truth, based on the
principle that “a human being is the Koran’s secret; the Koran is a
human being’s secret”, comes out from within our origin.
When?
When
the person starts questioning about what and who his true being is,
believing in Allah’s Rasul Mohammed (peace be upon him),
understanding what he brought to humanity, purging the concept of
God from his mind, and knowing the One referred to as Allah
at least as much as mentioned in the Sura of Ihlas.
When he moves from his individual, unitary self (the daylight) to
the realization of the darkness of his non-existence at the
One referred to as Allah, and when all the creations loses their
being in his eye.
In a moment when he feels and experiences that his true
self is created by the truth within, which are the attributes
denoted by the Names of ALLAH, he realizes and observes that the
SPIRIT –the meaning of these Names– and angels, that are the forces
resulting from these Names, originate from him at every moment.
Suddenly feeling and living this is the moment of “Qadr”.
At that moment, there is nothing left of either his self or
a bit of his being.
“In this moment (yawm), who has the possession?”
He testifies “Lillahil waheedul kahhar”
meaning “Allah, the “one and only without equal” (waheed) and
“capable of annihilating whatever It wants” (Kahhar),”
and reads “the word of testimony” understanding its full meaning. In
this moment, one that observes is none other than the One himself.
This state continues
until the person finds himself back in the level of human condition
(fajr – rising of the dawn). Consequently, he takes his
place as a person of actual belief among the masters of truth (ahli
haqiqat) who have experienced their true selves. He starts
“reading” the Koran to understand the secrets it contains, awaiting
death (dimension shift) and continues carrying out his “servitude”
according to his purpose of creation.
Why did I write all
these?
I
wrote them because I wanted to share with you what will be missed
out on as long as we do not learn properly how to “READ” the
Book, which is in point of fact, the BOOK OF SECRETS from our
perspective, though it is often assumed as the
book of God’s Commandments.
This
is just an example… Just like this one, there are many more, the
event of “Ascendance” (Miraj) be the first, to be deciphered
in the holy Book of Allah’s Word.
Unfortunately most of us
do not even have the slightest clue about any of this!!! We still
believe the holy Koran is God’s book of demands or a history book!
I may be right or wrong in my assessments, however this is the
knowledge passed down to us from the spiritual masters wrote in
their work.
If I am right, the ones, who are unable to appreciate this insight,
should think about what else they are depriving themselves.
If I am wrong, then I will be sentenced to eternal damnation by that
God who sits up in the sky and sends the angels and the spirit to
Earth in the darkness of the night once a year.
AHMED HULUSI
September 2, 2005
NC, USA
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