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The system and order (sunnatAllah) that
the One referred to by the noun “Allah” created, has been
communicated some fourteen hundreds years ago, and it has been passed down
to our day through samples of similarity and signs by means of Sufism after
the end of Hazrat Ali’s era, when it was covered up by sultanates ever
since. However, it can shine as a spiritual light (nur) again to
illuminate whole humanity in case all scientific and technological
developments of today are investigated and it is reconsidered under the
illumination of such developments.
Happy are those who can make it actual!
Let me try to make my point clear through giving
an example…
Suppose that you were all of a
sudden beamed back to a thousand years ago into an African or Far Eastern
tribe, as someone who knew well about television, who understood how it
works and how the images are technically carried onto a screen through
broadcasts, waves and transmitters…
You were then asked to explain to people the
television and how it works there! Think about how you could do this then!
Perhaps, through using samples, parables, symbols
or signs!
Well, how true could possibly the samples,
parables and symbols you had to use then tell about the science and
technology that are today’s reality, and their operational mechanism?
Listening to those examples, how possibly could
one perceive the real technology of television?
Would not you just need to say then that “What
else can I tell you? Use your brains! Think about it and try to perceive
what I am trying to explain by means of all these samples and parables!”
RasulAllah has already seen many things of
today’s life and informed people of them through parables and samples,
announcing in his explanations what the future will be like (until the End
Times) before Doomsday, and what will happen, and what will be lived
through.
They have also taken part in the Holy Koran, yet
by means of symbols, metaphors and samples. However, following those
parables we were asked in that Magnificent Book, which is applicable until
Doomsday, that “Will you not still use your brains? We have sets forth
parables for you about many things. Are you not going to ponder upon them
and understand what is explained through such samples and signs?”
Notice!
Just as in the example I have
given above…
By means of samples and symbols alone, you can
never see the facts according to their reality. You may at the most have an
idea about the existence of something like that.
That means it is necessary trying to understand
how the “concrete” was given voice in the realm of “abstract”.
It is necessary to explore
modern sciences and technologies carefully and find out how they have been
given voice in the words of the Koran and of RasulAllah Mohammed.
Hazrat Mohammed once asked
Hazrat Ali:
“Oh Ali! Everyone tries to
reach certainty about Allah in a way; let you be one of those who reach
certainty through intellect (reasoning)!”
To become conscious of how
today’s scientific facts and technology, that are manifest from within the
system and order created by the One that was referred to by the noun Allah
without being a god up in the sky at all, were given voice some 14 hundred
years ago, will make us aware of the everlasting characteristic of
sunnatAllah till Doomsday beyond any conception of Muslimism which
is adorned with outdated empty comments!
Such an awareness will finally
lead the people of intellect (reasoning) into salvation.
Because, through realizing
those facts, people of intellect will understand their need to evaluate the
Deen-i Islam better and so they will get a chance of evaluating their lives
taking care of their eternal lives.
Let us repeat it once again:
Whatever belongs to yesterday,
Remains in the yesterday, my dear!
It is time to utter new words today.
AHMED HULUSI
March 4, 2005
NC, USA
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