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“Why
did Muslims become such undeveloped communities on earth if Islam is
the most perfect understanding of RELIGION?”
This is a question I am asked very frequently.
I
also receive the following question from the so-called enlightened
groups:
“The understandings of oneness and humanism are available in a
perfect form in Taoism, Buddhism and even in Cabbala, which is
Jewish mysticism. Muslimism, however, is a rude, formalistic, tyrant
and combatant understanding which is totally denied of love. All
this is quite obvious in our world today. How can you still honor
that warlike teaching?”
First of all, we should all comprehend
that aiming to exalt something that is already exalted is simply
irrationality.
Islam is the unique understanding of “RELIGION”, therefore in
fact there is no any other religion on earth that could be
considered to supersede or take part beside it! Being the most
perfect human being and the most magnificent Spirit of Infinity who
came to this world and communicated that understanding of "RELIGION"
to us, Mohammed Mustafa (peace and blessings be upon him) is
not only a servant, a Rasul, but is the final Nabi of
Allah, as well, without anyone else to come closer to matching
his excellence!
As
for the reason why this is so…
People worshipped gods for ages and ages in the past. They used to
worship totems erected in the name of gods. They used to worship
sculptures which symbolized gods. They used to worship some beings
somewhere either in the sky or on earth. Believing that whatever
they received or would receive came from these gods; they devoted
themselves to these totems outside of themselves.
So
here’s the problem.
Could there be a “god”, that is “ilah” in Arabic, who would
be dwelling on earth or in the sky remotely controlling the world
and those who live on it?
(Some people in our day claim that these kind of godlike characters
(concept of deity) relate to some specific societies who live in
outer space; but this understanding is in fact a present-day
adaptation of the idea of a God in the sky with his angels right
beside him!)
However, the intellectual minds who questioned this issue from a
universal point of view realized the fact that within the universal
reality, the concept of such a deity can never exist.
An
early appearance of the understanding that there can never be a god
who dwells in the sky from so many centuries ago is Taoism in
China: The whole existence is an undivided wholeness even if there
is bewildering multiplicity according to the mechanism called
the eye. The consciousness is the eye of this wholeness observing
itself! Consciousness can recognize its essence at the extent that
it perceives its true nature, and that recognition will eventually
end up in “NOTHINGNESS”! The end result is the experience of
“nothingness” within “NOTHINGNESS”!
Buddha,
on the other hand, proposed mankind to reach “NIRVANA” as a
final destination. For those who assumed themselves as a sack of
flesh and bones and accepted that they would eventually disappear
into the soil by the event of death, he explained that they are in
fact a being of consciousness and their lives would still continue
even after their bodies are turned to soil, and that they are the
“ones” created from the “One” and that they are not just physical
bodies but rather sacred souls, so as they could purify their souls,
they would be able to attain Nirvana and live within that soul of
oneness as sacred souls.
Another type of faith that is currently spreading in America though
not yet known in Turkey, which is said to have more than 100 million
followers all over the world, is the teachings of Falun Dafa
of Chinese origin again. According to Falun Dafa, which seems
to have roots in Taoism but manifests itself in the likes of
Buddhist teachings, consciousness and matter is the same thing.
Thoughts affect matter and matter affects thoughts at every single
moment. The main spirit continuously manifests its own qualities
through the brain by triggering it all the time. The human brain
creates a kind of substance which is not in wave form. Every living
being on earth is created from water. The water is the main source
of life. The founder of this faith in 1992, Shifu Li Hongzhi,
further claims that even the entire universe, is made of water.
Although it is said to be a type of movement which had no specific
links with the politics whatsoever, at the moment it is the focus of
greatest controversy in China against the government. Therefore, its
practitioners are under close surveillance and whenever they are
captured, they are tortured to death. As far as I can tell, at the
root of this activity is the control of information by the unseen
forces of the world.
The concept of Jewish mysticism known as Cabbala, which constitutes
the intellectual profundity of the understanding of “RELIGION”
taught by Hazrat Moses, however, has spread the idea
of oneness of existence, and that the spirit of all mankind is
originated from a single spirit to its followers, beyond the
apparent tribalistic and formalistic understanding in the outer
world.
”Kabbala”, which constitutes the intellectual depth of the
understanding of “RELIGION” introduced by the prophet Moses and the
concept of Jewish mysticism, the whole existence is singular and the
spirit of people really come from a single spirit.
In
point of fact, it was just a form of expression and experience of
the understanding rejecting a god out there owing to the
comprehension of the wholeness that Jesus Christ (peace be
upon him) put into words! The definition of “My father is the
Lord” did not in fact refer to a physical god-son relation; it
was rather pointing to the perception of a single SPIRIT in
Cabbala teaching in form of many individual spirits. Turning
toward the sky meant to symbolize the feeling and experience of the
truth of the spiritual level of creator within the origins of
your spirit’s consciousness as it is found in the profound
dimensions of consciousness. Hazrat Jesus’s statement that “you
are thinking like a human being, not like the Lord the Creator”
was simply meant to make us grasp the addressing that “one should
evaluate the events in the light of universal realities rather than
thoughts based on human judgments and social conditionings”. The
belief of being “chosen nation” which lies at the origin of
Judaism did not only corresponded to all people who were born Jewish
but those of them who would have high comprehension standards to
accept and practice the Cabbala teachings –the development of
this notion has formed the basis of Masonry.
Even though all the beliefs we have discussed to that point have
some starting grounds and several correct findings, the greatest
deficiency and insufficiency in them is their lack of information
provided for the life after death and the practices needed to be
performed in this world. None of them can give any information as to
what kind of a mechanism is the structure of the human being, what
is the function of the brain and how should someone use his brain in
the best way and what needs to be done for his future life in
accordance with the conditions of the afterlife. Nobody has been
able to suggest anything on issues concerning the stages of eternal
life after death. Needless to say, it is the most important for a
human being to be fully aware of what is needed to be done in this
world so that he could be happy in the life after death.
As
the last Nabi explained the end of the world known as doomsday in
the way as the Sun’s expansion to envelop the Earth and eventually
swallowing it, on the other hand, in the holy Koran, a galactic
doomsday far beyond the end of the world has been explained some
1400 years ago by way of such illustrations as the falling of stars!
In our day we know the fact that all the stars in the Milky Way
galaxy will soon be knocked off their orbits after some time and
when viewed from the earth they would appear as if falling down.
This incident would take place through the collusion of Milky Way
with the Andromeda galaxy that is presently traveling towards us.
In
point of fact, the most fundamental issue that needs to be
comprehended is the fact about what, and how, the human beings, who
will survive forever through the experiences of a number of
transformations (deaths) will be able to obtain only in this
world, which only the last Nabi Mohammed Mustafa (peace
and blessings be upon him) have explained through the proclamation
of the only “RELIGION” at the sight of Allah named as
“ISLAM”.
In
spite of all those that we have explained so far, Totemism has
always been around in the world.
Not only among the natives of African or American tribes, Totemists
have been among all other religion members as they have always
survived among others owing to their characteristics. As a result of
their creation in human-like nature, the Totemists are not given the
ability to question and explore the meaning of their existence
through deep thinking, and to feel and experience their true selves.
They always assume that the whole existence including themselves is
made up of physical matter only. They bear an image of a god out
there, either on earth or up in the sky, somewhere high above or
down below and they do everything they can for the sake of that god.
They eat, they drink, they reproduce, they worship and they kill,
all for the sake of their god whom they think is watching over from
a distance separately! Or else, they never believe in anything,
hence their totem is their own bodies! If you remove the name of
their religion and affiliation from their labels, then there will be
no difference in their point of view at all except their clothes,
appearances and local conditionings. They will perform good deeds in
the name of their god and obey him in order that they may in return
be able to live forever in abundance of their god’s grants for
eating, drinking and having sex. Otherwise, their gods would simply
trap them into his hell and torment them forever.
Since their images of “god” are often at odds with one another, many
are those who challenge to question and judge the others’ gods,
criticize and reject them because of dislike, and even take up their
axes to battle against each other. Because, they have either not
heard of the meaning of the message “la ilaha = THERE IS NO
GOD (hence there is no concept of god)” at all or have heard of it
before but have never thought over it. Most of them have a
voice-recorder-brain. They just memorize and repeat! Due to of their
natural characteristics, they are unable to think about the meaning
of what they say.
So, these are the Totemists! They are also named as the ‘people of
polytheism’. Yet, without the removal of polytheism, the oneness (tawheed)
cannot become actuality.
After all, it is the same state whether it is veiled or unveiled:
A person and his god FAR BEYOND!
As
a matter of fact, all the religious beliefs that we
have listed above has shortcomings and is incomplete and ineffective
as a matter of the future use of mankind compared to the teaching of
“RELIGION” named as “Islam”. None of those beliefs give any
explanation or have any emphasis regarding the “SunnatAllah” as
explained in the understanding of “RELIGION” known as “ISLAM”.
Therefore, the very important proclamations and teachings regarding
the future of a person based on “SunnatAllah” coming from the
last Nabi do not exist in any other understanding.
As
for the Muslims who have grasped and embraced the only real
understanding of “RELIGION” named as Islam, as proclaimed by the
servant and Rasul of Allah Mohammad Mustafa, who is the most
magnificent brain and character ever lived on earth and the most
glorified spirit of eternity.
Muslims do not believe in a god out there, in a place
far away from them, somewhere high above in sky or in space; but
they believe in the qualities, which are explained through the holy
Koran, of the one that the most eminent Rasul referred
by the name “ALLAH”. They try to attain certainty
(yaqeen) in faith and strive to achieve the certitude
(iqaan) in this matter! In addition to the certainty which
they have already obtained, they would also seek to realize and
understand the SunnatAllah and live to fulfill its effect as
due.
SO
HERE WE ARE TO THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT OF SEPARATION AND DIFFERENCE
WITH THE PREVIOUS ONES!
Yes,
let us now mark the most important point where the Rasul of ALLAH
and the final Nabi Mohammad Mustafa differ and distinguish from the
previous ones.
People who seek to become aware of the intellectual fundamentals
of the understanding of “RELIGION” presented under the name “Islam”
will sooner or later enter the field of Sufism. This journey
of questioning and grasping of what lies beyond is the first stage
of getting to know and understand what the one named as “ALLAH” is.
During this journey, which is named as “fanafillah”
(annihilation in Allah) in Sufi terminology, the person will realize
that in the sight of the one named as “Allah”, the existence of him
as well as of the universe consist of “nothing” and are created of
mere “nothingness”, and that the only true absolute being that
exists is the being referred to as “ALLAH”. This awareness will
eventually lead the person to the realization of his nonexistence
and nothingness. This is the point where the perception as well as
comprehension disappears completely!
However, in the state of “sayrul afaaq” (objective
contemplation – journey towards horizons) experienced on the base of
“wahdat” (unity) understanding, it is realized in a step by
step fashion that the entire existence is a whole single being
undivided into parts, that is known as singularity (wahidiyyah).
This realization will finally end up in “ahadiyyah” (oneness)
or in other words “NOTHINGNESS” provided that the person has
adequate capacity for it. The end result is the manifestation of
living in absolute darkness, which in Sufi terminology is referred
to as the state of experiencing "ama” (the senselessness) in
consideration of consciousness. Because of the quality of Oneness (ahadiyyah),
in other words the attribute of "NOTHINGNESS" of the One that is
named as "ALLAH", not even the experience of such a spiritual
station can be mentioned for in which there is not even deep
thinking (tafaqqur)!
After this, for those who have been granted his share, the spiritual
perfection of “baqabillah” (permanence by Allah) begins.
The life experience in the “SunnatAllah”!
The One, who created the whole existence, whether perceived or not,
from “nothingness” by creating them all in his consciousness (ilm)
also in forms of consciousness (as conscious beings) through its own
Qualities (sifat) and Names (asma), has willed that
the entire creation could manifest their servitude until eternity by
way of a new event of glory taking place at every single moment.
It
is for this reason that the multiverses in universe have all
manifested possessing a particular system and order, and besides
they will keep subsisting in accordance with the reason of their
existence and their systems as long as the Qualities and Names that
make up their existence remains existent!
So, within that “SunnatAllah”, the human consciousness that is
manifested in this world, is in one side in need of endeavoring to
understand the true meaning of the entire existence as well as of
his own, and on the other side he needs to question how and in what
way he should carry on with his life so that it may be more positive
and beneficial for his future life.
The answer to this issue has come from Muhammad Mustafa, the Rasul
and the final Nabi of Allah, in the most perfect way.
Because of its characteristic of not having godlike origins that the
Mohammedan teaching based on wahy (revelation) begins with “la
ilaha” meaning “THERE IS NO GOD (no concept of divinity)” and
continues with “illa ALLAH” meaning “only Allah”. It has been
told that the concept of divinity does not exist at all, but there
exists only the one named as “ALLAH”; for this reason, spiritual
practices known as ibadat are need to be carried out as an
effect of “SunnatAllah” without any worship to an exterior god being
in question.
The information of “SunnatAllah” which came as additional
information to some discoveries made in the past is the most
important part of the issue after realizing what the One denoted by
the name “ALLAH” is.
What will turn a human’s life and future into paradise or make him
live in hell, depends upon how well that individual makes use of
“SunnatAllah”. Those who are allowed by their creation, will take
into account the “SunnatAllah” and so their lives and future becomes
the environment of peace and happiness that has been denoted as
“paradise”. On the other hand, those who give no heed to the
“SunnatAllah” will be spending their lives in various forms of
burning environments, from the very first day of their life.
In
other words, the most significant difference between the only
religion known under the name “ISLAM” and all the previous beliefs
is that is whether we realize the “SunnatAllah” and live as it
requires us, or not, after comprehending what the one named as
“Allah” is.
Because, by knowing the One that is named as “ALLAH”, your
existence, your person and individual consciousness would never ever
disappears as sugar dissolves in water.
No
matter if they attained the stage of “NOTHINGNESS” mentioned in
Taoism, reached Nirvana, found Jehovah, or realized that what is
referred to as ALLAH is an incomprehensible ahadiyyah and
felt the spiritual station of “nothingness” within one’s origin and
essence, everyone is still in a position forever to live as a soul
with personality after departing this world through the
transformation called “death” regardless of where they go
afterwards.
It
is for this reason that no matter how much an individual realizes
his truth and at what level, he has to carry on his life and his
practices in accordance with the principles of the system and order
as outlined by the last Nabi. Another way of expressing this is to
understand and live a life compatible with the “SunnatAllah”.
It
is because the fact that everyone will live the consequences of
their own actions (i.e. things that they did with their hands) and
since they are already in this state as a result of the nature of
the system of creation, it is the most important reality of life for
everybody to understand the meaning of what the final Nabi Muhammad
Mustafa has tried to explain.
Now, we came back to the question at the beginning of our discussion
and its answer: “Why are most of Muslim communities such
undeveloped countries on earth?”
Some communities did not believe in god and neither did they expect
anything from a god far away, therefore, since they had no other
alternative but to put their powers within themselves to use, they
made considerable progresses.
Some other communities, however, have tried to develop themselves
hammer and tongs under the influence of the though originating from
their school they were educated that “the power lies within your
existence, so do not expect anything from outside but instead try to
learn how to utilize what you already have”.
During the times when the Sufi teaching that “indeed, you could
achieve many things by the power of the Attributes and the Names of
the Creator that is within you, if only you could discover these
potentials,” had been in effect, Muslim communities have been
the pioneers of the world in many fields.
But unfortunately, as the understanding of “RELIGION” was
considered as if satisfying the desire and hence obtaining the
approval of god up there, and so the understanding that took
the spiritual practices as worshipping god above was spread over
time, the entire phenomenon has been diverted from its correct
course to the deviated belief of “expecting everything from the one
high above”. This in return produced a period of regression for some
Muslim communities.
As
far as everything is expected from the one up there in heavens and
unless the insight of constructing our future by using the powers
originated from the Qualities and the Names of the Creator within
our essence is discovered, it is quite inevitable for people
whom such an understanding rule, to remain behind beside others.
AHMED HULUSI
May 3, 2006
Raleigh, NC |
