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There are
times when we look at someone’s speeches and explanations and say “he’s a man
like Saint”. But on the other hand we soon learn that the same man has
passed away to his new life dimension without faith.
It sounds
unbelievable to us! Although his speeches, actions and his appearance are
obvious enough to convince us that he might be a “Saint”, why does indeed
such a person pass away to the new life dimension without faith?
When I
questioned this subject, I observed something as follows…
Rasûlullah
(peace be upon him) has a very famous saying that most of us may know:
“Everyone will be tasting death as in a state as he used to be while alive and
so will he be resurrected in the same state and so also will he pass to Judgment
day from grave life!”
This is the
explanation as it means.
Now let’s
remember the following information about the working system of brain…
There are
two types of memories in the brain.
The first
one is “short term memory” and the second one is “long term memory”.
Short term
memory is the part that keeps the information (data) we use during the day,
makes instantaneous evaluations and reveals our actions. This is a very little
process that sometimes lasts just for a few hours or sometimes for the hours
when we are awake. The intelligence in that memory sometimes transfers the data
to the main memory and sometimes cleans them away without transferring at the
end of that process according to its needs, such as the Ram or Hard Disc of a
computer…
However we
should understand this point very well here:
Where as we
keep the information, the conditionings and the standards of judgments that we
have been taught throughout years, even the data that is inherited to us in
genetic ways in the main memory; the intelligence of short term memory
(equivalent to RAM) evaluates the moment we are living in, considering desires
and impulses that reach from the brain to the body, the stimuli that come by
hormonal ways and also the feelings that arise.
Short term
memory benefits from the main memory during this process whenever it needs.
In my
opinion the weak crucial point of the view is just in here.
While
brain operates within the short term memory; that is, during the process of
making decisions, no matter how correct and reasonable information and values
are loaded in the main memory, it will always take physical impulses and
feelings into consideration as well and even it will make up its decisions under
the influence of them!
Physical
drives and emotions are closely related to the overall biochemical structure of
body, the hormonal production having the highest priority.
As the
people who are in related fields are familiar with it, excessive or
insufficient production of various hormones can create significant changes
and instabilities upon one’s psychological state.
This
situation, that is, physical impulses, astrological influences, conditionings
or misinformation play a crucial role in evaluating data inputs that
gather in the short term memory and can cause a person to act against what has
to be, to make wrong evaluations and enforcements in spite of the sets of
definite and correct information on his/her data base in the main memory.
It is my
personal opinion that the corruption of the liver health’s regime causing
changes in the various metabolical and biochemical balances of the body
structure; therefore affecting the brain automatically, gives rise to a
lot of mistakes on the evaluations done (both by the intellect and reasoning) by
the mental acuteness and intelligence in short term memory. So it is needed
to keep away from everything which damages the liver health for a healthy brain
and to have a robust intellectual mentality.
If the
intelligence (not the body), which is also known as self, (nafs,
can direct its way of life under the realistic data existing on its main
memory despite the bombardment of intensive astrological influences,
physical drives and emotions, then the person’s life in this world as well as in
the hereafter will be prosperous. This is possible for him only if he
purifies of his consciousness, which can be gained through spiritual Sufi
training and through following the facts that the Deen of Islam informs.
It means
that if he could not realize this, then his/her life and future will be a lot
troublesome.
The aim of
practicing of salaat five times in a day as a result while it is earlier
proposed forty times in a day coincides with our subject on that point too.
Why is
salaat of five times a day?
Being
the unique person who has evaluated the Holy Koran the best, RasulAllah Mohammed
Mustafa (peace be upon him) has kept on salaat for five times a day and has
practiced this activity with his companions for his lifelong.
On the
account of evaluating this situation from our point of view, the principle
objective is as follows:
As we have
already mentioned it among various subjects, salaat is a practice which is
experienced with awareness beyond the worship.
Let’s think
of the command: “So woe to the worshippers, who are unmindful of their salaat.”
(4,5/107)…
That is to
say…
When a
person stands for salaat and begins practicing it, he thinks and experiences
with awareness the meanings of the words he recites following the principle that
“Salaat can never be without Faatiha (The Opening)”, hence he may
enter into the salaat with this consideration.
As a result
of this thought he/she notices and feels that the physical body is a temporary
vehicle he/she uses, but rather, he/she needs to discover the spiritual forces
in his/her essence as a caliph and a being beyond the body, to
take out those forces into actions from within, and to pass away beyond
death as equipped with these forces.
These
feelings and rememberings direct to the person’s life till the
following time of salaat with the benefits brought in his intellectual
activities on his/her short term memory and his viewpoint toward life.
This has
been divided into five times for the period when we are awake, depending on the
operation of the memory cache. And so that the person may live in a faithful
state till the next time.
To tell the
truth, salaat is not restricted with an appointed time; the salaat of every
moment is in question!
A person
might be reading all the religious information from cover to cover and
memorizing all Sufi literature; and even might be locating them minutely in
details to his main memory, and repeating all these data like a computer when
needed! However, he/she can’t go beyond the state of a philosopher
with this behavior although everybody may consider him/her as one of the “saints”!
If his
conscious fails to prevent him from the slavery of his physical drives in times
of his assessments at any given moment in his life; or if the actions he
exhibits contradict with reasoning, logic and the knowledge about “faith” in his
main memory because of his feelings, and if he/she finally performs actions in a
veiled state from the “realities based on faith”, it is not far away from him to
experience death “without faith” while being in such state. In this case,
his/her resurrection will certainly be “without faith”, too.
That is why
demonstrating actions which result from the physical drives and emotions and
contradict the requirements of the reasoning, meaning not to have faith that man
is a bodiless being created for an endless life beyond death, eventually causes
one to experience death with no faith as it exists in his short term memory… even though people who admire his knowledge
and talks may assume him to be a saint.
This is a
quite broad topic instead. I wanted to share with you the main lines of what was
opened to me on that subject. Sure, you too could explore much more details
thinking on this subject…
Do you ever
consider what kind of affects high cholesterol levels or hormonal imbalances can
cause in brain, and how they could affect the psychology?
Do you ever
think of which type of mental instabilities the brain might experience under the
biochemical changes in the body system because of the influences on metabolic
equilibrium in consequence with the usage of materials which is harmful to
liver?
As I said,
I think that the topic is more comprehensive than I have written down… And
nowadays mankind is on a level of operating on the brain with an axe, with his
present knowledge.
To keep
away from the things which are harmful to our brain, liver and hormonal system
will perhaps help us to attain the beauties of endless life beyond death which
we are not aware of…
Let’s take
it into serious consideration.
AHMED HULUSI
June 29,
2003
NC, USA |
