Intercession and Theism (Shafaat and Shirk)

<Junior> Yes give us a gift of Eid, so that we shall be happy.//

<CEMO> Physical body has an age, but the consciousness has not! The age of consciousness is the age of knowing (ilm). The age of knowledge increases as you could have a healthy life in this world and could perform deep thinking. In this case, it seems to me the most reasonable affair to increase our age of knowledge to a maximum as soon as possible before our departure from the world… We were told that “yesterdays remain in the days before… We need to start over everyday!”

I was asked the following question [during an online chat] yesterday. “We were told that our prophet's intercession (Shafa’at) will be for the folk of kabair (ahl-i kabair), what does this mean?”

Who is “ahl-i kabair”?

We said that two points must be well understood in that explanation…

First, what is an “INTERCESSION” (Shafa’at)? How does it happen?

Second, what is “kabair”?

Shafa’at is assumed to be as if someone’s coming, somewhat holding you by arm and pushing into some place!

Will there really be someone to come and hold you by arm, and take you into somewhere?

Shafa’at is in this world; is in the afterworld; is in the Doomsday (mahshar) and is in hell, as well…

There is an intercession by RasulAllah aleyhessalaam, an intercession by awliyah, and an intercession by people of wisdom (ulama)…

What is that intercession? What is aimed at that intercession? Is it only about getting out of hell?

What is the greatest of sins?

“Inn'ash shirka la zulmun aziym”

“Shirk is the greatest of cruelties (zulma)”, says the sign.

That is to put “Allah” at a degree and position of a “god”! That is the shirk!

We are said, “I am afraid of the hidden shirk for you, for there will not be any open shirk in my ummat from now on”…

Therefore, the very “kabair” itself is nothing other than worshipping God! It is the leading of the greatest sins and it is the root of all others!

At the root of all sins lies the “hidden polytheism” (shirk-i khafi), that is “believing in a god”!

He that believes in god assumes and feels his god far beyond the one who speaks to.

The warning in the sign that “Oh believers… Believe in Allah” is to the COMPANIONS (sahabe) of Hazrat Mohammed who had had faith in him but had not been freed from an understanding of god yet… If the companions that saw (!) the prophet were in such a state, consider our place then?

The way to have faith in Allah, the way to freedom from hellfire, they all pass through the GAINING OF INTERCESSION in order to get rid of the hidden polytheism (shirk-i khafi)!

In case we misunderstand the sign that “no one can give you intercession unless the permission from Allah” as if “one will not gain intercession unless the permission of a god”… Then the hell fire will not easily be put out for us… And we burn and burn again…

What is the difference between the statement of “no one can give you SHAFA’AT unless the permission from ALLAH” and the statement that “one will not gain SHAFA’AT unless the permission of a god”?

Even if it is the treasuries room of Topkapi Palace where we search for, we cannot find the object that is in our house! Because it is already in our house!

How can an “intercession reach us” while “we refuse to accept it”?

How can we see and reach intercession as long as our veil remains pulled over our insight?

How? While we believe in “God”… believe in a messenger ambassador (!) of “God” and in the book of commandments written and sent in Arabic by a “Arabic-speaking-God”! While we believe in God's saints (awliyah) of somewhat like magicians showing miracles (karamat), who will rescue us from hell fire with a touch of wizard stick!… How can SHAFA’AT reach us at all?

While Allah (in our essence) does not permit, while you refuse to accept the Shafa’at from within you, who can give you intercession? How can that veil pulled over our insight can be removed and so that we may gain intercession? And hence, how can we get purified from hidden polytheism and believe in the one referred to as “Allah” as the reality of everything and the source of our being, and thus “READ” the “Koran”? And despite the Koran’s saying that “those who are not purified (from shirk) should not touch”!...

As far as our opinion is concerned, we need first the permission of Allah (from within our essence) in order to gain SHAFA’AT… And then appreciating that intercession, to refine ourselves from other veils assumed to be out there… And then, to quit oppressing (zulm) on our soul-consciousness-true self!..

You are constantly oppressing on your soul (nafs) as long as you prevent your self (nafs) to live its truth…

Furthermore, if you are not sharing that reality with your surrounding despite your knowing it, you are also oppressing on what you call as the ones you are most close!..

You may say you want it, but it does not happen!

Why it does not happen?.. Can you buy some cake from a faucet-dealer? Do you try to find shoes in a Computer Store?

Satan, judged Adam by his appearance (zaheer), became Iblis!… If it were able to understand Adam by his knowledge and evaluate properly, this game wouldn’t have been played at all!..

We have been created for knowledge alone!..

Allah placed knowledge behind fire, in order that they may be afraid of and therefore keep away from it by thinking that “their individualism may burn and their selves be purified” in fire, and hence they should fail to grasp what they are undeserving of!

They who can abandon the fear of burning and can dive into fire, may pass through the hell which is placed on the right side of dajjal (Anti-Christ) and thus gain access to heaven of knowledge and awareness (ilm u irfan)!.. They who fail to relinquish the fear of burning, will not be able to pass through the fire, nor will reach to knowing and awareness.

The fear must be abandoned!

It was our friend Mazhar who brought me an interpretation of what was meant in the lines “Suspend (disdain) your scare” from Yunus Emre. Thanks Allah that he made it! Owning to him, I have always plunged in recklessly.

I am in my fifties or sixties now. No one knows how much longer we will be living, and especially with a healthy mind and body, without pain or suffer!

Have we really got rid of hidden polytheism (shirk-i khafi)? Let our consciences answer it!

Could we realize what the name “Allah” denotes to if not a got, and could we become believers in it? Are we able to observe and listen to Hu at every point? Are we aware that we are speaking with Hu at all times?

To attain Shafa’at, one needs first not to return a helping hand!

Shafa’at is aimed at saving one from hell, which can be both the hell part of this world and in the next!..

Shafa’at is aimed at attaining Allah, as well, that it is only possible if the person through whom the ilm of Allah becomes apparent is found in this world and if he is evaluated properly!

Shafa’at is to remove the ignorance of a person, which causes his insistence on making mistakes and keeps him away from correcting his mistakes and is to give that person information about that point!..

The person should reach an inner purification with that information and saves himself from fire… Living its effect also (both subjectively -anfusi and objectively -afaqi), he attains Allah.

In this case…

Before all, you need the permission of “Allah” in your essence, not a “god outside”, so that you will be open for an intercession. You won't defeat shafa’at…

And then, you need to evaluate such knowledge that is the SHAFA’AT and live under the guidance of that knowledge and be purified…

Then the “shirk-i khafi” will cease to exist and you will attain “Allah”.

Briefly was this the answer for the question asked yesterday. I hope that it is the opening of the door of “shafa’at” to consider that theme all around, discuss and comprehend it.

Forgive us if we have made a mistake unknowingly.

You are alone with your conscience. At that day, your SELF (your knowing and consciousness) is enough for reckoning (the Koran).

<Junior> THESE ARE WHAT WE WERE SUFFERING THE LACK OF; INSHALLAH, YOU MADE US FIND THEM AGAIN!… WE WILL APPRECIATE THEM AS OUR WEALTH AND ASK FOR YOUR DUA FOR THE CONTINUATION OF OUR APPRECIATION…//

31.01.1998
New Jersey, USA
(Taken from an Internet chat session)