What Is A Veil

Do you know what is our "veil" and where it is?

Do you know what it means for a human to think "concrete"?

Let us understand the following first… "Abstraction" or "Concrete" is connected with the dimension you are within!

Whatever you perceive consciously in your brain, is "concrete"… Even it may be a "dream" or a "vision"!…

Its measure here is not your perception through five senses, but is your brain's structuring it into a recognizable form… That is, what matters for you, is to recognize it in a way or other! When you are able to perceive something, then it is "concrete" for you along with such a perception, even if it remains as an "abstract" for others!

Your "abstract" however, is what you cannot clearly recognize due to your inefficiency to put it into a form or shape within your consciousness…

You know that there is something out there, you feel it and even feel yourself so close to almost touch it, but however you are unable to detect and explain it!.. Here, it is this that is your "abstract"!

Most of our terms of expression, naming, classifications-rankings and assessments are RELATIONAL and all of them are means of our denotation to our own "concrete" based on others in our minds from the past.

Our brains distinguish events even before our realization, in rather different ways referring to its own database.

When brain receives information, this information-wavelength is compared with the data available from the past… If there is resembling information stored previously in brain, it promptly synchronizes (matches frequency of) the new information with others stored already and synthesizes (combine parts into a whole) to draw a conclusion. So, in this way, you measure value of the new information under the illumination of the old (well-known) data… That results in your saying "I used to know it"…

It is because of its storage the same way also in the spirit that, those who dwell in the dimension of heaven will refer to a group of things there as "something like what they have tasted before"!..

Yet, what is tasted there is completely different. But, due to the fact that I have tried to explain here, it will not be possible for others apart from those who have realized it here, to realize the difference there!..

It is therefore that, if we attempt to match and evaluate something brand new, that we are confronted for the first time ever in this world, in RELATION with others from the past, we will veil ourselves from the ORIGONALITY in what we have come across newly. And then we will assume that "there is nothing new!"

"Hu" is upon some new creation at every moment! Hu does not recreate the old (the well-known) over, anew or by renewal, repeatedly!

If it were the case, then there would be reincarnation, and for instance, Abdulkadir Geylani would come again to the world all through with a new form or a new name!.. Or someone else!

Know that…

"Whatever belongs to the past, remains in the past, my dear," says Mawlana Jelaluddin many centuries ago… But we never think of the depth and limits of this saying!

We accustomedly take life as a continuing of the past or of the old -the well-known, or of those spiritual levels, values and esteemed-ranks given previously in the past! The meaning of the creating new -not creating over anew or a renewal, does never occur to us! What does it indeed involve?..

I do not understand "taajdid" as to bring about the old (the familiar from the past) over again, but as to put forth the new, referring to the principle of "fiy khalqun jadid".

Because of our evaluations connected with the well-known of the past, we simultaneously live in the dream world of the past and expect to see those of the past in their new disguises, also tomorrow.

It is the way we evaluate the world, the Religion, Sufism and also the saints (awliyah)!..

In point of fact, yesterday is to take lessons and to evaluate the current new through taking lessons, not to go backwards and try to re-live what is already lived! This conflicts with the System and Order of Allah!

It is something different to evaluate the "yesterday", and it is something different to live in the yesterday!

People of perfection produce perfect affairs alone! If you observe an imperfection through your comparisons with the past (yesterday), it is either that that person is not a person of spiritual perfection (kamalat), or he is a person of perfection, but you are unable to see the perfection in him due to your lack of perfection and your evaluating him from your so-assumed higher position!.. You are not even aware of wisdom (hiqmat), yet besides you set up comparison with the past and the well-known of the past, and try to draw conclusion in your view!.. But one who compared fire with the earth, was in mistake!.

We have not come to draw conclusions about people but to know ourselves, to advance and to pass into the life beyond death in a condition not to regret there… All other inclinations apart from these, will slow down our speed on the path of our goal, and make us lose many things that is impossible to be made up for later!

If so let us try to review all our assessments all through without setting up comparison with the past, and let us try to view objectively and realize the "current new" that is in front of us as "new" by considering what it serves us. It is only in this state that it will be possible for us to evaluate what is across there as the "new"…

Not only your evaluations in your life, but all your dreams and visions in your imagination are also (evaluated) the same way. They are also evaluated through your comparisons with the information from your past. Therefore, you interpretations are always based on your comparison with the well-known of the past…

What if it is something new without any connection with the past, that you come across? And won't you be oppressing it (doing injustice to it) because of not giving its rightful due?.. And won't you be oppressing your own soul because of oppressing the other?..

Question if life self manifests as a renewal of the past; or if there are current new occurrences but we remain fixed to assume there is not, because of our brains measure value through setting up relations (comparisons) with the past?

Why don't we perceive "the new" at what we look, though we uphold the opinion that we have not been observing the same as we observed yesterday?

The simplistic explanation to this is in the case of our unawareness of misspellings when we reread our writings… If we need to give a more detailed explanation, it is because of our opening pages without window "refreshing"!.. That is, our staring at the "new" upon the old (well-known) database!..

If we really desire to perceive the "new", "refreshing" may not even be enough and perhaps a new format (deleting all former information) will be required. Such a task is extremely difficult and even impossible for those whose brain works in a restricted capacity!..

Well, if it is an impossible task, then, why do I mention it, at all?

If nothing else, it is because I wanted to inform you too, that there is such an incidence that I have reflected upon, and that I am trying to evaluate the life and existence in accordance with it!.. As a matter of fact, if we do not become aware of the "new", I am afraid that we will still be continuing to wear the "renewed" from our ancestors, our forefathers or mothers…

Come on then,. my friends. Let us leave aside any "comparison" with the past or with others as much as we can, and let us try to evaluate all the creation as "new" at all moments!.. Some people consider "analogy" (qiyas) and "anthology" (ijma) within the context of the term of "shariat", beside the Koran and Hadithes. But our conviction is not so! "Shariat", in our opinion, is consisted of the "Koran and the information given by the Rasul of Allah"!..

28.11.1998
New Jersey, USA