Questioning

Questioning is a characteristic peculiar to brains with a capability of thinking! Yet, it should be known that questioning is also found in quick-witted people… To evaluate the conclusions of questioning is, however, an achievement that only people with rational mind (aql) can make…

Information (ilm) is hard to find without questioning! One who questions deserves knowledge (ilm)!

Those who question not, will always suffer from a lack of knowledge..

It is the basic characteristic of a thinking-person to question and to explore! Particularly when it comes to matters that will be of use in the eternal life beyond death… Indeed, knowledge that is only effectual in the life of this world alone, will be useless in the beyond dimension (hereafter), and consequently acquiring that knowledge will have been a pleasant distraction.

The Religious understanding based on recounting and simulating blindly without questioning has always weighed heavier in quantity against the understanding of Religion based on reasoning, logic, wisdom and deep thinking. The majority have always took the easiest way, and gathered around religious leaders, mentors, supposedly alim(!) who treated them as creatures lacking intelligence, upon their urge that "Don't make me think, just tell me what to do so that I may do it"… This is because the number of those who live the worthiness of being a human is extremely small in comparison to the entire human society.

Despite all these facts, the same societies have not been able to keep themselves from gathering around and hanging as parasites on those attainers, saints (awliyah), who reached some spiritual states inspired by the verity of questioning, and those who had true knowledge of the Deen!.. Because, their fitrat (nature by creation) does not allow them to go any further!

It should be known that…

Even if it ends up with a mistaken idea, a questioning-and-deep-thinking mind in search of truth, is more valuable than a mind that comes upon the truth by chance, through parroting, without the brain work!.. In actuality, while the first one flies away toward the eternal beauties of infinity in the hereafter dimension, owing to his characteristic of questioning, investigating and discovering novelties, the latter will live his Heaven in extremely limited possibilities compared to the first one!.. As we have mentioned earlier, to gain access into Heaven is dependent on foreordainment in one's fitrat (disposition by creation), not on the deeds of someone.

Do we experience and live the effect of our knowledge (ilm), wisdom (irfan) and comprehension (idraq), or do we amuse ourselves with their imitation and waste our lives with their chitchat?

If each piece of specific information we learn does not bring additional beauty into our reflective consideration and our daily lives, we must realize then that we are doing nothing other than fooling ourselves! We are exhausting ourselves with a much higher level of chit-chat while consoling ourselves with an illusion that we are different from others!.

Make up your mind about the following first, if you want to experience the honor of your being a human through questioning and deep-thinking:

If it is the latter you believe to be true, but still fail to fulfill what it requires, you must start by questioning how rational you can be!.

Such a troublesome course of time is mentioned [for the Hereafter] that, nobody will then be able to help the other, at all. Despite this, if you still live with the illusion that you will be saved if you may appear by the side of someone or other, then you should come to know it with certainty that you will wish you’d never been born!

As we live to earn money and enjoy ourselves by attending to pleasures, which rule of the system do you think that Rasul of Allah experienced when he said to us, "if you knew what I know, you wouldn't be able to sleep in your comfortable beds but rush toward mountains crying Allah, Allah"? Why do you think that the RasulAllah did not stop by suggesting to share what you have in hand with people and to avoid lying, gossiping, backbiting, gambling, alcohol, adultery, but also communicated such practices as salaat, fasting, hajj?

Ask your cohorts about prayer (namaz)!.. Almost all of them will interpret it as a worshipping of God… “It is a physical action! It is our attendance of Him! It is to accept the greatness(!) of God by prostrating to Him," they will say…

Salaat is an inclination (turning toward)! It is your experience of what reveals outward (Zaheer) from within your essence, your inner dimensions (Batin) and your truth, and to live its effect!.. Entering upon the experience of your nothingness and nonexistence at Hu's presence, it is an experience that Hu expresses Hu's self at qiyaam {at the position of standing} and Hu discloses the fact that there is no other possibility for the creation than fulfilling servitude before Hu's power (qudraat) at ruuqu, and Hu brings the effect of Hu's rule (hukm) into being that "lillaahil wahiidul qahhar" at sajda!.. And that salaat opens the door to Miraaj for a believer (mumin)!.. The term given to the formal worship without deep-thinking, is however (namaz) ritual prayer!..

You may attain Heaven by means of iman and deeds it requires; you my attain "Allah" through ideational refinement, according to what was bestowed on you in your foreordainment (taqdir).. There is no person on earth who attained "Allah" without deep-thinking (tafaqqur) and questioning, including the Rasul of Allah.

Salaat is impossible without Faatiha, as It is the key of turning toward, inclining (focusing)!.. "Turning toward Allah" is initiated through deep reflection of Its meaning!.. Recite it in Arabic or in Turkish as you like so long as you do not reflect upon its meaning; it will be nothing more than repeating as a parrot does. Consider a dull-witted who repeatedly says "honey, honey", but whose stomach is left without honey and whose body has not tasted its delicacy and its energy, at all!.. You have been informed of “honey”, so that you may get, eat and take its benefit!

If a man still fails to start action toward grasping the invaluable treasure in his own origin, while he acts so shrewdly, on the other hand, as to knowing how to take advantage of his time best in favor of gaining more money and wealth without any care of lawful or unlawful interactions, even if all the gain will be left in this world, then leave him entirely to his own devices!.. So many victims are slaughtered everyday in this world that nobody makes the slightest objection!.. It will only be said, another one is gone, nothing else!..

Yes, my friend, these are yet at the beginning of questioning…

What is more?..

We mentioned "READING" the Koran al Karim with its "spirit", and it was assumed that we have meant a printed book's spirit, referring to kind of a person's spiritual body beside his physical!

We mentioned "READING" Rasul of Allah, and suggested that it would be effective and realistic to evaluate what he brought under the illumination of this "READING", but they began talking about reading Hadithes by the agency of connecting with the spirit of RasulAllah!.

Don't you think that instead we seriously need to question and explore the why and how of what the Koran and Rasul of Allah brought, and through which viewpoint we need to evaluate them, so that we may attain the "mystery" and "wisdom" in them?

Where did those warnings come from? Why? How and what was the aim? And what are we required to realize?

If I say that it is because of this, right now, some people will accept them immediately imitatively!..

If I say now that it is because of this or that, there are some who will immediately accept it as a pretence!.. To camouflage their pretence and to satisfy themselves, they will make up an esteemed-rank or term of address for me, this way or the other! Yet… My given name is Ahmed Hulusi. I have no other term of address, naming, or position! I am one of those common humans who wants to learn, live and feel (experience) as much as possible! I am writing down my thoughts in order not to be stingy! I have no need of position or rank given by anybody! Should they keep back from throwing stones and making my water muddy, it is enough for me! I have come alone and will go alone! He who is mindful, will not imitate me, neither expect something from me in connection with the future. He will not give me some position; but instead, reflects upon what I write and eat "honey" if he finds my words valuable!..

Let us not beat about the bush and let us come to the core of the point… If you are able to believe (iman), just believe and start questioning right away, so that you may attain the wisdom in them! Do your best to consider the why of what you do always before you do it, so that you will not be one of those creatures who imitate others. People should not say that he lived on instincts and emotions, "the people of grave will suffer him now!"

One who was bestowed upon his share (nasib) -given his grant-, will live without imitation (taqlid) and turn toward realization (tahqiq)!

One who was not given a grant (nasib) (by Allah), will exhaust life with the chit-chat of the matter!..

05.12.1998
New Jersey, USA