God is He, than Whom there is no other god;- the Sovereign, the Holy One, the Source of Peace (and Perfection), the Guardian of Faith, the Preserver of Safety, the Exalted in Might, the Irresistible, the Supreme: Glory to God! (High is He) above the partners they attribute to Him. (23) He is God, the Creator, the Evolver, the Bestower of Forms (or Colours). To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names: whatever is in the heavens and on earth, doth declare His Praises and Glory: and He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise. (24)
[ Surah Al-Hashr ]



The righteousness and the crisis of human thought

2012-11-11 08:15:36 | Ahmad Khalifa Al Yousuf

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Praise is to Allah who has guided us to Islam, and elevated us through faith, and honored us with servitude, which is the excellence and the station that man won’t attain until he attains the meaning of faith. Allah said: “It is those who believe and confuse not their beliefs with wrong, that are (truly) in security, for they are on (right) guidance” (Surah of Livestock, Verse 82).

The union of faith with certainty is followed with the fixed affirmation in knowledge and in thought that Allah is the Creator, the Lord of everything and its King, the Unique in His Qualities, His Names, and His Acts.
Knowledge is of two types: It is either inspired (by Allah to one of His chosen servants), and this type of knowledge has ceased since it was summarized in Allah’s Preserved Book so it would demonstrate the knowledge of the creatures, and the Qualities, Names, and Acts of the Creator, and so it would be the way through which creatures would know the righteousness and thus would be guided to Him. The other type of knowledge is realized through experimentation, deduction, and observation.

However, the Inspired Knowledge is more firm and encompassing in indicating the sciences of the creatures and every issue relating to the Creator that is known to the creatures. As for the experimentally realized sciences, they are perceived as a result of experiments and proofs and they are an indication to mankind’s understanding and exploitation. Each Inspired Knowledge has a confirming proof within the realized sciences so there is no contradiction in the sources of knowledge or else one of them would be incorrect, and through committing the sources of knowledge there is an affirmation of the knowledge of the Creator –Exalted is He- who knows the secret in the heavens and the earth.

As for thought, it is man’s ability to receive sciences and to subject them for his own benefit to achieve his required goals. The effects of knowledge and thought are reflected on the psyche and behavior of the human individual and result in the certainty in faith, and as a result man would be free of the base inhibitions and would be elevated to a more sublime purpose which is hope in Allah, and in that there is faith without injustice, and that is real security.
It is the contented conscience in addition to the feeling that affairs will end in peace and prosperity that give man his feeling of security. On the other hand, he who loses faith has enveloped his knowledge and thought with injustice and thus deserved the title of ‘ignorant’ since he was content with placing himself in the servitude of anything but Allah, so not only did he linger with the god of his own desires, but also he was fanatically insistent on falsehood despite the fact that the contradiction between perverse science and realized science is obvious, and the contradiction between the former and thought is also obvious. But his own obstinacy has lead to both inner or outer Godlessness and all this reflects seriously on the thought and behavior of all those who have made this their creed, bigotry and even extremism would be his response to any thought or manner that would affect his interests, and what we mean here is that his bigotry would not be in defense of thought (for thought most certainly contradicts him) but a blind defense of the interests attached to this thought. As a result of this bigotry this person would have annulled his thought and behavior with others unless they are equally ignorant, for he shall not change his thought even if you brought him the righteousness and the Clarifying Book.
An intellectual and cultural study is a comprehensive research relating to every factor that affects, or is affected, by thought; for thought is the product of the conjunction of several environmental and psychological factors that determine the quality of thought. Therefore, the intellectual researcher is also a psychological researcher.
The purpose of this site is to argue, whilst being certain of the righteousness through the scientific and intellectual approach.
We have previously attempted to announce “This is Allah’s Creation” on a website, but bigotry and intolerance have driven the owners of the site to avoid the announcement, for the calling of the righteousness did not sound well to those who follow their desires and were doomed by them, whilst keeping in mind that the mentioned site adapts every thought that strays from the righteousness and whose defects and corruptions are obvious
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Those who manage and stand by this intolerant thought and reject every different thought even if it was real is like one who is rabid and who is void of all proper manners since they knew what is just and denied it, and thus were ignorant and unjust both to themselves and others.
Allah –Exalted is He- said: “When thy Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam from their loins, their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): "Am I not your Lord (Who cherishes and sustains you)?" They said: "Yea! we do testify!" (this), lest ye should say on the Day of Judgment: "Of this we were never mindful. Or lest ye should say: "Our fathers before us may have taken false gods, but we are (their) descendants after them: wilt Thou then destroy us because of the deeds of men who were futile? Thus do We explain the Signs in detail, and perchance they may turn (unto Us). Thus do We explain the Signs in detail, and perchance they may turn (unto Us). Relate to them the story of the man to whom We sent Our Signs, but he passed them by: so Satan followed him up, and he went astray. If it had been Our Will, We should have elevated him with Our Signs; but he inclined to the earth, and followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that of a dog: if you attack him, he lolls out his tongue, or if you leave him alone, he (still) lolls out his tongue. That is the similitude of those who reject Our Signs; so relate the story; perchance they may reflect. Evil as an example are people who reject Our Signs and wrong their own souls.” [Surah of the Mountain of A’raf 172-177].
Man’s judgment is often superficial, and it is the means through which those with little strength of mind can defy the facts, but there are serious issues which require careful thought and study from each individual, especially the issues relating to faith. Bearing in mind the purpose of encouraging scientific and intellectual research (and it is Allah who is behind purposes) we are aiming to construct this site and we invite each intellectual and writer to bring forth any intellectual or scientific contribution that would serve to bring out the scientific and epistemological dimension without causing any personal or religious resentments.
Allah said: “No intercession can avail in His Presence, except for those for whom He has granted permission. So far (is this the case) that, when terror is removed from their hearts (at the Day of Judgment, then) will they say, 'What is it that your Lord commanded? They will say: 'That which is true and just; and He is the Most High, Most Great. Say: "Who gives you sustenance, from the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah; and certain it is that either we or ye are on right guidance or in manifest error!" Say: "Ye shall not be questioned as to our sins, nor shall we be questioned as to what ye do." Say: "Our Lord will gather us together and will in the end decide the matter between us (and you) in righteousness and justice: and He is the One to decide, the One Who knows all” [Surah of Sheba, 23-26].

The Crisis of Human Thought

Human thought is influenced by knowledge and culture, it is nurtured by one of two veins: either the inherited or the modern, the modern is what has been accomplished or achieved due to environmental developments whether these were relating to sciences or otherwise, so innovations and discoveries would result in new knowledge, the more these innovations and discoveries occur the more sciences which were not known are born, and also the more developments and changes to already existing sciences.
The technical advancements and the deployment of means of communication in our present age have changed and created new social, economic, and political patterns in some cultures, and also have developed other cultures.
Some of the new cultures maybe influenced by the circumstantial and personal developments of the intellectuals themselves, often the intellectual’s individual experience affects his thought and imposes upon him new ideas that may contradict or support the intellectual trend of his time.
As for the inherited intellectual concepts, they are what one gains from preceding cultures, or they are the scientific and cultural accumulation of a certain nation throughout the past ages, and the legacy of the forefathers, it is distinguished by the tendency to emulate and closely follow traditions. In most of the human cultures and intellectual trends, the relationship between the inherited and the modern is one of discord and discrepancy, and the exceptions to this rule only occur due to deep changes.
There are well-known and accepted intellectual and scientific issues of course, but the degree of human comprehension of these issues may vary as a result of the presence of new means and equipment, two examples of this are the natural and cosmic sciences. It is worth mentioning that most disagreements occur between sciences and the pre-conceived and distorted forms of faith, this creates an intellectual crisis, for these forms of faith have become distorted since they are ignorant of creation and the Creator and tell falsehoods about the Creator, and they are pre-conceived, contradicting every science and thought.
The issue worsens when these intellectual crisis intertwine with other influences composed of particular aspirations, desires, and circumstances which would disguise falsehood as truth and then believe it. What we mean by particular circumstances is the group and individual commitments which vary according to the individual and the group and which consists of various objective and subjective gains, and to give proof of our previous introduction we give the following example (which is far from being exhaustive).
The introduction of the Old Testament declares: “The central point of the whole of the Holy Bible is the Eternal God who was before the world was made or the planets were created or the universe formed, the Old Testament begins its verses with the following text: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..” and this means that God was most evidently existent and His existence needs no proof. Based on this, the whole of creation is subject to the Lordship of this Pre-Eternal Creator who has crowned the works of His hands when He created man on His image and example, and placed him in the Garden of Eden, and gave him power over all creatures, and thus man enjoyed freedom, safety, prosperity, in addition to an intimate relationship with God”.
The Holy Bible details how creation began in the following manner:

The Beginning of Creation:

1- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The First Day: Light.
And God said: “Let there be light”, and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
The Second Day: the Firmament.
Then God commanded: “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
The Third Day: Dry Land and Vegetation.
And God said: “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear” and it was so, and God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said: “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth”, and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
The Fourth Day: The Moon and the Stars.
And God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth”, and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Fifth Day: Birds and Fish.
And God said: “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven”. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth”. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
The Sixth Day: Animals and Man.
And God said: “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind”, and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth”. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”. And God said: “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat”, and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
The Seventh Day: The Day of Rest.

2- Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens”.
These details concerning the beginning of the creation of the heavens and the earth are not clear, for what is the earth that was without form and void? And what is the difference between it and dry land? This book was distorted here to cover up previous distortions, so if we mention the order that was mentioned in this book it would be as follows:

  • The first day in which God created light, this is incorrect since day and night are the results of the earth rotating around itself and around the sun.

  • On the second day He created the firmament, what is a firmament? It is what blocks water from water, so the heavens are no firmament, the heavens are gas. And there is no difference between the water carried by the clouds and that which covers the earth, so fresh water originates in the clouds. The ‘blue firmament of the heaven’ which is, according to their belief, the abode of the Creator and the angels had a great effect in causing many thinkers and scientists to reject the Holy Bible and even doubting in the existence of the Creator.
  • The Third Day of the dry land and vegetation until the seventh day when creation was complete the crops grew and so did the herbs. This is an obvious digression to avoid the previous digression. Furthermore, it is incorrect, science has estimated the age of the Solar System to be 4.5 billion years, it also estimated the age of the universe to be approximately 13-15 billion years. All these contradictions cannot be missed by the mindful. Furthermore, the next contradiction has falsehood concerning Allah –Exalted is He, for how can the Creator be Pre-Eternal and rest on the seventh day? This is ignorance in the measure of Allah, for the Pre-Eternal or the Everlasting cannot die, or be removed, or be tired, or beget hunger, He exists prior to existence, and He is greater than creation, and nothing is to His likeness, whilst man was created on his form, not that he was another creature then evolved, for Allah –Exalted is He- has made Adam’s form beautiful and created him as human in the first place, not that He created him as an animal and then he evolved into humanity, so Allah forbid that his form would be like the Creator, Exalted is He above what they describe, Allah said: “It is Allah Who has made for you the earth as a resting place, and the sky as a canopy, and has given you shape - and made your shapes beautiful - and has provided for you Sustenance, of things pure and good; such is Allah your Lord, so Glory to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds!” [Surah of the Forgiver, verse 64]. Despite these regular changes and deviations to avoid mistakes, these mistakes would not be concealed from anyone with the least degree of awareness. For in addition to this being a creed, this issue involves particular and general interests and benefits which have a great influence in the subjection and control of thought. It is even worse than this, for many of these factions claimed falsehood and then believed it[1].

Allah has said: “What! have We given them a Book before this, to which they are holding fast? Nay! they say: "We found our fathers following a certain religion, and we do guide ourselves by their footsteps." Just in the same way, whenever We sent a Warner before thee to any people, the wealthy ones among them said: "We found our fathers following a certain religion, and we will certainly follow in their footsteps." He said: "What! even if I brought you better guidance than that which ye found your fathers following?" They said: "For us, we deny that ye (prophets) are sent (on a mission at all)."” [Surah of Luxury, verses 21-24].
The Wealthy ones are the ones with interests and benefits, who not only gained from the perverse situation but also excelled in exploiting it (and they seek things to be crooked).
These are some of the circumstances which still overshadow thought, in addition to the previously mentioned particular circumstances of each thinker and each group, since the physical and psychological influences form and shape thought. Therefore, all this forms an intellectual crisis that is both apparent and hidden (and what we mean by hidden is that it causes a self-conviction based on the belief that all is a lie or subject to doubt). Justice, which is the most sublime of human virtues, is the purity of judgments and decisions from personal cravings and desires, this trend remains limited within the previously mentioned human environment, and the existence of the individual within the group imposes upon the individual a commitment to the concept of justice within the group, and these formal or constitutional concepts, coupled with general inclinations within the society, can overrun the individual. There are countries that have covered advanced grounds in civil and cultural development which still impose a constitution which rejects the existence of the Eternal Creator. The conspiracy of these factors and their upsurge towards limiting thought does not mean that the scientific methods would necessarily divert proper thought from righteousness and guidance. However, those who follow subjective desires and are limited by ignorance (which is the common case), and still stick to the remnants of corrupt ideas from tattered cultures which stand helpless before scientific challenges (and would only have conjectures within themselves) would insist that they are hesitant in accepting the idea of the God or the Creator.
In order that we would not be hasty in following stereotypical jargons, this issue requires a differentiation so we would recognize the terminology of thought, these are: the idea, then the theory, then the reality, then the relationship of all this with the righteousness.
Praise is to Allah the Lord of the worlds, who has guided humans to the two paths of righteousness and misguidance, there is naught after the righteousness except clear misguidance, Allah has said: “Nay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish! Ah! woe be to you for the (false) things ye ascribe (to Us).” [Surah of the Prophets, 18].
Thought is a continuous mental activity which relates to intelligent beings, it is the proof of their worthiness and their distinguished situation among the creatures. Continuity means the cultural and scientific accumulation for the realization of better conditions for life and thought. Man, at least in the sensed world, is the most mentally active creature. This is for no vain reason, for intellectual worth has come hand in hand with the subjection of what is in the heaven and in the earth. Allah has said: “Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the heavens and on earth, and has made His bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, (both) seen and unseen? Yet there are among men those who dispute about Allah, without knowledge and without guidance, and without a Book to enlighten them!” [Surah of Luqman, 20].
So the heavens and the earth are both subject to man and to the other living creatures. Yet Allah has completed the graces upon man, some of those are manifest such as the sensible and emotional graces which allow man to cognize his environment and to adapt to it. Yet how this adaptation takes place and the response to this environment are among the hidden (although sometime they are manifest) graces, these vary from human to human according to their scientific and intellectual achievements. Faith is based on these achievements and then security and guidance and all these hidden graces. This was not in vain, for creation and well-forming cannot be in vain and without a purpose for this is the conjecture of those who do not know, everything has a reason including creation which has a great purpose, Allah said: “Did ye then think that We had created you in jest, and that ye would not be brought back to Us (for account)?” [Surah of the Faithful, 115].
So if we give the example (and Allah has the most transcendent example) of a certain well-organized system that has been equipped with certain technologies that make it self-sufficient, is it possible that this system’s existence was in vain? Is it possible that this system has created itself by itself? Allah has said: “Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief.” [Surah of the Mount, 35-36].
The degree of faultlessness is proof of the Maker or the Creator, the more the exactness and versatility of the system the more its Maker and His Capability are known. The one with most knowledge concerning the purpose of the system is also its Maker or Creator, and all this is postulated assuming the presence of possibilities and basic materials. Since creation occurred from nothingness only the Maker and Creator can set forth its purpose and reason and know every fine detail of it including what was hidden in the hearts. Allah said: “Say: "I do admonish you on one point: that ye do stand up before Allah, - (it may be) in pairs, or (it may be) singly - and reflect (within yourselves): your Companion is not possessed: he is no less than a Warner to you, in face of a terrible Penalty." Say: "No reward do I ask of you: it is (all) in your interest: my reward is only due from Allah: and He is Witness to all things."” [Surah of Sheba, 46-47]. Allah commands His Prophet (Prayers of Allah and His Peace upon him) to admonish the people on one idea with an eloquence and challenge and a style before which others would stand powerless, to take a proper course of thinking both as individuals and as groups so they would consider Allah’s creation and His Power, and that what the Prophet - Prayers of Allah and His Peace upon him- preached is neither nonsense nor madness, but, rather, it was facilitated in his tongue so he would warn of a severe penalty. Allah has guided man to he paths of righteousness and graciousness, and commanded him to be just since piety and obedience to the commands of Allah can only take place as a result of it. Injustice, in the intellectual sense of the word, is really injustice to one’s self, so man would harm himself and do himself real injustice if he would ignore reality, in this case he is even more unjust than one who would forget or be ignorant of the righteousness, and as for the Prophet, the Prayers of Allah and His Peace upon him, his reward is Allah’s affair, and Allah is a witness of all things.
As for the idea it is a result, or rather, it is a partial unit of thought. It relates to a specific issue whether it was a concept, a notion, or a pattern, or rather it is an intellectual assumption that can be either correct or incorrect and that is subject to change according to the individual and to the surroundings. A thought pattern would be the definition of certain means to accomplish a certain task that would achieve a pre-defined goal; this may include a mobile action. So generally it is a social pattern of behavior that would accomplish a certain purpose whether it was economic, political, or even moral and cultural. So it is a partial unit of thought which relates to an aspect of human thought.
Each pattern of behavior has a motive; these motives can be classified as follows:
a- The materialistic motive: This stimulant has a great influence on human thought since each individual aims to attain his consumptive needs within a certain style. Materialistic desires exist in all living beings yet they are more apparent in humans si


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2012-11-11 08:20:37 | Ahmad Khalifa Al Yousuf

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Allah, the One, the Only, the Eternal

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.


Allah the Most High said: “Believers, if any among you renounce the Faith, God will replace them by others who love Him and are loved by Him, who are humble towards the faithful and stern towards the unbelievers, zealous for God's cause and fearless of man's censure. Such is the grace of God: He bestows it on whom He will. God is munificent and All-Knowing.” [Surah of The Table: 54].

Allah the One, the Only, the Eternal, My Lord, My Master, and My Beloved! You gave permission when You said: “as they will love Him”, otherwise I wouldn’t have admitted my affection! Transcendent is Your praise filling the heaven and the earth, You have the most high example in my soul and my vision and yet You are even greater and more lofty. To You alone do my ears hearken, and to you alone is my affair subject, and through Your remembrance were my limbs and heart healed. Allah, the One, the Only, Allah the Eternal.

Praise is to Allah who has guided us to Islam, and graced us with faith, and honored us with servitude. All this is a beneficence given by Allah to those with sincere intentions and justice in following the way of truth in faith in Allah the Most High.

Allah (Exalted is He) says: “It is those who believe and confuse not their beliefs with wrong - that are (truly) in security, for they are on (right) guidance” [Surah of the Livestock: 82].

As shunning injustice is justice itself, injustice here is injustice towards one’s own self as faith in Allah is a particular affair to man’s own self, and thus he alone is responsible for the outcomes of his choices as choice is a human essential affair. Sincerity in faith is a way which is closely attached to man’s intention and to his intellectual and scientific approach, so we must affirm that man’s intellectual approach is committed to the knowledge of certainty, and that Allah is the Most Clear Truth, the Creator and Sovereign of all things, singular in Names, Qualities, and Acts, having nothing that is like Him.

Based on this, justice and security mean the sincerity of faith, and guidance to Allah within a conviction that is both intellectual and scientific. The intellectual conviction is the concept of creation and the purpose of life, and knowing the means to achieve this purpose, then subjecting one’s intellectual powers for it as man wishes to be inclusive in his use of science for the different aspects of life.

As for the scientific conviction, it is the concepts of truth, honesty, and sincerity which preserve the mind from any perversion or perverse thought and make it compatible with every scientific and intellectual truth.

The scientific conviction is made of two integral parts through which the foundations of sciences are unified in speaking to the human intellect, as the contradiction between these sciences takes its negative toll on the human thought, and that is why they are integral and taking one without the other would create an intellectual disturbance and even a crisis.

These sciences are:

• Inspired Science

This is the proofs, or the science inspired from Allah (Exalted is He) to one of His chosen servants o guide people to the path of righteousness.

Allah the Most High says: “Then sent We our apostles in succession: every time there came to a people their apostle, they accused him of falsehood: so We made them follow each other (in punishment): We made them as a tale (that is told): So away with a people that will not believe!” [Surah of the Believers: 44].

Allah has sent the Messengers to guide people, they came one after the other as people perverted the proofs revealed by Allah. The succession of the Messengers was to return people to the Path of Truth, but perversion is the purpose of every selfish desire and farness from Allah is the share of those who do not believe.

The Divine Messages were sealed with the Message of our Master, Muhammad (Prayers of Allah and His Peace upon him), through the revelation of the Holy Quran. This preserved the inspired science in these clear proofs, it was an example of those preceding us containing the content of all Divine Books revealed in the preceding Messages of Allah’s Unification. Allah revealed it as a call and preaching for the pious, it is a book that has no doubt within, a guidance for the pious. It is also a knowledge placed as a proof for the Messengers when they ceased to be among the people.

Allah (Glory and Greatness are His) spared no proof in this Holy Quran, He clarified all. He who is not guided by it is dominated by his own selfish desire and has shunned true scientific approach from his thought.

All the qualities, the names, and the creativity which is in Creator’s making and the sciences of the creatures were told about in that Book that has no doubt, and which Allah willed to reveal to creation. It is the requirement of the primordial nature that was created within the people.

Concerning it Allah the Most High said: “Hasten ye then (at once) to Allah. I am from Him a Warner to you, clear and open! And make not another an object of worship with Allah. I am from Him a Warner to you, clear and open! Similarly, no apostle came to the Peoples before them, but they said (of him) in like manner, "A sorcerer, or one possessed"! Is this the legacy they have transmitted, one to another? Nay, they are themselves a people transgressing beyond bounds! So turn away from them: not thine is the blame. But teach (thy Message) for teaching benefits the Believers. I have only created Jinns and men, that they may serve Me. No Sustenance do I require of them, nor do I require that they should feed Me. For Allah is He Who gives (all) Sustenance,- Lord of Power,- Steadfast (for ever). For the Wrong-doers, their portion is like unto the portion of their fellows (of earlier generations): then let them not ask Me to hasten (that portion)! Woe, then, to the Unbelievers, on account of that Day of theirs which they have been promised!” [Surah of the Winnowing Winds: 50 -60].

It is an innate desire and need within people to seek security, it can only be attained through rising to Allah’s purpose from creation. So the human need for tranquility and security are realized in the submission to Allah’s commandment in creation, through sincerity in servitude within the Quranic approach. As this need in man is the thought through which he interprets his desires, its proofs are built on the knowledge of certainty, the knowledge which realizes the purpose of creating both humans and Djinn. It is Allah’s primordial nature, and there is no change in Allah’s creation.

• Pure Science

It is the second part of the sciences, the one perceived as a result of experimentation, observation, and deduction. It is a proof of man’s ability to identify the environment surrounding him, and the other living creatures in a manner that serves his needs.

The integration of these sciences: The inspired and the pure ones, in speaking to the human intellect is a sign of the tenacity of the human thought in the face of life’s difficulties and the intellectual crisis. The contradiction and discord in the desires of people and the innovations of perverse religions that worship other than Allah as a result, are but means to take people far from honesty, justice, and worshipping Allah as He wills them to.

Allah the Most High said: “And worship others than Allah,- such as have no power of providing them, for sustenance, with anything in heavens or earth, and cannot possibly have such power? Invent not similitude for Allah, for Allah knoweth, and ye know not. Allah sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have bestowed goodly favors from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means) praise be to Allah. But most of them understand not. Allah sets forth (another) Parable of two men: one of them dumb, with no power of any sort; a wearisome burden is he to his master; whichever way be directs him, he brings no good: is such a man equal with one who commands Justice, and is on a Straight Way?” [Surah of the Bee: 73- 76].

The creation of the heavens and the earth contains signs indicating the Creator and His Omnipotence, Exalted is He. O ye people, would you give examples as you worship what is other than Allah? People follow their own whims when they worship what is other than the Most High Allah, and when they are unable to explain the creation of the heavens and the earth, and find their false deity unable to create anything, they would say that this creation is eternal and has no creator.

Worshipping other than Allah compels the servant to submit to his deity, or whim. Is this the equal of the servant who worships Allah with clear proof, and true knowledge spending for His sake publicly and secretly?

Much praise is Allah’s, but most of them do not know. Some of them do know, but in all cases they were ruled with their whims till their insights became blind, they are no longer able to differentiate between the servant following his false whims, and the servant that worships Allah with insight and knowledge, spending from what Allah provided him publicly and secretly.

The example of the first servant, the one which followed his own whims, is the mute one, unable to do anything, directed towards where his Lord directs him and having no goodness… how can he be equated with one who commands justice, having the knowledge of certainty, and the straight path.

He who does not worship the Most High Allah would have his allegiance to his whims, so his intention is the exact opposite of honesty, justice, and sincerity. He is a liar as he is dishonest in his intention, and he does not worship the Creator –and worshipping the Creator is true justice, and doing the opposite is injustice and self-deceit. The Creator is needless of the servant, but the servant needs the Most High Allah. People live in Allah’s Mercy. His mercy subjected what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and every grace for that matter. Every trial and affliction is Allah’s test for people, to differentiate truth from falsehood.

If you truly know Allah (Exalted is He), you would find sincerity is in His worship. While worshipping your own whims means that one is seeking his own pleasures without caring for anything else, this person would have not conviction within himself. He performs no goodness because he knows he is in falsehood even if he convinces himself otherwise.

While he who responds to truth and justice in worshipping Allah would subject his energies for the support of justice and truth, having conviction within himself. Wherever directed himself he would perform goodness since he is on the straight path. What was based on falsehood is false itself, so do not give examples to the Most High Allah in knowledge, Allah has the most high example, He knows and you know not.

As for insistence on what was perverted, on lies, on deceit, this would not change the reality of the perversion, lies do not become truths no matter how careful one is. The truth of the situation has intellectual and accumulative negative effects that would make matters even worse. They may result in open or hidden atheism, for what is basically false remains false. Damnation is known through insistence on lies and falsehood.

Allah the Most High says: “When thy Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): "Am I not your Lord (who cherishes and sustains you)?"- They said: "Yea! We do testify!" (This), lest ye should say on the Day of Judgment: "Of this we were never mindful": Or lest ye should say: "Our fathers before us may have taken false gods, but we are (their) descendants after them: wilt Thou then destroy us because of the deeds of men who were futile?" Thus do We explain the signs in detail; and perchance they may turn (unto Us). Relate to them the story of the man to whom We sent Our signs, but he passed them by: so Satan followed him up, and he went astray. If it had been Our will, We should have elevated him with Our signs; but he inclined to the earth, and followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that of a dog: if you attack him, he lolls out his tongue, or if you leave him alone, he (still) lolls out his tongue. That is the similitude of those who reject Our signs; So relate the story; perchance they may reflect. Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls” [Surah of the Heights: 172-177].

Allah (Exalted is He) created Adam’s offspring in successive generations, each generation being the offspring of the generation preceding it. He sent Messengers with knowledge and warning, pointing to the Path of the Truth, and warning people from the outcomes of following whims. So, in addition to the primordial nature and the innate human need to worship Allah, people have witnessed that Allah is the True Creator.

Only individual whims and desires lead people astray, so fathers and their polytheism is no excuse, Allah’s signs should suffice to return one to the paths of Truth. Such are the tidings of those to whom the signs of guidance were manifest, yet they shunned them and followed misguided whims through demonic insights, and relaxed to the love of this world in following his whims. This is an image of utmost intellectual decadence in contrast to the loftiness of the Celestine Message and the intellectual sublimity manifest in the meditation upon Allah’s signs and creation that it contains.

Through these great verses we can deduct the manner through which the human though takes place:

Thought = whims (Culture + Knowledge), we shall identify these in great detail later.

The human inability to detach for truth and justice means that his priorities are still in worshipping what is other than Allah. Extremism and bigotry are the results of falsehood, when one cannot face truth and justice. All this gives perverse and tense results that affect man’s activity till he has the attitude of a rabid dog in defending falsehood. By then, man would have exhausted all his means and cancelled his intellect. If he does others injustice, he did this injustice to himself in the first place.

We can deduct the close tie between thought and the psychic state from this. Though is an intricate maze of relations and human values, all human activities are the results of thought. That is why the intellectual researcher is psychological researcher as well. Meaning that he is well-versed in the outward and inward subtleties of the human psychology through thoughts and whims. In relation to the preceding equation, determining thought and whims leads us to know what is hidden within these psychologies.

Allah the Most High said: “The Hypocrites are afraid lest a Surah should be sent down about them, showing them what is (really passing) in their hearts. Say: "Mock ye! But verily Allah will bring to light all that ye fear (should be revealed). If thou dost question them, they declare (with emphasis): "We were only talking idly and in play." Say: "Was it at Allah, and His Signs, and His Messenger, that ye were mocking?" Make ye no excuses: ye have rejected Faith after ye had accepted it. If We pardon some of you, We will punish others amongst you, for that they are in sin” [Surah of the Repentance: 64-66].

The outward behavior with which people express themselves is closely attached to their psychological states. Also thought is the result of the intercourse of environmental extravert and psychological introvert factors that may be simple and clear, and may be complicated and whose effect may be affected by several other factors that would determine the intellectual characteristics as we will later explain.

Most of man’s decisions and actions are spontaneous and simple these enter within the realm of whims. But as they had one thing present for them, they missed the big picture represented with realities, the knowledge of certainty, and the purpose of creation in life and death, and the other important things.

Only ignorance in Allah would cause man to depend on this, Allah the Most High says: “So He hath put as a consequence hypocrisy into their hearts, (to last) till the Day, whereon they shall meet Him: because they broke their covenant with Allah, and because they lied (again and again). Know they not that Allah doth know their secret (thoughts) and their secret counsels, and that Allah knoweth well all things unseen? Those who slander such of the believers as give themselves freely to (deeds of) charity, as well as such as can find nothing to give except the fruits of their labor,- and throw ridicule on them,- Allah will throw back their ridicule on them: and they shall have a grievous penalty. Whether thou ask for their forgiveness, or not, (their sin is unforgivable): if thou ask seventy times for their forgiveness, Allah will not forgive them: because they have rejected Allah and His Messenger. and Allah guideth not those who are perversely rebellious” [Surah of the Repentance: 77 – 80].

The sickness of hypocrisy is in the hearts, and it is progressive with age as hypocrisy becomes a nature within these hearts, it does not leave them till they meet their Lord. For they hated honesty and thus were lying, as if they do not know that Allah knows their secrets and public speeches and that He knows the Unseen. They mocked the believers in alms-giving as they have no ability but to mock. Allah mocks them in reality and He has a wrath upon them, He promised them a most painful torment. He will never forgive them so do not ask for forgiveness for them as it is the same as not asking. They were non-believers in Allah and His Messenger, and followed their whims in infidelity and immorality away from faith.

Whim is existent and present in people just as it was present in their predecessors, it moves and changes according to the circumstances of time and place from generation to generation, as if they willed it to one another. We do not guide whom we wish, and nothing of the affair is ours, it is just a remembrance to benefit people and those who hope in Allah and the Day of Judgment.

Those who struggle with their own selves and heed to the Truth would be guided by Allah. Who is more unjust than one who tells lies concerning Allah, or denies the truth when it does reach him? Is Hellfire not an abode for the infidels?

Allah the Most High says: “And those who strive in Our (cause),- We will certainly guide them to our Paths: For verily Allah is with those who do right” [Surah of the Spider: 69].

Allah (Exalted is He) is with those who do right in following honesty which leads to truth in the Holy Quran.

Allah the Most High says: “"No intercession can avail in His Presence, except for those for whom He has granted permission. So far (is this the case) that, when terror is removed from their hearts (at the Day of Judgment, then) will they say, 'what is it that your Lord commanded?' they will say, 'That which is true and just; and He is the Most High Most Great'." Say: "Who gives you sustenance, from the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah. and certain it is that either we or ye are on right guidance or in manifest error!" Say: "Ye shall not be questioned as to our sins, nor shall we be questioned as to what ye do." Say: "Our Lord will gather us together and will in the end decide the matter between us (and you) in truth and justice: and He is the one to decide, the One Who knows all."” [Surah of Sheba: 23- 26].

No intercession would be beneficial except the one permitted by Allah, if you and your whims are separated, you will remember the True Saying in the Holy Quran, the Saying of the Most High and Great One, Exalted is He, how great is His Essence and Sovereignty.

His commandment and rule in the heaven and the earth is what gave reason to your life and sustenance, if this was hidden to you, or denied by you, then us or you are guided or in clear misguidance. You will not be asked about what we did, and we will not be asked about your actions, Allah the Most High will gather us then separate us through Truth and Justice, Exalted is He, the Ruling One, the Knowing One.


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