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Man and the Secretsof Nearness
3rd
Goblet or Meter
By Mawlana FaizaniCopyr igh t Maw lana Fa i zan i 2000
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Contents
Chapter 1: Finding Glorious God's Greatness, Magnificence,and Perfection in Things
Chapter 2: The Search for Man and his Real Substance
Chapter 3: The Secret of Union
Chapter 4: Arguments for Proving the Existence of Almighty God through Logic
Chapter 5: The Observation of Glorious God's Greatness in Things
Chapter 6: The Privileges of Man's Intellectual Position and the Secrets of his
SuccessChapter 7: Man's Trajectory of Journey throughout Knowledge
and its Reality
Chapter 8: Soul We, and the Key to Other World's Truths
Chapter 9: Some of the Signs of the Heavens in Mankind
Chapter 10: What did We Do that We did not Experience?(Heedlessness)
Chapter 11: The Characteristics and States of Soul in Man'sOuter and Inner
Chapter 12: What They See In the Computer of the Heart
Chapter 13: Conditions of the Heart (Qalb) and Its Secrets
Chapter 14: Not Acting upon the Secrets of the Heart, What did we do?
Heedlessness
Chapter 15: Us and Vigilance, Ego and Deceitfulness
Chapter 16: Ego and Its Plans
Chapter 17: If these Things had Happened, What Things would not have Happened?
Chapter 18: Get to Know Satan and His Satanic Ways
Chapter 19: Man and Some of Satan's Plots
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PrefacePraise be to God, Who hath guided us to this, We could not truly have been led
aright if God had not guided us. (7:43 Quran)
We do hope that by reading this Epistle, the intellectual faithful, will uncover, within the
proposed questions, truths which may not be apparent to them from many readings of the books
of the Interpretation of the Quran and Hadith.1
Hence, before explaining each topic under its own particular heading within a few limited lines,
we are trying, by God's willingness, to draw the reader's attention to separate headings. One
after the other they will increasingly strengthen your ability to explore the eloquent secrets of
this treasury of Insight into Almighty God.2 They have been prepared with the purpose of
fortifying the Light of Faith in the reader and reaching and discovering the Forth Dimension (The
World invisible to us).
May God give us success!
1 Interpretation of the Quran refers to Tafaseer, and Hadith or Ahadith is a narrative record of the sayings or customs
of Muhammad, peace be upon him.2
Ma'rafa
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Finding Glorious God's Greatness, Magnificence, and Perfection in
Things
While we struggle to unravel the truth of this secret (perceiving the Essence of His Being), we
lack the words to describe it. How, then, can it be possible for us to achieve this goal? Namely,
to perceive the Perfection and Glory of His Great and Eternal Being, with all the deficiencies of
comprehension that we must endure.
It is obvious that we can appreciate the station of a Force, only if at the very least, we
have an equivalent capacity within ourselves, or if we know of its corresponding likeness.
Whereas, if we merely ponder the amount of intelligence and understanding bestowed by
Glorious God from the beginning of the universe up until our age, we shall experience nothing
but perplexity and astonishment.
For example: In order to comprehend, just consider the magnitude of understanding and
intelligence that the Almighty Great Omnipotent Being has bestowed upon each human being,
from the beginning to the end of the creation of the world. If we were to collect and lump it all
together, it would come to hundreds of billions of tons, metaphorically speaking.
Today's world population is upwards of four billion. Suppose that Almighty God has
bestowed about an average of half a kilogram of intelligence and understanding upon each
person. That would make about two billion kilograms, which, when converted to tons, would
come to a rather staggering amount. At the end, we are plunged into a world of perplexity and
astonishment. According to this standard, if one ponders on what quantity of intelligence and
understanding has been bestowed upon mankind in each century or generation, from the
beginning of the world up to today, it would be an astonishing and imperceptible issue. One
would clearly find out that, Praise be to God, the Greatness, Perfection, Knowledge and
Understanding of Him Almighty, Whose favors are indiscriminately abundant, is totally beyond
our understanding and perception. Moreover, if you add the amount of understanding and
intelligence of three other inhabited worlds on our side (i.e., of the Jinn, the Angels, and the
Devils) to that of our world, what would it add up to?
If one considered the five other sides along with this side3 encompassing eighteen
thousand worlds, what could be reached? If one were to include the animals' instinct as well,
what would then be the outcome, other than perplexity upon perplexity? The case can be
compared to the situation where, for instance, one small ant had the task, according to its own
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In the 6th
Goblet or the Alphabet of the Secrets of Quran, it is stated as follows: "Our perishing andpermanent worlds: one side from six sides." This indicates that the entire system consists of six sides ofprobably a cube, three thousand worlds on each side, making eighteen thousand worlds altogether.
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ability, to do the statistical and organizing work of the president of a country. Could the ant ever
accomplish such a task? No, never.
Thus man, according to what we have said, is not at all able to perceive and fathom the
Perfection and Force, and even to estimate the Plans of His Almighty Being. Therefore, whenKhidher was explaining to Moses while they were riding on a boat, peace be upon them, the
limits of man's knowledge when compared to Almighty God's, Khidher pointed to a sparrow. The
sparrow perched on the side of the boat, dipped its beak into the ocean, and then left. Khidher
asked Moses:How much water did this sparrow take from the ocean by plunging its beak into
it? Moses answered, Compared to the ocean's greatness, consider it nothing.
Khidher replied: Similarly, you can imagine that the total of all of humanity's knowledge
and understanding, from the beginning of the world until the end, does not amount to a drop
from the ocean of Almighty's Knowledge and Understanding.4
Thus the unworthy position of some among the underdeveloped, tempted by Devils, allows
them to show off. Compared to more educated people or the inhabitants of other globes,
however, they are zero plus zero. Furthermore, there are some people who might possess a
limited knowledge granted to them by the Power of His Glorious Great and Unique Hand in the
science of matter and technology. These people intentionally, unintentionally, and egotistically
give themselves the permission of wishing to reach the Precious World (Proximity to His
Almighty's Presence), without having acquired the proper means, or reached the proper path.
This is illusion, absurdity, and insanity.
Thus, primarily, we hereby draw your attention to a series of brief discourses on topics
that may enlighten as well as explain the Perfection and Greatness of His Almighty.
Second, we shall try to explain why man does not try to acquire this fortune, even though
he is inclined by nature to acquire it.
Third, we will briefly explain the methods one can use in making that effort.
Search for Man and his Real Substance
1. Question: Conceptually, why are the descendants of Adam called Insan?5
Answer:Insanis an exaggeration noun.6 It is derived from the word Onss, which means
easily adjusting or adapting to everything. It even applies to lodging, property, animals and
other objects in the environment. After a while, man becomes so attached to these things
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This story is mentioned in Chapter Al-Kahf in the holy Quran, but this particular incident is narrated inHadith Al-Bukharee, chapter Kitab-ul-Tafseer5
Insan is a Quranic word for man or human being.6
Ism-e Mubalagha
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God everywhere, observing the things, and hence finding His Glorious Artificer's Perfection
and Magnificence.
5. Question: Who is man?Answer: Man is the being who is created for the purpose of observing the various secrets of
things and for utilizing these objects. He is created thus so that he may better and more truly
know the Creator of this entire open and hidden land and ocean, with all His Perfection and
Glory. Man should still make requests for more favors by presenting humbleness and by
pleading. He should make the necessary efforts to ensure peace for God's creatures in
order to please Him, so that he may find higher and more valuable grants and favors.
6. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who has rarely raised the question: for what reason, due to what
mastery, and for what purpose, are all things given to him?
Verily! All things are granted and accessible to him for the purpose of acquainting himself
with Glorious God, the Almighty Creator, the Exalted Most Great, Almighty Artificer and the
Perfectioner and Completer of this entire Order, Glorified and Exalted be He.
7. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who, upon observing someone's accomplishment, gives out
thousands of compliments and rewards. However, on seeing this Exhibition (the Universe)
created by His Holiness, Glorified and Exalted be He, he makes no acknowledgement to His
Greatness and makes no effort to find the truth of Insight with Exalted Him. Man has rarely
paid any attention to seek this virtue.
8. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who exerts effort, if accessible, toward getting acquainted and
establishing a friendship with heads of companies and high authorities of society. But he
makes no effort to get acquainted with or find out the Creator and Artificer of this entire open
and hidden order Who is Almighty Great God of the land and the ocean in this world and in
other worlds, and the rest of the universe. He does not make the effort of acquiring the least
of Insight into Him.
9. Question: Who is man?
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Answer: Man is the being who, the more he becomes enlightened, the more he tries to
fully establish relationships and get acquainted with enlightened people, even great
statesmen. Unfortunately, concerning the establishment of a relationship with his Creator
and Artificer, man, save for a few exceptions, has not accomplished this act. He did noteven create such ambition and love in himself towards this goal.
10. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is such a being to whom Glorious God has given the ability and the
perception to successfully invoke and contemplate scientific and spiritual secrets.
Where man strives to delve, Glorious and Exalted God makes him discover the secrets and
mysteries. But man never asks himself if all these successes originated from his own brain
alone. There are billions likewise endowed with brains better and more efficient in every
aspect.
One can say that all man's efforts are merely a pretext and that the truth is the gift and
grace of the most Gracious Almighty God. By making this thanksgiving, of course, more
success will be bestowed upon the person and, given constancy, this will increase the
person's relationship with the Almighty.
11. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who gets angry with his inferiors, whoever they may be, should
they appear to disobey his commands. Furthermore, he even beats and metes out other
punishments as a tool for reform. But he himself is not obedient in front of those permitted
and prohibited commands of His Almighty, which were created and established to the
benefit of the social life. He does not believe in punishment from the Glorious Lord of the
open and hidden.
12. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who admits that there should be punishment meted out from high
authorities to those who oppose them, but from the Great God Who has created him, Who
has brought him into existence out of non-existence, Who provides him annually, wherever
he may be, with life, and prescribes sustenance and other favors, he, being narrow-minded,
still does not accept a law. He does not think of any punishment in cases of violation against
Him Almighty, and he continues to disobey.
13. Question: Who is man?
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Answer: Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth
and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
14. Question: Who is man?Answer: Man is the being of whom everything is afraid but who fears not his own self, even
though all the harm to man, humanity and to others comes from man.
15. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being whom every creature trusts. However, men themselves rarely
trust one another without ulterior motives.
16. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the model by which most of the characteristics and secrets of the animate
and inanimate things of the firmament and earth are revealed. Therefore, some of the
philosophers have called him the "Small Universe.
"Then outwardly you are the small universe
Then inwardly you are the great universe."
Rumi
Commentary
Now we are somewhat introduced to the value of humanity's eminent position and we
understand it. Basically, to some extent we have been ungrateful and have behaved in such a
manner. By observing everything, wee have appreciated its maker, but by observing all these
gifts and rewards, and the variety of creation in the world, we have not felt any responsibility
towards the Greatness of the Great God. At most, we have tried to establish relationships with
people of high authority, rank, and position; however, we have not wished to establish any
relationship with the Creator and Artificer of this entire universe, though our creation has existed
and exists for seeking this truth in this small, trial world.
It is a question of demonstrating to His Almighty's All-Seeing Knowledge,8 whether we
are to be so amazed by His handiworks that we forget Him Almighty altogether. Or that, during
our involvement, we would behave in the Presence of the Exalted Evolver, revealing our own
pull and attraction while doing good deeds and refraining from evil actions, or the opposite.
In the end we conclude the following:
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'Ilm-e Mushahidatee
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spread the monotheism,11 to acquire Insight into Almighty God,12 and to serve God's
creatures for the purpose of His Happiness.
3. Question: Who is man?Answer: Man is the being who, without the permission of gatekeepers or secretaries or
even having received a credible identification card, never assumes the authority and power
of approaching contemporary high ranking people, believing it impossible to do so.
Surprisingly, without acquiring the acceptable purity and merit to the Presence of His
Almighty, he considers himself to be worthy of acceptance to the presence of His Almighty
Being by merely claiming to be worthy.
4. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who, in order to reach worldly and figurative kings and
presidents, obliges his own self to study for at least sixteen to twenty years and to serve for
more that thirty years passing the stages of qualification. As for achieving the Nearness to
Almighty God, however, he thinks he should achieve and unite it in the easiest way, even
instantaneously, without qualification or merit.
5. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who sees the effect of the Exalted and Glorious God's Powerful
Hand in the transformation of all things, at all different levels.
For example, he is able to perceive it in inanimate things such as animal wastes (fertilizer)
changed into different trees, fruits and crops; in the change from hot to cold; from non-
existence to existence, and vice versa, which are all set, are evident. If the servant should
request for anything with sincerity and humility, in spite of all the worthlessness of that
servant, Almighty God can grant him his request, He accepts the servant's apology and
fulfills his needs.
Consequently Almighty God will certainly improve the servant's life according to his
ambitions, activities and intentions.
Couplet:
Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people
Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions
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Tawheed12
Ma'refa
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Arguments for Proving the Existence of Almighty God through Logic
1. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who clearly knows that all kinds of artifacts seen around him and
in his world are the result of the two hands of power,
A. The imperceptible Hand of power of God, Mighty and Sublime be He, the Artificer of
everything, has created and can still create any element from non-existence if He
wants to, truly out of nothing.
B. The secondary maker is man. He prepares and organizes the objects and things
needed for himself and his contemporary generation out of the cooked and raw
resources created by Almighty God.
2. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the creature who does not accept and regards as impossible that anything
devised by himself or his fellow creatures could exist without an artificer.
Unfortunately, however, there are some people who think and accept that this entire
exposed and hidden universe can exist without an Artificer.
3. Question: Who is man?Answer: Man is the being who believes it to be impossible for any social order not to be led
by either sound or unsound leadership and human administration. Yet he thinks of this entire
exposed and hidden order on the land and in the seas to be without the Great Administrator
and the Almighty Leader, and Artificer, Glorified and Exalted be He. He thinks all this exists,
metaphorically speaking, without the engineering and organization of the Glorious, Great,
Unlimited Omniscient. Some have believed in this way, Alas!
4. Question: Who is man?Answer: Man is the being who believes in worldly laws, whatever be the power attached to
them, and knows that they are enforced under the surveillance of some general organizer.
Unfortunately, however, there are some people who, in spite of discerning the law of
continuation of the universe, the earth, and the nearby galaxies, which according to their
own word and estimation, have been and still are monotonously active in the eyes of every
individual, during our lifetime and in past generations for billions of years, deny this
undeniable truth and even call the existence of Almighty Artificer a superstitious theory.
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On the other hand, some people deduce from it all, the existence of the Unbreakable
Power and the Absolute Authority of His Self-Existent Being.13 They accept with sound faith
and know that the aforementioned systems are indeed permanent and stable under the
Surveillance of the Self-Subsisting,
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the Able,
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Exalted be He.This is faith and these are the perfect believers, provided they put it into practice.
5. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who finds himself obliged to surrender in front of people of power,
wisdom and knowledge, especially if he finds that another person's special skills are more
advanced or effective than his own. Unfortunately, however, after observing all kinds of
Power and Perfection of His Supreme, Eternal and Self-existent Being, he still does not
show the required respect, nor does he acquire insight into Almighty God. Except for a small
number of people, the rest have not sought this goal. Moreover, some unfortunate people
have ascribed partners to Almighty God, and some ignorants have totally denied the
Existence of His Almighty.
Dear Honorable Reader!
Indeed, our honorable readers have felt an inner enlightenment after they have perused
the above questions. As the Light of Certainty about this subject keeps growing brighter in you,
the Nucleus of Monotheism16 or the Luminosity of Faith builds up. Here, according to the
person's ambitions and activities, his relationship with Glorious God will become stronger and
stronger.
We must mention that, in the past, the path for noble servants in their approach to the
Nearness was to extinguish or mortify the Ego,17 and that was fulfilled by going through hard
and ascetic work. Until recently, this has been the path prescribed. Even so, some recent
followers have exaggerated and practiced it in a very self-effacing manner. Fourteen hundred
years have passed from the time of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. According to
God's tradition, the path of approaching Nearness to Almighty God should have become shorter
during these past thousand years or so, as the religious difficulties during the time of Moses,
peace be upon him, and others, become gradually less difficult as we approach the time of the
Prophet Muhammad, God bless him and grant him peace.
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Wajib-ul-Wujood14
Qayyoom15
Qaadir16
Hasta-e Tawheed
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Hereby, Great God through His Grace and Generosity has produced these Epistles.
Just reading these Epistles and practicing accordingly will cause the Inner Light to grow instant
by instant, and this will increase with every repeated reading. The proof of this state in you
enthusiasts of faith, whether as reader or an audience, is that all at once, there will be ideas,
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appearing in your inner self as well.You should write them down and pass them on to the
Instructors and Experts of this subject. Thisfortune is thereplacement for today's humanity for
the exhausting mortification of Ego.
With the Grace of Almighty God, the Generous, the Bestower!
Hence, in the following section, ponder on a portion of the study of Almighty God's
Greatness in things. Please contemplate it with ambition and serious attention.
The Observation of Glorious God's Greatness in Things
1. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who believes in the existence of either natural Soul or artificial
Soul (electric), in every dynamic and static body, which has resulted either from his own
hand or has been put there by the Power of Almighty God, its Creator. Even while seeing
that the earth and most galaxies move in a prescribed direction and are rotatory, still, many
people, through their own fictitious interpretation based on their false and corrupt
imaginations, take the power of Almighty God's Hand as gravity, being sourceless. Namely,they deny Almighty God's Power and Control, whereas, the gravity in its correct sense is an
example of His Almighty's Supremacy. We consider it as a part of the Almighty's Great
Workstation, for we are less expressive about such things.
2. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who well knows that no material particle could ever remain in
space without support, but while observing and understanding all these hanging systems
and galaxies, attributes it to something called gravity. We would like to mention that our goalis not to deny the existence of gravity in the galaxy systems. The point is that we accept the
existence of rockets and their motion and principles as being guided from the earth, and that
controlled by man, why then should we not accept the survival of objects and the various
motions of the galaxies as being a result of the Control of the Greatness of the Unique
Creator, God, Glorified and Exalted be He?
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Nafs
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3. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who admits that the attraction and repulsion forces in magnetic
fields result from peculiar molecular arrangements and alignments in the magnet. Butobserving all the disorganization pertaining to the molecular arrangements and alignments
in the earth's main molecules, for instance, such as in mountains, oceans, soil, mines, etc.,
none possess any apparent attraction-repulsion forces in themselves: To what then do they
ascribe the forces which exist therein? Rather, they do not perceive that they, based on
corrupt satanic paraphrase, call it imaginary gravity to make the truth of the Power of
Almighty Hand disappear.
"Their intention is to extinguish the Light of Almighty God's Greatness and Oneness
by blowing with their mouths and nonsensical reasons. But Almighty God will
complete His desired Light, even though the unbelievers may detest it."19
4. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the
Greatness of Glorious God, from the study of things and therefrom acquire perfect faith. But
the same tool has become the means of deviation for the rest of them.
5. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who is amazed by seeing the work and activity processes of
some company or factory, or of machines, tools and instruments. But he never thinks about
this fortune as being bestowed and the discovering power as being given to man's brain,
thus enabling man to build. He does not make any thanksgiving to the Creator, and some
people do not even know the Creator. What a pity is this misfortune and ignorance!
6. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who would certify the ability of the leader and organizer of society
once he sees the excellent organization and order of that society. But some of them do not
understand this organized and ordered system which is proof of the Perfection of the
Creator and Almighty Unique Artificer; moreover, they do not admit it.
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Ideas similar to the subject being studied, namely reflecting Glorious God's Magnificence andPerfection in His arts19
As-Saff, Chapter 61, verse 8
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7. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who smells a variety of fragrances from the earth through flowers,
and feels pleasure in them. Unfortunately, however, he has not reflected that it was the
Creator of this universe Who created all these pleasant aromas out of the worthless andhumid soil. Then what kind of pleasant aromas and goodness would His Excellency
Almighty God Himself possess? Actually, the heart and brain can hardly perceive it now.
8. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who feels pleasure in seeing beautiful faces, even though he
knows that originally these existents, with all their beauty, were created from small sperms.
What about the Magnificence and Charm of the Almighty Creator, Who has created and
founded a myriad of beauties and charms such as these?
For, it is obvious that if someone bestows gifts upon someone else, a thousand dollars for
instance, then most definitely he himself owns hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then what
Magnificence and Perfectionwould He Who has freely given all this beauty to everything
and every one be possessing? Our perception is actually unable to approximate it.
9. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who sees within the tiny mulberry seed, which is smaller than a
millet seed, a strong mulberry tree with a trunk of ten to twenty meters of height, thick roots
of five to ten meters in length, and branches with an upper volume of at least ten metes
diameter. Likewise, the underground roots of similar or smaller size along with their essential
factories are all neatly packed. And, all these secrets are contained in that small mulberry
seed. But, he does not think of the Artificer that possesses all this Wisdom as having, of
course, much more powerful and amazing Potency. Here we, with the help of God, have
explained the smallest symbol of it.
The perception of this truth conveys to us that in the same manner as He, Almighty, created
the original matter of man's creation as a seed in a mother's womb, there is another seed
leading from man's body into the earth which He, the Glorious and Exalted, could and will
bring back to life and give shape to once again, through the Second Breathing.20
Hemistich:
"The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one."
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Soul reentering the body
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10. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who has seen a great deal variety of colors in the collection of
direct and indirect artistry of the Almighty Sacred Being in the fashioning and creation of
things. Bu he did not understand what Being was the Unique Glorious Owner of all thisGreatness and Perfection, what Potency, and what Perfect Mightiness possessing all kinds
of Perfection and Glory. We do not have words worthy enough to explain it, or to praise the
subject of these truths.
11. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who considers it necessary to measure the heat intensity of an
object from a certain distance. Seeing that, in spite of the distance of the sun from the earth,
the sun's heat does still not vanish, he does not understand that this Power is the outcome
of His Omnipotences Wisdom, Glorious and Exalted be He. Naively, man says that the sun
is a fiery globe, which has not yet cooled down, or dismisses it as the mere burning of
helium.
You will study, with the Grace of Glorious Evolver, the truths of this secret in the forthcoming
Epistles.
The Privileges of Man's Intellectual Position and the Secrets of his
Success
Preface
Have you pondered how excellent man's original position is? Some superficial
observers, however, as soon as they have acquired a limited knowledge for explaining and
understanding some parts of biology and other sciences, think that they have arrived at an
understanding of humanity's excellent station. This is itself a complete error. Becoming
acquainted with the truth about humanity is quite a different thing.
To better pay attention to and sooner understand the spirit of this discourse, can anyone tell us
please how man, with all his intelligence, can be malevolent at one time and benevolent at
another?
Why does this happen? What insidious things still drive this faultless being to the pit of
cruelty, cannibalism, and other atrocities?
In order not to be intimidated by lengthy discussion, it is appropriate to say that man has not
known his own self yet.
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Do you consider it as a result of knowing humanity's station, that at least four to five
thousand airplanes, millions of tons of explosive materials and other mechanized weapons were
consumed in wars in Korea, Vietnam and so forth? The expenses wasted there were double or
triple the capital capable of enriching all the poor people on earth. They destroyed millions ofliving creatures including man. Can this be considered as indicative of knowing humanity's
station? Of course not!
We should say that man has not tried to censor his corrupt desires and has not subdued them.
Therefore, man's offspring should not be able to fulfill humanity's wishes for peace and
happiness, through the progress achieved in secular sciences unless they have really perceived
the divine knowledge.
1. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who, through the Special Grace and Favor of Mighty and
Glorious God, has surpassed the two primary categories of beings, which are in greater
quantity and quality.
These two classes are:
First: The Inanimates: sand, rocks, mountains, planets, stars, and galaxies, etc.
Second: The Animates: from the microbe on up to the elephant on the land; from the
mosquito to the ostrich in the air, and from the smallest fish in the ocean up to the largest
mammal, the whale.
Through His Grace, man has surpassed all these tens of thousands of machines. He
Almighty, through His Mercy, has created man in the most proficient human form.
2. Question: What is the Muslim's station?
Answer: Almighty God has bestowed additional mercy upon the faithful one. He Almighty
has created him from the beginning under the initial conditions in the circle of Mercy,
especially in the Militant Academy21 as followers of Quran, jurisprudence, and the
confession for monotheism. More especially, God has graced those who, during the time of
Islam's poverty, make great physical, economic, and verbal efforts to spread Truth. They do
it with high ambition, as did the first followers of Islam, based on scholastic reasons, logic,
and good deeds.
3. Question: Who is man?
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The struggle against Ego and Satan
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Answer: Man is the being who knows everything by a name and title. If the thing does not
have a name, immediately he gives it a name; according to
"Almighty God taught to his holiness Adam, peace be upon him, the names of allthings (the secrets of all things)" etc.22
4. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is in possession of a brain which can store in its memory up to one or two
hundred thousand words, and more.23 He can transfer its contents from his brain to his
tongue, like onto the cassette of a cassette player, though without any rotation.
5. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who upon hearing the names of things can remember the
corresponding things with some of their specifications and perceptible qualities. He is able to
understand and perceive them either in brief or in detail.
6. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being, to whose heart and brain, blessed by,
"Almighty God taught to his holiness Adam the names of all things (the secrets of all
things)" etc.,
Exalted God has bestowed the ability to discover all things and the power to understand
their secrets and natures. He has bestowed this upon man, so that he may benefit from
other things, that He may make him indebted, and that man may obtain the exalted
knowledgeable station. Most deprived people, however, consider this ability to be an
outcome of their own thoughts, and they deny it as being bestowed to them by the Glorious
God.
7. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the only being who can express his heart through drawings and writing, and
Morse codes24 etc., to others, regardless of a persons presence or absence. In the
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Al-Baqarah, Sura 2, verse 31, Quran23
the massive storage capacity of man's brain is scientifically estimated to be about 100 trillion bits ofinformation24
The International Morse Code is a system of dots and dashes that can be used to send messages by aflash lamp, telegraph key, or other rhythmic devices such as tapping finger. There are, of course, manyother similar modern codes systems serving the same purpose.
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presence of the person, he can convey his messages even through the motions of the eye
and the eyebrow, or with special phrases and words.
8. Question: Who is man?Answer: Man is the only being for whose use, the best kinds of fruits, trees, minerals,
grains, and all other things, including animals, are created. Man sees his domination being
established in all these things. Almighty God has granted all His favors to man, but man
unfortunately has not fulfilled the required servitude and has not acquired the necessary
Insight into Him.
9. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the secondary artificer of things on the earth. He builds the necessary
things out of the raw materials first created by the Sacred Supreme Being, and puts them to
his own use.
10. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the only being who, besides having the best and ultimate use of things on
the earth, has access to the sealed inner reservoirs of the earth as well. Man has made and
is still making amazing and necessary utilizations of these minerals.
11. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being whose continuation of works and different thoughts, provided
they are worth following, will often be completed by sound successive generations.
12. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who needs a social life in order to secure mutual well-being. This
has brought him much comfort. If man can generate this social life worldwide, it will be much
better.
13. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the only being who must concern himself with family and tribal
relationships, and even with wider relationships at the national and international levels. He
has these concerns, for he has therefrom his inward and outward purposes.
14. Question: Who is man?
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Answer: Man is the only being who can be an imitator of most voices and motions. He
can reflect them, either directly with his own organs, or indirectly by means of tools and
instruments.
15. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the only being who, besides the inherent gifts and the formal and spiritual
discoveries, can benefit from anothers experiences.
16. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who can illuminate the inner darkness of everything by using
artificial or natural light in whatever way he wishes. But often he has failed to illuminate the
dark depths of ignorance, unawareness, and cruelty with the light of guidance.
17. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who is capable of making the unpleasantness of heat and cold
agreeable to himself, or even of making it moderate and pleasant, through instruments. But
he is not easily able to control the coldness of anger and the heat of lust, or at least to
temper them.
18. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who can express either in detail or in brief his outward and inward
pain, or pinpoint the agitated area and describe it. But, he has rarely been able to know or to
express the pain of remoteness from the Nearness of Almighty God's Presence.
19. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who, contrary to other living creatures who defend themselves
using their mouths and teeth, eliminates opponents often by using different tools. But he has
not built tools or instruments for his defense against the inward enemies, which often disturb
him.
20. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who can use his species' understanding and experiences to
improve his own life and that of the succeeding generations. This action has caused much
progress.
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21. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is able to consume not only soft edible things but also has domination over
many kinds of small and big mines. He extracts these minerals completely, makes different
uses of them for himself and then eliminates them, but he cannot eliminate the oceans,mountains, the planet Earth and his firmament.
22. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who has always made use not only of visible and large pieces of
material things, but of tiny parts of animate things, such as microbes, and of inanimate
things, such as the atom, etc. He has built astonishing things out of them. Sometimes, he
has made and is still making advantageous use, and at other times, disadvantageous use
for himself and his contemporaries.
23. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the only being among all living creatures who, in order to improve his
future, expects the cooperation of his generation, his children, and his grandchildren, in
order to secure his living. In a way, he is making an error.
24. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is inwardly a box containing the two principals of the Soul25 and the Ego,26
and the computer of Intellect.27 But outwardly, he is the cemetery of all the animals of the
earth, including elephants and dolphins. Those animals, whether on the land, in the ocean,
or in the air, are all his property, and sometimes, he uses them in one way or another for the
better organization of his life. When these animals used by man reach adulthood, man eats
them. In fact, the mobile cemetery of all animals is the stomach of mankind.
Commentary
In this chapter the following was elucidated: the ingenuity and masteries that the being named
man or the vicegerent28 of Almighty God of the earth and time and all the hidden and exposed,
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Rooh26
Nafs27
'Aql28
Vicegerent or Khalif: Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place ofanother.Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc
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possesses. It was also well clarified as to what purpose he was created and the reasons for
which he has come to be here on earth.
On the basis of this criterion, please ponder for what task, and with what ability and
mastery, have we arrived here? Now, we have changed the trajectory of the journey; and whaterrors we have committed! Instead of finding the Artificer, we are lost in an insignificant portion
of artifacts. Finally, what level this heedlessness is at or will reach? What is all this insanity,
despite our intelligence and the claim for civilization? Are all these tools for killing and all the
plunder of mankind the results of sound intelligence? No never!
Do you realize that the Muslims and all the monotheists on earth are the first ones to be
responsible for this? For, they knew the truths of monotheism's light but they made no effort to
spread it. We refer especially to the followers of Islam, to whom all secrets of the path of Union
are explained in detail, in more than 250029verses in the Holy Quran.
Unfortunately however, some group of human and jinni-devils30 has been driving
mankind to become addicted to these deviations, one after the other, and has considerably
narrowed his wide perspective. This is worth pondering.
Now, it will be wise to further examine what will happen to this being. Where is he heading?
Man's Trajectory of Journey throughout Knowledge
and its Reality
1. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who, like a rocket, has come from the Sacred World31 to Earth to
observe the variety of God's artifacts and to gain Insight into the Almighty Unique Artificer.
Meanwhile, he is equipped with both the discerning vision of the microscope and the
encompassing vision of a telescope and the properly ordered computer of the heart,
intellect32and brain. And he is the owner of even greater masteries and secrets than this.
2. Question: What will be the result of all these processes of man's life?
Answer: Outwardly the final rocket stage of each individual reaches to the edge of old age.
In reality however, he has been sent in this direction by the Intention of his Launcher and
29
The whole Quran consists of 6666 verses out of which 2500 verses are about Fikir or reflectingGlorious God's Magnificence and Perfection in the creation30
Devils are generally of two kinds: of the species of jinn who are invisible creatures, and the species ofmankind who physically are human beings but spiritually are as corrupt as devils31
'Alam-e Quds32
'Aql
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Bringer (His Highness, the Glorious Supreme Being). This can last up to whenever God
may will; namely, the appointed hour of death.
3. Question: When would his stay here on earth end?Answer: As soon as it is proven to the Observationary-Knowledge33 of His Holiness, the
Exalted and Glorious Supreme Being, that man has chosen one of the two paths: Glorious
God, or the world (or both), and that it has become his ultimate goal, then He will make this
being return.
4. Question: Why are some people eliminated during their childhood?
Answer: There are many secrets to this. One of these secrets is that some parents may be
released from torture through these children's intercession, and also, in order to make the
children of the same age thankful that they were not taken away but were allowed to
survive. These children who pass away would be grateful seeing the distress of mothers,
fathers, relatives and other brothers in the Gathering Place of mankind on the Day of
Judgement. They would be thankful that they themselves did not reach maturity to get into
all these troubles, and that they did not have the chance of committing sin and ignorance.
Again through His Grace, they were made of the people of forgiveness and intercession.
Likewise, there are many other secrets behind it, and if you ponder, you may find them.
5. Question: Are there any more of these important points?
Answer: The important secret here is that if Almighty God had given the same life
expectancy to everybody and if the instances of natural or sudden death were not different,
then man would have been very aggressive, since he knew that he had not yet approached
the threshold of death. This would have caused greater laziness and ignorance. Meanwhile,
the meaning of trial or rather its truth, would have disappeared.
6. Question: What is the effect of the death of young children of unbelievers and
agnostics?
Answer: For the fathers and mothers, by observing these children, to discover that if they
were left at least with their inborn faith, without denial of confession for the existence of
Almighty God's Oneness, they would deserve this favor (Paradise). Hence, they would be
saved from the tortures, and have a shelter in Paradise or in the Ismuth.34
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'Ilm-e Mushahidatee34
Barzakh: the abode located between Hell and Paradise
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7. Question: What kind of people would be released by Intercession?
Answer: The people in whose hearts is left a particle of either inborn faith or acquired faith.
8. Question: Who is man?Answer: Man is the being who, contrary to the fruit-bearing and strong trees, has diminutive
portion of branches growing above the surface of the earth, while his main and most
powerful roots are all growing bigger and bigger beneath the surface.
9. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being whose roots are beneath the ground, but he himself is situated on
earth, while he passes his tangible and intangible stages of growth. In other words, two or
three of his ancestors are on the earth while most of the others are underground. This
means that the main infrastructure of his ancestry has been residing beneath the ground for
thousands of years. In this way, the great and greater members of a tribe or ethnic group
are always increasing more and more beneath the ground.
10. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made
laws or heavenly law.
11. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who has seen and does see the life expectancy (the mortality and
the survival) of most things, yet considers this material world's life to be everlasting. For,
each individual's life perishes while the perishing of the world cannot be seen during his
lifetime. This is similar to an example where ants reside for generations and generations
beside a strong palm tree, thinking of the tree as a permanent thing because they have seen
it standing there for hundreds of their own generations.
NOTICE!
In the contents of this chapter, after perceiving the substance of man as well as
searching for and showing the approaching path to the Almighty Creator of this universe, it
would not be out of place to draw your attention to a portion of those truths which most certainly
shall shed light on the existence of the Permanent World35 and the Visitation with Exalted and
Mighty His Holiness Supreme Being. The perception of this precious fact is of course, a
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convincing sign of the existence of the Fourth Dimension. Or, it is a guide for everybody,
especially for the faithful ones, in finding the secrets of Union and the mysteries concerning it.
Fortunately in our age, Almighty God has opened the doors of all these outward favors,
through inventions of technological and scientific tools and instruments, allowing them to beaccessed by man in such a way that their likeness has rarely been made available; in the past,
probably only to kings.
Ponder this: it was prophet Solomon's miracle to spend one day flying a distance which
would otherwise have taken one month.36 Now, however, it is made available, to any auspicious
or inauspicious person, to travel by plane a distance of one or two months or more in just one
hour. There are hundreds of other similar examples.
Observing the abundance of such favors bestowed upon all children of mankind, we place such
hope in His Unique One Being, the Almighty Absolute Bestower,37 and you may say Amen and
undertake practical efforts so that He may soon give to all mankind the success of having His
favor of the fortune of faith globalize through the leadership of this humblest servant, and all
assistants, and the noble ones of the world. So that the sun of Oneness will be shining all over
the earth; and the notional and practical Insight of Islam would radiate; and that justice would be
worldwide to its highest degree, such as has never occurred in the past and would not be seen
in the future.
Hoping for the favor and grace of the Generous, the Bestower, and the Most
Compassionate.38
1. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who, after passing the best time of his life (youth), remembers
that period for the rest of his life and regrets that it has passed. By paying a little attention he
will come to understand this fact as well that the Exalted God, Who bestowed on him more
or less twenty to thirty years of youth and a pleasant time, has indeed the power to bestow
upon him this fortune for billions of years in a place where there would be no trouble or
distress (Paradise).
2. Question: Who is man?
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it can be further researched in Arabic (Ibn-Kathir), Persian (Huseini), Urdu, or other detailedInterpretations of Quran in the following Chapters: AL-Anbia 21 verse #81, Saba 34 verse #12, Sad 38verse #36; or in some other Islamic books37
Wahhab38
al-Kareem, Wahhab, and ar-Raheem
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Answer: Man is the being whose perceptions, when taken from a text, especially if the
hidden truths about the eternal world are contained in it, are at different levels. For example,
the perception of the above mentioned factual truth is not a problem in the view of wise and
clear-sighted people.The scientists for instance, are certifying the age of the planet of the earth as being
approximately more than millions of years.39 Could not the Creator and Owner of all this
power then, bestow upon us billions of years of lifetime in Paradise?
The answer is Yes, but there are those who can rarely understand this fact.
3. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who likes a few fixed months, the best time of the yearspring
and summer. Routinely, His Almighty Unique Being has granted these seasons to be
specific periods of time. Then why do they not think that the Generous Almighty God can
also bestow upon us billions of years of continuous spring and marvelous seasons in
Paradise, even though the ultimate purpose of man's creation for sound and modest
activities in this world seems somewhat perishable and fictitious, and he is basically created
for over there (Paradise)?
4. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who well knows that a person or company builds a machine or
instrument lasting one or a few years, he could always make it last longer by improving its
efficiency, thus allowing the tool to work longer. Man believes this, but he does not
acknowledge that Glorious God Who has given him twenty to thirty years of youth, could
also grant him billions of years of youth in the Permanent World. Indeed, this is not a
problem.
5. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who fully believes in the theoretical and experimental grounds
proving the existence of Almighty God and the Almighty Unique Creator. He sees that
Almighty God has given all these colors, odors, values, secrets, and beauty to the earth's
products from the soil, water, and invisible energy of sunlight.
Indeed, from a material thousands of times better (Paradise), He could produce things more
perfect and amazing, that being Paradise and its Gardens.
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Basically this period of being an Actor in life for each individual is for the purpose of
completing the "movie" of his life. As soon as the Soul is out of the body, according to its
summary of good and bad deeds, it will be placed in one of the Paradise(s) or Hell(s).
Therefore, death is the minor resurrection and the Day of Judgement is the majorresurrection for the union to the Permanent World with positive acknowledgement (seeing).
6. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who sees the differences in the variety of fruits, metals, and many
other things. He knows that even though the things within each classification outwardly have
the same name, for example, all tree products are called fruits, however, the taste and
quality of each fruit is different. Likewise, all metals are called minerals, but the values of
uranium, platinum, and gold, etc., are distinct, compared to other metals due to their special
qualities and secrets.
The same principle is applicable to globes and galaxies, in comparing the heavens' globes
and galaxies to others; and when considering the soil, the heavens' soil is hundreds of times
more valuable than the unworthy, massive soil of the earth.
7. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who sees the variety in creativity and providence,40 which exist in
different ways. He sees a cycle41 being used therein, yet being weak, he cannot feel with the
inner enlightenment that Exalted and Glorious God is the Creator of this entire Order, and
that He can create in other forms and ways as well. This will be better understood in the
following Epistles.
Soul
We, and the Key to Other World's Truths
In the preface to the chapter on Soul and the corresponding questions, from the outset we
felt the necessity to qualitatively propose two questions with their answers. After studying these
two questions, you will well perceive the truths pertaining to finding the excellence and value of
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Khallaqiyat and Razaqiyat41
The cycle, cyclic order or Interconnecting-Order (Nezam-e Tasalsulee):An example would be WaterCycle, where water starts off as the sea then, by being warmed by the sun it slowly turns in to vaporwhich rise to form clouds. These clouds then travel over the land and when they burst it starts to rain,snow or hail. Most of it then filters down through the hills and rivers until it reaches the sea again. Thereare many other systems working in the same order. Another example would be the earth's productsconsumed by man, and the wastes going back to the earth. Further discussions on this can be found inthe Sixth Goblet by the same author.
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the human Soul, and the high intact position of the Quran and the guidance of the Messenger
of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him.
Hereby, within two items, we present the reasons substantiating the existence of Soul.
Afterwards, we will draw your attention to its essence, and then we will briefly mention sometopics about the attributes, which man has carried along by inheritance from his first parents,
Adam and Eve, peace be upon them. In turn, we would like to talk about heedlessness and
clarify some vices associated with it. Finally, we will draw your attention, God Willing, to matters
concerning the finding of the positive and negative spiritual customs.
1. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the creature who has built a telescope to look at the stars, a microscope to
see the microbes, a voltmeter to measure electric voltage, a thermometer to measure the
temperature, and so forth. He could never make true experiments with the aforementioned
quantities, until he had build the mentioned tools, such as telescope, microscope, various
meters, and thermometers.
Pertaining to the perception, understanding, and observation of the Fourth Dimension,
especially the Nearness to the Sacred Omnipotent Almighty Being, though man thinks of
using only his unworthy, simple, and unrefined brain and heart. The brain and heart that can
be destroyed through only one pill, or get lost in daydreams about a beautiful face, and so
forth. Still, he wants to establish the relationship with the Almighty Creator and Artificer, in
spite of this denseness and abundant laziness.
2. Question: Are the tools for finding the secrets of the Fourth Dimension found within
the person?
Answer: Sure! First: Soul, second: Knowledge (Intellect)42 and third: Heart.
If man fortifies his spiritual power and is always acquiring Insight into God, worshipping Him
Almighty and serving God's creatures for the happiness of His Almighty, then the Ego will be
improved from the stage of Enjoining-unto-Evil43 to the stage of At-Peace.44
Indeed, the Heart will be really filtered out of the "affection for anything other than
Almighty God", and the Soul's True Eye, with its other main attributes, will become active.
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'Ilm ('Aql)43
Ammarah44
Mutma'inna
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There, the person becomes able to observe God's Glory and Perfection45 through the eye
of the inner or Soul.
It is right during this occasion that the person's hand, eye, ear, foot and all his motions
and domination shall belong to His Almighty's particular Hand of Power.The Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, reports from the Almighty
Nourisher in a direct divine transmission.46
"Glorious Godstated: ...The servant makes perseverance in performing volunteer
prayers,47 until, through this, he finds nearness to Me so that I shall make him My
Beloved. Thus, the Signs of My Excellency's Nearness to man are that he hears
through Me, he sees through the power of My Exalted Sight, and grabs with My
Imperceptible Hand, walks with My Particular Power which is not possible for others"
etc.
This servant's disturbance is the Disturbance of God; his happiness would be the fulfilling of
Almighty God's Satisfaction.
"Glorious God stated: Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be
at war with him." etc.48
These servants of God are the true believers49 and have succeeded in finding the real
position of Islam and humanity.
Hence, what the Holy Quran has been trying to teach is this great secret of approach to
Almighty God through the establishment of the relationship of the servant to His Holiness
Almighty Supremacy.
If the main purpose in this trial abode were not the relationship of mankind to Almighty God,
then why would the Holy Quran explain the secrets of Satan's distractions in more than 156
verses? Why would faith and practice in 625 verses synonymously convey the requirements of
practical Islam, and may other similar secrets? Among those secrets for example, why would
the domination of Solomon, peace be upon him, and his companions be mentioned; where they
brought the Throne of Queen of Sheba50 by just a blink of an eye, from the long distances of
more than two months of travel?
Why are similar occurrences mentioned? Take, for example, the following scenarios: a few
birds, cut into pieces and mixed, came back to life and rushed towards Abraham, peace be
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Glory (Jalal) and Perfection (Kamal)46
Hadith Qudsee:Those messages directly conveyed from Glorious God to the Messenger47
Nawafil48
(The complete Hadith can be found on page 104 of the book FORTY HADITH QUDSI, by Imam an-Nawawi). (Hadith Qudsee, Bukharee)49
Mu'mineen50
Queen of Sheba or Belqis (Quran: chapter Al-Naml (the Ant #27), verse #40)
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upon him, when he called them.51 Jesus, peace be upon him, and his companions built
statues out of mud, and the statues came to life; there was a revivification of the dead in their
hands,52and hundreds of other examples.
Why and for what purpose are these occurrences mentioned?Consider the true meaning of what the Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him,
said:
"The practicing religious scholars among my followers are comparable to the
prophets of the Children of Israel."53
What does this mean?
If we understand what secrets and mysteries are contained in this narration, then we will clearly
realize that the practicing and learned believers of this Islamic nationcould also have inner
secrets and masteriespossessed by the prophets of the children of Israel.
While reading these questions you might ask once again; why did Muslims not make any efforts
to perceive and find this fortune?
We cannot deny their efforts; they discovered secrets many times better in terms of
quality and quantity.
There are books, such as Muslim Saints and Mystics54 and some other writings, which
mention the narration and truths about those people who, were devoted to the Truth.
However, the reason why most of our contemporary believers have fallen short in this
search can be accredited to the laziness of our Muslims.
Now, however, through the special Grace of the Glorious Being, the opportunity has arrived
where this fortune can be acquired with a lot of ease and simplicity, and without all kinds of hard
spiritual work or mortification of Ego.55
The easy methods and the short path are only related to the excellent perception and
knowledgeable understanding of the Analysis of Man's Atom56and this is it.
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(Quran: chapter Al-Baqarah (the Cow #2), verse #260).52
(Quran: chapter Al-Imran (the family of 'Imran #3), verse #49)53
This important Hadith can be found in the books of Sheikh Al-Siuti and Sheikh Al-Manawi. SheikhQonawi quotes it in his book of al-BariqaSharhal-Tariqa page 16. It is also mentioned in the books ofTadhkirat ul-awlia' and Mazhar ul-ajaeb wa Mazha by Shaeikh 'Atar.54
Tadhkirat-ul-Awlia: The famous book about short biographies of great Muslim saints written by SheikhFarid uddin Attar in the fifth century A.H (Islamic calendar) translated into English by A.J.Arberry.55
Riyazat56
Tajeziya wa Tahleel-e Atom-e Insan or Analysis of Mans Atom The series of highly advanced booksof Madrasa -i- Tawheed, written by Mawlana Faizani, dealing with detailed explanation of man's spiritualanalysis and solution.
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Praise be to God, the basic teachings and Epistles of this knowledge with all its ultimate
principles, are fully organized, with the help of Great God. They are drafted in accordance with
the current age and modern epoch, with a broad worldview. Hence, they are accessible tothose
interested in the true Islamic movement, so that they can receive them one after the other. Letus hope for the quickest openings in the near future and the gathering of seekers of His
Almighty, on land and in the ocean and even on other globes.
With the Grace of Almighty Generous
Amen! O' Cherisher of the Worlds!
1. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is a creature who accepts the existence of many invisible things within
objects, with the help of mediating tools and instruments, or by observing their activities.
Such invisible things, for example, are the electric currents in electric wires or batteries, or
the sound and pictures in the air, noticeable via radio and television. However, some unwise
people and those who deny the Truth do not accept the existence of the Soul in the body.
2. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the being who accepts the storage of electricity in huge transformers and
giant electric condensers, even though the electricity itself has no heaviness or lightness of
any type which could be regarded as proof of its existence. There are still such deniers
however who greatly deny the existence of the Soulin the body, even though the Souls
existence and activities are settled in the body until the last instant of life. After its departure,
the body, with all its former qualities such as youth, power, and beauty, becomes totally
lifeless.
3. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is the vicegerent of Almighty God on the earth, according to the auspicious
verse of -
"I will create a vicegerent57 on Earth" etc.58
However, blessed by his Soul, the discovering Intellect, and the Ego that may have
reached the station of At-Peace, man's full dominance (statues of vicegerency59) will
indeed prevail over all material and spiritual things.
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Vicegerent or Khalif: Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place ofanother.Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc
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4. Question: Who is man? What is the nobility of man's Soul over the other animates'
Souls?
Answer: This is an undeniable truth that the verse -"I breathed something from My Holiness, called the Soul, into man"etc.,60
is clear evidence of the human spiritual superiority over animals in that Glorious God has
ascribed man's Soul to Himself.
Therefore, blessed by this Soul, and the nobility of Knowledge, man rules over all
existents.
5. Question: Would you please clarify a bit more the superiority of man's Soul!
Answer: Sure! Mans Soul at the beginning, in its natural state, can be equivalent to that of
an angel's and of those residing in that station. After purification, however, it rises with the
energy of the Ego' atom,61 which is not available for the noblest of angels. Therefore, the
Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, deigns the common faithful of mankind
to be superior to those of the common of angels, and the noble faithful of mankind to be
superior to the nobles of the angels.
6. Question: Are there more stations of Soul?
Answer: Truly the Soul is at the level of Jaann62at birth. Thus, the angel associates with the
infant during its suckling period, when its body has not yet reached the proper physical
stature of eye and ear, and the mental stature of alertness and intellect. Most of these
associations can be observed in both the asleep and awake states of the child, when he
reacts to them with laughter or cries in his cradle.
From here on, however, due to some families' bad education or a corrupt society, Ego may
elevate; then Jaannwill be transformed into Human-Soul.63 And if Ego keeps elevating, then
58 Al-Baqarah, S.2., verse 3059
The position, function, or authority of a vicegerent.60
(Al-Hajir, S.15, verse 29)61
Egos atom: The analogy is made with the rocket's ascension, where it needs a particular or at least adifferent fueling system than the regular airplanes travelling only within the earth's atmosphere. For therocket to go beyond the earth's atmosphere, something more powerful or radioactive or probablysomething similar to atomic energy is needed. Similarly Soul, after a certain degree of ascension, needsthe assistance of the at-Peace (Mutma'inna) Ego to head towards the Proximity of Glorious God,otherwise spiritually it always remains within the inferior world's atmosphere due to the impurities of theEnjoining-unto-Evil (Ammarah-bis-Soo) Ego and the Accusing (Lawwama) Ego.62
The third and highest state of Soul63
Human Soul (Rooh-e Insanee) The second and lower level of Soul
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the Human-Soul will be transformed to Animal-Soul.64 Hence, in such a case, man is in
the cloth of humanity; he is, however, worse than wolves or other savage beasts, with all
kinds of deceitful morals, hundreds of times more cunning. Even when this person knows
that he will certainly be departing from this world toward the Permanent World, still, for hisown comfort and pleasure, he makes efforts which cause distress to individuals or society.
On the contrary, he does not pay enough attention to undertaking actions which are fully for
the benefit of social welfare and for the purpose of Almighty God's Happiness, as
recommended in the Islamic intact jurisprudence of the Holy Quran.
7. Question: If man's nobility is due to his Soul, then why have animals, all of which
have Soul, not had this nobility bestowed upon them?
Answer: Man's nobility is not only due to his excellent Human-Soul, rather, it is due to his
God-given exploring Intellect.
We should, however, know so much that man's Soul is not of the same kind as that of
animals, and it cannot remain in that form, unless he leans toward corruption in which case
his Soul is called Animal-Soul or even worse; according to
"But they are more misguided and miserable than beasts, and they are heedless of
practicing upon the truths of the commands of the intact Quran of Islam."65
Even though, in its complete form, the above verse is for identifying those signs, which
describe the unaware believers of men and jinn,66 we mention this portion of it as proof of
what we have said before, and that is it.
8. Question: What is the difference between the Soul of mankind and the Soul of
animals?
Answer: To think of human Soul as similar to that of animal's psyche is a complete mistake,
and it comes from narrow-mindedness. For further clarification, it would be appropriate to
pay attention to the following example in order to compare the real value of man's Soul to
that of animal.
As you know, all mineral substances that have metallic properties are called metal. None,
however, is as valuable as white and yellow gold.
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Animal-Soul (Rooh-e Haywanee): The lowest level of Soul65
(Al-A'raf, S.7, verse 179)66
Creatures of the unseen world, invisible to us
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9. Question: Would you please give another example explaining the difference
between the Soul of mankind and animals!
Answer: Likewise among the stones, other stones are not as precious, nor do they have
such cherished qualities as turquoise, lapis, ruby, and garnet, even though apparently theyare also stones, or from the same class and category of stones.
10. Question: Would you please give another example so that the value of the human
being's Soul can be understood more clearly?
Answer: Likewise, opium and its likeness are from the family of plants and grasses. Do
other plants have the same qualities and values that they have? No, never!
There is also a kind of plant observed along both the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers in
North America which, as an animal touches it, sticks to the animal, and melts and digests
the animal right away.
11. Question: Is it possible to give us one more example please?
Answer: For thousands of years67 there have been stars and planets, but they do not have
the qualities and properties of the solar stars.68 Rather, the properties of other firmaments'
suns are much better, in their essence, than other stars, whereas they are apparently all
spherical, sometimes elliptical, or other forms.
In the same way, the station of mankind's Soul and those of other animals is clear in the
view of wise people.
12. Question: What is the ultimate frontier of man's growth?
Answer: Man is a being who, while bearing limited physical growth, has unlimited growth of
egotistical69 and/or spiritual powers.70 The growth cycle for the egotistical and/or spiritual
powers will continue even after death; in some cases it continues and strives towards
perfection until the day of resurrection.
13. Question: What kind of people are these majestic ones whose inner perfection
continues after death as well?
Answer: They are those majesties who have insured the peace of God's creatures through
the spreading of Monotheism, the establishment of justice, and other good deeds in the light
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some new astronomers have estimated the age of the universe to be about twelve billion years, butthere are always newborn stars, therefore, thousands may cover them all68
all those stars which have similar properties as the sun69
powers associated with Ego
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of Theism. Or, they might have bestowed Sound Children or Continuous Charities71 upon
society; and they might have enlightened people, outwardly and inwardly, through excellent
Islamic teachings.
The founders and promoters of those Continuous Charities and Ongoing Reward
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aregranted their rewards to the extent that God may will, even after death, so long as their
beneficial job lasts. It is given more especially to the doers and promoters of this kind of
effort in the present age.
14. Question: Is there any equal punishment for the founder of evil customs?
Answer: Corrupt actions and unlawful traditions harm individuals or society, instantaneously
or in the long run. These actions may be imitated by successive generations. This,
according to the verses of the holy Quran, is the proof of the evil-mindedness of people who
originated or founded them, and the Hadith states the following about it -
Whosoever introduces a good practice in Islam, there is for him its reward and
the reward of those who act upon it after him, without anything being diminished from
their own rewards [until the day of judgement]. And whosoever introduces an evil
practice in Islam, will shoulder its responsibility and the responsibility of all those
who will act upon it after him, without anything being diminished from their own
responsibilities [until the day of judgement].73
Of course that person is responsible for the equivalent punishment of the number of his
followers. So long as that evil custom lasts, the punishment of the founder keeps increasing
and multiplying. The worst of the evil customs ever to be established are, respectively, the
denial of Almighty God, polytheism, and the like.
This is actually categorized more accurately by the Islamic jurists.
COMMENT
Now, you are informed about the inherent substance of the Soul and a portion of its
authorities. Next, it is necessary to know why human beings, in particular Muslims, have not
appropriately used this super power, possessing all kinds of authorities along with the
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powers associated with Soul71
a good deed, which continuously benefits people and other creatures72
Thawab-e Jaree: an accomplished job which remains as time runs, thus its rewards run as well, suchas building a school, etc.73
(Hadith Muslim)(This Hadith can be found in the chapter Innovator of Doing Desirable Deeds orReverse of the book RIAAD AS-SAALEHIN. Compiled by Imam Yahya bin Sharaf-ud-Din An-Nawawi.)
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battery of faith which man has had from birth. Hence, it has caused all this backwardness.
In answer to this question, you must pay attention to the two main factors of this
carelessness.
First: Since Satan is the obvious enemy of mankind, he is always trying to drive mankind
from the right path into the dungeon of deviation. He does this through any means and
methods. This is according to the commitment he has made and the oath taken in the
Presence of Almighty God.
"Satan said:I swear by Thy Greatness and Glory O! Almighty God! That I will
indeed make them all rebellious and violent."74
Finally, Satan will either cause those actions and obediences of man, which could have
taken him to God's Proximity to deteriorate, or he will deprave them in the form of discrete
polytheism.75
If Satan succeeds, he will try to bring man into total denial of Almighty God's Existence.
As we see, this corrupt and malicious immorality is intensifying in our age through the
cooperators of Satan in a variety of ways and through different tools.
Second: On certain occasions, Soul has made the body impatient and aware of searching
for the Gifts of the Permanent World. The Soul has roared in these occasions and has called
up the person to search for Almighty God and the righteousness. Man is still not facing
these wishes of the Soul. What is the reason?
It is because, from the beginning, the person had not fortified his spiritual power. Ego,
therefore, with the help of Satan, has used these opportunities to draw his attention, like that
of a child, toward this perishing world, instead of making efforts to search for the pleasures
of the Permanent World's favors. Finally, Ego and Satan try to deceive the person here and
there by making use of whichever source, in any possible way.
For this reason, capitalists and people of authority are somewhat uncomfortable,
nostalgic, and more distressed. For gathering the worldly materials through unlawful ways is
deluding man and the Muslim's spirituality.
The fact was mentioned that man's Soul notifies him occasionally to search for the
secrets of Proximity to His Presence and to seek the Favors of the Permanent World. This is
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Sad, S.38, verse 8275
Shirk-e Khafee: A simple and brief definition would be covertly or subconsciously associating partnerswith God, in terms of intention, fear, hope, and reliance etc. For instance, in a good action, where the
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due to Souls having seen that Place and those Favors at the beginning of the creation of
Adam, peace be upon him.
For this reason, man has distress in his inner76 to prompt him to search for that Place
and those Favors, but Satan, using this situation, draws man's attention to the fulfillment ofthe person's proper requirements of Ego. Namely, Satan makes a kind of parallel inversion
and draws man's attention to worldly favors and pleasures. For example, instead of reaching
for the Houris77 and Palaces in the Everlasting Heavens, Satan will make man become
obsessed with looking for women, building apartments, and possessing gardens in this
world. But the difference is enormous. The person will still not find his heart's satisfaction
from these worldly favors; that is, if he ever acquires them.
Hereby, we will explain some of the spiritual characteristics of the Heavenly World,
which have journeyed with man to this world. These qualities always create an inner
discomfort for man to obtain them. Ego and Satan make a variety of uses out of these
situations. They draw man's attention towards gathering worldly property and wealth through
let alone legitimate as well as, often, illegitimate ways. By these means, Ego and Satan
bring man under their control and domination. These kinds of people are namely human
beings in appearance, but savage wolves in spirit.
Some of the Signs of the Heavens in Mankind
1. Question: Who is man?
Answer: Man is a being who has a natural and inherent love of leadership, flying, and being
on water. He like to ride animals, such as horses, camels, and so forth, and to ride in
vehicles, such as motorcycles, cars, airplanes, and the like. He is fond of a vast array of
foods, drinks, and clothes. He is fond of music and songs. He covets huge gardens and
orchards and has a penchant for the best and highest possible apartments and castles. He
wishes to be everywhere with his spouse. Also he has a tendency to seek out different
natural landscapes so that he might enjoy them as well.These, along with other inherently developed perceptions which are carried by him, are all
transferred in essence to him from his father ancestor Adam, peace be upon him.
The reason behind all this is that all future offspring of Adam, peace be upon him, existed in
a special reservoir within Adam's body while he was in Paradise. They, too, were benefiting
intention is something other than His Almighty's happiness, such as fame, authority, and other personalgains.76
Baatin77
Lady companions for the dwellers of Paradise
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6. Question: Could you elucidate the previous question a bit more?
Answer: Basically, the young and handsome generations of the Holies79 were busy serving
Adam, peace be upon him, in Paradise. Pertaining to this nucleus, his children are also
naturally interested in having this authority in receiving and giving service to the samespecies.
7. Question: What other additional secrets and wisdom would be behind this?
Answer: Some heedless and mean people of this world will have inferior positions in the
Everlasting World, due to their nonsensical past deeds. Some of them will even beg to be
among the servants and devotees of the noble people, because they would be saved from
torture by the intercession of these noble people.
8. Question: Why does man want to use various inner means, the effect of God's
Names,80 the verses of the Holy Quran, and so forth, besides the physical tools and
the power that he already has, in order for his commands and desires to be fulfilled
and to miraculously acquire the things he wants?
Answer: Because the commands of his ancestors Adam and Eve, peace be upon them,
were carried out not just by the paradise Houris and Ghulman and other Cherubim, but also,
by using some secrets of God's Names. At the moment that the Heart longed for something
in Paradise, that thing was instantaneously within their grasp due to the blessings of reciting
God's names.
9. Question: Why does man want his commands to be executed as influentially and
promptly as possible?
Answer: Because the commands of his ancestor Adam, peace be upon him, were enforced
and possible to be fulfilled immediately. Having inherited this attribute, man pays as much
attention to the execution of his desires as to their fulfillment. Also relating to his nature
according to -
"man is created in haste, namely having qualities such as rashness and quickness"81
man, by essen