If "Only Allah", then "Allah Alone" is our watchword
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What we need to do is to realize that we can achieve NOTHING without Allah's leave. We cannot attribute our success in school to ourselves, we cannot attribute our relationship success to ourselves etc etc, because Allah gave us our brains and capacities for studying, out ability to learn reading. Allah gave us social competence so that we could get along in a relationship. EVERYTHING is thanks to Allah. But if I break a bone, then I will not be thankless to Allah by refusing the doctor who can set the bones in alignment so that the body then nicely can heal it as per Allah's system of life. Allah can act through doctors. What the doctors do to us, depends totally on what we as patients have to learn in life. What happens to us is between us and Allah. Our life and circumstances is OURS. We all have our own worlds and our job is to work our way back to Allah by increasing our understanding and vision of truth and reality.
So, actually I too agree with what dr fazl says, as a concept and idea, but I think we need to ponder how this idea should be expressed in practical life.
Peace dear friends!
Peace dear friend
May I add one exception, 4164;........... And Allah spoke to Moses with speech.
ALLAAH does not talk/help us directly. It has been always through His agents.
4165 messengers as bringers of good tidings and warners so that mankind will have no argument against Allah after the messengers. And ever is Allah Exalted in Might and Wise.Peace
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May I add one exception, 4164;........... And Allah spoke to Moses with speech.
Salaam!
I wonder what ' speech' means here. Did some vocal cords and oral cavity materialize in the surrounding nature to allow for audible speech to come forth, or did he hear spoken words in his head. I could imagine that he heard audible speech in his mind... but I would not think that the speech was audible in the air around him.
But that's just me.All the best!
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Salaam!
I wonder what ' speech' means here. Did some vocal cords and oral cavity materialize in the surrounding nature to allow for audible speech to come forth, or did he hear spoken words in his head. I could imagine that he heard audible speech in his mind... but I would not think that the speech was audible in the air around him.
But that's just me.All the best!
salaam
Exactly, that is for us to find out from al-kitaab insha allaah.
All the best to you insha allaah
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There was a man that suffered shipwreck, so he prayed to God to save him. A fishing boat came and wanted to pick him up, but the man refused saying that God will save him. A cargo vessel came to aid him, but he refused with the explanation that God would save him. The man drowned, and upon entering the afterlife he asked God why He didn't save him. God said "I sent you two boats to save you, but you refused my help... that's why you drowned."
The moral of the story, Allah works through natural laws and the creation... not through imagined magic and miracles.
Peace dear friends!
If Allah works through natural laws of creation, can you describe the laws of creation? And the nature's Laws? And then also explain based on such Laws, how when prophet Musa was pushed close to the sea, it cleaved into two mountainous parts with a dry land in between for Musa and the believers to cross across?
"Allah is Needless, Absolute."
"All He has to say to a thing is 'BE' and it is!" Only Allah knows what His creation is
"And naught is what man is given of the wisdom."The scientists narration of laws and creation of nature are just Big-bangs which they would themselves negate soon after they theorise their ideas and concepts.
Salam
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Peace,
You were both right.
God intervenes according to His will, one time it can be like zulf's story and another time through a clear miracle. We must keep all our senses open, God's help can be through another human being, as well as minor manipulations of the physical world we live in. Most of the time God's help is subtle, but can be extensive as in the case when God opened the Sea for Moses. That was to be a prominent sign of God's might.
Nothing is impossible to God, He controls every atom of the world.
God bless you
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Peace Zulf
We must also ponder the " Shipwreck" allegory?
Is that from man or from God?
God will never break His promise.
Also, according to laws of physics, can someone exlplain the Resurrection?
God is the One who created you. He is the One who provides for you. He is the One who puts you to death. He is the One who resurrects you. Can any of your idols do any of these things? Be He glorified. He is much too exalted to have any partners.
May be someone else will come along, after I die , offering to resurrect me and I will not recognise the sign, hence I will not be resurrected also?
Peace
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What we need to do is to realize that we can achieve NOTHING without Allah's leave. We cannot attribute our success in school to ourselves, we cannot attribute our relationship success to ourselves etc etc, because Allah gave us our brains and capacities for studying, out ability to learn reading. Allah gave us social competence so that we could get along in a relationship. EVERYTHING is thanks to Allah.
Peace dear friends!
Regarding studies and education they have to keep improving, innovating and inventing until the world ends. The knowledge thus is forever justifiably substandard; but Allah is Most Wise, All-Knowing, Absolute, Astute, Creator, Sustainer, Bringer of Death from the living; and the living from the dead. And here is the word of Allah All that you possess, your efforts including your knowledge will be in vain. And what is with Allah will be lasting. Allah gave us the knowledge only to know clearly that our knowledge is insufficient, ignorant and thus it is 'semi' at any point of time.
You go to the doctors; they diagnose you to be suffering from terminal cancer and their ignorant medical super speciality says you will die in 3 months. We know now they are not the ones who shall possess the wisdom of bringing the life from the dead. We shun these ignorants and turn to God, the Most Able, Wise.
Allah created nature; and He is The God of all nature. God taught man, he is superior to all created things. Thus while man himself is a super natural one by the leave of God, can you just get a glimpse of an imagination as to who God, Allah, The Almighty is! Should He work through nature which by The Truth is inferior even to man? Allah directly deals with man communicating to Him. And man shall act above nature i.e. super naturally by His leave which He promises to His bondsmen.
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Peace Zulf
God is the One who created you. He is the One who provides for you. He is the One who puts you to death. He is the One who resurrects you. Can any of your idols do any of these things? Be He glorified. He is much too exalted to have any partners.
Peace
Can any of your idols The men, the matters and the material knowledge
What a watchword the above is! Those are the words that lifts and levitates us up from the idol worshiping that pulls us down with their gravitational theories.
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We must also ponder the " Shipwreck" allegory?
Those who wish may ponder it. The moral was to not be blind to Allah's blessings and help in everyday situations.
Is that from man or from God?
You mean those specific words? They are my words, relating a story I heard, so it's not God's direct word if anyone wonders.
God will never break His promise.
True
Also, according to laws of physics, can someone exlplain the Resurrection?
I don't know. I don't think so. At least I cannot.
God is the One who created you. He is the One who provides for you. He is the One who puts you to death. He is the One who resurrects you. Can any of your idols do any of these things? Be He glorified. He is much too exalted to have any partners.
May be someone else will come along, after I die , offering to resurrect me and I will not recognise the sign, hence I will not be resurrected also?
?? What ?
Peace bro
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Regarding studies and education they have to keep improving, innovating and inventing until the world ends. The knowledge thus is forever justifiably substandard; but Allah is Most Wise, All-Knowing, Absolute, Astute, Creator, Sustainer, Bringer of Death from the living; and the living from the dead. And here is the word of Allah All that you possess, your efforts including your knowledge will be in vain. And what is with Allah will be lasting. Allah gave us the knowledge only to know clearly that our knowledge is insufficient, ignorant and thus it is 'semi' at any point of time.
True, I believe so too
You go to the doctors; they diagnose you to be suffering from terminal cancer and their ignorant medical super speciality says you will die in 3 months. We know now they are not the ones who shall possess the wisdom of bringing the life from the dead. We shun these ignorants and turn to God, the Most Able, Wise.
Yes, the medical professionals are often very ignorant, and they very often take no heed of God. They often work by guessing. Of course, they can achieve nothing that Allah has not approved. If they are able to change something in the body that results in the body healing itself, it is all the same Allah blessing and power doing this.
Allah created nature; and He is The God of all nature. God taught man, he is superior to all created things. Thus while man himself is a super natural one by the leave of God, can you just get a glimpse of an imagination as to who God, Allah, The Almighty is! Should He work through nature which by The Truth is inferior even to man? Allah directly deals with man communicating to Him. And man shall act above nature i.e. super naturally by His leave which He promises to His bondsmen.
I think like this All of creation is real, and so it is natural. I cannot see why any of Allah's creation would be unnatural, or more than natural. I guess it depends on what we define 'natural' and 'nature' as. Perhaps 'that which natural scientists agree exists'.
In any case, nature, creation, is all we have... that's what we can comprehend to some extent. We cannot comprehend anything beyond Creation. That's why we cannot comprehend Allah.
How can we say that man in superior to nature? Man is part of nature, bound by the same laws like anything else. In addition we have free will and so on, but we are still bound by the laws of nature and creation. Had we been superior to nature, we would be have been able to change it's laws. We cannot. Perhaps we think we can rule nature and all other creatures, but man in over confident and arrogant, as described in the quran, and evident through history.I agree that Allah can communicate with anyone as per "his" leave.
All is law, Allah's law. If there is something that seems to be supernatural or above nature, it is so just because we don't understand Allah's laws fully. Some people e.g. would reject things such as acupuncture, qigong, reiki and auras as pseudoscience and fantasies. Anything real, whether people in general are able to sense or comprehend how it works or not, is still real. It follows law. If things won't follow law, they'd be irrational. Personally I don't think of Allah or "his" creation as irrational. It is only that some things we understand, and some things we don't.
Again I think it is a matter of definitions.
In any case... all praise to Allah
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Can any of your idols The men, the matters and the material knowledge
What a watchword the above is! Those are the words that lifts and levitates us up from the idol worshiping that pulls us down with their gravitational theories.
This is interesting. What make 'men, matters and knowledge' into idols?
I'd like to get to know your ideas better, to prevent any misunderstanding on my part.Peace brother
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All good things happen from Allah alone but all bad things befall us only from what our own hands have wrought. Our planning for the future, our activities and work are based essentially upon the limited knowledge we have experienced through our physical sensations and upon our abilities based on it and put in our efforts with brute tolerance. With all these rudimentary efforts we set our eyes upon ultimately the money, our only goal.
There is another ability within every individual, 'the power of the soul' in the heart of hearts by which we wish for or mindfully and prayerfully reflect upon every subjective feeling placed in it as the 'need of the hour'. For example, the need of the hour is that we shall not suffer from any evil whatsoever from diseases to poverty; nor suffer from servitude; nor ourselves becoming aggressive and atrocious against the common man. There are these subjective warnings in our hearts that we shall not lie; backbite; dishonor the word given to; nor suspect; nor be proud; never rejoice over what you have gained materially; nor shall you grieve over what have lost from you; never fear nor worry for by all odds your savior is God.
He created for us the heavens and the earth and made them subservient to us so that we perch upon the Arsh, by His Leave. Until such time you gain it, He rules the roost; He blesses us just not the skies and the earth but His word is that He would make us inherit even the heavens of the world after! To be a believer of this order - we cannot believe in the knowledge of the physical sensations, experiences, explorations of the objective celestial bodies; and shun from our hearts the men, matters and materials as our needs.
God has created us as individuals looking up to Him with gratitude, in every breath of us. It is mandatory on us for us to believe and live as an individual and return unto Him on the hour determined for us, all alone, in the way He created us. If Allah alone is our creator, He alone is the nourisher, the sustainer, the savior, the enricher and the designer of our future - then only Allah and none else besides Him. This is the life of 'no - association - to - God'. These are the believers, the victorious in this world and in the world after.
.Beautiful!
Some remarks We may rejoice of material gains, as long as we do so by praising and thanking Allah and knowing fully that the same material gains are worthless in the real sense. But money can be a blessing from Allah in e.g. that it may buy us more free time in which we may develop ourselves and our connection with Allah further.
Evil, what is evil? Evil, I believe is something that takes us away from Allah. Therefore, disease and poverty may act as blessings, if we can turn those things into something, like wake up calls, that brings us closer to Allah.
Salaam!
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Shun the Jama'at if we fear 'The Day of Judgement'
Allah created us singly and we have to lead our lives by the Guidance within and each shall live as a discrete individual and then we are to return unto him singly in the way we were created and delivered into this universal noumenon. We will be questioned and judged individually and not as groups or jama'ats, the individuals of which are dependent on each other. The individuals belong to any group with their collective living feel independent of God himself. This is crime enough to be thrown into hell en masse. We cease to be an element of any group or member of a band of collective people, say, Jama'ats.
.Beautiful and very thought-worthy. People often hide behind groups, forgetting reality. Indeed, we are totally alone in this world, responsible for only ourselves... but many of us forget that we are actually responsible for ourselves. People love to blame things on anything except themselves.
Peace!
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I think like this All of creation is real, and so it is natural. I cannot see why any of Allah's creation would be unnatural, or more than natural. I guess it depends on what we define 'natural' and 'nature' as. Perhaps 'that which natural scientists agree exists'.
All nature is the same by creation in that when God intends a thing to be all that He says to it is 'Be' and it is! What is natural now is
God creates what He intends
As Creator He never stops creating
And He never copies His own creation
And thus no creation is the same as the other though they might seem alikeWhat we know is our knowledge, limited;
What we do not know is what is beyond our comprehension
'Nature' is what we know of-
'Natural' is the unending process of creation we know not.In any case, nature, creation, is all we have... that's what we can comprehend to some extent. We cannot comprehend anything beyond Creation. That's why we cannot comprehend Allah.
We know there is 'mind' in us though we cannot comprehend as to where it is; likewise we know for sure there is God with us, though we are not able to comprehend where He is; yet God is All-Knowing and makes us know for sure there is God and admoinshes us 'Be mindful of God!' Knowing and accepting what is beyond our comprehension is the 'natural' starting point of the Wisdom of Allah, dawning upon us.
How can we say that man in superior to nature? Man is part of nature, bound by the same laws like anything else. In addition we have free will and so on, but we are still bound by the laws of nature and creation. Had we been superior to nature, we would have been able to change it's laws. We cannot. Perhaps we think we can rule nature and all other creatures, but man in over confident and arrogant, as described in the quran, and evident through history.
It is true that the creation will ever be going on, nonstop because if the creator stops creating, the creation is dead and the Creator is no more. But it is not true. He brings the life from the land that is dead is a perfect example to His endless, ongoing creation. Yet the law of nature which we have postulated so arrogantly is fixed as death from the living and no life or resurrection after the death. But there is resurrection after the death and it will not be the same as before for, naturally there are no fixed laws as the mortal men on the earth comprehend - with reference to creation-death-all new creations of varyingly new orders. Allah says you know not; Allah Knows.
All is law, Allah's law. If there is something that seems to be supernatural or above nature, it is so just because we don't understand Allah's laws fully. Anything real, whether people in general are able to sense or comprehend how it works or not, is still real. It follows law. If things won't follow law, they'd be irrational. Personally I don't think of Allah or "his" creation as irrational. It is only that some things we understand, and some things we don't.
Again I think it is a matter of definitions.
We stop from fixing and defining; moving and extending within the material ambience of our physics' intellectual capacity.
In any case... all praise to Allah
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This is interesting. What make 'men, matters and knowledge' into idols?
I'd like to get to know your ideas better, to prevent any misunderstanding on my part.Peace brother
Idol means falsehood, deaf, dumb and blind men matters and their knowledge would die, would decay, and would be obsolete and irrelevant as days passby. All men's utterances would be outdated and far removed from the Truth time and again, each time ringing death knell to their knowledge teaching their conscience louder, stronger and clear as the creation keeps going beyond man's all the wildest hypotheses all-along. The Truth of Natural process is ever living, ever changing, ever bifurcating, ever anew, never ending. Man would die, and man would die and would continue to die and the new generations would spring up and they would not be like the ones created before them. That is the difference between man, matter and their materials on the one side and THE TRUTH on the other.
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201 Ta Ha The Initials of Allah
Allah has stamped His initials before the chapter starts.Ta Tahir - The Most Pure
Ha Hudha - The Guide.Allah Gives His Guidance to him who strives to be Pure.
Here is The Guidance from the Most Pure.202 We have not sent down this Quran unto you to cause difficulty.
People generally feel Quran is difficult to understand and even more so to put whatever they had understood into practice. Allah says He would Guide those who strive to be pure in their heart without recourse to evil ways; and make them course through any demanding situation in the easiest possible manner to the hardest way according to the efforts each one has put to stay pure for Allah without associating partners to Him. If you ask for explanation to an ayat only from Him, the answer comes from your own natural self. Now it is easy for you to practice the ayats in your day to day life. But when an explanation to any particular ayat is got from someone else, know for sure it is not from your own self but from another man's nature which is suitable only for his nature to put it into practice and surely it is the hardest guidance for you for reason it is not your self.
Quran's ayats are suitable for all times, for all men, for all situations, to each person, for all good purposes, and for all persons during each one's varying moods. Thus every ayat is highly individualised to every person throughout his life in his varying moods and situations. Only Allah knows how to deal with such of one's each situation, throughout his life. And hence, seek the guidance from Allah direct, when you recite on ayat, since Allah sends down the revelation to one and all from each one's own natural self which alone shall be easy for a person to practice, individually, all his life. Thus if there are 7 billion people in the world, any single ayat will give 7 billion different variants of a revelation by the moment, and yet, each variant shall not contradict the principal revelation of an ayat. In this way even if the whole sea could be ink and seven more seas are added to it still they would dry up before Allah's words to any single ayat could be completed.
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People generally feel Quran is difficult to understand and even more so to put whatever they had understood into practice. Allah says He would Guide those who strive to be pure in their heart without recourse to evil ways; and make them course through any demanding situation in the easiest possible manner to the hardest way according to the efforts each one has put to stay pure for Allah without associating partners to Him. If you ask for explanation to an ayat only from Him, the answer comes from your own natural self. Now it is easy for you to practice the ayats in your day to day life. But when an explanation to any particular ayat is got from someone else, know for sure it is not from your own self but from another man's nature which is suitable only for his nature to put it into practice and surely it is the hardest guidance for you for reason it is not your self.
Quran's ayats are suitable for all times, for all men, for all situations, to each person, for all good purposes, and for all persons during each one's varying moods. Thus every ayat is highly individualised to every person throughout his life in his varying moods and situations. Only Allah knows how to deal with such of one's each situation, throughout his life. And hence, seek the guidance from Allah direct, when you recite on ayat, since Allah sends down the revelation to one and all from each one's own natural self which alone shall be easy for a person to practice, individually, all his life. Thus if there are 7 billion people in the world, any single ayat will give 7 billion different variants of a revelation by the moment, and yet, each variant shall not contradict the principal revelation of an ayat. In this way even if the whole sea could be ink and seven more seas are added to it still they would dry up before Allah's words to any single ayat could be completed.
Mashallah! I seldom read such wise words! Beautiful!
bravo