On intuition and false prophets
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Greetings hicham,
Of course our (finite) existence on earth is a test!
What the people wish to know is why are we being tested in the first place.
Because the Sustainer likes to grow a kind of "super-race".
There is a reason why the Sustainer uses the parable with seeds that are put into the soil for cultivation and then the best are to be saved. And the choking weeds are the worldly temptations themselves.
Quran (720 and/or 20120) says otherwise!
In a sectarian interpretation, yes!
It rarely has any connection to reality but just some clergymen who sat down trying their best to make their doctrine fit into a context they did not really understand.
The real story is on collision course with that. The Sustainer made the new spirit, based on the Sustainer, enter into the body and as a test environment and told them to not to "know" the World, i.e. indulge in it. But the instinctive drive (what you call shaytaan) tempted them and they failed to uphold what the Sustainer said and indulged nevertheless. But the humans are born with this shaytaan in them and it is not a separate entity or person. Adam was exposed to a cycle of gehennom in the parable because of his sin (the body was renewed), but the original tale has been poorly interpreted by later generations and the original tale from the Genesis probably needs a reinterpretation too. And shaytaan was fabricated as a separate being while it was in the flesh itself. And know that the story of Genesis was a parable itself just like the Sustainer seems to have humor in making a parable of everything through the prophets.
That is why I have said that the body was made to deceive.
Each procreated soul from a father and a mother is a child soul just like Adam's soul was the child of the Sustainer. But, one has to separate the soul from the flesh, because the Sustainer is not the Father of the dead but of the living.
I beg to differ.
To me, the body is not a "trap," nor the "enemy"!
My body is a vehicle/apparatus (assigned to me, a "spermatozoid," to use) ...
You can use it as a tool to do the best of the situation, but you are yet trapped inside that vehicle and your primary goal is to be freed from it rather than the recurring Gehennom.
To my knowledge, Quranic RB (ب doesn't mean "sustainer" ,
but Master, Chief, or simply Superior .Okay. I respect your opinion.
But the morphological meaning of Rabb is to supply something, permanently, unconditionally per the word's literal meaning. That is no one but the Sustainer can be Rabb since they do not fill the prerequisites and are themselves sustained. Rabb refers to the fact it upholds the world, visible or invisible. It could also be translated as 'Platform'. That also has etymological backup from ancient lexicons. And here you have English definitions for platform and sustain. It is important to realize that in the Semitic languages words are always spiritually descriptive in what is their meaning so Sustain-er is not very strange since the Rabb upholds the world. But it does not have any image of anything so one cannot really substantiate it and that is the danger.
platform / pl?tfrm / W3 noun
2 STRUCTURE a tall structure built so that people can stand or work above the surrounding area
5 SUPPORT something that gives you the support, help, power etc. that you need to do somethingsustain / ssten / Ac W3 verb
1 MAKE SOMETHING CONTINUE formal
to make something continue over a period of time SYN maintain
2 sustain damage/injury/defeat etc. formal to be damaged, hurt, defeated etc.
3 FOOD/WATER to provide enough food, water etc. for people to stay alive
4 GIVE STRENGTH to make it possible for someone to stay strong or hopeful
5 WEIGHT formal to hold up the weight of something SYN supportSource Longman Advanced American Dictionary (with removed irrelevant definitions)
Be well
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Hey guys,
Just dropping in to give my own opinion. For one thing, from what I am seeing, people in general seem to have quite a limited idea about sex and sexual desires. A lot of people in particular tend to put sex under either lust, or under pleasure that can be used in any way one wants. Both are two extremes I think.
I agree that the sexual desire is something extremely powerful. And if channeled in a more inappropriate or un-wholesome fashion, can consume and make us suck into the labyrinth of the world and the temporary glitter associated with it, before we realize that we now feel empty and somewhat devoid of the God spirit within us, hence creating a cloudier connection with the Source.
But that doesn't mean the sexual desire is to be demonized, because if people channel the desire properly (something which I am still learning on, on how to), then it can be a wonderful experience, which can even accelerate our spiritual awakening, make us more in touch with our sense of humanity, and on our true inner instincts. And that too in a more pleasurable way lol. This is particularly so when it is with another human being, where both the partners have a deep sense of caring, understanding and love between them, and can somewhat put aside their emotional walls and resistance to the other, which makes the experience more wholesome. A number of couples practise tantric sex too (which I personally plan to explore with the right person in the future. I hope that wasn't a lot of information lol).
For some reason religious people seem to be averse to the idea of a lot of pleasure, because they immediately associate it with being "fleshly" instead of "from the spirit". I disagree that being from the spirit can mostly include normal or struggling experiences or something. This is immediately saying that with the very right person, God doesn't want you to explore with them and fully enjoy the experience of sex and being in touch with one's sense of humanity.
I do think though that since the matter of sexual desires is a heavy topic, it needs to be broached carefully and with some degree of precautions to people. Because this type of experience can either bring us up or shoot us down. This gift from God I believe with its pros, has its list of cons as well, which can be deadly if not paid good and cautious attention to.
If people find it good and beneficial to keep separate from it or control it while growing in the spirit, all the good for them, and I believe is a healthy route too, if kept under good control, because it's misuse can reflect in one's eyes at times too, and can be very distracting, especially if developing into some form of addiction or unhealthy behavior, or clouding one's connection with God in the heart and mind. If not, then such people need to find out how best to channel this desire in a safe, spiritual, and good way where possible. I don't think people who channel their desires in such a way are any less better than those who choose to abstain from the desires. Listing down one's do's and don't in this area, and what they are comfortable with and what not, is also something important.
Peace.
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Putting sex under the label of procreation, where one simply acts as a vehicle to release certain fluids in order to make procreation successful, is a very narrow way of seeing sex. If some people choose to be that way, thats okay for them. They should discuss this out with a potential partner beforehand though. I wonder if sex was really that way, why there has to be the pleasure factor attached to it, and even a solely pleasure organ for women (the clitoris) that is separate from the main sexual organ. And why people feel so in touch with their sense of humanity through it, and feels the bond with their partner solidifying through it as well then. So yeah, calling sex simply for procreation is stupid.
Not to mention a vast number of babies are born unplanned, which means there would be a lot less humans if we simply had "sex for procreation" without the pleasure factor lol. Although with the rising number of types of contraception, this number is getting lesser (but obviously not disappearing, because many people tend to also have sex for pleasure without contraception for some reason).
Peace.
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Sex is also a major reason why people choose to get married as well, besides the need for emotional connection, growing together in life purpose, and other host of benefits that marriage brings, whether the couple decides to have kids or not. Without sex for pleasure, marriage would become more like a societal institution that is necessary to keep the latter generations coming, or to increase family ties between two families, or whatever it may be. Which is why the pleasure and comfort concept that we associate when sexually close to another person is very important (whether it involves the act or not) and has a host of benefits to it. Also isn't sexual attraction the type of attraction that we associate with when we find a person of the other gender attractive enough for us to be with them?
Once again, if someone chooses celibacy, being single, or abstaining from sexual desires as preferred for them, whether for a time being or for a lifetime,. that is perfectly alright as well, and can be another path to living a life of fullness too.
Peace.
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I am late, but watched the video. Its all true, but it does take time to learn it all. I must still say that sometimes the truth can be so hurtful that its better to stay away from it for the sake of sustaining life. Same of course can be spoken about the false. This world is a weird maze.
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I am late, but watched the video. Its all true, but it does take time to learn it all. I must still say that sometimes the truth can be so hurtful that its better to stay away from it for the sake of sustaining life. Same of course can be spoken about the false. This world is a weird maze.
I very much agree. We are frail human beings after all.
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Hello Samira,
I am disappointed, but I accept your opinion.
You still miss the purpose why we are here and in these bodies. It is a deception and the only way to get out of the body instead of Gehennom is separation, "separation of the spirit from the flesh".
Nevertheless, sex with someone you have married is not forbidden, but manifestly being a primate is dangerous. To have a family and children is part of the "game", but we must guard ourselves every minute for the impulse of satan. The more careful and mindful you are the better. However, if it becomes a habit there is not very much distraction to live like Being (Allah) and you will feel very powerful (because the "Door" opens), and eventually you will be a ruler as well and free of your awkward body, but you perhaps revere it?
We are not here to enjoy the world, even if entertainment is not forbidden and I have even seen the Sustainer have more humor than in the sectarian interpretation of Quran. It is a little like schizophrenia, where you have a conflict between two personalities; the spirit that is an image of the Sustainer and the body which is made from energy and is highly deceptive because it is basically a primate. The body clouds the spirit when it takes precedence and this is what a person must fight to prevent. If you tried the life I am propagating you would see.
Be well
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I am sorry MoF for disappointing you, but I felt I still needed to voice my opinion.
You say this
Nevertheless, sex with someone you have married is not forbidden
But the you also said this
but manifestly being a primate is dangerous
You still miss the purpose why we are here and in these bodies. It is a deception and the only way to GET out of the body instead of Gehennom is separation, "separation of the spirit from the flesh".
In other words you seem somewhat disappointed that the Quran does not explicitly forbid sex for pleasure (if it was forbidden, female and male genital mutilation would be totally justified). Thats why you seem to fill in with your words to make it sound that sex for pleasure would land you in Gehennom. And you are probably against birth control as well, seeing the emphasis on family alongside sex. I am just saying, I am sorry if I sound offensive in any way.
What is wrong with sex with full pleasure with a partner with whom you share love, compassion, security and understanding? And particularly if with a committed lifelong partner? Or, ahem, if you dont mind me saying, some self exploration to understand better how our body works and how to relax and achieve pleasure? These, especially the last point, should of course be treaded on cautiously, lest one does not end up being sucked in the labyrinth of the world and end up feeling empty and distant from the Source, and also somewhat damaged and insecure inside, instead of the other way around. So individually there are multiple ways of figuring out how this area of life applies to them.
We are not here to enjoy the world
Um, this point needs to be treaded on cautiously as well. I am still figuring things out, so I cannot comment for now properly on it.
Peace.
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Nevertheless, sex with someone you have married is not forbidden
Well, if sex with someone we married was forbidden, we people wouldn't even be here on this forum in the first place. Our main topic of discussion here is fulfilling sexual desires for pleasure versus for procreation only.
Peace.
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Well, if sex with someone we married was forbidden, we people wouldn't even be here on this forum in the first place. Our main topic of discussion here is fulfilling sexual desires for pleasure versus for procreation only.
Peace.
The mainstream versions of the Qur'an seem to describe a situation where sexual intercourse for pleasure exists rather than for procreation only.
It describes spouses as a mutual comfort and garments for one another, and talks about having intercourse with your wives with no implication of children related to it, such as the permission to have sexual intercourse during Ramadan.
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Of course our (finite) existence on earth is a test!
What the people wish to know is why are we being tested in the first place.
Because the "Sustainer" likes to grow a kind of "super-race".
Gibberish,
In a sectarian interpretation, yes!
It rarely has any connection to reality but just some clergymen who sat down trying their best to make their doctrine fit into a context they did not really understand.
The real story is on collision course with that. The Sustainer made the new spirit, based on the Sustainer, enter into the body and as a test environment and told them to not to "know" the World, i.e. indulge in it. But the instinctive drive (what you call shaytaan) tempted them and they failed to uphold what the Sustainer said and indulged nevertheless. But the humans are born with this shaytaan in them and it is not a separate entity or person. Adam was exposed to a cycle of gehennom in the parable because of his sin (the body was renewed), but the original tale has been poorly interpreted by later generations and the original tale from the Genesis probably needs a reinterpretation too. And shaytaan was fabricated as a separate being while it was in the flesh itself. And know that the story of Genesis was a parable itself just like the Sustainer seems to have humor in making a parable of everything through the prophets.
That is why I have said that the body was made to deceive.
Each procreated soul from a father and a mother is a child soul just like Adam's soul was the child of the Sustainer. But, one has to separate the soul from the flesh, because the Sustainer is not the Father of the dead but of the living.
You can use it as a tool to do the best of the situation, but you are yet trapped inside that vehicle and your primary goal is to be freed from it rather than the recurring Gehennom.
Okay. I respect your opinion.
But the morphological meaning of Rabb is to supply something, permanently, unconditionally per the word's literal meaning. That is no one but the Sustainer can be Rabb since they do not fill the prerequisites and are themselves sustained. Rabb refers to the fact it upholds the world, visible or invisible. It could also be translated as 'Platform'. That also has etymological backup from ancient lexicons. And here you have English definitions for platform and sustain. It is important to realize that in the Semitic languages words are always spiritually descriptive in what is their meaning so Sustain-er is not very strange since the Rabb upholds the world. But it does not have any image of anything so one cannot really substantiate it and that is the danger.
platform / pl?tfrm / W3 noun
2 STRUCTURE a tall structure built so that people can stand or work above the surrounding area
5 SUPPORT something that gives you the support, help, power etc. that you need to do somethingsustain / ssten / Ac W3 verb
1 MAKE SOMETHING CONTINUE formal
to make something continue over a period of time SYN maintain
2 sustain damage/injury/defeat etc. formal to be damaged, hurt, defeated etc.
3 FOOD/WATER to provide enough food, water etc. for people to stay alive
4 GIVE STRENGTH to make it possible for someone to stay strong or hopeful
5 WEIGHT formal to hold up the weight of something SYN supportSource Longman Advanced American Dictionary (with removed irrelevant definitions)
all of it.
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Gibberish,
In a sectarian interpretation, yes!
It rarely has any connection to reality but just some clergymen who sat down trying their best to make their doctrine fit into a context they did not really understand.
The real story is on collision course with that. The Sustainer made the new spirit, based on the Sustainer, enter into the body and as a test environment and told them to not to "know" the World, i.e. indulge in it. But the instinctive drive (what you call shaytaan) tempted them and they failed to uphold what the Sustainer said and indulged nevertheless. But the humans are born with this shaytaan in them and it is not a separate entity or person. Adam was exposed to a cycle of gehennom in the parable because of his sin (the body was renewed), but the original tale has been poorly interpreted by later generations and the original tale from the Genesis probably needs a reinterpretation too. And shaytaan was fabricated as a separate being while it was in the flesh itself. And know that the story of Genesis was a parable itself just like the Sustainer seems to have humor in making a parable of everything through the prophets.
That is why I have said that the body was made to deceive.
Each procreated soul from a father and a mother is a child soul just like Adam's soul was the child of the Sustainer. But, one has to separate the soul from the flesh, because the Sustainer is not the Father of the dead but of the living.
You can use it as a tool to do the best of the situation, but you are yet trapped inside that vehicle and your primary goal is to be freed from it rather than the recurring Gehennom.
Okay. I respect your opinion.
But the morphological meaning of Rabb is to supply something, permanently, unconditionally per the word's literal meaning. That is no one but the Sustainer can be Rabb since they do not fill the prerequisites and are themselves sustained. Rabb refers to the fact it upholds the world, visible or invisible. It could also be translated as 'Platform'. That also has etymological backup from ancient lexicons. And here you have English definitions for platform and sustain. It is important to realize that in the Semitic languages words are always spiritually descriptive in what is their meaning so Sustain-er is not very strange since the Rabb upholds the world. But it does not have any image of anything so one cannot really substantiate it and that is the danger.
platform / pl?tfrm / W3 noun
2 STRUCTURE a tall structure built so that people can stand or work above the surrounding area
5 SUPPORT something that gives you the support, help, power etc. that you need to do somethingsustain / ssten / Ac W3 verb
1 MAKE SOMETHING CONTINUE formal
to make something continue over a period of time SYN maintain
2 sustain damage/injury/defeat etc. formal to be damaged, hurt, defeated etc.
3 FOOD/WATER to provide enough food, water etc. for people to stay alive
4 GIVE STRENGTH to make it possible for someone to stay strong or hopeful
5 WEIGHT formal to hold up the weight of something SYN supportSource Longman Advanced American Dictionary (with removed irrelevant definitions)
all of it.
You'll all have ample amounts of time to discuss this in hell together (along with me?)
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G-D forbid!
If I were to be a failure,
then I deserve the penalty.Never will G-D wrong the insignificant me!
I don't know, I don't think anyone really deserves being a monster in the first place.
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What's the quranic word for "monster"?
Haha, I don't know, maybe
"Whenever the Sentence prevails against them, We shall bring forth a monster from the earth for them who will speak to them"
haha T.B. Irving's translation of "dabbah" or "dabbatan" in this case.
I was more referring to villains mentioned here
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And certainly We have created for Hell many of the jinn and men. For them (are) hearts (but) not they understand with them, and for them (are) eyes (but) not they see with them, and for them (are) ears (but) not they hear with them. Those (are) like cattle, nay they (are) more astray. Those - they (are) the heedless.It doesn't seem a matter of "deserving" it really, so much as God creating whatever God wills to create.
God is not "condition-based", that is, God does whatever God does freely, unconditionally, there are no conditions ruling over God or God "needing" to do anything or sustain anything, or having any pre-requisites or requirements.
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I consider Man of Faith as having a lot of wisdom in general. Yes, I do sometimes disagree with him, and at other times I am uncertain of what he is saying, but a lot of his words have been otherwise positive and beneficial teachings for me, for the spiritual path I am on.
Peace.
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I consider Man of Faith as having a lot of wisdom in general. Yes, I do sometimes disagree with him, and at other times I am uncertain of what he is saying, but a lot of his words have been otherwise positive and beneficial teachings for me, for the spiritual path I am on.
Peace.
Yeah he has a good message to give.
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The real story is on collision course with that. The Sustainer made the new spirit, based on the Sustainer, enter into the body and as a TEST environment and told them to not to "know" the World, i.e. indulge in it. But the instinctive drive (what you call shaytaan) tempted them and they failed to uphold what the Sustainer said and indulged nevertheless. But the humans are born with this shaytaan in them and it is not a separate entity or person. Adam was exposed to a cycle of gehennom in the parable because of his sin (the body was renewed), but the original tale has been poorly interpreted by later generations and the original tale from the Genesis probably needs a reinterpretation too. And shaytaan was fabricated as a separate being while it was in the flesh itself. And know that the story of Genesis was a parable itself just like the Sustainer seems to have humor in making a parable of everything through the prophets.
I have problems with this parable. There is something fishy about it. I suspect the entire story of Adam and Eve, parable or not, to be a purely man-made story, to fill in the gaps where humans are unable to understand, such as why there exists a separation between them and the Source in the first place, and how it was human beings' fault for it that time.
Peace.
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Yeah he has a good message to give.
Thanks for agreeing ) MoF does work hard to refine what he is learning himself.
Peace.