The devil tries to make us occupied
with questions about God, like: how is He like? How does He do what He does?
What does He look like? Why does He do this? etc…, more than he tries to get us
occupied with ourselves and our flaws. Many thoughts occur to us about these
issues, and sometimes violently. Logically, however, does the created have the
right to design their Creator and determine what He should and shouldn't be,
even though they're created and not creators? Like why did He create this and
why didn't He create that? We don't even know the meaning of
"create", because creation is from the world of the Unseen (ghaib).
Do we have to know the history of God in order to believe in Him? Even though
He's the one who taught us the meaning of the word "history"! This is
an application of the human logic on the non-human realms.
God created logic and created the
mind, which means that there is logic and mind different from ours. Let's
meditate on this point, it was enough for me to burn all my questions and
doubts, and made me stop interfering with my mind with the matters of the realm
of divinity, {do not occupy yourself with what you have no knowledge of} the
Quran. For a simple reason: our reason was created on Earth in the realm of the
Seen (shahadah), and the realms of the Unseen (ghaib) can't be reached by our
reason to judge their logicality and morality, God said in the Quran: {of
knowledge, you (mankind) have been given only a little}.
When asking such questions about
God we are viewing God as a human, and we judge Him by the standards, logic,
and ethics of humans. And here the mind has trespassed into a field which
doesn’t belong to it.
We should view God from the area
through which He reveals Himself to us, that is our relationship with Him, and
start asking questions like: Is He being unfair to us? Of course not, because
he gave freedom of choice, one doesn't act unjustly towards you when one gives
your freedom. Thus, God isn't unfair. Yes he created us without consulting us,
but then he gave us a choice. If He were to ask us whether we want to be
created or not we would already be alive then, and we won't say no because that
would mean our death! And no living being wants to die!
This is how the mind should deal
with the understanding of God, through our relationship with Him, and not
through pulling Him down to the human realm and judge Him as a human, this is a
mental trespassing that made us use our minds in a realm of which we have no
knowledge.
All the realm of the unseen is
hidden from us. Where is God? Why did he create the universe? Why did He make
it so big? Why did He create all those different kinds of insects? Why did He
create us and test us? What does He look like? What do angels and jinn look
like? How can He collect us from dirt and resurrect us after we die? The mind
doesn't know the answer to such questions, questions about the Unseen realm in
which there is no use asking them, because the mind has zero information about
it. And here comes the role of faith more than the mind in the matters of the
Unseen, God said; {who believe in the unseen}, that's before they realize it
with their senses and minds, He didn't say: who thinks about the Unseen. We
should know that those ideas are whispers of our enemy Satan who wants to shake
our courage to believe in our conscious faith.
We should say our opinion to
ourselves about those questions, then take refuge with God from the devil
whenever he tries to bring them back, and we'll find them fading away little by
little. Attempting to have full knowledge of God and to know His
characteristics like whether He has a foot or a hand etc…, is an attempt to
have a mental understanding of the realm of the Unseen. It's an error in the
process of thinking, because sound reason is built on basic information, while
we haven’t got any information about the Unseen. Thus, our thinking of God will
be to imagine Him as a human to compensate for our shortage of information, and
we tend to forget that He's a God! I have discovered this error in my thinking
and in the thinking of those who raise such doubts, and I have known that
they're waste of time and we get nothing from them but worries. They are
whispers of the devil to deviate us from sound reason to insanity.
How can we know God then? Knowing
that {nothing is like him} as He said in the Quran? Well, we can ask ourselves
this question and say: how do we know humans? Is it because they have hands and
feet they became known to us? Of course not, because we fear the mad person
even though we see they have hands and feet, and if the closest person to us
suddenly went mad we would be scared of them even though we claim to know them
very well! Knowledge that comes through the senses constitutes only a small
portion of knowledge, the senses are not our only means of knowledge.
We know others with things we can't
see nor fully know, which are their minds and morality. Therefore, we have
God's words, let's know Him from His own words, or to put it more accurately:
from His morals. We love mercy and we know the merciful person, and God is the
Most Merciful as He said about Himself, and thus we know Him from His moral
qualities. We know people from their moral characteristics, and all the
"Finest Names" and elevated moral characteristics belong to God.
Therefore, our feeling knows God more than anyone.
This what the Quran meant by the
terms "The Known and the Unknown" "Almaarof wa almonkar",
God ordered us to encourage The Known, which are the truth, good and beauty,
which are all we can know, whether with our reason and feeling combined as in
scientific facts, or with our feeling before our minds as in good and
beauty.
Atheists and doubters even if they
see God they will not know Him, because their means of knowledge are
insufficient, which are the mind and the senses. Sometimes someone comes to our
lives and gets to know who we are probably better and faster than our own
fathers and mothers, what did he/she use to understand us like that? Even
though he/she doesn't know our full names and didn't see how we look like! We
can know God clearly if we use our feeling, He will reveal Himself to us if we
sought him with love, God said: {We shall show them Our signs in the horizons
and in their own selves until it becomes clear to them that He is the Truth}.
The absence of God or His blurry
existence in our lives makes our vision blurry, because we are then distant
from our feeling which is the means for knowledge. The mind or reason isn't the
means for knowledge, reason is only a tool that our feeling employs. Whoever
loses the light of his feeling loses the knowledge of God, { Do not be like
those who forget God, so He makes them forget themselves}, i.e. they forget
their feeling through which they can distinguish between things. Come closer to
yourself and you'll come closer to God, come closer to God and you'll come
closer to yourself.
We suffer when we cram reason in
immaterial fields. Our reason works at its best in material matters, and our
feeling works at its best in immaterial and moral fields. The problem is when
the mind controls the feeling and suppresses it. We must let our feeling flow,
and make our mind rest a little by putting it in its natural position which is
behind the feeling not in front of it. The natural job of the mind is to be a
servant to the feeling, not vice versa. No one believes through one's mind, we
believe through our hearts, and no one crosses the road with their heart alone,
they do so with their mind and their senses.
Who complains of being hesitant,
it's because they only use one instrument which is the mind in immaterial
matters. If we fairly treat our feeling we'll find that we're becoming more
decisive and affirmative, and we all know how that makes us at ease. God said:
{they are in grave doubt about it}, i.e. they aren’t at ease.
All knowledge that come from the
feeling is decisive, final, and has no room for probabilities, that's why I
recommend it. When you are afraid you never doubt at all that you feel fear,
and when you feel hungry you never doubt that you are hungry. The same as when
your feeling tells you that this person is good, it'll be a definite and
decisive knowledge that can't be doubted, unless we ignore the feeling and
resort to the mind, which will start operating its slow machines and ask its
endless questions: what proves that this person is good? Is what they have done
enough to call them good? Will they act the same way if they were in a
different situation? What guarantees that they'll continue to be good? etc…,
therefore I can't be sure that they are good and I'll remain in doubt! The
feeling, however, has already judged them and got over with it so quickly!
Shoving the mind into
immaterial/moral fields without regarding the feeling leads to dullness, doubt,
hesitation and difficulty in decision making, because the mind is asked to
perform a profession outside its specialty, and was preferred over the professional.
We can quickly feel the beauty of a garden, while the mind can't exactly
pinpoint why is it beautiful. The absence of the feeling from our life makes it
turn into a robotlike, rational, slow, weak and materialistic life.
The good mind is the mind that
serves the feeling, remembers it, and tries to prove it. This is the mind that
helps us to be happy and serene, because happiness emanates from within.
Undoubtedly, our feeling knows that God exists, the mind can't provide a
convincing alternative for that, although it can doubt it as it always does.
However, what is better and more courageous and beautiful: who follows their
feeling with their mind, or who follow their mind regardless of their feeling?
Imagine a friend who spotted you
with their feeling and quickly knew that you are a nice person and in need of
someone to talk and safely open your heart to, then their mind responded to
their feeling about you, won't you say that this a wonderful and smart person?
Why were they like that? Because they were believers, they believed in their
feeling about you, and their mind followed and served their feeling. However,
if they doubted their feeling and said: how can I be sure that this person
isn't arrogant? Or that they are in need for a friend? What guarantees for me
that they won't repel me when I approach them? etc..., thus they'll continue to
be hesitant. You won't describe such person as wonderful, smart or nice. This
is the difference between the believer and the doubter. Faith is speed, wit,
good and beauty, while responding to doubts causes slowness, dullness, lack of
beauty and loss of opportunities.
We must be brave, for bravery is
more beautiful that cowardice, God said : {when you have decided upon a course
of action, place your trust in God} that is without hesitation. Doubts are
endless, listening to them will make our life miserable, coward, lacking beauty
and full of grave, fearful and exhausting doubts that deprive us of happiness.
Your feeling says that God is fair, good and beautiful, and your mind agrees to
that, start from here without hesitation and love good, truth and beauty. Love
God and He shall love you, even if you don’t see Him with hands and feet,
because we now know that vision isn't sufficient knowledge.
I wish we meditate on that. We
meditate when our feelings work followed by our minds. We don’t meditate on
those ideas by reading them with the mind alone, because it will say: those are
emotional words lacking the material evidence that I want!
God is beautiful, great and in the
realm of the Unseen, this is how we should view Him. God is virtuous and
doesn't act unfairly towards anyone. As for why He created us even though He
knows we'll commit sin, that doesn't make Him any less virtuous since He didn't
force us to commit evil actions and He warned us against them. As for why he
created us at all, this is a question on the matter of the Unseen, like asking:
where did God come from? Or like: why did He create all those planets even
though they're empty? These are silly human questions coming from the crisis of
housing humans suffer from. The world of the Unseen is a different world, this
is how we should view it.
Since reason told us that God
exists, that He's fair, good, loving, rewarding the good people and punishing
the bad ones, all-knowing, and nothing happens without His permission, that
suffices the mind and now it should turn to us and to our flaws, they are more
worthy of our attention.
I'd like to point out that
materialistic philosophers and atheists aren't as rational as they'd like to
be. I personally have discovered their superficiality and laughed at their
minds. I'm actually shocked by how shallow their minds are -even though they
have famous names-, because, poor them, they only rely on materialistic ideas
and neglect the human inside them, all that to indulge in happiness as they
view it, while Satan is leading them to trouble and depression.
The first step of Satan is
materialism, because it's unfairness to ourselves for we're not only matter,
that's why God called the truth deniers: "unfair to themselves",
because they oppress the human inside them for the sake of their physical being
as if it's the only thing that exists, they { try to deceive God but He, in
fact, deceives them}the Quran. Undoubtedly, the way of Satan is the way of
stupidity and insanity. Satan makes them lose their reason, and who has lost
their reason has lost their mind. Reason can only be found in belief in God.
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