5.8.2014

Mohammad (Second idea for contemplation)

There is nothing else, but Allah.

Recognise God in everything.

God is a Secret Treasure inside of me.

Hell is for the impure ones, and only the fools strive towards Heaven.

When God is on the person’s side, all their enemies are powerless.

The pure one will not be touched by worry.

On the outside there are my words, on the inside there are my actions – but only the Truth is my deepest state.

Prayer is Light, and Patience is Shining.

Every science which has forgotten God, is as hollow as a thistle.

When you lose your marvellous daughter (he lost her, and when he lost her, Mohammad  was sincere, he said: ) God giveth and God taketh away! (This is how the Wise Master acts: ‘’ God giveth and God taketh away. Blessed be His Name!’’ – because this is Trust. Trust towards God, Who never makes a mistake.)

Mohammad has nothing in common with the hypocritical piety. He is an Ancient son of the Desert, and there is no hypocrisy there.

In his heaviest days, Mohammad says: ‘’God is Great!’’ This is a great Revelation, born in the heavy battles with the Desert – the overcoming of the Desert. This is something very deep and something experienced. Something that has since influenced millions, who loyally walk on this Way, which will, in time, turn them into Light – since the tribes of those times were very disobedient. In order for the Arabs to prevent their daughters from debauchery and marriage, they buried them alive in the Desert – and many other things of which I do not wish to speak… Mohammad changed this part and this Way. He says: Because truly, God is always Great!

Aisha, Mohammad’s wife, says to him: Everyone has their own devil. Mohammad replies: Yes, I have my own devil too, but I turned him on to the Way of the Truth and now he is obedient to me. – I.e. each person has one personal devil whom they must deal with.

Mohammad says: The person is only this, in which they have been diligent. (So, wherever your diligence is, there your Essence will be born).

Humility – this is my pride.

The beginning of Wisdom, this is two things. First, the beginning of Wisdom is Patience. Second, what is the beginning of Wisdom? To ask for God’s help in everything.

Non-believers are sinful towards their own selves, they are not sincere towards their own selves.

God has power over everything – He can take away people’s abilities, as well.

Whoever lies, they are not of our Way.

To deceive is worse than to kill.

Say the Truth even when it is against you.

The person is able to resolve their matters without seeking the Truth, but these matters will confuse their life, they will be only seemingly resolved. It is better to have unresolved matters, but to seek Allah.

Learn half of your religion from Purity – it is the Master.

The person is greatly ungrateful towards their Lord.

Whoever knows God, knows the solution to every problem as well.

Sages and Mystics of all times – Book 3 by Eleazar Harash

Mohammad (around 570-632)

A Great Prophet, Founder of Islam

Islam means devotion to God.

Any person can become holy, but the gift to be a Prophet is something that does not depend on the will of the person.

For the religious seeking of Anciency there exists another way – the Way of Absorption into the Self, the immersion into the inner world, the governing of the emotions and thoughts.

The more the person overcomes their animalistic and selfish nature, the more they draw near to the supremely-sensitive world and the quicker that world comes to aid them itself, and gradually or seemingly all at once the whole Truth and Knowledge is revealed. And together with this Absolute Knowledge, the person attains an indescribable might and power over the earth and the sky, over the people and the spirits, and such power that even the laws of reality, in which they live, begin to depend on the person’s will and with their Word, the person is able to move mountains, to turn rocks into gold, to subdue the spirits to their command.

Appearing before the Face of God, taking position for prayer – to be unclean, dirty, is a disrespect before the Almighty One.

Always speak the Truth!

Faith must be embodied as a way of life.

The person must always aim to speak the Truth and only the Truth, as scary or heavy as that may be. To speak the Truth means not only not to hide your deeds, which is relatively easy, but also not to hide your intentions and the secret and invisible movements of the Soul.

The actions of people will be judged according to the intentions and motives.

Excess food and drink kills the heart.

Without God the world cannot exist for even one moment.

More than anything in the world I love women and incense, but true pleasure I find only in prayer.

God never assigns to the person a burden which they would not be able to carry. God is too merciful to have excessive requirements towards the person.

Food must be moderate, because that is beneficial for the body, the Soul and the health.

Sensual attraction towards the woman is not a sin in itself before the Face of God, but it becomes a sin if it is directed in a wrong direction which has not been resolved.

Avoid to notice and criticise the flaws in people, especially those ones which you also possess. Such judgemental nature is based on pride, on a desire to find excuses and embellish yourself, and this is very bad, because true humbleness is the source of all virtues.

When you see a person who has been granted more wealth and beauty than you, then think of the people who have been gifted with less than you.

In their wishes the person must be governed by the old principle known long ago: to wish for your brother that which you would wish for yourself.

Thought must be disciplined – the mind must not be occupied with worthless deeds and matters of the daily life, because it is a test for the sincerity of every believer to pay no attention to what is found outside of their power.

Each word spoken leaves a deep imprint in the consciousness of the one speaking, even if it was pronounced jokingly or coincidentally.

Purity cannot be attained if the person does not place their word under a distinct and strict control.

A word pronounced in the presence of other people, in itself is already an act, some action, so a person, aiming towards purity, must adhere in their speech to an inner hygiene of behaviour.

Do not slander anyone! If someone slanders against you and starts to expose the vices which they know in you, do not expose the vices which you know in them! It is undignified to disgrace any honour, it is undignified to curse anyone, all empty speaking is undignified.

The one who does not have a pure heart and a tongue restrained from empty talking, cannot be a believer.

It is better to be alone than with an evil person, but it is even better to be with someone good, than to be alone.

It is better to speak to the one seeking knowledge, than to remail silent, but it is even better to remain silent than to have an empty conversation.

To stay silent more and to remain in a good predisposition of Spirit – what is better than this?

Prayer – this is the exaltation of the Spirit and the union of the believer with God.

God, grant me with Love towards You, grant me with Love towards the ones that You love, make it so that I am able to do things, deserving of Your Love, make it so that Love is dearer to me than my own self, than my family and than my wealth!

O, God! I ask You for firmness in faith and for readiness to walk in the right Way. I also ask You to give me an innocent heart which would be repulsed by vice, and a truthful tongue.

God is invisible and He does not tolerate idolatry. God is Omnipresent so it does not matter what side you turn your face to during prayer.

For the All-Seeing God the Soul of the person is an open book, He reads in the hearts of people and it is preposterous to think that the loud prayer has bigger chances to be heard, than the prayer, pronounced mentally.

God has nothing in common with man. God is Boundless in time and space, the same way as in His creating. He has created an innumerable multitude of worlds and an innumerable multitude of beings granted with reason, only one of which is man. From this, all pretence of the person for an exceptional place in the Universe and for exclusive attention from God, must be rejected as ridiculous.

God is above every morality.

God is good and merciful not because He is obliged to be such, but because goodness and kindness are His Primordial qualities, stemming from the attitude of the Creator towards the world, created by Him.

To wash the nose with water in the morning is necessary, because during sleep, in the nose spirits are instilled. To start the day with a wash and with prayer, is necessary again because of the devil – during sleep he ties three knots on the back of the person’s head, also adding: ‘’Let the night be long for you – sleep!’’ When, upon awakening, the believer is reminded of God, the first knot is untied. When they wash themselves, the second knot is untied. And when the believer prays, the third and last knot tied by the devil also disappears. Then the person will be in a good mood since the morning and their Soul will be calm, but if they do not do this, they will be disturbed and suppressed since the morning.

Almost every action has a deep magical meaning and is able to cause a shock in the supremely-sensitive world, which would often be fateful for the worldly life of the person and for their afterlife.

Your servants are your brothers whom God has placed under your rule. Each one who is the master of their brother, is obliged to give them of the food they eat themselves, and to dress them in the same way as they dress themselves. Do not force your servants to do work not within their strength, but if this happens, help them. Pay your worker what they are owed before their sweat has dried.

In the eyes of God the one who is seeking their right stands beneath someone who has found the strength in themselves to pure-heartedly forgive the offender or the one who has insulted them.

All people are brothers, including those of them, to whom, due to their spiritual blindness and in accordance with the Divine Conception, the voice of the True faith has not yet reached.

The poor man, deprived of the sin of pride and kept safe due to their poorness from the sinful temptations of the world, has bigger chances to earn blissfulness in the following immortal life in the Heavens, while at the same time the majority of the rich will inevitably suffer in hell… The poor man is closer to God than the rich man and if the person is forgiven in their pride in any way, they should be more proud in their poverty, than in richness.

Mercy, this is practicing good deeds, acts, dictated by Love towards our brothers.

A person who has picked up and removed from the road a thorny branch, in the eyes of God may have done a more significant act of mercy, than a person sacrificing a part of their possessions. The first person’s act was dictated by Selfless Love towards their brothers as beings of God. They have prevented the good person, the evil person, their friend, their enemy and even total strangers from harming their foot in the same way. This is why the poor one has no fewer chances for mercy than the rich one, so in this regard they are equal.

When the person gives from what little they have, but attained with their own labour – this is the mercy that is most pleasing to God.

It is mercy when you smile to your brother in a welcoming way, it is mercy when you incite towards noble deeds and you refrain from unlawful acts, it is mercy when you show the Way to those who have lost it and when you help the blind person.

There is no coercion in faith. God Himself knows who to guide in the Truthful Way and who to leave in delusion.

God is One – Eternal, not giving birth and Unborn, knowing no equals to Himself. He is Almighty and Merciful.

At the judgement which God will hold on the fearsome day, excuses will be unnecessary – each Soul will see everything which they have done before… everything will be revealed – even the most concealed and secretive – and each Soul will know that God has been informed of everything. In complete solitude the person will stand on Judgement day before the Almighty One and no relatives, nor friends will be their protectors on that day. And the person shall be judged not as an Arab or a representative of some clan – all these remnants of the tribal and family system are incompatible with the faith in the One God. On Judgement day the person will stand in their true image – before God, all their other relations are secondary and after God.

The righteous people are the ones who pray – the ones who are constant in their prayer, who believe in the Judgement day and who fear the punishment of their Lord.

God does not create miracles out of mercy – He knows perfectly well that even miracles would not make the ones who are stubbornly drawn to evil and sin, to repent pure-heartedly for their delusions and to believe.

What is most important is the faith, and not how much you pray, fast or how many bows you have done – the faith and the striving for purity.

God is alone and He has no companions.

God was not born and He does not give birth – everything that He creates, He creates it with His Word. It is sufficient that Allah says ‘’Let there be’’ – and what He has conceived is then created. Therefore, Allah has no daughters nor sons.

Allah has no companions and helpers bestowed with a will separate from His. The Almighty One has only servants, acting in accordance with the will of their Master.

Of God you must not ponder, but believe.

There is not one nation to which the merciful God has not shown the True Way for Salvation.

Only God has complete knowledge of the past, the present and the future, and also for that which is concealed within the hearts, because unknown are the Ways of the Lord, and the wisdom of the world is madness before God.

It is the duty of the believers to accept everything given by God unreservedly, to be patient because they do not possess ‘supreme knowledge’’ and their concepts of good and justice are incomplete, so that they may attain the Divine Good and the Divine Justice.

All believers make up one nation which is not split into tribes and clans.

One God, One faith, One nation, One law for everyone. All are equal before the law.

Only God grants life and death.

Help comes only from God.

Be patient! Allah is with the patient ones!

Every miracle is in the power of God, other than the earthly happiness of the person.

I am a person just like you. I have surrendered myself to God, to the One and Almighty and I will enact each of His orders. Could I know the conception of the Merciful One? Life and death, the present and the future – everything is in His power. The ones walking the way of Allah will be victorious because who is able to oppose His will?

Without prayer there is no faith.

Allah knows what is in your hearts. Allah is knowing and meek!

As much as I pray for the hypocrites – my prayer shall not bring any benefit to them.

We are all of God and we shall return to Him.

The last words of Mohammad before he died: ‘’O my Lord, I did not succeed in knowing you in the way that You deserve to be known. I did not succeed in knowing you completely.’’