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A contemporary mystical Islamic philosopher offers clarification about common misconceptions of the Islamic concept of God.

Hulusi is an Islamic scholar whose writings mirror the mystical dimension of Islam known as Sufism, made well known in the U.S. through translations of the Sufi poet-theologian Rumi. But many who read the English translations of Rumi fail to realize the complexity of the system of spiritual thinking that Sufism represents. Hulusi explicates one of the most difficult concepts in mystical Islam--the notion that "Allah," commonly misunderstood in the West and even in parts of the Muslim world as "God," encompasses more than the word "God" can illuminate. Drawing upon his interpretations of the Quran, Islam's most sacred scripture, Hulusi claims that nowhere in Muhammad's transmission of the Quran is there the assertion that Allah is a god. Instead, Hulusi writes that Allah is "an infinite, unlimited, whole One, in which case...there is nothing in existence other than Him." The consequences of this assertion are that individual lives are fated by Allah, predestined to heaven or hell after physical death. The point of religion, writes the author, is to gain nondualistic awareness of Allah, which is realized through essential self-knowledge and the rejection of illusionary dualities in daily life. The author relies on short paragraphs to frame his beliefs and uses abstract language to describe consciousness, but the gist of these abstruse ideas is helpfully noted in bold throughout the book. One can only imagine the difficulty translator Atalay faced in converting the author's esoteric Turkish style into readable English. Yet it does read clearly as a kind of Sufi manifesto of faith. Get the Book NOW

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Spirit Who Performs Salat

When a man has reached a strong connection with God, then come guidances that lead his life, his behavior, even up to the things which most people considered it a small and trivial.
Spirit who performs salat
Spirit {arruh, not the spirit who usually haunts rumored in the public view} is a divine ambassador who was given the task of guiding people to the straight path, the path that God blessed. The spirit be able to guide the human when himself in a state of being dhikr, connect to God. Meanwhile, for people who fail, then the spirit is helpless. In fact, the ruling is the devil.
As one who prays {salat} with heart connect with God, then God's guidance through the spirit come. It is felt in every movement of salat, start from takbir until the greeting, the great strength that lead and guide to stand, lead to read fatehah, compel to bowing, encourage to iktidal, push to bow down, and so on. We'll just give up. Total surrender to God. Jobs that are as rightful requirements of salat happen automatically and run away. We're just watching, seeing, watching God's busy take care of the physical body and our inner, lead in prayer, lead in every movement, giving a sense of solemn in salat.
Become object of God
According to the tawheed, we actually always to be object of God. And it's time we know for dzauq {heartstrings} the truth of these teachings of Quran. Especially in prayer, we can feel the truth of God's word. So we should learn to pray with thumakninah/stillness rather long. Give God a chance to lower His guidance. Until at last we reach the point of feeling that we really just become the object of God. In order to increase the level of our faith. From trust {believe in the truth of teachings of the Quran} in science {'ilmulyaqin} to increase to a higher level of trust as the feeling of self / personal experience / dzauq /' ainulyaqin.
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