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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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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Islam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony

Submission to the good Will of AllahThe Meaning of Al-Fatihah and its Various Names. Read more ... » – Almighty GodWhy Islam?. Read more ... », together with the obedienceCONCERNING MUSIC AND DANCING AS AIDS TO THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. Read more ... » to His beneficial  Law, is the best safeguardIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... » of peace and harmonyIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... ». It enables man to make peace  between himself and his fellow menIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... » on the one hand, and between the human  community and AllahThe Meaning of Al-Fatihah and its Various Names. Read more ... » – Almighty GodWhy Islam?. Read more ... » on the other. It creates harmonyCONCERNING MUSIC AND DANCING AS AIDS TO THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. Read more ... » among the elements of NatureIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... ».  According to IslamQuranic Verses on Nikah Marriage. Read more ... », everything in the world, or every phenomenonIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... » other than man is  administered by Allah – Almighty God-made Laws. This makes the entire physical world necessarily  obedient to Allah – Almighty God and submissive to His laws, which, in turn, means that it is in a state  of IslamQuranic Verses on Nikah Marriage. Read more ... », or it is MuslimIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... ».

The physical world has no choice of its own. It has no  voluntary course to follow on its own initiative but obeys the Law of the Creator, the  Law of Islam or submission. Man alone is singled out as being endowed with  intelligence and the power of making choicesIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... ». And because man possesses the  qualities of intelligence and choice he is invited to submit to the good Will of Allah – Almighty God and  obey His Law. When he does choose the course of submission to the Law of Allah – Almighty God, he  will be making harmonyCONCERNING MUSIC AND DANCING AS AIDS TO THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. Read more ... » between himself and all the other elements of NatureIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... », which  are by necessity obedient to Allah – Almighty God. He will be consistent with the truth and in harmony  with all the other elements of the universeIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... ». But if he chooses disobedience he will  deviate from the Right Path and will be inconsistent. Besides, he will incur the  displeasureIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... » and punishment of the Law-Giver.   because Islam means submission to the Good Will of Allah – Almighty God and obedienceCONCERNING MUSIC AND DANCING AS AIDS TO THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. Read more ... » to His  Beneficial Law, and because this is the essence of the message of all Allah – Almighty God-chosen  messengersWhy Islam?. Read more ... », a MuslimIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... » accepts all the prophetsTHE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS WORLD. Read more ... » previous to MuhammadIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... » without  discriminationIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... ». He believes that all those prophetsTHE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS WORLD. Read more ... » of Allah – Almighty God and their faithful followers  were Muslims, and that their religion was Islam, the only true universal religion of  Allah – Almighty God (Qur’ an, 2:128-140; 3:78-85; 17:42-44; 31:22; 42:13)   To sum up this discussion, it may be helpful to reproduce my statement which  appeared in the Observer Dispatch (O. D.) of Utica on December 4, 1972. The  statement shows how much distortion and confusion there is in this regard.

The partial  overlapping and repetition may be forgiven because of the extreme sensitivity of the  issue and the need to reiterate the Islamic point of view:   A particular news item (O. D., Nov. 25) is alarming. It invites sympathy for the  misinformed public and pity for many a school teacher or man of the pulpit. It calls  upon every man of good will and conscience to stand up to his moral obligations.   Marcus Eliason reported from Israeli-occupied Jordan that “ The Moslems,”  among  other things. “ worship AbrahamTHE LOVE OF GOD. Read more ... » as Ibrahim…”   It is incredible in this day and age, in this small world of ours, to read in fresh print  that the Muslims worship Ibrahim. It is more incredible yet that this news comes from  sources presumably knowledgeable and is passed on to a public entitled to know.   For centuries, many Westerners held and propagated the idea that the Muslims  worshipped MuhammadIslam - the best safeguard of peace and harmony. Read more ... », whose religion was called Mohammedanism and whose  followers were known in the West as Mohammedans. Then it somehow become  apparent to those Westerners that the Muslims worshipped Allah, a “ deity of sorts.”  And now this new discovery that they worship AbrahamTHE LOVE OF GOD. Read more ... » as Ibrahim.

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