Thursday 29 December 2011

Independence

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH – THE SOURCE OF MERCY – THE MOST MERCIFUL

ONE OF THE DOMINANT TRAITS OF HUMANITY IS THE DESIRE FOR "INDEPENDENCE," HUMANITY IS SEEKING IT ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE AND IS WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE FOR IT, NO MATTER HOW HIGH THAT PRICE MAY BE. AND YET WHAT IS REAL "INDEPENDENCE" AFTER ALL? IS IT BASED ON SOCIAL POSITION OR ON GREAT INTELLIGENCE, ON PHYSICAL STRENGTH OR ON MONEY? ADVERSE CONDITIONS CAN MAKE PEOPLE RICH OR LOSE THEIR FORTUNES. DISEASES CAN DESTROY PHYSICAL STRENGTH. THE MOST BRILLIANT INTELLECT MAY BE MISUNDERSTOOD BY PEOPLE AND THEREFORE FAIL TO BRING FORTH THE EXPECTED PRACTICAL RESULTS. AND SOCIAL POSITION ITSELF IS OF ALL HUMAN POWERS THE MOST UNRELIABLE AND UNSTABLE. UNDER THESE CONDITIONS SOMETHING ELSE HAS TO BE SOUGHT; A POWER WHICH WILL NEVER FAIL YOU; A POWER GREAT ENOUGH TO MEET EVERY EMERGENCY; A POWER CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE RIGHT AT HAND WHENEVER IT IS NEEDED. IT IS ONLY SUCH A POWER THAT CAN BRING REAL INDEPENDENCE.

WHAT IS THIS POWER AND WHERE IS IT TO BE FOUND?

IT IS WITHIN YOU, IT IS OUTSIDE OF YOU. IT IS THE POWER OF LIFE ITSELF. WITHIN YOU THERE SEEMS TO BE ONLY A LIMITED SUPPLY OF IT, AND WHEN THAT SUPPLY IS EXHAUSTED YOU ARE LIKE AN ENGINE SHORT OF FUEL. FROM WHERE HAVE YOU TO GET THE FUEL. YOUR HUMAN ENGINE NEEDS? FROM THE ONE AND ONLY CREATOR. THERE IS ONLY ONE SOURCE OF DEVINE KNOWLEDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO LEARN HOW TO DRAW UPON IT AND HOW TO USE IT IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF YOUR DAILY LIFE. THIS DIVINE KNOWLEDGE IS FOUND IN THE NOBLE QUR'AN. IT IS THAT WHICH ALWAYS WAS, IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, CHANGELESS AND FOR ALL TIMES. ETERNAL THROUGH TIME, AND ALWAYS THERE GOVERNING, SUSTAINING AND ENCOMPASSING EVERYTHING. WHEN THIS DIVINE KNOWLEDGE IS WITHIN YOU, YOU CALL IT LIVING THE LIFE AS PRESCRIBED BY YOUR CREATOR. 

EVERYTHING IN NATURE LIVES. IT IS IN THE CURRENTS OF THE EARTH, IN THE WAVES OF THE OCEAN, IN THE STRENGTH OF THE WIND, IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN, IN THE SOFT RAYS OF THE MOON. ELECTRICITY EXISTS BECAUSE THAT POWER IS BACK OF IT. WITHDRAW THAT FORCE FROM ANYTHING AND THAT THING WOULD CEASE TO BE, WOULD DIE. EVEN THE UNIVERSE WOULD COLLAPSE WERE THAT POWER WITHDRAWN FROM IT.

ON THE OTHER HAND, ANOTHER PART OF HUMANITY TRIED TO REACH SPIRITUAL ATTAINMENT, HARMONY AND HAPPINESS BY FIGHTING, BY SUPPRESSING THEIR SENSES AND EVEN BY DENYING THEIR OWN PHYSICAL BODIES. YOU MAY ASK THE QUESTION: HOW SHALL I KNOW ALL THE DIFFERENT AND VERY COMPLEX OPERATIONS OF THE DIVINE LAWS? THE ANSWER IS: KNOW THE FUNDAMENTALS, BE ONE WITH THE LAW IN ITS MAIN ASPECTS AND DO NOT WORRY ABOUT DETAILS. IF LEFT ALONE, DETAILS WILL WORK OUT HARMONIOUSLY BY THEMSELVES. ANOTHER QUESTION MAY BE ASKED BY YOU: WHAT AM I AS AN INDIVIDUAL, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE AM I PLACED ON EARTH, USHERED INTO EXISTENCE SEEMINGLY WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT? THE ANSWER IS; TO WORSHIP YOUR ONE AND ONLY CREATOR.

YOU ARE YET ONE WITH YOUR FELLOW BEINGS ORIGINATED FROM ONE COMMON SOURCE. THAT IS WHY ENVIRONMENT IS ABLE TO EXERCISE SUCH AN EFFECT ON THE INDIVIDUAL, AND THE INDIVIDUAL ON HIS ENVIRONMENT, EITHER CONSTRUCTIVELY OR DESTRUCTIVELY. THERE IS A KINSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR  ENVIRONMENT.

THOUGH THE HUMAN MIND IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FACULTIES YOU POSSESS. THROUGH IT YOU BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE FULL VALUE OF THAT FIRST FUNDAMENTAL OF ALL BEING, LIFE. YOU BEGIN TO PERCEIVE ALL LIFE'S POSSIBILITIES FOR UNFOLDMENT AND TO DISCRIMINATE ALSO BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, GOOD AND EVIL, ACCORDING TO WHETHER THEY WILL HELP OR HINDER THAT UNFOLDMENT. YOU REALISE GRADUALLY THAT THE SUCCESS, OR GOOD IN YOUR LIFE COMES IN DIRECT PROPORTION TO YOUR ADHEREANCE OF THE DIVINE LAWS, WHILE THE DISHARMONIOUS RESULTS, SUCH AS FAILURE, POVERTY, DISEASE AND TROUBLE, ARE THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR SEPARATION FROM OR OPPOSITION TO THOSE LAWS, EITHER THROUGH IGNORANCE, FEAR OR SELF-WILL. NEVER FEAR THAT YOU CANNOT DO A CERTAIN THING, THAT YOU CANNOT BRING OUT CERTAIN QUALITIES FROM WITHIN YOU, THAT YOU CANNOT OVERCOME OBSTACLES ON YOUR PATH. REMEMBER THAT ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO A POWER WHICH GOVERNS THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND THAT YOU CAN CALL ON THAT POWER ANYTIME. YOUR PROBLEM IS TO BRING THEM OUT. HOW THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF THE FOLLOWING.

TWO EXERCISES, PRAYER AND RECITATION OF THE NOBLE QUR'AN, WHICH YOU ARE TO START TODAY AND TO PRACTICE REGULARLY THROUGHOUT YOUR WHOLE LIFE. THESE TWO, TOGETHER WITH THE FASTING AND ARMS GIVING, FORM THE FOUNDATION FOR SUCCEEDING EXERCISES OF A SPECIFIC SORT. THEY ARE TO BE PRACTICED CONTINUALLY, AND THROUGHOUT YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. THEY MUST BECOME A PART OF YOUR DAILY ROUTINE, JUST AS IMPORTANT AND VITAL TO YOUR WELL BEING AS THE FOOD OF WHICH YOU PARTAKE, THE AIR YOU BREATHE OR THE CARE WHICH YOU GIVE TO YOUR BODY. THE FIFTEEN OR TWENTY MINUTES A DAY WHICH WILL BE REGULARLY DEVOTED TO THESE EXERCISES WILL BE THE BEST INVESTMENT OF TIME AND ENERGY YOU EVER MADE IN YOUR LIFE.

THE FACT IS MOST PEOPLE TODAY STILL LOOK TO THEMSELVES FOR SOLUTIONS TO THEIR ISSUES, FOR HEALTH, FOR MONEY, IN FACT FOR EVERYTHING, COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS TO THE TRUTH THAT WE COULD EVER WISH FOR IS WITHIN ALL WE NEED TO DO IS REQUEST THOSE WISHES FROM THE DIVINE POWER THAT GIVES TO US ALL, AND WHICH ARE INFINITE IN NATURE, LIMITED ONLY BY THE INDIVIDUAL ABILITY TO ASK.

AND AGAIN THIS IS A CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT TRUTH IN EVERY SENSE, AS WELL AS IN THE CONTEXT OF EXPRESSING DIVINE LAWS TO SHAPE YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE AS WELL AS THE COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE THAT WE ALL SHARE.

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I WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT IF YOU ONLY READ ONE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BOOK THIS YEAR, IT SHOULD BE MIND CONTROL SYSTEM. ‘THE BASIC HYPOTHESIS IS PROFOUND. THE APPLICATION OF PROVEN RESEARCH IS MASTERFUL. THE EXPLANATIONS AND SUPPORTING STORIES ARE COMPELLING AND LUCID. THE TRANSLATION OF THE RESEARCH AND STORIES INTO PRACTICAL IDEAS AND SOUND ADVICE IS NOTHING SHORT OF BREATHTAKING.’

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