REVELATIONS FROM SCIENCE AND NATURE

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.1 Allah! La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists. Neither slumber, nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His Permission? He knows what happens to them (His creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter. And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge except that which He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most High, the Most Great. [This Verse 2:255 is called Ayat-ul-Kursi.]

Quran is a book of healing, the healing of the body, the mind and the Qalb soul. It establishes a long lasting relationship with its Qari (reader), extending into afterlife. The passage in this life is not only facilitated by its verses, but given a new meaning, the journey of the soul, in the company of the all-pervading everlasting Being.

Until this Being is felt, closer than the jugular vein, science, reason and logic will reign supreme.Love is the catalyst which brings a transformation in the Mizaj (perspective) of a human, who undergoes a metamorphic change in his or her personality. When a scientist, a person of logic reads the following verses.

Ha. Mim.

The revelation of the Book is from Allah the Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.

Verily in the heavens and the earth, are Signs for those who believe.

Seeing and hearing these verses bring no transformation, until one journeys from Islam to Iman to Ihsan. Only then can one see the DNA transcribing its genetic information unfolding in the new creation in its mothers womb, the flower communicating electromagnetically with the bee, advising it the amount of nectar it contains, all a sign in the divine book of nature,and the above verses in the divine books of God, the Torah, Psalms, Bible and the latest version the Quran, reflecting on the interface, the consciousness of a Momin. This essay contains a repetition of the verses of the noble Quran to prove and elaborate a point contained in its infinite dimensions, the miracle of the last book. As the fractals in nature written by the same Author, bringing order out of chaos in nature, so the verses of the Quran in endless repetition appearing a fractal in the book by the same Author, diminishing chaos and bringing order in our lives. A Sufi experiencing his destiny with an utmost intensity, the intensity being the Will of God.

Fractal geometry mapping the nature outside, a kind of self-replicating and self-similar patterns in the entire universe in the formations of galaxies, the mountain structures, to snowflakes on earth, in our blood vessels, trees and the coral in the sea. The Quran following the same patterns of fractal geometry the speech of the same Creator and hence the same style. To those whom it appears disjointed, monotonous, and repetitive often miss the totality of its message, like a great puzzle in its infinite manifestations, being the speech of the bearer of life out of darkness, so often missed by a casual reader. Whether it starts with a verse on Moses (May Allah Peace be Upon him) in the first chapter, slowly building and mixing with other instructions throughout, like a seed growing in the earth with a stem, slowly bifurcating into thousands of shoots, leading to guidance for those of the past, present and the future, each verse connected with another instruction like pearls in a bead, keeping the old and growing into new ones, a web of never ending dimensions nor having any contradictions, spread in the entire chapters of the Quran and its extension in the Universe, as Tilka Ayaat Ullah. Usually accompanied with a hard fact, a fruit, at the end of these stems, explained as ayaat signs and proved by modern science. Though not a book of science and not even a book in the traditional sense, it contains directions and guidance for human kind. A speech from the Creator to the created.

Essay on Quran for Men and Women of Knowledge and Wisdom. ( )

So all the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of the earth, and the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). And His (Alone) is the Majesty in the heavens and the earth, and He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise. .

(This is) a Book (the Quran) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings that they may ponder over its Verses, and that men and women of understanding may remember

Quran treats the universe as an organic being. A vast and elaborate creation which comes in to being by the word Be of God. This essay synthesizes the dilemma of modern day Muslims, in their failures to discover their moorings, by being captivated by the western civilizations world view, and thought processes, its corporate minions, vast military, industrial complexes, phenomenal and dazzling successes, accompanied by abysmal failures in its inherent greed, its unethical and methodical devouring of the resources of the world. Skepticism abound in the other worldly injunctions, of religion, bordering on illusion. The modern day Muslim unable to reconcile his or her inner storms, growing far greater than the outer ones, appears self-destructive at times or resigned to his fate on others. A reflective synthesis of the Quran at this critical juncture embodies a world view of which Iqbal had a rare glimpse in his Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam. The most remarkable phenomenon of modern history, however, is the enormous rapidity with which the world of Islam is spiritually moving towards the West. There is nothing wrong in this movement, for European culture, on its intellectual side, is only a further development of some of the most important phases of the culture of Islam. Our only fear is that the dazzling exterior of European culture may arrest our movement and we may fail to reach the true inwardness of that culture.3 Concerning the dangers of getting trapped by the negative influences of both these societies, the materialistic west, and the obscurantists east, resulted in easily being indoctrinated by value systems, termed as absolute truths, leading to a certain pattern of thought and behavior in life. As regards the benefits that may accrue to an individual or a society as a whole, at the cost of alienating a lot of other viewpoints, ends in an argument for conflict and war. Though in its essence Islam is a message of peace and harmony, wisdom and knowledge for all mankind, not the racial, ethnic, or tribal prerogative of a select few. God would question all those acting on His behalf as emissaries and guardians, whether they delivered the message of Islam, His message through dialogue, understanding and love or through brute force? In their enthusiasm overstepping the very injunctions of Quran. In retrospect presenting the Quran no single individual or era is sufficient, to completely understand its message, as its one line instructions blossom into multiple verses containing meanings which when reflected upon, lead to wave upon wave of insurmountable grandeur, dazzling beauty, unmatched eloquence, magnificent splendor, unlimited power, sublime insights, everlasting knowledge, pristine majesty, unveiling itself through eternity, in its infinite depths, forming a grand mosaic radiating from the early moments of big bang to the past, present and future of any soul, at levels cognizant of its capacity and vigor. Quran mentions If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid.4 Each scholar of Quran there is one more learned. The great misconception among all the three Judea Christian Islamic faiths is the idea of a new religion with its own distinct prophets, nothing is farther from the truth, John (May Allahs peace and blessings be upon him) son of Zachariah (May Allahs peace and blessings be upon him), prayed in the Temple of Jerusalem, Jesus (May Allahs peace and blessings be upon him) son of Mary (May Allahs peace and blessings be upon her) prayed near the sea of Galilee, Mohammad (May Allahs blessing and peace be upon him ) son of Hazrat Bibi Amina (May Allahs peace and blessings be upon her) praying in the grand mosques of Mecca and Medina did not eclipse the other, but carried the one true message of Islam (Arabic) for submission to the Will of One God. It was only their later day followers who unable to reconcile the dichotomies set in motion by the titanic forces, in the history of human thought and action, with inherent ulterior motives, veered on tangential courses. The two broad level of enquiries albeit God does not exist, and its all delusional thinking emanating from our minds, as David Hume puts it The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events.5 and secondly again his observation The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspends his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion, lends firm support in ones lifes experiences, ultimately pertaining to finding the means of an eventual resolution of the dichotomies and contradictions between the inner and the outer self of the I. Men and women of understanding ( ) accepting the oneness (Tawhid) of Allah (swt) almighty as the only priority, with in their hearts, the rest being the supplications for righteous deeds and piety according to the teachings of Quran and Sunnah. This (Quran) is a Message for mankind (and a clear proof against them), in order that they may be warned thereby, and that they may know that He is the only One Ilah (God - Allah) - (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), and that Ulul Albab ( men and women of understanding) may take heed.7

And receiving, Hikma (wisdom). He grants Hikmah to whom He pleases, and he, to whom Hikmah is granted, is indeed granted abundant good. But none remember (will receive admonition) except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding).8

This article is meant to acknowledge for its esteemed readers that the task outlined above is certainly not easy, if nigh impossible. Imprint psychology plays the foremost role. Veneration for all systems heavenly or man-made, are a priori imprinted. Not impervious to the authority of its Creator, we take up the Quran as the only absolute, in the ever changing dominion of God. A pillar to be grasped after all pillars have fallen, an elixir of life, when ones own shadow has departed. Leaving only tears in the eyes, falling on its leaves.

1. Quran (1:1). 2. Quran (38:29). 3. The Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam, Mohammad Iqbal. 4. Quran (18:109). 5. Nature of Popular Religion, David Hume 6. Nature of Popular Religion, David Hume. 7. Quran (14:52). 8. Quran (2:269).

SCALING THE HEAVENS

Love is not to be learned from men: it is one of God's gifts and comes of His grace The Mystics of Islam

Everyone who is left far from his source Wishes back the time when he was united with it. Jalal al-Din Rumi.

There is a life in you, search that life,Search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body,Hey you, the passing away friend, look for with all your strength,Whatever you are looking for, look in yourself not around. Jalal al-Din Rumi.. When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found The Mystics of Islam

Mohammad Iqbal

I like Islam. It is a consistent [or consequential] idea of religion and open-minded. Kurt Godel

Love thy Creator with all thy power and might Matthew 22:37

Sharing the food is to me more important than arguing about beliefs. Jesus, according to the gospels, thought so too. Freeman Dyson.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7.7 Lord, give me what you ask of me and ask me what you will. St Augustine

For an Ego which does not change does not endure. Henri Bergson

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. Mohammad Iqbal Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. Dr Mohammad Iqbal R.A The teaching of the Quran that life is a process of progressive creation necessitates that each generation, guided but unhampered by the work of its predecessors, should be permitted to solve its own problems. Dr Mohammad Iqbal R.A

In reality Mans only guide and enlightener is God. Reason and the proofs adduced by reason are unable to direct anyone into the right way. Hazrat Syed Ali Hajveri R.A.

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton. Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A

Oh God do not give me wealth which makes me proud, do not give me poverty which makes me despair, and do not give me a country that takes away my faith Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A

The Destiny is somewhere very close to the quest of the seeker. Dr Arshad Waheed.

If you are in search of Reality, it is impossible to discover it without Quran. Engineer Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood.

Quran is the last book of God, includes messages of all previous Prophets, a refined and beautiful collection of physics and metaphysics. Engineer Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood.

The point is that love will go away if we can't communicate and share meaning. The love between Einstein and Bohr gradually evaporated because they could not communicate. David Bohm

In the beginning of everything we had fireworks of unimaginable beauty. Then there was the explosion followed by the filling of heavens with smoke. We come too late to do more than to visualize the splendor of creations birthday. Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaitre.

MESSAGES FROM OUTER SPACEThe presence and search for intelligent life on planets in our galaxy and the universe is an endeavor, captivating the minds of philosophers and scientists, transcending caste, creed, race, religions or national divides. NASA formally started a program in 1992, to discover intelligent signals from other earth like worlds, the observations called SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence), were conducted in the radio frequency range. Millions of dollars have been spent to find that one SIGNAL from outer space in the hope would provide mankind with tremendous knowledge from civilizations, far advanced technologically, bearing insights into the great heavens itself. A vast number of people are engaged in the search to find out, if we are alone or are there other more intelligent beings. Organizations like SETI Institute and the Planetary Society are in the forefront.

Radio Telescope Arecibo. Puerto Rico Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico by Waleska Ruiz.

The Very Large Array is a group of 27 bowl-shaped radio antennas in the state of New Mexico. Each antenna is 82 feet (25 meters) across. When used together they make one very powerful radio telescope.

Now we have the tools to narrow our search. Earth based radio and optical telescopes in tandem with man made satellites are scanning the sky, in the entire electro magnetic spectrum. New scientific ideas are being developed to look into other alternatives, other systems. The recent advancement in finding extra solar planets every two weeks have given tremendous optimism that one day we might CONTACT. The abundance of elements, of what constitute life is brimming, in the whole universe. We have already started finding, the factors on the right side of Francis Drakes famous equation.N = R* fp ne fl fi fc LWhere,N = The number of civilizations in The Milky Way Galaxy whose electromagnetic emissions are detectable.R* =The rate of formation of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life.fp = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems.ne = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life.fl = The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears.fi = The fraction of life bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges.fc = The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.L = The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.Within the limits of our existing technology, any practical search for distant intelligent life must necessarily be a search for some manifestation of a distant technology. In each of its last four decadal reviews, the National Research Council has emphasized the relevance and importance of searching for evidence of the electromagnetic signature of distant civilizations .9 Are we alone in the cosmos, or are there other intelligent being or beings. What influence and effect do they have or will have on our daily lives. How did the origin and evolution of the universe and the earth leading to mankind occur?. Thecreation of the heavens and earthis fargreater than the creation of mankind. But most ofmankinddo not know it..10 What is the nature of Time?. What is non locality and quantum entanglement?. What is consciousness, are all of our strivings towards a Universal Consciousness. Is it possible to communicate with the Universal Consciousness?. Is it possible to communicate with the extraterrestrials with the Will of this Universal Consciousness? What are the after effects of the new world order?, how are the sweat shops of the worlds transforming the once divine rights of the Kings into the divine rights of the Corporations their greedy cahoots, who under the guise of democracy and human rights are committing the worst atrocities known in history. Is economic emancipation of the poor more fundamental to them then their spiritual yearnings? How can Inter-Galactic space travel be initiated?. Is Dialogue essential to the survival of human species, essential and vital questions of our era? Highly skeptical of phenomenon we cannot see through the telescope, the microscope, the bubble chamber or verified by the large hadron collider. Indirect evidence like an astronomical string shifting the background cosmic radiation slightly, one day could confirm our belief in the string theory. Science has taught us to respect logic and rationality only. Robert Briffault in Rational evolution says. The last three centuries have witnessed the continuous growth of skepticism, not merely in regard to the dogmas of religions, but in regard to all things which fail to furnish a clear and rational account of themselves.11 Do scriptures or Noble books like the Torah, Psalms, Bible and Quran qualify as messages not extracted from the human mind, but a product of an unknown source outside the universe. From extra space dimensions or parallel universes, or supra space. Lets us take up this challenge and reflect on there relevance and, their unrelenting control on a large portion of mankind. Translations of any book often tend to obscure its meanings from the original text, as some western critics, claim there is no consensus in the verses of the Quran, as one can pretty much read what you wanted into them. Here a leap in Faith occurs, like Supernovae, triggered by intensive reading of the Quran, prayers of a parent, or a soul shattering event, clearing its meaning by the personal Grace of God. Quran is a book of guidance for those striving to find themselves, in the vast cosmic ocean of utter darkness where light is a rarity, transforming to pure Gold in that one instance, one moment in eternity which might never return. A book which unravels and unfolds on the deep recesses, of the heart in the emptiness of the dark nights and in the early morning fragrances of dawn. Bringing its reader, closer to the speech of its Creator and the Creator Himself. Finding solace and comfort in the intrinsic and unique relations, God grants each soul, numbered exactly, passing from the primeval to higher stages, in the development and evolution of what Mohammad Iqbal defined, the inner Anfus (self) and outer fq (world) experiences. Abdullah Yusuf Ali explains. Allahs greatness and infinitude are such that He can create and cherish not only a whole mass, but each individual soul, and He can follow its history and doings until the final Judgement. This shows not only Allahs glory and omniscience and omnipotence: it also shows the value of each individual soul in His eyes, and lifts individual responsibility right up into relations with Him.12

Explained in the following verse of the Quran.

Your creation and resurrection are like the creation and resurrection of a single soul.13

The pragmatic world is a world of diversity, like colony of Bees, each individual working for the common good of the whole. Each worthy of Gods grace. It is the human personality both physiologically and psychologically, which, bent on its own self destruction, sets limits to attaining, an indestructible personality both here and the hereafter, succumbing to temporary biological satisfactions. A starting point in the Quran is the immense importance each human being holds with God, and the subsequent need of self control, accompanied by the opening up of torrents of divine bliss on each soul man or women a spiritual attainment which has no parallels. Provided he or she takes the initiative and maintains that control starting with the humbleness of the heart and a prayer for forgiveness, and for His love and Fiendship. As the Lord the Creator and the Sustainer, the most Gracious and the most Merciful remarks in His own words.

If it had been Our Will, We should have elevated him With Our Signs; but he Inclined to the earth, And followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that Of a dog: if you attack Him, he lolls out his tongue, Or if you leave him alone, He (still) lolls out his tongue. That is the similitude Of those who reject Our Signs; So relate the story; Perchance they may reflect.14

The verses 7-176 mentioned being a simile, carry a very deep message. Over coming the unbridled temptations.

1. The study of modern psychology, helps us in controlling and overcoming the negative traits or the impulses of the reptilian brain/mind still at work, is ultimately based on the knowledge acquired through the theory of natural selection and hence its limitations. In Islam or for that matter in any major Abrahamic religion be it Judaism or Christianity this ego/self is at its lowest level with it's urge for greed and lust a hurdle and a hindrance in acquiring the greatest level of spiritual attainment which is Nafs Al Mutminah.(soul at peace). And hence a comparison with a dog in seeing where the first hurdle lies. Nafs Ammarah which prompts to evil. This inner transformation of the soul is the essential spiritual message of Quran, and for that matter all the Noble books revealed to the earlier Prophets, while seeking assistance from the Ayahs or Signs in the study of nature (one example being in studying the characteristics of a dog both negative, and at other times positive, in acting as the protective companion of the dwellers of the cave) and along with that study of History (studying the end of mighty empires which succumbed, to these unbridled temptations under the guise of unremitting freedoms, even altering the language , where calling each other a dog becoming a slang, as synonymous with a friend). Nature, History, and Shariah accompanied by and including the inner transformation Tazkiyah e Nafs as expressed in the observations of Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A as the three sources of Knowledge in Quran is eloquently defined/combined in the verses of Sura Al Jathiyaah, Sura Al Qaf, Sura Al Fajr, and Sura Al Insan. However a fourth source, repeatedly alluded to in the Quran is the Hereafter, and the numerous knowledge yielding verses, therewith inciting humans, how to act in this world in a certain way, to reap the rewards, in that everlasting life, where death becomes only a migration/transfer or Intiqal, for those blessed with Divine Grace, in this world. 2. The Quran mentions animals and birds, as organized communities just like humans. A sign for those, asking for a miracle from God. And those not engaged in their studies in, Darul Hikmets/Laboratories as a divine command, as worst still. It is meaningful to note, that humans showing characteristics, of animals like a dog, are called da'bbah a hint at their evolutionary trait/ nature.

The Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane describes da'bbah,Anything that walks [or creeps or crawls] upon the earth , an animal that walks or creeps or crawls , discriminating and not discriminating , any animal upon the earth including humans in contrast to angels. For the worst of Beasts In the sight of Allah Are the deaf and the dumb Those who understand not. (8:22)

Hear the Creator calls humans, by using the same word dabbah or beasts and the worst among them, for not using their intellect, on being deaf and dumb to the guidance and knowledge in Quran. Never caring to use their Aql (intellect) for fathoming its message, thinking it to be outdated, and a superstitious document of the old. We cannot entirely blame, the logical and the gifted, who want to take everything on the face value, elaborated by the misnomer, that the scientific method, or study of nature is the only truth and knowledge yielding reality. For those reading this article, and belonging in this category of the logical, can never, ever reach the Ultimate Reality without first reading the Quran, and subsequently, attaining the perfection of the soul or ego, by methods as practiced by eastern Sufism, elaborated by Dr Mohammad Iqbal in the last chapter of his book Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam on Is Religion possible. Which holds nothing less then a direct vision of Reality, with remembrance or Zikar of God being the foremost devotion to attaining this path. Otherwise we will, spend our lives, in search of evidences, not forthcoming. A director of the soul or a Murshid/Guide is highly recommendable.

Learning about the animals their traits and behavior in the mention of a dog, bee, spider, gnat, camel, and humans too if they do not evolve spiritually remaining Al-Hayawan Natiq a talking animal, or a cultured animal/biological machine. The contemporary studies in genetics and on the role of reproduction is pointed in the Quran, as the seminal seed or fluid in various verses one being.

Then tell Me (about) the human semen that you emit.

Is it you who create it (i.e. make this semen into a perfect human being), or are We the Creator?

Every change including the quantum fluctuations from the Big Bang to the creation of large scale structures, including clusters and super clusters involve Fractals. All these seeds whether of the Big Bang or the seed of the human reproduction or the plant have an ingrained mathematical or biological DNA leading to order out of chaos through fractals. Those who do not want to reflect and understand, given to an example of a donkey carrying books, having learned Quran in their younger years, but never fathoming at the later. Studying and observing birds, DARPA the defense agency in US is trying to make drones easily maneuverable in a forest. Dolphins and sea lions are trained and used in naval warfare in varying capacities.

Based on the ayahs and inspirations derived from Quran an Ulul Albab, can attain a supreme degree of spiritual development, while neither neglecting the power and strength accompanied in their scientific and engineering aspects/folds.Eloquently described in the following verses, in reflecting on the universe, and acquiring scientific power, along with obtaining spiritual training.

Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that Allah hath created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who are God conscious.

This fusion of the study of heavens and earth and acquiring Taqwa in its highest form is only possible through the inner transformation of the mystical scientist. Attesting to the holographic nature of the universe and the mind conjoined together in the Ulul Albab. One working at the level of sense perception and other at possibly similar or close, to which William James alludes to as the Subliminal selves. Reading the same book, in three places, Ayat Allah in nature(Ilm), the polished heart(Getting Guidance From Allah Subanhu) of the Momin/Ulul Albab/Muttaqi and in the Noble Quran(Book) a unity reflected in the Ulul Albab.

3. And hence the importance of Reflection and Reason in most if not all (the unseen) at the end.

'We explain the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, laws, etc.) in detail for the people who reflect'. Quran 10:24.

The Lane-Arabic dictionary defines Qom as A people, or body of persons composing a community.

This self restraint can not be attained without the Will of Almighty Allah (swt).

Nor come nigh to unlawful sex For it is a shameful (deed) And an evil, opening the road (To other evils). 15

The Almighty forgives all sins, for He knows the secrets and the inner most thoughts and desires of His servants, if they ask for true repentance, Allah the most Gracious and the most Merciful responds with

Shaitan (Satan) threatens you with poverty and orders you to commit Fahsha (evil deeds, illegal sexual intercourse, sins etc.); whereas Allah promises you Forgiveness from Himself and Bounty, and Allah is All-Sufficient for His creatures' needs, All-Knower

Life resembles a traveler on the land and sea, as the Quran says:He it is who enables you To traverse through the land And sea; so that you even board Shipsthey sail with them With a favorable wind, And they rejoice there at; Then comes a stormy wind And the waves come to them From all sides, and they think They are being overwhelmed: They cry unto Allah, sincerely Offering (their) duty unto Him, Saying, If Thou dost deliver us From this ,we shall truly Show our gratitude!

But when He delivers them Behold! They transgress Insolently through the earth In defiance of right! O mankind! Your insolence Is against your own souls An enjoyment of the life Of the Present: in the end, To us is your return, -And We shall show you The truth of all that you did.16And Again

Or ( Unbelievers state) Is like the depth of darkness In a vast deep ocean, Overwhelmed with billow Topped by billow, Topped by (dark) clouds: Depths of darkness, one Above another: if a man Stretches out his hand, He can hardly see it! For any to whom Allah Giveth not light, There is no light! 17

Once Allah (swt), guides to the straight path by His Will as these verses explain, we need to be consistently vigilant from the evil of Satan, the men or women, whom we might try to imitate, for life is all about imitation, processing information and data from all around us. We need Quran and the company of the Aulia Allah(friends of God), and ultimately become Aulia Allah by the Grace of Allah(swt).

Wherewith, Allah guides all Who seek His good pleasure To ways of peace and safety, And lead them out Of darkness, by His Will, Unto the lightguides them To a Path that is Straight 18These verses trace the history of each soul as it passes through trials and tribulations in the spiritual journey in search for God, in most cases blind, deaf and dumb, in the darkness of night or day with heavy overcast and thunder, lightning letting him or her see the truth for a short duration, then overcome again with doubt and inertia. Travelers and seafarers, many of whom have physically experienced these phenomena while at sea, now equally apply to spacefarers travelling in the vast oceans of space, in the last 50 years. In a thousand years the solar system would have been colonized. The Oort cloud mined for minerals.Prophet Mohammad (May peace and blessing of Allah be upon him), was only a messenger, of God, like any messenger before him. The greatest miracle bestowed upon him is the Quran, the word of Allah Subana-hu.The most successful human being, both on the secular as well as the religious plane, as described by Michael Hart, first among the 100 greatest people who ever lived. When and before success came to him, he chose to live as the poorest of the poors, with a house barely high enough to let him in, with having no doors but a sack hanging at the entrance, where in the fire did not burn for days on end to cook food ( notes Dr Abdal Hakim Murad). Do Muslims differentiate among the prophets, certainly not. They all practiced the same message. Jesus (May peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) being elevated by none other then the Creator Himself. These are not mere coincidences, the major hurdle in understanding is either you have this sense or you do not. For any to whom Allah Giveth not light, There is no light! 19

COSMOLOGY AND ISLAM

Intuition and reason are amenable to one and the other only that one lags behind. Gdels incompleteness for every evidence comes a counter evidence, every logical entity with a counter logical entity ad infinitum, mere coincidence for the agnostic, but a Divine Plan in the Zahir the exoteric and the Batin the esoteric in a realization towards a Unity by righteous deeds attested in the length and breadth of Quran in serial, relativistic and mystical time, ordering order out of chaos, as Quran says that Batil will be defeated by Haq. It is by the virtue of this Tahqiq inside the heart which when illuminated by Divine Light acting in the Ruh, that transcending knowledge , and true meaning of the word intellect is realized by the realization and actualization as a Sufi saint says The moment I realized the oneness of God, The flame of His love shone within me and lead me on.Constantly it burns in my heart, revealing its mysteries,This fire of loves burns me from inside with no smoke, fueled by my longing,I found Him closer than my jugular vein,My love has brought me face to face with Him. ( Hazrat Sultan Bahu)

Leading to the love of the Ultimate Divine in the heart of the Ulul Albab. Two seemingly separate dimensions to be worked on in the same breath as a single moment, in the unity achieved with the inspiration of the word of God the Quran. Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are indeed Signs for men and women of understanding. Men and women who celebrate the praises of Allah, standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth, (With the thought): "Our Lord! not for naught Hast Thou created (all) this! Glory to Thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the Fire. Quran (3:190). 20

Islamic cosmology, are Ayaat Ullah, the Signs emanating from the Word of God (Hadith Allah) both in the cosmos, the human and the prophetic revelation the Glorious Quran. What are these signs in the human?. All animals possess extraordinary abilities, the dolphin able to navigate by the sonar, the salmon and pigeons, including the migratory birds using the earth magnetic field to migrate thousands of miles, humans being the only animal in the tree of evolution, besides possessing an advanced cognitive facility having the potential to communicate with a Higher Power.

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And (Ve people!) In the creation of yourselves and whatever God does to spread animals (throughout the earth) are Signs for a people which believes (in the truth of the Universe). (Reflect on the word Ayaat which is being repeatedly used).

A small Seljuk Qur'anIraq, probably Baghdad, AH [5]54/AD 1159Arabic manuscript on cream coloured paper, 284 leaves, 15 lines of text to the page, copied in elegant blacknaskhiscript, the text fully vocalised with recital marks in red, of the double page frontispiece, only the left-hand half remaining, with two half circles arranged vertically with a central full circle and bold foliate designs, in gold, dark blue and sepia, followed by a double page illumination with borders featuring half circles and intersecting loops in gold outlined in black and highlighted in dark blue, with the central rectangles containing the text ofal-Fatihahand the beginning ofSurat al-Baqarah, gold rosettes for verse endings, verse-counts and Qur'anic divisions marked with marginal ornaments illuminated in gold, major Qur'anic divisions also marked in the margin in goldthuluthscript,suraheadings in goldthuluthscript with marginal palmettes, the last two pages with gold borders, containing the text of the dated colophon, trimmed to fit later stamped and tooled leather binding, with box92 x 80 mm.(2)FOOTNOTES This very rare Qur'an was produced during a period of the Abbasid Empire when the caliphate in Baghdad was entirely dominated by the Seljuks, which began with the Caliph al-Qa'im in AD 1055 and lasted till AD 1194. It is a fine example of the great Islamic artistic traditions that were revived and much enhanced under the patronage of the grand Seljuk Sultans and particularly the illustrious Vizir Nizam al-Mulk. This Qur'an manuscript is of great significance and ranks in its group of extant Qur'ans next to the Qur'an of Ibn al-Bawwab, now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin and the Qur'ans in the Nasser D. Khallili Collection of Islamic Art (David James,The Master Scribes: Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries, Oxford, 1992, pp.22-29).SALEROOM NOTICES Additional note: the manuscript has two replacement leaves at the beginning of surat al-Imran and is misbound. The last verses of surat Maryam appear before the beginning of surat Taha, whilst the first 38 verses appear in a different place.

Signs both in the physiological and the psychological arenas, the human body, brain and the self, a subject of inquiry for men and women of learning of all the great civilizations from eons ago to the present, equally of interest for the philosopher, physician , and the meta-physician. Advancement in multi-disciplines of Ilm (knowledge) is unraveling layers upon layers of intricate, sophisticated, seemingly endless mystery of these most amazing beings called the homo-sapiens. Able to study the animals scattered on earth and to delve into their own creation. The earth a living and breathing entity supporting a host of species of plants and animals, a precise cardiac rhythm, balancing the eco-systems.

Ha-Mim.

The revelation of the Book is from Allah the Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.

Verily in the heavens and the earth, are Signs for those who believe

And in the creation of yourselves and the fact that animals are scattered (through the earth), are Signs for those of assured Faith.

And in the alternation of Night and Day, and the fact that Allah sends down Sustenance from the sky, and revives therewith the earth after its death, and in the change of the winds,- are Signs for those that are wise.

Such are the Signs of Allah, which We rehearse to thee in Truth; then in what exposition will they believe after (rejecting) Allah and His Signs?Fractal geometry with its self similar patterns in the Galaxies, the earth, mountains, trees, even in our veins attest to the same speech by the same Creator, and the same style of the speech in the Quran with its single verse, appearing in self similar pattern throughout laden with layer upon layer of new meanings.

Humans the recipients of these divine commandants able to ponder the ebb and flow of the oceans, the migration of the blue whales, protecting itself and its offsprings from the vicious attacks of the killer whales, the plankton rising from the sea floor to the surface , every evening and returning before dawn. The alternation of night and day creating cyclical movements in the jet streams, and ocean currents, modeling the atmosphere.

Algal blooms

Echinoderm Ludia sarsii

Quran mentions the creation of humans as no less in scale as the creation of the heavens and the earth.

The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind, yet most of mankind know not.

Able to acquire a discourse with Allah Almighty through knowledge, inner guidance and a book of revelation.

Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the Samawate (heavens )and on Ardh (earth), and has made his bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, (both) seen and unseen? Yet there are among men those who dispute about Allah, without knowledge and without guidance, and without a Book to enlighten them!(Al Quran 31:20).Now these Ayaat are gifts of Allah Almighty derived from.1. Ilm (Knowledge) 2. Hidaya (Illumination of the heart ,Allah the Most Merciful and the Most Kind personal guidance)3. Quran. Signs or Ayaats from the above mentioned three sources in their totality constitute Hikmah (wisdom) as described in the following verses He grants Hikmah to whom He pleases, and he, to whom Hikmah is granted, is indeed granted abundant good. But none remember (will receive admonition) except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding).8 Now as there are different frames of references within which humans act, an ensemble of various belief systems, compartmentalized into materialistic and the otherworldly, the logical/scientific/modern/rationale and the intuitionist/religious/mystical/mythical, the profane and profound. Does there exists a unifying formula, a summation Ni=n1+n2+n3+n4-------infinity. A summation of the knowledge as revealed to Abraham and the latter Prophets, from Moses to Jesus and to Mohammad. Is there a book which sheds light, minutely on all aspects of humanely existence.Luckily we do, when the Quran reveal its secrets, to every seeker so attuned by Divine Wisdom and Divine Grace.But how we can attune our selves as such, to receive Divine Guidance, from the Quran, what are the obstacles in this path?

Allah! La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists. Neither slumber, nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His Permission? He knows what happens to them (His creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter . And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge except that which He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most High, the Most Great. [This Verse 2:255 is called Ayat-ul-Kursi.] When we start on a journey and path of finding an entity beyond space and time, unaffected by slumber and sleep, weariness and fatigue , the first thing we do is read, or meet those endowed with such knowledge. Can be from the Quran, or Bible or a Bhagavad Gita or a commentary in books written by a philosopher, a scientist, an anthropologist, a sociologist, a psychologist, etc, but no matter how great the authors appear, to be, he or she is still a mortal. As if not all, most of them, and this including the minds, we come across and generally start our first debate with, hold a subset of the Universal set, though tending to be all knowing. Our intellect lies, in finding and picking, the good coins from the bad ones that is being pragmatic, as stressed by Dr Timothy Winter, not ignoring anyone. We slowly form a world view, with or without a Creator. A world view with a Creator is attained, only by the Will of the Creator, or otherwise one is continually afflicted by a condition defined as Rijis or doubt. For ultimately even the reading of Quran, is to be sought with prayers, as in the opening verses, to guide one on the Siraat-ul-Mustaqeem the straight path, the path on those whom Divine Guidance manifests.

And if your Lord had pleased, surely all those who are in the earth would have believed, all of them; will you then force men till they become believers?No soul can believe, except by the Will of Allah, and He will place doubt (or obscurity) on those who will not understand.

Say, "Observe what is in the heavens and earth." But of no avail will be signs or warners to a people who do not believe.Aptly described by Karl Jasper everything is an object for us, and it may be the greatest, still it is continually with in an another it is not yet all. And the Creative Evolution of Henri Bergson, in its emphasis on consciousness, as a means to becoming in pure duration, an active and creative partner, with the best of the Creators, the Lord of the Worlds. Able to break the mold of this world.

Quran stresses the importance of knowledge (Ilm ), and those pursuing natural phenomena as men and women of knowledge (Alamoon) , fearing God the most in the following verses

Seest thou not that Allah sends down rainFrom the sky? With itWe then bring out produceOf various colours.And in the mountainsAre tracts white and red,Of various shades of colour.And black intense in hue.And so amongst menAnd crawling creatures and cattle,Are they are various colours.Those truly fear Allah,Among His Servants,Who have knowledge.(Al Quran 35-27) 23.

Allah Almighty grants guidance through the divine books of revelation starting with Torah, Psalms, Bible and the Quran. All an endeavor for the personal development of a human from instincts acquired through evolution, to a balanced middle way, being waylaid by the fellow traveler to Satan and his friends in this movement towards the Almighty. Every moment riddled by a conglomerate of ideas, even the scholars reading the Divine message, as sectional and mutually exclusive.

This discourse is further elaborated in the following verses Quran 2:255.And warning destruction if humans astray.

Do they not look in the dominion of the Samawate (heavens) and the Ardh(earth) and all things that Allah has created, and that it may be that the end of their lives is near? In what message after this will they then believe?Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson pointing to the ever present danger of the human species being wiped out by a catastrophic event, to the architect of evolution, the co-discoverer Dr Alfred Russel Wallace assigning an Intelligent Power.

Allah the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful constantly creating and sustaining, the universe and earth with His seen and unseen blessings accordingly as to the needs of the recipient and its evolving form, created from nothing to an onward stage in its evolution called the order out of chaos in the life of an individual, a community and the universe. The word of Allah (Kalimat Allah, embedded as the unity of the universe/ body/ brain/mind/soul/Ruh). With reflection in the creation of heavens and earth, the alternation of night and day, the remembrances of God, while standing, sitting and lying, finding laws of nature with understanding a purpose in life, to asking forgiveness from the fire. Finding laws of nature in the universe, or Ilm (science) constitutes only a part of the whole Islamic cosmology. Each human having the potential to develop, into an integral interface between the cosmos, a polished heart and the prophetic revelation, receiving guidance from each establishing a continuum. Ayaat Ullah within human the Ahsan Taqweem the most perfect, subtle, intricate and the most complicated creature, bound by all the laws of nature, not just a by product in turn having a cognitive brain. The signs this interface interprets between the seen (Afaq) and the unseen (Anfus) demands the same criterion for checking their validity, as in the Ayaat. (Quran: 17:36). An outer and an inner experience validating the teachings of Quran on this Ulul Albab ( ) the Vice-Regent.

Nothing is worse for a faithful..believer than not deservethe pains he undergoesThe peak of souls exaltation is notthe moment everything is satisfactoryThe loving faith is notthe one tried besides various foodsand cool pleasant springsThe worshiped and kingdom is for the oneone whos had a share of a great painMulla Sadra.

. .Quran informs us of this unity between thought and intuition in the following verses.

Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that Allah hath created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who are God conscious.

Where a whole community achieves consciousness of the Creator through reflecting on His Signs in the cosmos and in the microcosm the human heart endowed with Taqwa. As our mystic philosopher, mathematician and poet Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A describes.

Sahib e Nazar sees this universe like a book of revelation, this is also a book in which there is no doubt, with the same Creator and the same style of creation, Quran contains a description of the universe, and the universe an exegesis and understanding of Quran, one who denies the reality of the universe cannot believe in any divine book. This universe is full of signs of intricate beauty, there recitation constitutes the pastime of these Sahib e Nazar. Sahib e Fikr, and Sahib e Zikr find the real universe through contemplation of these signs. They know that the sustainer of a seed in earths darkness, and the revelation of Quran are from the same Being. The Being who creates life in the womb of its mother.In modern scientific community, we see in David Bohm being on the verge of contemplating the Ultimate truth, as close as possible since our ancestors, viewed things as a whole, when he speaks on perception. In physics we see the parts because thats the way we approach them last few centuries, I think our perception is influenced by our way of thinking so that we accept this mechanical way of looking at things, but if you went back a thousand or two thousand years I dont think the people actually saw the parts as primary, the way we see depends on the way we think you see.

I would emphasize here that mystical experience has parallels in the scientific inductive method only that it occurs by a mechanism not understood by modern science, the cognitive mind based physiology/psychology. Suppressing and interrupting the usual dreams in the Freudian mode, like an emergency broadcast system, however short to long depending on the contents of the message, passive but very, concise and authoritative unlike any other if one experiences it for the first time, in his or her life. During which the mind of the recipient does not astray. A mystical insight, in a dream like posture or when fully conscious , remains on hold as long as the Grace of God is on hold here I mean His personal guidance, otherwise in the complete absence of His Grace we would not exist , for as the following ayaat/signs mention, If it had been Our Will, We should have elevated him With Our Signs; but he Inclined to the earth, And followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that Of a dog: if you attack Him, he lolls out his tongue, Or if you leave him alone, He (still) lolls out his tongue. That is the similitude Of those who reject Our Signs; So relate the story; Perchance they may reflect.(7:176) This self restraint can not be attained without the Will of Almighty Allah the subsequent elevation comes after the above verses are acted upon, as actions and deeds constitute the basis of all spiritual attainment. Allah the Mighty and the Most Wise speaks about a person who was physically alive, but psychically dead, in depth of darkness without Divine Guidance and His light, comes to life with His Grace, compared to one who will always remain, in the state of death in life, never to come out.Can he who was dead, to whom We gave life, and a light whereby he can walk amongst men, be like him who is in the depths of darkness, from which he can never come out? Thus to those without faith their own deeds seem pleasing.

This Light is the cause /modus operandi, of all evolving forms, in consciousness, mind and matter, the individual unable to perceive, the cause, other then laws of nature, fails to realize that all the forces in the world, have joined together, to give form and direction, to this individual, with the potential to become the best in Gnosis/Taqwa, provided he or she constantly remembers the Almighty and undertakes the righteous deeds, expressed in the length and breadth of Quran and Sunnah, along with remaining in the company of those, on whom the blessings of the, Lord of the East and West are showered.

(Lord), guide us to the right path,

The path of those to whom You have granted blessings, those who are neither subject to Your anger nor have gone astray.

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Every individual man or women has this inherent capacity for such an experience. Though being on hold as I mention above could be for any of the following or more reasons.

1. Shirk 2. Not remembering Allah Almighty constantly.3. Not practicing the injunctions of the Quran.4. Not knowing and obeying the difference between Halal and Haram.5. Disobedience to parents and the rightfully guided.6. Lewd practices, including unlawful sex.7. Devouring and practicing Usury.8. Backbiting, pride, conceit, self-projection, jealousy, hatred, grudges.

The hold lifted for reasons ultimately known to God, but from a human perceptive probably the whole history of an individual being watched by the Almighty, culminates in His Grace, after the merger of both the Shariah and the Taskiyah e Nafs, triggered by intensive reading of Quran or after an incidence of utter grief, and pain, of unusual proportions, the weeping and longing after the departure of a beloved on the earth, transformed into the love of the Almighty Who sustains every soul after death. When the Almighty sees the true repentance and utter helplessness (Ikhlas), in the heart of this forgotten servant, He replaces the wrong doings with the best of what he has done.

So that Allah willTurn off from them(Even) the worst in their deedsAnd give them their rewardAccording to the best Of what they have done.As the Lord of the Worlds interacts every second, with the activity of every soul, and grants glad tidings to those recipients He pleases.

In whatever business thou mayest be, and whatever portion thou mayest be reciting from the Qur'an,- and whatever deed ye (mankind) may be doing,- We are witnesses thereof when ye are deeply engrossed therein. Nor is hidden from thy Lord (so much as) the weight of an atom on the earth or in heaven. And not the least and not the greatest of these things but are recorded in a clear record.

Behold! Verily on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve;

Those who believe and (constantly) guard against evil;-

For them are glad tidings, in the life of the present and in the Hereafter; no change can there be in the words of Allah. This is indeed the supreme felicity.

A new journey starts accompanied by the Divine Gift of that self understanding of the Quran on the heart which purifies all sins, at that moment, starting a new beginning with the servant praying.

They say): "Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate (from the truth) after You have guided us, and grant us mercy from You. Truly, You are the Bestower."

Though not easy to come and being one of the greatest mysteries, along with self-understanding of the Quran, mystic experience as Muhammad Iqbal says is as real as any in the domain of sense-perception, and what William James alludes to One may say truly, I think, that personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness .and I think I shall at least succeed in convincing you of the reality of the states in question, and of the paramount importance of their function. This latter peculiarity connects mystical states with certain definite phenomena of secondary or alternative personality, such as prophetic speech, automatic writing, or the mediumistic trance.Professor Tyndall, in a letter, recalls Tennyson saying of this condition: "By God Almighty! there is no delusion in the matter! It is no nebulous ecstasy, but a state of transcendent wonder, associated with absolute clearness of mind." Memoirs of Alfred Tennyson, ii. 473.

A hadith of the Prophet reflects on 46 different criterion of Revelation, the only one left being a true dream by Allah the Most Merciful and the Most Gracious, and subsequent division of dreams into those generated by the devil and the conscious/soul/nafs. When a human starts to observe these subtle insights/messages/occurrences/changes/visions, brought into his or her life, by the Grace of Allah (swt), the knower of both the seen and the unseen. It re-integrates such a soul with the light of the Almighty, needing perpetual and constant nourishment through Taqwa.And when these latter verses ask us to follow only that knowledge, both in the cosmos and in the unseen which satisfy the criterion of being verified by that of ears, eyes and a polished heart.

And pursue not thatOf which thou hastNo knowledge; forEvery act of hearing,Or of seeing,Or of (feeling in) the heartWill be enquired into(On the day of Reckoning).An emphasis on the empirical in the domain of the sense perception and reliance on observation, in accord with the injunctions of the above verses, although the words (Hadith) of God are always true, for the explicit use of its acme creation, whether in Universe/ Earth or Divine Revelation with Nafs Mutminah/Ulul Albab/Muttaqi/Momin deriving knowledge from Ilham/kashf/Wahy/Hadith Allah or Ayaah in nature. But still challenging to prove otherwise, by creating a similar verse.

(Ve Muhammad)l These Ayaat which We are rehearsing to thee as Truth are the Signs of God. Then (tell me) in what more authentic exposition would they believe after the Words of God and His Signs (deduced from Nature) Quran (45:1-7).Accordingly to their need here means each point in space-time continuum constitutes a continuous recipient of divine inspiration, changing the inanimate matter, into human consciousness or a divinely inspired bee each demanding a separate inspiration. Each ayaat whether in the divine book of nature or the prophetic revelation, to the inspiration of a friend (Auylia Allah) all a command from Allah Almighty. In moments of rarity I have experienced the following.1. A light hovering above and the subsequently electrifying the whole body. 2 A vision Those who follow

Behold! In the creationOf the heavens and the earthAnd the alternation Of Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding.

Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire." Will attain Salvation from the hell fire Magfirah, and following these verses constitute Surat-e-Mustaqeem. In an explanation of the above two phenomenon, the first one is described in devotional Sufism as a security clearance of the Self, on its way to discovery.The second pertains to of the minds ability to receive knowledge from different/other levels of consciousness without having to suspend, the cognitive abilities, hence the need for

3.In the way to this discovery or in the journey of seeking the Ultimate Truth, the seeker finds isolation, unable to share the moments of this discovery, with the friends and family, as everyone is given to their own lives and shortcomings, depending on the psychological makeup of the seeker and the friends around. It is at this moment the ability to guide from one step to another, from one duration to the next, is taken over by the Divine light or Khayal/Intuition. And the seeker tries to live through conscious/unconscious effort, as the exegeses of the Quran, emulating the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wasallam. At this stage the Divine light automatically starts to clear the hurdles one step at a time as defined in the following verses.

By the Night as it conceals (the light);

By the Day as it appears in glory;

By (the mystery of) the creation of male and female;-

Verily, (the ends) ye strive for are diverse.

So he who gives (in charity) and fears (Allah),

And (in all sincerity) testifies to the best,-

We will indeed make smooth for him the path to Bliss.

But he who is a greedy miser and thinks himself self-sufficient,

And gives the lie to the best,-

We will indeed make smooth for him the path to Misery;

Nor will his wealth profit him when he falls headlong (into the Pit).

Verily We take upon Ourselves to guide.

Usually ends up in finding a God appointed guide, a man of limited material means but extremely rich in Gnosis/Taqwa. Under whos guidance, slowly but surely, this individual undergoes the transmutation of the soul (Tazkiya) to higher realms defined in the following verses, beyond Islam and Iman to the highest stage of Ihsan.

Those who have attained to Iman (faith) and dorighteous deeds incur no blame by partaking of whatever they may have [in the past] so long as they are conscious of Allah and have Iman and do righteous deeds, and continue to being conscious of Allahand have [true] Iman, and then grow ever more conscious of Allah and do [ reach the level ] of Ihsan; and Allah loves those who have attainted to Ihsan. (Al- Maidah 5:93).

Here I do not intend to claim, a friendship of Allah the Al Salam and the Al Momin , which is reserved for those whom, He blesses with His Grace, only that I wish and pray for Allahs friendship. The innate nature of this experience precludes certain conditions, some of which I have tried to mention, and explain for the lay men and women. The email I wrote to Dr Abdul Hakim Murad on this experience and his reply are included.

From: cosmic_solutions@hotmail.comTo: tjw31@cam.ac.ukSubject: Essay on Quran for Men and Women of Understanding. ( )Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 09:54:54 +0000Dear Brother Abdul Hakim Murad

Assaalam-o-Elikum

Ramadan Mubarak, I hope you are in the best of health, God willingly. It is been a while I did not write to you. Was just trying others, as usual few people seems interested in this message. As of late nothing is happening much, one day I was really depressed, and could not bear to say my prayers. As right now I do not have a job, and sometimes it wears on me. I made a covenant with God on 15 Sep 1975, while reciting the following verses in my prayers, and promised God, I will Inshallah try my best to propagate it all my life as a mission.Behold! In the creationOf the heavens and the earthAnd the alternation Of Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding.Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire."41.

Without a teacher or a guide I had to face daunting challenges, but with the Creator being so merciful, I come again and again and again back to the Quran. One day as I was relating above that in some moments one feels to give up as I have written the whole system is set up which makes salvation very difficult specially to escape the hell fire . I had a dream, or a message as follows.

Those who follow the above verses will escape hell fire and following the above verses means Surat-e-Mustaqeem.

I have written that in my article on the importance, of the above verses, as being Surat-e-Mustaqeem in one its mode.

Recently I wrote to my former boss , and he kindly sent me his signed photograph, which I have included, with some other pictures.

The only motive being to make this article more as struggle of human being in search of Reality.

Kind Regards

Imran

Pembroke Pines, Fl

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Save time looking for addresses. Import contacts from other email accounts.Do it nowAdChoices This email refers to 15 May 1975, the day I made a covenant with the Creator, which was actually Tuesday 16th May 1975 given to the frailty of human memory, boss here refers to Dr A.Q Khan with whom I worked for 15 years to develop the nuclear centrifuge technology.

On Fractals:Lightning or the human brain,veins that carry our blood, to the veins inleaves carrying water , Fibonacci numbersin cones all a procurement from natures almonrycompleting masterpieces of art in the universe full of signs....

Intelligence of the seeker (Salik) has relatively, lesser importance and meaning, in the spiritual domain, for the Almighty not being unjust, although those of superior intelligence, can grasp the intricacies of the esoteric, easier and quicker is ultimately based on Almightys Divine Grace.

Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A mentions Imam Ghazali R.A. Ghazl, finding no hope in analytic thought, moved to mystic experience, and there found an independent content for religion. In this way he succeeded in securing for religion the right to exist independently of science and metaphysics a practice still of a multitude in rural and urban areas, spread across the Islamic world, the Sub-continent Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and now spreading across the West, with the message of sages like Maulana Rumi R.A , many of these have never ventured outside the teaching of Quran and Sunnah, having no formal education are in conversation with the Almighty. Here I would mention Iqbal, Corbin and Ahmed Afzaal respectively.

As elucidated by Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A,

There is no doubt that the treatment of religious experience, as a source of Divine knowledge, is historically prior to the treatment of other regions of human experience for the same purpose. The Quran, recognizing that the empirical attitude is an indispensable stage in the spiritual life of humanity, attaches equal importance to all the regions of human experience as yielding knowledge of the Ultimate Reality which reveals its symbols both within and without.

Those who are gifted with these symbols both within and without by the Ultimate Reality themselves become a living Ayaat (sign) of God. Reflected in their lives by their becoming a bridge between the seen and the unseen. As aptly described in his Persian poetry by Dr Mohammad Iqbal.

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And Corbin In a similar fashion, the philosophers, from Avicenna to Mulla Sadra, when considering the five states of the intellect, from the 'material'or potential intellect to the intellectus sanctus, admit that in the case of the majority of men the intellect only exists in a potential state, and that the conditions which would enable it to become active are present in a small number of men only. This being so, how could a large number of men, in the sway of their baser impulses, be in a position to form themselves into a single community observing the same law? For al-Biruni, the natural law is the law of the jungle; the antagonism between human beings can be overcome only through a divine Law, made known by a prophet or divine Messenger.And again to Ahmed Afzaal reading on the mystical mood. To have a mystical temperament indicates that ones primary and preferred method of achieving certainty is personal experience, as opposed to philosophical reasoning or acceptance of authoritative pronouncements.Islamic cosmology reaches its zenith when signs in nature (Afaq) are deeply studied and reflected upon in conjunction with signs in the Anfus(soul), and the prophetic revelation the Quran. For where would all the cosmic unfolding, on this gigantic scale be without the observer, the highest Maqaam-e- Mehmood reserved for the one who himself travelled in the night journey Al-Isra in the presence of the Almighty, His last Prophet Muhammad ((sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam), who read ayaat both in the universe and Quran, tears overflowing, when on being asked by Bilal R.A why when Allah had forgiven him all of his previous and latter sins he was crying? He replied Should not I be a devotee most grateful? A hope for his followers of becoming an Auliya Allah a friend of Allah the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful, Who forgives again and again, the true repentance of his servants. The servant in turn wakes up in the middle of the night, and discerns the following verses

Is one who is obedient to Allah, prostrating himself or standing (in prayer) during the hours of the night, fearing the Hereafter and hoping for the Mercy of his Lord (like one who disbelieves)? Say: "Are those who know equal to those who know not?" It is only men and women of understanding who will remember (i.e. get a lesson from Allah's Signs and Verses).

In the final analyses due to the extreme personal nature of the inner experience, it can only be understood and appreciated by those who are given glad tidings by Allah Subhanu-tala first hand, the Prophets, Martyrs, and the friends of God the Auliya/Mutaqeen/Momineen/Ulul Albab/Alamoon etc, not as hearsay differentiating, the misgivings of those, who do not understand and consider it as heresy.

REVERANCE FOR ALL PROPHETS

The similitude of Jesus Before Allah is that of Adam; He created him from dust, Then said to him: Be: And he was.21

One day will Allah Gather the Messengers together, And ask: What was The response you received (From men to your teaching)? They will say: We Have no knowledge: it is Thou Who knowest in full All that is hidden.

Then will Allah say: O Jesus the son of Mary! Recount My favour To thee and to thy mother. Behold! I strengthened thee With the holy spirit, So that thou didst speak To the people in infancy And in maturity. Behold! I taught thee The Book and Wisdom, The Law and the Gospel. And behold! thou didst make Out of clay. the figure of a bird, By my leave, And thou didst breath into it, And it becometh a bird By my leave, And thou didst heal those Born blind, and the lepers, By my leave. And behold! thou didst Bring forth the dead By my leave. And behold! I did Restrain the Children of Israel From (violence to thee) When thou didst show them The clear Signs, And the unbelievers among them Said: This is nothing But evident magic.22

Any attempt to resolve this dichotomy between science and reason on the one hand, and theology or Deen ( way of life) as the Quran calls it, is first to resolve the dichotomy between the Prophets, and the differences there followers preach. No man or women, or any creature of His, can deny me His love and mercy. So can no one deny me the love of his Prophets, on a personal note, we revere our fathers, but our mothers, we all love, when my mother passed away, I was devastated, only the love of God, and the love of His Prophet Jesus (May Allahs peace and blessings be upon him), saved me. When I read the verses mentioned above. Who feels more devastated then the true parents when they see in their children, affinities and a belonging for other then God. When I turned 40, she reminded me how Prophet Mohammad (May Allahs peace and blessings be upon him) received his calling at this age. Globalization instead of becoming a force for good in the comity of nations is being dragged and preceded on its one track mindset towards a fatal hedonistic and autocratic capitalism, a paradise gained is a paradise lost, as Dr Iqbal laments, In our daily social intercourse we live and move in seclusion, as it were. We do not care to reach the inmost individuality of men. We treat them as mere functions, and approach them from those aspects of their identity which are capable of conceptual treatment. The climax of religious life, however, is the discovery of the ego as an individual deeper than his conceptually describable habitual self-hood. Any breakthrough requires each of us to write ones own experiences, to open a dialogue within, in the silence of the night or in a journey into the wilderness. This is a journey each one of us needs to travel within and without in finding who we are where we came from and where we are going. Those who are dazzled by a Prophet of materialism in Lee Kuan, must seek a Confucius. Captivated by the brilliant diagnosis in treating the malaise affecting the Islamic nations by a Dr Mahathir also requires us to embark in the life and times of the likes of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, as progress becomes synonymous with spirit. When he writes,

Quran guides us in the following verses to seek lively hood being an essential part of existence, but warns of an after life besides trade and industry, verse 13:26.

Allah enlarges livelihood for whom He will, and straitened (it for whom He will); and they rejoice in the life of the world, whereas the life of the world is but brief comfort as compared with the Hereafter.

This is the right moment when the entire world is coming together due to the advent of the global media and the internet, youtube has given us access to lectures by worlds foremost authority on every subject, we are moving from an unbalanced Globalization to a need for deeper relationship and understanding of the other. A need away from the modern jet fighter and the suicide bomber. In this quest Dr Iqbal again observes The technique of medieval mysticism by which religious life, in its higher manifestations, developed itself both in the East and in the West has now practically failed and again Broadly speaking religious life may be divided into three periods. These may be described as the periods of Faith, Thought, and Discovery. In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. This attitude may be of great consequence in the social and political history of a people, but is not of much consequence in so far as the individuals inner growth and expansion are concerned. Perfect submission to discipline is followed by a rational understanding of the discipline and the ultimate source of its authority. In this period religious life seeks its foundation in a kind of metaphysics a logically consistent view of the world with God as a part of that view. In the third period metaphysics is displaced by psychology, and religious life develops the ambition to come into direct contact with the Ultimate Reality. It is here that religion becomes a matter of personal assimilation of life and power; and the individual achieves a free personality, not by releasing himself from the fetters of the law, but by discovering the ultimate source of the law within the depths of his own consciousness. As in the words of a Muslim Sufi no understanding of the Holy Book is possible until it is actually revealed to the believer just as it was revealed to the Prophet.

Also described vividly by William James There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other. The traveler in this journey experiences inner and outer storms, of unparallel nature I may mention the life and times from that of the Prophet to the present have never been conducive to this search. I