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MUHAMMAD - JESUS - ADAM
CONTENTS
1. Preface1
2. Preface 2
3. The First Prostration
4. “Man-Human” Either Superior or Inferior
5. Light and Shadow
6. Real Dialectic
7. The Psychology of Freud
8. Darwin
9. What is Rationalism? What is it not?
10. Islam - Man (Human Being) - Intellect (Reason)
11. Knowledge is a point (dot) (Hazrat Ali k.v.)
12. The Avoidance from Polytheism - Idolatry
13. Man, again
14. Everything returns to its origin
15. Chosen People (The Elect)
16. The Second Spirit
17. The War of Opposites
18. The System of Just State
19. The Command of Common Sense: to be happy
20. However
21. Gentlemanly Behavior (Nobility)
22. Europe- Europe
23. The Creation of Man
24. The Creation of Hazrat Jesus
25. Jesus is like Adam
26. The Contradiction of the Christians
27. Accepting Body as a Spirit
28. Are two Infinite /edgeless Beings possible?
29. Allah is Divine Light; Jesus is Organic
30. Christianity, straying from Divine Unity Unity-Oneness
31. Who does Allah, the Most High speak to?
32. Jesus and Adam (May peace be with them!)
33. The Perfect Man
34. Matter and Spirit
35. Seed and Soil
36. God is Fair- just
37. Loftiness
38. The Doctrine of Trinity
39. Prayer
APPENDICES
Appendix 1- The Sacred Traditions (Kudsi Hadith) about the Most High Muhammad (A.S.W.)
2. Holy Traditions (Hadith-i Sharif) about the Most High Prophet Muhammad (A.S.W.)
3. Extracts from Sirrül Esrar
4. The Verses about Hazrat Jesus in the Koran
5. The Verses about Hazrat Mary in the Koran
6. Hazrat Jesus in History
7. An Extract from the burnt off book
8. Three Articles (Inspirations) about the sayings ascribed to Hazrat Jesus the Messiah
9. An inspiration about the fact that in the Four Gospels Hazrat Jesus is not the son of Allah
10. Four great Prophets who were announced as good news by Allah
11. The Verses about Hazrat Adam and the Perfect Man
12. Sacred Traditions about Adam and the Perfect Man
13. Holy Traditions about Adam and the Perfect Man
The Last Word
Sources
PREFACE 1
SUFISM IS THE ESSENCE - KERNEL- OF RELIGION
As it is known, every scholar has interpreted religion according to himself, from his point of view. The problem is to choose the most proper one for the essence of religion. Religious interpretation of the Sufis is the most appropriate for Islam because Sufism is the teaching of the essence of religion. It is not interested in the exterior aspects, rules and canonical laws, shortly in details. Sufism tries to teach Allah, Nature, Man and the realities of them. The beauty, order and wisdom in nature are the reflections of Allah on the nature. Nature is the work of Allah and Man is the greatest work of Him, because he is consisted of a body and Spirit (Mind). He is the most superior of all the worlds because he is the synthesis of the inner and outer worlds. Sufis try to live this knowledge, order, wisdom and beauties in nature and see the physical and spiritual beauties in human and learn the divine realities of them.
“He who knows himself (his essence) knows God.”
Briefly, Sufism is the Knowledge of Allah, Wisdom and Love. Sufis know that Allah is the essence of Man (Human) and nature. This is infinite knowledge and wisdom. To know the Absolute Existence is to fall in love with this Absolute Beauty. Sufism does not deal with the Canonical Law and Jurisprudence. It does not care about the Catechism except enough knowledge for performing the worship. Shariat (Law) and Tariqat (Way) are not his aims or objectives and they are not the essential but only the details, symbols and ways.
“A Sufi looks for Allah, who has encompassed both the Earth and the Heavens and who is the infinite knowledge, beauty and energy, in human and in his heart.”
Again, a Sufi would like to learn wisdom (True Knowledge) and divine reality through deep contemplation and to love the Divine Beauty (the Absolute Beauty) through the beauties of human and nature, that is to say, he tries to acquire real love by metaphorical love.
The result of this is good moral qualities and honesty, which means to consider the benefits of the society more than his own benefits and to be realistic and sincere by abstaining completely from hypocrisy. It is to struggle against his own carnal self and desires but not of the others’, leaving all kinds of fights, arguments, temptations, corruption and intrigue. It is to be merciful, generous and be pleased with the little in this life and also to oppose violence and terror.
A real Sufi is against formal (disguise) Islam. He does not pay any importance to Madrasa, Tekke (convent) and Mascid (places of worship). He finds reality in himself and seeks Allah in his heart. His place of worship is his heart because the real tekke and mascid (mosque) is the Heart. The most important thing for the heart is the Remembrance (Ziqr) and the Love of Allah (the Remembrance of the heart and the love of the heart). This is not an external remembrance or physical love.
It is deep contemplation (thinking), remembrance (to remember Allah and never forget Him) and more importantly, to love God, the Perfect Man (Adam), who is the great and mysterious work of Him, his children and nature.
It is to become mature while being immature and to reach divine perfection. All the Sufis have explained it in this way. This humble servant (fakir) has already explained Sufism in details in the books we have written so far, such as: “Varlık (Existence), İslâm’ da Mezhepler ve Yükseliş (The Religious Sects in Islam and Ascending)”, “Muhammed-İsa-Adem (Muhammad-Jesus-Adam)” and in others. Yunus Emre and Sayyid Ahmed er Rufai Hz. also summarized Sufism, which is a divine sea, as follows:
Yunus: “Shariat and Tariqat is a way for the one who reaches them.
Marifat (Divine Wisdom) and Hakiqat (Divine Reality) are in the heart.”
And Sayyid Ahmed er Rufai Hz. said:
“The heart of a Sufi is lighted with love,
His spiritual heart is broad (comforted).
With the Divine Light of Gnosis”
(His bosom is not depressive)
We believe in these two precepts and try to find them.
See what the Sufi Poet Neyzen Tevfik said about this subject:
“Sufism stands up to ignorance in Islam
Forget about Rafizi, Alawi, Sunni, all of them
Take offence at all of them,
Mecca, Medina, Karbala, Jerusalem
Their meaning in appearance is ornamentation
I do not care for Masjid, Madrasa, Monastery, and Church, Vatican…”
(*) Poet Neyzen Tevfik meant to say that the striking appearance of these rituals is ornamentation. However, he indicates that he is respectful to the real meanings of these places.
March 10th, 2000 Alanya
KAZIM YARDIMCI (1936-Adıyaman)
Sources: “Yunus Divanı”, “Onların Alemi” by Sayyid Ahmed er Rufai, 25th hadith
PREFACE 2
Establishing and developing universal unity, cooperation and friendship, which is the growing desire of all the people all over the world, is possible with the true Knowledge about "Human-being-man". Up to now, thousands of thinkers have tried to answer the questions about the origin and future of man and the most correct answer has been given by the religion and the real pious people such as the Prophets and the Friends of God.
"Kâzim Yardımcı", the dear writer of this special book called "Muhammad-Isa (Jesus)-Adam" explained all the realities about Human, true dialectic, the Doctrine of Trinity and similar subjects depending on scientific and religious facts in the light of the verses of the Koran.
It is a difficult task to translate a book from one language into another; it becomes even more difficult if it is a masterpiece concerning divine thoughts and concepts. This is perhaps the reason why there are various dissensions of thoughts in the religions due to misinterpretations of the Holy Books revealed in a divine Language. In the Holy Book Koran, it is said: "We have revealed this book and we shall explain its meaning" so, in order to understand Divine books, it is certain that one should make contact either with Him or with those who bear this quality, which also belongs to Him, (same as the sun is often called as the sunlight).
Light always stays on the upper surface although it is tried to be stepped on or covered. Nobody can say another word over a divine word. If it would like to lighten a place, there is no force to prevent it; but it leaves the bats which run away from it so as not to tyrannize them.
"God" is the source of Knowledge, light, beauty, good values, and truth. Everything comes from Him and returns back to Him. May peace be with those who are in this circulation and aware of it and May the path of Him to be open for those who are invited and would like to join it!
I am grateful to Mr. Kâzim Yardımcı for giving us the permission of the translation of his book from Turkish into English and also for his great assistance to be faithful to the original Turkish text. As the translator of this book, I advise you to take this opportunity and I pray God the Most High to send humanity glad tidings and peace as a benefit of it.
H. Nalan Şehirlioğlu.
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
In the name of Allah, who is the Most Merciful
THE FIRST PROSTRATION
Allah… the Universe… Adam…
Allah… the Sky… the Earth…
Allah… Spirit… Body… (The corpse of man)
Allah and His two hands…
"Allah created man with His two hands" (Sad, 75)
"I surely made a man (human) from clay (from firm, baked earth like tiles). Then, I formed him and breathed into him from My spirit. All my angels prostrated themselves before him except Satan. He refused in his pride and became an unbeliever."
(Al-Baqarah, 34 / Al-Kahf, 50 / Al-Isra, 61-65 / Al-A'raf, 11)
All the Angels except Satan prostrated themselves before MAN into whom the Spirit of Allah was breathed. They prostrated themselves before the Holy Spirit of Allah or His Divine Breath, which is the Divine Light of Allah (Nur). Spirit is the Light of Allah's person, so the prostration was before the Divine Light of Allah (Nur), but not before the body of man, which is created and mortal. Just like the bulb we incline towards with love and respect. Our love and respect for the light bulb is actually for the light in it.
"The Angels are from the Divine Lights of the attributes of Allah”.
Because of this characteristic of the Angels, they had started to dispute (1), to put forward ideas to Allah, who is the Lord of the Universe, when they had seen the creation of the body of Adam and understood his qualities. The reason of their dispute was: They had seen Allah putting all the essence, elements, the origin of all things in nature while He was creating the body of man. The physical body (the earth of Adam ) of Adam -the First Man -was kneaded and made with all the elements of the World and the Universe, then it was baked and turned into tile which was made of earth and resounding with a chinking noise. After his statue had been made, the statue of his wife "Eve" was made from a piece connected to him. Then she was given a form and improved.
In another verse:
"Vesevvereküm feehsene süvereküm-Then I fashioned you into a comely shape (I made your shapes the most beautiful)." (Al-Taghabun, 31)
It is certain that there are no other more beautiful faces or shapes in the Universe than the face and the shape of man. Although the Angels had also been created very beautifully, they saw that the characteristics of the essence of all things -good, bad, wild- were put into the body of man and the dough of the body was kneaded with them.
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(1) "When Your Lord said to the Angels: "I am creating a caliph (a deputy) on the Earth" they replied "Will you create one that will do evil and shed blood? But, we have for so long sung Your praises and sanctified Your name". Your Lord said: "I know what you know not. I taught Adam all My names and set them before the Angels saying "Tell me the names of them if you say you are right".
They said: "Glory to you. You are Exalted; we have no knowledge except that which you have given us. Surely, You alone are All-Knowing and Wise. "Then Allah said; "Adam, tell their names to them! And when Adam taught them their names, He said: "Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of the heavens and the Earth and all that you hide and all that you reveal?"
And when we said to the Angels: "Prostrate yourselves before Adam", they all prostrated themselves right away." (Al-Baqarah, 30-31-32-33-34)
Then, they had seen that man was also inspired with the knowledge of sin (immorality) (2) and objected to the man about whom God said:
"İnni cailün fi'l ardi halifeten-I am placing on the earth one that shall rule as My Deputy". (Al-Baqarah, 30)
They raised an objection by saying "O Lord, this man will do evil and shed blood". They would not have known that the man would do evil and shed blood if they had not seen that everything was put into him. However, when they had seen that God breathed His own Spirit into the man they blamed, they at once prostrated themselves before him because of his loftiness and esteemed him highly.
Why did Satan not prostrate himself before Adam? He did not prostrate because he was created from smokeless, hot fire but not from the Divine Light that the Angels were created from. The Holy Spirit and the Angels are all from the Divine Light (Nur)
Spirit is from the Divine light of God's person (Zâti) but the Angels are from the Divine Lights of God's attributions (Sıfati). The Angels, created from the attributive Divine lights, saw the loftiness in the Spirit, which is the Divine Light of God's person, and they praised him. They prostrated themselves before the Divine light and the Holy Spirit of Allah in the person of Adam. They saw the Spirit, which was a brighter, holier and more exalted Divine Light as they were Divine lights themselves. "Divine Light sees Divine Light."
"The Believer is the mirror of the Believer." (3)
Spirit and the Angels are from the Mercy and Virtue of Allah, they are Merciful whereas Satan is "Fire" and he is from the genies. (4)
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(2) "Feelhema fücureha ve takvaha -I inspired into man (into his self) with the knowledge of Sin and Piety, blessed shall be the man who has kept it pure; ruined he that corrupted it." (Al-Shams, 8, 9, 10)
(3) Selamet Yolları from Ebu Hureyre, Vol.4, p.650, İst., 1973 Also other Hadith Books (Hadith: the traditions or sayings of the Prophet)
(4) "Kâne mine'l cinni -became a jinnee (genie) -disobedient to his Lord." (Al-Kahf, 50)
The genies (genies) were also created from the fire. They emit red and very hot lights. They are smokeless, ashless fire.
"Halaktani minnar...-You created me from fire, but You created Adam from clay. Why should I prostrate before Him whom you created from earth which gives a chinking sound?" (Al-Araf, 12)
Satan saw himself lighted. Fire also has a light. Light could be seen in the body of Adam, which was made of earth. He did not see the virtuous, the brightest light, which is the Holy Breath, the Decree, "the Divine Light of Allah". He was not able to see it because fire cannot see the divine light, which is very bright even brighter and lighter than the Sun. Divine Light sees Divine Light but fire cannot see and does not see the Divine light. Satan saw the outside of Adam (the first man), the body of him. He did not see the inside of him, which is the spirit of God (very bright, even loftier and brighter than the Angels are). For this reason, Satan is called "one -eyed", which means he can see the exterior but not the interior.
Satan, most of the genies and the bestial were created from the Wrathful Attribute of God with the name "Cebbar (Awful, Compeller)." Therefore, they see themselves very powerful. Satan is hot and sees himself lighted; in fact, he does not have any good qualities such as mercy, goodness and tenderness.
Allah is One (the Sole Existence) but His hands are two; One being has two attributions. Two hands refer to two categories the attributions of Allah have been assembled. They are called as "Jamal" and "Jalal", in other words: Merciful (Beautiful) and Wrathful (Mighty) attributes.
"Know that Allah is stern in retribution (He is very severe and angry)" (Al-Maidah, 98)
"and that Allah is forgiving and merciful." (Al-Maidah, 98)
Thus, the whole nature was created from these two attributes with the two Hands of Allah. There is a great war, a contradiction or duality in nature due to this fact. It is called "The Real Dialectic"
The Eternal Existence Allah is only One. His presence is sole but His hands are two, He has two kinds of attributes or qualities.
Tyranny-Blessing, Might-Beauty, Violence-Mercy.... and so on. These interrelated oppositions are the attributes of Allah. The oppositions compete against each other and make an endless fight. One side becomes dominant over the other side. Life goes on with their combination (synthesis) into a complete whole. Nature changes every instant because Allah is alive and active.
"Külle yevmin hüve fi şa'n-Allah is in a majesty, glory and activity every instant." (Al-Rahman, 29)
"Evolution" is also based on the mystery of this verse. Peace and order continue for a period of time then, synthesis becomes corrupted and the secret war continues, so an open war starts again. One side becomes superior to the other side again. Order is re-arranged and life goes on in peace.
Synthesis-analysis, combination-division (war-peace, war-peace) follows each other and stretches out to infinity. If we assume that this war stops for a while, then, nature, society, the ideas of man cease and life becomes very monotonous and dull, which makes the life very boring and tiring. As a result, every living thing kills itself or perishes, annihilates and destroys itself.
Man lives with the desire of infinite excitement, hope and improvement. Perfection, enlightenment and evolution come true by means of it. The essence of dialectic is "Divine" and this important fact was transmitted 1400 years ago with the Koran:
"Allah is One. He has two hands - Allah is both stern (wrathful) and merciful (compassionate)."
"Zü'l celâli ve'l ikram - He is the Lord of Majesty and Grace." (Al-Rahman, 78)
Jamal: All the beauties in nature and in man...
Jalal: All the wickedness, ugliness and wildness in plants, in nature and in man...
The good-the bad, the cruel-the kind, the tormentors -the weak etc. and their continuous, endless contradictions, fights, loves, peace, wars, struggles, weeping and laughter. This is Life. Although God and the righteous know this fact, they are always in favor of justice, beauty and peace. God's consent is in favor of goodness but unfortunately, bad people are always in majority so wickedness, cruelty, oppression and overwhelming are prior.
The lines below,written by Yunus Emre and Niyazi Misri, emphasized on this duality and contradiction. They indicated the divine dialectic both in nature, in man and in society 300-600 years ago:
From Yunus Emre:
"The Creator and the Master of all the people is only one God,
But, why are some people unaware of it, denial and wicked?
What is the secrecy, the reason, the mystery of it?
He who knows it must answer it."
He intends to say that there is only one Creator but He has two hands, from one of His hands the good and the righteous are manifested; from the other hand of Him, the unbelievers, the bad are manifested.
Niyazi also said:
"He is manifesting all the time, sometimes from His wrath, sometimes from His mercy.
The result of one is the Hell, the other is the Paradise.
Wherever there is a rose, a thorn is seen next to it,
Wherever there is a Perfect Man (a Prophet, a Wali, a saint),
Some people deny him, some people accept him!"
God, who is the unique, Absolute Existence, manifests and becomes visible every instant just like the springing up of the pool with a fountain. He is alluding (5) to the verse below:
"He is in a glory every instant (in an activity)." (Al-Rahman, 29)
His constant manifestations come into existence sometimes from His Wrath, sometimes from His Mercy. As a result of this, there are two kinds of concepts in nature, in man and in society: it is either Paradise (gardens, beautiful flowers or goodness, love, respect, order, cooperation, justice and all kinds of beauties that are the appearances of Him as Jamal); or His wrathful attributes, such as wickedness, injustice, cruelty, violence, all the wicked, evil events that manifest from His Wrath or Might.
"Zü'l celâli ve'l ikram - Allah is the Lord of Majesty and Blessing (Might and Glory)." (Al-Rahman, 78)
"İ'lemu ennallahe şedidü'l ikâbi veennallahe gafurürrahim - Know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." (Al-Maidah, 98)
Niyazi continues as follows:
"Wherever there is a rose, there is also a thorn on the same rose sapling."
There are also some famous Turkish proverbs such as: "There is no rose without a thorn" and "Whoever likes the rose bears its thorn".
For this reason, wherever there is a "Perfect Man", there are some people who accept and approve Him and there are also some others who do not like this Holy Man and they refuse or deny Him (just like the rose and the thorn).
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(5) Allude: To speak about something, but in an indirect way
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The Experts of Sufism, who are the fathers of our ideas, had told and explained this important reality very amazingly hundreds of years ago, before Marx and Engels were born. The messenger of "Real Dialectic is the Koran" and the teacher of the Universe that presented it to Mankind is "The Prophet Muhammad". And the real person to explain this Knowledge is "Hazrat Aliyyel Mürteza", who is the "Door of Knowledge", and "the King of all the Sufi saints" as well as his students, the spiritual teachers, scholars, the learned men and the Friends of God who are brought up in the path and Tariqat of Sufism which belongs to Hazrat Ali. Niyazi Misri also said:
"Niyazi became a dot in the throne of "Ba"
When he became an intimate with the secret of Ali."
Niyazi Misri, who is a great scholar and Sufi, praised, appreciated and understood the value of Hazrat Ali, who is the religious teacher, the Leader, the King of all the Friends of God, of all the pious and learned people, and he expressed the superiority and importance of this Great Shah in his poems. Hazrat, Ali who is the King of Sanctity and the Lion of Allah, said in one of his speeches:
"The Torah, The Psalms of David and the Bible have been hidden in the "Koran". The Koran has been hidden in the Sura of "Yasin", the Sura of Yasin has been hidden in the Sura of Ikhlas (Kulhüvallahü Ehad).
The Sura of Ikhlas has been hidden in the formula of Bismillahirrahmanirrahim" and "Bismillahirrahmanirrahim" has been hidden in the dot under the letter "Ba" (in Arabic)" and "Ene nokta'tün taht-ı ba- The dot under the letter "Ba" is Me."
"Niyazi became a dot under the letter "Ba", he was included into that dot when he solved the secret and the mystery of Ali… ! "When he became an intimate with the secret of Ali."
The mystery or the secret called in Sufism as "the Divine Light of Ahmad, the Secret of Ali" and which is defined in the prayers as "O Lord! For the sake of the Divine Light of Ahmed and the Secret of Ali" is the Prophet Muhammad who is the Divine Light of the Sole Existence and His brother Hazrat Ali ibni Talib, who is the Koran himself.
The Prophet Muhammad, who is the Sultan of 18000 worlds, said:
"Ali is with the Koran; the Koran is with Ali." (6)
"God (Haq-the Truth) is with Ali; and Ali is with Haq." (7)
"Ali is from Me and I am from Ali." (8)
"I am the city of knowledge; Ali is the gate to this city." (9)
"My friendship may be attained if you love Ali." (10)
The above sayings of the Prophet are hidden in "Ene nokta'tün taht-ı Ba- The dot under the letter "Ba" is Me" said by Hazrat Ali. This is the Secret of Ali,
the Secret of God and the Secret of the Divine Light of Ahmed.
Another Sufi poet "Muhammad İkbal" from Pakistan said in his book called "Mystery and Cipher-Esrar ve Rumuz": "Allah, Allah! Ebu' Hasan (Haydar-i Kerrar Imam Ali k.v.) "I am the dot under the letter Ba ". “Allah, Allah!" He got surprised and made a cry. He went into ecstasy when he learnt the above saying of Hazrat Ali, who is the Door of Knowledge and deserved all the praises.
May Allah enable us to understand and learn this secret and be benefited from the knowledge of this Great Shah. May peace be with him!
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(6) From the Prophet's wife Ümmü Seleme; Taberâni, Feyzü'l Kadir, vol. 4, p.356
(7) "Hz. Peygamberin Dilinden Dört Halifesi -The Four Caliphs told by the Prophet" trans. A. Fikri Yavuz, p .259, Sönmez Publication, 1981, Ist.
(8) Same book, pp. 244,257, 254
(9)From Hz. Ibn Abbas; Tirmizi, sahih (agreed) vol.2, p.399
From Cabir: Suyuti, Camiussağir, vol .1, p. 108
(10) "Hz. Peygamberin Dilinden Dört Halifesi" trans. A. F. Yavuz, from İbn Abbas; p.261, Sönmez Publication, 1981-İstanbul
Now I present you a poem that describes Hazrat İmam Ali, written by Sheikh Galip who is the Teacher, the Father and the Sultan of Mawlavis:
"O Ali, who is both the object and the reflector of the mystery! (11)
O Ali, who is the Commander of the Twelve Imams;*
Three of whom are Husayn, Musa and Jafar
Two of whom are called Hasan,
Three of whom are named Muhammad
And four of whom are called Ali."
Sheikh Galip, the writer of "Hüsn-ü Aşk"
Another poem is from Enderi Dede from Gaziantep:
"The Chief of the Heavenly Messengers is Muhammad Mustafa,
Aliyyel Mürteza is the dot under the letter "Ba"!" (12)
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(11) object: in whom the mysteries have been apparent
reflector: who shows or reflects the mysteries. It means one who takes the light into him and then reflects it like a mirror. He both knows all the secrets and teaches them to the Friends of God.
Edeb Ya Hu! ("Be respectful towards God!")
(12) Enderi Dede (Father Enderi) is the last religious teacher of Gaziantep Bektashi Dervish Lodge.
*The Twelve Imams mentioned in the poem are as follows:
Imam Aliyyül Mürteza, Imam Hasan, Imam Husayn, Imam Ali Zeynel Abidin, Imam Muhammad Bakır, Imam Ja'far al Sadıq, Imam Musa-i Kâzim, Imam Muhammad Taki, Imam Ali Naki, Imam Hasan al Askeri, Imam Muhammad Mahdi
They are the sacred heirs of Muhammad (a.s.v.), who come from the sacred Family of Muhammad.
"MAN" EITHER SUPERIOR OR INFERIOR
The essence of all kinds of animals, plants and elements was put into the earth of man, so Adam (man) is a world that has become small -a small symbol of nature-.The origin or essence of each wild animal and plant exists in the physical body of man. All the good and bad was put into the bodies of Adam and his wife Eve by Allah.
"Esfele safilin- The lowest of the low" (Al-Tin, 5)
"İnne'l insane lezelumen cehula-Man is cruel, sinner and fool." (Al-Ahzab, 72)
"Man is wicked and thankless." (Abraham, 34)
"Man is ungrateful, denial and sinner" (Al-Adiyat, 6 / Abraham, 34)
Allah criticizes the man as in the verses above but He praises and exalts the same man because of the Spirit he has as following:
"I made man My Deputy (Caliph) in the earth. (One that shall rule in the name of Allah)"
"Veleked kerremna beni Ademe-I bestowed blessing on Adam's children and exalted them." (Al-Isra, 70)
"Surely, I created man in a most noble image." (Al-Tin, 4)
"I created man in My own image." (13)
Human body is the essence of the Universe. All the characteristics of nature are hidden in the body of man same as all the characteristics of a tree are hidden in a seed.
(13) Kudsi Hadisler (Sacred Tradition) from Bukhari and Muslim, Vol.1, p.172, Madve Publ., 1991-Istanbul
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A wild animal may kill mostly three or four men in a lifetime, whereas a man may kill thousands of people (14) as he has the essence of all kinds of bestial animals. Man also has the essence of all the good animals, plants and things and he is just like "a universe which is made small" due to it. He bears a universal aspect. The contrasts and contradictions in man depend on this mystery. A dualism exists in man same as in nature. He presents a dialectic state. (15)
INSTINCTS:
a-The instincts for violence, aggression and anger: (the wolf, the dog, the snake)
A snake bites treacherously, so it bears the characteristic of treachery
A fox is cunning
Dogs, cats, wolves, hyenas, leopards, and tigers have instincts for violence, anger and aggression
b- The instinct for sex,
c- The instinct for selfishness,
d- The instinct for possession: All kinds of trickery, fraud, cheatings…
Man becomes very violent because of these characteristics and he starts to command and dominate the others, as a result of it he becomes proud selfish and egoist.
A lot more habits of various animals exist in the body of man.
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(14) In History, Nimrod, Caesar, Hitler, Stalin were an individual but they had killed millions and millions of people.
(15) Due to this fact, man commits both crime and good deeds, he shows both violence and mercy, he is angry and also merciful. Although he is strict, he is very kind.
Man has been inspired with two other things in addition to the spirit. They are: "the Knowledge of Sin and Piety". (16). Sin is an evil quality; piety is a divine, spiritual and pious quality.
"Spirit" is the holy attribute of God; it is His Divine Breath, His Word, His Decree just like the Koran. The Koran is also the sacred or the holy Word of God and His Decree.
"Kulirruhi min emri Rabbi-Say: The Spirit is My Lord's Command (His Decree)." (Al-Isra, 85)
"Venefehtü fihi min Ruhi-I breathed into man from My Spirit." (Sad, 72)
The breath is the Divine Light and the Voice of God. Something comes out from Allah during breathing. A sound is heard during breathing. God calls it "My Spirit" -the Spirit of Allah and attributes it to His Person saying "My Command, My Breath" so it is the constant, the eternal Divine Light of Allah. He gathers, assembles it in His Person and then, if needed, He reveals it to the Universe just like the Sun and Sunlight.
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(16) "Feelhemeha fücureha ve takvaha - We inspired man with knowledge of Sin and Piety (to be cautious against the wickedness)." (Al-Shams, 8)
LIGHT AND SHADOW
The Light centre of the Sun is the Sun itself in the Sky. The light that stretches out into the Universe is the extension of the Sun towards the world. It is not correct to call the sunlight on the walls as the Sun itself as a whole but it is not proper to define it as another being either because it is not possible to break off the sunlight from the Sun or to separate the rays, which are the extension of the Sun.
Similarly, we cannot divide or split the rays of the Sun into two parts with a ruler. It is also impossible to tread the light under our feet. Suppose that a person tries to step on the light of the Sun, he sees that the light comes unto his foot and his foot is under the sunlight. Light never stays underneath or can be stepped on.
Nur-Divine Light also can never be stepped on or trodden. "God is the Most High" and He is never under anything. This is a very important fact. Sunlight is actually the Sun but not as a whole. It is the extension of it, not a second or a different being.
The Sun and the light of it are not two different things and two things have not been combined either. It is impossible to separate them. It is sole, eternal, Divine Light. When it comes, it comes as a whole; when it leaves, it leaves completely without leaving a bit of sunlight. The Sun and its light leave the Earth together without leaving any light on the walls. It is both correct to call the sunlight as the Sun and as the sunlight, which is not separated from the Sun. Therefore, sunlight is also the Sun itself and its attribute. It is also true that the centre of the sunlight is the Sun, itself. The Sun and the radiance of it is a whole just like the sea and the foam on the sea.
The foam is another form, sign or appearance of the sea. The structure or origin of it is water so it is not a second being apart from the sea. These two facts should be kept in mind.
If the sun does not exist, its light does not exist either. If a sea does not exist, the foam will not exist either. This is also an important fact. The sun cannot be known if the light of it does not exist and extend to us.
Existence, itself, is always prior to its attributes. If there is no existence, there is no attribute or quality of it. The real existence can be known with its attributes and qualities. There is also the event of shadow:”
“Shadow" is not a real existence, it is an image or an imaginary being. It is a trick of light. Shadow neither exists nor non-exists. It is not a real existence because it is a temporary being and comes into existence afterwards. It has an end, whereas the sun and sunlight never stops existing. The beings that come into existence afterwards have an end. Shadow is transitory and if light does not exist, shadow cannot exist either. "Allah made the sun a proof for the shadow." (Al-Furqan, 45)
According to the above verse, shadow is not possible if there is no light. However, light exists without shadow. Shadow is not a real existence because it does not have any atoms but light has atoms and an atom is existed from the light or from the energy of light.
The sun, the sunlight and shadow.... Shadow is an imaginary being which exists afterwards and which has an end. It is transient.
Allah-Spirit and the physical body of man are just like this. Spirit is the light of God (Nur) but the body is created afterwards just like the shadow. It is also transitory and it has an end. Allah and His Spirit is eternal, infinite and constant. He is eternal in the past (pre-eternal) and eternal in the future (post-eternal).
Spirit is the attribution of God, for this reason there are not two different beings called as "Allah" and "Spirit". Spirit is just like the sunlight and human body is like the shadow which is created afterwards, transient and which does not have a real existence .
God is "One, Sole, Unique, Infinite, Eternal and Absolute Existence" together with the Spirit which is His attribute same as the Sun and sunlight.
The Trinity "Lord (Allah, the origin), the Holy Spirit, and His son (Jesus)" is just like the trinity of "the Sun, sunlight and shadow". The body of Jesus is organic and physical same as the shadow is transitory, mortal and created.
Jesus is the son of Mary. He had taken his organic, human body from the body of Mary. It is proved because Mary gave birth to Jesus. Her fetus became a child and a boy. He used to eat, drink and sleep.
According to the Christians, Jesus was crucified, he was killed and his blood shed. These characteristics do not exist in God. Does Allah sleep? Does he die? However, Jesus had slept and been killed. (17)
These attributes of him prove that he was a human being and organic. When the body of a human dies, Allah and the Spirit, which is the Light of Him, leaves it (like the Sun and sunlight). When the body of Jesus is proved to be like the shadow, God and the Spirit is left. God is the sole Existence together with His light.
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(17) See also the related part in the Appendix Chapter of this book.
REAL DIALECTIC
Allah is one, His hands are two. Allah mentions His two hands in His Holy Book "The Koran". Allah is one existence; His attributes have been assembled in two categories. They are called as Jamal (beauty, mercy, grace) and Jalal (wrath, might, glory).
"Know that Allah is stern in retribution and He is pardoner (forgiver) and merciful." (Al-Maidah, 98)
"Lima halaktübiyedeyye- I created with My two hands." (Sad, 75)
God is one being, He is peerless, unique and infinite existence but His attributes are two kinds. The contradictions and dualism in nature is due to this fact. Nature is the cosmic image of God. It is His mirror in which He shows His two kinds of attributes and observes them.
Positive-negative, male-female, hard-soft, anger-mercy, strong-weak, beautiful-ugly, scholar-ignorant, good-bad, night-day, the sky-the Earth. The reason or the main source of all these opposites and dualism depends on the various reflections of the Wrathful and the Beautiful Attributes of God.
Wrathful, violent, deep, sharp and red rays reflect from His Jalal;
Merciful, beautiful, soft green, yellow and pink rays reflect from His Jamal.
These rays cause the contradictions in human beings and in nature. They also keep (strike) the balance. Nature and individuals continue their life under the dominion of the Divine and Wrathful attributes of God in both objective and subjective worlds.
“He is in a glory every instant. (He is in an activity or in a manifestation.)” (Al-Rahman, 29)
Allah is alive-ever living, active and efficient then. All His tasks come into existence sometimes from His Mercy and sometimes from His Might. As a result, there are always changing states in nature and in man. There are two types of states. If there were only one kind of state, the life in nature would be unbearable. There is always a different state in nature and in man because of these variations. Nature and human beings are renovated and refreshed by means of it and life becomes more exciting lively and pleasant. There is no static state in nature. Dynamism is dominant.
This is the Real Dialectic and the origin or essence of the dialectic. God-The Existence is One, Sole and Unique, because He is the only real presence and He is Divine Light -Nur (Light, energy, power). Existence is One and His attributes (His hands) are two: Jalal (might, wrath) and Jamal (beauty, mercy).There are various manifestations, signs and appearances of Jamal and Jalal in nature.
These contradictions and opposites exist in the body of the first man "Adam" as a whole as we have explained above. Since the essence (the elements) of all things in nature exists in the body of Adam (in his outer structure), he has a very complicated state.
All the violence, the wild plants and animals are hidden in the body of Adam: the instincts for violence, aggression and also the instincts for ruling, for sex and similar bad and dangerous instincts.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FREUD
The Psychology of Freud (18), which has been discussed for years and caused disputes and offences, is based on the outside structure of man and it is examining the instincts of the exterior structure of man.
Freud did not know about "Spirit" which has the quality of speaking based on intelligence and reason and he was not informed about the mystery of the verse: "God is One and His hands are two" (Al-Ikhlas, 1 Al-Hucurat,1 ). For this reason, he always dealt with the human (mortal) side-the physical body of man and his instincts so he was not able to solve anything. He could not go any further than his determined ideas as he analyzed from one point of view. This is his psychology. Neither he nor his followers can solve the Reality of Man. It is impossible for them to reach the definite result.
It is a scientific fact that something that has not existed in nature naturally (concrete or abstract) before, cannot exist or be manifested, seen or discovered naturally afterwards. If intelligence, thought and the quality of living had not existed in nature hidden before they would not have transformed into organic matter having been combined with matter afterwards in addition*, intelligence and thought would not have chosen man and appeared as intelligence and thought in man. They have existed in nature since the eternity in the Eternal Presence. The origin of the Absolute Presence is energy, Light or the classical name of Him is Power and Nur. Allah says about Himself that He is Divine Light and Power:
"Allahu Nurussemâvati ve'l ard-Allah is the Divine light of the Heavens and the Earth." (Nur, 35)
"Lâ kuvvete illa billah-There is no other power, strength, force or energy except Allah." (Al-Kahf, 39)
These verses from our Holy Book -the Koran confirm what we have said so far.
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(18) Freud Sigmund: (1865-1939) He is the son of a Jewish Family whose origin is Czech. He lived in Vienna all his life.
God has explained with the above verses that He is the Light, the essence, the power and the source of the Light. He is also the essence and the source of power. The Principle is:
Anything, concrete or abstract (such as energy and thought) which has not existed in nature naturally since the eternity in the past (pre-eternity) cannot show itself in nature afterwards in any forms or in any objective being, which is the condensed form of energy as it shows itself in human beings. The attributes of life and thought are abstract beings because they do not have any atoms. Liveliness and thought are abstract beings but they are natural, not created. They exist in nature naturally. They are eternal and together with energy-light. It is certain that the origin of atom is energy-light. (19)
Organism, the quality of liveliness has chosen plants, animals and the body of man in nature and it has showed itself in them as if it has become concrete by combining with the condensed energy. "Thought" has also chosen man and showed itself in man. "Intellect" chose "Man-Human -being" who is very exalted with his structure, shape and beauty because this is the most correct and the most appropriate and the most fair decision.
The Most High certainly chooses the Most High. This is "the Divine Justice".
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(19) Atom consists of quantums, which are the smallest particles of negative and positive electricity. The structure of atom is light-energy.
"Allahu nurussemavati ve'l ard-Allah is the Divine Light (Nur) of the Heavens and the Earth." (Al-Nur, 35)
"There is no other strength -energy, power except Allah." (Al-Kahf, 39)
Therefore, the quality of "liveliness", "Intellect", "thought", "Spirit" and the "Angels" should be searched with the Light and in the Light which is the source of life and intellect and which existed before an atom. Light and power are natural and they exist naturally.
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DARWIN
Darwin (20), who was unable to solve these realities, had not used electricity or electric bulb in his life. (21) He did not know about the Theory of Relativity of Einstein or the splitting of atom either (22). He thought over "The Theory of Evolution” and depended on the hypothesis. He could not prove the Theory of Evolution he put forward to. If Darwin had lived today, he would have certainly needed to look over his theory again.
The energy, which is the basis of Intellect and the origin of matter, the light and the quality of liveliness are the abstract and concrete beings and realities that have existed in nature naturally since the eternity. "Anything which has not existed before naturally cannot exist naturally and show itself in an object afterwards.”
If life-liveliness and thought (intellect) had not existed naturally, they would not have showed themselves in plants, in animals and in the human brain, human body because they are not created (man-made) or artificial beings. This is the reality. (23)
We can clarify the following fact depending on this reality:
"Matter in the origin, life (liveliness) and thought (intellect) are the natural realities existing since the eternity and it is impossible to separate them from each other. We should not forget that "Intellect" is Divine and spiritual because God and the Spirit, which is the Divine Breath, the decree and the Word of God, is "scholar".
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(20) Darwin, Charles Robert: (1809-1882) He is an English Scientist of Biology
(21) The electricity or the electric bulb started to be used in 1900.
(22) The usage of atom: July 1945. There is approximately a hundred year's time interval between Darwin and Einstein.
(23) Life-liveliness, Intellect (thought) are abstract beings and qualities but they are natural not created or artificial. They have not been made by the human beings afterwards, such as computers or other man- made equipments and machines.
Knowledge is a "Divine" and "Spiritual" quality and God and His Spirit is "Scholar". God and His spirit is alive-eternal. God and His Spirit (Divine light, power, force, energy) is the source of "Power" and "thought".
In this situation, the claims of the materialists such as: "Matter existed first, intellect came into existence afterwards" or the claims of the idealists: "Thought existed first, then matter came into existence" are all unnecessary discussions.
The fact is:
Both of them existed before in the origin. They combined and united something afterwards and formed a whole (completeness). The origin of matter is light and energy. (24)
"Elâ lehü'l halkü ve'l emr-Attention! His is the Creation (matter), His is the Command (decree)." (Al-A'raf, 54)
Intellect and thought is one of the attributes of the Spirit. God said in another verse: "Külirruhi min emri Rabbi-Say: Spirit is from my Lord's decree (command)." (Isra, 85)
Thought and intellect is from the commandment Attribute of God. Command is not created or matter. It is the Attribute of Speech. It is the Divine Breath, Divine Word or the Divine Light of God so it is also Divine Light. Allah has already revealed in the Koran that He breathed into man from His own Spirit:
"Venefehtü fihi min ruhi-I breathed into man from My own Spirit." (Sad-72)
The combining of matter and thought is a very important event. It is the combination of dualism or dual contradictions mentioned above. It means: to be subjective through combining and uniting the two realities "matter and thought", "body and Spirit (Intellect)" which extend from One Existence (God is One, His hands are two) and that exist in nature objectively and static in a cosmically state.
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(24)See: Barnard Shaw, "The Story of the Idles" (The last chapter about Spirit)
Man is a subjective symbol, which consists of the synthesis of all the material objects and of all the liveliness (bright, clear liveliness) and the synthesis of thought and Spirit. So, MAN –human-is such a being that he assembles in his person all the dualism and contradictions such as violence and affection; cruelty and grace; goodness and wickedness and manifests subjectively.
WHAT IS RATIONALISM? WHAT IS IT NOT?
As it is known, Descartes is the founder of Rationalism and the methodology of this field. (25)
There was only one rule in Philosophy until rationalism: To think logically. It was the rule of Aristotle's logic. According to Aristotle, Intellect and thought are based on the rule of Logic.
The main principle of Logic was: Deduction and Induction, which means either reasoning using general rules or principles to form a judgment about a particular fact or reasoning using known facts to produce general facts or principles.
In Arabic, it is called "enfüs-ü âfak" which means to prove the general principles using the individual facts or to prove each fact using all the facts.
Another name for it is in French as "Subje and obje", which means "particle (piece, fragment) and whole ".
To think logically was the only rule of Philosophy from Aristotle until Descartes.
In other words, to imprison reasoning in the Rule of Logic and to refuse any thought that is against the rule of the Aristotle's Logic even though it is scientific. For example, if a scientist found out a fact as a result of his thoughts; and if it were proved to be right in practice scientifically, it would not be accepted as a thought unless it was done according to the rule of Aristotle's Logic by the philosophers and by the supporters of the Scholastic Theology (kelâm), which is accepted as a kind of philosophy in Islam. Rationalism is very strict. The Logic of Aristotle is the rule that cannot be given up by them so everything is based on it.
(25) Rene Descartes (1596-1650): He is a famous philosopher and scientist. He claimed that in order to reach the real knowledge, one should be suspicious of everything. He summarized his ideas saying, "I think, therefore I am." Descartes accepts that the concept of God has existed in our minds since we were born just like the principles of mathematics are based on. According to him, it is impossible to comprehend and understand such an excellent Existence with the sensations of man who is not perfect. *By this way, he believes in the reality of such an Existence who has been present in our minds since we were born. (The Encyclopedia of Life, the article about Descartes)
Descartes also founded the methodology and accepted it as the basic rule of thought that means thinking systematically. He put forward the rule of analysis and synthesis instead of induction and deduction. (26) Analysis, here, means dividing something into its separate parts and synthesis is combining the separate things into a complete whole. In Arabic, it is called as "tahlil and terkib" which means combining separate parts and re-separating the combined parts.
Thus, the Philosophy, developed according to the Logic of Aristotle during the Abbasids, passed to Europe after the 12th century. The Philosophy of Systematic Reasoning of Descartes took its place after being dominant for two or three hundred years. We see that there is no difference in principles between the Logic of Aristotle and the Methodology of Descartes when we study them.
Methodical reasoning followed logical reasoning and then Rationalism started after Descartes instead of the study of Philosophy. Philosophy and Rationalism helped physical sciences in many ways: They supported experimental science, speeded up the functions of the laboratory researches and caused the rising of today's technology presented to humanity. The origin and essence of the objects and the elements of which they are consisted is learnt by analyzing matter in this way. Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Arithmetic have developed by means of it and it is called "Positive Science" in the literature of the World's Science, which means real and definite experimental knowledge.
It is true that the Logic of Aristotle and Philosophy which was developed during the Abbasids by the Islamic philosophers and by the Scholastic theologians depending on it, and the scientific discoveries due to them as well as the Methodology of Descartes in the developing branches of Science, provided a great supplement in today's Positive Science. This is true! The main reason of the great development of today's technology is the principle called as "analysis and synthesis" and introduced by Rationalism.
However, if we use and apply the principle of "analysis and synthesis" to Mind and Philosophy, we put the intellect in the inconvenience of the laboratory experiment same as the principle of logic that belongs to “the Logic of Aristotle” forces the intellect.
(26) Rene Descartes, "Discourse de la methode" (Speech on the method)
This makes the free thought of Intellect to be limited by the strict rules of Logic and Methodology because reasoning according to Logic and Methodology and calling it as Rationalism and Logic means to inconvenience the Intellect and thought. Unfortunately, Rationalism has dominated philosophy and mind for years in Europe and “metaphysical” realities are tried to be explained according to the principles of Logic and Methodology due to it.
Yet, human mind (Intellect) can only think about and search the physical world. It is able to solve the realities of the physical world only and it has been continuing to solve them.
It is impossible for the intellect to solve the Metaphysical (Spiritual) Realities on the point of which the physical world ends. It has not solved them so far because Intellect has a capacity, a limit. It does not have the power of understanding and solving the infinity or metaphysics.
Kant, (27) who noticed this inconvenience of Intellect, started to examine particularly the intellect itself and he made a critic of it. After Kant, a new way of thinking began in Philosophy and the idea “Intellect can solve everything" was given up. The strict Rationalism was made such a taboo that it was claimed that there was no other means of reasoning except Intellect to know the realities. Just at this point, Kant criticized Intellect and said that Reasoning could not solve the Philosophical realities of Metaphysics, and Intellect was unable to solve the “Absolute Truth”. He added that a great deal of facts would remain as “mysteries” for the Intellect.
(27) Immanuel Kant, (1727-1804): He is a well-known German Philosopher. He completed his first book called "the Critique of Pure Reason" in 1781. It is accepted as the most important philosophy book in the last two hundred years. (Encyclopedia Life, from the article about Kant)
The metaphysical realities are the essence, the origin of the Creation (nature and all the objects), the description of the inner world (metaphysical world), the Angels, Spirit, Paradise etc. It is a fact that it is impossible to comprehend and solve all these realities using the partial intelligence and the partial intelligence confuse reasoning and cannot exceed the guesses and hypothesis in spiritual and metaphysical matters and this will force and confuse mind as well.
In Europe, this strict and extreme Rationalism have been prevented by Kant with "The Critique of Pure Reason" and by Hegel with his "Scientific Dialectic".
Rationalism is valid until where the matter ends. Intellect has no right to mention metaphysics. It is about time we explained it as follows: (28)
Intellect is able to solve and has been solving everything, which is material-physical. It has the capacity of understanding, solving and explaining the subjects about the visible world whereas it cannot reach a definite judgment and knowledge in metaphysical matters.
Intellect is unable to know the concepts and qualities of the Metaphysical realities such as Spirit, Angels, the Heavens etc. as well as God and His attributes. It cannot solve the Absolute Truth because God did not give this power (capacity) to human mind (the partial intelllect that human beings have). Because of this, He sent His “Divine Message” to human beings so as not to be deprived of the spiritual knowledge and to know “His Existence with His attributes and the metaphysical World”. He assigned this duty to the Perfect Man who bears the Holy Spirit and who were called as "Great Mystics or the Devout ".
(28) For further information see also "Islâm'da Mezhepler ve Yükseliş (Religious Sects in Islam and Ascending)" (The chapter about Sufism, Theology and Philosophy in Islam" 1988- İzmir, distributed by Doğan Distribution in Malatya-Türkiye