28- THE
ESSENCE OF DIALECTIC IS DIVINE
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
(1) 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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(1) 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." (2)
"God
(Haq-the Truth) is with Ali; and Ali is with Haq."
(3)
"Ali
is from Me and I am from Ali."
(4)
"I am the city of knowledge; Ali is the gate to this city." (5)
"My
friendship may be attained if you love Ali." (6)
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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(2) From the
Prophet's wife Ümmü Seleme; Taberâni, Feyzü'l Kadir, vol. 4, p.356
(3) "Hz.
Peygamberin Dilinden Dört Halifesi -The Four Caliphs told by the Prophet"
trans. A. Fikri Yavuz, p .259, Sönmez Publication, 1981, Ist.
(4) Same
book, pp. 244,257, 254
(5)From Hz.
Ibn Abbas; Tirmizi, sahih (agreed) vol.2, p.399
From
Cabir: Suyuti, Camiussağir, vol .1, p. 108
(6) "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! (7)
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"!"
(8)
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(7) 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!")
(8) 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.
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