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I
think one of the subjects that is not clear is that one I mentioned
in the topic. Should we not consider the hidden polytheism (shirk
khaafi) as polytheism itself?
At
first let us remember these three rules:
1.
Allah does not forgive polytheism (shirk) for certain. Allah
forgives whom he wills for the sins apart from polytheism.
2.
Allah does not like the transgressors (those who overstep the
limits).
3.
Allah does not like the ungrateful.
Now let us try to understand the subject in the direction of these
three realities.
The Koran never classifies polytheism into two. Polytheism is
polytheism, regardless of whether we consider it as open or hidden.
Polytheism has two dimensions in correspondence to the two
dimensions of faith (iman).
Two dimensions of “faith” are these:
1.
Having faith in Allah.
2.
Having faith in Allah through the mystery of “B”.
Polytheism also has two dimensions:
1.
The open polytheism, that is to deify your physical body or an
external object as god beside “ALLAH”.
2.
The polytheism resulting from the denial of the mystery of “B” about
the One referred to as “ALLAH”.
Now let us try to consider the Koran’s three commands above
altogether...
Allah does not like the ungrateful!
How do we usually understand this?
If
someone provided us with some blessing, and if we did not appreciate
this blessing, become grateful of it and behave in the way or in the
sense of denying it, we can describe it as ingratitude.
However, this edict holds a deeper meaning... Allah wants his
servants (everybody) to appreciate and make use of the capacities
and qualities (attributes and meanings) that ALLAH gave to them from
within... Thus, whoever does not experience these stages of
attributes (sifat) and meanings (asma) by giving their
due properly, that is the reality of consciousness, and believes
himself to be a physical body and thus continues his life under the
guidance of his bodily drives, wishes and desires; and gives a
direction to his actions as if the aim of his existence is to
satisfy his body and bodily pleasures, becomes an ungrateful person!
Let us come to the next command...
“Allah doesn’t like those who overstep the limits!” We generally
think this rule like this: If one person exceeds the limits that are
set for him and attempts to do whatever he wants beyond these
limits, it means that he oversteps the limits.
But in fact human beings have been limited only by the purpose for
which they were created.
Human beings (not the humanoids) have been created as
“caliphs” on earth. They will reach the level of the most honored
being among the creation on condition that they live in the way as
the mystery of “caliphate” requires. To deserve the mystery of
“caliphate” for a human is possible only by believing that he is a
conscious being not a physical body, agreeing to the fact that his
body is a construction that will be left forever after some time and
will never be gained again; and if such a belief advances into
“certainty” and the person lives in the way of and for the purpose
of RasulAllah he believes in the dimension of consciousness.
Otherwise he/she will be the one who oversteps his/her limit because
of deifying his/her body and so Allah doesn’t like him/her!. He/she
falls in the state of the devil (Iblees) that is driven away
from the sight of Allah. All the doors of spiritual realities are
closed to him! Thus s/he suffers the wretchedness of staying away
from Allah forever for the sake of his/her bodily drives and
pleasures for some years!
The one who did not take the lesson from the regrets of yesterday
cannot appreciate his day and puts himself in the prison of
tomorrow’s regrets.
Let us now observe “polytheism” in the light of the effects of these
two commands.
It
is mentioned as “polytheism” in the Koran and it is not separated
into two parts.
However, this concept was generally examined within two dimensions
in order for people to understand what “polytheism” is.
The expressions of apparent (visible) and unseen (invisible)
polytheism (or open and hidden polytheisms) were always used for the
two sides of polytheism in the consciousness.
RasulAllah (peace be upon him) has pointed out this topic as:
“Open polytheism will not be seen in my people (ummah) after
me; my anxiety for them is about the polytheism of hidden one...”
That is a kind of unawareness that the practice fulfilled is
polytheism itself.
As
a result, no matter whatever type it is, polytheism is the
polytheism and it cannot be forgiven!
This statement of RasulAllah that “I worry about my people” is also
because of the unforgivable character of polytheism whichever side
of it.
What is the meaning of unforgivable character of polytheism
from the point of view of “SUNNATALLAH” (the system & order
of Allah)?
What is the meaning of unforgivable nature of polytheism seeing that
there is no god? Who does not forgive polytheism? What is the reason
and what are the results of unforgivable nature of polytheism?
Polytheism
is a term given to the state that the individual accepts the
existence of an object to be worshiped other than the One pointed
out and named as ALLAH and lives so. and behavior of living with
worshipping to it. Such an object might be outside (afaqi) or
inward (nafsi)!.
However, the One pointed out and named as ALLAH created all
individuals for serving for HU only!
What does it mean for an individual to serve ALLAH alone?
It
means for the individual to identify himself with the faculties
known as the “Names” within and to transform them from potential
forces into actions, assuming the character traits of ALLAH in the
dimension of consciousness in consequence of his creation from
within the Names (asma) and Attributes (sifat) of
ALLAH. That is, the ability for the individual to convey the
features which exist potentially in himself into actions whenever he
wants as convenient as his brain capacity allows. This is the goal.
The tool, on the other hand, is those various tasks named as
spiritual practices (ibadat) which will take you to the goal,
the asceticism which is done in needed times, to acquaint
himself/herself with knowledge that will satisfy him/her on this
path and will carry him/her off the level of the certainty (yaqeen).
What keeps the individual back from the practices of this
comprehension and in its direction is his/her doubt (wahm)
of the body pleasures being the soul’s pleasures while assuming
himself/herself as only a biological body in his/her mind!.
This doubt (wahm) is the satan of the individual!. The
anthropoid is a slave of this doubt!. For such individuals,
only the bodily pleasures are real and of highest importance; bodily
corporations are real and of highest importance; the living manner
which is the yield of accepting himself/herself as a biological body
is the main reality!. That’s why the owners of such thoughts have
been defined as people of “POLYTHEISM”!.
It
is extremely difficult to rescue himself/herself from it, once the
person has been indulged in a life of such a misapprehension!
Therefore polytheism is described as “dirty” (najees)!.
The concept of “pure” (clean of dirty) (taaheer) which is
opposite of dirty has been used to point out that fact again in the
Koran that “those that are not purified should not touch this
book,” because, as long as they are in polytheistic thoughts, it
is impossible for them to understand the messages tried to be given.
If
the individual assumes himself as a biological body in his mind, and
thus if he aims to live just to satisfy his bodily pleasures without
even considering the harm given to others because of his way of life
and if he meanwhile performs some spiritual practices for the sake
of custom, he is in fact trying to reassure his conscience only by
deceiving himself.
Yet, the rule is definite:
Allah will accept none of the deeds of a polytheist as polytheists
will only be oppressing their own souls!
As
for the question of the results and unforgivable character of
polytheism…
When a person begins to live in the direction of the drives and
pleasures of his biological body instead of experiencing the outcome
of the fact that his consciousness is originated from the One
pointed out and named “Allah”, he will begin to waste his whole
energy and thought for what he will eventually leave in this world
and will never return at all. Therefore he makes his spirit, which
will be his body in the hereafter loaded the forces and other data
which are useful in the world only. But these data will not
benefit at all to himself at the dimensions of hereafter because
they are no more helpful there, because the events, individuals or
creatures he will meet at that dimension will not be same as in this
world!
But it is NECESSARY for the human being to recognize the basic
powers of the universal system within the truth of his consciousness
and to learn how to use them on account of the dimensions where he
will live in future.
However, it inevitably results in the denial of a person from the
powers mentioned just above to lead a life for the mere pleasures
aimed to satisfy the physical body while accepting himself as a
biological body in consequence of social conditionings, standards of
judgments and emotions resulting from them in this world.
Here, you will have oppressed your own soul in “the
dimension where everybody will meet the results of his deeds sent by
his hands” as a consequence of the state of committing “POLYTHEISM”
if you show ingratitude to the information (advices) given by
RasulAllah and live as someone among the transgressors
by putting the deeds forward in the groove of accepting yourself as
a physical body! Polytheism is never in accord with “SunnatAllah”.
Allah does not like the transgressors!
Allah does not like the ungrateful!
Those who oppress their own souls will end up with an endless loss
as a return of three to five days worldly pleasures!
It
is a falling from grace!
Polytheism is polytheism regardless of it is open or hidden!
AHMED HULUSI
June 19, 2003
NC, USA
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