After trying to resolve the issue of how red is perceived inside the
brain, how the sound of pleasant music is interpreted differently
from chewing a steak and why even the most detailed MRI provides no
evidence regarding the interpretation mechanism involved, Jeffrey
M. Schwartz, a neuroscientist and research professor of psychiatry
at the UCLA School of Medicine, goes on to ask the following
important question:
...why would studying brain mechanisms, even down to the molecular
level, ever provide an answer to those questions?
The answer is this: Because the answer to the interpreting
mechanism is not in the brain at all. It is impossible to come by
the answers to questions regarding this mechanism by studying human
cells, examining neurons or performing research at the molecular
level. That is because what causes a person to perceive the outside
world is not inside the human body. It is something outside the
brain, neurons, cells or electric signals. It is the soul bestowed
on us by Almighty Allah.
Reveals Allah in one verse:
… then [He] formed him and breathed His Spirit into him and gave you
hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanks you show! (Surat
as-Sajda, 9)
People who fail to understand that it is the soul that perceives,
and that it is independent of matter, are making a very important
mistake: They face the possibility that the images they see exist
on a screen in their brains. Yet when we consider that there is a
screen in our brains on which the outside world exists, we also have
no choice but to admit the existence of a little man watching that
screen. And there must be another little man watching the screen in
the brain of the first, and so on. But there is no screen and no
other little man watching the events on it in the brain. The human
brain is pitch black and silent. There is nothing there but neurons
made up of proteins and electric signals moving very swiftly back
and forth. It is impossible for those electric signals to see a
flower, smell it, touch it, delight in it, see a ship sailing in the
distance or enjoy the taste of a strawberry--all in a piece of flesh.
It is impossible for them to experience a prolonged period of
enjoyment of an orchestral symphony. It is obviously not electrical
signals that produce such a lively, bustling, brightly colored,
vivid, three- dimensional and perfectly sharp world. And there is
also no doubt that it is not electric signals that cause one to
rejoice or grieve, to feel excitement or concern, to remember and
feel happy, or to miss someone and satisfy that longing. Even if the
world's most renowned professors were to work together, as Jeffrey
M. Schwartz says, they still would not find this perception
mechanism anywhere in the brain.
The self-conscious entity that says "I see" the images and "I hear"
the sounds in the brain is the soul given to man by Allah. This is
the reality that the materialist mindset is most unwilling of all
to see revealed. The soul sees without the need for eyes, touches
without the need for hands, hears without the need for ears, smells
without the need for a nose and tastes without the need for a
mouth. The soul is the only answer to the question of "who does the
perceiving?" which scientists have been trying to resolve for
years. Allah constantly shows images to the human soul and, day and
night, whether in this world or in dreams, creates a whole world
for them. Everything in that world has a perfect and flawless
appearance. So much so that it is very difficult for us to realize
that the sharp image and sensation of depth in front of us consists
merely of an illusion and has no connection with the real outside
world. This is the flawless, matchless, glorious work of our
Almighty Lord, Who has the power to create infinite worlds in an
area just a few centimeters in size whenever He chooses.
He is Allah – the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form. To Him
belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and Earth
glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Surat al-Hashr,
24)
A flawless image forms in our brains because Allah so wills. There
are smells there because He so wills and we listen to and enjoy
immaculate music because He so wishes. We also feel and recognize
things by touching them because Allah so wills. The food we eat has
flavor because that is what Allah wills. A whole world emerges in
the human mind from nothing at Allah's command. Our Lord creates a
world from nothing in a person's mind that belongs to that person
alone, that only he can see and recognize. This world is not the
outside world. It is impossible to have direct contact with the
world outside. It is impossible, unless Allah so wills, for anyone
to have direct experience of a world created for someone else. One
can only live in and watch a world created for oneself alone by
Allah. It is impossible to step outside it. In another verse, Allah
reveals:
They will ask you about the Spirit. Say: "The Spirit is one of the
commands of my Lord. You have only been given a little knowledge."
(Surat al-Isra', 85)
i Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley, The Mind and The Brain:
Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force , Regan Books, 2003, p.
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
General Articles, - Communism's indispensable instinct: Terror
Anarchy and terror are an essential means employed by Marxism and
communism. The founders of communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels, personally espoused violence and terror. Under Vladimir
Lenin, who put Marx's theory into practice, terror became an
inseparable part of the communist ideology. These words of Lenin's
make this perfectly clear:
We cannot reject terror, as it is the one form of military action
which may be perfectly suitable or even essential at a definite
juncture in battle. (V. I., Lenin: "Where to Begin", Collected Works
, Vol. 5, Moscow, 1961, p. 19)
... WHEN PEOPLE CHARGE US WITH HARSHNESS we wonder how they can
forget the rudiments of Marxism. ("Speech to the All-Russia
Extraordinary Commission Staff," Collected Works , Vol. 28, pp.
169-170)
In communist thinking, war never ends. And war never ends in
dialectic thinking. There is constant conflict. There is a constant
struggle between opposites and blood will continue to flow until
the dictatorship of the proletariat. There is no bloodless world in
communist thinking. There must be blood and terror and anarchy.
Communism rejects a peaceful world. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's
interview on July 22, 2011)
Oceans of blood have been shed because of communist ideology in
Russia, China, Korea, Burma and Cuba; millions of people have lost
their lives and as many again were injured.
In the 20th century alone, 120 million men, women, old people,
children and babies lost their lives because of this cold, harsh,
strict and savage ideology known as "communism." And that is just
the official figure. The true number of those who died because of
communist oppression is very much higher.
Those who survived lived in a constant state of fear because
communist ideology regarded terror as an indispensable weapon and
obliged its followers to resort to terror. For example, this is how
Lenin taught his communist comrades to perpetrate acts of terror
against the troops and police officials of the state:
They must arm themselves as best they can (rifles, revolvers,
bombs, knives, knuckle- dusters, sticks, rags soaked in kerosene for
starting fires, ropes or rope ladders, shovels for building
barricades, pyroxylin cartridges, barbed wire, nails, etc., etc.).
…
Even without arms, the groups can play a most important part: 1) by
leading the mass; 2) by attacking, whenever a favourable opportunity
presents itself, policemen . . . and seizing their arms; 3) by
rescuing the arrested or injured, when there are only few police
about; 4) by getting on to the roofs or upper storeys of houses,
etc., and showering stones or pouring boiling water on the troops,
etc. …
… To launch attacks under favourable circumstances is not only every
revolutionary's right, but his plain duty. The killing of spies,
policemen, gendarmes, the blowing up of police stations, the
liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the
needs of the uprising. . . every detachment of the revolutionary
army must be ready to start such operations at a moment's notice.
(Lenin, Collected Works , Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Vol. 9,
pp. 420-424)
The propagandists must supply each group with brief and simple
recipes for making bombs… Squads must at once begin military
training by launching operations immediately, at once. Some may at
once undertake to kill a spy or blow up a police station, others to
raid a bank to confiscate funds for the insurrection… (Lenin,
Collected Works , Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Vol. 9, p.
346)
When Lenin spoke at a workers' meeting he described how
indispensable terror was for them in these exceptionally blunt
terms:
We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism:
speculators must be shot on the spot. ("Meeting of the Presidium of
the Petrograd Soviet With Delegates From the Food Supply
Organisations," Collected Works , Vol. 26, p. 501)
These lines were handwritten by Lenin himself:
… we are not at all opposed to political killing … Only in direct,
immediate connection with the mass movement can and must individual
terrorist acts be of value. (Lenin, Collected Works , Progress
Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Vol. 35, pp. 237-239)
As we have seen, communism commands death and destruction, the
infliction of fear, panic, alarm and terror, and the killing of a
country's military, police and innocent people without batting an
eyelid.
Under this system, human emotions such as sympathy, pity and
conscience are totally eliminated. In the same way that a wild
animal may have to engage in a fight to the death with members of
its own species in order to obtain food and shelter, so human
beings are expected to behave in the same "animal" way. That is
because communism is based on Darwinism, which teaches the lie that
human beings are supposedly a kind of animal, and that if animals
have to fight to survive, then human beings must behave in the same
way.
Communism ends when bloodshed ends. Communism persists where
bloodshed persists. The dictatorship of the proletariat is built on
blood. Look, they say as much themselves; "A great red Sun will rise
over the horizon of this sea of blood." What else do they need to
say? Look, "A red Sun will rise over the horizon of this sea of
blood." A communist Sun. He says communism will rise. They say they
will shed oceans of blood, so what more need they say? This is in
their slogans and writings and everywhere. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's
interview on July 22, 2011)
Indeed, when one looks at communist publications one can see this
maniacal bloodlust very clearly.
The Bolshevik newspaper Krasnaya , one of Lenin's most important
backers, defended the shedding of much blood in Russia in these
terms:
We will turn our hearts into steel, which we will temper in the fire
of suffering and the blood of fighters for freedom. WE WILL MAKE OUR
HEARTS CRUEL, HARD, AND IMMOVABLE, SO THAT NO MERCY WILL ENTER
THEM, AND SO THAT THEY WILL NOT QUIVER AT THE SIGHT OF A SEA OF
ENEMY BLOOD. … Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our
enemies in scores of hundreds. LET THEM BE THOUSANDS; LET THEM
DROWN THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN BLOOD. For the blood of Lenin and
Uritsky, Zinovief and Volodarski, let there be floods of the blood
of the bourgeois - more blood, as much as possible. (1 September
1918, Bolshevik Newspaper Krasnaya )
The fact that terror is an indispensable element of communism is
clear, not only in Lenin's works, but in the works of and
statements by just about all communist leaders. For example, Felix
Dzerzhinsky, a communist leader of the time, said this in an
interview:
WE STAND FOR ORGANIZED TERROR - THIS SHOULD BE FRANKLY ADMITTED.
TERROR IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY DURING TIMES OF REVOLUTION. (Felix
Dzerzhinsky, a communist revolutionary of the time, July 14, 1918,
interviewed in Novaia Zhizn )
Leon Trotsky, who was rejected by Leninists for not being
sufficiently cruel and seeking sufficient bloodshed, also
explicitly said there could be no communism without terror:
But the revolution does require of the revolutionary class that it
should attain its end by all methods at its disposal – if necessary,
by an armed rising; if required, by terrorism.
Mao Tse-Tung, the notorious psychopath personally responsible for
the deaths of more than 60 million people, also described how
communism could not be espoused without violence:
A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one
class overthrows another. (Mao Tse-Tung, Quotations from Chairman
Mao Tse-Tung (aka " The Little Red Book "), Chapter 2: Classes and
Class Struggle)
In Turkey today the PKK, a Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist, communist
organization, also follows this bloodthirsty line. As a result of
Darwinist indoctrination that depicts life as a battleground,
separatist militants are able to slaughter babies, the elderly and
innocent people without the slightest remorse. They martyr our
soldiers and police, and resort to all kinds of terrorist activity.
Since they do not regard themselves and others as entities created
by Allah with souls, intelligence, conscience and understanding,
they do to one another, and other people, what animals do to other
animals. This scourge can only come to an end with the elimination
of Darwinism, the foundation of this savagery.
Wide-ranging, scientific anti-communist and anti-Darwinist
propaganda against this deadly communist and separatist movement
that gathers its supporters by using Marxist-Leninist- communist
propaganda is therefore absolutely essential.
The solution to the PKK is faith and ideas. The PKK wears a face of
faithlessness. There needs to be a counter- force to faithlessness,
and we must oppose faithlessness with faith. What is faith? The
truths of the Qur'an, the facts of the Qur'an, anti-communist,
anti-materialist, anti-Darwinist and anti-Stalinist activity. It is
not silence or offering people a bowl of soup. The fact of religion
must not be ignored. We must accept that we are facing a communist
ideology and communist uprising; ignoring that cannot represent a
rational movement. Turning a blind eye to the facts does not
eradicate those facts. The movement is a communist movement; there
is a Stalinist- communist uprising going on. There needs to be a
scientific, scholarly and rational campaign against it. There is no
other way, no alternative.
communism. The founders of communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels, personally espoused violence and terror. Under Vladimir
Lenin, who put Marx's theory into practice, terror became an
inseparable part of the communist ideology. These words of Lenin's
make this perfectly clear:
We cannot reject terror, as it is the one form of military action
which may be perfectly suitable or even essential at a definite
juncture in battle. (V. I., Lenin: "Where to Begin", Collected Works
, Vol. 5, Moscow, 1961, p. 19)
... WHEN PEOPLE CHARGE US WITH HARSHNESS we wonder how they can
forget the rudiments of Marxism. ("Speech to the All-Russia
Extraordinary Commission Staff," Collected Works , Vol. 28, pp.
169-170)
In communist thinking, war never ends. And war never ends in
dialectic thinking. There is constant conflict. There is a constant
struggle between opposites and blood will continue to flow until
the dictatorship of the proletariat. There is no bloodless world in
communist thinking. There must be blood and terror and anarchy.
Communism rejects a peaceful world. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's
interview on July 22, 2011)
Oceans of blood have been shed because of communist ideology in
Russia, China, Korea, Burma and Cuba; millions of people have lost
their lives and as many again were injured.
In the 20th century alone, 120 million men, women, old people,
children and babies lost their lives because of this cold, harsh,
strict and savage ideology known as "communism." And that is just
the official figure. The true number of those who died because of
communist oppression is very much higher.
Those who survived lived in a constant state of fear because
communist ideology regarded terror as an indispensable weapon and
obliged its followers to resort to terror. For example, this is how
Lenin taught his communist comrades to perpetrate acts of terror
against the troops and police officials of the state:
They must arm themselves as best they can (rifles, revolvers,
bombs, knives, knuckle- dusters, sticks, rags soaked in kerosene for
starting fires, ropes or rope ladders, shovels for building
barricades, pyroxylin cartridges, barbed wire, nails, etc., etc.).
…
Even without arms, the groups can play a most important part: 1) by
leading the mass; 2) by attacking, whenever a favourable opportunity
presents itself, policemen . . . and seizing their arms; 3) by
rescuing the arrested or injured, when there are only few police
about; 4) by getting on to the roofs or upper storeys of houses,
etc., and showering stones or pouring boiling water on the troops,
etc. …
… To launch attacks under favourable circumstances is not only every
revolutionary's right, but his plain duty. The killing of spies,
policemen, gendarmes, the blowing up of police stations, the
liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the
needs of the uprising. . . every detachment of the revolutionary
army must be ready to start such operations at a moment's notice.
(Lenin, Collected Works , Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Vol. 9,
pp. 420-424)
The propagandists must supply each group with brief and simple
recipes for making bombs… Squads must at once begin military
training by launching operations immediately, at once. Some may at
once undertake to kill a spy or blow up a police station, others to
raid a bank to confiscate funds for the insurrection… (Lenin,
Collected Works , Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Vol. 9, p.
346)
When Lenin spoke at a workers' meeting he described how
indispensable terror was for them in these exceptionally blunt
terms:
We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism:
speculators must be shot on the spot. ("Meeting of the Presidium of
the Petrograd Soviet With Delegates From the Food Supply
Organisations," Collected Works , Vol. 26, p. 501)
These lines were handwritten by Lenin himself:
… we are not at all opposed to political killing … Only in direct,
immediate connection with the mass movement can and must individual
terrorist acts be of value. (Lenin, Collected Works , Progress
Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Vol. 35, pp. 237-239)
As we have seen, communism commands death and destruction, the
infliction of fear, panic, alarm and terror, and the killing of a
country's military, police and innocent people without batting an
eyelid.
Under this system, human emotions such as sympathy, pity and
conscience are totally eliminated. In the same way that a wild
animal may have to engage in a fight to the death with members of
its own species in order to obtain food and shelter, so human
beings are expected to behave in the same "animal" way. That is
because communism is based on Darwinism, which teaches the lie that
human beings are supposedly a kind of animal, and that if animals
have to fight to survive, then human beings must behave in the same
way.
Communism ends when bloodshed ends. Communism persists where
bloodshed persists. The dictatorship of the proletariat is built on
blood. Look, they say as much themselves; "A great red Sun will rise
over the horizon of this sea of blood." What else do they need to
say? Look, "A red Sun will rise over the horizon of this sea of
blood." A communist Sun. He says communism will rise. They say they
will shed oceans of blood, so what more need they say? This is in
their slogans and writings and everywhere. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's
interview on July 22, 2011)
Indeed, when one looks at communist publications one can see this
maniacal bloodlust very clearly.
The Bolshevik newspaper Krasnaya , one of Lenin's most important
backers, defended the shedding of much blood in Russia in these
terms:
We will turn our hearts into steel, which we will temper in the fire
of suffering and the blood of fighters for freedom. WE WILL MAKE OUR
HEARTS CRUEL, HARD, AND IMMOVABLE, SO THAT NO MERCY WILL ENTER
THEM, AND SO THAT THEY WILL NOT QUIVER AT THE SIGHT OF A SEA OF
ENEMY BLOOD. … Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our
enemies in scores of hundreds. LET THEM BE THOUSANDS; LET THEM
DROWN THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN BLOOD. For the blood of Lenin and
Uritsky, Zinovief and Volodarski, let there be floods of the blood
of the bourgeois - more blood, as much as possible. (1 September
1918, Bolshevik Newspaper Krasnaya )
The fact that terror is an indispensable element of communism is
clear, not only in Lenin's works, but in the works of and
statements by just about all communist leaders. For example, Felix
Dzerzhinsky, a communist leader of the time, said this in an
interview:
WE STAND FOR ORGANIZED TERROR - THIS SHOULD BE FRANKLY ADMITTED.
TERROR IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY DURING TIMES OF REVOLUTION. (Felix
Dzerzhinsky, a communist revolutionary of the time, July 14, 1918,
interviewed in Novaia Zhizn )
Leon Trotsky, who was rejected by Leninists for not being
sufficiently cruel and seeking sufficient bloodshed, also
explicitly said there could be no communism without terror:
But the revolution does require of the revolutionary class that it
should attain its end by all methods at its disposal – if necessary,
by an armed rising; if required, by terrorism.
Mao Tse-Tung, the notorious psychopath personally responsible for
the deaths of more than 60 million people, also described how
communism could not be espoused without violence:
A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one
class overthrows another. (Mao Tse-Tung, Quotations from Chairman
Mao Tse-Tung (aka " The Little Red Book "), Chapter 2: Classes and
Class Struggle)
In Turkey today the PKK, a Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist, communist
organization, also follows this bloodthirsty line. As a result of
Darwinist indoctrination that depicts life as a battleground,
separatist militants are able to slaughter babies, the elderly and
innocent people without the slightest remorse. They martyr our
soldiers and police, and resort to all kinds of terrorist activity.
Since they do not regard themselves and others as entities created
by Allah with souls, intelligence, conscience and understanding,
they do to one another, and other people, what animals do to other
animals. This scourge can only come to an end with the elimination
of Darwinism, the foundation of this savagery.
Wide-ranging, scientific anti-communist and anti-Darwinist
propaganda against this deadly communist and separatist movement
that gathers its supporters by using Marxist-Leninist- communist
propaganda is therefore absolutely essential.
The solution to the PKK is faith and ideas. The PKK wears a face of
faithlessness. There needs to be a counter- force to faithlessness,
and we must oppose faithlessness with faith. What is faith? The
truths of the Qur'an, the facts of the Qur'an, anti-communist,
anti-materialist, anti-Darwinist and anti-Stalinist activity. It is
not silence or offering people a bowl of soup. The fact of religion
must not be ignored. We must accept that we are facing a communist
ideology and communist uprising; ignoring that cannot represent a
rational movement. Turning a blind eye to the facts does not
eradicate those facts. The movement is a communist movement; there
is a Stalinist- communist uprising going on. There needs to be a
scientific, scholarly and rational campaign against it. There is no
other way, no alternative.
Personalities, - Syedna Khuwaja Hasan Basri
Al-Hasan ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Basri was born at Madina al-Munawwarah in 21 (642), the son of a slave captured in Maisan who afterward became a client of the Prophet Mohammad’s Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon Him secretary Zaid ibn Thabit. Brought up in Basra, he met many Companions of the Prophet including, it is said, seventy of those who fought at the Battle of Badr. He grew up to become one of the most prominent figures of his generation, being famous for his uncompromising piety and outspoken condemnation of worldliness in high places. Whilst the Mo’tazelite theologians claim him as the founder of their movement (and ‘Amr ibn ‘Obaid and Wasel ibn ‘Ata’ are counted amongst his pupils), in Sufi hagiography he is revered as one of the greatest saints of early Islam. He died at Basra in 110 (728). Many of his speeches —he was a brilliant orator— and sayings are quoted by Arab authors and not a few of his letters have been preserved.
The conversion of Hasan of Basra
The beginning of Hasan of Basra’s conversion was as follows. He was a jewel merchant and was called Hasan of the Pearls. He traded with Byzantium, and had to do with the generals and ministers of Caesar. On one occasion, going to Byzantium he called on the prime minister and conversed with him a while.
“We will go to a certain place,” the minister told him, “if you are agreeable.”
“It is for you to say,” Hasan replied. “I agree.”
So the minister commanded a horse to be brought for Sayyiduna Hasan al-Basri. He mounted with the minister, and they set out. When they reached the desert Hasan perceived a tent of Byzantine brocade, fastened with ropes of silk and golden pegs, set firm in the ground. He stood to one side. Then a mighty army, all accoutered in the panoply of war, came out; they circled the tent, said a few words, and departed. Philosophers and scholars to the number of nigh four hundred arrived on the scene; they circled the tent, said a few words, and departed. After that three hundred illumined elders with white beards approached the tent, circled it, said a few words, and departed. Thereafter more than two hundred moon-fair maidens, each bearing a plate of gold and silver and precious stones, circled the tent, said a few words, and departed.
Sayyiduna Hasan relates that, astonished and filled with wonder, he asked himself what this might be.
“When we alighted,” he went on, “I asked the minister. He said that the Caesar had a son of unsurpassable beauty, perfect in all the branches of learning and unrivaled in the arena of manly prowess. His father loved him with all his heart.”
Suddenly he fell ill so Hasan related on the authority of the minister. All the skilled physicians proved powerless to cure him. Finally he died, and was buried in that tent. Once every year people come out to visit him. First an immense army circles the tent, and they say: “O prince, if this circumstance that has befallen thee had come about in war, we would have all sacrificed our lives for thee, to ransom thee back. But the circumstance that has befallen thee is at the hand of one against whom we cannot fight, whom we cannot challenge.” This they say, and then return.
The philosophers and the scholars come forward, and say: “This circumstance has been brought about by one against whom we cannot do anything by means of learning and philosophy, science and sophistry. For all the philosophers of the world are powerless before him, and all the learned are ignorant beside his knowledge. Otherwise we would have contrived devices and spoken words which all in creation could not have withstood.” This they say, and then return.
Next the venerable elders advance, and say: “O prince, if this circumstance that has befallen thee could have been set right by the intercession of elders, we would all have interceded with humble petitions, and would not have abandoned thee there. But this circumstance has been brought upon thee by one against whom no mortal man’s intercession profits anything.” This they say, and depart.
Now the moon-fair maidens with their plates of gold and precious stones advance, circle the tent, and say: “Son of Caesar, if this circumstance that has befallen thee could have been set right by wealth and beauty, we would have sacrificed ourselves and given great moneys, and would not have abandoned thee. But this circumstance has been brought upon thee by one on whom wealth and beauty have no effect.” This they say, and return.
Then Caesar himself with his chief minister enters the tent, and says: “O eye and lamp of thy father, O fruit of the heart of thy father, O dearest beloved of thy father, what is in thy father’s hand to perform? Thy father brought a mighty army, he brought philosophers and scholars, intercessors and advisers, beautiful maid-ens, wealth and all manner of luxuries; and he came himself. If all this could have been of avail, thy father would have done all that lay in his power. But this circumstance has been brought about by one before whom thy father, with all this apparatus, this army and retinue, this luxury and wealth and treasure, is power-less. Peace be upon you, till next year!” This he says, and returns.
These words of the minister so affected Hasan that he was beside himself. At once he made arrangements to return. Coming to Basra, he took an oath never to laugh again in this world, till his ultimate destiny became clear to him. He flung himself into all manner of devotions and austerities, such that no man in his time could exceed that discipline.
Hasan of Basra and Abu Amr
It is related that Abu Amr, the leading authority on the reading of the Qur'an al-Karim, was teaching the Quran one day when suddenly a handsome boy arrived to join his class. Abu Amr gazed at the child improperly, and immediately he forgot the whole Quran, from the Alif of “al-Hamd” to the Seen of “wa al-Naas”. A fire possessed him, and he lost all self-control. In this state he called on Hasan of Basra and described to him his predica-ment.
“Master,” he wept bitterly, “such is the situation. I have forgotten the whole Quran.”
Sayyiduna Hasan was most distressed to hear of his situation. “Now is the season of the pilgrimage,” he said. “Go and perform the pilgrimage. When you have done that, repair to the mosque of Khaif. There you will see an old man seated in the prayer-niche. Do not spoil his time, but let him be until he is disengaged. Then ask him to say a prayer for you.”
Abu Amr acted accordingly. Seated in a corner of the mosque, he observed a venerable elder and about him a circle of people seated. Some time passed; then a man entered, clad in spotless white robes. The people made way before him, greeted him, and conversed together. When the hour of prayer arrived, the man departed and the people departed with him, so that the elder remained alone.
Abu Amr then approached and saluted him. “In Allah’s name, help me,” he cried.
And he described his predicament. The elder, much concerned, raised his eyes to heaven.
“He had not yet lowered his head,” Abu Amr recounted, “when the Quran came back to me. I fell down before him for joy.”
“Who recommended me to you?” the elder asked. “Hasan of Basra,” Abu Amr replied.
“Anyone who has an Imam like Hasan,” the old man commented, “what need has he of another? Well, Hasan has exposed me. Now I will expose him. He rent my veil, and I will rend his as well. That man,” he went on, “in the white robes who entered after the afternoon prayer and left before the rest, and the others did him reverence — that man was Hasan. Every day he prays the afternoon prayer in Basra and then comes here, converses with me, and returns to Basra for the evening prayer. Anyone who has an Imam like Hasan, why should he ask me for a prayer?”
Hasan of Basra and the Fire-worshiper
Hasan had a neighbor named Simeon who was a fire-worshiper. Simeon fell ill and was at death’s door. Friends begged Hasan to visit him; he called, to find him in bed, blackened with fire and smoke.
“Fear God,” Hasan counseled him. “You have passed all your life amid fire and smoke. Accept Islam, that God may have mercy on you.”
“Three things hold me back from becoming a Muslim,” the fire-worshiper replied. “The first is, that you speak ill of the world, yet night and day you pur-sue worldly things. Secondly, you say that death is a fact to be faced, yet you make no preparation for death. In the third place, you say that God’s face shall be seen, yet today you do everything contrary to His good pleasure.”
“This is the token of those who know truly,” Hasan commented. “Now if believers act as you describe, what have you to say? They acknowledge the unity of God; whereas you have spent your life in the worship of fire. You who have worshiped fire for seventy years, and I who have never worshiped fire — we are both carried off to Hell. Hell will consume you and me. God will pay no regard to you; but if God so wills, the fire will not dare so much as to burn one hair of my body. For fire is a thing created by God; and the creature is subject to the Creator’s command. Come now, you who have wor-shipped fire for seventy years; let us both put our hands into the fire, then you will see with your own eyes the impotence of fire and the omnipotence of God.”
So saying, Hasan thrust his hand into the fire and held it there. Not a particle of his body was affected or burnt. When Simeon saw this he was amazed. The dawn of true knowledge began to break.
“For seventy years I have worshiped fire,” he groaned. “Now only a breath or two remains to me. What am I to do?”
“Become a Muslim,” was Hasan’s reply.
“If you give it me in writing that God will not pun-ish me,” said Simeon, “then I will believe. But until I have it in writing, I will not believe.”
Hasan wrote it down.
“Now order just witnesses of Basra to append their testimony.”
The witnesses endorsed the document. Then Simeon wept many tears and proclaimed the faith. He spoke his last testament to Hasan.
“When I die, bid them wash me, then commit me to the earth with your own hands, and place this document in my hand. This document will be my proof.”
Having charged Hasan thus, he spoke the attestation of faith and died. They washed his body, said the prayer over him, and buried him with the document in his hand. That night Hasan went to sleep pondering what he had done.
“How could I help a drowning man, seeing that I am drowning myself? Since I have no control over my own fate, why did I venture to prescribe how God should act?”
With this thought he fell asleep. He saw Simeon in a dream glowing like a candle; on his head a crown, robed in fine raiment, he was walking with a smile in the garden of Paradise.
“How are you, Simeon?” Hasan inquired.
“Why do you ask? You can see for yourself,” Simeon answered. “God Almighty of His bounty brought me nigh His presence and graciously showed me His face. The favours He showered upon me surpass all description. You have honoured your guarantee; so take your document. I have no further need of it.”
When Hasan awoke, he saw that parchment in his hand.“Lord God,” he cried, “I know well that what Thou doest is without cause, save of Thy bounty. Who shall suffer loss at Thy door? Thou grantest a Guebre of seventy years to come into Thy near presence because of a single utterance. How then wilt Thou exclude a believer of seventy years?”
Gems of Wisdom by Sayyiduna Imam Hasan al-Basri Radi ALLAHu Ta'ala Anho
*.That work that is free from wisdom becomes a burden. That silence that is free from wisdom is inattentiveness. That sight that is free from wisdom is disgraceful.
*.The magnificence of knowledge is with tolerance and that of tolerance is with knowledge.
*.The person who lives in the World safeguarding himself from the love of the World, has benefited himself and others.
*.Sorrow gives the soul strength.
*.The freedom of sight and tongue imprisons the soul.
*.Whoever ALLAH SubHanuhu wa Ta'ala wished to disgrace becomes engrossed in the search of wealth.
*.Those people are truly afraid who are truly afraid of ALLAH SubHanuhu wa Ta'ala.
*.The punishment of this World is that your heart becomes dead.
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Personalities, - Muhammad Ibn Suleman Al-Jazouli
The Writer of Dalail al-Khayrat Sharif
Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli
Al-Qutb al-Kamil, Al-Imam Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdur Rahman Ibn Abi Bakr Ibn Suleiman Al-Jazuli Simlali al-Hassani al-Maghribi (d. 869/1454). Referred to his grandfather, he is called shortly Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Suleiman al-Jazuli. He belonged to the Berber tribe of Jazula which is settled in the Sus area of Morocco between the Atlantic and the Atlas Mountains. Although the date of Imam al-Jazouli's birth is not known, enough information exists to provide a rough outline of his origins and background. His nisbah (Attributional Name) tells us the he came from the Simlala tribe, one of the most important Sanhaja Berber groups in Jazula. The turbulent political environment of Simlala in the fifteenth century forced the Shaykh to leave his homeland because its culture of violence made serious scholarship impossible. As it turned out, the young sharif had to travel all the way to Fez to get an education, since the insufficient intellectual resources of Marrakech (Morocco), the usual destination for students from central and southern-Saharan Morocco, made study in that city impossible as well.
He studied locally and then travelled to the Madrasat as-Saffareen in Féz, the spiritual capital of Morocco where his room is still pointed out to visitors. In Fez, He memorized the four volumes Mudawwana of Imam Malik and met scholars of his time such as Ahmad Zarruq, and Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah Amghar, who became his Shaykh in the Tariqah or Sufi path. After setting a tribal feud he left the area and spent the next forty years in Makkah Mukarrama, Madina Munawwarah and Jerusalem. After this, he returned to Fez where he completed Dala'il al-Khayrat.
He took the Shadiliya Path from Shaykh Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Amghar as-Saghir, one of the Ashraaf (Descendants of the Prophet) of Bani Amghar village. He spent fourteen years in Khalwa (seclusion) and then went to Safi where he gathered around him many followers. The governor of Safi felt obliged to expel him and as a result, Jazuli called down Allah's wrath on the town and it subsequently fell into the hands of the Portugese for forty years According to a tradition, it was the governor of Safi who poisoned Jazuli and caused his death, whilst engaged in prayer, in 869 AH (or 870 or 873)
When he became a Complete Shaykh, he headed towards the town of Safi where he gathered many disciples around him. Later on, Sidi al-Jazuli moved to Afwiral, a Sus village in Morocco, where he established his zawiya that became a centre of spirituality attracting 12665 disciples of his. His Tariqa was mainly based on making prayers upon Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) as indicates his book: (Dalail al-Khayrat), which he published in Féz after spending forty years in Makkah Mukarramah, Madina Munawwarah and Jerusalem. Dalail al-Khayrat or “ad-Dalil” as Moroccans prefer to call it, is considered as an exclusive source to make prayers upon Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him), as well as a correct and innovative piece of work ever published on the issue.
It is said that Sidi Muhammad Al-Jazuli once went on a journey, when in great need of water for making ablutions; he came upon a well but could not reach the water without a bucket and rope which he did not have. He became very worried. A young girl saw this and came to his assistance. She spat into the well whereupon the water rose to the top of its own accord. Seeing this miracle, he asked the girl "And how is that possible?" She replied "I was able to do this through my asking for blessings upon the Prophet, Allah's blessings and peace be upon the him." Having thus seen the benefit of asking for blessings upon the Prophet, Allah's blessings and peace be upon him, he decided to write Dalail al-Khayrat.
The Dala'il al-Khayrat is the most celebrated manual of Blessings on the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) in history. In fact, the book of Dalail al-Khayrat was welcomed by the Ummah east and west. Many scholars concentrated to explain some of its meanings and benefits such as Sidi Suleiman al-Jamal Shafi'i, Sidi Hasan al-Adwi al-Misri, Sidi Abd al Majid Sharnubi who call his book (Manhaj as-Sa'adah), Sidi Muhammad al-Mahdi Ibn Ahmad al-Fasi who call his book (Matalia al-Masaraat Bi jalaa Dalail Al Khayrat), and the famous Savant of Allah Sidi Ahmad Zaruk; the disciple of his Shaykh Sidi al-Jazuli (may Allah lighten his tomb).
Sidi Abu Abdullah Muhammad Al-Jazuli passed away in 869 AH and was buried inside his Zawiya in Afwiral. Seventy-seven (77) years after his demise, his body was exhumed for removal to Marrakech (Morocco) and found to be uncorrupted.[Adapted from The Encyclopedia of Islam, 1957 Leiden]
He became one of the Seven Men of Marrakech (Morocco) in addition to Sidi Qadi Ayaad, Sidi al-Abbas Sabti, Sidi Joussouf Ben Ali, Sidi Abdul Aziz, Sidi Moul al-Ksour, and Sidi al-Soheyli (may Allah be pleased with all of them).
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اولئك كتب في قلوبهم الايمان وايدهم بروح منه ويدخلهم جنات تجري من تحتها الانهار خالدين فيها
It is these upon whose hearts Allah has ingrained faith, and has aided them with a Spirit from Himself;
and He will admit them into Gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding in them forever
Story, - My first dating
Yup, It was d first date with her on 9/8/2012. We had been to shivgiri, on this great day , i had my first forehead kiss to my shoni. We both were gathered in our big maa home. It was d time for tea, we both exchanged our tea cups (preplan)
The next day according to our plan i have to go to bijapur and want to spend some time with her, i came to bijapur and she was waiting for me near Gandhi chowk . We both moved to shivgiri in auto ...
In auto her face is filled with fear, and i was observing that. Its because of her dangerous brother, who use to keep eagle eyes on her. When we are nearer to shivgiri the smile on her face was amazing, fantastic, mind blowing . Huh still wat can i say.. She was my shoni wer she was completely free wit me like a flying bird. I felt very happy. Because she is happy ... She took a black god's thread and tied to my hand by warning " keep it safe and should never untied " i nodded my head...
We moved towards lord Shiva and both of us prayed for our marriage ... She applied me kumkum and i too... I was flying on d sky ... After that we sat at one place.. And we r waiting to exchange our gifts , she removed her gift from her bag, it was WRIST WATCH she tied me the watch. Respectively my gift was bangles . I put her bangales . She was extremely happy by seeing bangales ... Luckily size of d bangles perfectly fits her hand..
When she was sitting beside me i was completely comfortable and she was even more comfortable. I took her hand in my hand and kissed her. Wow its like heaven kissing to my future wife ... Our romantic moments went for a long time.
We sat nearly for 4 hours and it seems we have spent only an hour ...
It was the time of departing, she purchased two cone ice cream, and shocking was, she took my half eaten ice cream, and i was very much excited by seeing her love on me. And i was accepted dis type of love from her . And i too took her ice cream..
We moved back again to Gandhi chowk by auto. In auto she was holding my hand tightly, coz she was moving from me, and don't when i will meet her again , both of us stay in different cities. We meet once in 6 months . Feeling like hell at dis moment. Chowk arrived ,she was crying and for d first time i couldn't control my tears and cried like a small child... Honestly i love her more den my life ... I LOVE U SHONI...
The next day according to our plan i have to go to bijapur and want to spend some time with her, i came to bijapur and she was waiting for me near Gandhi chowk . We both moved to shivgiri in auto ...
In auto her face is filled with fear, and i was observing that. Its because of her dangerous brother, who use to keep eagle eyes on her. When we are nearer to shivgiri the smile on her face was amazing, fantastic, mind blowing . Huh still wat can i say.. She was my shoni wer she was completely free wit me like a flying bird. I felt very happy. Because she is happy ... She took a black god's thread and tied to my hand by warning " keep it safe and should never untied " i nodded my head...
We moved towards lord Shiva and both of us prayed for our marriage ... She applied me kumkum and i too... I was flying on d sky ... After that we sat at one place.. And we r waiting to exchange our gifts , she removed her gift from her bag, it was WRIST WATCH she tied me the watch. Respectively my gift was bangles . I put her bangales . She was extremely happy by seeing bangales ... Luckily size of d bangles perfectly fits her hand..
When she was sitting beside me i was completely comfortable and she was even more comfortable. I took her hand in my hand and kissed her. Wow its like heaven kissing to my future wife ... Our romantic moments went for a long time.
We sat nearly for 4 hours and it seems we have spent only an hour ...
It was the time of departing, she purchased two cone ice cream, and shocking was, she took my half eaten ice cream, and i was very much excited by seeing her love on me. And i was accepted dis type of love from her . And i too took her ice cream..
We moved back again to Gandhi chowk by auto. In auto she was holding my hand tightly, coz she was moving from me, and don't when i will meet her again , both of us stay in different cities. We meet once in 6 months . Feeling like hell at dis moment. Chowk arrived ,she was crying and for d first time i couldn't control my tears and cried like a small child... Honestly i love her more den my life ... I LOVE U SHONI...