Written by Abdun Nur

In our physical universe some conceive distance and the space it spans to be infinite, and some conceive time to be infinite; this is the concept of unlimitedness. In effect this means that the idea of infinity is simply always larger than any imposed value or boundary – a view of something boundless.

In one aspect a circle is a form of infinity having no beginning and no end; this is a contained infinity, the simplest form and the most limited.

You will always have higher levels of infinity without end, because there is in fact only one infinity – the infinite aspect of Allah (Not God), (which is AHAD, SAMAD AND LAM YULAD).
AHAD: Means ALLAH is the infinite and limitless (eternal) ONE who is unbroken and undivided into fragments or particles.
SAMED: Means that which has no gap, which is in perfect condition, is whole without holes and is impermeable; that which admits nothing in, nothing out. It means “solid” – infinitely solid – so far beyond solid as to be free from the conception of need.

LAMYALID or LAM YULAD: Means simply, “ALLAH DID NOT BEGET. ALLAH WAS NOT BEGOTTEN.” – so there are no baby Allahs.

The reason no-one can conceive of the functioning structure of multiple infinities (as the single infinity is ordered) is because of the limitations of mathematical reasoning, and the limitation of the abstract and intangible representations of mathematics to describe manifest reality. As Godel pointed out in his “Incompleteness Theorem”, any system based on mathematical reasoning cannot fully explain itself without reference to a higher order system (One emanating power, Allah {Not God}).

Turing followed this up with the fact that you cannot even apply computational algorithms to the problem. He showed that there are computational algorithms the outcome of which cannot ever be determined. All you can do is set them in motion and watch and wait (in time) for complexity to emerge.

In my opinion (for what its worth) Cantor, Godel and Turing are three of the most important figures in mathematics, but because their ideas threatened the foundations of most of modern mathematical and scientific reasoning they have been sidelined by the establishment – as always happens.

To grasp the scale of just the infinite universe we reside in is not yet possible with any accuracy and never will be, as you cannot impose a limiting mathematical boundary on something that is truly infinite. Cosmology is in a state of constant discovery of ever greater proportions, so imposed boundaries are in a constant state of expansion; the more we learn the greater the infinity.


The current estimate the age of the Milky Way is around 14 billion years. This is not the age of the entire universe as each galaxy is formed independently – without any doubt not through a big bang, or even a mini big bang being generated for each galaxy. The entire concept of an event existing without following any of the fractal structures of reality is self evidently nonsense; as with all new creation it is a process of growth, created through a dichotomised organic mechanism.

The concept of the growth of a seed is a mechanism of a more organic nature – the birth of a seed, and its energetic exchanges with the manifold, building out to form each galaxy like the transformation of an apple blossom into a shining red apple over vast expanses of time. The first galaxy’s age is impossible to estimate from our present scientific abilities. To me it seems reasonable to consider the nature of reality to follow the existing organic model; this model repeats throughout creation. Growth of an organic or inorganic nature demonstrates transformation. It is conceivable that new galaxies are in a state of constant construction, filling the blackness with a magical magnificence (See the essay: ‘The formation of a galaxy, evolving a universe’).
So if you consider this structure of galaxy generation you may well ask, ‘what is the inauguration of a galaxy? And it seems simple when you consider all reality is a form of energy (information), and all energy is inter-exchangeable, and the construal of all energies is conscious knowledge.
 
The seed of galaxy formation is a thought.

Sounds impossible – but consider Allah (Not God) as the pure dichotomy of creation, the dichotomy of pure nothingness held under tension by the totality of everything. And Allah grew from pure nothingness, building knowledge upon itself until all realities and lesser unremitting dichotomies pour from this pure single dichotomy.

Consider; this overarching dichotomy is the only valid dichotomy. It cannot have any other instance; if you take the dichotomy of pure blackness and blinding light, all the colours of the rainbow exist between this dichotomy. Examples of this dichotomy fill this reality. It abounds, as conditions allow this situation of pure blackness and blinding light to abound.

However, only one pure nothingness can exist. No conceivable condition could be created that would change this reality. It is absolutely impossible for two pure nothingnesses to exist, as to have two would demand something to separate them. Equally it would be absolutely impossible to have two everythings, as by definition everything is all that can be.

This means only one pure nothingness held in tension to the totality of everything could ever exist, and what is manifest between the tension of this overarching dichotomy? Allah (Not God) – as with all dichotomies what is created from the tension of opposites is the real phenomenon.

This is why Allah is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the single consciousness. Every particle of knowledge in existence is emanated from the inside out through this overarching dichotomy. It makes clear why Allah (Not God) could never be a man; a man is just a man. We cannot be the single supreme consciousness, for we are but a light bulb fed by the power of the single universal power generator.

But I digress.

To human awareness the physical universe is truly infinite. The mind cannot comprehend the immense scale of this reality; distances that are so vast they defy our ability to grasp them. The most distant galaxy found to date has been estimated to be 78 billion light years away. That’s 458,640,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles distant, so if you travelled at 186,283 miles per second (which is lightspeed through the vacuum of space) it would take you seventy eight thousand million years to cover that distance. But this distance is ever increasing as the Milky Way galaxy we inhabit is moving away from the rest of the galaxies, and in addition the galaxies are moving away from us, so the expansion is ever greater as the volume of space increases, like the inflating of a balloon pushing the galaxies apart. Consider that the Earth itself is only 4.5 billion years old, so it would take over 17 times the present lifespan of Earth to traverse such a distance at the speed of light.

Caesium-133 atomically resonates between two energy states at exactly 9,192,631,770 times a second. If you consider this against the speed of light within the vacuum, which travels at 186,283 miles per second, then at each clock cycle of caesium light travels 326mm.

But the atomic caesium clock is not the fastest resonating benchmark of time. The atomic resonance of strontium is 429,228,004,229,952 cycles per second, emitting microwaves of exactly that frequency, so light travels only 0.00006984479mm (69.84479 nanometres) per cycle. Even faster resonating mass may exist of course; this demonstrates the observable boundary of physically manifest regeneration.

This physical universe is an open system in a constant state of energetic flux. This entire physical manifestation is created instant by instant from an underlying source. Every atom of this creation is moving; it occupies a point in space for such an infinitesimal moment as to have almost never been there at all. Multiple directions, multiple velocities, multiple rotations – everything is moving. James Clerk Maxwell’s (1831-1873) use of Quaternion Mathematics took him nearer to the truth than any other conscious being. That’s because he realized that order matters and that within mathematics, 2+3=5 is not the same as 3+2=5; the precision of information exchange is a poetry of interactions in every aspect.

Information is the key to understanding physical creation. Our material universe is information; vast amounts of it. Just as we are created through information in our DNA and RNA, so this universe is formed. The universe is the simplest manifestation of this system; energy is order, order is information, information is truth. Just as Wisdom (the most refined levels of information) is a product of Reason, the information exchange of all creation functions on Truth.

The source of this universe is the manifold, held as all things within unified infinity; layered, multi infinite, melded dimensions. Within the construction of manifold trans-space, through this energetic process of constant multi movement, a virtual infinity of potential lesser infinities could exist (our universe is a lesser infinity) – not in the form of this physical universe, but in an infinite diversity of inconceivable manifestations of realities. Random chance is not a factor of creation, but a directed conscious construction. 

But how can we recognize this, you may say?

We can only observe the underlying or overarching structural framework of our physical universe to attempt to understand the underlying masterpiece of creation.
One structure that is a designate of the system is differential fractals. We can consider this structure in relation to infinity, organised upon a differential fractal system which manifests as each apparent infinity being held as a single drop within the next, nesting just as a crystal builds outward as a growing copy, a fractal growth; the lesser integral within the greater.

Our physical universe is held and manifests moment by moment through the manifold – an infinite ocean of energy, or more precisely an infinite ocean of conscious knowledge, integrally connected to every point of all infinities; knowledge so densely packed it requires only a cubic centimetre to generate our entire universe. So consider the infinity of the source reality – so vast, so dense, so immeasurable it holds this physical infinity as a single drop within its infinite ocean, making this reality insignificant in comparison.

All realities are held within the same space. We have mentioned the four dimensional space we occupy, generated from the manifold; we truly only borrow these dimensions, as they belong within the manifold itself. Beyond this and within this exists seven spatial dimensions, each held within the next, each infinity so vast it makes the preceding infinity seem as a single drop within its infinite ocean.

All manifold differential fractal infinities subsist in our space, even though the space – which is generated from the interconnected fabric of underlying knowledge – that we can comprehend or observe as existent, may be only an atom’s worth of space in an infinite ocean of spacial fabric, or may be a manifestation of knowledge that is merely a base construction. However all exists within all, no matter the order of realisation; each apparent infinity is held within the next as a single drop within infinity, which is held within the preceding reality as a single drop within infinity, which is within the preceding reality as a single drop within infinity, and so forth… A differential fractal composition in which each part contains the whole.

Yet more exists beyond these fundamental infinities of eleven dimensional space – so infinite it holds all this within it as insignificant; so subtle it is hidden yet all pervasive. We have no understanding of what lies beyond this – a reality of infinities generated through the will of a single consciousness, all reality growing out from a single point of infinite non-existence, all knowledge retained. And this knowledge expands. Knowledge builds knowledge and spins out from non-existence. Conscious knowledge fills non-existence and a universe of immense and boundless magnificence builds, evolving into a reality we ponder in a mind composed of tiny thoughts; a mind infused with a tiny spark of conscious existence loaned to us from the single conscious will.
Consciousness is the highest stage in the creative and manifest process of existence (from the manifold, to tangible energetic information, to interaction and evolution of conscious expansion), which is the force which feeds back into the manifold in a positive way and in an incrementally recursive manner, through higher and higher levels of reason – (Qur’an) understanding and wisdom, in order for us to ultimately find our way back to the source of all creation, which is Allah.

A differential fractal continuum of melded multiple infinities, each boundless, each non-finite in its aspects, yet melded with each greater infinity held invisibly, yet all pervasively. Within each infinity the infinite holds without question. Independently perceived to be without boundaries, both lower infinities and higher infinities exist as an integral part of each infinity, all connected, all in unity.

How do we discern this? The mathematics (which in explanation is incomplete) of this reality demands it exists as an eleven dimensional structure, each descending dimensional level massively increasing in complexity and activity. The manifold that generates this ostensible reality as its underlying source, demonstrates both an infinity so vast it makes this reality insignificant. But the manifold is also dwarfed by all the descending dimensional planes, as they exist both within our reality, the manifold itself, and beyond the manifold. We also discern that all reality originates from a single point, yet once again this is beyond the eleven dimensional planes, yet all pervasive – and in fact the ultimate source of all realities.

Allah (Not God) emanates all reality from the inside out; it is one infinite source, but a source both generating, and essentially being all realities.

So to conclude, only one true infinity exists; this without doubt emanates all realities, in every single aspect, and in every thought of imaginative consciousness. This single underlying infinity is Allah (Not God). When considered from the perspective of a single consciousness powered from the infinite power of the overarching paradox within the founding dichotomy it is apparent no God exists, but something transfinite exists; a fundamental source of every instant, of every reality, deeper, richer, far more profound than any concept of God could ever hope to be.

There is of course another way to approach infinity, and that is as an expression of dimension; you can apply a measure of length to it, as we do with time, height, width and length, so you could conceive of the underlying manifold as the 5^th dimension. But it is a dimensional plane so alien to our conscious ability to ascribe any conceptual manifestation of its reality that infinity seems more conservative a description. 

We reside in all eleven dimensional planes simultaneously. We exist as the physical expression of the conscious will and imagination of Allah (Not God), as all things must.

Glossary

Melded – things which are combined or blended to become one thing or substance.
Fractals – repeating geometric patterns: irregular or fragmented geometric shapes that can be repeatedly subdivided into parts, each of which is a smaller differential copy of the whole. Fractals are used in computer modelling of natural structures that do not have simple geometric shapes, such as clouds, mountainous landscapes and coastlines. Natural fractals are never exact copies but similar copies.
Differential – mathematical change in variable: an infinitesimal change: able or liable to change, especially suddenly and unpredictably

Potential – possible but as yet not actual: having a latent possibility or likelihood of occurring, or of doing or becoming something.

Written by Abdun Nur

Jewish/Christianised religions consider your soul as a separate element to yourself. They hold that your mind is in the brain, your memories, your consciousness, and then detached your soul – as if you could extract the soul, sell the soul, lose your soul, and continue on; ridiculous concepts.

The spirit is a term also applied to the soul, and means ‘breath’, from the Latin spiritus – breath – while another term applied is essence, and means ’be’. The word soul itself is so old in its origins it can not be established with certainty, but it most likely derives from ‘sea’ , or ‘binding’. Another word meaning human soul is psyche, derived from the Greek ‘to cool, to blow’ and is commonly translated as ‘breathe’.

There would appear to be three main elements to the human soul:

The primitive Iblis soul – Nafs

All conscious life must have a soul (non-physical aspect), from a dog to a mouse – but they do not have a human soul, which is distinct in its higher state. However, all animal life must, by design, have a primitive soul (measured by degree).

By definition the soul of humanity is pure emotion, and the challenge is to shed the dominance of the primitive animal soul and purify the higher emotional soul; a rare accomplishment.

Lataif-e-sitta, (the six subtleties), are a concept of Sufism, consisting of: Nafs, Oalb, Sirr, Ruh, Khafi, and Akhfa. These lataif (singular: latifa) designate various psycho-spiritual “organs”.

Nafs means self/psyche, or idiosyncratic consciousness /temper (to cool, to blow), so Nafs means to mix (combine elements) and restrain yourself with time.

Within this Sufi view of the soul, the Nafs would be the primitive aspect of the soul, and the Ruh would be the higher soul. From this concept we are designed to mix and temper the Nafs and so transform the Ruh, through the Qur’anic concept of the evolution of knowledge – a lower knowledge building a higher knowledge.

We are told within the Qur’an that upon death we shed the animal aspect of our soul; it is removed. This indicates animal souls do not advance beyond this reality, only souls of a higher state. This does present the question: If your base soul is removed, is it destroyed, made autonomous, transferred, or recycled?

The Qur’an tells us Allah makes nothing idly, so the destruction of our base soul would seem unlikely. It also tells us that it is removed, inferring it is extracted, or disconnected from the Ruh, so it was never in the reality of the higher soul and would not exist autonomously alongside the higher soul. That leaves two possibilities; it is recycled or transferred.

If it is transferred to a new alternate reality, I can see no logical advantage to this being the case. Although this is not impossible, in my opinion our base soul is recycled, reused within this physical universe. This primitive soul energy has nothing but a residue of the Ruh soul after separation, and this persona residue dissipates, as is found with all imprinted thought energies.

If through logic we accept that this aspect of the soul, unlike the higher soul, does not dwell in the fluidic manifold but is a physical energy presenting only as a wake within the manifold – just as our higher soul presents as a wake in the physical – this would account for the reported slight loss of 22 grams in weight at the moment of human death. Another interesting aspect of the description of Iblis, your Nafs soul element, is that we are informed Iblis was placed outside of the fluidic manifold.

In 7:14 Iblis (also spelt Iblees), your Nafs soul element, is given respite (refuge- shelter or protection) until the day of your death.

The higher soul – Ruh

The best way to see the reality of this facet of soul is through the parallel of a magnet; a magnet produces a magnetic field and this field can only be detected through its physical effects upon the objects around it, otherwise it is completely undetectable, invisible to perception. The human soul likewise has physical effects but is otherwise undetectable to perception.

The magnetic field does not exist within the physical, it exists purely within the fluidic manifold. Only the wake of the energy movements are within the physical realm; this wake is like the ripples on a surface in response to movement beneath the water. Of course in the case of all fluidic wakes there is no true surface, only the movements of the fluid itself acting upon the surrounding fluid.

This is the same for the higher soul, the undivided ‘you’, in your entirety – your memories, your consciousness, your fundamental ethereal physicality as purely a wake upon the surface of the physical universe.

This means ‘you’, as the immortal aspect of existence, do not exist at all as a physical being, but you only perceive yourself as physical, so when your symbiotic body dies you are ‘physically’ unaffected. You remain within the fluidic manifold; only your perception is transformed.

The subconscious mind, calculated as a million times more powerful than the conscious mind, is in truth the higher soul, meaning it is asleep. Iblis, or your primitive soul, is awake but feeble in comparison, being only 0.0001% as potent. This ratio exists throughout creation; for example 99.99% of the universe is plasma, 99.99% of solid matter is crystalline etc. This ratio is pushed to extremes within the energies of a human consciousness.

This state of Ruh sleep is a matter of degrees. You can be asleep far more deeply than the average, or you can be on the very verge of waking; you can – through your intentions and beliefs or your physical actions and lusts – alter the amount of influence imposed upon the Nafs, from almost complete control (as Muhammad) to none at all (like Nathan Rothschild).

We cannot make the Iblis soul subservient to the Ruh soul, because you cannot dominate something that is awake with something that is asleep.

Knowledge, experiences, intellect, desires, all imprints upon the subconscious, beliefs, fears, greed, hate, love, hope, mercy, etc, all imprint; they shape the soul, fashion and colour its attributes.

Psycho-reactive energy

Your physical body is around 30 trillion cells working as a symbiotic unified organism in submission to your soul. Your consciousness and memories exist within the soul, not the human brain, and the physical body connects your consciousness to the physical, so if the physical is damaged the connection is damaged.

The connection is so powerful the emotional desires expressed from the soul can physically change the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of every cell. This applies to animals as well as humans and this is the aspect of evolution never accounted for, the real engine of diversity.

This means when a human being fundamentally changes a guiding belief (shepherd), this will physically alter the DNA within them, so profound are these guiding shepherds.

The symbiotic life is a psycho-reactive energy, an ambient scalar field (all scalar field commutative rings are automatically two sided, demonstrating a circulation of information between the active manifold and the manifest physical universe), coalescing within the mitochondria within every cell. The perceived battery of the mitochondria is in fact the physical life force. The higher form of this scalar psycho-reactive energy field is the primitive Iblis aspect of your soul. In contrast to this, the Ruh soul is a tensor field (a field existing independently of latitude and longitude, beyond physical constraints). Only its wake has perceived coordinates, and the number of mitochondria in a cell varies widely by organism and tissue type. Many cells have only a single mitochondrion, whereas others can contain several thousand mitochondria. The DNA of mitochondria is different to the host’s DNA, being a scalar field energy – a psycho-reactive, dynamic energy transfer system.

The Qur’an tells us Allah breaths the soul into us, and it is pure when it is first created. All these soul energies are ethereal in nature, like our own invisible breath within the air around us.

When Allah tells us our soul is pure upon its first creation, it means free from contamination, a virgin source, much like a blank sheet of paper. Life is a test, and what we write on the paper determines our ultimate result.

Bayyinah S. Jeffries

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Abstract

The Nation of Islam’s influence has extended beyond the United States. This Black American Muslim movement has used the intersection of race and religion to construct a blueprint of liberation that has bonded people of African descent throughout the Diaspora. Their transnational dimensions and ideas of freedom, justice and equality have worked to challenge global white imperialism and white supremacy throughout the 20th century and beyond.Keywords: internationalism; Islam; Nation of Islam; Black Muslim“Islam will give you true brothers and sisters the world over”.(Muhammad 1965, p. 85)“We are not an organization; we are a world”.(Muhammad 1965, p. 322)“…the darkest Arabs I have yet seen are right here in the Arab peninsular. Most of these people would be right at home in Harlem. And all of them refer warmly to our people in America as their ‘brothers of color’”.(X 1959, p. C1)Since the period of African enslavement and European colonialization, Black people’s experiences have overlapped in at least three key areas: (1) the exploitation of labor or economic deprivation; (2) religious interference; and (3) educational indoctrination. On the continent of Africa, people suffered torture, abuse, complete disruption and trauma from European intrusion. Outside of Africa, Black people have grappled with a system of racial oppression that criminalized, dehumanized and at times completely blocked any path to socioeconomic advancement, including miseducation, chronic unemployment, underemployment, mass incarceration and indiscriminate violence against black bodies. To combat these concerns, Black people founded organizations, mutual aid societies, schools, churches and other institutions. But the great majority of these initiatives increased the degree to which Black people relied upon white benevolence. It was not until Marcus Garvey founded the United States (U.S.) branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1916 that Black people in the United States found a way to socioeconomically move themselves away from their former oppressors, at least to a degree. Garvey’s movement provided a glimpse of what “Black Power” could do. More importantly, his black enterprises represented a strong symbol of black self-determination. The Nation of Islam (NOI or Nation) not only filled the void left by Garvey as a model of black power but the Nation helped to advance Garvey’s mission of black self-determination. More importantly, like Garvey, the Nation shared an international vision free from white interference and control. Of all the tools white people have wielded in an effort to undermine Black community efforts towards political and financial autonomy, religion has been one of the most powerful. It is through religion that white supremacy gained significance throughout the African Diaspora. Christianity provided justification for the exploitation of black bodies during enslavement and the subsequent colonization of Africa. While it is true that slavery existed well before the human trafficking of black bodies by Europeans and their subsequent colonization of most of Africa, it was by no means the chattel slavery that followed under the cloak of Christianity.As the oldest grassroots Black Muslim movement in America, the Nation of Islam created a theology and praxis of liberation that was fashioned in response to the Western interpretation of Christianity intermingled with White supremacist ideology. This Black Muslim movement, the NOI, sought to expose and undermine the link between white supremacy and Christianity, both of which served to obstruct black self-determination throughout the African Diaspora from their perspective. The Nation also envisioned a religion that was steeped in the unique experiences of Black people and provided Black people with a weapon that was strong enough to challenge this European-centered Christianity. It also offered a powerful model of black power and provided them with the authority to fashion God in their own image. As a result, Black people within the Nation exercised power over themselves and their communities in terms of their religious practices and doctrine. This essay argues that the Nation of Islam’s influence in terms of its theology, programs and socioeconomic ideas had international significance. Through the intersection of race and religion, the Nation successfully provided a plan that not only challenged global white supremacy but also offered a program of self-determination for people of African descent who resided wherever the legacy of enslavement, colonialism and Western imperialism existed.

1. Brief History

The Nation of Islam was founded by W.D. Farad Muhammad in Detroit Michigan in 1930. Elijah Muhammad, Farad’s student, subsequently led the organization was from 1932 to 1975. When Elijah Muhammad assumed leadership over the NOI in 1932, the organization only had a small following in Detroit. A year later Muhammad established another temple in Chicago, IL, which became the NOI’s headquarters. Between 1930 and 1936, he formed chapters in Milwaukee, Washington, DC and Cincinnati. Though scholars generally regard the NOI as a northern movement (Essien-Udom 1971; Joseph 2006; Lincoln 1961; Ogbar 2005), their influence also reached deep into the southern corners of the U.S., including Georgia, New Orleans and Texas and westward to places like Oakland, CA. By the mid-1960s, the original Nation of Islam also gained traction overseas, including in Bermuda, Jamaica, Honduras and eventually even Europe. After Muhammad’s death in 1975, the Nation of Islam continued under two separate groups: the Community of Al Islam in the West or The American Muslim Mission, which Elijah Muhammad’s son, Imam W.D. Mohammed, spearheaded; and, The Nation of Islam, which the former NOI national spokesman Minister Louis Farrakhan led. Though they ultimately took separate paths, both groups remained committed to a transnational vision. However, it was Farrakhan’s group who maintained a black power agenda.Prior to 1975, the Nation of Islam operated on two fronts. On the one hand, the Nation sought to align itself with the liberation movements of people of African and Asian descent. On the other side, the Nation allied itself with the global Muslim community. In both cases, Black American Muslims shared a similar history of resistance and oppression that linked directly to Christian imperialism and white supremacy. Upon Elijah Muhammad’s death, Farrakhan and the newly revived Nation of Islam continued to promote this double identity of being both black and Muslim throughout the late 1970s and up until today. Under W.D. Mohammed, who assumed control after the passing of his father in 1975, the group, the American Muslim Mission, moved toward aligning itself with a more traditional practice of Islam. Consequently, the group’s longtime commitment to black nationalism and weighing in on American racial politics mostly faded and conventional Islamic and American cultural acceptance and assimilation assumed priority.In this work, the Nation of Islam includes the original Nation of Islam and its restoration under Minister Farrakhan. Both of these Nations demonstrated a commitment to a global black movement grounded both in black self-determination and the Islamic principles of freedom, justice and equality.

2. NOI’s International Aspirations and Applications

The Nation of Islam developed programs grounded in “Black Power” principles desirable to people of African descent in the United States and beyond its borders. Nearly every aspect of its agenda attempted to address the significant disruption and damage caused by chattel slavery and its legacy. For instance, to combat the eradication of black religiosity initially practiced by enslaved Africans, the NOI introduced, or, in some cases reintroduced Islam, a religion that had historically challenged Western religious ideas. In addition, to address efforts to obliterate other aspects of African culture, such as names, dress, food, education, socialization and marriage practices, the NOI constructed a new way of life. As black self-determination remained its primary objective, the NOI focused on designing unique clothing and uniforms, introducing bean pies and other dietary changes and creating its private black schools and culturally-centered curriculum. Finally, the Nation created an economic plan that envisioned a collaborative enterprise built on non-European control. All of these initiatives intended to repair Black people and prepare them for active engagement in the increasingly liberated non-European global community, particularly but not exclusively in Africa.Since its founding, the Nation has remained oppositional to white supremacy in all institutions. Therefore, it is not surprising that wherever Europe or the United States encountered enemies, the Nation of Islam sought alliances both explicitly and implicitly. For example, Elijah Muhammad and many of his followers found themselves imprisoned for their refusal to participate in World War II. Elijah Muhammad adamantly encouraged his followers to choose jail over war (Essien-Udom 1971). By doing so, the Nation took a pro-Japanese stand against European-American imperialism and white supremacy. Muhammad argued that Black people had no place in a war against other non-Europeans and that Black people, particularly those in the U.S. living under an oppressive racist regime, could not in good conscious fight a war for democracy against fascism and tyranny when they faced the very same challenges at home. In their estimation, World War II was proof of efforts by the U.S. and Europe to define and control other nations in socio–political terms.In some ways, this stand against World War II is one of the earliest indications of the Nation’s internationalism, specifically their position to symbolically stand on the side of other nations against European-American encroachments. The Japanese also likely gained favor among Black Muslims because of their earlier attempts against Western imperialism, particularly during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. For the NOI it seemed any triumph over Western control and imperialism was seen as a coup for all non-European peoples (Jacob 2017).Other benchmarks of internationalism, even if viewed as marginal, were most evident in the Nation of Islam’s interactions and developing relations between Egypt, Libya and Saudi Arabia. As emissary to the NOI, Malcolm X, traveled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt in 1959. He reported the details of his trip in the Pittsburg Courier, which outlined the success of his travels and the enthusiasm he received from both Africans and Arabs regarding the work of the Nation. That same year, Elijah Muhammad traveled to Cairo and Mecca. During his trip, Muhammad made the Umrah, which is a smaller version of the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia (Essien-Udom 1971). Clearly, the Nation of Islam documented these trips in the black media for two important reasons. First, the Nation attempted to affirm their standing as an authentic and recognized Muslim movement among other established Muslim communities, particularly Saudi Arabia—the fountainhead of Islamic authority—where the presence of the Kaaba guaranteed Saudi Arabia’s reputation as the most sacred place in the Muslim world. Having the Nation’s leader travel to the so-called Middle East seemed most important in ensuring the authenticity of the NOI as an Islamic entity, given the claims by some orthodox Black American Muslims, like singer Dakota Staton, that the Nation was not a genuine Islamic community. Staton and others asserted that if Muhammad or other NOI followers attempted to enter Mecca, they would be blocked because of their inauthentic practice of Islam. The second reason they documented their travels was to demonstrate to American Muslims and any would-be sympathizers, that the Nation was recognized as part of one of the largest and most powerful religious communities. As the second largest religion in the world, Islam had both the numbers and resources to combat Western and Christian imperialism if needed. This meant that the Nation of Islam was not isolated but part of a welcoming Muslim brotherhood. When Muhammad returned to the U.S from making Umrah, he shared, “The whole world of Islam is behind me” (Lincoln 1961, p. 226). Clearly, Muhammad felt that Malcolm X’s overseas success and his own trip was enough to cast the Nation as an authentic and important Muslim community within the West and therefore represented an important step towards solidifying their international significance. Lincoln (1961) also argued that, “The Muslim leader [Elijah Muhammad … had powerful friends abroad to sponsor and receive him and this extended to his followers” (p. 226). Again, Lincoln acknowledged Muhammad’s growing significance on the international stage which would help to spread his version of Islam that included black self-determination as a cornerstone of their movement.Islam, Muhammad observed, was “the black man’s religion,” and black from this perspective seemed to include his desire for brotherhood and unity of all who were non-European. In Muhammad’s estimation, Islam remained a significant factor in liberating Black people and perhaps even all people, not only in the U.S. but throughout the African Diaspora. As such, Elijah Muhammad constructed a unique black identity that was relevant across borders and an identity wherein race and religion intersected, such as in the case of the Black Muslim or “The Asiatic Black Muslim Man.” The Nation’s concept of the Black Man encompassed the vision of an inherent internationalism, which also represented a historical bond that was born out of Western imperialism.Consequently, it is not by chance that Elijah Muhammad and the Nation fostered a positive relationship with both Egypt and Libya, both of which represented the intersection of Muslim and African origins that rejected western imperialism and by proxy Christianity. From Muhammad’s perspective, non-Europeans or the global racial majority, shared a historical opponent–the West. At some juncture in their histories, they had been conquered, exploited, and, in some cases socioeconomically destroyed at the hands Europeans. From Asia to Africa to the Americas, non-Europeans had experienced disruption and destruction. It was in this ruinous chaos that people found their connectedness, particularly people of African and Asian descent. As an example of Elijah Muhammad’s aspirations, in 1958, he penned and forwarded a letter to the African–Asian conference and addressed it to Lt. President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was attending the conference in Cairo. He wrote:As Salam Alaikum. Your long-lost Muslim brothers here in America pray that Allah’s divine presen[ce]will be felt at this historic African–Asian Conference, and give unity to our efforts for peace and brotherhood. Freedom, justice and equality for all Africans and Asians is of far-reaching importance not only to you of the East, but also to over 17 million of your long lost brothers of African-Asian descent here in the West … May Allah open and guide the hearts and minds of … those who are participating in this great conference … May our sincere desire for universal peace … bring about the unity and brotherhood among all of our people which we all so eagerly desire.(Muhammad 1958, p. 9)The African–Asian Cairo Conference delegates included a mix of students, professionals and heads of state. At the conference, an Afro-Asian Solidarity Council was established. Egypt provided space for the council and funding as well. One of the tasks of the council was to “promote Afro-Asian solidarity movements in all countries on the two continents” (Jack 1958, p. 6). The Nation’s internationalism was anchored in the most important aspects of black self-determination, namely unity, self-help and economic development, all of which the conference represented. This ethnic–religious solidarity anchored the NOI in the two identities that Muhammad strongly reinforced:Islam recognize[s] complete equality of Brotherhood; a Muslim is truly the brother of another Believer, regardless of how black the skin or how kinked the hair. He is welcomed with sincere and open arms and recognized by his light-skinned or copper-colored Arab brother. He is also recognized in the same way by his brown or yellow-skinned Japanese, Chinese and Indian brothers. Can you say this for your Christianity…? No, your slavemasters’ religion does not recognize equality of brotherhood.(Muhammad 1957c, p. 37)Long before Elijah Muhammad penned this letter of support for President Nasser and the Cairo conference, the Nation of Islam had established ties with the Egyptian government. President Nasser came to power in1954 and to international prominence after the Bandung Conference of 1955. At the conference, Nasser advocated a position of nonalignment similar to Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea’s Sekou Toure. Nasser was also popular because of his efforts to unite Arab countries. For example, in 1958, he united Syria and Egypt, together which formed the United Arab Republic. After seventy-two years of British domination over Egypt, Nasser also successfully worked to liberate Egypt, a triumph that was also well-received in Africa and the Arab world. Lastly, after Israel’s attack on Egypt (an attack the U.S. support), Nasser briefly severed ties with the U.S. (Blanga 2015). All of these moves seemingly represented Egypt’s commitment to self-determination and thus a strong challenge to the West.Nasser’s work of unification, industrialization, economic recovery and self-determination likely attracted Muhammad to his leadership, as it mirrored similarities with the Nation of Islam’s ambitions, and-nation building efforts to operate outside American control. Consequently, in the late 1950s, Muhammad sent two of his children, along with several other University of Islam students, to study Arabic at the Mosque-University of Al-Azhar in Cairo (Essien-Udom 1971). Entrusting young Black American Muslims to Egypt’s university helped to not only present model examples of the NOI to Egyptians but also helped to pave the way for an even stronger coalition with this critical African-Muslim regime. These early study-abroad opportunities played an important role in helping to situate Black Muslims as a distinct and important Muslim nation within the United States, one of the most powerful Christian countries in the world. It also allowed the Nation to offer one of the largest Arabic programs in the U.S. during the time (Curtis 2006). Nasser’s motivation likely stemmed from his desire to cause some discomfort for Americans and also from a genuine interest in seeing Islam advance in the United States. Later, under Farrakhan’s leadership, Egypt would remain an ally of the Nation of Islam but not to the extent it had been under Muhammad. This was likely because of the shift in Egypt’s leadership after 1970, as they started to reflect a more pro-American stance.In terms of other parts of the continent, in the 1960s, the Nation of Islam sent a delegation to Ghana in the wake of its independence from Great Britain. In 1957 the Nation of Islam took out an Ad in the Pittsburgh Courier offering a salute to the newly liberated country (Muslims of America 1957). Part of the Ad read “We are familiar with the bitter taste of servitude thus our aching hearts burst with pride and joy to see our once-enslaved Brothers and Sisters of Ghana getting their priceless independence” (Muslims of America 1957). Although it is not clear just how significant the relationships were between the Nation of Islam and recently-liberated African nations, it is clear that all parties shared a desire for the end of Western imperialism. Nation literature from the period is replete with references to Africa and other parts of the Afro-Asian world, particularly Egypt, Ghana and Tanzania. The Nation sought to connect its work with other non-white nations in their move toward black self-determination. For example, in a column titled Up to Date (1961) the writer stated that Algeria [is] “a nation of people determined to own their own land and govern themselves; Panama [is] a nation of dark men determined to own their own land and govern themselves; [The] United Nations [is] a place of utter confusion … a Dracula created and supported by West; Syria there is yet a sound to be heard from this land of the black man in the surging path of Islam; and [in] South Vietnam there was a time…when the nonwhite was in peace.”As informal Nation ambassadors, Black Muslim women and men wrote articles, traveled abroad and provided successful models of what Muslims in America had accomplished, even under racial and religious oppression. Indeed, the Nation’s growing international recognition was made possible by Malcolm X, who served as the Nation’s national spokesman prior to his suspension in November 1963 and later by Farrakhan, who replaced Malcolm X as spokesman after his final departure from the group in March 1964. Other ministers also contributed to the NOI’s international renown, including the heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Following in his father’s footsteps, Herbert Muhammad also traveled to Africa, Egypt, Jamaica and other countries as part of his official duties as head of the NOI’s public relations. Additionally, by documenting her travels and experiences residing in Sudan, Muhammad Speaks, the Nation’s official news organ, NOI representative Bayyinah Sharieff also played an important role. In fact, travel narratives played an especially important part in helping to spread the Nation of Islam’s message and linking members to other African and Asian and Muslim societies. Men and women wrote extensively on the topic of Asian-African relations, their mutual struggle and the desire for coalition-building throughout the African-Asian diaspora. The article titled “Women in Africa Seek Closer Ties with Sisters in America” represents such attitudes and writings. The author of the work writes, “The increasing empathy and understanding between Africans and Afro-Americans is one of the emerging political factors which the West now must contend with. The artificial separation which existed between Negroes and their African brothers maintained by divisive White supremacy, is now being swept aside by the obvious respect both have for the struggles for freedom being waged by the other” ( Muhammad 1964).Outside of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries, Libya had the longest relationship with the Nation of Islam. It is unclear how Elijah Muhammad first made contact with the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. Similar to his letter to President Nasser in 1958, Muhammad may have sent Muammar al-Qaddafi some kind of correspondence congratulating him on his successful overthrow of King Idris, his work to unite Arab countries and his strong support of full African independence, particularly North African countries. Though Qaddafi had only gained recognition for his military coup in 1969, by 1972 Elijah Muhammad had successfully obtained a 3 million dollar no-interest loan from the Libyan leader. Previously, no other Black American group has received such tremendous monetary support from inside or outside the U.S., nor has any group since that time outside of Farrakhan’s community. The loan was aid to be given to help expand the Nation headquarters in Chicago. In a speech announcing the loan, Qaddafi reportedly indicated “that he supported American Blacks against American arrogance, the white superiority complex” (Muslims Get Loan 1972). Qaddafi’s support likely contributed to increased perceptions regarding the Nation of Islam’s authenticity, which would serve as an important tool for Muslims and for people of African descent as they collaborated against white supremacy, Christian cultural dominance and European imperialism.Whether material or symbolic evidence of the Nation’s international links included attention from Pakistani Abdul Basit Naeem, who edited the Moslem World & the U.S.A., the first monthly journal on Islam in the United States. In 1956 and 1957, the journal featured the Nation’s efforts, particularly the Muslim school, for instance. In his writings, Abdul Basit Naeem drew correlations between the work of the NOI and called their program the “ultimate solution to the world’s cumbersome, persistent and perplexing problems.” He also described the Muslim program under the Nation as “the panacea for all ills afflicting humanity” (Naeem 1967). Naeem clearly appreciated the NOI’s international significance and he believed that their programs provided the solution to the issues facing the global racial majority. The Nation also received acknowledgements from the Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley in 1975 and the hosted various dignitaries from Japan, Kenya and representatives from a number of other countries at their Chicago base.Under Farrakhan, the Nation reached new international heights. As a result of his leadership, the NOI became the most popular Black Muslim movement in the world. The renewed Nation attempted to maintain the vision and the ties Elijah Muhammad initially established. Farrakhan’s message possesses international allure and application not only in the NOI’s brand of Islamic religiosity but also in its ability to remain anchored in the most important aspects of black self-determination, black unity, self-help and economic development. “Just four months after the Million Man March in October 1995, Farrakhan took his message abroad in his World Friendship Tour. Visiting “23 nations in 35 days.” (Marshall 1996, p. 241). Farrakhan visited places like Sudan, Libya, Nigeria and Iraq. As a result of his growing international status and association with so-called enemies of the U.S., Farrakhan was accused by U.S. State officials as “cavorting with terrorists.” While some denounced his travels abroad, especially to places considered adversarial to American democracy, others celebrated his message of black (and to a lesser degree Muslim) unity and atonement (Jones 1996). On his Caribbean tour from Jamaica to Cuba, Farrakhan remarked about the need for a Caribbean coalition, similar to past calls for a United Africa. Lastly, Farrakhan collaborated with national and international leaders to create an international economic fund, though unsuccessful.In terms of the Nation’s continued relationship with Muammar al-Qaddaf, Farrakhan’s newspaper, Final Call, provided an alternative narrative about the late Libyan leader. From their perspective, Qaddafi was the quintessential embodiment of a Black Muslim with a black-self-determination agenda. He supported black and Muslim liberation struggles around the world, from Palestine to South Africa to America. When Qaddafi visited the U.S. in 2009 for the U.N. General Assembly, Farrakhan remarked that Qaddafi “was on the frontline of many [Black] liberation struggles including ones focused on freeing Mandela, the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa and the continued Palestinian struggle” (Arinde 2009, p. 32). As he had with Muhammad, Qaddafi certainly provided monetary support to Farrakhan, including a five-million-dollar interest–free loan. Qaddafi welcomed the new NOI members into the Muslim brotherhood as he had in the 1970s. Perhaps his most important role was his work to unite Africa, in addition to the establishment of the African Union. This call to build a United Africa and later Caribbean resonated with NOI members who also hoped to advance a united front among all non-Europeans within the U.S. and on the global stage, as they worked together on different fronts to free the world from white supremacy and imperialism.

3. Black Power Interventions for a Global Black Audience

Given the Nation’s international ambitions, three of the most popular and portable aspects of the NOI’s programs, under Elijah Muhammad and later Minister Farrakhan, included its newspapers (Muhammad Speaks and Final Call), its educational outreach and its economic campaigns. All three agendas prioritized black self-determination, self-help and economic innovation and independence. The Nation newspaper Muhammad Speaks began publication in 1960. Prior to its publication, Elijah Muhammad shared aspects of his theology in major black newspapers, including the Pittsburgh Courier, New York Amsterdam News and Afro-American. Under the weekly editorial “Mr. Muhamad Speaks,” Elijah Muhammad touched on the history of Jesus and what Islam offered Black Americans that Christianity could not (Muhammad 1957a, A6 and Muhammad 1957b, B2). Subsequently, Muhammad Speaks also outlined the programs and accomplishments of the NOI. It also maintained a record of white supremacy and its impact both inside and outside the United States. Black media, specifically newspapers, have always played an important role in the black liberation struggle and Muhammad Speaks fit comfortably within this tradition. The Black press provided an alternative to the mainstream media’s narrative of Black America. The Final Call newspaper picked up where Muhammad Speaks left off. The Final Call remains one of the few international, independent, outspoken and unbought black nationalist newspapers founded in the 20th century. The paper covers issues that the mainstream media (and even some contemporary Black outlets) neglect and it helps to highlight not only the problems that plague Black people in America but other racially marginalized groups. It also documents their contributions and accomplishments from around the world. In many ways it is a paper that attempts to include the experiences and challenges of the racial global majority, particularly those who remain socially and politically marginalized in the international arena. Like Muhammad Speaks, the Final Call unapologetically covers the abuse of power by the U.S. government and military against less powerful countries such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria (Baylor 2010). Like its predecessor, Minister Farrakhan’s NOI documents the continued assaults instigated by people of European descent such as the illegal murders of Iraq and Libya leaders which left these countries severely unstable. Lastly, the Final Call maintains a close eye on American dealings with Iran and provides a needed account of Israel and its dealing with Palestinians (Damu 2007). Like Muhammad Speaks, the Final Call continues to shine a light on the duplicitous nature of American foreign affairs, while chronicling the Black and Brown struggle against injustice. As an important historical record it continues to remind the global majority of the urgent need to eradicate global white supremacy and Western imperialism. Though established in the U.S., both Muhammad Speaks and Final Call function as powerful symbols of black power and garnered an international readership.In terms of education, the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad began by offering three sets of programs, several of which expanded globally. Their education programs included a K-12 school and gender-specific support groups, such as Muslim Girls in Training (MGT) and the Fruit of Islam (FOI). The school system allowed Black Muslims to play a primary role in shaping the kind of education their children would pursue. Their holistic curriculum included language learning, specifically Arabic, beginning as early as the fourth grade, religion, self-defense, calisthenics, writing and history. Studies also centered around curriculum that would bolster careers in STEM, specifically in the areas of engineering, agriculture, mathematics medicine and the sciences (Essien-Udom 1971, pp. 239–41). The University of Islam, later renamed Sister Clara Muhammad Schools in honor of Elijah Muhammad’s wife, founder of the school, celebrated the fact that the school emerged as the first and only to offer Black children a universal education that prioritized the necessary skills to become Nation leaders and build lasting institutions. Elijah Muhammad and his followers spent considerable time discussing the mis-education of Black people. Specifically, Muhammad addressed the lack of self-knowledge and the damage inflicted against Black people who attended schools that White people created and controlled. Muhammad believed that the education offered in these environments made Black people even more dependent on Whites who indoctrinated Black people with a lack of desire for true advancement. Muhammad (1965) shared, “Today with all of our white civilized schooling, we have not been taught of our own. They will never teach us of our own” (pp. 48–49). Moreover, “It is knowledge of self that the so-called Negros lack that which keeps them from enjoying freedom, justice and equality. This belongs to them divinely as much as it does to other nations on earth” (Muhammad 1965, p. 31). Free until 1959, the NOI established private Muslim school systems in every major city, including Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York and Atlanta. The educational plan was also reproduced outside the United States. For example, under the original NOI, Bermuda established a University of Islam. Under Farrakhan’s Nation, the London community started a school and in France and several other countries, members held small study groups. As a former Chicago public school teacher and for a time National Director of the University of Islam prior to 1975, Christine Muhammad (Muhammad 1962) observed:“The social sciences and history books used in our schools are ‘primers in white supremacy,’ and the longer the child continues in school the more his mind is patterned after his slavemaster and by the time he completes training for his bachelor’s or master’s or Ph.D. degrees, he is a complete replica of his master and has no desire or incentive to change. Therefore, if we are to ever break away from our masters and the spell they’ve cast upon us, we must act now and start teaching our pre-school and early school age children ourselves. Let them see black, brown, cream and yellow faces when they open their books. Let them become accustomed early in life to the ideas, that he has something to strive for. Let them realize early that they have a history with meaning and not a meaningless, nebulous something about ‘Negro history and how much progress we have made since slavery.’ Tell them, with conviction and assurances on your part about their history ‘all the way back to Africa, when the white man lived in caves and was a savage, then we won’t have to waste time trying to re-educate fools with degrees.”Women of all ages found support, direction and value within the Muslim Girls and Training Program (MGT); meanwhile, the men and boys trained under the Fruit of Islam (FOI). Both groups addressed historical concerns about violence against black bodies, the destruction and deliberate economic instability of Black families, the negative deterioration of black female-male relationships and self-care. In response women directed workshops or classes on grooming, self-defense, nursing, haircare, cooking, children, homecare, budgeting, mathematics, writing, sewing and other topics. For men, courses included self-defense, fatherhood, marriage, grooming, mathematics, writing, work/entrepreneurship and other topics. Like the schools the MGT and FOI programs also migrated to other countries, including Bermuda and England. This is likely because the NOI regarded many of these skills as universal and thus hoped to address similar issues faced by those who experienced marginalization and economic disadvantage in any country. This was especially the case in places like the United Kingdom, where police brutality, unemployment, mis-education and discrimination plagued Black people (Muhammad 1997). Though Minister Farrakhan reinstated both these groups the objectives, workshops and classes change to some degree.The last element of the NOI program to garner an international audience included the economic blueprint for the group. Even today, there remain several elements of the original Nation’s economic legacy: (1) fund raising for local and national communities; (2) building domestic and international enterprises; and (3) establishing banks and savings programs. Fundraising efforts assumed several forms, bazaars, selling dinners, membership dues, donations, fashion shows and other structures. The national office received a share of the funds and the remaining portions were used to meet local needs, such as building maintenance, utility bills and other essentials. Other promising ventures included the Nation’s printing press, which published the newspaper and other materials, including Elijah Muhammad’s classic Message to the Black Man in America, The Fall of America, How to Eat to/live Vol 1 & 2 and other books. Clothing factories in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York also proved important. The H&G Whiting import enterprise also spoke to their international aspirations. In 1973, Elijah Muhammad’s NOI negotiated with Peru to import Whiting Fish. This initiative added to their heathy food initiative and included restaurants and grocery stores that provided healthy options in food insecure neighborhoods. The Nation provided a much-needed resource to poor communities of color. The initial ports included Los Angeles, Mobile AL and Savanah, GA. In 1974, the Nation expanded delivery from Peru to New York ports (Johnson 1974). What made the H&G Whiting initiative significant is not only that it was the first of its kind by a black American movement but that it sought a direct trade relationship between Black Americans and other non-European nations, free from the domination of White mediators. By creating an economic pipeline that directly and mutually benefitted non-Europeans, Black American communities and Peru, this trade allowed the Nation to operate literally as a ‘nation within a nation.’ However, H&G Whiting was short-lived. The most glaring reason for its decline was likely W.D. Mohammed’s desire for assimilation and a move toward American patriotism, thereby doing away with programs that promoted the intersection of black power and Islam. Other factors also likely included pressure placed on Muslim members, particularly men, to sell the fish. In some cases, in order to meet quotas, set by each temple, some men used their earnings to purchase the fish they could not sell. The United States federal government may have imposed significant taxes and other fees to undermine their enterprising efforts, as well. Lastly, the venture may have proven to be costlier than expected. Whatever the reasons, for a brief moment, the Nation of Islam “had a place in the sun” a moment where their vision of economic industry by and for Black people had actually come to fruition and helped to raise the bar of their aspirations as an international economic force. (Muhammad 1965, p. 175).

4. Conclusions (Effectiveness of NOI Internationalism)

It is difficult to assess the Nation of Islam’s achievements in terms of its internationalism. If success can be based on persistence of NOI theology, temples, study groups, businesses flying the NOI flag and schools, the Nation proved effective in terms of reaching beyond the borders of the United States. In the U.S., the NOI successes are more explicit, though still generally overlooked by scholars. Clearly, the U.S. saw the greatest benefits of the Muslim movement. The fact that, one, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the U.S. and, two, Black people are the great majority of converts in the country speaks to the Nation’s influence (Dannin 2002; Durand 1996, Lipka and Hackett 2019). According to historian Robert Dannin (2002) Black people in the U.S. make up nearly 90% of converts to Islam. In addition, though the numbers are small, Black Muslims schools peppered throughout the country remain important alternatives to other religious institutions and public schools. In most cases, outside of some independent black schools, black Muslim schools, though few, remain the only line of defense against the mis-education of young Black people. Globally, the Nation’s value is evident in the few schools, study groups, MGT and FOI units that exist abroad, mainly in Bermuda and London. The impact of food and dress (NOI distinct uniforms) is also evident. But more importantly, the Nation’s message of black power through religious reinvention persists. By way of the Nation, Black people have received an opportunity to cast themselves in a more progressive narrative that has afforded many a better life, free from many of the remnants of chattel slavery, particularly in the case of religion. The Nation provides an alternate life by and for people of African descent. As taught by the NOI, Islam means Freedom, Justice and Equality—the direct opposite of what Christianity has been historically for the Black people in the U.S. and even on the international stage. The NOI equates Christianity to “Slavery Suffering and Death.” Their critique of Christianity has had international implications—it was cultural but also political. The NOI saw themselves allied with both Muslims, Africans and other non-Europeans against white supremacy and Western imperialism.Under Minister Louis Farrakhan, the NOI agenda continues to be linked to the African Diaspora. The new Nation has successfully re-established followings all over the world, including Europe, Dominican Republic and parts of the Caribbean. As leader of the Nation, Farrakhan has convened with various heads of state, including Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, the late Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi. In the 1990s, he effectively secured over a million dollars from Libya in order to help build up his enterprises. Farrakhan’s NOI reestablished businesses and schools in the U.S. and abroad. The Nation of Islam continues to link the 21st century African-American struggle for human rights with the broader Muslim struggles of the Palestinians, Syrians, Iraqis and the like, fighting against Western Judeo-Christian imperialism and European-American capitalist interests and white supremacy. The NOI newspaper has continued to cover the nearly twenty-year war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It continues to critique the United States for what it sees as “its real” intentions of capitalistic imperialism and a whole host of war crimes that continue unabated and unredressed (Walker 2005, pp. 542–44).For nearly ninety years, the Nation has provided important interventions and an assessment of persistent racial, political, social and economic inequality, American and European government intrusion into governments run by non-Europeans. They have remained a constant force for addressing police brutality, educational divestment and more. Both the original and, under Minister Farrakhan, the new Nation of Islam remains one of the most under-acknowledged yet consistent and important organizations that has exhibited tremendous international dimensions. Most importantly, its impact emerged out of the twentieth-century spirit of “Black Power.’

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By J Rahman
“O Mankind! There has now come to you Enlightenment from your Sustainer, and a healing for all that troubles your hearts, and guidance, and grace to all who embrace it.”
(Al-Quran, Ch.10, V.57)
Assalamun Alaikum.
Greetings of peace to you.

Islam, as we know it today, is in reality, only a distorted form of the pristine Islam revealed to prophet Muhammad, our salutes to him. He and his blessed companions did preach the True Message of their Lord, and consequently one-third of the then world submitted themselves to the divinely prescribed System of Life. But today the one billion who call themselves Muslim, do not even know the A B C of what the exalted prophet taught throughout his life. They have never opened any of the forbiddingly huge books of Hadith. Some of them recite the Quran but almost invariably without understanding, and almost never to seek guidance. Hadith, written centuries after the exalted prophet, is a fabricated mixture of good and evil. So the Muslim clergy should accept only those Ahadith that are authentic in the sense that they agree with the Quran. Hazrat Aisha stressed that, “The character of Muhammad is nothing but the Quran.” The exalted prophet is also reported to have said, “Quotations will be presented to you in my name. You must check them with the Quran. Take those that are in agreement and discard those that are contradictory.” Turkey is in the process of doing exactly that at the request of some great personalities. Bangladesh and Morocco have banned all Mullah edicts and Pakistan is in the process of demolishing Shariah laws, all at their humble request. Authentic Ahadith are always sensible and compassionate, and they always shed light on the noble era of prophet Muhammad and his companions.

The whole Muslim community is now at a position to denounce and reject the Mullah-peddled Shariah laws as we have recently seen in Turkey and Pakistan. Our only treasure is the unique book with a unique author, the Quran. Please be assured that the Quran embodies nothing but the Most Benevolent Message for the entire mankind.
“They seek to extinguish God’s light (the Quran) by their own utterances. But God will not allow this to pass, for He has willed to spread His light in all its fullness even though the rejectors may detest it.”
(Al-Quran, Ch.9, V.32)

After reading much of this, you must be thinking what is it that I’m talking about. Let me clarify you by some of the examples of the differences between the pristine Islam and today’s practices.

(1) According to the Mullahs (clergy), to be a Muslim, you have to maintain the 5-pillar myth which comes from unauthorized books. Let’s see what the Quran has to say about this.
“Say: Come, I will rehearse what God has prohibited you from: join not anything with Him. Be good to your parents. Kill not your children on a plea of want: We provide for you and for them. Come not near to indecent deeds, whether open or secret. Take not life, which God has made sacred, except in the course of Justice. Thus does He command you, that you may use your intelligence.
And come not near to the orphan’s property, except to improve it, until they attain the age of full maturity. Give measure and weight with Justice (in all your dealings); no burden do We place on any soul, but that which it can bear. When you speak, speak justly, even if a near relative is concerned. And fulfil your Covenant with God (the unwavering allegiance to the Divine System). Thus does He command you, that you may remember.

Verily, this is My Way leading straight. Follow it. Follow not paths that will scatter you about from His Path. Thus does He command you, that you may be righteous.”
(Al-Quran, Ch.6, V.151-153)
Therefore, in Islam you have to simply accept and live according to the Straight Path in order to be a Muslim.

(2) In Islam there is no specific dresscode for women except modesty. Whereas the Sunni and Shia teachings undermine women and force them to cover their hair and avoid praying or fasting at certain times.

(3) The Sunnis claim that a man may be a polygamist simply if he can afford to, and the Shias even allow relations for pleasure. But according to the Quran, monogamy is the basis for normal relationships, while polygamy is only allowed in cases involving marrying the mothers of orphans under the man’s guardianship. (See ch.4, v.3).

(4) Sunni beliefs forbid silk and gold for men, and music and statues for all, and many ritualistic prohibitions such as not to cut the beard, not to cover the ankles, and such many. But the Quran has a different point of view. Let’s see.
“Say: Who has forbidden the beautiful gifts of God, which He has produced for His servants?…
Say: The things that my Lord has indeed forbidden are indecent deeds, whether open or secret, sins and transpasses against truth and reason, assigning partners to God, for which He has given no authority, and saying things about God of which you have no knowledge.”
(Al-Quran, Ch.7, V.32-33)
“But say not for any false thing that your tongues may put forth, ‘This is lawful, and this is unlawful’, thus inventing lies against God. Those who fabricate lies against God, indeed fail to prosper (in their ‘selves’).”
(Al-Quran, Ch.16, V.116)

(5) Sunni teachings allow the rise of dictators or monarchs, and Shia teachings uphold self-appointed religious leaders based on genealogy. But in Islam, rule of government is under the constitution of the Quran through consultation and free-speech. (See ch.42, v.38 and ch.5, v.48).

There are many more yet for you to know. I will tell you about Mohammad’s teachings that free people from traditional or older social patterns for attachment to new ones in a larger vicarious society, and promote the decline of religious fundamentalism in order to replace it with secular rationalism.

“And who does more harm (to himself) than one who is reminded of his Lord’s verses but he turned away from them, and he forgot what his hands had done. …”
(Al-Quran, Ch.18, V.57)

There are enlightened people and enlightened -like ones in this world in our days…

There are intellectual people and intellectual-like ones in this world…

There are also shepherds along with sheep who long for being steered.

And… There is “ISLAM” and also, there is people’s “Muslimism!”

Enlightened is the one who seeks, finds and knows the truth based on his own objective investigations from true sources. However, enlightened -like ones are those who take advantage of the enlightened ones depending on their capacity to understand and try to take the hat round (get the benefit) by selling them to their surroundings.

There are intellectual people in this world… They are free from their cocoons at a certain level, and they try to lead their lives under the guidance of reasonable scientific thought. Also there are intellectual-like ones who like the perspectives of intellectuals’ and the way they live. They imitate the intellectuals and take great pains to look like them, trying to wear, eat, drink, speak and act socially like them!..

Enlightened-likes and intellectual-likes are like zircons shining like a diamond to the eyes of suburban people. Their gleam attracts those in the outskirts of towns. But they haven’t seen and cannot tell the difference between zircons and diamonds. Therefore their goal is only zircons. They are ready to sacrifice nearly all they have so that they may be like them, yet they cannot even be “…-like” of them.

There are those who love to shepherd as a result of their constitutional (native -fatri) inclinations and endowment they were created with. They strive to govern and rule people, longing for physical or moral satisfaction. They form groups to rule, they issue orders, bring restrictions and prohibitions so that they may satisfy their unrealized subconscious militarist desires. Moreover, there are those who ardently want to be steered or to be a door servant; who prefer to cover up their weaknesses and feel peaceful, as they find safety and protection in such.

This is the way it is no matter wherever you are, whether in Turkey or elsewhere in the world!

Yet, ALLAH created human beings to be the “most honored” of all creation, to be Hu’s own khaliph on earth! But who has a care in that?..

Yes, both intellectual-likes and enlightened-likes in like manner comment on the people’s “Muslimism,” that gets around on the tongue of steered-people and that contradicts with logic, reasoning and science in most ways; and stressing on the underdevelopment of the followers of the religion of Muslimism, compared to other world societies, they assume that they are attacking the “Deen-i ISLAM” in this way.

Since they are never aware and conscious of themselves to be not more than yet intellectual-LIKE or enlightened-LIKE ones, they do not know that the “Deen-i ISLAM” and “Muslimism” are far different concepts from each other. Neither do they know that one should not even touch the religious issues unless one is aware of such a difference.

In point of fact, they leave aside the diamond without recognizing it at all, because of their assumption that the zircon-value perspectives and opinions of those who are desirous either for shepherding or being shepherded, are the fundamental thought system of the “Deen-i ISLAM”.

What else could indeed be expected from such helpless ignorant who consider as the only reference, the melody in the limelight among those who are desirous for steering and who want to be steered!..

Assuming that it is the “Deen-i ISLAM,” they judge the narrow minded people’s “Muslimism,” in which melodious recitation of a poem (mawlud) and celebration of holy nights with candles are regarded as religious practices (ibadat), head-scarf is regarded as if it were the primary requirement of becoming Muslim for women, and Salaat and fasting were believed to have been ordered to please the heart’s desire of the sky god of SkyTurks!

They do not understand that their so-called holy(!) poems were only written by people, (as Mawlud by Suleiman Chelebi) and they have no relation with the practices that the Koran al Karim recommends to humans… They cannot tell that litting candles on graves has no relation with the “Deen,” and only definite nights such as Miraaj, Baraat, Qaadir hide valuable hours within. They have not even heard that there is no such religious festives as Muslim festive of Sugar and Sacrifices, they are only the Eids of Fitr and Hajj! They have not comprehended that such practices mentioned in the Koran al Karim as Salaat, fasting and Hajj (Pilgrimage) have been offered not aimed at pleasing the heart desire of a god in the sky, but were recommended for constructing people’s future for their own salvation…

The “Deen-i ISLAM” is a time-free universal System and Order at the sight of ALLAH. It is the origin and the main, and is not distorted by time. The Koran tells this!

However, “Muslimism” is people’s interpretation of the “Deen-i ISLAM” within the framework of their personal capacity, their conditioning, the traditions and customs in their social environment and the restrictions brought about by their shepherds. Now understand that the “Deen-i ISLAM” is not bounded by interpretations! Try to recognize the Origin! Get rid of the “Muslimism,” consider the “Deen-i Islam!”

From the book Religious Misunderstandings By Ahmed Hulûsi

Islamic Fitrah

The Arabic word for religion is “deen”. Deen has many meanings such as “way”, “compensation”, “judgement”, and even “debt”.
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Deen as Way
As a way or means or methodology, a religion is supposed to provide a mechanism for people to get from one state to another. Deen al- Fitrah provides a proper way to realize good in this world and the Hereafter, but most importantly, it provides a way for anyone to realize their own divinity.
The Fitrah way leads to the full transmutation from animal to human and from human to divine.
The way to BE God is to DO God…….

Deen as Compensation
In her original state of being, man did not have to serve God or worship God or to adore God.  All man had to do was to “accept his own and be himself.”  That is because there was no separation between man/woman and God. As it is written, “I and the father are one.”
Man’s own nature was Fitrah Allah so all she had to do was be herself.  But then man experienced a false sense of separation from God and so had to develop a means of compensating for that sense of loss.  Man felt he could no longer just be himself, falsely believing himself to be diminished, he compensated by “submitting” to a power he imagined to be outside himself.
Religion (deen) became a crutch, a means of compensating for man’s near crippled condition.

Deen as Judgment
For every action there is an equal and opposite action in response.  This is called qadr (karma).  If an individual dies out of balance, then at some point while “dead”, he or she reviews their life and judges where they came up short.  This foreshadows a life or lives pre- destined to compensate and to be compensated.  This is often called the Day of Judgement.

 Deen as Debt
 The Day of Judgment informs us of all the karmic debts we owe.  So we incarnate into a circumstance best qualified to provide opportunities for debt repayment.  A man who left his wife to raise their children alone will one day incarnate as a woman or single father struggling to raise children alone.
It is written, “As thou hast done so shall it be done unto thee.”

Forgiveness as Karma’s Cure    
The Quran teaches that forgiveness is better than retaliation.  Qisaas (retaliation) keeps people locked into the game of karma or tit-for-tat.  But when you really forgive, all that karma evaporates and those involved can move on.  It is written that “the son of man has power to forgive sins [ i.e., karmic debts] this day.”
Religious practice and austerities can also dissolve or burn up karma.

The Nature of Allah
Man and God have the same nature.  Man was created or ennatured with Allah’s own nature.  But man suffers from amnesia and must dhikr (chant) to remember who she really is.
 Allah’s nature is revealed in His attributes.  Those attributes are also your attributes but, in our crippled condition, we must struggle to evoke or manifest them. 
If God is Rahman (Compassionate), then so are you. When you can hardly afford it is a great time to manifest Rahman.  As it is written, “Feeding the indigent during a day of privation.”
If God is ‘Azeez, then so are you.  God is Al-Nur, and so are you.  He is Salaam (Peace) and so are you.
Before you can be the embodiment of an attribute, you may have to be an apprentice —- initiate of that attribute:  Abdul- Ghany before you shed your old fake human skin and became Ghany Itself, the Enriched One Who Enriches.
The aim of Deen Al -Fitrah is to restore you to your divine self.

The Sabil or Paths
People manifest many temperaments and sages and prophets have devised many styles or paths to help people achieve divinity according to their temperaments.  Unfortunately, after those sages left their bodies, usurpers quickly got to work to graft and distort those styles into whole separate deens.  By doing so they tore the branch from the tree and the lonely branch, over time, grew rotten. Many of the faiths existing today were originally styles or paths to achieve within an original system and were never designed to be religions on their own. 
Thankfully, because they were originally Fitrah, the Fitrah essence remains in them and can be recovered by the wise.  They can be brought back to life as healthy branches of Fitrah.

Salaami origin and Destination of Fitrah
God’s nature is peace.  Creation is the differentiation of God’s original undifferentiated and inert energy/matter.  The Kamitic Sages named that state “Amen.”
In Amen there are no objects, no thoughts, no emotions, no movement, no differences, hence, total peace.  As greater differentiation occurred, the more the illusion of opposition and adversaries arose and peace became harder and harder to recognize.
But it never left.  It’s like the silence that yet subsists beneath the roar and cacophony of the crowd, the calm inside the storm.
Fitrah began in that peace and provides a way to return to that peace.  It is only when an individual attains and sustains that state of unshakable inner peace that he is truly a Muslim (man or woman of unshakeable inner peace).

How Salaam Became Islam

Salaam means “peace”, and Islam means “submit”, but if you are divine by nature, to whom are you to submit?  Allah’s attribute is Salaam, not Islam. Do you really think He would name His religion after something other than Himself?
Within the Salaam religion or Fitrah, the guru-chela or teacher-student system was allowed to help nes comers progress along their path. It was agreed that the role of the student was to submit to the teacher until the student “graduated”.
This initiatory mentorship got mistaken for a stand alone religion all to itself and people who didn’t know any better were told to replace Salaam (peace) with Islam (submit).
Islam’s purpose was and is to guide the relationship of student to teacher.
The spiritual DNA of Salaam remains in Islam and so, through Islamic Fitrah, we can restore the original Salaam.

http://www.amirfatir.com/islamic-fitrah.html

Why We Don’t Understand the Quran

Why do we suffice with simply repeating the metaphors and symbols in the Quran without actually feeling the need to recognize the truths they point to?

Why can’t we free ourselves from having to think within the limits of our ‘five senses’ and escape our cocoon?

Why is it so difficult for us to discern the reality that:

The level of strings, which comprises a SINGLE frame picture, is what Sufism refers to as the dimension of “the Names”. This is where “forms of knowledge” are made. Beyond this is “Absolute Nothingness”!

Why do we think that by simply jumping into the shower we can suddenly become purified of the “filth” the Quran refers to in pertinence to the filthy thought system based on “duality”?

Let’s remember the following verse:

“Verily the dualists (who claim the existence of their ego-identities alongside the Absolute Oneness) are contaminated (filthy)!”[1]

“None but the purified (from the dirt of shirq – duality – animalistic nature) can touch it (i.e. become enlightened with the knowledge of the Absolute Reality)”[2]

For the longest time, these two verses have been construed and understood as “you’re dirty if you don’t have wudu and therefore you cannot touch the Quran!”

Whereas what they really mean is:

“If you are of the opinion that there is this world that you can perceive, and then there is also a god up beyond in the heavens somewhere that you can’t perceive, then clearly you have a dualistic view. In this case, you should stay away from this magnificent Knowledge (the Quran) that accentuates and constantly reinforces the reality of the Absolute Unity and Oneness of existence, for with a dualistic view, it’s impossible for you to recognize and evaluate the profound knowledge contained within it.”

Let me give an example to shed some light on why metaphors and symbolic language have been used in the Quran, Hadith and Sufism.

Imagine you were beamed five hundred years back into time and your mission was to explain to the people of that time the concept of the Internet and where its boundless data was kept, and how computers and televisions worked… How would you explain it to those people? How much would the examples you give them reflect the actual reality?

Allah’s Rasul and final Nabi, who lived more than 1400 years ago, had observed all of the mechanics of the System and Order, referred to as the Sunnatullah, to the extent they were revealed to him, and then he had to explain them according to the mental capacity of the people of his time. How else could he have expressed these truths?

It is unfortunate that albeit mankind has advanced tremendously in many fields, when it comes to evaluating the realities revealed by the Rasul of Allah (saw), we don’t refrain from thinking like the people who lived centuries ago, subject to the limited conditions of their time! Those people are excused, for they did not have access to the information that we do today. But us???

Why does the Quran want intellectual people to reflect on and decode the metaphors and analogies it uses?

Let’s reform our system of thought!

Let’s systematically question and really try to decode the secrets revealed to us by the Rasul and final Nabi of Allah (saw) instead of getting stuck on their surface like those in the past were bound to…

Let’s make the best of the Nur of Risalat (the disclosure of Allah’s Knowledge) and be of the grateful ones.

If you recall, I had said earlier, that the Rasul and final Nabi of Allah had READ  (iqra) the system and narrated this using metaphors and symbolic language.

What was the reality that he read? What exactly is he referring to with these metaphors and symbols?

Which is more real? The things we see or the things we READ? Is READING merely perceiving and pronouncing a string of letters or is it the decoding of internal and external data by the brain? Is consciousness about what the brain “sees” or the data it synthesizes (READS – processes)?

First and foremost, if we really want to discern certain truths, we have to let go of the genetic habit we’ve inherited of separating the metaphysical realm from the material realm. That is, we need to stop thinking “There is matter, which I perceive with my senses, and then, beyond this matter-based physical dimension, there is also a spiritual, metaphysical realm.” On the contrary, they are one and the same thing. We call the part that we perceive with our five senses “matter” and the part that we don’t, “metaphysical” or “beyond matter.” In reality, we’re not talking about two different dimensions or formations, we’re really only talking about the same thing!

In reality, there is no “SEEING” only “READING”!

The brain does not see, it manifests what it reads.

The brain reads and processes all internal and external data it receives, some of which are converted to images, and thus “seen.”

In fact, the brain itself doesn’t even exist the way you think it does, its essence is data – energy. In other words it’s no other than a composition of Names.

What’s more, what you call “matter” is not even real; the only thing that’s real is what you call “beyond matter”. Matter is merely a conditioning and a constriction of the brain based on the five senses.

Everything we perceive as 3D, from what we reference with expressions such as “space” and “multiverses” or in Sufi terms afaq (the outer dimensions), all the way down to the single frame picture we call the level of strings, or the anfus (inner dimensions), comprise a single dimension. They are all one and the same thing!

The manifestation or the condescension of the meanings of this absolute unity called the world of JABARUT forms the world of MALAKUT (angelic realm), which comprises the observation and the experience of existence.

All thoughts become non-existent at the level of LAHUT. It is the world of nothingness, referenced as Ahadiyyah.

The world of strings have come about with the two hands of Allah, i.e. Rahmaniyyah and Rahimiyyah, or data and energy (the dimension of the Names). The ever-changing manifestations of this dimension at every instance is what forms the multiverses and everything that’s perceived within and through them at the level of Malakut (forces). This has also been expressed as “the worlds are the forms of knowledge within the Knowledge of Allah” in Sufism.

The reason why it is said, “the essence of existence is non-existence” is because everything exists in one instance, then becomes non-existent in the next instance, and then become existent again, continually…

Those who think the Sufi word “wujud” means the “physical body” obviously can’t comprehend this. “Wujud” means existence, or the perception of existence.

The infinite phenomenon called the dimension of strings is an ocean of “power and knowledge” – an endless flow of energy and information  (data).

Because the essence of existence is comprised of the Names, it derives its existence from Allah, and thus, due to the infiniteness of Allah’s Names, the dimension of the strings is continually and infinitely transforming, ad infinitum…

Strings are the final and most latest point theoretical physics has been able to reach pertaining to the reality of existence.

But in actuality, the essence of what string theory aims to depict is non-existence. Of course, new theories can be surmised as alternative explanations in the future.

There is no path beyond this for those who have become “existent” from “non-existence” in the Knowledge of Allah, for there is no multiplicity in the ocean of meanings comprising existence.

The Divine Names and Attributes are Whole, and Holistically they manifest themselves differently at every instance, thus all meanings that become manifest merely constitute the projection of a single point in the infinite field of Allah’s Names.

This projection is nothing other than the output of an instance of Allah in the realm of strings, or the “point”.

The One denoted by the name Allah is free from the worlds means this infinite existence is free from becoming restricted to the manifestations of this point, no matter how vast and limitless they seem.

The word “yawm” which means “the present moment” is actually this very instance in which the innumerous and the ever-changing projections of the point are reflected.

When Ibn al-Arabi said, “The universe continually and sequentially becomes non-existent and then existent again at every instant…” he was pointing to the constant and infinite renewal and transformation of the strings, for he too was among those who READ.

The prayer of the Rasul of Allah (saw), “O Allah, reveal to me the reality of things (forms-manifestations)” he was actually requesting access to the unperceivable knowledge pertaining to the essence of the things that are within the range of our perception.

The description, “Allah was, and nothing existed besides Him. No air was under him, no air was above him” to which Hadhrat Ali (ra), the zenith of Sainthood, added, “And it is still so…” i.e. “It is still that moment”, points to the dimension of Names within the sphere of Divine Knowledge. In other words, despite all perceived phenomena in reality there is only the One whose name is Allah, all else is essentially non-existent.

So let those who can think and who claim “matter exists” grasp something with their thoughts instead of their hands for once! If they can… Whatever you try to grasp from the macrocosm to the microcosm you are bound to fall into void. For when you try to grasp that which you call matter you’ll be faced with the non-existence of the body at the molecular level. And when you try to hold on to the molecular level you’ll find yourself in the emptiness between its atoms, and when you try to hold an atom, you’ll fall into the vast space around it’s nucleus, and if you try to grasp the nucleus you’ll only find more empty space, and just when you think you’ve reached the quarks, you’ll fall into the mysterious world of the strings, an abode in which you can only be a silent observer…

Ibn Arabi had claimed “I am the Reality” when he reached the Station of the Inspired Self. He described the Unity of Existence as a system and claimed, “Wujud (life) and existence are ONE, only He exists! So whether you say He exists or I exist (He is, or I am) the one who is making this claim is ultimately the Self.”

Imam Rabbani, on the other hand, talked about the Unity of Witness. That is, the existence that Ibn Arabi talks about is a divine form within divine knowledge, and that it is only a shadow or imagined existence. Both scholars and all others who claimed similar truths, articulated the realities that were expressed from their core ‘kernel’ according to their individual unique programming.

What was expressed as a metaphor in the past, such as “nothing exists besides Allah” (la mawjuda illa HU) is now being scientifically confirmed and expressed as “all perceived and unperceived phenomena are nothing other than the constantly changing various expressions of the strings (energy-data field) of which we are a part” Like the constantly changing shapes and colors of a kaleidoscope, at every instance It manifests Itself in yet another different way…

The Quran explains this truth with metaphors and symbols, the intimates of the Reality perceived this truth and tried to explain using the language of their times.[3]

Think of a computer…

Obviously you know the screen isn’t the computer itself, though there are some who actually think it is…

The infinite data comprising the Internet is nothing other than an endless sequence of zero’s and one’s in a hard disk… Or, you’re actually seeing pixels on the screen for example but you perceive it as a picture. If you can go inside the hard disk of a computer you’ll find nothing other than zero’s and one’s! In fact, beyond the zero’s and one’s, there is only a pulse of electricity, that’s all…

Similar to the points that come together in a sequence to form letters and pictures; if you were to zoom enough into a letter or a picture you’ll see an array of points or ‘dots’.

In my writings I often talk about “knowledge” as the primary building block or the quintessential element comprising existence. Some have understood this as “acquired knowledge” whereas I’m referring to “data” or in other words, bits of information that constitute a meaning. Just like a novel or a movie script for example is really only a compilation of data in a computer…

Everything that we perceive and can think and conceptualize within the multiverses is essentially a wave of energy or “data” at the level of strings…

This reality was conceived by all the Intimates of Reality and the Saints of Allah throughout history and expressed according to the understanding of their time, often with metaphors… nevertheless it is always the same truth being expressed in different ways, based on the programming of the perceiver and the conditions to which they are subject…

The bottom line is, all saints and scholars who have reached the reality claimed the “this world is essentially a dream” in fact some claimed it is “a dream within a dream.”

Some noble scholars said “The Divine Reflection took place only once (The Single Reflection); it didn’t occur again.” Again, this is to point to the same reality; that the Angelic Realm (Malakut), formed by the condescension of the Names (the perception of meaning) is merely a dream, essentially non-existent.

“The worlds have not even smelt the fragrance of existence” is also to accentuate this truth.

The fact is, we’re all living in a completely virtual reality, albeit we perceive it as solid and real. And it will continue to be this way, through various dimensional transformations, indefinitely…

Some are going to realize this truth and experience its outcome, while others are going to change dimensions in a “blind” (aamah) state and remain forever blind (of knowledge).

The state of Absolute Unity and Oneness (Wahidiyyah), to which we often refer as the Dimension of Names, or the single frame picture, encompasses the innumerous qualities denoted by Allah’s Names. All of this however, refers only to the fact that all forms of existence are “forms of knowledge” i.e. virtual. In fact, because these qualities denoted by the Names of Allah address mankind, they correlate directly with man’s perceptive ability.

Within the dark substance that we call “dark matter” comprising 96% of what we cant perceive and of which we have no definite knowledge, there are innumerous qualities of Allah, unbeknownst to mankind.

The Dimension of Names, with its infinite vastness, is simply a collection of divine qualities formed in the projection of a single point within the knowledge of Allah.

There are infinite such points, all of which are projections and manifestations of Allah’s infinite incomprehensible knowledge!

It is because these worlds are all forms of knowledge within divine knowledge that we say the One denoted by Allah is an absolute unknown in terms of His essence and thus it has been said “Do not ponder on the essence (dhat) of Allah”.

His single manifestation, what we call a single frame picture, encapsulates all of the 3D multiverses. It is merely a single “point” of manifestation within His infinite knowledge. It is the whole of existence constantly manifesting itself in yet another way at every instance. And it is also what we refer to as the Station or Dimension of Divine Names. In scientific terms we may call it the level of strings; essentially we’re really only referencing the infinite database of energy-data (power-knowledge).

To be a little more clear, the “point” that I keep referring to, is one dimension of Names amongst other dimensions of Names pertaining to the One referenced as Allah, which in our world, we call the “strings”.

Sufism refers to the inner dimension (batin) of this “point” as aamah and to its outer dimension (zahir) as wahidiyyah (Oneness). It’s also known as “jabarut” and its personalized virtual state is referred to as “malakut”. All of this is in respect to the Creator.

The name “HU” points to the quintessence of the point.

The actual essence of Allah (dhat) can never be known or conceived, as I have already noted above. It is in this respect that it is said, ”Allah is al-Ghani from the worlds (beyond being labeled and limited by the manifestations of His Names)”

How can it be possible for the human consciousness, which only has a virtual existence within the dimension of Names inside the projection of the point to conceive and comprehend the One in whose sight there are infinite points!?

How can one not confess his helplessness and nothingness in the sight of this “Akbar” One?

The point is the Grand Spirit in respect to the infinite meanings it entails, and the Reality of Muhammad in respect to its identity.

Since all that is perceived is essentially comprised of data (forms of knowledge) within divine knowledge inside the “point” manifesting as the dimension of strings, coming into existence from non-existence, all units derive their existence from a composition of Names (a composition of qualities denoted by the Names).

The holographic principle eludes to the fact that though seemingly various and different, all forms are essentially from the same source. Hence the One denoted by the name Allah and its creation are not mutually exclusive or independent of each other, on the contrary the verse “when you threw it was Allah who threw” shows us they are one and the same thing. Likewise, there are many denotations of Allah “getting angry, feeling happy, sad” etc. amongst religious literature, all pointing to the same truth.

All concepts pertaining to our world of perception is due to our cognition that Allah exists as a result of His ever-changing manifestations within the single frame picture, which consequently leads us to identify existence as Allah, forming an opportune plane for multi-faceted perception.

To decode this reality in the Quran one should evaluate the verses in which the name “Allah” is mentioned either in respect of the name az-Zahir (The self-evident One, the explicit, unequivocal and perceivable manifestation) or the name al-Batin (The unperceivable reality within the perceivable manifestation! The source of the unknown).

When one says, “Allah is forgiving” they are actually referring to the quality of forgiveness in humans. This is a manifestation in respect to the name al-Batin.

Or when it is said, “Allah is Aziz’un Zuntiqam”[4] the reference is to the mechanics of Allah’s System, whereby no action is passed over without making the committer face its consequence.

I mentioned above the name HU points to the quintessential depth (al-Batin) of the point. This should not be understood as different dimensions. There is no such dimensions (internal-external depth or surface) to the “point” as we understand, for the source of the point is the attribute of “Samadiyyah”[5]

Only HU (the Absolute Essence of Existence) who “at every instance manifests Himself in yet another way”[6]exists!

There is another sublimity to take note of here:

While the Rasul of Allah (saw) explained the essence of existence via the knowledge of Risalah (the disclosure of the Knowledge of Allah), with all its intricate details based on the understanding of the people of his time, at the same time, as a result of Nubuwwah (the function of enabling people to read and apply the necessary practices of the system of Allah) he revealed the practical knowledge of Sunnatullah – the how’s, do’s and don’ts of the mechanics of the System.

All recommended practices such as salat, fasting, alms giving, are based on the mechanics of the System of which man is an integral part.

Whatever deed is committed, whether physically or consciously, its consequence will be experienced due to an internal force embedded into the essence of man. The grateful one will enjoy the fruits of being grateful, and the ungrateful one will suffer the results of his ungratefulness…

Those who fail to enter through the gates which the Rasul of Allah (saw), the magnificent being, opened for us -whatever their excuse may be- will suffer the consequences of their failure. For, while he cautioned the people against conceiving Allah as a god in space in order to protect them from the consequential suffering of this duality, he also admitted and expressed his own nothingness with his words, “he who has seen me has seen the One”…

If we can interpret some of the verses of the Quran in light of today’s scientific knowledge I believe a very unique construal of the Quran can be attained, much different to those interpreted so far.

Hopefully I’m able to present a new perspective to some degree…

Note: Some think by copying and pasting the information in a physics or medicine textbook and claiming ‘this is the knowledge of Allah’ is how they can make the point that religion and science are asserting the same truths. For some who are far from science or the essence of the message of religion my teachings are a misrepresentation of religion. They say, what if the things you’re writing about today change with time, then what? Are we to change our religion too? The answer is in another writing…

 Ahmed Hulusi

https://www.ahmedhulusi.org/en/article/why-we-dont-understand-the-quran

[1] Quran 9:28

[2] Quran 56:79

[3] Please read Al-Ghazali’s work “Mishkat al-Anwar (The Niche for Lights)” and Ahmed Hulusi’s book “The Great Awakening”.

[4] Al-Aziz: The One who, with His unchallengeable might, disposes as He wishes. The One whose will to do as He likes, nothing can oppose.

Al-Muntaqim: The One who makes individuals live the consequences of their actions that impede in the realization of their essence. To ‘avenge’ (zuntiqam) is to make one ‘pay the price’ i.e. face the consequence of their doings without exception or pity.

[5] The Pure Whole One! Free from the concept of multiplicity! Not formed of adjoining parts. Far from conceptualization and limitation. The self-sufficient One, in need of nothing!

An authentic hadith narrates: “As-Samad is such that it bears no space or emptiness within it (all, whole, one).”

[6] Quran 55:29

Deity-Centric Religion?

Perhaps we need to question the fundamentals of the topic:

A deity centered, or a Muhammad (saw) centered, understanding of religion?

Yes, I have indeed thrown yet another controversial ball into the court, but do forgive me; the fine distinction between the two implies enormous significance! In fact, failure to recognize this difference could mean the inability to rid one’s self from ‘religious savvy’ to attain the reality of the Religion!

So what is this important difference?

According to the general conception of Muslims, religion is a deity-centered belief system. That is, even though Muslims always say Allah is ‘everywhere’ or ‘free from location’, nevertheless this ‘deity-god’ whom they have named ‘Allah’ is always conceived as being somewhere in the heavens or in the upper dimensions of space somewhere! Hence, they believe in a god who is somewhere beyond. But this is a misconceived sense of duality, an apparent shirq; an act of associating partners to Allah! Almost all people with such dualistic concepts believe in a postulated god, whom they label ‘God’ or ‘Allah’, and whom they construct based on their own culture, environment and imagination.

Some people, based on their own nonsensical reasons, forbid the contemplation on the verses in the Quran in relation to this topic, and hence their ‘personal god’ becomes fixated in their brain, leaving no room for progress or development!

According to their assumptions and misconceptions, this personal god, picks a prophet for itself from among the earthlings, and recruits him as its postman-delivery man-messenger on earth! And all of this happens by way of a messenger angel it ‘sends’ down to earth!

Let’s digress from the subject for an instant: Those who believe in UFOs and extraterrestrial beings claim these angels, or what people have come to accept as gods, are an advanced race from space.

Indeed, beings from space may have come, and they may still do so! Denying this possibility altogether would be nonsensical. However, to think these beings are angels or gods is an unacceptable mistake! The teachings of the Rasul of Allah (saw) attach no relevance to such things; we must understand this well.

The Antichrist(Dajjal) who will claim to be a god visiting his servants on earth will also use this deity-centered religious approach to subjugate those who believe in a deity-god to submit to him! Only a handful of people on earth will actually refuse him!

The ‘Messiah’ awaited by the Jews and Christians isn’t actually Jesus (as); it is the Dajjal! Jesus (as) is to emerge after the Dajjal comes to claim he is god. The Dajjal is going to be exterminated by Jesus (as) in person, who is going to emerge on earth at the age of 33. Then he is going to spend 7 to 11 years with the Mahdi, the final Reviver on earth, before the Agog and Magog race from North Asia invade the Middle East. After this period, Jesus (as) will live until he is 73 – a total of 40 years on earth. All of this is based on the various hadith of the Rasul of Allah (saw). Further information can be found in The Mystery of Man under the section ‘The Signs of Doomsday’.

Going back to our main topic, ‘a deity-based religion’ is essentially a materialistic one.

According to a deity-based religious view, the Quran and hadith have only literal meaning and value.

A deity-based religious view dictates that God literally has a hand!

A deity-based religious view claims God has a double pan balance scale (apparently God hasn’t yet discovered the digital and other advanced versions!).

This kind of religious understanding does not encourage contemplation, it doesn’t think to realize all of this metaphoric language could actually be used to denote certain realities to man…

As such, everything in a deity-based religious view is based on the material world. There is no room for questioning, pondering, contemplating or even thinking! There are only commands and their blind applications!

Under the name ‘Comparative Fiqh’ certain allegorical verses have been construed according to the current time and age and accepted within the scope of religion and shariah (Islamic law). Hence, the construal of Quranic verses based on that particular time and age are now taken as though they are the laws of religion.

According to a deity-centered religion salat and fasting are like debts that must be paid to god. If you fail to do so, god will send you to prison, or rather to hell!

A deity-centered religious view says: “We only obey the commands and do not think about the rest. He knows better what is what; we do not need to know anything else. If there were a need, He would have let us know. Our duty is only to obey His orders and do our worship. It is not our place to question the wisdom and the reason and ponder on the rest…”

The other very clichéd phrase of this view is: “We’re all going to die and everything is going to become apparent on Doomsday!”

As for the religious view centered on Muhammad (saw) the Rasul of Allah and the final Nabi… Far from a materialistic approach, this is the view endorsed by all of the intimates of reality, the Sufi masters, from Haji Bektashi Wali and Imam Ghazali to Abdulqadir Jilani and Sheikh Bahaaddin Naqshibandi, who when told “you seem arrogant” replied “this isn’t arrogance (kibr), it is magnificence (kibria)”… And many, many others…

Muhammad (saw) was a Hanif. He knew well the invalidity of the deity-god concept, and at the age of 39, he declared to his idolater community “there is no god or godhood, there is only Allah (La ilaha illaAllah).”

The most important point here is to recognize what ‘Allah’ references. When duly researched and examined it becomes clear that Allah is not a reference to a deity-god to be comprehended far beyond, but rather that Allah is the force, the power and presence within the essence of every unit of existence, of everything! Instead of turning to exterior and outer dimensions, individuals can attain that force and power by turning inner to the depths of their own essence, at which point they will realize their individual nonexistence and declare unity: “Only Allah exists!”

Hence, there are no angels descending from the skies but forces in the form of knowledge (Gabriel) emerging from one’s essence to his consciousness. Because the brain constantly creates forms for the raw data it receives to its database with its ‘Musawwir’ quality and outputs this to the consciousness, people perceive angels in forms.

The Rasul of Allah (saw) articulated the reality of the One whose name is Allah within his own essence. Risalah is the manifestation through revelation (wahy) of the attribute of Knowledge pertaining to this reality.

It goes from the inner to the outer, from the essence to the exterior, not the other way around and most definitely not from the skies down to the flesh-bone body on earth!

When this knowledge of reality becomes manifest in the form of disclosing the sunnatullah, the immutable constants of Allah’s system, in order to enable people to READ and apply the necessary practices of the system, it is called Nubuwwah.

Allah, in respect of his Absolute Essence (dhat) is an Absolute Unknown (ghayb) to us. We can only know Him to the extent of Rasulullah’s (saw) disclosure.

Our knowledge of Allah is not derived from our own illusion and imagination but from the teachings of the Rasul of Allah (saw), from what he has revealed to us through the Quran and hadith. We contemplate on the reference of Allah based on this knowledge but never condition and confine Him to our understanding!

Rasulullah-centered religion is the name of the system and order comprising the infinite dimensions and universes within universes! Islam is the name of the system in which the products of ONE knowledge and power reside in absolute submission within the infinite dimensions of existence.

“In the sight of Allah, Islam is the religion” is an expression of this truth.

Therefore, Rasulullah-centered understanding is the Religion, but a deity-centered one is only religious savvy.

The other important aspect of the Rasulullah-centered approach is about vicegerency. All units of existence are manifestations reflecting the Names and Attributes of Allah, based on the holographic reality and hadith ‘the part mirrors the whole.’

The best way to discern this is to align our thoughts such that it goes from the one towards the many (from the whole to the part)!

Once this is achieved, we will realize that all the Names and Attributes belonging to what Allah references are the forces and qualities inherent in every single person and unit of existence. Furthermore, we will know that ‘angels’ are the forces comprising the degrees of the manifestation of these qualities, emerging from the essence of man to the database of his consciousness…

Aleem, Mumeet and Haseeb, manifest as Gabriel, Azrael (the transformer) and Munkar-Nakir (the accountants) respectively!

There are no inanimate and unconscious beings in the Rasulullah-centered understanding! For every unit of existence subsists with the qualities of the Names of Allah.

Man is the only existence among all living things on earth to feel ‘sympathy and mercy’ and the capacity to observe the magnificent sunnatullah of Allah! Hence, he is the most honored among creation (ashraf-i mahluq)!

“One without sympathy deserves no sympathy”!

Rasulullah’s (saw) words in reference to vermin: “Kill all things that are harmful!” need to be comprehended and evaluated well.

Everyone who respects the lives of others has the right to live in the Rasulullah-centered conception of religion.

According to this view, every unit of existence is facilitated by its Rabb (the unique composition of Names comprising its essence) to fulfil the purpose of its creation. This may be both towards a favorable end or an unfavorable one. This is the display of absolute servitude.

In the Rasulullah-centered religion, all spiritual practices in the form of prayer, dhikr, salat and fasting etc. are done with the intention of actualizing the forces and qualities pertaining to one’s Rabb within one’s own essence rather than to please a deity-god. The phrases “for the pleasure of Allah” or “to please Allah” entail the suitability or compatibility of a situation to one’s optimal essential reality. For as a result of this, one is able to manifest a quality of his ideal essential self!

“And man will only accrue the results (consequences) of his own labor (what manifests through him; his thoughts and actions, due to the trigger system).” (Quran 53:39)

This verse is clear enough for thinking brains to comprehend the reality!

In short, a deity-god centered religion is directed towards an external God.

Whereas religion centered around the Rasul of Allah, Muhammad (saw), is for ‘humans’ who begin with faith in Allah (as disclosed by the Rasul of Allah) and then discover the various degrees of divinity and the forces and perfect qualities pertaining to them, all within their own essence.

 Ahmed Hulusi

https://www.ahmedhulusi.org/en/article/deity-centric-religion

Is God Great?

Is God great? How great is He? Should He be idolized, deified and worshipped?

For some, God exists in the heavens, He sits on a big throne, He’s Almighty, and must be worshipped, for there is no other than He to be worshipped, He is the only King, pardon me, the only God in the heavens!

Those who fail to discern the teachings of the most magnificent brain to have ever stepped foot on this planet, the articulation of the Reality and the Rasul of Allah, Muhammad Mustapha (saw), have made up a religion based on the idea of an external deity, which has ultimately led to violence and terror…

On the other hand, some thinking brains, far from all sorts of dispute and political view, are building their eternal lives, based on the meanings denoted by “Allah” and “Sunnatullah”…

In attempt to catalyze the deep contemplation process of such thinkers I had invited them to try to recognize what is referenced by the name ‘Allah’

For, the proper discernment of the essence of religious information relies totally on the correct understanding and evaluation of the reality denoted by the name “Allah”.

The first and most important message of the most magnificent manifestation of consciousness, Muhammad (saw), is that “there is no God” (La ilaha) thus invalidating the concept of godhood while confirming the reality of Allah (illa Allah).

I explained this topic in detail in Muhammad’s Allah, but in this chapter I want to approach it from another angle.

There are two points we should take note of:

1. The verse  “indeed Allah is Ghani from the worlds” (Allah is beyond being labeled and limited by the manifestations and concepts of the corporeal worlds) directs our attention beyond the point of universality and dimensionality…
2. “Allah is the Rabb of the worlds” points to the fact that He manifests Himself in every iota, whether we perceive it or not, and that there is no other existence other than His Being…

String theory guides us to recognize the dimensionality within the single frame picture comprising the multiverses…

The holographic universe model tells us that every point within each perceived iota comprising the single frame picture is nothing other than the observation of the manifestation of the ONE!

Like the group of blind men who try to define an elephant by describing the organ within their reach, scientists and mystics alike are all trying to assign god somewhere, either to the heavens or inside themselves, yet in the meantime, those who have grasped the message of the Reality have already embarked on a journey to infinity within the awe of Absolute Unity…

Lets explore the universal dimensions first…

Caution! Don’t forget that all of this exploration is taking place via the waves transmitted to our brain between the range four ten thousandths to seven ten thousandths of a centimeter!

What if our perception was just a little more comprehensive than this?

Anyway… let’s go on…

We’re living on a planet orbiting a star (the Sun) 1 million 300 thousand times greater than Earth and we’re trying to solve the mysteries of our universe! Scientists claim there are 400 billion stars like the sun in the Milky Way alone… There are billions of such galaxies, each comprising billions of stars alike…

Billions times billions of galaxies, stars, planets…

Where is god amongst all of this?

Where is the god that is deified, other then whom there is no other god, the one who has sent his son to earth? Where in this infinity is he??

Science has shown us that the billions and billions and billions of stars are not randomly wandering in space independent of each other but that they are indeed connected via a matter that is not visible to us; an intermediary matter connecting everything together…. Indeed the universe is a single structure, for the eye, the brain or the consciousness that can perceive it as such…

A single form, a single organic, living, conscious form! Space is the body of this consciousness… In the past they described this as the attribute of knowledge pertaining to Allah, or the universal cosmic consciousness…. This is space and everything in it…

When science dove deep enough into one of the stars among the billions of billions of billions of stars, it saw that in fact the very thing we call “star” is nothing other than the composition of some of the atoms among the hundred or so that we know of… This wasn’t satisfactory enough, it dove deeper… it zoomed in a hundred billion times and zoomed out a hundred billion times and assigned the names “proton” and “quark” and “string” to the various sizes of these compositions that it saw…

If we equate the size of a quark to the size of the earth, then a string is like a tree on earth… What is a quark in respect to a proton? What is a proton is respect to an atom? What is an atom compared to earth? What is earth in comparison to a star? What is a star to a galaxy? Or a galaxy, to the Universe? Where among all of this does your god dwell my friend? Where does he keep his son and all his postmen messengers?!!

You see, this is the point at which some said, “this is nonsense!” and became atheists! For their minds could not fathom this complexity. They claimed god and religion is pure nonsense and denied everything! They claimed religion is merely a tool to control and divide the masses!

They were right in one respect of course, but there were so many truths they failed to see, so many codes they couldn’t decipher, and so many messages they overlooked!

Because they disregarded the form and the packaging of the Muhammadan codes that came to them, they failed to evaluate the universal realities. While playing with the sand they failed to dive into the most magnificent ocean of consciousness that has ever become manifest on earth, thus they were deprived of the infinite beauties within the depths of this amazing cosmic ocean…

They couldn’t see that the consciousness pertaining to the single frame universal picture (the Perfect Man) is no different to that of the vicegerent of earth, and that they are indeed one with this universal consciousness… They parted this world having only lived limited bodily pleasures…

They failed to experience LOVE! They couldn’t taste the pleasure of giving unrequitedly and the ecstasy of being “nothing” in the face of the truth “the giver is Allah alone!” They were blinded from the infinite universal consciousness of their essence!

The truth was hidden within each being…

The holographic universe principle was actually decoding the reality “Allah is the Rabb of the worlds!” and revealing the fact that the universal spirit is present within every iota of existence… but they couldn’t see…

They couldn’t discern the pointing of the noble one who claimed 1400 years ago “the part mirrors the whole”…

They couldn’t hear the call of the one who described himself as the “Ahad” (Absolute Oneness) and the “Samad” (Absolute Self-Sufficient and Whole One) and appeared as the Rasul of Allah (saw)…

Because they didn’t get the holographic reality they failed to recognize the whole reflecting in the part, and the One manifesting as the many…

“SubhanAllah” is a reference to the six dimensions of the strings that point to the meaning of the multiverses constantly manifesting in yet another wondrous way at every instance…

“Alhamdulillah” is an expression denoting that this Unity within the seeming multiplicity can only be duly evaluated by its creator…

“Allahuakbar” does not mean “God is great” but points to the fact that the One who has created the infinite dimensions with His Knowledge can never be comprehended with knowledge…

But alas… none of this was understood…

Why for example do people find it easier to construe the expression “this is the tasbih (glorification) of the angels that carry the Throne” as angels carrying a seat on which god sits rather than contemplating upon the depths of the formation of existence?

Multiverses, parallel universes, the consequences of an action done in one universe affecting another universe (like the ripple effect) or the same consciousness being present in multiple universes at the same time, and similar concepts are all expressions that imply ‘looking at the part from the whole’…

The holographic reality tells us that the seeming multiplicity (according to the perceiver) is actually the manifestation of the ONE consciousness (Knowledge) as the micro world…

Ok so all of this is great… but… how about all that other stuff, like:

“Why did the prophets come? Why was the Quran revealed? If there is no god then to whom will we give account? Are heaven, hell, the intermediary realm, the place of the gathering and doomsday made-up stories? What kind of justice is this, to live 60 years then burn for 600 million years?…” and so on and so forth…

In the past they would say “The person can’t reach Allah unless Allah makes them reach Himself”

Years ago, I had tried expressing the same truth using modern terms. I had said, ”One cannot reach oneness and unity via multiplicity, that path is closed; but those who learn to observe the multiplicity from the point of unity, they are the ones who can uncover the mystery”…

Obviously those who limit Muhammad (saw) to the delivery-man position, delegated by a god sitting on a throne in space carried by angels with wings will have no clue as to what I’m talking about, but that’s ok…

Those who can’t discern the universal System and Order take religion as dogma!

Since they can’t recognize the reality denoted by the name Allah they say Islam is a monotheistic religion! Clearly they don’t get the message in the code “la ilaha”.

Thus their understanding is built upon the idea of an external celestial god and postmen prophets on earth. For they base everything on the five senses, on what they can perceive through their sensory organs alone.

They have failed to see the infinite consciousness unraveled like a string in the shape of a spiral from a single point to infinity. The multiverses are a cone-shaped spiral-like projection within which every single point is also a point from which another infinite projection takes place! And yet the point comprised by all of the strings that make up the multiverses is only one point amongst the continuum of points on the platform of infinity! Ah but to really fathom this….!

This is what the name Allah refers to! Allah is what comprises all of these points and who creates infinite worlds from every single point, which is referenced by the word ‘Akbar’.

This is why the Quran says “Allah is Ghani from the worlds” (Allah is beyond being labeled and limited by the manifestations and concepts of the corporeal worlds)

The multiverses are almost like an infinite sequence of cones within cones, and all of them derive their existence from a single point. This point is referred to as the attribute of divine knowledge, the manifestation of consciousness. The First Intellect is the conscious projection of the attribute of knowledge from the point.

Based on the holographic reality all cone-like projections and thus their derivatives, forms of relative consciousness, all derive their existence from the point within their own depth. The term, “Allah is the Rabb of the worlds” refers to this fact…

So based on all of this:

The Rasul of Allah, the magnificent consciousness, has taught us about the System and Order in which we’re living, called the Sunnatullah, by reading the knowledge of the Gabrielic force emanating from the “point” within his essence to his consciousness, based on the command ‘READ’! He taught us:

There is no god, the concept of godhood is invalid, only the One denoted by the name Allah exists, and Allah is not a deity or an entity outside us somewhere, our servitude is to the Rabb within our essence (the One who creates and recreates us at every instance).

Whatever form of servitude has come forth from a person during his worldly life (thoughts and actions) he will live the consequences of this in the afterlife (any point after he carries out this action).

The realm of the grave is real. One who makes the transition to this realm will question the authenticity of this dimension based on the things he lived on earth with the angelic forces within himself… The angels of account are not going to come from outside, they are present within the person and they are going to become manifest.

The suffering or the paradisiacal state in the grave are real. Their experience is automatic and inescapable.

Doomsday is going to take place. The earth is going to evaporate and disappear. All of the spirits of all humans are going to gather in one place, as conscious beings. There, people are going to gather together according to what their faith was in the world and they’re going to follow the person in whom they had faith.

Hell is a place where everyone is going to pass. Those who come out of the Place of Gathering are going to pass the place called hell, this road is called the “sirat”, those who can come out are going to continue their lives in another dimension called heaven, forever.

This is a process, everyone is going to experience it, according to the Rasul of Allah (saw)…

All practices recommended under the category of prayer in this world are all to prevent the person from suffering in the life after death, for the persons own best interest, it has nothing to do with pleasing a god in space.

Performing these practices to prepare for the life after death is no different to taking health precautions to prevent getting sick or taking medication when we do get sick, whatever the person does is for his own sake.

There’s nobody up there my friends, besides other creations! One can only discover their Rabb within their own depth.

And nobody out there is going to call you to account when you die and change dimensions other than yourself! Hence the verse says, “Sufficient for you is your individual consciousness at this stage to discern the consequences of your actions”[1]

He who does an iota’s worth of good will see it and he who does an iota’s worth of bad will see it; their consequences will be experienced inevitably. Chapter al-Zilzal will be lived again, after tasting death.

Not knowing this or not having heard this is not an excuse! For there is no god to whom you can present an excuse!

So my friends, I tried to present a short construal of some of the metaphors of religious expressions. It’s your life, and your decision to make! Whether you want to follow the recommendations of the Rasul of Allah (saw) or take up another path, it’s totally up to you my friends, and the consequences of your choices will bind you alone. Each to his own.

My regards to those who claim religion is a dogma and that it can’t be construed in light of modern science (!)

https://www.ahmedhulusi.org/en/article/is-god-great

 Ahmed Hulusi