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As we analyse life, only one reality emerges
before our eyes, and that is, every son of Adam and each daughter of Eve
desires to live his or her life happily, but the materialistic view of life
always leaves him or her disappointed. This is because each and every moment of
our life is temporary and ever changing. From the physical and materialistic point of view we do not even possess the
knowledge of what real happiness is, and how it is achieved. To gain awareness
of true happiness, it is essential that we find our base and origin.
Even when we were nothing, we were still
something, because 'not being anything' negates our existence. Our physical
life '.tarts in the mother's womb. There matter, having passed through a specific process when it reaches its
peak, a living image comes into existence out of nothingness. This image raised and trained in such a way by its
environment that it does not learn what real happiness is and how this true
happiness can be achieved.
In order to embrace true happiness, one
must first realize that life does not depend upon the body alone, but upon that
truth which itself has created the body as its garment. After birth, the second
stage of life that comes before us is where each Moment [that we live in] that dies, and the death of one moment becomes
the cause of the next moment's
birth. It is this moment that at times changes into
childhood, at times into youth, and still at other times into adulthood, and at
Times into old age,
The way we can reach this truth is by
realizing that the living and awake image is not a body but a conscious. Our
difficulty is that we cannot entirely call it consciousness either because
consciousness is that means of our identification upon which the entire
building stands. We also know that as the body dies, the material foulness and
impurities end, but we also know that as the body is terminated the conscious
does not die, but is instead transferred into a different world. In all the
religious books that are present, one thing is mentioned again and again, and
that is, 'man is not merely a physical body, but a conscious.' When we mention
life starting from the belly of the mother until death, we realize that
consciousness that had its base in the belly of the mother...that consciousness
reduces from one end and increases at the other. As the conscious continues to
decrease, man recedes into the past; as the conscious continues to increase,
man progresses further and further into the future. The increase and decrease
in one's consciousness is what determines one's age. One period cat
consciousness is called "childhood," the second period of
consciousness is called "adulthood," and the third period of
consciousness is called "old age." Eventually, the conscious that
remains and continues is the conscious that has sustained this material life,
and the conscious upon which this body is progressing through the stages of
evolution.
When we study ourselves, we say that we
have a limited and mortal body, and this is the identity of our life. This body
that we see has foulness, filth, putridity and decay as its components. The
roots of this decay lie in the fact that that each person thinks that, 'I am
matter, and I am born of this material world,' This limited point of view
confines man within a certain state, and each person entangles himself within
the limiting and confining web, and thus the foundation is laid for a limited
and confined point of view. Each person dwelling on the earth, when refers to
himself, says, 'I am a Muslim. I am a Hindu. I am a Zoroastrian. I am a
Christian,' whereas no name can be given to the spirit. Light is light wherever
it exists whether it is in the Arab world, or the non-Arab world, whether it is
in Europe, or whether it is in any part of Asia.
Allah's system is established in such a way
that wherever the message of Allah came, it still exists through its words. For
the Christians, the words of the Bible hold the status of religion, and for the
Muslims, it is the Holy Quran that establishes religion; Hindus worship the
words of Bhagavat Gita.
All heavenly Books are, in reality, those
voices of the honoured servants of God, which have become light and have spread
throughout the world.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
Science has made immense progress, yet many believe that, even with all of the modern tools at our disposal, human beings function at no more than 10% of their mental capacity. This leads to the question of what exactly it is that comprises the remaining 90%. Yet another question that arises is this: If it has taken man four and a half billion years to be able to apply only 10% of his ability, how long will it take for him to make use of the remaining 90%?
