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He who created this universe said:-
"Man
was nothing………..Not even mentioned."
"We breathed our spirit in
him."
The Most Exalted God said the same
to Christ, "And when you makest out
of clay a figure of bird by my leave by my will and the knowledge granted by
me. And breath (the soul) into it and it becometh a bird,"
When
Christ would blow over a figure of a bird made out of clay it would start
flying after becoming alive. The born blind and lepers would be healed when he
used to touch them. This thing has been revealed upon us that all the existents
individually and collectively were created simultaneously after the divine
command 'kun' (Be!) was pronounced and that the creatures had no
awareness except that of their existence. They were in a state of bewilderment.
When the Creator of the universe intended to end this lustfulness and the
bewilderment he addressed the existents directly saying, "Recognize': l am
your Lord."
When the voice of the Lord Creator
reached the ears of the souls, ability to become attentive with perception and
hearing was produced in them. When the souls became attentive towards this
voice the sight was produced in them and the sight witnessed the Lord Creator.
As soon as the souls beheld the Creator they responded humbly. "Yes, indeed
you are our Lord."
All the knowledge that God, the
Omniscient has transferred to His creatures has three categories. These three
categories of knowledge are three stages of Attributes of God and these three
attributes remain operative and functional in the creatures perpetually but
only the human beings, the species that have been entrusted with trust and
responsibility, are endowed with the knowledge of these attributes. It is the
same knowledge, which has been declared as the "Entrusted Trust" of
the Lord Creator. The creatures which have been granted this knowledge are
required to fulfill certain duties and the creatures which have not been
conferred upon with this knowledge are not obliged to fulfill any
responsibility.
As far as consciousness is
concerned every existent of the universe is ordained with this faculty. The
consciousness means the power to reason, understanding and intelligence. Where
the Lord has mentioned the bestowal of the trust reposed in man it has also
been declared that no species of creatures, not even a particle of dust, is deprived
of this faculty, When Lord Creator offered His Trust before the heavens, the
earth and the mountains they all knowing their feebleness and incapability
expressed their inability to shoulder this responsibility. Refusal or denial by
itself is evident upon the fact that the one who is denying is in possession of
understanding and intellect. Acceptance or refusal cannot come under
consideration if the reason and intellect is not there. The Trust reposed in man
has been mentioned in the Last Book: the Holy Quran, in the following words.
"And we offered our trust to
heavens, earth and mountains. All expressed their inability and refused to bear
this burden saying that if they accepted to endure it they would perish but man
accepted this trust. Indeed man is ignorant and transgressor."
The last words of this statement,
"Indeed he is ignorant and transgressor" demand profound
deliberation. The trust which, upon its acceptance renders man the most
distinguished and cardinal creature of the universe, the same act at the same
time is causing him to be the most ignorant
and transgressor of all the species. The Creator did not tell the heavens, the
earth and the mountains that they were ignorant and transgressors despite their
refusal to accept the responsibility. Contemplation indicates that they were
wiser, more intelligent and more sensible than man. If man is oblivious of the
trust reposed; the knowledge of Attributes and Appellations of God, then he is
the creature of the lowest grade as compared to any other creature existing in
the universe. Where the grant of knowledge of Appellations to Adam is mentioned
the first thing told is that the knowledge of Appellations is granted to man so
that he could act as the vicegerent of God on earth.
Vicegerent
is the one who could exercise the powers of his superior or deputize the boss.
And, this is only possible when one is aware of the laws concerning the powers
and authority granted to him. When the creative activities are defined and
explained, the life and death both are to be taken into consideration
comprehensively. When someone passes away, in fact, he is born in another zone.
When, for instance, a person dies in this material world he is born in Limbo.
This chain of life and death continues ceaselessly for all the realms that
occur between Eternity and the Final Ending.
Note. Any creation coming into
being under the delegated powers of the Lord Creator in fact is a by-creation,
that is, any creation, anyhow, comes into existence only by the components
created by the Creator or because of the active participation of the creative
attributes of the Creator.
In the section of spiritualism
concerning the theory of Chromolucis muraqba of La is considered of basic importance. In this muraqba one is required to negate oneself. Negation of the self-purports
to one's negation of all that knowledge, which he enjoys, on individual level
about himself, about his surroundings, about the cosmos and the details of the
universe.
Now
the question is, why should one negate the knowledge? Negation of knowledge is
necessary because the whole body of our knowledge, all our ways and manners of
knowing, recognizing or identifying a thing in this material realm are based
upon fictional and hypothetical senses and unless these fictional and hypothetical
senses are not negated we cannot learn to make use of the real and
non-fictional senses. The basic difference between reality and fiction are
these fictional and hypothetical senses that keep on changing and varying every
second.
Whether the senses or the ways of
life are based upon fictional senses or the real senses both depend upon
knowledge, if a child after his birth is left in a jungle and he is nurtured
and reared up there then his life would not be different from those animals
amongst which he grew up. Similarly, if we do not know about something or it
has never been mentioned then that thing is nonexistent for us and we can never
be able to see it.
The
example of deaf and dumb people who can neither, hear nor speak can be taken
into consideration. Their abilities are proportionate to the Information
perceived through the sight only. They feel what they see but they cannot
describe and explain it. It is worth considering that deaf and dumb children
witness everything of their surroundings but since their level of understanding
or ability to accommodate knowledge is limited to sight only, their knowledge,
in many aspects, also remains limited.
As
a matter of law whether it is seeing, hearing or feeling through touch each one
of these senses is instrumental in gathering information and, hence, is a
branch of knowledge And, that also is the knowledge which guides us in sighting
hearing, feeling tactually etc. If someone has never seen a stone in his life
and a stone, without any prior information, is placed before him. And, if now
he is asked, what is this? He will not be able to tell anything about that
stone because his knowledge regarding that stone was nonexisting. But, if he
already has any knowledge regarding the stone, he would not be required to touch
the stone and he would be able to express his information concerning that stone
only by looking at it only for once. If prior knowledge about something is not
there then it is not possible to see it, to hear it or to feel it tactually To
wit, knowledge about something gives it its existence. When this is established
that existence of anything is its knowledge only then sight too, is knowledge,
hearing is also knowledge, articulation too, is knowledge and all the traits
and characteristics of human life, without any exception, are also knowledge.
Existents are nothing, save knowledge. Knowledge is reality. All that exists is
only knowledge. Nescience is non-existing.
Existence of all the creatures
existing in the universe and the programme concerning their lives is all
knowledge. The Lord Creator chalked out a programme concerning the universe as
He wished. When He wanted to get that programme carried tout, to activate the
functioning of the whole system He switched on the programme and the programme
started going on air.
