Islam – From Existence to Essence
Original Islam is a process. It starts with our existence in the world and takes us on a journey to realise our essence. It is about becoming human beings in the world.
At the centre of this journey is you, the one who undertakes this journey, the human being. He is in a power-relationship with Allah, the One God. In this power-relationship, the human being is to serve God and to give over himself to God. This entails obeying God’s commands and also baptising himself in God’s baptism, which is to affect God’s attributes upon himself.
The human being is to carry out God’s work, bringing peace into the world. This is the meaning of the word ‘al-islaam’, ‘the attainment of as-salaam’, the bringing into the world attributes like peace, harmony, freedom from wants and fallibilities. This is the duty of the ‘al-muslim’, the person who has undertaken this power-relationship with Allah.
The human being is to build and increase his faith in Allah. This he does by observing Allah’s signs in the world and in himself. As he goes along in the journey, the signs keep coming to pass and he finds himself in events which contain the manifestations of Allah in the world. As these signs intensify and he finds peace in them, he becomes ‘al-mumin’, one whose ‘imaan’ or faith brings total peace.
The human is to establish and maintain his connection with Allah. This he does by focussing upon God through his signs either in the Quran or in reality. He is to also act upon the signs inspired on him. This is how he establishes the connection, ‘as-salaat’. Through this connection, Allah takes him along the journey.
The human being is to keep evolving his soul. His soul can only be evolved by neutralising its false realities so that it may focus on the true reality. The human being must keep recognising the signs in his soul which show concealment to God’s law. In time, he will find his soul in total peace with the reality of God and that is when he will enter the garden.
The human being on this journey focusses on justice. It is through the establishment of the expressions of justice that he purifies his allegiance to God. This justice knows no bounds and is for all human beings with whom there is peace.
And finally, when the human being has reached a certain level of faith, characterised by his exclusive servitude to Allah, Allah will raise him unto a high platform in the world, as a foretaste of his achievement in the afterworld. In this high platform, his life will be symbolised by the metaphor of a garden with rivers flowing the underneath. The water symbolises the ever-flowing blessings from Allah and the garden as we can see in the world has leaves which provide us shade, fruits which provides us sustenance and flowers which provide us beauty. This is the end goal of Islam in the world, to lead this life of peace, security and to experience the beauties of life.
This is the human being originalised. This is the purpose of Islam in the world.
The human being is to carry out God’s work, bringing peace into the world. This is the meaning of the word ‘al-islaam’, ‘the attainment of as-salaam’, the bringing into the world attributes like peace, harmony, freedom from wants and fallibilities. This is the duty of the ‘al-muslim’, the person who has undertaken this power-relationship with Allah.
The human being is to build and increase his faith in Allah. This he does by observing Allah’s signs in the world and in himself. As he goes along in the journey, the signs keep coming to pass and he finds himself in events which contain the manifestations of Allah in the world. As these signs intensify and he finds peace in them, he becomes ‘al-mumin’, one whose ‘imaan’ or faith brings total peace.
The human is to establish and maintain his connection with Allah. This he does by focussing upon God through his signs either in the Quran or in reality. He is to also act upon the signs inspired on him. This is how he establishes the connection, ‘as-salaat’. Through this connection, Allah takes him along the journey.
The human being is to keep evolving his soul. His soul can only be evolved by neutralising its false realities so that it may focus on the true reality. The human being must keep recognising the signs in his soul which show concealment to God’s law. In time, he will find his soul in total peace with the reality of God and that is when he will enter the garden.
The human being on this journey focusses on justice. It is through the establishment of the expressions of justice that he purifies his allegiance to God. This justice knows no bounds and is for all human beings with whom there is peace.
And finally, when the human being has reached a certain level of faith, characterised by his exclusive servitude to Allah, Allah will raise him unto a high platform in the world, as a foretaste of his achievement in the afterworld. In this high platform, his life will be symbolised by the metaphor of a garden with rivers flowing the underneath. The water symbolises the ever-flowing blessings from Allah and the garden as we can see in the world has leaves which provide us shade, fruits which provides us sustenance and flowers which provide us beauty. This is the end goal of Islam in the world, to lead this life of peace, security and to experience the beauties of life.
This is the human being originalised. This is the purpose of Islam in the world.
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