Hadhrat Omar narrates:

“During the days of ignorance, before we understood the essence of Islam, we used to make idols out of cookies which we would worship and when we got hungry we would eat them! Remembering this makes me laugh.”

How can I explain that supposedly changing one’s world without breaking out of their cocoon and seeing the real universality isn’t really possible!?

Raised in an environment with cookie-deities and bedtime fairytales about god, people only worry about how better they can eat and mate while practicing their ‘religious duties’ out of fear and suppression – hoping to be saved by cookies!

Idols and deities are the products of cocooned people, and imitators adopt these gods and become consumed by them. From the most innocent and harmless gods, like stars and singers, to the most dangerous ones, such as dictators and autocratic institutions, all such ‘holy’ beings and entities who seem to be so untouchable are mere cookies, waiting for their inevitable turn to be eaten!

One who has READ the essence of Islam does not need the respect or approval of imitators and humanoids. They are too busy observing Allah and His manifestations, they have no time or interest in other things. Yet they are so few in number as to break one’s cocoon, to cleanse one’s self from imitation and to turn away from the false and temporary paradise (of the Antichrist), is not an easy accomplishment! Such eminent ones no longer have gods and deities, for they are the servants of Allah. The god of the people means nothing to them, they expect nobody’s respect or honor, nor are they fond of such things! They don’t care whether the imitators accept them or not. They travel through the world as though they have stopped by to have a moment of rest before they continue their journey. They don’t like titles and ranks, nor are they affected by the ‘divinity’ and ‘sacredness’ created by imitators.

Societies create concepts of divinity and sacredness, gods, laws and rules! Then they talk about the merit in serving these concepts! But when the creators of these concepts are left to themselves, they merely mock and laugh at them. These concepts, or these cookie-gods if you will, are their tools of control, they use them to control and manipulate the people, for their own vested interests! Such ‘elite’ ones exploit the teachings of the Rasuls and use them to advocate their own divine and sacred values!

Money, for instance, the greatest god! One who has the most servants! Then sexuality! The second greatest! A must in every cocoon! All cocooned servants deify and worship these gods, in fact their entire lives are based on them.

It seems too difficult for them to ponder on the possibility of the universality outside their tiny little cocoon…

Indeed, I had heard it’s impossible to explain:

That the sun never rises or sets, these concepts exist only due to the rotation of the Earth…

That the tears of a lion eating its prey or the tears of a crocodile are not out of pity, that there is no room for pity in the animal world…

That an apple does not fall from a tree out of its love for the ground…

That sexuality is no other than hormonal stimuli…

That to love and to like are not the same, and to want to extinguish one’s self in his beloved is far from the want to own and possess what one likes…

That gods and sacred values have no meaning or validity in the real world, outside the cocoon…

That environmental conditioning is constructed by those who want to drive and control the societies for their own personal benefits…

That the real world beyond one’s cocoon is the world of universal consciousness…

That wisdom cannot be attained by slavery…

That sages give value not to the imitators who stand in awe and admiration before them, but the conscious ones who realize the truth and try to become real humans…