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…
7 January 2007