A case of saving the best for last: "As the darkness of modern Evil increasingly blocks every last chink of divine light from penetrating this degraded world, we certainly have great need of Suhrawardi’s timeless illumination!"
I find the teachings of Suhrawardi timeless and illuminating and a source of truth to understand our divine nature.
We have to also consider that the incarnation of Christ was the human personification of the Light itself. I Am the Light of the World. I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life. Christ is the source which embodied itself into the human personality of Jesus. This “two become one’ was the act which made it possible for each of us to incarnate this divine light into our seeking soul.
enjoyable read. wish i had read this before i wrote an article in my school of the elements series, the magic of fire. he put some of it so succinctly. mystics and poets from all traditions, have some powerful similarities.
I don't know anything about Mehdi Amin Razavi, but what I do know is that con-artist gangster capitalist industrialists as well as the intelligence agencies co-opted the environmental movement which initially demanded that multinational corporations cleanup their "toxic waste mess" contaminating the air and water. These ghouls turned it into a "sustainability scheme" determined to "privatize all" natural resources for profit and social control.
That being said, a metamorphosis also occurred in a key propaganda tool--religion. Liberation Theology was quickly replaced with the Prosperity Gospel while Judaism devolved into Zionism, and Islam into Wahhabism.
The ruling elite use many forms of propaganda to deceive populations and if these psychological operations fail to control the outraged, or more importantly if valuable resources are desired brute force is deployed followed by genocide.
Totalitarian technocratic neofeudalism under one world governance is the ultimate goal.
As extensions of Source/God, we humans have the capacity to create anything on this planet (beautiful or horrific) and the free will to either embrace or refute the light from which we come forth. It is the denial of our own or another’s Inner Light that is the downfall of humanity. Better than fighting or resisting, we can work with our own resisted light and seek to illuminate where and how it resides in all others.
Please see Ian McGilchrist’s research on how our left hemispheric preoccupation with grasping for certainty has undercut our capacity for intuitive understanding-and allowing— that absolutely everything belongs. The right hemisphere of the human brain may intuit the primacy of our (heart-based) gnosis…
That’s an astute observation. I’ve often found myself learning the most from sources that asserted something that was clearly false or evil. Truth is used as a vector for the payload of lies. Once you see this, you can learn to see through propaganda campaigns.
I do not see the inverse self-appointed "Rulers" as anything like elites, I call them parasitic predators. Admittedly I'm on a bit of a tiny mission here!
To speak more directly to your article, I found and coped this: From: A Jihad For Love: The Quest For Agape In Islam Jan 01, 2000, republished in 2009 by Common Ground News Service.
The question remains: we know the Prophet Muhammad meant Muslims to love and serve God, but did he mean them to be in love with God - and to reflect this love and service among each other?
The answer is, simply, yes. Though it has classically been overlooked by Islam's detractors, there is a word for agapé in Arabic. It carries the same non-specific "boundary-less" connotation as the Greek word, and is used contextually in the same way. Better yet, it is entirely original; not borrowed, adapted, or modeled on a word from another language.
The Arabic word for agapé is mahabba. This is fascinating for two reasons: one, because it comes from hub - in its feminine form - meaning, love. Two, because of the prefix ‘ma'. Adding the letter mim to the beginning of a word in Arabic means "one who is/does", "that which is/does", or "is in a state of" the word that follows it. Junun is mad, and majnun is "one who is mad" or "in a state of madness"; baraka is a blessing, and mubarak is "one who is blessed" or "in a state of blessedness".
Thus, mahabba means quite literally "in love", but it is rarely used in an erotic sense. It can describe either love among people or love for the divine, and is used most commonly in a spiritual context in both cases. Implicit in mahabba is service; the lover puts the beloved at the centre of the discourse, and submits to his/her demands. Author Fethullah Gulen describes mahabba as "obedience, devotion and unconditional submission" to the beloved, quoting Sufi saint Rabi'a al-Adawiya's couplet, "If you were truthful in your love, you would obey Him/for a lover obeys whom he loves.”
While it is, again, primarily Sufis who have propagated the ideal of mahabba over the centuries, the word and the concept have roots in mainstream Islamic tradition: verse 3:31 of the Qur'an is sometimes called 'ayat ul'mahabba', and reads "Say: if you do love Allah, follow me, and Allah will love you." A hadith qudsi (God's words as repeated by the Prophet Muhammad) included in the collection of hadith compiled by Imam Malik is even more explicit: "God said, 'My love [mahabbati] necessarily belongs to those who love one another [mutahabinna] for My sake, sit together for My sake, visit one another for My sake, and give generously to one another for My sake’."
Mahabba differs from agapé in one crucial respect: because serving and approaching the beloved is a form of ongoing personal struggle, mahabba is a form of jihad. A far cry from the violent and indiscriminate "small jihad" preached by militants, mahabba is a form of the greater jihad, or jihad against one's own ego.
But Ahdaf Soueif is right: at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow. The struggle to serve God, and one another, out of love, is the jihad of human potential against the jihad of violent ideology. If resurrected, it has the power to change the world.
G. Willow Wilson is a Muslim author and essayist. Her articles have appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly. Her graphic novel CAIRO, with artist MK Perker, is available from Vertigo Comics.
This article is distributed by the Common Ground News Service
Love the alliteration in this "criminocratic creed."
"“Human beings are nothing more than flesh-and-blood machines, whose behaviour is ‘constructed’ and can be ‘programmed’ into them." Could this be an explanation for the gross inhumane behavior of the IDF soldiers. Netanyahoo subjected his people to the first roll out of the vaccines:
In Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu has in fact imposed a massive vaccination campaign, even resulted in complaints to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for violation of human rights, using only the vaccine of the American Pfizer of New York, one of the main sponsors of the election campaign of the new Democratic president …
This is a great article with lots of references. Hope it's safe to share on substack or I'll be thrown in the gulag. Don't care really. Near end of life anyway.
Is this your only source for your thesis? Give me sources and I will take a look; otherwise I call it bunk. One does not ever depend on one source to form one's thought unless of course you believe in the essence that some call the source of god within.
I am not done reading but I wanted to forward some information, which you may already know, that the Tesla research, stolen from him, is being used to exacerbate climate change and as a powerful weapon, that could be used, not for sure, but as powerful answer/response/aide against climate change. but such is our world for now.
USAP: South Pole Station, “Unacknowledge Special Access Programs”, also name of the South Pole station, United States Antarctica Program:
Terms to use for research: earthquake induction/inducing, stratospheric aerosol injection
A case of saving the best for last: "As the darkness of modern Evil increasingly blocks every last chink of divine light from penetrating this degraded world, we certainly have great need of Suhrawardi’s timeless illumination!"
Divine Light can not be blocked. Only turned away from. It is here. Very much so
It never left.
It is me who left. You who left.
Where did we go
I find the teachings of Suhrawardi timeless and illuminating and a source of truth to understand our divine nature.
We have to also consider that the incarnation of Christ was the human personification of the Light itself. I Am the Light of the World. I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life. Christ is the source which embodied itself into the human personality of Jesus. This “two become one’ was the act which made it possible for each of us to incarnate this divine light into our seeking soul.
enjoyable read. wish i had read this before i wrote an article in my school of the elements series, the magic of fire. he put some of it so succinctly. mystics and poets from all traditions, have some powerful similarities.
Thanks for sharing this, Paul. I have a lot of love for Sufi philosophy.
I don't know anything about Mehdi Amin Razavi, but what I do know is that con-artist gangster capitalist industrialists as well as the intelligence agencies co-opted the environmental movement which initially demanded that multinational corporations cleanup their "toxic waste mess" contaminating the air and water. These ghouls turned it into a "sustainability scheme" determined to "privatize all" natural resources for profit and social control.
That being said, a metamorphosis also occurred in a key propaganda tool--religion. Liberation Theology was quickly replaced with the Prosperity Gospel while Judaism devolved into Zionism, and Islam into Wahhabism.
The ruling elite use many forms of propaganda to deceive populations and if these psychological operations fail to control the outraged, or more importantly if valuable resources are desired brute force is deployed followed by genocide.
Totalitarian technocratic neofeudalism under one world governance is the ultimate goal.
I fear that you may have to go on repeating yourself for as long as you refuse to give up the fight.
The best - that is: the most affecting - lies are always couched in as much truth as possible.
If the spiritual war is eternal, if evil is always and forever seeking to corrupt the good, then we can never be free of it.
If we reject everything that bears this stench of corruption we will be left, not with the pure, metaphysical Truth, but with nothing at all.
As extensions of Source/God, we humans have the capacity to create anything on this planet (beautiful or horrific) and the free will to either embrace or refute the light from which we come forth. It is the denial of our own or another’s Inner Light that is the downfall of humanity. Better than fighting or resisting, we can work with our own resisted light and seek to illuminate where and how it resides in all others.
Please see Ian McGilchrist’s research on how our left hemispheric preoccupation with grasping for certainty has undercut our capacity for intuitive understanding-and allowing— that absolutely everything belongs. The right hemisphere of the human brain may intuit the primacy of our (heart-based) gnosis…
That’s an astute observation. I’ve often found myself learning the most from sources that asserted something that was clearly false or evil. Truth is used as a vector for the payload of lies. Once you see this, you can learn to see through propaganda campaigns.
I do not see the inverse self-appointed "Rulers" as anything like elites, I call them parasitic predators. Admittedly I'm on a bit of a tiny mission here!
the poets are a better guide than any church. here is a song about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErhJlkdlYfw
To speak more directly to your article, I found and coped this: From: A Jihad For Love: The Quest For Agape In Islam Jan 01, 2000, republished in 2009 by Common Ground News Service.
The question remains: we know the Prophet Muhammad meant Muslims to love and serve God, but did he mean them to be in love with God - and to reflect this love and service among each other?
The answer is, simply, yes. Though it has classically been overlooked by Islam's detractors, there is a word for agapé in Arabic. It carries the same non-specific "boundary-less" connotation as the Greek word, and is used contextually in the same way. Better yet, it is entirely original; not borrowed, adapted, or modeled on a word from another language.
The Arabic word for agapé is mahabba. This is fascinating for two reasons: one, because it comes from hub - in its feminine form - meaning, love. Two, because of the prefix ‘ma'. Adding the letter mim to the beginning of a word in Arabic means "one who is/does", "that which is/does", or "is in a state of" the word that follows it. Junun is mad, and majnun is "one who is mad" or "in a state of madness"; baraka is a blessing, and mubarak is "one who is blessed" or "in a state of blessedness".
Thus, mahabba means quite literally "in love", but it is rarely used in an erotic sense. It can describe either love among people or love for the divine, and is used most commonly in a spiritual context in both cases. Implicit in mahabba is service; the lover puts the beloved at the centre of the discourse, and submits to his/her demands. Author Fethullah Gulen describes mahabba as "obedience, devotion and unconditional submission" to the beloved, quoting Sufi saint Rabi'a al-Adawiya's couplet, "If you were truthful in your love, you would obey Him/for a lover obeys whom he loves.”
While it is, again, primarily Sufis who have propagated the ideal of mahabba over the centuries, the word and the concept have roots in mainstream Islamic tradition: verse 3:31 of the Qur'an is sometimes called 'ayat ul'mahabba', and reads "Say: if you do love Allah, follow me, and Allah will love you." A hadith qudsi (God's words as repeated by the Prophet Muhammad) included in the collection of hadith compiled by Imam Malik is even more explicit: "God said, 'My love [mahabbati] necessarily belongs to those who love one another [mutahabinna] for My sake, sit together for My sake, visit one another for My sake, and give generously to one another for My sake’."
Mahabba differs from agapé in one crucial respect: because serving and approaching the beloved is a form of ongoing personal struggle, mahabba is a form of jihad. A far cry from the violent and indiscriminate "small jihad" preached by militants, mahabba is a form of the greater jihad, or jihad against one's own ego.
But Ahdaf Soueif is right: at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow. The struggle to serve God, and one another, out of love, is the jihad of human potential against the jihad of violent ideology. If resurrected, it has the power to change the world.
G. Willow Wilson is a Muslim author and essayist. Her articles have appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly. Her graphic novel CAIRO, with artist MK Perker, is available from Vertigo Comics.
This article is distributed by the Common Ground News Service
Love the alliteration in this "criminocratic creed."
"“Human beings are nothing more than flesh-and-blood machines, whose behaviour is ‘constructed’ and can be ‘programmed’ into them." Could this be an explanation for the gross inhumane behavior of the IDF soldiers. Netanyahoo subjected his people to the first roll out of the vaccines:
https://dobh.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dpbhnvgov/content/Boards/BOH/Meetings/2021/PC%20255b.pdf
In Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu has in fact imposed a massive vaccination campaign, even resulted in complaints to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for violation of human rights, using only the vaccine of the American Pfizer of New York, one of the main sponsors of the election campaign of the new Democratic president …
This is a great article with lots of references. Hope it's safe to share on substack or I'll be thrown in the gulag. Don't care really. Near end of life anyway.
Terrorism: A Jewish Tradition
https://substack.com/home/post/p-146811258
Have you seen this archived article?
https://dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/FaheyDenisTheRulersOfRussiaNewAndEnlargedEdition_201609/Fahey_Denis_-_The_rulers_of_Russia_New_and_enlarged_edition.pdf
I would also like to know what truths or deceptions you find in the following if you have time.
ADOLF HITLER: GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD
https://archive.org/details/adolfhitlerthegreateststorynevertoldfull6hoursdocumentary_201909
Just like Trump, Hitler was a gay Jewish actor. His role was to act as a bogeyman in the staging of World War II.
Please see Miles Mathis' analysis of Hitler: http://mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf
Is this your only source for your thesis? Give me sources and I will take a look; otherwise I call it bunk. One does not ever depend on one source to form one's thought unless of course you believe in the essence that some call the source of god within.
I am not done reading but I wanted to forward some information, which you may already know, that the Tesla research, stolen from him, is being used to exacerbate climate change and as a powerful weapon, that could be used, not for sure, but as powerful answer/response/aide against climate change. but such is our world for now.
USAP: South Pole Station, “Unacknowledge Special Access Programs”, also name of the South Pole station, United States Antarctica Program:
Terms to use for research: earthquake induction/inducing, stratospheric aerosol injection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9DflVY0mHk