The symbols { } are used for clarification purposes only!
People have their choices, their wants and desires and their preferences. The Master himself (Jesus the Christ – pbh) has stated it with a very transparent type of clarity: “NOT BY MY WILL {DESIRE, THOUGHTS,WANTS OR WISHES} BUT BY THE WILL OF THE HEAVENLY FATHER WHO SENT {DIRECTED AND GUIDED} me” {to accomplish a mission on this planet in the specified area and capacity HE has chosen for me}*!
*I can of mine own self do {absolutely} nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just {why?}; because I DON’T SEEK MY OWN WILL, but the will {The DESIGN/PLAN of my GOD} of the Father {WHO} has sent me. John (5:30)}
Those thoughts sum up what was, what is and what will be (in a future Earthly paradise)!
Living in an Earthly paradise means it is composed of people who strongly and sincerely have their souls set on JUST THAT GOAL! A goal NOT of self-delusion, self-glorification or self praise but one whose existence is provable, concrete, sustainable and ever enriching as long as ALLAH WILLS it to last.
Our opinions are NOT required but if they were, the successful ones
would say: “We hear and we obey!”**
**The Messenger has believed in what was revealed to him from his LORD, and [so have] the believers. All of them have believed in ALLAH and HIS angels and HIS books and HIS messengers, [saying], “We make no distinction between any of HIS messengers.” And they say, “We hear and we obey. [We seek] YOUR forgiveness, our LORD, and to YOU is the [final] destination.” Q (2:285)
Of course that is much easier said then done. To prove this point: The Christ-soul had a high level of knowledge and the Anti-christ soul had a high level of knowledge also. BUT THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE!
One surrendered his will, desire, thoughts and wishes to ALLAH while the other kept to his petty, arrogant, misogynous, self-inflated ideals. One becomes a winner and the other a loser – and from their own hands has come their elevation or destruction!
ALLAH has put the rules in place and sees that they are enforced! ALLAH brings forth the dead from the living and the living from the dead;*** it is not done haphazardly or with a trial-by-error hit or miss chance type of system but under a guided PLAN that HE ALONE CONTROLS AND THAT HE ALONE COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDS!
***HE brings forth the living out of the dead, and brings the dead out of the living, and revives the earth after its death. It is in this way (that HE revives the dead earth {and other things}) that you will be brought forth from the dead. Q (30:19)
It is ALLAH WHO causes the seed-grain and the date-stone to split and sprout. HE causes the living to issue from the dead, and HE is the one to cause the dead to issue from the living. That is ALLAH: then how are you deluded away from the truth? Q (6:95)
Where are the advanced civilizations of yesteryear? They are gone! Advanced though they were in many pre-historical instances as compared to us,**** they were also corrupted in that they didn’t conform to the high ideals set up for them that they so eagerly thought that they could accomplish.
****As in the case of those before you: they were mightier than you in power, and more flourishing in wealth and children. They had their enjoyment of their portion: and you have of yours, as did those before you; and you indulge in idle talk {NOT taking your religious duties seriously like the same} as they did. They!—– their works are fruitless in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will lose (all spiritual good). Q (9:69)
They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is the human condition for entrance into Paradise or the other place.
Many questions could be raised based on fantastic possibilities concerning this planet in terms of knowledge, history and spiritual thoughts. TRUE! But for most of these things or what might be called ‘factual or semi-factual theories’, the safest thing to say without solid, concrete examples would be, “ALLAH ALONE KNOWS BEST FOR SURE“!
This thought tends to keep one in a more balanced state or frame of mind and provides a good barrier against possible mischief. However, total ignorance or mind stagnation is not a good quality either. So, a balance is required.
As we see above with the Christ/Anti-christ scenario, ‘knowledge’ doesn’t get one into Paradise! If that were not so, the Anti-christ would have a very happy ending to his life-cycle or ‘term of appointment’. That he definitely won’t have and that knowledge is found especially in Islam and to a very small extent in Christianity.
In looking towards the future, one of the best ‘sites’ and highly interesting places one can visit discusses Isaiah (pbh) Chapter 42 for both the Muslim and non-Muslim – ‘Muhammad and Medinah in the Bible‘ from the site ManyProphetsOneMessage.com!
And we are building our RECORDS now (upon which we are judged!). So, what then are we going to do with this knowledge?
For some, it is like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel or crossing the boarder between Canada and the United States above the Falls on a tightrope! Do you want to find the proverbial ‘pot of gold’ at the end of the rainbow?
NOT WITHOUT A TITANIC STRUGGLE YOU WON’T! AND THERE FOR MANY IS THE DECIDING POINT!
IS OUR IDEA A ‘YES’ FOR SALVATION AND A ‘NO’ FOR WORKING FOR IT?! That does NOT compute!!! NO TEST, NO GLORY!
Like for Jesus (pbh) in the Garden of Gethsemane. OK! He wasn’t crucified but being beaten up pre-attempt at crucifixion by, of all people, a bunch of godless soldiers representing the ‘fun loving world’, like human-type animals without a thought but only for self-gratification, and him being THE MESSIAH, holy and blessed, given to the world or to those who would accept it with 12 legions of angels at his beck and call!
Well, the last test was past by him who was able to contain himself in trust to his CREATOR! He who long ago, with ALLAH’s PERMISSION, made the sun stand still in the sky (at some time after taking over from Moses (pbh), and yet to suffer those last dregs of humility before becoming his excellent self, passed the test with flying colors!
So, why shouldn’t he be honored by his CREATOR? Honored with an excellent position of greatness here (amongst the Muslims of today and when he returns, amongst the Muslims of tomorrow) and in the Hereafter – being of that group who is nearest to ALLAH!*****
*****Behold! the angels said: “O Mary! ALLAH gives you glad tidings of a Word from HIM: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to ALLAH; Q (3:45)
We don’t have to understand the particulars of these details although to some it might draw them to a realization of faith while to others it is just made-up malarkey. It seems that anything that challenges the brain of some people becomes ‘made up malarkey’ and the blind will still remain blind!
If one is bedazzled by the thought of other men-type creatures who are not physically like the Homo sapiens, who walk around on this planet, at least think of the following two men for a proper perspective: the Christ-soul and Muhammad (peace be upon them both). Mere men of such a high standard that one made the sun stand still for an hour and the other cracked the Moon in half – with ALLAH’s Permission of course!!!
I’d say that beats the other ones who supposedly can merely travel here and there between star systems any day!!!****** So the important lesson here is Obedience over Knowledge and the willingness to do so can become an important anchor in one’s arsenal.
******“Say:” None in the heavens and the earth {truly} knows the Ghaib (Unseen) except ALLAH”… Q (27: 65)
“And WE did NOT create the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, for {just plain} mere amusement {without a deep purpose}.
WE created them ONLY FOR JUST ENDS {according to OUR WELL THOUGHT-THROUGH PLAN}: but most of them DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT.”******* Q (44: 38-39)
*******‘Abdullah Ibn Abbas, the young man of understanding/maturity, ‘supposedly’ said concerning the verse of the {various types******** of the} 7 heavens and {7} Earths, Q (65: 12), “IF I explain this verse to you, it will {be made to} feel absurd to you. And you will think of it as a lie.” He also was reputed to have said: “How can I be sure that you won’t deny the extraordinary explanation of this verse {if I give it to you}?”
********In this three dimensional plane of existence we know of three types: The ground going downward is layered into 7 strata including the crust, mantel etc. The space above the ground is layered into 7 strata including the ionosphere, troposphere etc. and the mention of the 7 layered heavens in the hadiths upon which the Prophet (pbh) traveled. Other than those three items, the knowledge of which is not needed nor especially helpful for our current human development.
And EXCELLENCE awaits one because he/she actually believes! Believes what?
BELIEVES IN ALLAH AND THE LAST DAY AND OF COURSE ADHERES TO THE THOUGHT THAT THERE IS NO god but ALLAH AND MUHAMMAD IS HIS PROPHET! This is the ‘Anthem’ to the Universe!!!
Knowledge is good when used appropriately. After all, high-level type societies existed in the past but kind of drifted away from the ‘FOUNDATIONS of FAITH’ and therefore had to be taken out of the way so that ‘other souls’ could enter this physical realm ‘with its special laws’ and try and claim their inheritance on the highway of life as well as learn examples of purification under the master teachers, the prophets.
Hence, the superiority of the doing, which is greater than just having plain knowledge and just existing, and we can see this also in adam (pbh), the ‘knowing one’ who knew what the Angels did not*********, through which came death but in the graduation of the same soul (Jesus), the doer**********, through which came eternal life (as a SIGN unto mankind).
*********And HE {ALLAH} taught Adam the names of all things; then HE placed them before the angels, and said: “Tell me the names of these if you are right.
They said: “GLORY BE TO YOU, of knowledge we have none, save what YOU have taught us: In truth it is YOU Who are perfect in Knowledge and Wisdom.”
HE said: “O Adam! Tell them their names.” When he had told them, ALLAH said: “Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of heaven and earth, and I know what you reveal and what you conceal?”
And behold, WE said to the angels: “Bow down to Adam” and they bowed down. Not so Iblis {The Devil}: he refused and was haughty: He was of those who reject Faith. Q (2:31-234)
**********It is sown a natural body, it is raised {up} a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
The first man {adam} was of the dust of the earth; the second man {Jesus} is of heaven. 1Corinthians (15:44-47)
{Though he {the Christ-soul} were a son {as being of the group called the chosen Elect to be sent to instruct mankind in the ways of THE LORD, AS ALLAH DESIRED AS TO WHEN AND WHERE, to inspire the souls of men to obedience to their LORD/to bring the souls back to HIS REMEMBRANCE}, yet he {himself} LEARNED OBEDIENCE by the things which he suffered (equated with Isaiah Chapter 53 in the Old Testament);
And {after his major trials he earned} being made perfect {born free of sin and kept free of sin by GOD’s WILL} , he {then} became the author {THAT BENEFACTOR} of eternal salvation unto all of them WHO OBEY HIM {THE ONE GOD (ALLAH)} whom Jesus faithfully served}. Heb. (5: 8-9)}
So, the FOUNDATIONS of FAITH are SUPERIOR to just plain knowledge as Islam is superior to personal whims, fancies and other earthly, subjective notions. Q (9:69 – as found above)
I mean, what is a test without being tested!!!?
Did so-called advanced knowledge save these civilizations of the past? The answer is NO! which is the same answer given to those who would ask, “If we straighten up a few things, will that be enough to save us?” The answer is still NO!
What do we understand of these things? Basically, nothing!!!!! and the best part is that we don’t have to! We have already been given, believe it or not, the answers for our own success if we truly believe!
On this issue, we stick with ISLAM because it truly is the RELIGIOUS PATHWAY OF THE FUTURE! IT BECOMES THE ESTABLISHED PROCEDURE********** FOR THE SUCCESSFUL FROM WHENCE A PERSON MUST BE BORN AGAIN {except the exempted ones} AND ENTER THIS FUTURE AND BE RAISED UP TO JUDGMENT TO ENTER THE PROMISED PARADISE OF THE SKY (GOD’s KINGDOM) by: following the precedent laid down by Muhammad (pbh) and the four righteous Caliphs for entrance to ‘ETERNAL LIFE’.
All other types of knowledge are like medicine – useful when applied correctly but it still won’t keep a person alive forever.
**********The Religion before ALLAH is Islam (submission to HIS WILL): Nor did the People of the Book dissent therefrom except through envy of each other, {only} after knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of ALLAH, ALLAH is swift in calling to account. Q (3:19)
People being people get jealous over whose car is newer, whose house is bigger and who has the most money and transfer these same petty feelings towards religion. This is truly one area where people are ‘blinded’ to the truth.
In Islam, we don’t declare a separate, detached, religious form from what has gone before. Indeed, Islam is the ‘pure’ accumulation of or end product of the evolutionary ‘management’ of religion*********** from the time of adam until the ‘completed package’ was delivered to Prophet Muhammad (pbh) over 1,400 years ago.
***********Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of ALLAH (pbh) said, “Verily, the parable of myself and the prophets before me is that of a man who built a house, perfected it, and beautified it {as to the FAITH}, except for the place of one {missing} brick at its cornerstone. The people walk around it and are amazed by it, and they say: Why is this {missing} brick not placed? Thus, I am that brick and I am the seal of the Prophets.” (Muslim)
Besides that important issue, it is the future religion of choice to be carried out when Jesus the son of Mary (pbh) returns as the one and only true Messiah!
So, worshiping as he WILL DO and offering peace and blessings on Muhammad and his family as he will do with a heartfelt conviction concerning the appropriateness of ISLAMIC TEACHINGS is the thing to do IF one wants to be forever blessed in the MOST BLESSED OF REALMS!
The Religion before ALLAH is Islam (submission to HIS WILL): Nor did the People of the Book dissent therefrom except through envy of each other, {only} after knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of ALLAH, ALLAH is swift in calling to account. Q (3:19)
O ALLAH! I ask you for knowledge that is of benefit, a good provision and deeds that will be accepted. (Ibn Majah and others)
