The symbols { } are used to present clarity of understanding.

Where there is the sincere remembrance of ALLAH, there is hope!

Abu Huraira narrated that the Prophet (pbh) said, “ALLAH says: ‘I am just as MY slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to do for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with him if he remembers ME. If he remembers ME in himself, I too, remember him in MYSELF; and if he remembers ME in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than they; and if he comes one span nearer to ME, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to ME, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to ME walking, I go to him running.’ ”   (Bukhari)

 

The above depends on the desire to do the right thing, however; and that is what is measured in the heart! The tongue may lie and desires may be false but the heart is most definitely checked for its truth and sincerity. This, because the hypocrite tries to cover his intentions but never will he succeed in fooling ALLAH.

 

What do we know about the past? Apparently very little. However, if one takes a notion that the Quran is cyclic in nature together with the oddities of this planet, then one can imagine several reoccurring things that happen on this sphere of influence called Earth besides just the weather.

 

The past cannot be considered just only a hundred years ago but (if the Quran is correct) must go back in time to man’s creation. How many stages was man created to ‘perform in’ we just don’t know.

 

This unknown should not be pursued as it would lead us into darkness! Best to stay in the light and have thoughts concerning what we can safely assume.

If people don’t consider the magnitude of ALLAH’s MOST HOLY NAMES, then they will be hindered from seeing beyond their proverbial noses. ALLAH has never, ever contradicted HIMSELF and never will! HE IS TOO GREAT A BEING for that!

What kept men {in any age and culture, known or unknown} back from belief when Guidance came to them, was nothing but {just} this: they said, Has ALLAH sent {just an ordinary} MAN (like us) to be (HIS) Messenger?”  Q (17:96)

The Quran is timeless and without error. Therefore, it deals with truisms that span every age and condition when it makes implied universal statements. Or one can say; “The same as today, as yesterday as tomorrow.” If that were not true, then the Quran would not be universally true!

Being universally true, especially on this evolving and diverse planet and under the varied conditions found on this piece of ‘rock’, could only be setup by a DIVINE POWER so PERFECT AND ALL KNOWING, ALL WISE and in TOTAL CONTROL that we designate this BEING as GOD or in Arabic ALLAH!

So whatever form man has taken or position he finds himself in, the sentiment of Quran (17:96) applies thusly. So, every culture and every dynamics or form of life on this planet going back to the original ‘men on Earth’ will find that people who considered designs from heaven would come in the form greater than the human messenger in form. In other words, ordinary humans can’t proclaim to us anything.

Only ‘god-like divinities’ can re-shape our thinking especially for those who have fallen off the wagon so to speak! Somehow these people may have been put into a positon to rule or regulate and they somehow found it easy to channel their wants and desires through some bogus entity.

That would occur for those who deemed themselves superior and wanted to implement control over society/country/city – population. We can see this today in the common zoo-like practices of the phony politician or demigod political ruler.

What that does is to take off the ‘moral’ responsibility from mankind’s shoulders and put the emphasis on a lucky charmer from the heavens who, being very special, makes us very special, very correct and very blessed! Thus, the original message could be manipulated ‘down the road’ to the advantage of those who found it easy to lie to the people!

Lying to the people in being cleverly deceitful can be found in the politics of confusion in this current world full of misinformation and other devilish activities. Some are very clever at manipulating public opinion simply because trash tends to attract trash just as stink attracts flies! Another way of saying this is that birds of a feather tend to flock together.

We have some notice of that from the mention of several idols of old, used by the Arabs in the time of ignorance, found in the Quran. According to hadith, these originally were men of exalted status during the time of Noah (pbh), who through time, became symbols of worship.

Eventually, that meant big business and great honor to those who could use this to their own advantage as one can get from the study of the period of Jahiliyah before the coming of Islam. We also see this in the modern era with certain practices that are church-led that deals with money and the forgiveness of sins.

Furthermore, we see this in fanaticism of many of the ‘born again’ peoples as they behave irrationally, even against their own scriptures, in being a form of ‘holier-than-thou type’. These people have a very thin vainer of finery but very dark souls greedy for self-glorification and one can see those things in the form of their displayed callousness towards others not of their ilk.

Furthermore, there are the freaked-out controllers who want to rule by overly strict precepts that become a religion by itself. A religion of regulation rather than a religion of redemption of the heart.

Who is in total control? That is easy. Whom should one love and strive to obey? That is easy also!

As is stated in the Quran: If it had been your LORD’s WILL, they (mankind) would all have believed; all who are on the Earth! Will you then force mankind, against their own will {disposition/desires/lusts}, to believe!   Quran (10:99)

Man has to take responsibility for himself and ‘work’ to achieve success in that which cannot be seen – GOD. That is just the way it is! The person who ‘historically’ showed the Way is the Christ-soul in his many manifestations – from his stumbling and falling out of Grace to his final conquering – all dictated and planned by ALLAH as Moses (pbh) found out in his ‘quarrel’ with Adam (hadith).

 

And it is only right that he is called upon to set things straight in front of mankind on the Day of Judgment:

ALLAH will say: “O Jesus the son of Mary! Did you say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of ALLAH’?” He will say: “Glory to YOU! Never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, YOU would indeed have known it. YOU know {all of} what is in my heart . . .”   Quran (5:116)

And it is only right that he, the Christ-soul, becomes that one who receives that reward of a job well done by being given a temporal kingdom on Earth that will be graced by salvation:

Isaiah (53:10-12) which follows:

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; HE has put him to grief {for a purpose}. When YOU make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed {the believers in a holy kingdom on Earth who were true to their LORD}, HE {ALLAH} shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand {as he gathers the ‘sheep’ for the plentiful harvest’ (And other sheep I have which are not of this {current} fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd {under one belief system (Islam)}.                 John (10:16)}.

He shall see the labor of his soul, and be satisfied. By his knowledge {experiences gained} MY RIGHTEOUS SERVANT {Teacher of Righteousness} shall justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities {by having placed himself on trial and passing the test thereby gaining the right to be called Messiah to the Believers – for there shall be ONE GOD with ONE MESSIAH under ONE RELIGION}.

Therefore {because of this labor} I will divide him a portion with the great {on High}, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong {the Believers in his kingdom}, Because he poured out his soul unto death {he gave of himself repeatedly even though from beforehand he was deemed perfect as many men were but of women there were only four in number (hadith)*}, and he was numbered with the transgressors {considered perverse amongst the worldly that he came up against}, and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors {for all have sinned but his intercession/plea was for the GOD-FEARING and not for the contemptuous ones for he cursed those who committed wrongs in excess as Jesus:

Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary: because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses.   Quran (5:78)}

{*When did the Christ-soul start his epic journey to the inheritance of being the Messiah after purifying his soul? For sure, only ALLAH knows and that is a fact. Blind guesses are not constructive in any sense of the term. The only thing one has to go on would be either a quote from scripture or a hadith.

It would appear, however, that the words of Jesus (pbh) tell us something very critical:

Yet you have not known HIM {GOD}, but I know HIM. And if I say, ‘I do not know HIM,’ I shall be a liar like you {people}; but I do know HIM and {I myself do} keep HIS Word {follow the pathway that HE has put me on}.

Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

Then the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham {who was born many hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years before you were born}?”

Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you {in total candor}, before Abraham was {born}, I am {was in existence in the service of my LORD}.”                       John (8:55-58)

His Day** can only be conjectured about but it has to be of primary importance for Abraham (pbh), being of his very illustrious station, to be moved to ‘rejoice’! It can be guessed that ‘his day’ featured a major and dramatic accomplishment more earth-shaking than if it were a birthday moment or winning what might be considered the lottery!

So, it would make sense that this already pure soul would be chosen and at that very critical time under the making of the one stream of worship being collectively called in the future – MONOTHEISM whereas the Jews, Christians and Muslims can consider Abraham (pbh) the ‘Father of Monotheism’!}

{**Those of you who have been following these writings should know who that personage was that has been somewhat highlighted in both the Old and New Testaments as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls:

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear–one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?

For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness {by not being able to deliver masses of people up for salvation}

For the law {of and by itself} made nothing perfect {for does not even Satan fear GOD yet he will receive no salvation!}; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God {or why should there be an office of Messiahship called the Messianic hope in the first place if only just the law mattered which it doesn’t because even Muhammad declared that he could not be saved just by his acts alone but only WITH ALLAH’s MERCY (hadith)}?

And inasmuch as he was not made priest without an oath {a guarantee of Guidance and Help from his CREATOR LORD so that if he was earnest in his endeavors, then he would not fail}

For they have become priests {ordinary religious guides} without an oath, but he {became one} with an oath by HIM {GOD} who said to him: “The LORD has sworn and will not relent, ‘you are {will be} a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek”

By so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant {as it applies to the sons of adam – one that leads to paradise on Earth and then eventually to the Eternal Paradise in the heavens}.  Hebrews (7:17-22)

{A one} Who does not need daily, as those {regular} high priests {do}, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for the people’s, for this he did once {as an offering for his own sins and then by GOD’s WILL, he became a champion for the believers} for all {believers} when he offered up himself {when he took on the challenge to be that one who could enter upon the office of the Messiahship legally}.

For the law appoints as high priests {congregational leaders (Rabbis, Priests, Imams)} men who have weakness, but the WORD of the oath {by GOD HIMSELF}, which came after the law, appoints the Son {that Messiah servant} who has been perfected forever {born and raised without sin and is himself complete!}.  Hebrews (7:27-28)}

And it is only right that he (the Christ-soul) upholds and reinforces that religion (Islam) DETERMINED AND CHOSEN by THE ONE GOD before the foundations of the Earth brought by that illustrious soul – Muhammad (pbh) when he returns as a ‘king’ in that holy kingdom given to him due to his labors in the cause of ALLAH.

And these things are mentioned in my other writings which show the harmony of these things in all of the Testaments and hadith material – for the religion is one if we but could see it:

WE have sent to you {O Muhammad} inspiration, as WE sent it to Noah and the Messengers after him: WE sent inspiration to Abraham, Isma’il, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, to Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the Psalms.  Quran (4:163)

Say: “O People of the Book! You have no ground to stand upon unless you stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and ALL THE REVELATION that has come to you from your LORD.” It is the revelation that {now} comes to you from your LORD, that increases in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. But don’t sorrow over (these) people without Faith.  Quran (5:68)

For it is not strange that a man be rewarded for obeying the pleasure of his LORD through his personal struggles to do the WILL OF THE ONE WHO SENT him. Nor is it strange to have ALLAH’s DEEN (religion – Islam) be the guiding sphere of LIGHT in that kingdom that he, the Christ-soul, will be given.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck and flies like a duck, then it probably is a duck whether one chooses to believe it or not!!!