People see what they ‘want’ to see. This may have some psychological and spiritual ramifications. If something is ‘ingrained’ in a person and they don’t feel the need to be ‘clinically or spiritually honest’ with themselves due to the fact that they are naturally right because ‘they said so’, permits the person to be frozen in time.
For example, if it gives one ‘great pleasure’ to believe that the world is flat or that humans didn’t land on the Moon proves, to them at least, that a great ‘conspiracy’ is afoot so why would they deny their peculiar but twisted ‘reality’.
Holding dear to that person’s reality becomes his or her ‘frozen essence’ by which that person defines himself often yielding to a certain type of ‘smugness’ leading to his or her own BLINDNESS!
The doors of reason are closed and that person can justify his or her ‘meager’ existence based on an aggregate of self-destructive whims which are NOT based on fact but which are based on shutting out actual facts.
It is the march of the lemmings into the sea and to their deaths or the futile Charge of the Light Brigade to achieve some sort of victory that will never come. And surrounded or gravitating to like minded people, allows them to stay put inside their own little, deformed cocoon.
For example, how many times in the historical past have a delusional people argued that a certain man, whom they claim to love, is in fact their GOD? Historically, this ‘chronic’ disease is not new. Because no ‘LIGHT’ can shine in the darkness when that person intentionally removes the batteries from the flashlight, the results will be NO LIGHT!
If one wants to dwell on Jesus (pbh), don’t take anyone but him, at first, to equate with himself. Doesn’t he know himself better than any other human being? So, Jesus’ words give us a clue to his mission, his job and how to take him personally.
I could listen to Paul, the pope or the common drunk on the street as my first stop of knowledgeable adventure but realistically getting it from the proverbial ‘horse’s mouth’ is much more positive than second hand sources well-meaning or not!
But he {Jesus} answered her not a word {though he (pbh) was kind, his job was NOT for a people of the non-Jewish faith who tended to worship many gods – the Canaanite Woman}. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, “{So,} Send her away {for she is NOT of those who truly believe as we are the people of Moses and NOT of her kind}, for she {bothers us} crieth after us.”
But he answered and said {to that woman that truly I’m here NOT to do miracles for show or aid peoples who have the wrong beliefs because}, “I am NOT sent but unto the lost sheep { sinners of the non-Gentile peoples} of the house of Israel {only}.”
Matthew (15:23-24)
Hence the very limited mission of Jesus (pbh) in his first coming. And that still applies because obviously he hasn’t come back yet to be a ‘king’ in the paradise on Earth.
But as to Muhammad (pbh):
“Behold MY Servant, whom I uphold, MY Elect, in whom MY soul delighteth: I have put MY Spirit {of prophecy} upon him; he shall bring forth Judgment to the Gentiles {NON-JEWS}.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench; he shall bring forth judgment UNTO TRUTH.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged {die}, till he hath set judgment in the earth {completed his task to finalize that religious truth he came with}; and the isles shall wait for His law.”
Thus saith GOD THE LORD—HE that created the heavens and stretched them out, He that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it, HE that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
“I, the Lord, have called you {O Muhammad} in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, AND GIVE YOU FOR A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE {who are to believe in THE ONE GOD – AND AS TO THOSE WHO WILL FIND SALVATION IN THE PARADISE ON EARTH/BEING BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT}, FOR A LIGHT OF THE GENTILES {SO AS TO OPEN THEIR BLIND EYES AND TO PROVE I AM NOT ‘HOSTAGE’ TO A PROUD PEOPLES – THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL}; TO OPEN the blind eyes, TO BRING OUT THE PRISONERS from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house {soul containment or restraint from within as they cannot see the REALITY from their prison (condition of ignorance)}. Isaiah (42:1-7)
But people (all of the people ever born) had made IN THE BEGINNING a contract with their LORD. A contract which the mountains and the heavens were afraid to accept.
WE did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to undertake it, being afraid thereof: but man undertook it; he was indeed unjust and foolish; Q (33:72).
But man, being proud and overconfident took on the challenge and was truly judged to be ‘UNJUST and FOOLISH’!
Big stakes equal big gains or big loses!!! And those who BELIED themselves, which also equates to lying to ALLAH, have only themselves to blame and NOT GOD! So, by their own hands, they form their pathway to destruction.
And why is this so? Why is not GOD weak and forgetful being assuaged by our flatteries and falsehoods? Why can’t we manipulate HIM according to OUR WHIMS AND FANCIES? Why is HE not weak to our ignoring HIS prophets while falling in love with our own magnified importance? Why would HE punish us so for calling the ‘holy brotherhood of prophets’ a bunch of unimportant clowns whom HE CHOSE and BLESSED with SPIRITUAL ABUNDANCE?
The answer to that question is not as mysterious at it sounds. Although there is a lot of depth to the answer, one shouldn’t get side tracked by ‘philosophies’ which are not readily understood.
However, in saying that, we as a species are not left out in the cold but are given ‘just and correct’ answers to the puzzle or at least enough to give us pause to think!
The cycle of life continues by anyway HE so chooses while the WARNING is clear and unambiguous. Pursue what is solid and sure and keep what is PRIME as first and foremost by appealing to THE ONE WHO is THE OMNIPRESENT (THE IMMANENT) – AL-BATIN AND THE INDEPENDENT, EVERLASTING REFUGE whom all creatures need – AS-SUMAD.
And as reported from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Quran:
Proverbs (26:11) and 2Peter (2:22):
But it {THIS HORRIBLE THING} is happened to them {the unfortunate ones} according to the {truth} true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit AGAIN; and the sow that was washed {clean, RETURNS} to her wallowing in the {filthy} mire {AGAIN}. 2Peter (2:22)
WHY? Because they believed and turned to disbelief and believed again and turned back on their heels again and rejoiced in that which is CONTRARY to the ONE GOD!
Those {who start off in belief – given a chance to believe} who believe, then reject faith, then believe (again) and (again) reject faith, and go on increasing in unbelief,- ALLAH will not forgive them nor guide them on the {TRUE} WAY. Q (4:137)
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness {found} in them that perish; because they did not receive {believe in or fight for} THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH that they might be saved.
And for this cause {CONTEMPT for GOD’s TRUTH} GOD shall send {upon} them strong delusion that they should believe {in} a lie {focus not on doing what is right – the real food for the soul}:
That they all might be damned WHO DIDN’T BELIEVE THE TRUTH but had pleasure in {took their comfort in doing other than the truthfull WAY} UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. 2 Thessalonians (2: 10-12) -words accredited to Paul found in the New Testament.
“You have met this fate because you rejoiced on the earth in things OTHER than the TRUTH, AND THEN EXULTED IN IT.” Q (40:75)
And this knowledge was refreshed when the Spirit of truth started his prophethood:
When he {the Spirit of truth} comes, he will prove the world {and worldly powers} to be in the wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment {as they have invented many falsehoods concerning these issues}: about sin, because people do not believe in me (Jesus) {as I really am but mock me by calling about me falsely}; about righteousness {the true pathway of salvation is righteousness}, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer {so you must carry out the truth I am leaving with you}; and about judgment, because the prince of this world {for I am that prince whom the worldly will refute} now stands condemned by the corrupters of truth {as was prophesied about me from before}.
It is important to note that the Dead Sea Scrolls discusses a certain ‘entity’ as ‘Spirit of Truth’. This entity’s job is to act as a ‘Cleansing Spirit’. A cleansing spirit’s purpose is to CLEAN that which has become soiled or dirty such as religion.
This cleansing spirit has other characteristics which match up well with the comparisons to Prophet Muhammad (pbh). If we take the term ‘religion’ as a fine piece of linen which has become soiled by the mismanagement of that what is called the ‘priest class’ (religious leaders and their BLIND FOLLOWERS), then in order to make this linen valuable again, one has to clean it from its soiled countenance.
And this cleansing was foretold in the Gospel of John in the New Testament:
And when he is come, he will reprove {scold} the world concerning Sin, and concerning Righteousness {show how to act/worship in the correct manner}, and concerning Judgment {what will happen to the souls of men and Jinn as to area concerning Judgment}:
concerning Sin, because they DO NOT BELIEVE in me {in a truthful way but as always turned me into an invented freak};
concerning Righteousness, because {I have completed my task {my contract with GOD, that which was made as adam} of becoming that ‘Anointed One’} I go to my Father and you see me {in this state} no more;
11 concerning Judgment, because the prince of this world {the entity known as Jesus the son of Mary} is judged and made glorious. John (16: 8-11)
So, it is clear!!!!!