The truth is that a one whole structure, which we call the “universe,” continuously makes its countless qualities manifest in a new and ever-changing ways within a program.
This basic and wavelike nature of the universe is therefore regarded as 'imaginary' by the standards of our physical world and our perception of ourselves as physical beings.
Mohammed (pbuh) has likewise explained that this world of materials is an “illusion”, whereas the actual substance of the universe is “nothing other than a luminous origin”. Stating that our life in this physical dimension is on a par with a “dream” (rûya), he added that:
“Men are asleep but will awaken by death!”
Basic meaning of the statement above is as follows:
When a person passes from this current state of living where we live with a physical body within the limits of the five senses, into the frequency-based dimension of life beyond the physical, that person is now in a state of awakening. Thus all his life in this physical world feels to him like a “dream” he once experienced. His actual world of reality becomes the frequency-based life dimension once he entered for there, in which one remains until Doomsday. On the day of the Resurrection, however, everybody is revived (baa'th) within a new bodily form for the third time, and that body serves everyone as a permanent body from then onward.
A second meaning of the sentence, “Men are asleep but will be awaken by death” is:
In accordance with the hadith: “Die before you die,” we should prepare ourselves for the life beyond this physical life by ceasing our acceptance of ourselves as physical bodies. We should prepare ourselves for death before it actually occurs, namely before we depart our bodily form and relinquish the functions of our brains, so that we may discover that we are in fact “ideational beings” [spiritual beings or beings of consciousness]. We should do this because it is impossible for a person to acquire anything for his “spirit” in the next world in addition to what he could already acquire in this world before his brain ceased to function.
A third meaning for the sentence could be as follows:
Die in the way of coming to the understanding that in reality your “selfhood” —that is, what you call “your own self” (nafs)— did not exist at all. Hence you might be resurrected with the ultimate “self” that creates your existence, because “selfness” is but Allah's merit!
The only being that may refer to itself as “I” is in fact “Allah”. No other real “selfhood” exists at all. If it were possible for a second selfhood to exist, such a second being would be a god; but let us immediately remember the Word of Oneness: la ilaha ill-Allah “there is no god, only Allah.”
If I may put it this way, “Allah”, the only one that ever exists with no other beside, has just imagined or thought up all those existing forms within Hu's “knowledge” (ilm).
To put it even more simply, Allah dreamt up them all. Everything in the Universe we perceive to be real, is simply Allah’s imaginings.
It should however be pointed out again that such verbs as think up or dream up will always fall short when used in relation to “Allah”, because they can in no way reflect the pure truth and they tend to downgrade Allah's divinity (uluhiyyat). However, we have to use such phrases in our verbal communication, inadequate as they are, in the hope of making it easier for readers to understand certain points and to come closer to the truth.
All of the friends of Allah of highest degree [spiritual masters of the highest] (awliyaullah), who have attained the essence of matter, are in agreement on the fact about the way the universe and all that dwells therein have come into being as that “all of the universes are originally imagery”.
Abdul Karim Jali, one of the true saints of essence, great Islamic scholar and Sufi (13th century) who wrote about “ALLAH” as well as the dimensions, beings and affairs of life through a deep knowledge in his book “UNIVERSAL MAN” (Insan-i Qamil), explains therein in detail how “all of the universes are originally imagery.”
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This basic and wavelike nature of the universe is therefore regarded as 'imaginary' by the standards of our physical world and our perception of ourselves as physical beings.
Mohammed (pbuh) has likewise explained that this world of materials is an “illusion”, whereas the actual substance of the universe is “nothing other than a luminous origin”. Stating that our life in this physical dimension is on a par with a “dream” (rûya), he added that:
“Men are asleep but will awaken by death!”
Basic meaning of the statement above is as follows:
When a person passes from this current state of living where we live with a physical body within the limits of the five senses, into the frequency-based dimension of life beyond the physical, that person is now in a state of awakening. Thus all his life in this physical world feels to him like a “dream” he once experienced. His actual world of reality becomes the frequency-based life dimension once he entered for there, in which one remains until Doomsday. On the day of the Resurrection, however, everybody is revived (baa'th) within a new bodily form for the third time, and that body serves everyone as a permanent body from then onward.
A second meaning of the sentence, “Men are asleep but will be awaken by death” is:
In accordance with the hadith: “Die before you die,” we should prepare ourselves for the life beyond this physical life by ceasing our acceptance of ourselves as physical bodies. We should prepare ourselves for death before it actually occurs, namely before we depart our bodily form and relinquish the functions of our brains, so that we may discover that we are in fact “ideational beings” [spiritual beings or beings of consciousness]. We should do this because it is impossible for a person to acquire anything for his “spirit” in the next world in addition to what he could already acquire in this world before his brain ceased to function.
A third meaning for the sentence could be as follows:
Die in the way of coming to the understanding that in reality your “selfhood” —that is, what you call “your own self” (nafs)— did not exist at all. Hence you might be resurrected with the ultimate “self” that creates your existence, because “selfness” is but Allah's merit!
The only being that may refer to itself as “I” is in fact “Allah”. No other real “selfhood” exists at all. If it were possible for a second selfhood to exist, such a second being would be a god; but let us immediately remember the Word of Oneness: la ilaha ill-Allah “there is no god, only Allah.”
If I may put it this way, “Allah”, the only one that ever exists with no other beside, has just imagined or thought up all those existing forms within Hu's “knowledge” (ilm).
To put it even more simply, Allah dreamt up them all. Everything in the Universe we perceive to be real, is simply Allah’s imaginings.
It should however be pointed out again that such verbs as think up or dream up will always fall short when used in relation to “Allah”, because they can in no way reflect the pure truth and they tend to downgrade Allah's divinity (uluhiyyat). However, we have to use such phrases in our verbal communication, inadequate as they are, in the hope of making it easier for readers to understand certain points and to come closer to the truth.
All of the friends of Allah of highest degree [spiritual masters of the highest] (awliyaullah), who have attained the essence of matter, are in agreement on the fact about the way the universe and all that dwells therein have come into being as that “all of the universes are originally imagery”.
Abdul Karim Jali, one of the true saints of essence, great Islamic scholar and Sufi (13th century) who wrote about “ALLAH” as well as the dimensions, beings and affairs of life through a deep knowledge in his book “UNIVERSAL MAN” (Insan-i Qamil), explains therein in detail how “all of the universes are originally imagery.”
--Read more for free at www.ahmedbaki.com
