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Man and the Secrets of Nearness rd 

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Goblet or Meter

By Mawlana Faizani Copyright © Mawlana Faizani 2000

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Contents Chapter 1:  

Finding Glorious God's Greatness, Magnificence, and Perfection in Things

Chapter 2:

The Search for Man and his Real Substance

Chapter 3:

The Secret of Union

Chapter 4:

Arguments for Proving the Existence of Almighty God through Logic

Chapter 5:

The Observation of Glorious God's Greatness in Things

Chapter 6:

The Privileges of Man's Intellectual Position and the Secrets of his Success

Chapter 7:

Man's Trajectory of Journey throughout Knowledge and its Reality

Chapter 8:

Soul  We,  We, and the Key to Other World's Truths

Chapter 9:

Some of the Signs of the Heavens in Mankind

Chapter 10:

What did We Do that We did not Experience? (Heedlessness)

Chapter 11:

The Characteristics and States of Soul in Man's Outer and Inner

Chapter 12:

What They See In the Computer of the Heart

Chapter 13:

Conditions of the Heart (Qalb) and Its Secrets

Chapter 14:

Not Acting upon the the Secrets Secrets of the the Heart, Heart, What did we we do? Heedlessness

Chapter 15:

Us and Vigilance, Ego and Deceitfulness

Chapter 16:

Ego and Its Plans

Chapter 17:

If these Things had Happened, What Things would not have Happened?

Chapter 18:

Get to Know Satan and His Satanic Ways

Chapter 19:

Man and Some of Satan's Plots

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Preface “Praise be to God, Who hath guided us to this, We could not truly have been led aright if God had not guided us.” (7:43 Quran) We do hope that by reading this Epistle, the intellectual faithful, will uncover, within the proposed questions, truths which may not be apparent to them from many readings of the books of the Interpretation of the Quran and Hadith. 1 Hence, before explaining each topic under its own particular heading within a few limited lines, we are trying, by God's willingness, to draw the reader's attention to separate headings. One after the other they will increasingly strengthen your ability to explore the eloquent secrets of this treasury of Insight into Almighty God. 2 They have been prepared with the purpose of fortifying the Light of Faith in the reader and reaching and discovering the Forth Dimension (The World invisible to us).

May God give us success!

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Interpretation of the Quran refers to Tafaseer, and Hadith or Ahadith is a narrative record of the sayings or customs of Muhammad, peace be upon him.

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Ma'rafa

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Finding Glorious God's Greatness, Magnificence, and Perfection in Things While we struggle to unravel the truth of this secret (perceiving the Essence of His Being), we lack the words to describe it. How, then, can it be possible for us to achieve this goal? Namely, to perceive the Perfection and Glory of His Great and Eternal Being, with all the deficiencies of comprehension that we must endure. It is obvious that we can appreciate the station of a Force, only if at the very least, we have an equivalent capacity within ourselves, or if we know of its corresponding likeness. Whereas, if we merely ponder the amount of intelligence and understanding bestowed by Glorious God from the beginning of the universe up until our age, we shall experience nothing but perplexity and astonishment. For example: In order to comprehend, just consider the magnitude of understanding and intelligence that the Almighty Great Omnipotent Being has bestowed upon each human being, from the beginning to the end of the creation of the world. If we were to collect and lump it all together, it would come to hundreds of billions of tons, metaphorically speaking. Today's world population is upwards of four billion. Suppose that Almighty God has bestowed about an average of half a kilogram of intelligence and understanding upon each person. That would make about two billion kilograms, which, when converted to tons, would come to a rather staggering amount. At the end, we are plunged into a world of perplexity and astonishment. According to this standard, if one ponders on what quantity of intelligence and understanding has been bestowed upon mankind in each century or generation, from the beginning of the world up to today, it would be an astonishing and imperceptible issue. One would clearly find out that, Praise be to God, the Greatness, Perfection, Knowledge and Understanding of Him Almighty, Whose favors are indiscriminately abundant, is totally beyond our understanding and perception. Moreover, if you add the amount of understanding and intelligence of three other inhabited worlds on our side (i.e., of the Jinn, the Angels, and the Devils) to that of our world, what would it add up to? If one considered the five other sides along with this side 3 encompassing eighteen thousand worlds, what could be reached? If one were to include the animals' instinct as well, what would then be the outcome, other than perplexity upon perplexity? The case can be compared to the situation where, for instance, one small ant had the task, according to its own 3

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In the 6 Goblet or the Alphabet of the Secrets of Quran, it is stated as follows: "Our perishing and permanent worlds: one side from six sides." This indicates that the entire system consists of six sides of probably a cube, three thousand worlds on each side, making eighteen thousand worlds altogether.

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ability, to do the statistical and organizing work of the president of a country. Could the ant ever accomplish such a task? No, never. Thus man, according to what we have said, is not at all able to perceive and fathom the Perfection and Force, and even to estimate the Plans of His Almighty Being. Therefore, when Khidher was explaining to Moses while they were riding on a boat, peace be upon them, the limits of man's knowledge when compared to Almighty God's, Khidher pointed to a sparrow. The sparrow perched on the side of the boat, dipped its beak into the ocean, and then left. Khidher asked Moses:  Moses :  ”How much water did this sparrow take from the ocean by plunging its beak into it?” Moses answered, Compared to the ocean's greatness, consider it nothing. Khidher replied: Similarly, you can imagine that the total of all of humanity's knowledge and understanding, from the beginning of the world until the end, does not amount to a drop from the ocean of Almighty's Knowledge and Understanding. 4 Thus the unworthy position of some among the underdeveloped, tempted by Devils, allows them to show off. Compared to more educated people or the inhabitants of other globes, however, they are zero plus zero. Furthermore, there are some people who might possess a limited knowledge granted to them by the Power of His Glorious Great and Unique Hand in the science of matter and technology. These people intentionally, unintentionally, and egotistically give themselves the permission of wishing to reach the Precious World (Proximity to His Almighty's Presence), without having acquired the proper means, or reached the proper path. This is illusion, absurdity, and insanity. Thus, primarily, we hereby draw your attention to a series of brief discourses on topics that may enlighten as well as explain the Perfection and Greatness of His Almighty. Second, we shall try to explain why man does not try to acquire this fortune, even though he is inclined by nature to acquire it. Third, we will briefly explain the methods one can use in making that effort.

Search for Man and his Real Substance 1. Question: Conceptually, Conceptually, why are the descendants descendants of Adam called Insan  ?5 Answer: Insan  is an exaggeration noun. 6 It is derived from the word Onss  , which means easily adjusting or adapting to everything  . It even applies to lodging, property, animals and other objects in the environment. After a while, man becomes so attached to these things 4

This story is mentioned in Chapter Al-Kahf in the holy Quran, but this particular incident is narrated in Hadith Al-Bukharee, chapter Kitab-ul-Tafseer 5 Insan is a Quranic word for man or human being. 6 Ism-e Mubalagha

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that, if separated from them, he would suffer as much as if he were inwardly attached to them, leading to all happiness turn into agony. About his separation from the Presence of His Glorious Supreme Being , however, he does not feel unhappy. He does not even sense it.

2. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the two-footed being for whom this entire universe has been created, and he himself has been created so as to acquire Insight into and become acquainted with Almighty God. So that he may wisely establish the struggling path against the covert and overt opponents of Almighty God and of His Almighty's obedient servants; starting from himself up to whatever extremes he may encounter. He may make efforts up until the end, for the peace of God's creatures, in order to attain God's happiness and for the purpose of establishing justice in the light of Monotheism. Sa'dee,7 God's mercy be upon him, has stated:  stated : 

" The clouds, the wind, the moon, the sun, and the firmament are deployed  So that you may find a piece of bread and not eat it heedlessly, They all are involved and obey commands for your sake  It would be unfair, if you do not obey." 

3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who possesses exploring perception. From his contacts with living and non-living things, he well understands and sees that there will be affection created within him for those things. As a result of these contacts, he does not learn that if he were to persistently repeat the Names of Glorious God as well, then God's affection would also be created in him within the easiest of ways. Hence, he would be one of the devout servants.

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who often likes to have special attachments a ttachments to his Almighty God. Enslaved by his own thoughts, he wanted to reach this fortune through a variety of hardships. Whereas in our age, the shorter and more effective way is the Remembrance of

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Sa'dee was a great Muslim scholar and poet who lived in Shiraz, Iran in the year 1184, and has enriched the world with many of his noble books

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God everywhere, observing the things, and hence finding His Glorious Artificer's Perfection and Magnificence.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who is created for the purpose of observing the various secrets of things and for utilizing these objects. He is created thus so that he may better and more truly know the Creator of this entire open and hidden land and ocean, with all His Perfection and Glory. Glory. Man should still make requests for more favors by presenting humbleness and by pleading. He should make the necessary ne cessary efforts to ensure peace for God's creatures in order to please Him, so that he may find higher and more valuable grants and favors.

6. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has rarely raised the question: for what reason, due to what mastery, mastery, and for what purpose, are all things given to him? Verily! All things are granted and accessible to him for the purpose of acquainting himself with Glorious God, the Almighty Creator, the Exalted Most Great, Almighty Artificer and the Perfectioner and Completer of this entire Order, Glorified and Exalted be He.

7. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, upon observing someone's accomplishment, gives out thousands of compliments and rewards. However, on seeing this Exhibition (the Universe) created by His Holiness, Glorified and Exalted be He, he makes no acknowledgement to His Greatness and makes no effort to find the truth of Insight with Exalted Him. Man has rarely paid any attention to seek this virtue.

8. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who exerts effort, if accessible, toward getting acquainted and establishing a friendship with heads of companies and high authorities of society. But he makes no effort to get acquainted with or find out the Creator and Artificer of this entire open and hidden order Who is Almighty Great God of the land and the ocean in this world and in other worlds, and the rest of the universe. He does not make the effort of acquiring the least of Insight into Him.

9. Question: Who is man?

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Answer: Man is the being who, the more he becomes enlightened, the more he tries to fully establish relationships and get acquainted with enlightened people, even great statesmen. Unfortunately, concerning the establishment of a relationship with his Creator and Artificer, Artificer, man, save for a few exceptions, has not accomplished this act. He did not even create such ambition and love in himself towards this goal.

10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is such a being to whom Glorious God has given the ability and the perception to successfully invoke and contemplate scientific and spiritual secrets. Where man strives to delve, Glorious and Exalted God makes him discover the secrets and mysteries. But man never asks himself if all these successes originated from his own brain alone. There are billions likewise endowed with brains better and more efficient in every aspect. One can say that all man's efforts are merely a pretext and that the truth is the gift and grace of the most Gracious Almighty God. By making this thanksgiving, of course, more success will be bestowed upon the person and, given constancy, this will increase the person's relationship with the Almighty.

11. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who gets angry with his inferiors, whoever they may be, should they appear to disobey his commands. Furthermore, he even beats and metes out other punishments as a tool for reform. But he himself is not obedient in front of those permitted and prohibited commands of His Almighty, which were created and established to the benefit of the social life. He does not believe in punishment from the Glorious Lord of the open and hidden.

12. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who admits that there should be punishment meted out from high authorities to those who oppose them, but from the Great God Who has created him, Who has brought him into existence out of non-existence, Who provides him annually, wherever he may be, with life, and a nd prescribes sustenance and other favors, he, being narrow-minded, still does not accept a law. He does not think of any punishment in cases of violation against Him Almighty, and he continues to disobey. d isobey.

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Answer: Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

14. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being of whom everything is afraid but who fears not his own self, even though all the harm to man, humanity and to others comes from man.

15. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being whom every creature trusts. However, men themselves rarely trust one another without ulterior motives.

16. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the model by which most of the characteristics and secrets of the animate and inanimate things of the firmament and earth are revealed. Therefore, some of the philosophers have called him the "Small Universe.”

"Then outwardly you are the small universe  Then inwardly you are the great universe."  Rumi

Commentary Now we are somewhat introduced to the value of humanity's eminent position and we understand it. Basically, to some extent we have been ungrateful and have behaved in such a manner. By observing everything, wee have appreciated its maker, but by observing all these gifts and rewards, and the variety of creation in the world, we have not felt any responsibility towards the Greatness of the Great God. At most, we have tried to establish relationships with people of high authority, rank, and position; however, we have not wished to establish any relationship with the Creator and Artificer of this entire universe, though our creation has existed and exists for seeking this truth in this small, trial world . It is a question of demonstrating to His Almighty's All-Seeing Knowledge, 8 whether we are to be so amazed by His handiworks that we forget Him Almighty Al mighty altogether. Or that, during our involvement, we would behave in the Presence of the Exalted Evolver, revealing our own pull and attraction while doing good deeds and refraining from evil actions, or the opposite. In the end we conclude the following: 8

'Ilm-e Mushahidatee

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Are we trying to establish a relationship with and develop love and affection for Almighty God, or with someone or something other than Him, whatsoever and whosoever it may be? Regarding the question of how to establish this relationship, here we shall draw your attention to some topics concerning the "Secret of Union." Afterward, we shall draw your attention to the human narrow-mindedness and a nd weakness of knowledge, which, in spite of the Presence of Almighty God, still cause the denial of His Existence. After that, we will focus your attention on the study of objects, which are expressive of the Greatness of the Glorious and Exalted Supremacy. Supremacy .

The Secret of Union 1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, if he deliberates a little during the process of observing things of this firmament, he will clearly find the Almighty Creator and Artificer. He will discover that indeed, this monotonous and changeless system of billions of years, that possesses all kinds of qualities, cannot be ascribed to anyone else but the Almighty Great and Unique Operator, Who is One and Knowledgeable, Glorified and Exalted be He. Through acknowledgement of this truth, a lot of other secrets will be opened up in the hearts of the noble ones. This fortune becomes a cause of fortification to the battery of faith and will make available the shortest path of communication for the servant to Almighty God.

2. Question: Could man possibly become worth of the preliminary steps of becoming received by His Holiness, the Mighty and Sublime, through the shortest path (shorter even than these)? Answer: Indeed, after the deniers fully believe, essentially acknowledge, and after the ignorant ones sincerely repent, they will be welcomed to the Fourth Dimension. However, one can acquire the merits of Nearness to the Presence of Him Almighty by increasing the practice and acquisition of refinement 9 and cleansing. 10 Even though some people of good nature have obtained the merits of Nearness as soon as they have received faith or repented -- but this is rare, hence, Almighty God has taken faith and practice as being correlative in 625 verses of the Holy Quran. The best deeds are in one's efforts to

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Tasfiya Tadhkiya

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spread the monotheism,

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to acquire Insight into Almighty God,

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and to serve God's

creatures for the purpose of His Happiness.

3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, without the permission of gatekeepers or secretaries or even having received a credible identification card, never assumes the authority and power of approaching contemporary high ranking people, believing it impossible to do so. Surprisingly, without acquiring the acceptable purity and merit to the Presence of His Almighty, he considers himself to be worthy of acceptance to the presence of His Almighty Being by merely claiming to be worthy.

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, in order to reach worldly and figurative kings and presidents, obliges his own self to study for at least sixteen to twenty years and to serve for more that thirty years passing the stages of o f qualification. As for achieving the Nearness to Almighty God, however, he thinks he should achieve and unite it in the easiest way, even instantaneously, without qualification or merit.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who sees the effect of the Exalted and Glorious God's Powerful Hand in the transformation of all things, at all different levels. For example, he is able to perceive it in inanimate things such as animal wastes (fertilizer) changed into different trees, fruits and crops; in the change from hot to cold; from nonexistence to existence, and vice versa, which are all set, are evident. If the servant should request for anything with sincerity and humility, in spite of all the worthlessness of that servant, Almighty God can grant him his request, He accepts the servant's apology and fulfills his needs. Consequently Almighty God will certainly improve the servant's life according to his ambitions, activities and intentions. Couplet: “Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people  Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions” 

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Arguments for Proving the Existence of Almighty God through Logic 1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who clearly knows that all kinds of artifacts seen around him and in his world are the result of the two hands of power, A. The imperceptible Hand of power of God, Mighty and Sublime Sublime be He, the Artificer of everything, has created and can still create any element from non-existence if He wants to, truly out of nothing.

B. The secondary maker is man. He prepares and organizes the the objects and things needed for himself and his contemporary generation out of the cooked and raw resources created by Almighty God.

2. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the creature who does not accept and regards as impossible that anything devised by himself or his fellow creatures could exist without an artificer. Unfortunately, however, there are some people who think and accept that this entire exposed and hidden universe can exist without an Artificer.

3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who believes it to be impossible for any social order not to be led by either sound or unsound leadership and human administration. Yet he thinks of this entire exposed and hidden order on the land and in the seas to be without the Great Administrator and the Almighty Leader, and Artificer, Glorified and Exalted be He. He thinks all this exists, metaphorically speaking, without the engineering and organization of the Glorious, Great, Unlimited Omniscient. Some have believed in this way, Alas!

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who believes in worldly laws, whatever be the power attached to them, and knows that they are enforced under the surveillance of some general organizer. Unfortunately, however, there are some people who, in spite of discerning the law of continuation of the universe, the earth, and the nearby galaxies, which according to their own word and estimation, have been and still are monotonously active in the eyes of every individual, during our lifetime and in past generations for billions of years, deny this undeniable truth and even call the existence of Almighty Artificer a superstitious theory.

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On the other hand, some people deduce from it all, the existence of the Unbreakable Power and the Absolute Authority of His Self-Existent Being. 13 They accept with sound faith and know that the aforementioned systems are indeed permanent and stable under the Surveillance of the Self-Subsisting, 14 the Able,15 Exalted be He. This is faith and these are the perfect believers, provided they put it into practice.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who finds himself obliged to surrender in front of people of power, wisdom and knowledge, especially if he finds that another person's special skills are more advanced or effective than his own. Unfortunately, however, after observing all kinds of Power and Perfection of His Supreme, Eternal and Self-existent Being , he still does not show the required respect, nor does he acquire insight into Almighty God . Except for a small number of people, the rest have not sought this goal. Moreover, some unfortunate people have ascribed partners to Almighty God, and some ignorants have totally denied the Existence of His Almighty.

Dear Honorable Reader! Indeed, our honorable readers have felt an inner enlightenment after they have perused the above questions. As the Light Li ght of Certainty about this subject keeps growing brighter brigh ter in you, the Nucleus of Monotheism 16 or the Luminosity of Faith builds up. Here, according to the person's ambitions and activities, his relationship with Glorious God will become stronger and stronger. We must mention that, in the past, the path for noble servants in their approach to the Nearness was to extinguish or mortify the Ego, 17 and that was fulfilled by going through hard and ascetic work. Until recently, this has been the path prescribed. Even so, some recent followers have exaggerated and practiced it in a very self-effacing manner. Fourteen hundred years have passed from the time of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him . According to God's tradition, the path of approaching Nearness to Almighty God should have become shorter during these past thousand years or so, as the religious difficulties during the time of Moses, peace be upon him, and others, become gradually less difficult as we approach the time of the Prophet Muhammad, God bless him and grant him peace. 13

Wajib-ul-Wujood Qayyoom 15 Qaadir 16 Hasta-e Tawheed 14

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Hereby, Great God through His Grace and Generosity has produced these Epistles. Just reading these Epistles and practicing accordingly will cause the Inner Light to grow instant by instant, and this will increase with every repeated reading. The proof of this state in you enthusiasts of faith, whether as reader or an audience, is that all at once, there will be ideas, 18 appearing in your inner self as well. You should write them down and pass them on to the Instructors and Experts of this subject. This fortune is the replacement for today's humanity for the exhausting mortification of Ego. With the Grace of Almighty God, the Generous, the Bestower! Hence, in the following section, ponder on a portion of the study of Almighty God's Greatness in things. Please contemplate it with ambition and serious attention.

The Observation of Glorious God's Greatness in Things 1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who believes in the existence of either natural Soul or artificial Soul (electric), in every dynamic and static body, which has resulted either from his own hand or has been put there by the Power of Almighty God, its Creator. Even while seeing that the earth and most galaxies move in a prescribed direction and are rotatory, still, many people, through their own fictitious interpretation based on their false and corrupt imaginations, take the power of Almighty God's Hand as gravity, being sourceless. Namely, they deny Almighty God's Power and an d Control, whereas, the gravity in its correct sense is an example of His Almighty's Supremacy . We consider it as a part of the Almighty's Great Workstation, for we are less expressive about such things.

2. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who well knows that no material particle could ever remain in space without support, but while observing and understanding all these hanging systems and galaxies, attributes it to something called gravity. We would like to mention that our goal is not to deny the existence of gravity in the galaxy systems. The point is that we accept the existence of rockets and their motion and principles as being guided from the earth, and that controlled by man, why then should we not accept the survival of objects and the various motions of the galaxies as being a result of the Control of the Greatness of the Unique Creator, God, Glorified and Exalted be He? 17

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3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who admits that the attraction and repulsion forces in magnetic fields result from peculiar molecular arrangements and alignments in the magnet. But observing all the disorganization pertaining to the molecular arrangements and alignments in the earth's main molecules, for instance, such as in mountains, oceans, soil, mines, etc., none possess any apparent attraction-repulsion forces in themselves: To what then do they ascribe the forces which exist therein? Rather, they do not perceive that they, based on corrupt satanic paraphrase, call it imaginary gravity to make the truth of the Power of Almighty Hand disappear.

"Their intention is to extinguish the Light of Almighty God's Greatness and Oneness

by blowing with their mouths and nonsensical reasons. But Almighty God will complete His desired Light, even though the unbelievers may detest it. "19 4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the study of things and therefrom acquire perfect faith. But the same tool has become the means of deviation for the rest of them.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who is amazed by seeing the work and activity processes of some company or factory, or of machines, tools and instruments. But he never thinks about this fortune as being bestowed and the discovering power as being given to man's brain, thus enabling man to build. He does not make any thanksgiving to the Creator, and some people do not even know the Creator. What a pity is this misfortune and ignorance!

6. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who would certify the ability of the leader and organizer of society once he sees the excellent organization and order of that society. But some of them do not understand this organized and ordered system which is proof of the Perfection of the Creator and Almighty Unique Artificer; moreover, they do not admit it.

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Ideas similar to the subject being studied, namely reflecting Glorious God's Magnificence and Perfection in His arts 19 As-Saff, Chapter 61, verse 8

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7. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who smells a variety of fragrances from the earth through flowers, and feels pleasure in them. Unfortunately, however, he has not reflected that it was the Creator of this universe Who created all these pleasant aromas out of the worthless and humid soil. Then what kind of pleasant aromas and goodness would His Excellency Almighty God Himself possess? Actually, the heart and brain can hardly perceive it now.

8. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who feels pleasure in seeing beautiful faces, even though he knows that originally these existents, with all their beauty, were created from small sperms. What about the Magnificence and Charm of the Almighty Creator, Who has created and founded a myriad of beauties and charms such as these? For, it is obvious that if someone bestows gifts upon someone else, a thousand dollars for instance, then most definitely he himself owns hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then what Magnificence and Perfection would He Who has freely given all this beauty to everything and every one be possessing? Our perception is actually unable to approximate it.

9. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who sees within the tiny mulberry seed, which is smaller than a millet seed, a strong mulberry tree with a trunk of ten to twenty meters of height, thick roots of five to ten meters in length, and branches with an upper volume of at least ten metes diameter. Likewise, the underground roots of similar or smaller size along with their essential factories are all neatly packed. And, all these secrets are contained in that small mulberry seed. But, he does not think of the Artificer that possesses all this Wisdom as having, of course, much more powerful and amazing Potency. Here we, with the help of God, have explained the smallest symbol of it. The perception of this truth conveys to us u s that in the same manner as He, Almighty, created the original matter of man's creation as a seed in a mother's womb, there is another seed leading from man's body into the earth which He, the Glorious and Exalted, could and will bring back to life and give shape to once again, through the Second Breathing. 20

Hemistich: "The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one." 

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10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has seen a great deal variety of colors in the collection of direct and indirect artistry of the Almighty Sacred Being in the fashioning and creation of things. Bu he did not understand what Being was the Unique Glorious Owner of all this Greatness and Perfection, what Potency, and what Perfect Mightiness possessing all kinds of Perfection and Glory. We do not have words worthy enough to explain it, or to praise the subject of these truths.

11. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who considers it necessary to measure the heat intensity of an object from a certain distance. Seeing that, in spite of the distance of the sun from the earth, the sun's heat does still not vanish, he does not understand that this Power is the outcome of His Omnipotence’s Wisdom, Glorious and Exalted be He. Naively, man says that the sun is a fiery globe, which has not yet cooled down, or dismisses it as the mere burning of helium. You will study, with the Grace of Glorious Evolver, the truths of this secret in the forthcoming Epistles.

The Privileges of Man's Intellectual Position and the Secrets of his Success Preface Have you pondered how excellent man's original position is? Some superficial observers, however, as soon as they have acquired a limited knowledge for explaining and understanding some parts of biology and other sciences, think that they have arrived at an understanding of humanity's excellent station. This is itself a complete error. Becoming acquainted with the truth about humanity is quite a different thing. To better pay attention to and sooner understand the spirit of this discourse, can anyone tell us please how man, with all his intelligence, can be malevolent at one time and benevolent at another? Why does this happen? What insidious things still drive this faultless being to the pit of cruelty, cannibalism, and other atrocities? In order not to be intimidated by lengthy discussion, it is appropriate to say that man has not known his own self yet.

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Do you consider it as a result of knowing humanity's station, that at least four to five thousand airplanes, millions of tons of explosive materials and other mechanized weapons were consumed in wars in Korea, Vietnam and so forth? The expenses wasted there were double or triple the capital capable of enriching all the poor people on earth. They destroyed millions of living creatures including man. man . Can this be considered as indicative of knowing humanity's station? Of course not! We should say that man has not tried to censor his corrupt desires and has not subdued them. Therefore, man's offspring should not be able to fulfill humanity's wishes for peace and happiness, through the progress achieved in secular sciences unless they have really perceived the divine knowledge.

1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, through the Special Grace and Favor of Mighty and Glorious God, has surpassed the two primary categories of beings, which are in greater quantity and quality. These two classes are:

First: The Inanimates: sand, rocks, mountains, planets, stars, and galaxies, etc. Second: The Animates: from the microbe on up to the elephant on the land; from the mosquito to the ostrich in the air, and from the smallest fish in the ocean up to the largest mammal, the whale. Through His Grace, man has surpassed all these tens of thousands of o f machines. He Almighty, through His Mercy, has created man in the most proficient human form.

2. Question: What is the Muslim's Muslim's station? Answer: Almighty God has bestowed additional mercy upon the faithful one. He Almighty has created him from the beginning under the initial conditions in the circle of Mercy, especially in the Militant Academy 21 as followers of Quran, jurisprudence, and the confession for monotheism. monotheism . More especially, God has graced those who, during the time of Islam's poverty, make great physical, economic, and verbal efforts to spread Truth. They do it with high ambition, as did the first followers of Islam, based on scholastic reasons, logic, and good deeds.

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Answer: Man is the being who knows everything by a name and title. If the thing does not have a name, immediately he gives it a name; according to – 

"Almighty God taught to his holiness Adam, peace be upon him, the names of all

things (the secrets of all things) " etc.22 4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is in possession of a brain which can store in its memory up to one or two hundred thousand words, and more. 23 He can transfer its contents from his brain to his tongue, like onto the cassette of a cassette player, though without any rotation.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who upon hearing the names of things can remember the corresponding things with some of their specifications and perceptible qualities. He is able to understand and perceive them either in brief or in detail.

6. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being, to whose heart and brain, blessed by, "Almighty God taught to his holiness Adam the names of all things (the secrets of all things)" etc., Exalted God has bestowed the ability to discover all things and the power to understand their secrets and natures. He has bestowed this upon u pon man, so that he may benefit from other things, that He may make him indebted, and that man may obtain the exalted knowledgeable station. Most deprived people, however, consider this ability to be an outcome of their own thoughts, and they deny it as being bestowed to them by the Glorious God.

7. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the only being who can express his heart through drawings and writing, and Morse codes 24 etc., to others, regardless of a person’s presence or absence. In the

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presence of the person, he can convey his messages even through the motions of the eye and the eyebrow, or with special phrases and words.

8. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the only being bei ng for whose use, the best kinds of fruits, trees, minerals, grains, and all other things, including animals, are created. Man sees his domination being established in all these things. Almighty God has granted all His favors to man, but man unfortunately has not fulfilled the required servitude and has not acquired the necessary Insight into Him.

9. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the secondary artificer of things on the earth. He builds the necessary things out of the raw materials first created by the Sacred Supreme Being, and puts them to his own use.

10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the only being who, besides having the best and ultimate use of things on the earth, has access to the sealed inner reservoirs of the earth as well. Man has made and is still making amazing and necessary utilizations of these minerals.

11. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being whose continuation of works and different thoughts, provided they are worth following, will often be completed by sound successive generations.

12. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who needs a social life in order to secure mutual well-being. This has brought him much comfort. If man can generate this social life worldwide, it will be much better.

13. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the only being who must concern himself with family and tribal relationships, and even with wider relationships at the national and international levels. He has these concerns, for he has therefrom his inward and outward purposes.

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Answer: Man is the only being who can be an imitator of most voices and motions. He can reflect them, either directly with his own organs, or indirectly by means of tools and instruments.

15. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the only being who, besides the inherent gifts and the formal and spiritual discoveries, can benefit from another’s experiences.

16. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who can illuminate the inner darkness of everything by using artificial or natural light in whatever way he wishes. But often he has failed to illuminate the dark depths of ignorance, unawareness, and cruelty with the light of guidance.

17. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who is capable of making the unpleasantness of heat and cold agreeable to himself, or even of making it moderate and pleasant, through instruments. But he is not easily able to control the coldness of anger and the heat of lust, or at least to temper them.

18. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who can express either in detail or in brief his outward and inward pain, or pinpoint the agitated area and describe it. But, he has rarely been able to know or to express the pain of remoteness from the Nearness of Almighty God's Presence.

19. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, contrary to other living creatures who defend themselves using their mouths and teeth, eliminates opponents often by using different tools. But he has not built tools or instruments for his defense against the inward enemies, which often disturb him.

20. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who can use his species' understanding and experiences to improve his own life and that of the succeeding generations. This action has h as caused much progress.

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21. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is able to consume not only soft edible things but also has domination over many kinds of small and big mines. He extracts these minerals completely, makes different uses of them for himself and then eliminates them, but he cannot eliminate the oceans, mountains, the planet Earth and his firmament.

22. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has always made use not only of visible and large pieces of material things, but of tiny parts of animate things, such as microbes, and of inanimate things, such as the atom, etc. He has built buil t astonishing things out of them. Sometimes, he has made and is still making advantageous use, and at other times, disadvantageous use for himself and his contemporaries.

23. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the only being among all living creatures who, in order to improve his future, expects the cooperation of his generation, his children, and his grandchildren, in order to secure his living. In a way, he is making an error.

24. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is inwardly a box containing the two principals of the Soul 25 and the Ego, 26 and the computer of Intellect. 27 But outwardly, he is the cemetery of all the animals of the earth, including elephants and dolphins. Those animals, whether on the land, in the ocean, or in the air, are all his property, and sometimes, he uses them in one way or another for the better organization of his life. When these animals used by man reach adulthood, man eats them. In fact, the mobile cemetery of all animals is the stomach of mankind.

Commentary In this chapter the following was elucidated: elu cidated: the ingenuity and masteries that the being named man or the vicegerent 28 of Almighty God of the earth and time and all the hidden and exposed,

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possesses. It was also well clarified as to what purpose he was created and the reasons for which he has come to be here on earth. On the basis of this criterion, please ponder for what task, and with what ability and mastery, have we arrived here? Now, we have changed the trajectory of the journey; and what errors we have committed! Instead of finding the Artificer, we are lost in an insignificant portion of artifacts. Finally, what level this heedlessness is at or will reach? What is all this insanity, despite our intelligence and the claim for civilization? Are all these tools for killing and all the plunder of mankind the results of sound intelligence? No never! Do you realize that the Muslims and all the monotheists on earth are the first ones to be responsible for this? For, they knew the truths of monotheism's light but they made no effort to spread it. We refer especially to the followers of Islam, to whom all secrets of the path of Union are explained in detail, in more than 2500 29 verses in the Holy Quran . Unfortunately however, some group of human and jinni-devils 30 has been driving mankind to become addicted to these deviations, one after the other, and has considerably narrowed his wide perspective. This is worth pondering. Now, it will be wise to further examine what will happen to this being. Where is he heading?

Man's Trajectory of Journey throughout Knowledge and its Reality 1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, like a rocket, has come from the Sacred World 31 to Earth to observe the variety of God's artifacts and to gain Insight into the Almighty Unique Artificer. Meanwhile, he is equipped with both the discerning vision of the microscope and the encompassing vision of a telescope and the properly ordered computer of the heart, intellect32 and brain. And he is the owner of even greater masteries and secrets than this.

2. Question: What will be the result of all these processes of man's life? Answer: Outwardly the final rocket stage of each individual reaches to the edge of old age. In reality however, he has been sent in this direction by the Intention of his Launcher and

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Bringer (His Highness, the Glorious Supreme Being). This can last up to whenever God may will; namely, the appointed hour of death .

3. Question: When When would would his stay here on earth end? Answer: As soon as it is proven to the Observationary-Knowledge 33 of His Holiness, the Exalted and Glorious Supreme Being, that man has chosen one of the two paths: Glorious God, or the world (or both), and that it has become his ultimate goal, then He will make this being return.

4. Question: Why are some people people eliminated during their their childhood? childhood? Answer: There are many secrets to this. One of these secrets is that some parents may be released from torture through these children's intercession, and also, in order to make the children of the same age thankful that they were not taken away but were allowed to survive. These children who pass away would be b e grateful seeing the distress of mothers, fathers, relatives and other brothers in the Gathering Place of mankind on the Day of Judgement. They would be thankful that they themselves did not reach maturity to get into all these troubles, and that they did not have the chance of committing sin and ignorance. Again through His Grace, they were made of the people of forgiveness and intercession. Likewise, there are many other secrets behind it, and if you ponder, you may find them.

5. Question: Are there any more of these important points? points? Answer: The important secret here is that if Almighty God had given the same life expectancy to everybody and if the instances of natural or sudden death were not different, then man would have been very aggressive, since he knew that he had not yet approached the threshold of death. This would have ha ve caused greater laziness and ignorance. Meanwhile, the meaning of trial or rather its truth, would have disappeared.

6. Question: What is the effect of the death of young young children of unbelievers and agnostics? Answer: For the fathers and mothers, by observing o bserving these children, to discover that if they were left at least with their inborn faith, without denial of confession for the existence of Almighty God's Oneness, they would deserve this favor (Paradise). Hence, they would be saved from the tortures, and have a shelter in Paradise or in the Ismuth. 34

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7. Question: What kind of people would would be released by Intercession ?  Answer: The people in whose hearts is left a particle of either inborn faith or acquired faith. 8. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, contrary to the fruit-bearing and strong trees, has diminutive portion of branches growing above the surface of the earth, while his main and most powerful roots are all growing bigger and bigger beneath the surface.

9. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being whose roots are beneath the ground, but he himself is situated on earth, while he passes his tangible and intangible stages of growth. In other words, two or three of his ancestors are on the earth while most of the others are underground. This means that the main infrastructure of his ancestry has been residing beneath the ground for thousands of years. In this way, the great and greater members of a tribe or ethnic group are always increasing more and more beneath the ground.

10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.

11. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has seen and does see the life expectancy (the mortality and the survival) of most things, yet considers this material world's life to be everlasting. For, each individual's life perishes while the perishing of the world cannot be seen during his lifetime. This is similar to an example where ants reside for generations and generations beside a strong palm tree, thinking of the tree as a permanent thing because they have seen it standing there for hundreds of their own generations.

NOTICE! In the contents of this chapter, after perceiving the substance of man as well as searching for and showing the approaching path to the Almighty Creator of this universe, it would not be out of place to draw your attention to a portion of those truths which most certainly shall shed light on the existence of the Permanent World 35 and the Visitation with Exalted and Mighty His Holiness Supreme Being. The perception of this precious fact is of course, a 35

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convincing sign of the existence of the Fourth Dimension. Or, it is a guide for everybody, especially for the faithful ones, in finding the secrets of Union and the mysteries concerning it. Fortunately in our age, Almighty God has opened the doors of all these outward favors, through inventions of technological and scientific tools and instruments, allowing them to be accessed by man in such a way that their likeness has rarely been made available; in the past, probably only to kings. Ponder this: it was prophet Solomon's miracle to spend one day flying a distance which would otherwise have taken one month. 36 Now, however, it is made available, to any auspicious or inauspicious person, to travel by plane a distance of one or two months or more in just one hour. There are hundreds of other similar examples. Observing the abundance of such favors bestowed upon all children of mankind, we place such hope in His Unique One Being, the Almighty Absolute Bestower, 37 and you may say Amen and undertake practical efforts so that He may soon give to all mankind the success of having His favor of the fortune of faith globalize through the leadership of this humblest servant, and all assistants, and the noble ones of the world. So that the sun of Oneness will be shining all over the earth; and the notional and practical Insight of Islam would radiate; and that justice would be worldwide to its highest degree, such as has never occurred in the past and would not be seen in the future. Hoping for the favor and grace of the Generous, the Bestower, and the Most Compassionate.38

1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, after passing the best time of his life (youth), remembers that period for the rest of his life and regrets that it has passed. By paying a little attention he will come to understand this fact as well that the Exalted God, Who bestowed on him more or less twenty to thirty years of youth and a pleasant time, has indeed the power to bestow upon him this fortune for billions of years in a place where there would be no trouble or distress (Paradise).

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i f the Answer: Man is the being whose perceptions, when taken from a text, especially if hidden truths about the eternal world are contained in it, are at different levels. For example, the perception of the above mentioned factual truth is not a problem in the view of wise and clear-sighted people. The scientists for instance, are certifying the age of the planet of the earth as being approximately more than millions of years. 39 Could not the Creator and Owner of all this power then, bestow upon us billions of years of lifetime in Paradise? The answer is Yes, but there are those who can rarely understand this fact.

3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who likes a few fixed months, the best time of the year—spring and summer. Routinely, His Almighty Unique Being has granted these seasons to be specific periods of time. Then why do they not think that the Generous Almighty God can also bestow upon us billions of years of continuous spring and marvelous seasons in Paradise, even though the ultimate purpose of man's creation for sound and modest activities in this world seems somewhat perishable and fictitious, and he is basically created for over there (Paradise)?

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who well knows that a person or company builds a machine or instrument lasting one or a few years, he could always make it last longer by improving its efficiency, thus allowing the tool to work longer. longe r. Man believes this, but he does not acknowledge that Glorious God Who has h as given him twenty to thirty years of o f youth, could also grant him billions of years of youth in the Permanent World. Indeed, this is not a problem.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who fully believes in the theoretical and experimental grounds proving the existence of Almighty God and the Almighty Unique Creator. He sees that Almighty God has given all these colors, odors, values, secrets, and beauty to the earth's products from the soil, water, and invisible energy of sunlight. Indeed, from a material thousands of times better (Paradise), He could produce things more perfect and amazing, that being Paradise and its Gardens.

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Basically this period of being an Actor in life for each individual is for the purpose of completing the "movie" of his life. As soon as the Soul is out of the body, according to its summary of good and bad deeds, it will be placed in one of the Paradise(s) or Hell(s) . Therefore, death is the minor resurrection and the Day of Judgement is the major resurrection for the union to the Permanent World with positive acknowledgement (seeing).

6. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who sees the differences in the variety of fruits, metals, and many other things. He knows that even though the things within each classification outwardly have the same name, for example, all tree products are called fruits, however, the taste and quality of each fruit is different. Likewise, all metals are called minerals, but the values of uranium, platinum, and gold, etc., are distinct, compared to other metals due to their special qualities and secrets. The same principle is applicable to globes and galaxies, in comparing the heavens' globes and galaxies to others; and when considering the soil, the heavens' soil is hundreds of times more valuable than the unworthy, massive soil of the earth.

7. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who sees the variety in creativity and providence, 40 which exist in different ways. He sees a cycle 41 being used therein, yet being weak, he cannot feel with the inner enlightenment that Exalted and Glorious God is the Creator of this entire Order, and that He can create in other forms and ways as well. This will be better understood in the following Epistles.

Soul We, and the Key to Other World's Truths In the preface to the chapter on Soul and the corresponding questions, from the outset we felt the necessity to qualitatively propose two questions q uestions with their answers. After studying these two questions, you will well perceive the truths pertaining to finding the excellence and value of 40

Khallaqiyat and Razaqiyat The cycle, cyclic order or Interconnecting-Order ( Nezam-e Tasalsulee):  An example would be Water Cycle, where water starts off as the sea then, by being warmed by the sun it slowly turns in to vapor which rise to form clouds. These clouds cl ouds then travel over the land and when they burst it starts to rain, snow or hail. Most of it then filters down through the hills and rivers until it reaches the sea again. There are many other systems working in the same order. Another example would be the earth's products consumed by man, and the wastes going back to the earth. Further discussions on this can be found in the Sixth Goblet by the same author.

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the human Soul, and the high intact position of the Quran and the guidance of the Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him. Hereby, within two items, we present the reasons substantiating the existence of Soul. Afterwards, we will draw your attention to its essence, and then we will briefly bri efly mention some topics about the attributes, which man has carried along by inheritance from his first parents, Adam and Eve, peace be upon them. In turn, we would like to talk about heedlessness and clarify some vices associated with it. Finally, we will draw your attention, God Willing, to matters concerning the finding of the positive and negative spiritual customs.

1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the creature who has built a telescope to look at the stars, a microscope to see the microbes, a voltmeter to measure electric ele ctric voltage, a thermometer to measure the temperature, and so forth. He could never make true experiments with the aforementioned quantities, until he had build the mentioned tools, such as telescope, microscope, various meters, and thermometers. Pertaining to the perception, understanding, and observation of the Fourth Dimension, especially the Nearness to the Sacred Omnipotent Almighty Being, though man thinks of using only his unworthy, simple, and unrefined brain and heart. The brain and heart that can be destroyed through only one pill, or get lost in daydreams about a beautiful face, and so forth. Still, he wants to establish the relationship with the Almighty Creator and Artificer, in spite of this denseness and abundant laziness.

2. Question: Are the tools for finding the secrets of the Fourth Dimension found within the person? Answer: Sure! First: Soul, second: Knowledge (Intellect) 42 and third: Heart. If man fortifies his spiritual power and is always acquiring Insight into God, worshipping Him Almighty and serving God's creatures for the happiness of His Almighty, then the Ego will be improved from the stage of Enjoining-unto-Evil 43 to the stage of At-Peace. 44 Indeed, the Heart will be really filtered out of the "affection for anything other than Almighty God", and the Soul's True Eye, with its other main attributes, will become active.

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of the inner or Soul. It is right during this occasion that the person's hand, eye, ear, foot and all his motions and domination shall belong to His Almighty's particular Hand of Power. The Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, reports from the Almighty Nourisher in a direct divine transmission. 46 "Glorious God stated: ...The servant makes perseverance in performing volunteer

prayers,47 until, through this, he finds nearness to Me so that I shall make him My Beloved. Thus, the Signs of My Excellency's Nearness to man are that he hears through Me, he sees through the power of My Exalted Sight, S ight, and grabs with My Imperceptible Hand, walks with My Particular Power which is not possible for others " etc. This servant's disturbance is the Disturbance of God; his happiness would be the fulfilling of Almighty God's Satisfaction.

"Glorious God stated: Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him." etc.48 These servants of God are the true believers 49 and have succeeded in finding the real position of Islam and humanity. Hence, what the Holy Quran has been trying to teach is this great secret of approach to Almighty God through the establishment of the relationship of the servant to His Holiness Almighty Supremacy. Supremacy . If the main purpose in this trial abode were not the relationship of mankind to Almighty God, then why would the Holy Quran explain the secrets of Satan's distractions in more than 156 verses? Why would faith and practice in 625 verses synonymously convey the requirements of practical Islam, and may other similar secrets? Among those secrets for example, why would the domination of Solomon, peace be upon him, and his companions be mentioned; where they brought the Throne of Queen of Sheba 50 by just a blink of an eye, from the long distances of more than two months of travel? Why are similar occurrences mentioned? Take, for example, the following scenarios: a few birds, cut into pieces and mixed, came back to life and rushed towards Abraham, peace be

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Jesus, peace be upon him, and his companions built

statues out of mud, and the statues came to life; there was a revivification of the dead in their hands,52 and hundreds of other examples. Why and for what purpose are these occurrences mentioned? Consider the true meaning of what the Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, said:

"The practicing religious scholars among my followers are comparable to the prophets of the Children of Israel." 53 What does this mean? If we understand what secrets and mysteries are contained in this narration, then we will clearly realize that the practicing and learned lea rned believers of this Islamic nation could also have inner secrets and masteries possessed by the prophets of the children of Israel. While reading these questions you might ask once again; why did Muslims not make any efforts  to perceive and find this fortune?  We cannot deny their efforts; they discovered secrets many times better in terms of quality and quantity. There are books, such as “Muslim Saints and Mystics” 54 and some other writings, which mention the narration and truths about those people who, were devoted to the Truth. However, the reason why most of our ou r contemporary believers have fallen short in this search can be accredited to the laziness of our Muslims. Now, however, through the special Grace of the Glorious Being, the opportunity has arrived where this fortune can be acquired with a lot of ease and simplicity, and without all kinds of hard spiritual work or mortification of Ego. 55 The easy methods and the short path are only related to the excellent perception and knowledgeable understanding of the “Analysis of Man's Atom” 56 and this is it.

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(Quran: chapter Al-Imran (the family of 'Imran #3), verse #49) This important Hadith can be found in the books of Sheikh Al-Siuti and Sheikh Al-Manawi. Sheikh Qonawi quotes it in his book of al-BariqaSharhal-Tariqa page 16. It is also mentioned in the books of Tadhkirat ul-awlia' and Mazhar ul-ajaeb wa Mazha by Shaeikh 'Atar. 54 Tadhkirat-ul-Awlia: The famous book about short biog raphies of great Muslim saints written by Sheikh Sh eikh Farid uddin Attar in the fifth century A.H (Islamic calendar) translated into English by A.J.Arberry. 55 Riyazat 56 “Tajeziya wa Tahleel-e Atom-e Insan” or “Analysis of Man’s Atom” The series of highly advanced books of Madrasa -i- Tawheed, written by Mawlana Faizani, dealing with detailed explanation of man's spiritual analysis and solution. 53

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Praise be to God, the basic teachings and Epistles of this knowledge with all its ultimate principles, are fully organized, with the help of Great God. They are drafted in accordance with the current age and modern epoch, with a broad worldview. Hence, they are accessible to those interested in the true Islamic movement, so that they can receive them one after the other. Let us hope for the quickest openings in the near future and the gathering of seekers of His Almighty, on land and in the ocean and even on other globes. With the Grace of Almighty Generous Amen! O' Cherisher of the Worlds!

1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is a creature who accepts the existence of many invisible things within objects, with the help of mediating tools and instruments, or by observing their activities. Such invisible things, for example, are the electric currents in electric wires or batteries, or the sound and pictures in the air, noticeable via radio and television . However, some unwise people and those who deny the Truth do not accept the existence of the Soul in the body.

2. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who accepts the storage of electricity in huge transformers and giant electric condensers, even though the electricity itself has no heaviness or lightness of any type which could be regarded as proof of its existence. There are still such deniers however who greatly deny the existence of the Soul in the body, even though the Soul’s existence and activities are settled in the body until the last instant of life. After its departure, the body, with all its former qualities such as youth, power, and beauty, becomes totally lifeless.

3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the vicegerent of Almighty God on the earth, according to the auspicious verse of "I will create a vicegerent57 on Earth" etc.58 However, blessed by his Soul, the discovering Intellect, and the Ego that may have ha ve reached the station of ‘At-Peace’, man's full dominance (statues of vicegerency 59) will indeed prevail over all material and spiritual things. 57

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4. Question: Who is man? What is the nobility nobility of man's Soul Soul over the other animates' Souls? Answer: This is an undeniable truth that the verse "I breathed something from My Holiness, called the Soul, into man " etc.,60 is clear evidence of the human spiritual superiority over animals in that Glorious God has ascribed man's Soul to Himself. Therefore, blessed by this Soul, and the nobility of Knowledge, man rules over all existents.

5. Question: Would you please clarify a bit more the the superiority of man's Soul! Answer: Sure! Man’s Soul at the beginning, in its natural state, can be equivalent to that of an angel's and of those residing in that station. After purification, however, it i t rises with the energy of the Ego' atom, 61 which is not available for the noblest of angels. Therefore, the Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, deigns the common faithful of mankind to be superior to those of the common of angels, and the noble faithful of mankind to be superior to the nobles of the angels.

6. Question: Are there there more stations of Soul? Soul? 62 Answer: Truly the Soul is at the level of Jaann  at birth. Thus, the angel associates with the

infant during its suckling period, when its body has not yet reached the proper physical stature of eye and ear, and the mental stature of alertness and a nd intellect. Most of these associations can be observed in both the asleep and awake states of the child, when he reacts to them with laughter or cries in his cradle. From here on, however, due to some families' bad education or a corrupt society, Ego may elevate; then Jaann  will be transformed into Human-Soul. 63 And if Ego keeps elevating, then

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(Al-Hajir, S.15, verse 29) Ego’s atom: The analogy is made with the rocket's ascension, where it needs a particular or at least a different fueling system than the regular airplanes travelling only within the earth's atmosphere. For the rocket to go beyond the earth's atmosphere, something more powerful pow erful or radioactive or probably something similar to atomic energy is needed. Similarly Soul, after a certain degree of ascension, needs the assistance of the at-Peace (Mutma'inna) Ego to head towards the Proximity of Glorious God, otherwise spiritually it always remains within the inferior world's atmosphere due to the impurities of the Enjoining-unto-Evil (Ammarah-bis-Soo) Ego and the Accusing (Lawwama) Ego. 62 The third and highest state of Soul 63 Human Soul (Rooh-e Insanee) The second and lower level of Soul 61

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the cloth of humanity; he is, however, ho wever, worse than wolves or other savage beasts, with all kinds of deceitful morals, hundreds of times more cunning. Even when this person knows that he will certainly be departing from this world toward the Permanent World, still, for his own comfort and pleasure, he makes efforts which cause distress to individuals or society. On the contrary, he does not pay enough attention to undertaking actions which are fully for the benefit of social welfare and for the purpose of Almighty God's Happiness, as recommended in the Islamic intact jurisprudence of the Holy Quran.

7. Question: If man's nobility is due to his his Soul, then why have animals, all of which have Soul, not had this nobility bestowed upon them? Answer: Man's nobility is not only due to his excellent Human-Soul, rather, it is due to his God-given exploring Intellect. We should, however, know so much that man's Soul is not of the same kind as that of animals, and it cannot remain in that form, unless he leans toward corruption in which case his Soul is called Animal-Soul or even worse; according to – 

"But they are more misguided and miserable than beasts, and they are heedless of

practicing upon the truths of the commands of the intact Quran of Islam ."65 Even though, in its complete form, the above verse is for identifying those signs, which describe the unaware believers of men and jinn, 66 we mention this portion of it as proof of what we have said before, and that is it.

8. Question: What is the difference between the Soul of mankind and the Soul of animals? Answer: To think of human Soul as similar to that of animal's psyche is a complete mistake, and it comes from narrow-mindedness. For further clarification, it would be appropriate to pay attention to the following example in order to compare the real value of man's Soul to that of animal. As you know, all mineral substances that have metallic properties are called metal. None, however, is as valuable as white and yellow gold.

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9. Question: Would Would you please give another example explaining the the difference between the Soul of mankind and animals! Answer: Likewise among the stones, other stones are not as precious, nor do they have such cherished qualities as turquoise, lapis, ruby, and garnet, even though apparently they are also stones, or from the same class and category of stones.

10. Question: Would you please give another example so that the value of the human being's Soul can be understood more clearly? Answer: Likewise, opium and its likeness are from the family of plants and grasses. Do other plants have the same qualities and values that they have? No, never! There is also a kind of plant observed along both the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers in North America which, as an animal touches it, sticks to the animal, and melts and digests the animal right away.

11. Question: Is it possible to give us one more example please? Answer: For thousands of years 67 there have been stars and planets, but they do not have the qualities and properties of the solar stars. 68 Rather, the properties of other firmaments' suns are much better, in their essence, than other stars, whereas they are apparently apparen tly all spherical, sometimes elliptical, or other forms. In the same way, the station of mankind's Soul and those of other animals is clear in the view of wise people.

12. Question: What is the ultimate frontier of man's growth? Answer: Man is a being who, while bearing limited physical growth, has unlimited growth of egotistical69 and/or spiritual powers. 70 The growth cycle for the egotistical and/or spiritual powers will continue even after death; in some cases it continues and strives towards perfection until the day of resurrection.

13. Question: What kind of people are these majestic ones whose inner perfection continues after death as well? Answer: They are those majesties who have insured the peace of God's creatures through the spreading of Monotheism, the establishment of justice, and other good deeds in the light 67

some new astronomers have estimated the age of the universe to be about twelve billion years, but there are always newborn stars, therefore, thousands may cover them all 68 all those stars which have similar properties as the sun 69 powers associated with Ego

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society; and they might have enlightened people, p eople, outwardly and inwardly, through excellent Islamic teachings. The founders and promoters of those Continuous Charities and Ongoing Reward 72 are granted their rewards to the extent that God may will, even after death, so long as their beneficial job lasts. It is given more especially to the doers and promoters of this kind of effort in the present age.

14. Question: Is there any equal punishment for the founder of evil customs? Answer: Corrupt actions and unlawful traditions harm individuals or society, instantaneously or in the long run. These actions may be imitated by successive generations. This, according to the verses of the holy Quran, is the proof of the evil-mindedness of people who originated or founded them, and the Hadith states the following about it -

“Whosoever introduces a good practice in Islam, there is for him its reward and the reward of those who act upon it after him, without anything being diminished from their own rewards [until the day of judgement]. And whosoever introduces an evil practice in Islam, will shoulder its responsibility and the responsibility of all those who will act upon it after him, without anything being diminished from their own responsibilities [until the day of judgement].” 73 Of course that person is responsible for the equivalent punishment of the number of his followers. So long as that evil custom lasts, the punishment of the founder keeps increasing and multiplying. The worst of the evil e vil customs ever to be established are, respectively, the denial of Almighty God, polytheism, and the like. This is actually categorized more accurately by the Islamic jurists.

COMMENT Now, you are informed about the inherent substance of the Soul and a portion of its authorities. Next, it is necessary to know why human beings, in particular Muslims, have not appropriately used this super power, possessing all kinds of authorities along with the

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battery of faith which man has had from birth. Hence, it has caused all this backwardness. In answer to this question, you must pay attention to the two main factors of this carelessness.

First: Since Satan is the obvious enemy of mankind, he is always trying to drive mankind from the right path into the dungeon of deviation. He does this through any means and methods. This is according to the commitment he has made and the oath taken in the Presence of Almighty God. "Satan said: I swear by Thy Greatness and Glory O! Almighty God! That I will

indeed make them all rebellious and violent. "74 Finally, Satan will either cause those actions and obediences of man, which could have taken him to God's Proximity to deteriorate, or he will deprave them in the form of discrete polytheism.75 If Satan succeeds, he will try to bring man into total denial of Almighty God's Existence. As we see, this corrupt and malicious immorality is intensifying in our age through the cooperators of Satan in a variety of ways and through different tools.

Second: On certain occasions, Soul has made the body impatient and aware of searching for the Gifts of the Permanent World. The Soul has roared in these occasions and has called up the person to search for Almighty God and the righteousness. Man is still not facing these wishes of the Soul. What is the reason? It is because, from the beginning, the person had not fortified his spiritual power. Ego, therefore, with the help of Satan, has used these opportunities to draw his attention, like that of a child, toward this perishing world, instead of making efforts to search for the pleasures of the Permanent World's favors. Finally, Ego and Satan try to deceive the person here and there by making use of whichever source, in any possible way. For this reason, capitalists and people of authority are somewhat uncomfortable, nostalgic, and more distressed. For gathering the worldly materials through unlawful ways is deluding man and the Muslim's spirituality. The fact was mentioned that man's Soul notifies him occasionally to search for the secrets of Proximity to His Presence and to seek the Favors of the Permanent World. This is 74

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due to Souls having seen that Place and those Favors at the beginning of the creation of Adam, peace be upon him. For this reason, man has distress in his inner 76 to prompt him to search for that Place and those Favors, but Satan, using this situation, draws man's attention to the fulfillment of the person's proper requirements of Ego. Namely, Satan makes a kind of parallel inversion and draws man's attention to worldly favors and pleasures. For example, instead of reaching for the Houris 77 and Palaces in the Everlasting Heavens, Satan will make man become obsessed with looking for women, building apartments, and possessing gardens in this world. But the difference is enormous. The person will still not find his heart's satisfaction from these worldly favors; that is, if he ever acquires them. Hereby, we will explain some of o f the spiritual characteristics of the Heavenly World, which have journeyed with man to this world. These qualities always create an inner discomfort for man to obtain them. Ego and Satan make a variety of uses out of these situations. They draw man's attention towards gathering worldly property and wealth through let alone legitimate as well as, often, illegitimate ways. By these means, Ego and Satan bring man under their control and domination. These kinds of people are namely human beings in appearance, but savage wolves in spirit.

Some of the Signs of the Heavens in Mankind 1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is a being who has a natural and inherent love of leadership, flying, and being on water. He like to ride rid e animals, such as horses, camels, and so forth, and to ride in vehicles, such as motorcycles, cars, airplanes, and the like. He is fond of a vast array of foods, drinks, and clothes. He is fond of music and songs. He covets huge gardens and orchards and has a penchant for the best and highest possible apartments and castles. He wishes to be everywhere with his spouse. Also he has a tendency to seek out different natural landscapes so that he might enjoy them as well. These, along with other inherently developed perceptions which are carried by him, are all transferred in essence to him from his father ancestor Adam, peace be upon him. The reason behind all this is that all future offspring of Adam, peace be upon him, existed in a special reservoir within Adam's body while he was in Paradise. They, too, were benefiting intention is something other than His Hi s Almighty's happiness, such as fame, authority, and other personal gains. 76 Baatin 77 Lady companions for the dwellers of Paradise

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from those pleasures and favors, some of which we will explain in the following examinations. At most, some of us have benefited more and some have benefited less.

2. Question: Why is man naturally naturally inclined inclined to all these pleasures? Answer: Because his first father, Adam, peace be upon him, was accustomed to and his attention was drawn to such perfect and free favors by Almighty God in Paradise. This was done at the beginning of his creation for the purpose of fortifying physical and spiritual instincts. The holy Quran and other heavenly books give a detailed explanation of this.

3. Question: Why is man suffering suffering from his fall and dismissal? Answer: While existing within Adam's loins, man had sensed his permanence, his everlasting life, and his imperishable real place in Paradise. He had also perceived his continuous domination and mastery over the vast area of Paradise as being everlasting and without any competitor. Therefore now, when he sees his annihilation and deposal, he is suffering, and it seems unpleasant to him.

4. Question: Why man gets concerned concerned about his weakness in everything, everything, especially aging and so forth? Answer: Because, in Paradise, he was not actually seeing in himself weaknesses in anything at all. Hoping for that permanence in this impermanent world, man subconsciously finds himself being tortured. Hence Soul feels discontented when intermixed with the Ego. However, if Soul is purified, then the difficulty will cease, because the Union of Friend to Friend is the release of the Soul from the mold. "Death is a bride uniting lover to beloved. " Hadith

5. Question: Why is man made content content by receiving service and submission submission from his own species? Answer: Because the elevation of his Ego puts him beside his complete authority over material things, to crave authority over people of his own social but lower lo wer class. This quality originates from Love of Leadership that is an inheritance of Paradise, where Adam and Eve, peace be upon them, were served by Ghulmaan, 78 but this quality has grown unfairly in most human beings under the influence of sensual desire and egotism.

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6. Question: Could Could you elucidate the previous question question a bit bit more? Answer: Basically, the young and handsome generations of the Holies 79 were busy serving Adam, peace be upon him, in Paradise. Pertaining to this nucleus, his children are also naturally interested in having this authority in receiving and giving service to the same species.

7. Question: What other additional additional secrets and and wisdom would be behind this? Answer: Some heedless and mean people of this world will have inferior positions in the Everlasting World, due to their nonsensical past deeds. Some of them will even beg to be among the servants and devotees of the noble people, because they would be saved from torture by the intercession of these noble people.

8. Question: Why does man want to use various various inner means, the effect of God's God's Names,80 the verses of the Holy Quran, and so forth, besides the physical tools and the power that he already has, in order for his commands and desires to be fulfilled and to miraculously acquire the things he wants? Answer: Because the commands of his ancestors Adam and Eve, peace be upon them, were carried out not just by the paradise Houris and Ghulman and other Cherubim, but also, by using some secrets of God's Names. At the moment that the Heart longed for something in Paradise, that thing was instantaneously i nstantaneously within their grasp due to the blessings of reciting God's names.

9. Question: Why does man want his his commands to be executed as influentially influentially and promptly as possible? Answer: Because the commands of his ancestor Adam, peace be upon him, were enforced and possible to be fulfilled immediately. Having inherited this attribute, man pays as much attention to the execution of his desires d esires as to their fulfillment. Also relating to his nature according to -

"man is created in haste, namely having qualities such as rashness and quickness" 81 man, by essence, is rushed in action. The wise ones, by knowing and observing all aspects of their affairs, may pay special attention and become practically superior.

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Answer: Because one of the most manifest ornaments from every viewpoint and everywhere is Paradise, besides the excellent secrets and wisdom behind the utilization way of things, is the decoration of things with colors and fascinations. Meanwhile, these colors shift through spectrums, are shiny and completely alive.

11. Question: What is the effect of human beings being in the loins of Adam, peace be upon him, as sperms 82 in Paradise upon their arrival into this world? Answer: Man is also now enjoying the excellent human morals as an effect of that fortune, provided he has equipped himself with the necessary purification of Heart and cleansing of Ego. Some of the clean-spirit believers demand the virtues of the Everlasting World and the Nearness of Him Almighty Unique Being in return for the acquisition of this nobility. They also want to succeed in fulfilling their wishes by mastering the secrets the Names of His Holiness, the Lord of Might and Glory. On the other hand however, there are those sensual people who, according to that inherited taste, put all their efforts into illegitimate means of obtaining property, position, and the best lodging for the comfort of Ego. Otherwise, man, similar to other mammals, should have been disinterested in acquiring all these pleasures.

12. Question: How would this command 83 on God's Names be possible for man? Answer: In two ways! First: Man may follow his Ego and a nd the seduction of Satan, while getting access to God's Names, then he, as a consequence, moves away from Theism and makes an effort in annoying people solely for his own benefit. He becomes dependent on magic. Through illegitimate and illegal actions a person may complete some prayers, and as a result, he succeeds in mastering the methods of magic. In the long run, the future of this kind of people will become darker and darker, because of the disloyalties they committed and are still committing.

13. Question: Would you please explain the second, correct way? Answer: The second part of this command revolves re volves around the Theism. The first step toward this Insight can be acquired through observing the handiwork and creatures of His

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Almighty such that, one observes the Magnificence and Performance of His Almighty Unique Artificer in each work. This is called Material Sightseeing. 84

"Almighty God intends every facility for you; He does not want you to be entangled in unbearable difficulties" etc.85 Of course there is Spiritual Sightseeing 86 as well. They shall keep up with piety, cleanse the Ego, and purify the Heart; and subsequently pay attention to the secrets in the recitation of God's Name and His Word, and should remain persistent. Finally, they will attain different ranks respectively, for observing the Sacred World. They will be the discoverers of the Fourth Dimension and the owners of true authorities in the World of Spirits. 87 They will be resurrected in the category of God's great Saints 88 and higher, on the Day of Judgement. You will find detailed discussion of this issue, with God's help, in the Epistle: "Analysis of  Man's Atom". The Qur’an has also dealt briefly with it, and it refers to the term “to reach  89 Notional Certainty and to reach Tangible Certainty.” 

14. Question: What is Material Sightseeing? 90 Answer: The observation of things in one's surroundings and the discovery of the hidden secrets put therein by the Almighty Artificer and their ways of utilization, is called Material Sightseeing.91 On the contrary, however, man has not known or pondered on his own self. Therefore, his Spiritual Sightseeing is not complete.

COMMENT! Through the aforementioned questions and answer, it is fundamentally clear, that there is an excellent worth in humanity, much higher than what man sees in a portion of possessions in matter. This truth becomes revealed to man, when the powers of Faith and Soul in him are improved toward the state of excellence. In other words, man prevails over most of the secrets of the three dimensional or material world through his exploring Intellect. In the same way, by means of Soul and the fortification of Soul, man can rapidly discover and know the mysteries of 84

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truths about the secrets of the Forth Dimension or the present visible and invisible world and all living creatures, and also the Heavens and Hell(s), and the rest of that Everlasting and Permanent World. He could even observe the aforementioned truths either in brief or in detail, according to his capacity.

When will this special grace be available to man?

It is an appropriate question. In response, we must say that man has never dominated anything unless his knowledge has first explored that thing. Therefore, you should deeply study the topics of this Epistle and all the Epistles containing the key to the secrets of the Forth Dimension, which are sent to me, so that you may understand, with God's help, what you have been looking for. You can use the help of this school's teachers in solving problems concerning the aforementioned issues. Pay close attention to the following chapter dealing with Devils where they, by using the desires of Ego, have increased man's mindlessness and heedlessness. Let us hope to attain the help and conquest of Almighty God as soon as possible.

What did we do that We did not Experience? (Heedlessness) (Heedlessness) 1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has explored the atom of the objects and has made enormous uses of it in various things. Unfortunately, he has not worked on analyzing the atom of his body and Soul, and he has not made excellent uses therefrom to benefit the contemporary generation and to acquire the Insight into His Almighty Lord.

2. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has derived such various rays as laser, ultra-violet, and xrays, etc., from the analysis of light. Unfortunately, however, he has not gotten at all to an analysis of the Soul and its effects. Through the rays of Soul, human beings can see in every detail, not only the entire world, but also the truth of the Forth Dimension, and on occasion the absolute Countenance of Glorious God.

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Answer: Man is the being who has explored the oceans and has built dams and canals in order to dominate and make proper use of them. As for the enormous flood of spiritual powers in himself and in his fellow-creatures however, he has not built any dams except for some political containments, and that based on Ego.

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, due to natural greed emanating from the essence of Ego, makes efforts to secure the few remaining days of his future life in an ideal manner and to gather provisions for that time. He even collects and arranges savings, and reserves for that purpose, through legitimate and illegitimate means. This wealth will pass onto his children and grandchildren and so forth. But most of them do not pay enough attention and do not make the necessary efforts for their everlasting and excellent life in the Presence of Almighty Lord in Paradise.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has been able to grasp the radiated effects of Soul, through the five apparent bodily senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. But he has not understood that the essence of Soul may be in possession of such feelings and masteries, thousands of times stronger. Likewise, the Creator of all these powers also possesses such particular secrets, much higher than what is seen and understood. We are incapable of perceiving them.

"Truly, the water of the oceans will be used up (used as ink) before the secrets of things created by Almighty God, are explained" etc.92 6. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who well knows and sees that he is facing the good and evil contentions in his affairs. He is even involved in the struggle himself. However, he never n ever tries to identify the motivating forces of these two agents. He does not make any effort to find out about the truth of this nuisance so that he might find relief.

7. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being under whose authority animals and even machines have to move, but he himself moves under the influence of invisible forces of Soul and Ego, or

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Satan or sometimes Angel. Regarding Angels, man still does not try to strengthen those angelic inspirations. 93

8. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the creature who admits that each animate object and even some inanimate objects have inward and outward mysteries and states, and that they perceive objects through their outward mysteries of these senses. However, he has h as rarely paid any attention as to what perceptions may be acquired through the inner feelings. In fact, the attention he has paid to this is virtually zero.

9. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who enjoys seeing the united social life of all animals, and due to his inherited qualities, he regards it to be efficient. However, he does not have a tendency for securing a social order, which might benefit all humanity in general. Rather, he is trying to further increase the distance between the offspring of mankind. It is the society of believers and the followers of the School of the intact Quran of Islam, which will, with the Grace and Help of Glorious God, take practical steps to secure this wish.

COMMENT! First Stage: At the end, once again, your attention will be deeply drawn to the fact that Soul, and spirituality, with their negative and positive impacts, each has in its essence, exclusive qualities and particular secrets. This means that, the lower l ower the spiritual power goes in a human being, the weaker and weaker angelic inspirations become to him. Such effects can be seen clearly in people. A person may seem to be very delightful verbally and optimistic to all proposals, though in practice nothing comes from him but absolute refusal. The two involved parties realize from the beginning that the person is making flattering overtures simply to make the other side happy while, in his heart, he has no true interest in joining and helping. The other side realizes that the person is not ready to take on the smallest difficulty for his sake and, even if the person were ready, he would have no success in his physical practice of it.

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Second Stage: In this kind of society, no matter how high the standards of living reach r each or how much comfort is accessible to the public, peace of heart sill does not exist in the society. On the contrary, each individual feels some kind of fear and restlessness within himself. In fact, this is an indication of the prevalence of Soul's pressure on the body warning the person of the wrong path that he has chosen to follow. Therefore, some kind of grievous depression makes the person worry and feel sad, without giving the cause. Right there, Satan perceives the situation. Using this opportunity, Satan chooses one of two ways to instantaneously make some arrangements. In the first way, Satan tries to keep the person busy with singing songs or melodies, or with illegalities and this or that story. Utmost, he gets the person to hum or whistle a song. In the second way, if the person is alone, then Satan, by presenting the index of the Mental Files94 into the Heart and Brain, one after the other, tries to bring on sensual, grievous, or worrisome matters and thereby to keep the person busy. These are all signs of the Soul's distress and the effect of the Heart's discomfort in a person, due to his paying attention to corrupt inhuman matters.

The Characteristics and States of Soul in Man's Outer and Inner 1. Question: How do do the inward inward or spiritual spiritual characteristics of of man differ with those of the animals? Answer: Modesty95 and shame are two special agents in man. At certain times and specific locations he does not engage in things mostly enjoyable to him; out of modesty, he refrains. This brief explanation may not well clarify the truth of this characteristic.

2. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has excellent outward and inward serenity. Modesty and shame are two of those excellent spiritual qualities of man. Whenever he is overcome by his sensual and egoistic instincts and tends toward committing some action prohibited in civil, religious, or family rules, at that time, if someone aware of the rule arrives and sees him, then compliantly, he feels as intense inward discomfort out of shame.

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3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who inwardly appears to be up to twenty, thirty, one hundred or more times greater than he is, in that he has developed himself from the perspective of Soul or Ego. But Rumi 96 says from the standpoint of wise people, angels and devils

Couplet: "The body is not veiled from the Soul, and the Soul from the body But Soul remains veiled from everyone."

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the only being who sees a part of his visual and spiritual life experiences in dreams in a very real manner. Afterwards, he can relate all or a part of it to his other fellows while he is awake. Why does he not ponder? Why and how does this situation come about? Sure! This is proof of the truth concerning the substance of man's imperfect Soul.

5. Question: Basically, Basically, what kind of invisible power power does man possess? Answer: Man is the being who is always busy with himself and his surroundings, voluntarily and involuntarily between the two good and evil broadcasting stations. He will be consequently drawn to the one, which prevails over the other.

6. Question: How then, then, can man reach a superior superior station and in what cases does does he fall to an inferior station. Answer: By following the Ego, should man tend to lean toward extreme lowliness and meanness, he is outwardly a human being but inwardly a very deceitful and fraudulent beast. By taking advantage of humanity's position, he makes harmful exploitations, because his Soul has descended to the level of Animal-Soul 97 with the only difference being the availability of chance for people still in this situation to return to Almighty God. By making efforts, they could still reach the perfect and true human position or rank. Also, on the opposite side, as long as his Soul has not reached the position of Jaann 98 and his Ego the position of At-Peace, 99 then there exists a 25 - 30 % probability that he may go astray. 95

haya Mawlana Jalaludin Balkhy (or Rumi): the very famous Afghan religious scholar of the seventh century A.H. (Islamic calendar); Mathnawi is one of his famous books. 97 Rooh-e Haywanee: the third lowest rank of Soul 98 the third and highest rank of the Soul 99 Mutma'inna 96

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7. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being whose inner greatness can oftentimes be seen, neither by himself nor by others, whether it be from the viewpoint of Ego or from the viewpoint of Soul's purity. However, everyone can see his outer greatness resulting from some mastery in the areas of knowledge, wealth, power, and false or true fame, which are all perishable in the end.

8. Question: What What are some other excellent human human spiritual spiritual attributes? Answer: Due to his sound intellect, man often does not respond with actual force like other animals in case he is defending himself. He deliberates, just in case the opposite side is stronger than him from any viewpoint which might endanger his life. Whenever he finds himself weak and feeble in front of an attacker, then he starts to make use of other methods, such as insisting importunately, i mportunately, or using spiritual defense as a means to try to win the attacker's tenderheartedness.

9. Question: Could you you illustrate illustrate this a bit more? Answer: Certainly! Sound people not only feel the physical or spiritual harm that is done to others, but they dislike any attack on people's peop le's property and honor as a s well. In such cases, the experienced ones respond with patience and the hasty ones with immediate defense.

10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, due to his ambitious instinct for authority and domination over other living creatures, does not attack and disturb them, finding them weaker than himself or seeing himself in a position of authority over them. On the other hand, if he finds them to be his rival, then he tries by any possible means to defeat and subdue them.

11. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being possessing the intelligence bestowed upon him by Almighty God. He makes use and skillful things out of this intelligence to whatever extent he wants, in good and bad affairs.

12. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who quite clearly displays his contentment with laughter and his sorrow with tears.

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13. Question: What privileges do these skills and authorities prove for him? Answer: He is just showing examples and declaring evidence of his excellent intelligence and qualities granted to him by Almighty God, which he possesses quantitatively and qualitatively above all other existents.

14. Question: Why are all other beings except man created in a horizontal form? Answer: So that their heads may reach the ground as quickly as possible for the purpose of eating and drinking. Therefore, they are deprived of spiritual ascent.

15. Question: Why, on the contrary, is man the only one among living creatures on the earth to have been created in an upright shape? Answer: The perception of this secret is related to the fact that if man's spiritual powers ascend, he will go directly to the Highest-of-High. 100 And if, on the contrary, Ego should prevail over him, then he will go down to the Lowest-of-Low. 101

16. Question: What inner aspect is this Ascent and Descent a result of? Answer: The Soul is from the Presence of the Glorious Supreme Being, it manifests itself in the form of life in the body, and knowledge is represented by intellect in the body. Both Soul and Intellect have been entrusted to man's body from the Sacred World. Likewise, Ego, which is the essence of our malicious world, inferior world, or the earth, is also instilled in man's body. Therefore, each of these factors is trying to reunite with its origin. This means that, if Soul is fortified, then the person will directly ascend to the Highest-of-High; and if the Ego should prevail, then it will take man down to the Lowest-of-Low.

17. Question: Where would man's abode be, if the states of Soul and Ego were equal in him? Answer: The main purpose of all these life scenarios is actually to be tested and consequently to acquire Insight into Glorious Him. It is to find and perceive the Greatness, Glory and Perfection of the Creator of the earth and sky. It is to accept with complete faith, all the rest of the hidden and exposed things as proof of His Almighty's unique Perfection

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and Magnificence; and to recognize Him as without opposition or likeness. These are some of the methods of establishing the relationship with Him Almighty. The sign of the establishment of this relationship is such that, the owners of this fortune benefit God's creatures, always and everywhere, for the sake of His happiness, without thinking of any personal gain. Almighty God has bestowed upon us the entire honor, favors, gifts, kindness, and compassion from the beginning of the creation. Therefore, according to this criterion, if a guilty or disobedient person is not saved from the torture by a particle of faith through the intercession of some pious servant of God, then the person will taste the torture for a limited time in Hell. Afterwards, for the sake of his original faith, he will be taken out of Hell and placed in his abode in a Paradise or in the Ismuth.

18. Question: Will this intercession for the guilty people be accepted only from the elite human beings? Answer: No! If a person has made the hearts of a fellow human being or of some other living creatures happy by fulfilling their desires and hopes when they were facing a disaster, then he will be saved by that creature's good prayer, as well. Likewise, if the person did a favor for a harmless animal or a small animate such as an ant, and he has saved it; then he will be pardoned by the Glorious Gracious, Great, Almighty God, through the intercession of that living creature.

19. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who will indeed win the Everlasting World and gain a good reputation among people, if he spends the whole of his worldly capital on the happiness of the Almighty God and his Unique Almighty Artificer, for the purpose of peace for God's creatures in the light of Theism. This fortune is the result of fortification of the battery of faith and the spiritual powers. On the contrary, if this capital is spent to fulfill the desires of Ego and other immoralities, then woe be to him, he will be questioned in the Presence of Almighty God, the Beneficent of all favors, and the oppressed children of mankind, about all these bestowed favors and gifts.

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What They See In the Computer of the Heart Undoubtedly, you have gained a certain knowledge thus far from the study of these collections of secrets of the holy Qur’an and a nd the Hadith. Hence, I believe the clean-hearted faithful religious scholars have well perceived as to what these collections of meaningful and enlightening secrets under the different titles of o f Monotheism are. Who can obtain these secrets? And what has been the purpose of man's creation? They have certainly clearly understood all the aforementioned issues, and the fact that Almighty God with His Grace wants to spread this fortune theoretically and practically in the simplest of ways. But, unfortunately, man has gone astray quite often. Where has he gone? Why has he deviated from the right path? This leaning gives him nothing but damage. "But their businesses are profitless and they have lost true direction. "102

In this situation, they will certainly achieve nothing, but they still go and search, they will even run. A minority will return. Where does the cause of all this ignorance and heedlessness in mankind emanate from, and why has it absorbed mankind so much into it? These are all appropriate questions. After excessive pondering, the divers into the ocean of hope and forgiveness of His Praiseworthy and Noble Almighty God, have fully obtained these mysterious truths and enlightening fresh pearls, and they have handed them to us. Truly, we succeed to eradicate a disease or calamity only when we have ha ve theoretically understood it in depth from every viewpoint and have diagnosed it. Therefore, physicians fully study the specifications and symptoms of diseases and the modes and circumstances of the patient before issuing prescriptions. Sometimes, they even do laboratory labo ratory tests such as testing urine, feces, blood, or saliva in order to diagnose the disease, the kind of microbe, and the location of the pain as best as possible. These preliminary steps shorten the path to find the disease and to eradicate it. Likewise, we wish to cure and fight the spiritual diseases as soon as possible, with the help of Almighty God and the cooperation of sincere companions, to transform this abode of land and sea to a free garden ready for enjoyment and a true peaceful abode of all mankind for the sake of humanity's life, so that they may therein live happily with no trouble an no difficulty. This hope can materialize and this truth can be proven, once we know where the source of all

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the wickedness and cannibalism have originated from, and how they have overcome and defeated us. Hereby, with the help of Almighty God, we have put at your access the materials demonstrating these secrets one after the other, so that you may deeply, faithfully and ambitiously study them. You should practice accordingly as far as your understanding leads you, and control your deeds and words therewith. At the end, you may become a knowledgeable person and a dynamic d ynamic Muslim in your society, and proceed towards activities. Fortunately, the Holy Quran and the Orphan Messenger, Muhammad, peace be upon him, have clearly entrusted us with the key to these secrets, they state as follows:

“…There is a piece of flesh in the body. If it is purified, then the whole body becomes sound; if it is perverted then the whole w hole body will go to corruption and perversion. Be informed and aware that this piece of flesh is the Heart.” 103

Hence, taking each other’s hand, we pass through the garden of the Heart and glimpse this computer’s secrets. This can be of much use to us in becoming more successful than ever before at correcting and improving our behaviors.

Conditions of the Heart (Qalb) and Its Secrets 1. Question: What What does Qalb (Heart) mean and what is it? Answer: It means "Driven Force" towards Soul or Ego, or good or evil. It is a conical-shaped piece of flesh in the body. Outwardly its task is the pumping of blood and inwardly it is the computer of the whole body. If it is purified, the whole body is improved, and if it is corrupted then the whole body is perverted.

2. Question: What special position has the existence of of the Heart taken in man and in the world? Answer: There is a need for mirrors in a house and the need for televisions in the country to help mankind see things. Likewise in man's body, the Heart, with its special mirror, can possibly serve man in better determining the nature and the methods of utilization of all things.

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Answer: The heart possesses billions of cells. Every few rows of the cells are allocated for the perception of specific states. For example, the perception of lust, and the inspection of truths and perversions and other diseases are a part of the signs of the heart's cells. The Holy Quran talks about them in several places. "They have Hearts wherewith they understand not " etc.104 [the Knowledge of the Heart]

"Indeed, it is not the eyes that grow blind, but it is the Hearts, which are within the

bosoms, that grow blind "105 [Sight of the Heart] "In their Hearts is a disease " etc.106

4. Question: How could could all these these properties be contained in the Heart, whereas it seems to be a piece of flesh? Answer: The tongue is a piece of flesh, as well, but each part of it is specified to feel particular tastes. For example, the tip of the tongue is fixed for sweetness, its sides for sourness, its end for bitterness, and it has other partitions as well. Likewise, the Heart has its separate Nuclei for the perception of things. The same way, the brain is one piece but, through the Grace of Almighty God, each part of it is arranged for conservation and perception of specific matters of our five senses.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who knows that a piece of textile, a handkerchief, or a scarf is composed of millions of cotton or woolen fibers. Unfortunately, however, he has not perceived that man's body also consists of trillions of cells of distinctive specifications, quality, and mysteries. Each cell, especially those of the Heart and Brain, has exclusive qualities and secrets.

6. Question: How would the nature nature of the Heart be illustrated illustrated in man's body?

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Answer: Man's Heart serves as a transmitter and receiver from person to person and from servant to Glorious God.

7. Question: where are the locations of Soul and Ego in the heart? Answer: The station of Soul and its center of junction in the body are based on two poles. First: The Brain Second: The Heart Likewise, the location for the Ego has been fixed on the lowest part of the Heart.

8. Question: How could the relationship between the Heart and the Brain in the body be exemplified? Answer: The specific cells of the Heart can be compared to the telephone equipment in each office, and the Brain as the network connecting them all. This means that if a cell of distinctive property appears to be more inflamed, then, Satan, by magic, dials the particular number of that cell. When that particular number is dialed, then the corresponding matters of that cell will automatically appear in the Brain's archive.

9. Question: Would you please explain it a bit more? Answer: For example, someone has excessive affection for a person or an object. Therefore, one or more cells in the corresponding Cells of Affection are filled with that person's look, or talk, etc. Satan reads something of the magic into these cells. As soon as the necessary level is reached, then the corresponding affectionate occurrences will automatically open up in the Brain's cells. Satan studies those occurrences, and will presently link and relate magic scenes one after the other in the person's imagination. This way, Satan keeps man busy.

10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who recognizes the brain as having particular departments for the conservation of the five senses along with maintaining other levels of determination, distinction of ideas, and attention to things, whereas, it seems to be made of a doughy mass of soft white and gray matter, pieces glued onto one another. Man is not astonished by this composition of cells sticking to one other, but each part undertakes a different and particular task. Correspondingly, Heart’s cells have exclusive properties, though the Heart appears to consist of a single piece of flesh.

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Not Acting upon the Secrets of the Heart, What did we do? Heedlessness 1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has found paths for himself on the mountain-peaks and he has reached their summits. Unfortunately, however, he has not succeeded in installing a domination flag and a sound symbolic of the City of the Heart on the Small Hill of the Ego.

2. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has exhaustively exploited the heart of peaky and firmly founded mountains. He has exploited the minerals and secrets of these mountains. Unfortunately, however, he has not explored the Mines of Insight into God and the Mines of Peace from the bottom of his Heart, due to the barrier of the Ego. He has not used them in constructing the mechanisms of the inner secrecies for the comfort of his own and all other creatures of Almighty God.

3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has built the underground subways on this huge planet of soil for facilitating traffic. Unfortunately, however, he has not been able to dig out the smallest chink into the Hill of the Ego by means of the Heart to let the secrets of the Sacred World cross towards the Fourth Dimension. Most have not even known it.

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has built mirrors so that he may see his face and all objects exactly as they appear. Unfortunately, only a few people have been able to make the necessary and great use of the Heart's mirror to observe the exposed and hidden things, and the rest have not.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who sees pictures and faces by means of television, from behind intervening veils such as stony and concrete walls etc. He understands and accepts this energy and its power to pass through solid matter, but he denies and is unaware of the vision of the Heart's "television." There are others who deny it altogether.

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Answer: Man is the being who has made it possible to obtain may kinds of grains from the earth's soil, and pearls from the earth's oceans. He has brought them under his control. Unfortunately he has not been able to glean the most useful smallest grain of luminosity 107 or pearl of secrecy 108 from the heart. Rather, Satan and Ego have cultivated poisonous grains of spiritual disease, malicious desire, parsimony, jealousy and grudge in the heart, and thereby they have managed to defeat man.

7. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has used the very intense heat created from the nuclear fission process taking place in various nuclear reactors to produce electricity. Unfortunately he has not been able to utilize the inner heat of the heart (Love) for any more than blood circulation, and he has not been able to make the penetration of love's relationship with the Almighty Creator flow in the heart. If he could, then he might observe the Everlasting World and the Presence of the Creator of this entire earth and skies, and so on, which has been rationally understood by few people; not even heard by any ear and not seen by any eye. Praise be to God, that You may grant it bestowingly O! Glorious God, through this humblest servant and all assistants and the elite ones, to us and all believers and the contemporary generation! Amen, O! Cherisher of the Worlds!

8. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has built electric stations by making use of natural and artificial magnets. He has obtained thousands of kilowatts of electricity for illumination and heating. However, he has not been able to acquire the absorbing light, out of the process of organizing his material and perishing life, so that he might obtain the Presence of the Glorious Artificer and Nearness of His Almighty through the special enlightenment of the Heart.

9. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who builds computers with amazing specialties and capabilities out of wires, electronic chips, metals and so forth. Unfortunately, however, he has not made any use of his Heart's computer. Rather, it is almost that he paralyzes or o r puts this computer

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out of order, or transforms it to a tool specified for mischief to the advantage of Satan and disadvantage of his own fellow human beings.

10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has managed without restraint to comfortably transport thousands of tons of shiploads over the sea, so that even his soles did not get wet. However, he has not been able to cause the Ship of the Heart to reach the shore of the Soul over his small Pond of the Ego.

11. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has been able to save his shiploads of this perishing world's materials from the natural violent storms of the ocean. Unfortunately, most people have not been able to navigate the Ship of the Heart that carries the loads of the Everlasting World's secrets, out of the colliding waves of the small Pond of the Ego. Hereby, they consciously have entrusted and are entrusting it themselves to a drowning lake of annihilation under the anchor and guidance of Satan.

12. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who did reach the deep bottom of the oceans with the submarine. From there, he has obtained the scarce pearls and gems and has made it possible to benefit from their resources. Unfortunately, he has not been able to obtain the pearl and coral enriched by the Proximity of His Almighty Compassionate and Beneficent, from the bottom of the Heart, due to the barriers of the Ego . Man could have insured a simple, fully sound, and essential world for himself and all the children of humanity.

Us and Vigilance, Ego and Deceitfulness Deceitfulness After perceiving the true capabilities of man, a portion of which you just studied, we believe that you might be deeply surprised as to why man, who possesses all this intelligence and efficiency, is still committing suicide and genocide, and is still busy warring on the battlefields. Truly, all seditions are due to Ego. The Ego is their main source. Hence, it has caused individual and social discomforts. Mankind must wake up and hurry to stop it with the help of Almighty God, especially in these critical times when the East and the West are facing the wild

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flames of fire (atomic bombs or other world destructive bombs of hydrogen etc.,) from impious people. We must give deep thought to this issue. If the faithful enlightened ones and the true humanistic people do not focus as soon as possible on controlling this violent fire of Ego and Lust, then certainly this calamity will sooner or later plunge humanity into the dragon's throat of annihilation, and humanity will pass to the world of gloom and flames. This is a warning. Could you carefully observe the human losses by man himself for his egoistic purposes, and other crimes and plundering committed by him? There, you clearly observe that the fratricides committed by this being are incomparably greater than all the human loss caused by reptiles and wild animals from the beginning of time up until to today. If we were only to take the statistics of all the people killed in the twentieth century or the Nuclear Age, or World War Two, it will not turn out to be half or even an equal amount, but many times greater, compared to the human loss caused by his enemies, such as snakes, scorpions, wolves, lions, tigers, and even by natural catastrophes such as storms, floods, earthquakes, and so forth. Why did those ones then, claiming to have reached the truth, not halt these genocides? Why did they not establish schools promoting peace and soundness, and why did they not organize scholastic programs, which could have saved man from these fratricides? These are awakening questions. Thereby, you clearly understand that man has focused on studying and paid attention to everything except himself! He has researched everything except his own self. He has succeeded in controlling rebellious oceans and mountains, but not in controlling himself! Likewise, there are many other questions. Thus, we will, with the assistance of Almighty God, inform you knowledgeably, through the latest and simplest systems according to the teachings of the intact Qur’an, about a brief Analysis of the human body, to understand how to control mankind. In the following pages, we will make you aware of some truths concerning the Ego.

Ego and Its Plans 1. Question: What is Ego?

Answer: Ego is the Essence or the extract of the villainous world. It appears in three 109 major forms in man's body.

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2. Question: How is Ego proven to be the Essence of the earth?

Answer: You know that the "essence" is actually the original matter or the extract of something containing all that thing’s constituent properties. To prove that Ego has the essence property in the body, it would be enough to say that, whatever is growing from the earth and is useful, man is, in some possible ways, inclined toward it. He utilizes it, even though it could be fatal poison like opium, bitter like tobacco, or hot like pepper.

3. Question: Do animals have the properties of utilizing most things as well?

Answer: It is an error if animals are meant to include all living creatures. Consider, for instance, that fish are not in need for straw or other growing plants on the earth. Likewise, most birds do not eat meat, and most animals do not feel like eating fruits and vegetables.

4. Question: Would you please explain the above question a bit more?

Answer: Since the animals of each globe are dependent on the properties of the greatest creature among them on their globe or firmament, and, therefore, on Earth, the animals on land and in the seas have to participate in some way in consuming some of the food and drink consumed by their globe's noble one (man), so that man may show some tendency to make use of these animals. For all these animals are created for man, and man is created for acquiring insight into and getting acquainted with the Creator of this entire hidden and exposed world. So that, by means of Remembrance, 110 Observation of the Exhibition, 111 Humbleness, Thanksgiving, and Serving God's creatures, man may establish a relationship with his Creator.

5. Question: How does Ego pass through stages?

Answer: Basically, Ego in a newborn child is in the stage of Ego-at-Peace. Due to corruption, if it exist in the living environment or family of the child, the child's Ego will gradually downgrade to the Accusing Ego. If the corruption still increases, then the Ego further downgrades to Enjoining-unto-Evil. We have written a separate Epistle on this issue.

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6. Question: To what is this ascent and descent of Ego due? Answer: Since Soul and Intellect, the signs of which in the body, are life and knowledge, have been entrusted to this box of the body from the Sacred World; and likewise, the Ego, which is the essence of the inferior would or the planet Earth, is instilled in the body, therefore, each one is trying to prevail over the other and to unite the person to its own origin. In other words, Soul is trying to unite with the Sacred World or the Fourth Dimension, while Ego is trying through illegitimate means to get access to worldly pleasures, and to consequently fully submerge in this perishing world.

7. Question: Where would a person's abode be if his Ego and Soul were at equal levels? Answer: The main purpose for presenting these scenes is for firmly orienting oneself, either towards Glorious God, or the world. Ultimately, to obtain proximity with the Creator of the earth and the sky, by means of faithfully observing these hidden and exposed things and to recognize Him Almighty as Unique and as having no partner and no similitude. Almighty God has freely bestowed upon us all honor, favors, gifts, kindness, and compassion from the beginning of Creation. According to this criterion, He Almighty wants to resettle each individual human being after the test of life, in one of the abodes—Heavens or Hell(s). Therefore, the human body is placed between the two oppositions and the person is subject to conflagrations. With the equality of the states of Soul and Ego, however, the double or manifold divine rewards for goodness and charitable deeds are the cause of Ego reaching salvation.

8. Question: How long will the test of life last, and when will its result become available?

Answer: Man is subjected to the conflagrations of Soul and Ego, and the good angelic inspirations and the evil satanic temptations. He is caught in this situation from the beginning of puberty, as mandatory, according to religious law, and before that optionally according to recommended religious precepts. 112 Meanwhile the Honorable Angel Recorders113 are with him recording his words and deeds, with their well-ordered cameras and cassette players, so to speak. As soon as the appointed instant for death arrives, the Soul will instantaneously be faced with the projection of one of the places, the favors of the Heavens or the torture of Hell. This is called the minor resurrection. Of course, after the gathering on major resurrection in reality, the people of good deeds will be permanently settled in all those favors and enjoyments of the Heavens, and the people of evil deeds in 112

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the distresses of Hell.

9. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being on whom, in order to stop any fortification of spiritual power, but to strengthen egotistic powers, Satan, seizing the opportunity, with the cooperation of Ego, has created hundreds of obstacles and barriers. b arriers. According to each person's capacity, Satan has created strong walls at the start, to the advantage of Satan and those coming after Satan, by creating the bad habit. Only a few people, however, have noticed it; those who have noticed have not found any means to cure it.

10. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.

11. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who well knows and sees himself always being involved or even entangled in the conflicts of good and evil deeds. Who are the motive forces of these two agents? He does not pay attention to this.

12. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who possesses the intelligence bestowed upon him by Almighty God. He makes use and skillful things out of this intelligence to whatever extent he wants, in good and bad affairs.

13. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being whose will dominates the motion of domestic animals and even machines, but he himself often moves under the reign of the invisible forces of Soul or Ego, or Satan or Angel.

14. Question: Is it possible for man to live without outward and egoistic restrictions?

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on the hidden desires of Ego for the aggressors.

COMMENT Before beginning the discussion on the heedlessness of the Ego, as you have noticed, you briefly studied the nature of Ego and the attainment of its different stages. Consequently, you might have drawn the conclusion that, in such cases, the Ego has to be something completely harmful and designed for the absolute destruction of man. No never! The truth is that the existence of Ego has been created fully for the improvement of man's material, spiritual, perishable, and everlasting life. For, if Ego did not exist, then how could the lack of bodily molecules be felt?

Likewise, if Ego becomes Ego-at-Peace, like atomic energy, it will serve man in many ways in the rise of the Soul up to the proximity of His Almighty Presence. Or, in other words, Ego can be a tool of both man's nearness or remoteness to Almighty God. Namely, if Ego is purified, it will cause the faithful to be successful in both worlds; if it becomes corrupt, then the person will be disgraced in both worlds. Some people might use their agility, and try, through imposture and cleverness, to portray their bad actions as good in this world, but how could they ever be set even this much free from the Presence of the Great and AllKnowing Glorious God.

In summary, if we imagine the Ego as fertilizer, it is the cause of growth of Soul's tree. If the fertilizer is in abundance the tree will die or will get extremely weak. This is the simplest illustration to understand the position of the Ego in man's body.

If these Things had Happened, What Things would not have Happened? 1. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

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Answer: Man is the being who has created instruments such as steering wheels, breaks, switches and the like in order to control kinetic tools, but for the control of his Ego, he has not built any kind of efficient and sufficient tools. He has not even noticed it.

3. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has drawn out the mines of petroleum and gas and the like from the earth's core but, unfortunately, he has not been able to draw out corrupt selfishness from the Ego.

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has made various kinds of fruitful and unfruitful trees grow on this soiled earth, and in one way or another, he has succeeded in obtaining their useful productions. But in spite of the existence of the enriched springs and rivers of the Satisfied Ego, the Satisfactory Ego 115, and the Ego at-Peace, or at least, the Accusing Ego, he has often not succeeded in obtaining and gathering the least bit of outcome therefrom for the Heart, or for his vast world, for the sake of the Everlasting World.

5. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is a being who has removed from his path great obstacles, such as giant mountains, or he has made holes in them. He has left, however, the insignificant obstacle of his Ego. He did not remove it; on the contrary, some men did not understand it, and some others fortified it or let it get stronger and stronger. They are even calling the strong cooperators of the Ego to help them in this way.

6. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has subdued or defeated the elephant, the camel, the horse, and many other weak and strong animals. Unfortunately, however, he has not been able to subdue his Ego or at least, to defeat it.

7. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who often traps wild animals and all that in order to eat them, but he himself is caught in the trap of the Ego and the jinni- and human-Devils 116 until his departure. Except he may be saved by the fortification of purified Soul and splendid faith,

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with the help of Glorious God. Of course, relationship and companionship with cleanhearted friends are the first signs of finding this fortune.

8. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, for the purpose of bringing the animals' motions under his control, has fabricated means and tools out of halters, leading ropes, and so forth. For the purpose of subduing his Ego, however, he has rarely paid any attention to means and tools.

9. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has obtained from the earth and other materials, those parts useful to his Ego. During his lifetime, he delivers the wastes back to the earth. Therefrom, he did not obtain the truths enlightening his inner self. He has wasted days and has often spent a life in vain.

10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is a biped being who has caused so much human loss that, if studied statistically, it would be millions of times more than that caused by existents other than himself. If mankind is not corrected then this will continue to happen, God forbid, many more times. In hope for the quickest improvement, His Grace and Mercy, and the light of guidance, may Glorious God bestow upon us a sound worldwide guidance through this servant and all the noble humans!

11. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is a being, murderer of his own self, after Azrael (the death angel), peace be upon him, by various means. But, in reality, he is a tool for continuing Azrael’s affairs, and this is sometimes quite massive.

12. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is a two-footed creature who give exemption to Azrael, peace be upon him, in the killing scenes, and men themselves directly keep the scenes of such engagements warmer and warmer to the benefit of Azrael, peace be upon him.

13. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who, ordered by Ego, has made a more and more constricting place for himself out of this temporary, free, and wide world of ours and the God-granted

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mines of the ocean and land. On this basis, he has shut the doors of comfort more and more to mankind, and he is still proceeding.

14. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who proposes limitations for himself under the name of the law and thereby restricts his freedom, depriving himself through the negation of liberty. In other words, he has made life constrained because most people have not understood and practiced the restraining of Ego.

15. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has built canals and dams in order to dominate the oceans and rivers, and to make proper use of them. However, as for the enormous flood of egoistic powers of himself and of his fellow-creatures, he has not built any dams but some political containments based on Ego.

Get to Know Satan and His Satanic Ways It is clarified to some extent that man's body is not just the manifestation of all its performances in this world, but there are quarrels going on inside it. As a matter of fact, the radiation of organs' actions and reactions is apparent to the eye from the effect of those processes. If these actions are good, then they are the result of Angelic Inspirations. If they are evil, then they are based on Satanic Disguises. 117 Therefore, the person always finds himself facing a kind of contention in carrying out affairs. The question here arises that why, in carrying out the affairs that have been decided upon, does the person find himself unconsciously under the influence of the dilemmas of "Do it" and "Do not do it." Sure, this situation clearly proves that we are under the reign of two Angelic and Satanic forces and their attracting means, namely, Soul and Ego. Now the question comes down to, what should we do so that we may free ourselves from under the yoke of Satanic Temptations, and to continuously keep the Angelic Inspirations relaying to the computer of the Heart? This is an appropriate question. The answer to this question necessitates explaining the knowledge which, with the help of Almighty God, for the first time on the face of the earth, is hereby presented in this summary of all heavenly books, especially the Mother of Islamic books (the Holy Quran). The mysterious 117

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and mystical secrets of this summary are undisputed guidance towards the peace an harmony of all individual human beings in the world. It is the unifier of the seekers of Truth to the Fourth Dimension, and the conveyance of the noble human descendants to the Court of His Presence up to higher ranks that God may will. We should not distance ourselves from the topic. In the following example you will see the unbalanced appearance of a person while giving an insignificant donation. Ponder! Why is he involuntarily facing this and other conflicting processes of "Give" and "Don't give," and "Do it" and "Do not do it"? It will not be inopportune if I mention that all inspirations to good and all temptations to evil are often the result of the outcomes of five senses, which, either at the present or their radiation in the aftermath, entangles the person. Sometimes, these inspirations or temptations are relayed to the person without any previous records, which we have explained, as required, in a separate Epistle " Lessons of Monotheism,” 118 but it is out of scope now. In summary, as soon as the unknown or known rays of goodness arrive, if the cells inside the Heart were under the influence and arrangement of the Soul, then the computer of Intellect receives them and will subsequently fulfill and execute them automatically. For example: while you are going along your way, you see a beggar. Immediately, the Nucleus of Sentiment, by encountering this sight, will prompt you to catch the corresponding Waves of: "Doing good to God's creatures for His happiness." Consequently, with no hesitation, you will give him the necessary help according to your ambition. This is an example of the effect of benevolent inspirations, and there are many other kinds, which you meet daily. You may ponder, why are we occasionally prevented from carrying out the good deeds and other charitable acts?

Answer: Sure! If the corrupt Nuclei of Jealousy and Parsimony among the Heart's cells are fortified due to unnecessary and inhuman instincts, then during the arrival of these kinds of inspirations, before observing the pitiful situation mentioned above, Satan, by using the occasion, will make manifest his disguising, corrupt, tempting propaganda through various tricks. He prevents the person from accomplishing that charitable deed. For example: in the previous occurrence, before deciding to give a donation to the beggar, it will be whispered in the Heart that , "that person should work," "they are too used to laziness," or "don't give to this person; give it to another person who is your relative, or to that poor person who lives in that other place," and so on. In summary, Satan prevents the person from giving the donation right on the spot. Afterwards Satan will stop him from giving the donations and helping in other places as well, 118

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through the same temptations. This is the smallest and commonplace example of Satanic Temptations, and Satan's devilishness in our life. You may think now of greater ones.

Man and Some of Satan's Plots 1. Question: Why does man suffer as a result of abandoning a bad or good habit? Answer: This issue is essentially clear that whenever the actor is righteous, it is due to the motivation of angelic forces, and whenever he is in unrighteous, then it is due to the encouragement of corrupt satanic forces, that he has become accustomed to that habit. Therefore, it is possible to abandon that habit whatsoever it may be. However, how could the temptations for practicing or the inspirations for adapting a habit be prevented? Hence, abandoning either one becomes the cause of disturbance for the addicted person. Therefore, there is a proverb, which says: "the abandoning of habit will cause a disease." These good and evil motivations are proof of the existence of the two angelic and satanic forces in man.

2. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the land for the growth of two elements, Soul and Ego; or the battlefield of the two conflicting mechanisms of good (Angelic) and evil (Satanic).

3. Question: What are the invisible, motivating forces in man? Answer: The force which guides mankind to do good deeds is called Angelic Inspiration, and the force which incites the person to do evil, unlawful and uncivil actions, is called Satanic Temptation. The truth of these facts are proven and enlightened throughout numerous verses of the Holy Quran and Hadith.

4. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man builds gardens, buildings, traffic ways, and streets on the earth for himself. In the same manner, Devils have built traffic ways and streets in the blood vessels and tissues of man's body for themselves.

5. Question: How could a clear sign of Devils' domination be understood? Answer: Have you ever observed a person overcome by anger and irritation? All his limbs and organs tremble. He does not know what to say, or how violently and brutally to act. If his situation is video-recorded and shown to him later, then he will admit his failure, had he any

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good spiritual power. This failure is due to the prevalence of Ego and Satan on his Heart, which created that nuisance therein and got him into trouble. Some people peop le mistakenly call this a case of weakness of the nervous system.

6. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is like a released rocket from the Sacred World which is being guided on the earth by the two invisible mechanisms of good and evil.

7. Question: How can the signs of these two forces of good and evil be sensed in man's outer or inner self? Answer: It is difficult at the beginning to make perceptible these two undeniable, invisible truths and to enlighten them in this summary, but the perception of these two pleasant and unpleasant truths can be sought inwardly by the heart and outwardly by the outer senses.

8. Question: Why does man find himself inwardly and involuntarily involuntarily busy with other things while engaged in leisure or work? Answer: The cause for this occupation, especially in our time, is very often from the side of Satan and Ego.

9. Question: Are the hindrances from beneficial deeds deeds carried out out only by jinni-Devils, or do human-Devils have a hand in it as well? Answer: Actually, in some of these good and evil scenarios, sometimes there is human assistance in beneficial ways and, other times, human-satanic cooperators in evil ways collaborate in the executing or not-executing of deeds. This is especially the case in this age, when there are many people outwardly human looking but inwardly cooperating fully, partially, or instantly with the jinni-Devils in causing a sound person to be robbed. Thereby, they force that person towards wickedness, malevolence, and destruction.

10. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who does not know the value and worth of his life. Hence, he could spend leisure times educating himself or reading literature and teachings which enable him to enlighten his heart, and to acquire faith. He could get access to great people's speeches which he could then use as the theoretical and practical sermons, whereby he himself, could write enlightening literature. However, contrary to these actions and steps indispensable for the improvement of human society, he is committing his leisure time to

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various corrupt amusements such as gambling, and to the heart and brain destructive songs. If this is not accessible then subconsciously he becomes preoccupied with his own inner quarrels, and he does not know any way to save himself from this perdition.

11. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who benefits from the land and its products, in order to procure legitimate or illegitimate energy and growth, but he does not know that he himself becomes a land yielding all kinds of life comforts to the jinni and human-Devils, when he practices forbidden acts. As Almighty God says –  "And share (Devils) with them (people) wealth and children " etc.119

12. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who feels happy and calm while doing beneficial action or after he has accomplished it. Unfortunately, however, he does not realize what things are preventing him from doing the same actions in some other occasions, so that he would do something and use some techniques to stop those things, and make himself a permanent doer of good deeds.

13. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is a being who has authority over separating or putting together most domestic and wild animals. His own separation from his beloved ones, however, is often at the hands of jinni- and human-Devils. This applies outwardly, even to his separation from Glorious God.

14. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being whom Satan does not let free for a single moment. Even if he is disengaged, Satan visually makes thoughts that refresh those scenes reappear by the use of magic in order to disturb him. But Satan will thereby force him towards worse actions under the name of revenge, etc., by the use of those temptations.

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his business, somehow his mind and heart are subconsciously busy examining those occurrences, especially if they concern suffering and worry. He does not know what forces him to be busy examining those tragic occurrences. Truly, these are Satanic Temptations, and that is it.

16. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the being who has established communication with remote locations via telegraph, cellular telephone and all that, but he does not put into operation the box communicating with His Holiness Glorious God, which he has in his body called the Heart. Rather, the rust of heedlessness has somewhat consumed this box and, in some other cases, it has become totally stagnated and paralyzed. Satan and Ego have even used it, in various ways, against the insight into Him Almighty.

17. Question: Who is man? Answer: Man is the one who may classify positive and negative human states during reading these questions and answers. He should try to see how many of them are positive in him and how many are negative. He should then try to fortify the good attributes, and he should even, according to his aspiration, advise others in having these good qualities. He should try to practically stabilize the goodness. What he has found to be negative attributes, he should arrange them once again in order, and try with dynamically and persistently to eliminate them, so that he may remove from himself those wicked states. Thereby, he clearly finds out that the jinni-Devils inwardly do not let him abandon the bad habits; rather, they try to encourage him to become more addicted to those habits. These are the examples of Satan's devilishness, and the examples of sound people leaning towards the position of humanity.

18. Question: Could man become a good person by making this much effort? Answer: Sure! Provided that he comprehends and distinguishes through these questions and answers, all the general good and evil attributes of mankind, and his own shortcomings. Afterwards, he should distance himself from what he thinks are the sources of deficiencies in society and try to eliminate them. He should join with concerned, active, and knowledgeable individuals so together, according to their capability, they could take greater steps towards healing. If he may fail on occasion, to have taken these steps, then he should at least be sorry for not having tried.

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Verily, these kinds of people will become examples of perfect and real human qualities, and are the sound members of society. They shall be of great use in the path of Almighty God, and also in the improvement and organization of society.