Muslim Woman Poet.. Author Of Baba Book
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2 of her online books are available to all.
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FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT
Those who believe in Mohammad's body, know that it is no more, but those who put their trust in Allah, consider that He is ever living." These are the words of Abu Baker Siddiq (Peace be on him), spoken boldly to a confused and grief stricken multitude of Muslims on the event of passing away of the Prophet of Islam. The experience is repeated at the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (RZA), at the fall of mighty Islamic empires, after the demolishing of cities ami places of worship. Time has proved one truth: "All that is on earth will perish but the face of Allah will abide" (The Quran LX:27). Also there has grown with the passing of centuries the distrust of the physical, the World of phenomena as ungodly, even evil. Individually too each mind has absorbed this sense of duality of the Manifest (Al-Zahir) and the Hidden (Al-Batin). Then comes a time when the awareness realizes that the formless One-Allah is both this and that. They are the contours of only One Face. This is what is confirmed in every call for prayer - Allah-Ho-Akbar (God is Great - He encompasses all.)
Usually the muslim mind does not grasp this truth. Belief remains at the verbal level, limited and unbending. Only when the stars fall down, the Moon and the Sun darken, the consciousness is forced to introspect, to accept that Truth is only one - it may be called with different names. Each soul tastes the bitter cup of hardship and humility to begin its return to Allah.
My time also came. It was my good luck that it happened at Sai Baba's holy feet. For more than fifteen years He has educated me about Truth, through the medium known to me - the dialect of my own religion, without speaking one word at the physical level. The writings of Sufi Masters, the re-learning of the Quran from a different angle has uplifted my mind from narrow grooves. Today, when Baba gives a discourse my ears grasp the Quranic truths in His words. Though many will not understand the experience related in the following chapters they are not coincidences nor illusions of a paranoid consciousness. The emphasis is not on the events or "miracles." The change in the mind is focussed on and stressed. If pious Muslim minds consider my equating Baba's words with the Quranic verses as shocking I beg for forgiveness. For me, like the Truth, they are one. Who can divide light because the bulbs are different? Faith cannot be imposed, especially when the Quran itself has asserted that "to each is given a goal to which God turns him; then strive together towards all that is good..." (The Quran II:148)
2 of her online books are available to all.
1
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT
Those who believe in Mohammad's body, know that it is no more, but those who put their trust in Allah, consider that He is ever living." These are the words of Abu Baker Siddiq (Peace be on him), spoken boldly to a confused and grief stricken multitude of Muslims on the event of passing away of the Prophet of Islam. The experience is repeated at the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (RZA), at the fall of mighty Islamic empires, after the demolishing of cities ami places of worship. Time has proved one truth: "All that is on earth will perish but the face of Allah will abide" (The Quran LX:27). Also there has grown with the passing of centuries the distrust of the physical, the World of phenomena as ungodly, even evil. Individually too each mind has absorbed this sense of duality of the Manifest (Al-Zahir) and the Hidden (Al-Batin). Then comes a time when the awareness realizes that the formless One-Allah is both this and that. They are the contours of only One Face. This is what is confirmed in every call for prayer - Allah-Ho-Akbar (God is Great - He encompasses all.)
Usually the muslim mind does not grasp this truth. Belief remains at the verbal level, limited and unbending. Only when the stars fall down, the Moon and the Sun darken, the consciousness is forced to introspect, to accept that Truth is only one - it may be called with different names. Each soul tastes the bitter cup of hardship and humility to begin its return to Allah.
My time also came. It was my good luck that it happened at Sai Baba's holy feet. For more than fifteen years He has educated me about Truth, through the medium known to me - the dialect of my own religion, without speaking one word at the physical level. The writings of Sufi Masters, the re-learning of the Quran from a different angle has uplifted my mind from narrow grooves. Today, when Baba gives a discourse my ears grasp the Quranic truths in His words. Though many will not understand the experience related in the following chapters they are not coincidences nor illusions of a paranoid consciousness. The emphasis is not on the events or "miracles." The change in the mind is focussed on and stressed. If pious Muslim minds consider my equating Baba's words with the Quranic verses as shocking I beg for forgiveness. For me, like the Truth, they are one. Who can divide light because the bulbs are different? Faith cannot be imposed, especially when the Quran itself has asserted that "to each is given a goal to which God turns him; then strive together towards all that is good..." (The Quran II:148)
posted by Ahimsa Network at 18.7.05
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