06 - SURAH AL ANAAM
SUMMARY
#looking_at_oneself
In the realm of higher consciousness and lower consciousness, everything belongs to Allah. Within the expanse of higher consciousness lies the construction of absolute truth, bestowed upon sincere seekers by His merciful revelation through an abstract system of education. Alongside this revelation comes the provision of intelligence as a gift to His servants. The knowledge bestowed is dynamic and abundant, facilitating the continual evolution and advancement of intelligence as it matures. Cognitive faculties such as perception, attention, memory, reasoning, problem-solving, and learning are heightened and refined through this process.
Conversely, the lower consciousness, in its nascent stage, remains devoid of truth. However, Allah, in His boundless wisdom, unveils signs encapsulating the truth. Those who embody sincerity and have purified themselves gradually discern these signs and comprehend their profound implications, as they become receptive to the truth. Consequently, the conscientious ones, who maintain awareness of Allah, discover solace within the unseen realm rather than relying solely on the material world, which serves as a mere reflection or representation of the ultimate reality.
When the lower consciousness succumbs to erroneous interpretations, misinformation, distorted knowledge, and tainted comprehension, it becomes corrupted, engendering barriers that impede the illuminating light of guidance. Those are the ones who find themselves enveloped in darkness due to their deviation from the path of their Lord. The greater testimony in the nearnest of Allah is an unwavering attestation that He exists as the singular essence of reality, and steadfastly refrain from associating anything or anyone with His divine presence.
The mubasshirin, the one who bears rational and sensible thoughts and the munzirin, the one who warns of punishment to the wrong-doers, come together with the mursalin, the inner voice that delivers the message. With these two values, then there is no fear and no grieve when they correct themselves from the message to transform.
And He is the One who evolves the higher consciousness and the lower consciousness with the truth. The moment Allah says: “Be,” then it is, His saying is of the truth and the thoughts establish the understanding of the truth is the mulku, authority in the lower consciousness over those who are inflated with badness. We shall turn our direction naturally inclined towards the truth, Allah, who originated the higher consciousness and the lower consciousness and shall not set up partners with Him.
However, there are those who do not appraise Allah as He deserves to be appraised. They will say Allah did not reveal anything to their mind. Some dismiss it as mere markings in parchment, revealing only fragments while concealing much. They fail to acknowledge that this sacred knowledge was imparted to them, transcending their own understanding and the knowledge passed down through generations. They were taught mostly from their own localized conditioned mind that knew not. There are cases when they are sustained by their motherly support from sensory inputs but lie by saying they are inspired by their Lord.
We embrace the guidance by following what has been revealed by our Lord. Contemplation by rational and sensible thoughts illuminates the concealed truth. Consume the knowledge that the name of Allah is independently and consciously supported. Allah gives comfort to the awareness to those who Allah guides while tight and constricted to those misguided. Do not come near knowledge that is not guided by Allah except matured knowledge generated by pure mind that fulfills the intellect and has weight in its importance and equity. This is the path of mustaqiman, the one who is established in truth.
Indeed my Lord will guide me to siratul mustaqim (the path of the one who is established in the truth) hanifan (the natural inclination of our pure mind towards the truth) of the deen (consciously in obedience of Allah’s judgment) which is the millata Ibrahim (the abidance to the creed of the one who is inclined to the truth) by not setting partner to Allah. My connection to Allah’s abstract system of education to download the knowledge, my path of devotion, my life and the ending of the dissociation to oneness are all to Allah and I am the first of those who submit.
