''they are asking thee concerning the soul. say: The soul is by command of my Lord, and of knowledge ye have been vouchsafed but little. [ surah al isra', 17 ]
i meant to tell you guys the nature of the souls as an after dinner dessert, but thot to myself i better keep it to myself in case i put my wrong foot forwards, and got slammed again by ts, but since you brought it up i have got a license now to let you guys into my secret story of the soul......
it is sadly more profound than your good friend's banter, i am afraid.
dont ask me about sanad though.
i am no dr maza and the story is certainly without sanad....😊😊😊
it is not 'hasan ' , 'soheeh' or even dhoif', if you have to ask me.
if all 'stories' must have sanads it would be a boring world indeed...
i just collect from here and there that i picked from my readings of martin lings ''the 11th hour''; to gai eaton's ''islam and the destiny of man'' and shaykh abdul qadir al jalani's 'the relevations of the unseen'.......all rubbish material according to your favourite dr maza and the likes of his side kicks like dr rozmie ramli
what the marcoses, ntr , rusmah , vincent tan , donald trump,and the mugabes of the world share in common is not just about money......they share this inherent psychological desire to make sure their cucus and grand cucus will be well supplied with the 'basic' necessities of life up to the 7th generations.
and their basic is way beyond the likes of you and me!
the secret they think is the genetic linkage... the double helix series of aminoacids predetermined by their inheritance to them....so they think.
but that is only the duniwi aspect of man......
not even half of the formullae.
from the other half , the more important half that is , the souls, we bear no relations with with our dad, uncles or sons and daughters!
very shocking indeed!
while we are all in charge of our children and wife, we have to give them the best shelter, education, ugama upbringing etc etc and etc that our 'meagre rezeki' can provide..
admittedly yours tanser and ru , are not meagre of course by any measure of things!
anything extra,any sedekah must be addressed to the next of kins first and then near relatives etc etc, and only then friends in general and others...
this is not just from any 'tom dick and harry' hadith but quranic injunction.
islam does not encourage nepotism, though.
sedekah to near relatives must be from our on lot , not from the common wealth of the country!
certainly not from oneamgedebe!
but let us examine when we were in our mum's uterus .
all pregnant uteri have one malaikat each to look after them......
[ dato z is going to send me to the mad house for saying this. he is a 100 % materialist who dont subscribe to this nonsense on the al ghaiba ]
at four months allah orders that malaikat to breath in a soul taken from the 'soul bank' up in the periphery of the arash.
a soul accompanies you and me at about four month's conception.
just not any souls.
HE 'handpicked' and determine which goes where and when over the milleniums...
from there we grow spiritually or non spiritually, depending on the effort of our parents, social environment,and qada and qadar.
in adulthood we have brothers and sisters, cousins and uncles and aunties.
we can be different mostly in academic spiritual and religious orientations and instinctual leanings.
most of the time different, oftentimes similar.
muhammad asad can be the best well known european jew to revert to islam.
his son, talal asad could well be prof of sociology at in the usa with very secular academic views and orientations.
you have heard of nabi lot with a wife that refused to follow him.
....or nabi ibrahim and his dad, the idol maker.
or one can be noah and his son..
or nabi muhmmad and his uncle abi talib.
now we come to the sufi picture of things....
and this is the shocking part of the story...
allah's decides from where HE picks up the soul to be 'inserted' in our mum's uterus.
there are souls and souls going round and round the arash, according to the sufi story.
those closest circumferentially to the arash are the souls of para ambiya and para awliya and a wee bit out the para shuhada and the muqarabin....outwardly will be the common travellers like most of us 99.999 %; and outermost those of the secular humanists and the kuffar and outermost still, the false ulama, false scholars, and the al munafikuns.
in death and after death these souls will get back to the original configurations.
our brothers in faith, encircling the arash, may not be our brothers due to blood linkages......and that is a sad fact we have to live with.
again ts and ru,,no sanad, just my readings here and there to prepare us all with dissapointments and sadness that our children and wife or wives may not necessarily all be following us!
which bring me back to tsming's brief elucidation and partial explanation of qada and qadr that night over nasi tumpang , which was the best anyway on this side of the atmosphere, so far , according to my erudite tastebuds!
sayyedina ali when asked what is ' free will ',by a bedoiun sahabat, answered.
" please lift your right foot'' , in which the sahabat readily lifted his right foot.
'' that my friend is free will''
''now lift your left as well''..and the sahabat cannot..
'' that my friend is allah's qada and qadar''
this yet again will fail the sanad test , according to dr maza.
....we are all born alone and when we die we will be again alone.
but in the blue yonder we will get back to the encircling circle of souls doing the 'tawaf' around the arash.
the communion of like minded.
we will be amongst friends.
we will be amongst people of faith.
we will be amongst those we love!
tanseri and ru, whether we like it or not, we are soul mates!, insyaallah
allahualam!
nik howk
...'' alastu birabb bikum ? '' [ am i not your lord? ]
'' bala shahidna! '' [ most definitely YOU are! ]
