What is life —-? Life is a unit of age, but the unit does not remain a unit —- By combining units, it becomes millions. This is related to family traditions. Family traditions have two aspects: one is Certitude and the other is Dubiety. Certitude means acknowledging the Lordship of Allah wholeheartedly, using resources and sustenance in accordance with Allah’s Pleasure.
Allah’s Pleasure is that Allah’s Will becomes the will of HIS creation.
Allah is the Creator. He created the universe for His Recognition, manifested creatures, and created resources to sustain life. One value of using resources is to consider silver and gold as life. Another value is that gold and silver are merely means for living, that is, they are proportions of clay. The resources are also established on two aspects. One is to use resources according to Eternal Law. The second aspect is by disregarding the transition of resources, relying on those resources, and accumulating wealth and riches so that the future remains bright. The question is – What is future —?
One angle of the future is the perception of upcoming circumstances. The other angle is contrary to this, that is, to diverge from the idea and that one came empty-handed and will leave empty-handed. Those who act upon the first angle come to realize that the pursuit of wealth distances a person from servitude, whereas servitude is Life itself. Life is having certitude and trust upon the Sole Entity – Allah. When resources become the purpose of life, attention shifts away from the Being that created those resources, whereas, when we define man or creatures, the creature is dependent at all times.
The purpose of life is to be acquainted with the tranquility within because the door to Ma’rifat / Gnosis does not open without entering a state of tranquility. Tranquility is when a person realizes that The Sole Entity, Allah, created us. We were non-existent; He granted us existence. We did not know what hunger and thirst were, and to fulfill the demands of hunger and thirst, resources were created. Resources are complete, creation is complete, and the process is complete – these are necessities of life. Hunger arises, and the fulfillment of hunger does not occur unless there are sub-resources. If sub-creations such as sustenance, air, oxygen, rain, minerals, and other resources did not exist, life would be a question mark.
The foundation of creation is the Earth. The Earth is a mother. We are all children of the mother-Earth. According to the laws of nature, the Earth nurtures resources within itself. Food items, seasons, rain, snowfall, mountains, plants, inanimate objects, and everything that constitutes life and serves its purpose, was present on Earth before our birth.
What is life? It is the following of an Entity who is the Creator, Owner, Beneficent, Merciful, and the Causer of all causes. The Creator is Self-Sufficient, while the creation is dependent on the Creator. Without oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, rain, minerals, metals, air, herbs, plants, and seasons, the creation would be a question mark. All the elements in the Earth and atmosphere are distinct but combine in specific quantities to form bodies.
For example, the element of phosphorus is dominant in fire, and phosphorus is present in varying proportions in other creations too. Due to these proportions present in them, the creations recognize things that are produced from phosphorus.
The moon rays, in addition to causing tides in the sea, also transfer sweetness to fruits and grains. If there is no sweetness in the moon rays, the quantity of sweetness in the creatures on Earth will decrease, leading to an excess of salt. As a result, the system of attraction and repulsion will reverse. Like fire and sweetness, air, clouds, iron, copper, mercury, and gold are also present in varying amounts in every creation. There is no element in the universe whose specific quantities are not present within creations, otherwise, the introduction of the universe would be impossible. The essence is that every small or large creation is bound by the quantities of all creations for its existence, and the connection through the quantities is maintained in order and organization by the Creator of the universe, Allah.
The second recognition of creation is that there is a continuous cycle of change between the outward and the inward, traveling from the beginning to the end. Every end is a beginning, and every beginning is an end. Creation is born. The concept of birth is that the creation dies. To die, it manifests from the unseen into the visible, and from the visible, it goes back to the unseen. Until the space/span of age is complete, the unseen becomes visible and the visible becomes unseen, like an upside-down reversal, then it becomes permanently unseen but does not cease to exist. It comes from the unseen and hides in the unseen.
Just like the impressions of a child in the mother’s womb, the individual’s record remains on the screen of the Earth. To appear in the world, the child’s mold exists in the mother’s womb. The record of the mold is the attraction between the mother and the child. The relationship that exists between the mother and the child also exists between the individual and the Earth. This connection forms a record and keeps the individual associated with Earth, even after their passing.
When the first day of a child enters into the second day, the first day hides and remains as the foundation in the second day. Similarly, when the second day disappears, the first two days become the foundation of the third day. In this manner, days, months, and years hide and keep the individual entangled in the deception (illusion) of the length of space. If the first day is subtracted from the 60 years, the building of 59 years and Three Hundred and 64 days will be negated.
This is a brief introduction of creatures.
Readers! Take a pen and paper and count the days and nights of life.
• Write one (1) for the day that comes from the unseen. • Write zero (0) for the day that goes into the unseen. • Multiply one by zero and tell me, how old are you?
This law of being in non-existence is Change – Change, in order for its sustainability, is bound by needs and is the identity of the creatures. The Creator of the universe, Allah, is pure of change.
Readers, ladies and gentlemen, before reading the Message-of-the-Day, read Surah Al-Ikhlas with its translation and understand this article.