Faith: Understanding vs. Application

The issue of religion covers rather a large area in our lives…
Most of us are watchful over our Religion and do not allow anyone to speak ill of it, even though we may never be concerned about practicing it.
It all sounds fine, but can one be a Muslim by saying “I am Muslim”?..
Can one be a mu’min (man of faith) by saying “I am a believer”?…
Let us first focus on the following point: What does the sentence “I am a mu’min” mean?.. Why do we use this statement?.. What do we need to know while we are pronouncing it and what do we need to understand when it is pronounced?
We should know before all that to have “faith” (iman) is a constitutional (fitri) [natural - inborn] characteristic. It can never be acquired after birth!. It can be unfolded from within some time afterwards but it can never be obtained thereafter!.
What does it mean, “the unfolding of iman (faith) from within a person”?
“Iman” (faith) refers to a person’s capacity of perception through insight (basirat) that beyond his individualized consciousness (the already known personality) that one assumes for himself, there is only ONE Single Authority that is constituting (making up) everything according to Its own will…
“Iman” (faith) enables one to access the dimension known as “heaven” by getting freed from the dimension of hell. “Islam” however, enables one to escape from the burning from the dimension of “hell” as fast as possible and provides one with a superior level of living in the dimension of heaven once it is accessible!..
“Having faith (iman) in what the anbiya (prophets) of Allah have announced” is considered within this context of iman, as mentioned here, as One Single Being’s making known Its own system through the speech of the dimension known as Nubuwwat (prophethood)…
Being unaware of a prophet, even an ancient tribal native in the midst of Africa, one can reach the dimension of heaven once this “iman” (belief) that we have mentioned first, is unfolded in himself…
On the other hand, many people who do not lift up their heads from prostration (sajda) in a Muslim environment all their lifetime, might have been pretending to have faith and living with an “imitated faith“ (iman taqlid) due to the lack of the above mentioned constitutional -inborn- iman in them and they might pass into the afterlife dimension as faithless.
Let us dwell some more on the first category of iman…
The faithful will not suffer burning while passing through hell!.. It should be known for certain that the sufferance of fiery (burning) is because of faithlessness!.. Afire is such a “state” that you wish to desist from and in that you feel worried, troubled, stressed and full of hatred for your life!..
The insight which realizes that everything has come into being upon the ordainment (taqdir), will and creating of the One and that there was no other possibility (alternative) for what has already happened other than the way it has taken place; can live and perceive this with the light (nuur) of iman that has unfolded from within an insight (basirat). Upon having such an iman, a person will ultimately become an inhabitant of the dimension of heaven, although he may not have seen or heard of a Nabi of Allah.
It does not matter if the words “I am mu’min -a believer” are pronounced through lips, for its outcome can only be experienced if it comes to life through one’s spiritual state (hal).
There is no gain in speaking the words “I am a Muslim” through lips, so long as the actions (fiil) do not speak of it.
As we have already discussed in our different publications, the word “ALLAH” is just a name and it is necessary to focus on the understanding that this name denotes…
The manifestation of a consideration about “what and how to believe” through ourselves, is what matters. Hence, we need to focus on how we should understand the meaning of the word “iman”…
“Iman” can first be understood in the context involving all of humankind…
“Iman” can secondly be understood in the context considering the believers in a Nabi of Allah…
In the context considering the entire humankind and involving a rough understanding of the system, “iman” may unfold in a person as a fitri (constitutional) characteristic and it may serve to advance him to experience the dimension of heaven at the end after long periods of refinement, even if he did not recognize a nabi!
As for the “iman” in the context regarding those people who have recognized the nabi…
In actuality, believing in a nabi is a subdivision of “imitative faith” (iman-i taqlid)!..
Because, believing in the announcements of a nabi is still a “pretended” faith (iman taqlid) as long as it is not a belief in what is denoted by the name “ALLAH”, with reference to the understanding that the mystery of “B” covers.^{*
It is only possible by comprehending and experiencing the mystery of “B” that a “pretended iman“ may be transformed into an iqaan (certainty) through tahqiq (verification).}
The point that we need to focus on here, is the fact that, to have information on iman is not enough and installing files of information about iman onto a computer to fill up its free space, will not make it experience and live the dimension of heaven.
You may setup a PC with an unimaginable amount of detailed information about “iman” and that PC may be configured to perform them all audio and visual at any given moment… But it does not mean it is a person of faith!..
Let us now return to the question why we needed “iman” and answer it briefly…
As we have mentioned above, “iman” is the recognition of the fact that we have been living within the circumstances created by One single Fatir (Builder) in the way It wills…
If so… Then the person can no longer observe anything labeled as “improper” or “wrong” or “inappropriate that should not have taken place” in life. Because there is only the Single One who creates all things according to Its will and who observes (journeys) whatever It has created in the way It wills!..
Such an understanding concludes at a person’s state of being well pleased (radhi) with all things, such that the “pain of burning” in the dimension of “hell” ceases to exist for him. Then, the fire of hell begins to speak to him saying: “O believer! Pass over my fire quickly as your light of iman is blowing out my flames”!.. As known, it is only the light of iman that puts out the hell fire!..
Now we need to focus especially on the following:
It is not the information about iman that puts off the “fire” but the application (practice) of iman, that is to live upon iman.
Consider if having knowledge of antibiotics and vitamins can give the effect of using them!
What is meant by the application of iman, is a person’s thinking within the scope of the “iman fact” that he perceives, and his realizing the value of life and the events under the illumination of his “light of iman”…
A person may either give consideration to (appreciate) life and events under the illumination of the light of iman and attains the spiritual state known as “Radhiyya” and experience its outcome as a man of faith, if nothing else… Or he continues suffering the pain of burning resulting from his inefficiency in “iman” (having faith) until he gets used to (comprehends) this and finally becomes fire-proof, so to say…
To sum up, the information about iman is not iman itself!
Because, “iman” yields a life in which: a) It enables a person to live heavenly dimensions by getting freed from burning; b) It becomes a means for an upper-dimension of heaven beyond description to come into view, through the experience of what is denoted by the name Allah in every point of being!
The knowledge of iman, on the other hand, is like a load of books on the back of a donkey… A person may carry the knowledge of iman in his brain (mind) and lips during his lifetime, but he goes on burning in circumstances… He burns by throwing such accusations as “why that happens this way?”, “I wish it wouldn’t have happened!” and the other flames of sentimentalism brought along those accusations!.
The purpose of giving the knowledge of “iman” to a person is not to make him carry it but rather to experience its understanding!.
If you are living to carry the “knowledge of iman”, your pain of burning will last as long as you are alive; your dimension will be altered as you keep on burning and your life will last in fire eternally… It will be the same till iman is manifested from within you!..
If you have “iman”, its proof is the fact that “burning” has ended up for you and you “never throw accusations” and you never find anything improper in any point in life no matter what… You may then constantly live the outcome of such awareness and continue your “journey” (reflection) in the dimension of heaven…
Furthermore, if the mystery of “B” is disclosed and if you attain a spiritual state in which you live the consequences of such an unfolding, it is only the following, that may fall from your lips:
“It is none other than Hu who contemplates”!..
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