The series, the imam and the layman
(Question of a layman: what is Muslim today?)
Imam response –
It is admitted by all that the term “Muslim” is a mood for the word aslama (submission/pacification). But once we have said that, and having regard to chaos that some Muslim countries know, we are entitled to wonder if this definition can be enough but also, and above all, if these countries can still say Muslims, that is to say if they are capable of advertising individuals? Let us make an investigation from the sources that are the Koran and the Holy Prophetic custom (Sunnah).
A Muslim is above all someone who responds to a call, that of an absolute who exceeds him. Indeed, our consciousness feels that it must respond to values that transcend it. Consequently, this soul feels in the obligation to act for good and the truth until they embody them.
(“You who believe, respond positively to God and his envoy, when he calls you to what gives you your life”. Koran 8.20)
There are some who refuse this call and declares itself against the true or true reality (Al Haqq). And we think, like others, that freedom in the metaphysical sense would be in this response given by human consciousness, and it is only afterwards that this answer engages us. This clearly shows that freedom and determination do not oppose but that they combine with each other to make us free and committed men and women.
This allows me to open a (long) parenthesis, by recalling that the endless debates between certain Ach’arites theologians (cantors of predestination) and mu’tazilites theologians (cantors of freedom to act), opposing the verses of the Koran and the aphorisms of the Prophet (ç) to each other, have become inoperative in the organic world as we know it today. This is why an Adnan Ibrahim, wanting to demonstrate the lap of the corpus bringing together the words of the Prophet (ç) to the mere fact that there would be contradictions in and between these corpus (Sahih boukhari and Mouslim), did not perceive that the contradiction was more of complementarity and complexity, in any case on this question of freedom and predestination.
Furthermore, and this since the theory of quanta, physics teaches us that the nature of light, for example, is made up of both waves and particles, two states yet opposite and contradictory. There is no duality but complementarity. There are therefore realities beyond duality. This is why one of the representations of God in the Koran is the light, which is not subject to duality:
(“God is the light of the heavens and the earth”. Koran 24.35)
But back to our investigation! The Muslim is always mentioned in the Koran as having moral values and attached to the worship of the single God as the only real-life reality, Mohammed Iqbal, he prefers to speak of ultimate reality. Now today, the gravediggers of the Muslim religion, for the most part Muslims themselves, want to reduce it to an obsessive compulsive seeking the food additive lawful everywhere and all the time. Humanity is by the precipice and a large majority of Western Muslims offer nothing other than monitoring the components of our diet. What is dramatic is that they cultivate an illiteracy that prevents us from reading the world as it is and seeing the dangers that threaten man; “The enemy (Satan) has lost hope of taking you to the rude cult of idols, recalls the Prophet (ç), but he does not despair of getting lost thanks to your little things and this obsession with detail.” We become more and more blind to the signs of time, despite the warning Koran:
(“Lord, why are you gathering me blind when I had the sight (on earth)”? And God will answer: This is how. Our sign came you, you forgot it. Likewise on this day are you forgotten. Koran 20.125)
The mu The Koranic Muslim is an essentially ethical being thanks to his desire to embody divine values such as righteousness, honesty, generosity, equity, etc. ; But he will also have to seek his release through an asceticism effort to help him tear up the attractions of the world. He will have to be in the world without being confused with him. This reality is summarized in a little or poorly known hadith:
(When God wants good to his servant, he arouses in his heart a moral conscience (an exhortor) who tells him to act or forbids him to do (such a thing))
God only wants good for a good man, for “God never ordering turpitude” recalls the Koran. From there, one can easily understand that it is the ethical man in question and not of the famelic man that each of us can become moral. The rite is very important for a Muslim. The word rite comes from the Sanskrit “Rita” which means “what is in accordance with order” and we know how much the Koran denounces disorder and those who apply to create it. Thus, and that can shock many of us, but the one who prays and moreover, participates in disorder, does not practice a rite in the traditional sense but a form of paganism. Many of the Prophet (ç), recall this phenomenon of subversion and sabotage by the very supporters of Islam, and this will be our last point.
We have a hadith, well known that one, where the prophet (ç) announces that it will arrive for a time “when the mother will give up her mistress”. Symbolic speech and which must be deciphered its true meaning. For some knowing, this prophecy announces the emergence of a generation that will break with some knowledge or some knowledge to prefer another. For this, it will be necessary to penetrate the temple of traditional knowledge to methodically subvert the heart and give birth to the News man long awaited by some. Our era, invites us to the greatest caution with regard to knowledge and some that dispense them; Especially if, like the wolf, the educator takes on the appearance of a lamb. And as the late Master Azhari Mohamed A. Draz said, “a badly dressed truth will always pass less well than a well -dressed lie”.
Here is dear profane, an attempt to answer your initial question, and know that absolute knowledge belongs only to God.
