The Golden Rules of An Eternal Happiness (2)

(The prohibitions and commandments)

The basic principles of an eternal happiness were given in the first Part. The other rules will be given in this part.


# The prohibitions

Other prohibitions[*] are:

1. One must not gamble. (Lotto, Lottery, Punting are in the same category)
2. One must not give and take bribe.
3. One must not misappropriate.
4. One must not usurp, the goods of humans must not be taken by force.
5. One must not avoid bearing witness to a fact.
6. One must not use narcotics for pleasure.
7. One must not desist from visiting the close kinsfolk those are good people.
8. One must not be unjust during measuring and weighing.
9. One must not break the hearts of humans.
10. One must not tell a lie.
11. One must not be arrogant.
12. One must not be jealous of others' goods, beauty, success etc.
13. One must not gossip about others in their absence.
14. One must not become a talebearer.
15. One must not be stingy.
16. One should never say the forbidden one for the permissible one and say the permissible one for the forbidden one.
17. One must not eat pork.
18. One must not eat carrion.
19. One must not uncover his/her own awrat parts, and must not look at another person's awrat parts. (The awrat parts means the body parts which are necessary to be covered according to Islam)
20. Men must not dress up like a woman, nor must women dress up like a man.
21. Women must not go to visits without permission from their husbands.
22. Women must not stay aloof from their husbands' bed.
23. One must not turn back from Islam (the religion of Allah), after he/she has believed.
24. One must not do the salat (prayer) before and after its correct time.
25. One must not break the fast without an excuse near the other Muslims during the month of Ramadan.
26. One must not refrain from paying zakat to the poor and the others in need. (Zakat is paid as 2.5% of the merchandise)
27. One must not taunt a favor, which has already been done.
28. One must not compare the awrat parts of his wife's body with his mother's.
29. One must not curse his wife's mother.
30. One must not become much fond of the worldly life.
31. Men must not wear silk costumes.
32. Terminally ill must not hide his/her property from his heir.
33. One must not disobey the commandments of statesmen which are not forbidden by religion; and must be a law-abiding person.
34. One must not believe that a warlock informs from the unseen.
35. One must not eat and drink the leftovers of dogs.
36. One must not look at namahrem without any excuse. (Namahrem are the people that are eligible for you to get married according to Islam)
37. One must not stay without having a ghusl (the full ablution) after copulation as much as to miss a salat (prayer) time.
38. One must not perform sexual intercourse with his wife in the case of her menstruation and confinement.
39. One must not swear an oath on anything except Allah ta'âla's name or the words notified by Islam.
40. One must not sing immoral songs.
41. One must not forget Qur'an once it is memorized.
42. One must not use a pejorative word for the ashab-i kiram. (Ashab-i Kiram are the people who had seen Mohammed aleyhissalam and listened to Him)
43. One must not continue to eat after being satiated.
44. One must not unnecessarily laugh loudly much.
45. One must not avoid preventing a sin if he/she has enough power.
46. One must not burn live animals in fire.
47. One must not insist on ignorance.
48. One must not remain aloof from science.

Some of above-mentioned actions are the cardinal sins. The wrath of Allah ta'âla is hidden within sins. One should try to avoid all of them. Staying away from sins with the fear of Allah is called "taqwa". In the sight of Allah, the value of individuals and communities is with taqwa. Therefore, dear brother, no sin is little and unimportant, try to stay away from all of them.



# The commandments

Some of the Islamic commandments[*] for the establishment of moral values also are:

1. Allah must be known as the only one and never be forgotten.
2. One must perform salats (the daily ritual prayer), give zakat if he is rich, fast every day during the month of Ramadan, and make Hajj if he is a able-bodied and rich person.
3. One must eat and drunk legitimately (in the way that God permitted).
4. One must believe that one's daily bread is from Allah.
5. One must dress up in a clean and legitimately way.
6. One must devote himself to Allah.
7. One must be frugal.
8. One must be thankful for the benefactions and favors of Allah ta'âla.
9. One must consent to the fate.
10. One must endure tribulations.
11. One must repent for sins.
12. One must faithfully worship solely for the consent of Allah ta'âla.
13. One must regard Satan as the enemy.
14. Qur'an must be accepted proof and must be complied with its provisions.
15. One must accept death as the truth and must be prepared for it.
16. One must love the things that Allah loves and must avoid the things that Allah doesn't love.
17. One must do favor for his/her parents.
18. One must enjoin the good, must forbid the evil.
19. One must visit close relatives.
20. One must be on taqwa. (Taqwa means to avoid from the forbidden acts with the fear of Allah.)
21. One must obey Allah ta'âla and His prophet's commandments.
22. One must obey the orders of state leaders and must respect laws.
23. One must look at the world as lessons.
24. One must contemplate on Allah ta'âla's creatures.
25. One must hold his/her tongue for not saying the evil and forbidden words.
26. One must purify his/her heart from the masiwa. (Masiwa means everything existing in the heart except Allah ta'âla)
27. One must not bring someone into derision.
28. One must not look at the forbidden things by religion.
29. One must be man of his word.
30. One must not listen to the evil word.
31. One must learn the sharia (Sharia means the provisions of Islam, fiqh).
32. One must use the measuring and weighing tools justly.
33. One must help the Muslim poor and needy, by paying zakat.
34. One must not obey to the desires of his/her own ego.
35. One must feed the hungry.
36. One must work for his/her own daily bread.
37. One must clean his/her ego from evils.
38. One must be modest.
39. One must not touch the property of an orphan until the age of puberty.

My dear brother, if you conform to these golden rules, you will be happy and peaceful, and also enviable ones both in this world and in afterlife. Don't forget, you have the right to choose. There is no sanction except "shame on you!" for many of them. This sanction has also disappeared in these days. Frankly speaking, everything has been left to your conscience. Try to choose the right thing. Don't think about "what everybody says". Don't forget, the consequence of a wrong choice is only frustration. The troubles of this world come and go. Are the problems of afterlife similar to those?

Whoever conforms to these rules benefits from them in this world and afterlife to the extent of their compliance with them. Whoever does not conform to them, he lives its troubles, to the extent of their noncompliance with. Allah ta'âla has established his arrangement and organisation in this way.

My precious brother, to comply with the will of Allah ta'âla is only possible through loving Him. Loving Him means preferring His desires to one’s own desires. "Faith" and "the love of God" are things present in one’s heart. They are not seen with bare eyes and not held with hand. But just as everything in the heart has a sign that is reflected in this world, God's love also has a sign that is reflected in this world: and this is to follow His prophet.

Say: "If ye do love Allah, Follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins: For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." (Al-Imran, 31)

He who obeys the Messenger, obeys Allah. (An-Nisaa, 80)

That means, to love Allah is only possible through obeying His prophet

I wish that, Allah, who possesses the endless mercy and compassion, makes us among those who are precious and happy in both world, doesn't make us from those are in disappointment.

Be entrusted to Allah.


 [*] Ali bin Emrullah and Muhammed Hadimi, 1994. Islam Ahlâki, 24.ed. Hakikat Ltd. Sti. publications, No:4, Cagaloglu, Istanbul

The Golden Rules of An Eternal Happiness (1)

(The Base)

I'm trying to explicate the human and Islam since my first article "Correct Understanding The Human". It should now be well understood that the spiritual development of the man depends on the rise to the fifth "divine education" dimension from the fourth "reason" dimension.

Many people seek their happiness in the realization of their desires.

While the desires of the ego are endless; to try continuously to satisfy these desires of the ego is fit for nothing except making the human an insatiable monster who thinks nothing except his own self. Seeking the happiness in the satisfaction of the desires of his ego is related to human’s insufficient knowledge of his self and his God. The serenity and quietness of the human-being lie in his being subject to his Creator. The eternal happiness of the human becomes real only with his entrance to the circle of Islam, in other words, with his knowing of his Creator and with his submission to the will of his Creator.

The Creator (Allah ta'âla) is fair. He doesn't persecute anybody. He is the enemy of all cruel persons. He is the most gracious and most compassionate over all His creatures, and He is also the closest friend of the human.

If a person obeys his Creator's desires, he comes always face to face with beneficences, goodnesses and favors. But if a person obeys the rubbishy desires of his ego, then he will encounter with troubles, problems and difficulties. He will always be in troubles. Everybody find the counterpart of that whatever he has done, in the world and the afterlife.

My honorable brother, don't be unaware of your God. This unawareness leads you to perish in this world and beyond. Try to remember your God and to behave according to your God's desires every moment. If you can't conform to all, at least, try to conform to the majority of them. If a problem occurs and you encounter with troubles, don't seek the reasons of these troubles in other places, search them within your own behaviors, mistakes and defects. If you come across various beneficence and favors, don't be conceited with the reason of these benefactions which you don't know whether it is good or bad for you. Your mind and your attention must be on your God who is the true possession of these benefactions, but not on these favors. Be grateful for these favors to your God. If you behave in this way, you will be within the peace and serenity in the world and afterlife.

You mustn't become perplexed by the behaviors of the tactless persons around you. Don't become consternated by looking at the reasons, the means, and the forces of atrocious persons. Giver and taker, booster and reducer is Allah ta'âla. Even a feather cannot move from its place without His volition. Every event has got also a metaphysical reason as well as a physical one. You can't see these metaphysical reasons before your belief becomes an absolute faith. See the consequences of the events, not only the fore of them.

My dear brother, I had stated that "submission to the will of the Creator always produces goodness, but being subject to one’s own ego's desires always creates problems and troubles." What does our God want from us? All of them are in total 110 items. I've left the faith principles out of them. Because the faith is the pith and marrow of the matter. Neither the divine education nor God's compassion and favor becomes a reality without "faith".For this reason, you must first fix your faith.


# Basics of Faith

The commandments of our God about the principles of faith are:

1. One must believe in Allah who is existing and is one
2. One must believe in His angels
3. One must believe in all His holy Books (Quran, Bible, Torah and others)
4. One must believe in all His prophets (including Mohammed aleyhissalam)
5. One must believe in the Day of Judgment
6. One must believe in Qaader (Everything occurs according to a divine programme named Qaader; all good and bad things are created by Allah)

My dear brother,

These are the terms of the Islamic belief. A person doesn't become a true believer without believing these. Don't attempt pondering over these belief principles with the mind criterion. The mind is a weighing machine that it can measure only the physical world's values. It hasn't been created within power so that it can weigh out the metaphysical world's values. You have to accept these so how almighty Allah has notified to you. The base of the religion is not intellect, but is the transferred knowledge by prophets. To be subject to mind by leaving such knowledge means, in fact, to obey the desires of the ego and to build a new religion according to ego.

The other principles, except for the belief principles are given below. Don't forget; these are the golden rules of the universal and eternal happiness. Whoever conforms to these rules, they attain the salvation. Also those who do not follow them live through problems in this world and the afterlife. Don't suppose that you will not be responsible for the things you did. The poetic justice calls you to account for everything on the Day of Judgment. Take a glance at these rules every day. Every day, try to increase the number of those you could fulfill. Apologize to your God for those you couldn't fulfill, and be among the people who try not to do these once again. Especially, try to stay away from deadly sins. To commit these sins leads to be a perished human being. Repent also for sins that you had committed until now. Your God possesses the endless mercy.


# Basics of Worship

The commandments of our God about the principles of worship are:

1. One must declare the faith that exists in his heart with repetition of the shahada. (Shahada is the declaration of faith, "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His prophet")
2. Salat (the daily ritual prayer) will be performed at five times every day in certain times.
3. One must fast every day during the month of Ramadan.
4. One must give zakat if one possesses commercial goods in the amount of "nisab". ("Nisab" is a richness measure in Islam; it's value is equal to 96 gram gold for merchandises)
5. Every able-bodied and rich person will make the Hajj one time in his life.

In some Islamic literature, it is stated that these are the terms of Islam. If these were the terms, it should be sufficient for one to go out of Islam when these are left. But a person doesn't go out Islam without losing his belief. These are the pillars of Islam. A man destroys his religion if he leaves them. For this reason, don't think that anyone of them is unimportant, my dear brother.


# The Cardinal Sins

The following actions are the acts forbidden by Allah ta'âla that each one of them is a deadly sin. One must stand aloof from them. If commit one must repent, must plead for mercy; if exists, must be paid its expiation; and that sins must not be committed again.

1. One must not appoint partners to Allah ta'âla (He is the only one God).
2. One must not kill a man unjustly (To commit suicide is the same).
3. One must not fornicate.
4. One must not be disobedient against his parents.
5. One must not run away from the enemy in a war fought for Allah.
6. One must not bring an adultery accusation against a chaste woman.
7. One must not act as a false witness.
8. One must not commit perjury.
9. One must not unfairly use the goods and property of an orphan.
10. One must not do magic.
11. One must not lend or borrow money with interest.
12. One must not steal.
13. One must not drink alcoholic drinks.
14. One must not be a homosexual.
15. One must not persist on a little sin.
16. One must not be sure of the torment of Allah.
17. One must not be hopeless of the mercy of Allah.
18. One must not commit a sin within the Harem-i Kaaba.
19. One must not attribute a word to the Prophet that has not been said by Him.

Those given above are notified as the deadly sins in various Islamic sources.

(Today some media presents these deadly sins to the humans as if they are normal and ordinary events. The believers should not be deceived, and must stand aloof from these sins. Whoever stays away from them, he is in the salvation.)

(to be cont'd)

How to become a Muslim?

Hello my precious brother,

I have frequently mentioned in my previous articles that Islam is to accept to receive His divine education by being subject to the will of Allah. Since the creation of the first human being, those who had adopted this divine education reached the peak of maturity and therefore became the owner of an eternal happiness. Those who had not agreed to this divine offer and preferred to be the subject of their egos’ worthless desires on the other hand, could get rid of neither the worldly nor the ethereal troubles. The latter also create problems for the people around them as much as they were in troubles themselves.

# Must firstly believe in Allah, in his messengers and in all their messages

In order to accept Islam, in other words to become a Muslim, first of all it is necessary to believe in a unique creator, Allah (God), as well as to recognize that He has created all the material and spiritual alems (worlds), that He has absolute sovereignty over all things which were created by Him; and that He keeps them in existence by supplying their needs. Allah (God) does not have assistants, partners, coequals or similars. He always treats his creatures with mercy and justice; He is free from all defects and deficiencies and He is the owner of an endless power and might.

It is also necessary to believe all His prophets (including Mohammed aleyhissalam) and their messages which were sent to enable human beings to reach eternal happiness by making them go through a divine education.

The last ring of this prophets chain is Mohammed aleyhissalam. Mohammed aleyhissalam has corrected the false comments that came out in earlier times with the last book Qur'an that was revealed to Him. He also notified to the human beings, the rules that are valid all the time and that make people happy eternally.

Anyone who believes in such manner and declares his belief with the words "Lailahe illallah, Mohammeden rasulullah" (There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is His prophet) can become a Muslim. This declaration of the faith is called the Shahada. This oral declaration is important in terms of the law and procedures, but indeed the belief is the essential element.

# Messengers are salvation guides and none of them is God

It is also necessary to believe in Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Noah aleyhissalam and all other prophets, and their messages. All of them are the most selected creatures of God and all were sent to show the correct living style. It is necessary to be respectful and grateful to all of them. It is very wrong to divinize the prophets (they were humans just like us) and such manner is certainly not admissible before Allah. Allah is only the one God.

"Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin most heinous indeed." (Nisáa, 48)

"They say: 'Allah hath begotten a son!' - Glory be to Him! He is Self- Sufficient! His are all things in the heavens and on earth! No warrant have ye for this! Say ye about Allah what ye know not?" (Yunus, 68)

"Say: He is Allah, the One; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him." (Ikhlas, 1-4)

# The fundamental of Islam: the God's unity faith

One must never be hesitant in the matter of "The Unity of God".

"No son did Allah beget, nor is there any god along with Him: (if there were many gods), behold, each god would have taken away what he had created, and some would have lorded it over others! Glory to Allah. (He is free) from the (sort of) things they attribute to Him!" (Muminun, 91)

The fundamental of Islam is the "One God" belief that is expressed with the words "Lailahe illallah" (There is no God, but Allah.)

Becoming a Muslim is a very easy process. There is no need to resort to an authority or to conduct any religious ceremony. And there is also no need for a special time and any special place. Any point of the universe is appropriate for becoming a Muslim, to live Islam, and to worship God. Being clean is sufficient.

Cleanliness of the surroundings, body and heart is the basis of Islamic worships. The first step of the divine education after the Belief is the cleanliness. (Cleanliness is of faith. Hadith) For this reason, one must be cleaned with ablution by washing his mouth, nose and the whole body after accepting to receive God's divine education with the repetition of the shahada.

Since the essence of Islam is submission to the will of Allah taala, one should start all his work with Allah ta'ala's name by reciting "besmele." He must also intend to do any work for the sake of Allah ta'ala, only.

Besmele is to recite "Bismillaahirrahmaanirrahim" (In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful)

# Should first learn the essence of a correct faith

My dear brother,

A person must first learn the essence of the Islamic belief after becoming a Muslim (by saying the shahada). As I often emphasized so far, the fundamental of Islam is the "One God" belief and a correct faith. A person should not try to learn Islamic knowledge through asking questions to any ordinary Moslem around him. He must learn Islam from the books written by ahl-i sunnah scholars. The correct faith is the belief that is underlined in these books. We must strengthen our faith according to the true knowledge in these books.

# Then must try to obey the commands and refrain from the prohibitions of the religion

After learning the God's commands and prohibitions, a person must try to obey these rules as much as he can do. I have given briefly these commands and prohibitions in my subsequent article titled "The Golden Rules of An Eternal Happiness". A person should learn the details of these rules from the fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) books. In this way he reaches to matureness and perfectness in this world as fast as possible if he is sincere in learning and applying them. He becomes a truthful, dependable, well-mannered, polite and an excellent human being. He is loved and respected by everyone, everywhere.

A man who is sincere in his faith becomes also sincere in his acts, in his statements, in his friendships and in his love. If a man is genuine in his belief and his acts, and also tries to accomplish his worship duties as far as he can do within his knowledge, Allah ta'ala teaches him the things that he doesn't know. "Allah ta'ala teaches him the things that he doesn't know" means that He creates the necessary reasons for the one to learn.

Be entrusted to Allah.

Understanding Islam

Hello my precious brother,

I had talked about the five existence dimensions of the human to you in my previous articles. The human gathers on himself all the physical and chemical features of the matters world in first dimension, all the physiological features of the plants world in second dimension, all the psychological features of the animals world in third dimension. He also obtains a humanistic personality different from the other creatures, with the "thinking", "analysing and synthesizing", and "deciding" ability, in fourth dimension.

# The uncounted benefactions have been given to the human

Certainly the wonderful benefactions have been provided to himself until the human comes this level. Now, try to think only the physiological dimension. Thousands of chemicals play their roles in this mechanism. Imagine that only one enzyme or only one hormone doesn't do it's function. How distressed days human lives.

Try to remember the benefactions at your psychological dimension. Think of your attention has weakened, your memory is absent, or you lost your consciousness. Imagine that you have afflicted with mental deficiency. How bad case for you!

Now, think that you are deprived of "reason" benefaction. Everybody treats you like dirt, for you can not think and for you can not be possessed of the power of deciding and responsibility. You can not manage yourselves. You can not manage your wares and properties. Your relations with the society in which you live completely breakdown. You can not sign an agreement and a contract. You can not vote. Even, if you bring any information, nobody believes this news. This is how much bad case.

The human, here, in his first four dimensions, has attained measureless benefactions of his creator Almighty God (Allah) who has possession of mercy and compassion. But, I'm sorry to say, the majority of the humans are not aware of these benefactions.

# Almighty Allah wants to complete these benefactions

My dear brother,

Almighty Allah (God), who is the creator and the greatest protector of the human, has equipped with such measureless benefactions the human up to fourth reason dimension. And He also wishes to complete His benefactions and favors on the human by carrying him to the peak of the matureness for making him much more precious and excellent in fifth dimension after this point.

"Allah does not wish to place you in a difficulty, but to make you clean, and to complete his favor to you, ..." (Maida, 6)

But these favors, which will be realized after this phase, has been made dependent on the own volition of person. Namely, for this, it is necessary that person must abandon his own personality, his own arrogance, and his own egoism; and he must completely subject to his creator's volition and surrender to him. This submission is called, briefly, as Islam.

I had tried to expound the human in the previous articles. In this article, I'll try to explicate Islam.

# Islam is to be subject to the will of Allah

My dear brother,

Islam is an Arabic originated word and it means "submission". Its meaning as a religious term is the submission and being subject to the will of Almighty Allah that He has not the similars, partners and assistants; He has created the physical and metaphysical worlds; He keeps them in existence by supplying their needs; He provides necessary power, force and energy for them; He arranges and organizes them at will; He makes present or absent everything at will and at any time; He is real owner the whole property and is unique sovereign on the worlds. "Islam" is to live according to the commandments, the wills and the rules of this Almighty Allah, but not according to the desires of person's own ego.

Certainly, this only comes true with "faith". Can it be under discussion to be subjected to God's volition, without believing and not being accepted His existence? For this reason, the religion erudites have accepted that the belief is the fundamental of the religion.

My precious brother,

Religions are the systems in which divine education comes true. Divine mercy turns into pretty behaviours in the personality of the human by means of religions. By the help of religions, the human obtains a clean and mature divine personality, by getting rid of the bad and egoist humanistic personality.
The Creator saw fit to Himself the name Allah in His Last Book. This name gathers all nice attributes of Him on self. For this reason, I'll prefer to use this name in my articles.

# Almighty Allah has named his own education system as Islam

Islam is the appearance of the Rab (educator) attribute of Allah on the human. Allah Ta'ala has given Islam name for own schooling system that will bear away the human to the peak of matureness. Islam is a doctrine. It is the name of a schooling system being notified by a prophets chain, ranging from Adam aleyhissalaam to Muhammed aleyhissalaam. There is no religion other than Islam before Allah.

"The Religion before Allah is Islam." (Al-i Imran, 19)

The essence of all the celestial religions is Islam, though there are some differences between their sharia. Islam is an ego educating system. Islam means to live a person according to The Almighty Creator's wills, but not his ego's desires. Islam means that obeying by the human to the rules of Allah by witnessing the existence of Allah Ta'ala who is the creator and educator of him; to prefer the wills of Allah rather than his own desires; limiting his own wishes by the wills of Allah; not exceeding the limits which has been determined by Allah Ta'ala.

"Islam" means to be subject to His rules, by believing only a one God, that He has no partner, no similar, no equal; He has created all the alems (worlds) and the universe; He keeps them in existence; He provides all the needs of them by His mercy and His kindness. And also the persons who are subject to the rules of Allah Ta'ala are called as "Muslims". The Arabic originated word "Muslim" means the surrendered person to Allah. If you believe such a unique Creator and if you accept to be subject to Him, you are also a Muslim.

# All Messengers has advised Islam

The religion being notified by all the prophets since Adam aleyhissalaam is Islam. Each one of the prophets didn't bring different religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism that the majority of people such suppose; contrarily, all the prophets have notified only one religion Islam. The people has nicknamed afterward as Judaism, Christianity. All the prophets were Muslims. All of them were sent for making known Allah Ta'ala that He has no partner and no similar; for teaching to the people to behave according to the rules of Allah, but not according to the wishes of their self; for pointing the correct way to them. All of them also advised not to kill the humans unmeritedly; not to do harm the humans' body and goods; not to live intercourse out the marriage, namely not to fornicate. All of them also advised to love each other; not to do spitefulness; not to tell lies. Today, all merits being possessed by the humans, either prayerful or ateist, have arrived up to us by means of the prophets of Allah.

However, each one of the prophets brought partially different rules according to the conditions of that time. The each one of these is called as sharia. The last prophet Mohammed aleyhissalaam has also announced the rules that both to correct the false comments coming out at previous times, and to keep its validity along all the times for maturing all the humans eternally.

# To be subject to the latest Sharia is matureness

For this reason, a human finds the right by being subject to any prophet, on condition that he must subject to essence of religion. A person who is subject to previous sharia must take into consideration the abolished rules by the subsequent sharia. To be subject to the last prophet Mohammed aleyhissalaam is also a fully matureness. It is like to prefer the latest model car to arrive at the destination.

My dear brother,

I'll try to tell you Islam also in my subsequent articles. Islam is a perpetual happiness way of the human who is a precious creature. A person walking in this road reaches the salvation both in this and the other world. But the persons who have strayed from the correct way, by being subject to their disdainful ego, have fallen to heresy for their own harm.

Be entrusted to Allah.

Understanding the Heart

My precious brother,

I had talked about two faces of the big reality created by God (Allah), about Halk Alem and Emr Alem, in previous article. And I had stated that the human is a little world bearing some elements from both worlds.

The human is been constituted from two components as body and spirit. The first of these is from the Halk Alem, and represents the substance of the Human; the second is from the Emr Alem, and represents of the essence and meaning of the Human.

# The connection between two worlds are provided by Heart

The connection, communication and interaction between these two alems are provided through the Heart. Implied meaning with the "heart" word is not the meat part which located in the left side of the chest and pumping the blood to the body. It is a spiritual power being represented by this organ. It is also called as soul or conscience. It's existence is figurative.

Heart is very important. The knowledges and images belonging to the both worlds (The Halk and Emr Alems) are represented in the Heart. The impressions of all the somatic, physiological and psychological dimensions, which appear as joys and pains, and also all the products of the reason and moral dimensions are take place in the Heart. For this reason, this imaginal world occuring in the Heart has been named as "the Misal Alem". Misal means instance or example. The Misal Alem is not a reality world such as The Halk and Emr Alems, but it is an images arena, an imaginal world, being formed from the symbolic images of other two alems.

An example can be given from the facts of nowadays to able to better explain the situation: Now, please think the human as a personal computer named as PC. The body of the human is the mechanical part of PC named as hardware. The spirit of the human also resembles the programme named as software. We can liken to the screen the meat part named as heart. And also we can think the Heart, which is representative of the spiritual values, such as the displays appearing on the screen.

When a defect or a perfection occurs on the mechanical part of PC (for example on display card, power supply or on keyboard), this is reflected to the displays completely. In the same way, the whole features of the programme, all the defects and perfections on it, are reflected to the displays completely. Like this, all the occurrences on our body and spirit are completely reflected to the Heart which is our soul window.

# Person's behaviours are controlled by Heart

Every thing controling by PC is managed through the monitor displays. Like this, our whole life is managed by our Heart. If a person has good feelings and thoughts in his heart, that person is good. But if a person has bad feelings and thoughts in his heart, that person is also wicked.

Heart is not only an imaginal world, on which be represented the Halk and Emr Alems (the material and spiritual worlds), but, at the same time, it is an imaginal passage, a passing point, between both worlds. Heart, is a window opening to the spiritual world from the material world. The human can not observe and perceive the occurrences on the Emr Alem (the spiritual world) without his heart window. For this reason, the humans, whose hearts are blackened with sins, suppose that there is not a Spiritual World, because they can not see it.

I had explained in previous article: The components of the Halk Alem are "objects". This world is constituted from "objects", "situations" and "phenomena". And it is a "volumed", "timed" and "measurable" world. But the Emr Alem is not so that. It is constituted from some spiritual values, some pleasant spiritual beings, which their existences have been notified in the sacred books. It is not "volumed" and "timed". The knowledges of this spiritual world can not be obtained with the methods, ways and techniques belonging to the Material World. The knowledges belong to this world are obtained only by means of the Heart. The key of this is "Faith". If you approach to this situation with computer example, you can envision the Faith as the password for reaching any programme. How you can not reach any programme without a "password", also, you can not reach the knowledges of the Spiritual World without "Faith".

# Everybody benefits from the divine world in the ratio of his "faith"

I had told that, the heart is an imaginal arena where the knowledges of both worlds are represented. The representation ratios of the knowledges of both worlds on this arena, depend on the Faith.

Heart returns to life with Faith. A heart without Faith is a dead heart from the spiritual perspective, that the knowledges and images belonging to the Material World take the place there, only. The persons possessing such dead heart (by losing their spiritual values), that take place the displays only belonging to the Material World in such hearts, is named as "heartless" or "unconscientious". Such heartless persons can do every wickedness, due to thinking only his world life.

The revival of the Heart begins with believing. When appeared a faith and love as little as mote for his God in a person's heart, the password has been decoded and a passage has been opened to "the spiritual world" in person's heart. After this, it begins to be represented not only the knowledges belonging to the Material World, but also the knowledges belonging to the Spiritual World, at the heart. Flowing these knowledges to the Heart is in ratio of person's faith. As the knowledges belonging to the Material World disturb the heart, the knowledges belonging to the Spiritual World relax the heart and give serenity to the heart. For this reason, the worldly persons, who possess a weak belief, are always uneasy, anxious and flurried. As long as their heart are refreshed by increasing their belief, an apparent relaxation is seen on these persons.

# The barricades in front of the Spiritual World?!..

The largest barricade in front of obtaining the knowledges belonging to the Spiritual World, by seeing through the heart window, are the representations belonging to the Material World, situated in the heart. These are the curtains belonging to the Material World, in front of the Spiritual World. If a human destroys one by one these materialistic curtains in his heart, by restricting the desires and ambitions of his ego, he gets possibility of seeing uncloudedly and clearly the things belonging to the Spiritual World.

The destroying process of the representations belonging to the Material World, which situated in the heart, is named as "the cleaning of ego". The cleaning of ego, means its extinction. Such a man getting rid of his egoism begins to better understand every knowledge coming from his God. And he also knows better his God. The way going to the true Faith passes from this cleaning.

The Alems (Worlds)

Hello my precious brother,

In my previous articles, I have tried to explain and describe the human by analyzing in different dimensions. In fact, the human is a wonderful creature owning amazing properties beyond these expressions. But to be able to exhibit these properties of the human, it is necessary to well understand firstly the physical and metaphysical ambient which the human lives in.

When has been looked from the viewpoint of the human, it is seen that all the creatures created by God (Allah) constitute two big worlds:  One is "The Halk Alem", consists of visible beings, and the other is "The Emr Alem", consists of invisible beings. There are numerous small units in these two great worlds. As to the human, he is a different and little world who contains some things belong to both big worlds.

# Halk Alem: The material world

"The Halk Alem" is also named as "The Universe". It is the physical medium that surrounds the human. The most important feature of this world is to be "volumed" and "timed", consequently, to be "measurable".

"Space" and "Time" concepts are the concepts that they have emerged after being created "The Halk Alem" or "The Universe".

The physical world is a world that consists of "objects", "situations" and "events". To be have three dimensions of the rigid objects and to occupy a volume in space spontaneously caused developing a "volume" concept in minds. Since the objects have a position in space, spontaneously, it is been also needed to use some words stating their positions such as "in front of", "behind", "above", "below" for explaining the situation of an object according to another. It is also been spontaneously needed to use some qualifying words such as "big", "small", "high", "low", "heavy", "light" for expressing their sizes, because of possessing the different value of an object according to another. When asked the question "How much", it is been also spontaneously needed saying " big such as this", "far-off such as that", by inventing a measure for these greatness. For this reason, you see that, this physical world is a "measurable" world.

An other feature of this objects world is that, the "situations" and "positions" of all objects always varies more or less, they are not stable. It is also been needed, spontaneously, to talk about "a changing case" namely a "phenomenon" or "event", when a differentness appears on some properties such as position, volume, weight, color, taste of these objects.

When these events also be investigated, it is been seen that, some phenomena develop depend on some former phenomena, even some phenomena constitute a series by coming into existence consecutively, and thus a "determinism" concept has emerged. Also, some repeated events such as rising and setting of the sun caused to develop the "time" concept in minds spontaneously.

My precious brother,

Why am I explaining these with all the details? I am explaining these detailedly for this purpose that, it is difficult to understand being "massless", "spaceless" and "timeless" of Allah for the majority of people. Therefore, it is necessary to understand that, "time", "space" and "measure" concepts are characteristic only for "The Halk Alem" or "The Material World" named as "The Universe", and these concepts have emerged after the creation of the universe.

# Emr Alem: The spiritual world

The second of the worlds created by Allah is named as "The Emr Alem". It is also called as "The Metaphysical World" or "The Spiritual World". This Emr Alem is not "volumed" and "timed" as to be for "The Halk Alem" or "The Material world". Consequently, it does not possess also a "measurable" feature. Namely, this alem is a "timeless" and "spaceless" world and it can not been ascertained and measured by using the tools and methods belonging to "The Material World". Of course, there are own different tools and methods of this world.

The components of "the Halk Alem" or "the Material World" are "objects". Objects are things that they possesses certain properties which can be seen and can be measured by humans. The scientific knowledge is based on determining the features of "objects", the changes of their situations, and the relations with each other of these changes named as "phenomenon".
But the components of "The Emr Alem" are immaterial, ethereal things such as spirits, angels and some moral values. They can not be seen by the humans. Their existence, their properties, the miscellaneous features owned by them can not be determined by using the measuring and detection tools belonging to "The Objects World". The measurement tools belonging to "The Material World" have been developed only for determining the matters and their materialistic properties.

A lot of people try to determine the existence of "The Metaphysical World" and its features by using the tools belonging to "The Physical World". Of course, they determine nothing. They suppose that there is nothing, for the reason that they can not determine anything. And then they turn out to be ateist. This is a very foolishly thing like this that one accepts the existence of ice for he can see it, but he denies the existence of vapour for he can't see it in the air. These are the things being at different phases and the knowledges about their existences can obtain only with the different methods.

Like this, doubtless, the knowledges belonging to "The Spiritual World" representing a different phase can not be obtained with the knowledge obtaining tools and methods belonging to "The Material World". As there are some methods to get knowledge for "The Physical World", so there are also some ways and methods peculiar to themselves to get knowledges of "The Metaphysical World". The knowledges of "The Spiritual World" are obtained only by using these special methods. But there is the "faith" on the basis of all these methods. It is never been reached the spiritual realities of "The Metaphysical World" without "belief".

# Misal Alem: The imaginal world

My dear brother,

"The Halk Alem" and "The Emr Alem" constitute two different faces of the created realities. In addition, between these two worlds, there is an "imaginal world" consisting of various symbols of the objects of the both worlds, which appears at the human who represents both worlds. This imaginary world is named as "The Misal Alem". The dreams are typical examples from this imaginal world. The Misal Alem is not a realities world. The Misal Alem is a representative world being composed from sounds, visions, dreams, imageries and imaginations; therein the realities of the both worlds are been represented as sounds or images. Just like the imageries of things in mirror... All being well, I'll talk about obtaining the knowledges belonging to the spiritual world in the next articles, inshaallah.

Be entrusted to God.
 

The Reason and Moral Dimensions of Human

(If you wish to obtain more benefit from this article, please read firstly our "Correct Understanding the Human" titled article.)

My precious brother,

I had talked about five dimensions of the human existence in my previous article.

"Substance", "Physiological" and "Psychological" dimensions are present also at the animals. But "reason" and "moral" dimensions belong to the human only. I want to emphasize the last two dimensions for the reason that these are the basis of the human behaviours.

# A human in the reason dimension

The human becomes owner of a "personality" with being taken over the management of the body by mind, in the fourth "reason" dimension. Because, the reason is a mechanism for "thinking", "analysing and synthesizing", and "deciding". For this reason, this dimension is a dimension that the human behaves according to his self free demands and desires, with his self free volition and with his self free decisions. But, by reason of the fact that the divine education doesn't occur yet, the desires and ambitions of the ego dominate the behaviours of person, in this dimension. That means, person uses entirely his own demands and desires, his own volition, as a basis for deciding on any subject.

# The "good" and "bad" in this dimension

As a result, in this dimension, those being suitable for the desires of the person are "good", but those being adverse to the desires of the person are "bad". For this reason, the person can not be rid of having a double standard. Because, while a thing and a situation is "good" for being suitable for his personal interests; at an other time, the same thing and situation is "bad" for being adverse to his personal interests.

An other characteristic of this dimension is to be fond of money, status and havings. In this dimension, for the reason that the person bases on the demands and desires of his ego as main manager of his behaviours, everything satisfying this desires gets a big value in his eye. A big fondness arises in his heart for everything satisfying this demands and desires of his ego. This extreme love and fondness for the things such as money, status and havings divinizes these things in their owner's eye. And makes him merciless and hard-hearted against the other humans.

# The boredoms of the human in the fourth dimension never finish

The boredoms and confusions of the human in this dimension never finish. Because, the human obeying to his ego, in the fourth dimension, consumes all the time of his life by trying to satisfy the interminable demands and desires of his ego. However, the needs of human are endless. The demands and desires emerging in the heart for these needs are also endless. Does it end the troubles of a human who tries to satisfy his own every whim? For this reason, the main characteristics of this fourth dimension is the boredoms, heart unrests, and precipitancy.

One of the most important characteristics of this dimension is haughtiness. Haughtiness means to see himself superior to other humans. This is an inherent result of being egocentric. Because, the ego changes the realities according to itself's demands and desires. And it sees excellent itself over everybody and everything.

# The human in the fourth dimension doesn't know also a true "love"

The human in this dimension, also, doesn't know a "love" in real meaning. Because, the "love" of him is only for his ego and it's demands and desires. For this reason, he loves everything and everybody satisfying his desires and giving the pleasure himself. But, he becomes instantly distant from everything and everybody giving a little trouble himself. He loves everybody fulfilling any desire of him, he hates everybody who doesn't fulfil his desire.

Therefore, the majority of humans are very "good" as long as you perform his demands. "The good and the bad of humans is understood when you have not fulfil his desires."

Briefly, the man in the fourth dimension is a human who is owner "personality", but egoist, hard-hearted, atrocious, troubled, unrestful and unloving. Although he tries to seem like a good human for the reason the behavior patterns coming from value judgments placed in society, there is always an egoism under these views. There is an artificiality and a spuriousness in these behaviours, always.

# Everything changes with "the faith" in the moral dimension

Everything begins to change, when a person has accepted to be subject to the will of his God, by believing Him. This moment is a moment that the human has took first step to the matureness. The fifth dimension starts here.

My dear brother,

The fifth "spiritual" or "moral" dimension of the human is a divine education process that its rules are put by God. The name of this education process is "religion". Religion is a mercy and beneficence of God. Unfortunately, only the believers in God and the Last Day take advantage of this mercy and beneficence. This mercy is only for those giving themselves to God with a contented heart. Most of humans are so engaged in the demands and desires of their ego that they are not fully aware of this mercy and beneficence of their Creator.

The most important reason of the deprivation from the mercy and beneficence of God is, doubtlessly, the arrogance of human. The haughtiness is the most important barricade in front of all the divine benefits. But, the worst of the haughtiness is that being against his God by human. It is such a foolish behaviour to be conceited against his God by human, whereas he was created by Him, his all needs are provided by Him, and he is a weak creature who will be dead if he remains breathless a few minutes.

# The results of being subject to the will of God

If the human begins to be subject to the will of his God by leaving his self free volition and his haughtiness, in self heart contentedness and believing Him, he goes into a spiritual ascension and maturation process.

The method of this spiritual ascension and maturation process is to remember always his god, Allah, and to do "riyâdat" and "mujâhadah". "Riyâdat" means to not do the things which ego likes (such as forbidden things), "mujâhadah" means to do the things which ego doesn't like (such as worships and favors).

As long as this maturation process continues by doing "riyâdat" and "mujâhadah", the politeness and matureness of the human increases. He begins to be a "human" in a real sense of the word. The endless desires of the ego being present in his heart decreases little by little. The person gets rid of his ego and egoism. The fondness for the money, status and havings in his heart ends. The love of Allah who is the real deity and is owner the mercy and grace, takes place in his heart, in the place of these fake deities.

If how much a person be sincere in his faith and be desirous in performing the worships for his God, this maturation process is completed so much quickly.

# A new personality

When the love of Allah has settled to the heart by disappearing the other loves and passions, everything changes. The person has got an altruistic divine personality now, in place of the previous egoistic personality. I just compare this situation to this that one greedy caterpillar which devours everything becomes one elegant butterfly which carries fragrances from flower to flower. After being completed this maturation process, takes modesty the place of haugtiness, gentleness the place of coarseness, compassion the place of heartlessness, bashfulness the place of shamelessness, beneficence the place of grimness, love the place of hate. This "love" in fifth dimension differs from the "love" in fourth dimension. It is a true "love". It is not like the loves which be showed for world benefits and then disappears when these benefits finished.

My dear brother,

The most important results being obtained in consequence of this process are those: A strong faith and a heart serenity depending on it. Being in submission. Ma’rifatullah. "Ma’rifatullah" means to know his God by the human. The most valuable knowledge for a human is to know his God, namely "ma’rifatullah". The human has been created for this purpose. The religion is not a somniferous as the socialist mentality supposes. The religion means to be "a true human" by passing through the education of God. If a man doesn't pass through this education, in spite of to be an intelligent creature, he becomes a cruel, fiendish, merciless, shameless, contradictious, tightwad, egoist, unrighteous creature, who always uses his mental activity for viciousness. He sometimes is insomuch cruel that, even any animal doesn't make which he does.

# The evilnesses can not be controlled in the ateist societies

The evilnesses can not be controlled in the societies being deprived of the religion. The society becomes full to overflowing with the humans who try to crush each other. Therefore, the religion is not a somniferous, but it is a perfection and matureness elixir for the human. There are always serenity and happiness at the societies which sincerely lives the religion. The perturbations and discomforts stalks at the societies which don't live the religion sincerely or they have suspended from the religion.

The human knows his self and his God owing to the religion. He becomes a saintly creature owning the heart serenity, morality and good behaviours, by means of the religion.

# The khalif of Allah on the earth

By looking at his behaviour, you can easily distinguish such a human who has raised to the fifth dimension by passing through a divine education. Because he always adjudges according to the laws of Allah on every subject, by considering the consent of God every time. He never deviates from justice even it is disadvantageous for himself. He says the good and usefulness when he speaks. He says the true when he says. He never betray when be trusted him for something. He doesn't squander anything. He is true to his word when he gives a promise. He never persecutes anybody. He doesn't despise nobody. He doesn't deem proper anything which he doesn't desire it for himself. A human always feels himself at ease and secure when he came near him. Because he knows that no evil emanates from him.

Briefly, a human in the fifth dimension is a human that he is a symbol of goodnesses, maturenesses and perfectivities, having a divine personality. He is the khalif of his God on the earth. He is a true human.

Be entrusted to God.

Correct Understanding the Human

Hello my precious brother,

The human has been created in the just centre of the values in the Universe. He is one of the most honourable of the creatures. He is a precious and respected creature. If we can understand the human in a correct way, it becomes possible to understand a lot of things in a correct way.
There are five existence dimensions of the human.


# Substance Dimension: The human in this dimension isn't different from a wood, stone or soil

The first of these is his "substance" dimension. The human is not a ware consisting of the meat, bone and blood pochette as supposed by some materialists. The part consisting of the meat, bone and blood of the human is his matter. He is not different from other substances when he is evaluated within the scope of this dimension. He can be measured, weighed, and analyzed physically and chemically such as all the other matters. The human is similar to wood, stone or soil, in this dimension. (Please remember our corpse being entombed)


# Physiological Dimension: The whole liveliness events begin in this dimension

The liveliness of the human begins with the physiological dimension. Namely the second dimension of the human is "the physiological events" dimension. This dimension is a dinamic structure as been in all living creatures. There are the energy producing mechanisms on the one hand, and there are the biosentesis mechanisms using this produced energy on the other hand. The transfer of energy is provided by means of the coenzyme ATP (Adenosin tri phosphate) between these two systems. The thousands of various chemicals such as enzymes, coenzymes, chemical group transferors, electron transporters etc. take part in this physiological system. In addition, there is an electrical and hormonal mechamism which controls this physiological structure forward and backward. The human in this dimension is similar to the plants except the nervous system. (Remember the status of a person in coma.)


# Psychological Dimension: This dimension is a dimension that it is established the reciprocal relationship with ecosystem

The third of the existence dimensions of the human is "the psychological events" dimension. This is a dimension that the psychic events begin in the human body. All the psychical phenomena such as attention, perception, memory, association, consciousness, intelligence, sense and excitements, passions take place in this dimension. The human in this dimension is a creature who possesses consciousness. He is aware of his environment. He is in a reciprocal relationship with his periphery. He perceives the effects coming through the sense organs. He processes and interprets these knowledges being obtained. He constitutes concepts from them. He saves and uses them in case of need. The human in this dimension is similar to the animals in many respects. (Remember the case of a man devoid of reason)


# Reason Dimension: This dimension is a dimension that the human gains "personality"

The human is separated from the other animals by the "reason" dimension. This is the fourth dimension of the human. "Reason" is a thinking and deciding mechanism. Only human has reason, animals have not. It is used to form more complicated decisions and judgements from simple premises. Thus, the human doesn't confine himself only to perceive and identify his periphery, but at the same time, he does some analysis, synthesis and commentaries owing to his mind, which these are used for estimating the things to be in future. And he decides and adjudges based on these. These are the features belonging only to the human being, not present at the other animals.

An important changing is observed at both inside and outside of the human existence, after the "reason" becomes a part of the activity, at the fourth dimension. The appearance of this new construction is named as "ego" when it is observed from the inside, and is named as "personality" when it is observed from the outside.

This is a phenomenon that is similar to becoming a "state" of an ethnic people. An ethnic group has got some decision-maker mechanisms after becoming "the state". These organizations take some decisions, establish some rules, legislate some laws in their opinion. And they meet with the positive and negative reactions of the other states by reason of these decisions taken by them. Like this, a human becoming a seperate personality by oneself also lives the same things because of the decisions taken by him. He is a creature that produces ideas, puts forward proposals, and possesses some demands, now. Namely, he possesses volition, opinion and vote; shortly he possesses a "personality". (Remember a man who analyses, synthesises, plans, manages, puts forward some opinions.)

But, at the human who hasn't yet passed through a divine education in this dimension, the commentaries, decisions and judgments occur always under the control of ego, and in the direction of ego's demands, desires and greeds. Because, the human in this dimension is a man that he couldn't know his ego, he couldn't go beyond his ego, he couldn't get rid of his ego and egoism yet. He is an egocentric person yet. The "good" and "bad" concepts are also taken shape according to the ego's desires in this dimension. In other saying, everything being suitable for his private benefit is "good", but everything being adverse to his private benefit is "bad". For this reason, the human in this dimension can never be rid of having a double standard.


# Moral Dimension: This dimension is a dimension that the human becomes a perfect human with the divine education

Ego is the most important cause of every evil and trouble which has befallen. Furthermore, it is exceedingly powerful. The human can be rid of the hegemony of his ego only by help of the Creator, by passing through a divine education. The beginning of this divine education is "the faith". The fifth dimension of the human starts with "the faith". The essential dimension of the human is the fifth dimension that makes the human "a true human" in real meaning of the word. The fifth dimension is the "moral" dimension.

By this divine education, the egoistical "humanistic personality" obtained at the "reason" dimension disappears, and a new "heavenly personality", which decides and adjudges in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator, takes it's place. The man in this new personality always holds the consent of God in front of everything and makes every thing for the sake of God. With this new divine personality, the human is also borne away the peaks of the spiritual maturenesses, which has been vouchsafed to no other living creature at this wold. At this dimension, the "scale" using by the mind also changes. The "divine consent" scale takes the place of the "individual benefit" scale. In this way, the human possesses a good, altruistic and selfless moral character being directed by the Creator, in place of a bad and egoistic moral character being directed by ego. (Remember a mature, gracious, well-mannered human, having a good morale.)

Every thing changes in the life of the human in consequence of passing to the fifth "moral" dimension. The human becomes fine, graceful, decent, truthful, serious, mellow, ripe, tolerant, uncomplaining, helpful, merciful, righteous, gracious, generous, resigned, not hurry and confusion in his works, in such a way that wholly distinct from the previous dimension. Briefly he becomes "a true human". This is a situation that appears on the human in consequence of getting moral values which belonging to God and His prophets, by passing through the divine education. Such a human rising to the fifth dimension is a precious and respected creature, now. The human in this status is the khalif of His God on the world.


# The human rises to the fifth dimension only with "faith"

My Dear Brother,

Of course, to be reached the high character and morality at the fifth dimension by a human is not so much easy. This is a long way, with ups and downs. To be slowly or quickly of the travelling is not important here. A man reachs to the destination early or late when he has gone into this way. The most important matter here is to consent to be educated by his God at first, by abandoning his arrogance and keeping his modesty.

Of course, for this, primarily it is needed to believe to the almighty Creator and to recognize the existence of Him. Most of the humans say: "We believe in God". But the majority is not sincere herein. Whereas there are so much reasons for believing a God who created all the universe and manages it as He wishes...

Dr. Ismail Ulukus