The Start of the Nearness to Allah (2)

FROM THE IMITATED BELIEF TO THE RATIONAL BELIEF

My precious readers,

I had said that "After beginning to shine the belief's light in heart, the doors of the heart become open to the divine knowledges, the divine recommendation and advices"

As a matter of fact, after beginning to shine this belief's light at his heart, a person be more enthusiastic for the divine knowledges which have been brought by Prophets. Beforehand while he thinks them as cock and bull stories faked up by the human imagination; after belief, his perspective and viewpoint changes. Man notices that they are not invented stories; they are completely true, and every divine rule being obeyed carries away a man to unlimited goodnesses. This also take him to a new process where he tries to obtain a thorough knowledge on Islam and tries to value these knowledges in the scales of wisdom.

This is the rational belief stage. The rational belief is a stage that person tries to interpret the acts of Allah by using his wisdom, by enquiring and by investigating the religious knowledges. Man is more near to his Creator in this stage than being in the imitated belief stage.


FROM THE RATIONAL BELIEF TO THE REAL BELIEF

But, after a certain duration, person will immediately notice that he doesn't explain everything by using his wisdom. Because, wisdom is a mechanism that works only on tangible realities. It works only by using the senses, images, imagines, ideas and consepts obtained from matter, whereas the divine realities are completely different from the material realities. The divine realities are spaceless and timeless. The words using for stating the divine realities are also representational statements. These realities can not be undestood by sense and wisdom. To try understanding the divine realities by using methods of the material realities is, so to say, similar to try understanding the vapour by investigating an ice bar; whereas, vapour and ice are the things that they are endued with the completely different constructions. The rules, which they are subject to, are completely different. True knowledges can be obtained only if every construction are been investigated by their own rules and canons.

The place we stand now is the exhaustion point of wisdom for believer. Because, on the one hand, person comes face to face with some events confirming the divine realities and these power his belief; on the otherhand, some events appear that these can not be accepted easily by wisdom, and these cause him to fall into hesitations.

The real face of the belief emerges in the heart of the person when it has been passed to the spiritual dimension providentially by climbing over the enquiry (by wisdom) phase. Certainly, this doesn't be so easy. For passing to this dimension, usually, it is necessary the helps of the persons called awliya (saints). But Allahu taala also predestinates this dimension to some person He likes, without taking any help.

In this phase, the divine (spiritual) realities begin to appear in such a way that more transparent, more explicit, as clear as crystal in man's imagination. At the time, the believer begins to see the divine (spiritual) realities as clear and doubtlessly as in the material realities. This final phase which the believer comes to, be named as the witnessing phase, is the peak point of the belief. Nobody can turn back such a man from his belief, hereafter.

The peak point of the belief is also the peak point of the nearness of Allah, in the same time.

IT IS NOT SO EASY TO REACH THE REAL BELIEF

My dear readers,

Certainly, to reach a real belief is not so easy and is also not an event being quickly. And also, it doesn't be vouchsafed to everybody.

The start of this process, as mentioned above, is the moment in which begins to shine the belief's light in heart with the word "Lailahe illallah - There is no God, but Allah". The belief process which has begun in this way, reachs to peak by developing with the various Riyazat (means to avoid Islamic forbiddens) and Mücahada (means to worship), and with the different ego cleaning activities such as zikr (means to remember Allah). But the principle of the act never changes, this is to increase the belief's light in heart, namely, to increase the love of Allah, Muhabbetullah, in heart.

When a person is acquainted with a new good man, how his attachment to him increases in his heart as long as he sees his good behaviour; in the same way, as long as increases the belief's light in the believer's heart, namely as long as increases the love towards his God, the nearness of his Creator, also, increases. It is called as "kurbet". Kurbet means nearness and approaching. Also the acts which approach to Allah are named as "kurbet".

In these articles, i am trying to tell what means the nearness to Allah and what the ways and methods of this, without going into detail and without missing out the essence in a lot of argumentative knowledges. The details can be learn from the "ilmihal"s, the books explaining the principles of Islam. My purpose is to tell you the main prenciples being near to Allah. I am expecting to achieve this by the helps of Allah.

I wish Allahu taala makes me and you successfull on our beneficial acts, inshaallah. And almighty Allah cleans our hearts from the useless and unnecessary things, and He increases his own love (Muhabbetullah) at our hearts, and He makes me and you from persons close to himself, inshaallah.