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Tablet Nine
MEDITATION
<1>Meditation,
in the simplest terms, means to calm the
mind
and direct its attention from the external world to the spiritual
world.
<2>So silence, fasting, a good environment,
purification, a
healthy body, etc., all help in having a strong calm
mind.
<3>Contemplation and concentration on higher
thoughts makes a person rise above the lower self to the
higher self.
<4>Using special words of power (mantras)
will also help to activate the
chakras (psychic
centers) and bring energies from the lower
chakras to the higher ones.
<5>"Allah"
is a word of power (vibration of the seed of the mind), so its
repetition and thinking about the Lord will raise the consciousness.
<6>However, silence and
fasting together is one of the most effective ways of calming
the mind. <7>Closing
the eyes and concentrating on
mantras is best for
sharpening the spiritual understanding of the aspirant.
<8>Prayer and chanting with utmost devotion is
the cleansing process of the Soul. <9>To pray is to talk to
God; to meditate is to
listen to Him!
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Surah The Family of Imran (Ali 'Imran)
Zachariah said: My Lord, lay upon me a token. He (the
angel) replied: the
token for you is that you should not speak to people for three days but
by signs, and remember the Lord much, and praise Him by night and early
morning. (41)
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<10>What this verse presents is that silence, the
remembrance of God, and
meditating on Him and creation is a part of growing closer to Him.
That is why
meditation, silence,
and being an observer is recommended by all great spiritual
teachers. <11>That is, to keep yourself away from the crowd and
think about creation, what is going on here in this world, why we
are here, what we are doing, what we are, what is
God, etc. |
Remember God, standing, sitting, lying on the sides and contemplate
the Creation of the heavens and the earth, which make them to
humbly utter: O Lord, You have not created this in vain [without
purpose]. Holy You
are, preserve us from the torment of the fire. (191)
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<12>Love
your God
with all your heart, mind,
and being. Remember your Lord and meditate on Him (He is all) all
the time. |
MIRACLES AND DISBELIEVERS
<13>As the consciousness of the human rises,
there will be fewer demands for miracles and emphasis will be more
on teaching and understanding the realities of the spiritual world.
In the past, many miracles were shown in order to awaken the low
consciousness of the regular humans and to develop belief in an
unseen Power. <14>However, the human with a higher consciousness in
this age does not need to be shown miracles. He can look at his
body, universe, and all things and see the hand of the Invisible
Power.
<15>Also, people usually
put their attention on the miracles performed by the Prophet or
on his personality, and they forget the true teaching and depth
of his revelations. <16>That is why those who
are ready for the realization of the truth behind the realities
of the spiritual world do not need miracles, and those who will
not believe, will not believe even after they are shown the
miracles, as it has happened in the past. <17>Listen
to His Voice in your Heart. |
Surah Jonah (Yunus)
There will be no miracles because people will
become so attached to them and the personality of the Prophet that
they forget about the teachings: |
They ask: Why has not a portent been sent
down to him from his Lord? Say (O
Muhammad): Only
God has knowledge of
the unseen. So wait; I too wait with you. (21)
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Surah The Story (Al-Qasas)
Miracles make people become so attracted to them
that the true teaching is forgotten. Also, it is true from the past
examples that they do not create better believers: |
...they said: Why is he not given the like of
which Moses was given? Did they not disbelieve before in which
Moses was given?... (48)
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PROPHETS WILL COME
<18>This truth is revealed in Surah 5, verse
54, which in general states: If
Moslems, or those who call themselves
Moslems, fail in their fate, duties, and following the real
teachings of
Prophet Muhammad,
they will be disregarded. A new nation or people will be selected as
the current forerunners of the champion of belief in
God and being completely in love with Him.
<19>God
also will love them because they will be humble towards believers
and stern toward disbelievers. They will be striving in the way of
the Lord.
<20>Who are striving with
God? As you know,
Israel means, "He who
struggles with
God." Who are those who
struggle "with Him?" ("With Him" means to be with
God
as a team.). They are the
Elected Ones. If people do not follow the example of the
Elected Ones who
brought Islam, then these
Elected Ones will
be incarnated somewhere else and will again establish
God's faith there. They will become new
Moslems or new submissive ones.
<21>This again shows that
Prophet Muhammad
does not regard himself as the last Prophet. He says there can be
other
Prophets who will come
with the
Elected Ones and
will bring the truth again and again on this earth. <22>So in these
verses Prophet Muhammad
clearly declares that he is not the last Prophet. There will be more
Prophets
to come.
<23>The reason
Moslems believe that
Prophet Muhammad was the last Prophet is primarily based on a
word in the Koran which has two
pronunciations with two different meanings.
<24>The word "Khatem
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means, "the last, the end," and "Khatam
"
means, "the seal." So the sentence which has this word can be
translated as meaning both that
Prophet Muhammad
is the "last Prophet" or is "the seal of the
Prophets." In a sense,
both are true.
<25>As it is explained in
our writings,
Prophet Muhammad
brought the religion of "Islam"
which means "to be submissive." That is the highest spiritual
realization, and if
Prophets are referred
to as those who bring a spiritual message to humanity and being
submissive to the Lord is the highest spiritual message, then no
other Messenger after
Prophet Muhammad
can bring any higher spiritual realization to humanity. So he was
the last Prophet.
<26>Also as
The Greatest Sign
shows, the sign of
Islam is at the very top
of
The Greatest Sign,
like its seal. So the Messenger is also the seal of the
Prophets.
<27>However, he is not by
any means the last Messenger who will be sent to humanity. In
fact, no one can be the last Messenger because even after the
whole truth has been revealed to humanity, still there are
people who will be sent to interpret these truths for the
humans. Furthermore, the true teachings usually are lost after
some time and new Messengers are necessary to come and bring the
lost truth back again
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Surah The Table Spread (Al Ma'idah)
Muhammad was
not the last Prophet:
O you who believe, who so from you turns back
from his religion, know that in his stead
God will bring a people, whom He loves and they would love
Him, kind and considerate toward believers, firm and stern
toward disbelievers. They will struggle in the way of
God
and will fear not the blame of the fault-finders. Such is
God's
Grace, which is
bestowed upon whosoever He wills,
God is All-Embracing,
All-Knowing. (54)
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Surah The Family of Imran (Ali 'Imran)
A righteous human being whom
God
had given the Scripture and wisdom and the Prophethood will not
say to people: Worship me instead of
God. But they say, according to their duty: Be faithful
devotees of God... (79)
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<28>God
can give prophethood to anyone He wishes in any time of history
before and after Prophet Muhammad.
It is completely up to Him. Even thinking that any Prophet is the
last one is a
sin, because we are saying
what
God should do or should not
do. The Lord
God has a great Plan to
fulfill, and He will not stop, until it is done. |
Surah The
Children of
Israel (Bani Israil)
There will be more
Prophets
which God will send using
the same method as with the previous
Prophets:
That has been Our method in the case of Our
Messengers whom We sent before, and you will not find Our method
to change. (77)
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Surah The Pilgrimage (Al-Hajj)
God
chooses His Messengers from among the
Angels and men.
God certainly is
All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (75)
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<29>From whomever is able to become a Prophet,
and whenever it is necessary, a Prophet will come. Therefore, you
cannot bind God by saying that any
Prophet is the last one, unless you are a disbeliever (not
surrendered). |
Surah The Criterion (Al-Furqan)
More Prophets will come.
God
can send more
Prophets:
If We so desired, We could raise up a warner
in every village. (51)
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