EIDUL ADHA

 

ATHEIST v/s RELIGIOUS MINDSET

There are many atheists versus religious forum on Facebook. I have observed that whenever a religious or an atheist throw questions, majority of them don't intend to learn or inquire but to mock or humiliate their opponents, their main intention is to pour out their frustration and sabotage any argument. In other words they are soaked in hate to mock ideologies which clash with theirs. The egos do not allow them to listen. They out-rightly deny others to satisfy their egos or to fill their sense of hollowness. They don't want to entertain any arguments in the receptacle of their thinking because they are so much filled with their own beliefs that there is no room to retrospect others point of view. Most of our minds are indoctrinated with other people's ideas and books. There are no original thinkers but reporters of somebody else’s version. Narrators have become scholars due to their better diction, memorizing strength and at presenting the events effectively. They will never question themselves whether their thoughts are really their own thoughts or accumulation of various thoughts we gather from society or from others since birth. We obediently carry with us the load of what thousands of people have said without questioning. This is a very unhealthy approach if we want to cultivate our fertile mind. Isn't it foolish to feel proud and be adamant in our thinking knowing very well that it is not our thought and we are carrying somebody else’s thought?

The fact is most of us are not eligible to discuss subjects like metaphysics, evolution and psychology; the backbone of most of the revered ancient scriptures. These subjects needs deep contemplation, observation, study with intense sense of imagination. We cannot produce proof of what is going inside the mind or how we are feeling or how our thoughts are troubling or soothing or evolving us, what is the reason of our specific behavior or the purpose of our existence. These are the topics which can only be studied through long persistent observation and experiments through thorough experience and collection of intense vast universal data.

The superficial arguments are always about their and our words or our thought process because no side can produce appropriate proofs. Usually the purposes of arguments are for one-upmanship and not for learning something new. For any average intelligent person to criticize any religion is the easiest way; it does not need super intellect.

Complacency in the respective beliefs is the main cause of the masses for not even giving a thought to what clashes with their drugged senses. They demand proofs, evidences of what they don't understand or can't measure. Both this groups believe they have perfect knowledge and are capable to verify the evidences and proofs if presented to them.

It is unfortunate that some of us begin to criticize some specialized subjects based on what appears to us as an inaccurate, illogical write-up by the author or the writer. It is hard to put on the author's shoes and decode message if the language is outdated. The result is that the cursory readers don't look for solutions but dwell on the supposed problems and mistakes they think committed by the ancient unknown author. Imagining the possibility that they might be wrong in their deduction is completely ruled out.

In today's IT era we are drowning in lot of information but lack knowledge or wisdom to understand or imagine things, thus the educated among us are thoroughly programmed not to think or imagine outside the educational syllabus especially designed by the "authorized" programmers or academicians. Copy paste knowledge or blindly following is the trend of today and serious thinkers or out of box thinkers are considered insane.

The knowledge of religionists are mostly based on hearsay and blind following, that's the reason the person with little common sense or logic can able to debunk it. To reject religion one does not have to be a top notch thinker it only requires questioning our own beliefs.

The knowledge of most of the atheist are based on the foolishness of their own respective books of religions which they failed to understand or reform because they were disgusted as they wasted their lives following it. It is easy to quit or criticize religion rather than wasting time scrutinizing the text once they believed to be divine or par-excellence.

Most of the atheist is of the opinion that old religious scriptures were written by nincompoops who lack wisdom or written by vested interest to control the masses and it is naive to follow their writings in this advanced progressive world. I am against following anything blindly when we have divine mind with us. Ancient books are not for worship or blind following or for rote readings. These archaic books are not for everyone however they must be used by passionate archaeological mind whose intense desire is to revive the lost message and fill in the blanks of the context of our misunderstandings. Only on the basis of expertise in language no translator can do justice to these old scriptures. He/she need to have tremendous passion and overall scenario on the the subject. First rule should be that the researcher must not ignore or leave anything that is related to the subject of his research.

In olden days the language was not developed much. The main mode to define or describe certain phenomenon was through oral parables or by the help of analogies. And from the context of those parables the meaning of intended message or the meaning of the word was deduced. Then came the era of script or basic writing was developed. The message was even encrypted or preserved by some artist, painters, sculptors and architects in their work of art for the coming generation to decode its true essence. Now a single word can define the entire depth of the phenomena if the responder is a literate of that field. The Arabic word Rabb is one such word which has very deep meaning and have many different layers of essence of understanding.

Atheist are generally considered as people of reasoning based on empirical evidence. But the problem with Atheists and religionists are that both took these old abstract parables in the scriptures as physical happenings. Both these groups have closed the door to imagine outside their known territory. One group does not want to think as their beliefs are based on faith and the other group thinks those parables are bull shit and it is a waste of time & energy to think about those old senseless parables. 

Atheists are right not to waste their time and energy on what they consider worthless. But I have observed that they are the one who talks more on religion and god in spite of rejecting it. This shows that they are disturbed or agitated for not experiencing the sense of fulfillment or contentment in their newly found beliefs. Their single agenda is to criticize religion. It is okay to criticize but only those have the power to criticize those have the knowledge, will, strong desire to reform, amend or reformat the community. This task is most difficult and one who is ready to sacrifice his entire life for the purpose of reformation can only wear the cloak of a reformer. Demonizing or criticizing particular religion will only produce strong hate, suspicion, alienation of that community. Your hate is sowing the seeds for future genocide and this is not good for the entire humanity. We must learn to be tolerant and respectful of one another.
Intolerance, arrogance, lack of love and respect for each other is the main reason for both the groups not able to convey their respective messages which may help mankind to develop unconventional love for everyone. 

Peace and Love to all, no offense intended.

DON'T FIT IN WHERE YOU DON'T BELONG.

A question raised by a friend “how to know what to do in life". Very often we have to compromise what we love to do. We are being taught that earning for a living is more important than following our inner call (azaan)? 

We have to force ourselves to fit where we don't belong. Knowing very well that we are not made for that kind of job? It is really regrettable that we have to look out or find some guidance from outside when the book of actual guidance (Al-Kitab) is embedded in all of us.

That's why it is important to discover, understand and follow our inherent script [al-kitab]. Unfortunately very early in life we are being brainwashed or compelled to copy / imitate others and we ignore the signs [ayaats] of the al-kitab present in all of us. When we don't recognize our inherent script (Al-Kitab), we unconsciously kill all the messages and messengers present in us.

The result is we lose direction and confidence in our own abilities / script and we simply follow like zombies what is taught to us by our society or follow some holy books... in this case our society or physical guides are our teachers but not Rehman the teacher of of our inherent Quran / Furqan [not a physical book]. Thus we become Mushrik by ignoring Kitabil-Allah (inherent messages and signs) and we discard our revealed expression [Quran] whose teacher is Al-Rehman.

THE REAL QURAN

The actual or a real Quran is the low voice of our inherent rasul, listen to it carefully. It is in our own language, don't let it get lost in the louder voice of dajjaal (false propaganda and vanity). This 114 chapter book is not our Quran as it is not in our language. It is just a guide to discover our own Quran and Rasul. The Qur'anic phrase quranun arabiyun means the settled or downloaded expression in our own language. The real Quran is a beacon of enlightenment and it's teacher is Rehman [One who reveals the Quran upon us and teaches us the Quran as well]


The reason we are not successful in life is because we don't recognise our own script (Al-Kitab) and tend to follow / imitate others. With so much false information smeared upon us, now it is very difficult to remove those layers and discover our true and unique role.


Understanding and connecting with our script in a very early stage of life is key to success. This connection with our own script is Salat.


No doubt our own rasul will complain to his personal Rabb that we have discarded this Quran (the voice of our rasul), in short we have not used our own intellect because we are more connected to the outside world than our inner world.

After reading this small above article a friend asked me; I like your explanation, however would ask you that in accordance to your opinion what is our guidance book?

My explanation: 

It depends on what guidance you want.

If you want to learn cooking you would take cooking book as your guide or a good chef as your guide.

If you want to learn driving you would join driving school,

If you are interested in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history or any subject, you would take guidances from those books.

If you want to learn to operate some electronic gadgets you would refer it's manual.
Some things are natural, we don't have to learn them, they are embedded in us and we don't require guide books for them.

Permanent moral values are same in every religion, we don't need a special guide books for it.

We need to discover our own book of guidance [Al-Kitab], it's embedded in all of us and Quran is the part of Al-Kitab. The Quran in us will guide us our unique role in life. It will direct us to whatever career we need to choose to be happy, satisfied, content, secure and peaceful in life. But usually we prefer money or material above peaceful and happy life. Thereby we reject Islam (peace of mind) as our way of life (Deen).

BELIEVER

 

A friend ask me to explain the last sentence, here we go..  

//"It is not easy to be a believer because he need to put himself as a specimen to be an integral part of his own experiment in which he is an observer too."//

The word Momin signifies knowledge based on conviction from his own personal experience. The status of a Momin is greater than those who are educated by reading someone's else book or hearing somebody's else experience. To become a Momin one has to become a specimen by putting himself on the aperture of the microscope and experience / observe the experiment he is undertaking upon himself.

The faith, trust, security he achieve by experimenting upon himself is far greater than all the qualification he could acquire through theoretical knowledge.

Hence Momin is a person who is self aware or self conscious and self taught by experimenting on himself. A Momin is more secure, feel more safe, more confident because his trust, faith and conviction is far greater due to the virtue of acquiring wisdom and knowledge by undergoing through the experiment upon himself.

Usually people think believer is blind follower but in terms of the book Quran when the word Momin occurs it means he is not a blind follower. The author of the book is addressing those believers who have [shahadah] witnessed / seen / experienced the entire ayaat [signs] by themselves.

If you have not witnessed, observed, experienced Allah and Rasul in your life time then you are not a Momin according to the term momin of the book Quran and your utterance of witness [Kalimah Shahdah] is a BIG LIE.

QUESTION BY AN ATHEIST

A question asked by someone in a FB group -

Questions for Muslims:

If I know that sticking my finger in a fire will burn my finger, and I choose to stick my finger in a fire regardless, does it make sense for me to get angry at the fire when my finger gets burned?

Similarly, if Allah creates sinners knowing that they will sin, does it make sense for him to get angry when they do sin? 

We are told that nothing happens against Allah's will. But if that's true, then it's also true that sins don't happen against Allah's will. In other words, sins only happen because Allah wants them to happen. But if Allah wants sinners to sin, why does he feel the need to punish them for sinning?

My Answer:

All your questions are valid. In your questions you used the Arabic term Allah 4 times without knowing it's exact connotations.

Your questions are in English but you have not interpreted the term Allah because very vast majority of us think that Allah is God, all Powerful Judge, Accountant, Teacher, Giver of Punishment and Reward for our deeds.

Those who keep such a concept of Allah either deify Him or ridicule Him as they don't want to understand this term. They think their knowledge is sufficient.

The book Quran clearly say that there is no god/God (ilah) except Allah. The problem start when we believe Allah as a Bigger God contrary to the basic teaching of the kalimah that categorically reject the concept of God/god.

Unfortunately we have not understood the term Allah and assume it as Almighty God and make Him either the object of worship, hate or ridicule.

Islam is not a religion of God or fairy tales about God and His soldiers. The term Allah has no gender, still I am using masculine gender instead of using a neutral gender; just to make matter easy for everyone to understand.

The book Quran is a victim of wrong interpretation and translation. It clearly says there is no God/god but we are bent on worshiping that invisible God personified as Man.

In short Allah means our own consciousness, our own mind and Rasul is the voice of our consciousness. The entire drama or the narrative of the book Quran is played inside us. Nothing is physical, historical or geographical in the book Quran. All the names of the characters have meaning and they are not proper nouns either.

The book is written in theophany format so we misunderstood it that it is from the sky God.

THE MEASURING TAPE

THE MEASURING TAPE.

To understand the basics in any field one need to first understand how to measure or analyse the quality of the product of that field. For example the very initial requirement in the field of tailoring is first one need to learn to understand the measuring tape in order to fit the final product properly on the curvy human body. In engineering field we need to understand different gauges, vernier caliper, micrometer and so on. To know the quality of the product one must need to be an expert in the understanding of measuring instruments or measuring gauges of those fields before having an authority in that field.

The measuring instrument of the product Islam is the book Quran. We need to understand the book Quran first but unfortunately we have more knowledge of Hadiths, exegesis, different translations and sermons which are not the measuring instrument of the product Islam. Sadly we judge Islam by these easily available spurious instruments and claim to understand Islam.

Ironically even before taking the mammoth task of understanding the book Quran we already have readymade / preconceived popular meanings, terms and concepts of the book ingrained in our minds. This is the biggest injustice towards the message of the book Quran. We don't let the book Quran speak to us as we already have preconceived understanding of it.

We think that by reading different kinds of translations we understand the book Quran. Our basis of understanding the book Quran is not based on understanding the language and it's grammar but it is based on popular or established beliefs or the belief that is most appealing to us. Trusting or relying on scholars is the biggest hindrance in understanding the subject of the book Quran.

We cannot understand Islam or the book Quran if we read the book to validate or confirm our ancestral beliefs or to accommodate the thought process of our respective scholars. 

Due to our wrong understanding or beliefs our actions are being judged by others as if it is the replica of the ideology or the book we follow or love the most.
The result is that the book Quran becomes the victim because of our wrong thinking process and actions. The fact is Muslims have not understood the message of the noble Quran and with a heavy heart I have to say that they have surrendered their divine intellect at the altar of fallible scholars.

Generally people think that the behaviour of Muslims are because of their religious teachings. They blame this innocent book of human psychology because it is hijacked and dominated by organised religious bigots.

Having said that, now the million dollar question arises how to gauge if our understanding of the book Quran is right? In mathematics 2+2=4 in every language and in every culture; this must be the criteria to measure every knowledge.

The message of the book is self-evident. If the parables of the Quran is understood in the right perspective we can feel, experience the entire narrative in our self. If conceived properly we can feel entire characters or characteristics from Allah, Iblees, Shaitaan, Malaikah, Nabiyeen, Rasuls in our own selves. The proof of the genuineness of the message lies in our correct understanding of the subject. If we understood the message correctly we can witness in ourselves the entire drama being played between our higher and lower consciousness.

If somebody claims that the book Quran is about religion and moral values then it must match with the religion beliefs and moral values of other religions. The interpretation of the book Quran will easily fail in this test as it is not compatible with other religious philosophies of the world. That means translations or interpretations based on such lines are full of flaws.

If somebody claims that the book Quran is about science, history, geography then it must match with the current knowledge of those fields. The present translation is full of manipulation so as to bring it in the line of those subjects.

My claim is that the original message of the book Quran has a universal appeal and can have an impact on the intellect of any sensible man. When I say that the message of the book Quran has an impact on the human mind then to guage this claim we need an open and non biased mind. 

I also claim that the book is about human psychology then to verify that claim it must make an effective appeal on every human being irrespective of his caste, color and creed plus the theme of the message must match the Psyche of the entire human race. 

I even claim that the book is about peace so it must have methods to how to attain peace of mind and must not have any scope for any ideological conflicts, battles and wars. 

I also say that the book Quran has a secular nature, if it is true then it must not talk about any religion or ideology. My understanding and translation of the book Quran is based on this theme, although my translation / interpretation is under process.

 

Become Muslim First.

I am a human being or an Insaan in Arabic / Urdu -

My pen name is Ahle Aqal, a citizen of Planet Earth. Neither am I a Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew nor an Atheist etc. I do not belong to any caste, creed and race that divide Humanity. I care for everyone. This is what I learned from my study of the book Quran. Note for me the book Quran is not a religious book.

In short the instructions of the book Quran are for people who are compassionate, social and merciful [Homosapiens / Insaan]. We cannot complete the definition of human being if we are not helpful to other human beings. To help other human being we need to be capable. We cannot serve tea to other people if our own cup is empty. For that we need to fill our own cup with love, peace and soundness first. The essence of this statement is that first we must become Momin **[safe / secure]** and Muslim **[sound / peaceful],** then only we can serve peace, soundness, safety and security to others, otherwise it will be just a pipe dream without any positive result.

The main emphasis of the book Quran is to become safe, secure, sound and peaceful. We cannot become Muslim unless we have sound health, wealth and peaceful mind irrespective of cultural and religious background. We cannot become Momin if we are not safe and secure financially, health wise and mentally. These are the basics which all mankind must know. The message of the book Quran is for thinkers and researchers, how anyone can become a good thinker or researcher if his stomach is empty, his health is weak and mentally he is disturbed.

If one cannot take care of himself how is going to take care of others? One who lacks these basics economics cannot become Muslim or Momin. The main criterion to understand the book Quran is to have sound health, mind and is not worried about his day to day survival. The message of the book is for those who are above the situation of survival. I always advice people who want to understand Quran to earn first, pay taxes then only they can become Muslim / Momin a basic eligibility to understand other deep sciences.

After we are satisfied / content with our own survival [including our family] we can go to study the nuance of understanding **Kalimah Shahdah, Salat, Zakat, Saum and Hajj** etc. These are development tools for further our own mental evolution. The eligibility to understand Kalimah Shahdah, Salat, Zakat, Saum and Hajj etc is to become Muslim and Momin first. If we are not sound and secure **[Muslim / Momin]**all these talks of providing Peace, Harmony or performing different religious / cultural rituals are futile.

DON'T CLUB EVERYTHING WITH ISLAM OR THE QURAN.

 DON'T CLUB EVERYTHING WITH ISLAM OR THE QURAN. 

Why do we need to club everything with "Islam" and the book Quran?

If we are connecting everything with the Quran or want to see the Quranic perspective in everything then we are doing a big injustice with the book.

The subject of the book Quran is not banking, finance, economics, socialism, capitalism or society laws. If we want to color everything with the "Islamic brush" of Quran we will be doing a great disservice to the noble book Quran.

The subject of the book Quran is mental evolution or development of Nafs, that's all and we need to understand the message of the book in those parameters only.

With due respect to different thought process; progress in any field is not possible without the evolution of our mind; the basic subject or the main emphasis of the book Quran.

All the scientific inventions, discoveries, righteous systems, conduct, behavior, law, virtues and other economics is the byproduct of sound mental growth and I am not against it, that is not the subject of the Quran but it is for the evolved human beings of the world to develop. Good systems and economics are only possible if we have evolved human beings. All sensible men have witnessed the wonderful contributions of evolved human beings who have never read or were dependent on any religious scriptures or their achievements.

The book Quran addresses to activate the important aspect of empathy in humans and that’s main reason for evolutionary cycle to run continuously; other systems or economics will follow in accordance with the individuals’ mental growth.

LABEL MUSLIMS

The label Muslims superficially conceive themselves as Muslims and Momins, a very immaculate term often misused for a particular community. They have monopolized these labels for themselves without knowing anything about it. Labels don't become prominent if the content is fake. This is what happened with the current Muslim community. The term Muslim and Momin occurred in the book Quran for those minds that are peaceful, secure and sound irrespective of their cultural or ideological background.

The label Muslims preposterously cast themselves in the model of "Muslims" and "Momins" a very important term of the book Quran without knowing the deep connotation of those words. Whereas all the negative terms like Kafir, Mushrik, Fujar, Fasiq, Shaitaan, Iblis, Jahannum are reserved for the "non believers". The playing of such thought process in the mind is the biggest hindrance for them to understand the message of the Quran because it creates an illusion of superiority complex in them, a hidden enemy of learning and becoming humble.

MECCA AND MADINA SURAHS

                   NEW QURANIC DIMENSION

WHAT ARE MAKKAH AND MADEENA SURAHS?

WHY LEAVING [HIJRAH] MAKKAH AND RESIDING IN MADEENA IS IMPORTANT?

WHY THE BOOK QURAN IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS; MAKKI AND MADANI?

Best emigration is to leave what Allah dislikes

Mecca and Madeena are not two holy cities in the context of Islamic theology. They are two important state of thinking mind, one is the state of Makkah [unsettle state of mind] and other is the state of Madeena [sound state of mind]. A thinking mind always yearn to leave [Hijrah] from the state of agitated mind [Makkah] and seek to move [Hijrah] towards secure, peace and tranquil state of mind [Madeena]. This happens by the virtue of the continuous but wavering flow of thought process that continuously inspires [wahi] the two states of mind, ultimately it reaches its destination [manzil], that is the state of safety / security from the state of fear and anxiety. This path or the movement of thoughts in the Quranic terminology is called هَاجَرُواْ فِي اللّهِ / يُهَاجِرْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ - leaving or cutting off [Hijrah] all the relations from our previous fear, anxiety, negative emotions and moving towards the sound / secure belief in the path of system of consciousness [Allah]. The book Quran always emphasizes about Hijrah in the way/path of Allah it never discusses Hijrah between path of two cities. The History or Hadith of Hijrat must be understood in the context of the Quran and not vice versa. 

Hijrah [هجرة] in the Quranic context is always from the restricted / fearful state of mind [Makkah] towards the liberated state of enlightenment or illumination [Madeena Munawwra] for the well being of our own mind or consciousness [Allah / Rabb]. The book Quran never discusses about the physical aspects of names, places, objects or personalities but it thoroughly discusses how the state of human mind behaves in different circumstances. The word Naas ناس generally translated as man or people, actually signifies the wavering state of human mind. Lexically Naas means to move to and fro, state of commotion or agitation. That's the reason chapters that has the phrase of ياأيها الناس [O Agitated Mind] are classified as Meccan Surahs. Makkah Surahs does not have the phrase يأيها اللذين آمنوا because this phrase O you who believe always occurs in Madina surahs. According to traditionalists chapter 22 is Madeena surah, but I strongly believe the chapter 22 is also a Makki Surah, as it is addressed to ياأيها الناس [O Agitated Mind].  

What will be the gravity of our discernment if we assume the idea of Makkah and Madeena as the two geographical location of revelation of the book Quran? Is it fair to fix the immemorial message of the book Quran into circumstances of two fabled ancient cities? Are we not suppressing the living message of the Quran by comprehending it in the light of those doubtful / fabricated narratives of history? Are we not confining / regressing the vibrant message of the book Quran to the political situation of two cities back in 1442 C.E? Are we not fastening the message of Noble Quran to the condition of the people of those two cities and the life of Rev. Mohammed bin Abdullah [570 CE - 632CE]? Are we not instrumental in paralyzing or freezing the living message of the Noble Quran?

If the message of the book Quran is divided into the events of two cities (Mecca and Madina) happened some 1442 A.H before, then the vibrant message of the Quran is defunct in current situations. And we are overlooking a very important segregation done by the earlier scholars of Makki and Madni verses on the basis of our two states of mind. 

If Hijrah is considered as escape of Rev. Mohammed bin Abdullah [PBUH] from Mecca to Madina that means we are missing a invaluable instruction and essence of Hijrah in the Quranic context.

Let's see some of the meaning of derivatives of مَكَّة in Modern Arabic - إلكترون مكوكي = Electron shuttling, سفينة مكّوكية = shuttle vessel, حاملة مكوكية - shuttle carriage - the essence of the word mekkah is that which keeps on moving or that never settles at one place.

Meaning of Makkah in Classical Arabic.

Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab لسان العرب لابن منظور

معروفة، البلد الحرام، قيل: سميت بذلك لقلة مائها، وذلك أَنهم – ومَكَّةُ  

كانوا يَمْتَكُّون الماء فيها أي يستخرجونه، وقيل: سميت مكة لأنها كانت

تَمُكُّ من ظَلَم فيها وأَلْحَدَ أي تهلكه؛ قال الراجز:

يا مَكَّة، الفاجِرَ مُكِّي مَكَّا

My rough translation: According to Ibn Manẓūr, [d.1311 C.E] Lisān al-ʿArab لسان العرب لابن منظور - Makkah is recognized as the forbidden / restricted / inviolable state that is wanting in intelligence, it was so called because of its scarcity / lack of water / epiphany / knowledge, and that is what they are. And Makkah always possess the water / epiphany in it, which can be clearly subjugated, and it was said: Makkah was named because it holds those who wronged it and the one who has wronged it, that it perishes; Al-Rajz said in Majzūʾ al-Rajzمجزوء الرجز – a classical Arabic poetry.

Al-Fajir makki – My unsettled state that is on the verge of breakthrough - يا مَكَّة، الفاجِرَ مُكِّي مَكَّا

And according to Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī, al-Nihāya fī Gharīb al-Ḥadīth wa-l-Athar (d. 1210 CE) النهاية في غريب الحديث والأثر لأبي السعادات ابن الأثير الجزري – 

المَكَّةَ - Makkah is the phase of learning and absorbing of all the knowledge like the last drop of milk is sucked from the udder of the camel. This phase must be without teaching / preaching / arguing / insisting upon or controlling your adversaries, rival and enemy.

المَكَّةَ المكرمة - The word with Makkah is al-Mukarramah which means productive, fertile or can be manured, preserved, honored, noble ... so from the meaning of Mukarramah we can also deduce that Makkah is a place of growing of new ideas and when the new idea grows we must keep quite and meditate on those new ideas. 

Geographically the city Mecca is hot desert mountainous region with almost no fresh water except brackish water from zam zam well. So linguistically we cannot called that region as al-Mukarramah since the region is not conducive to productive growth. It can only be termed as al-Mukarramah if it is fertile and conducive to growth. But the later generation think because the house of Allah is situated in Mecca that why epithet al-Mukarramah is used along with the name Mecca.       

Makkah is a shuttling state of mind, thoughts come and go in this state. In the state of Mecca it is not advisable to take crucial decisions as our thoughts are not steady. In Meccan or Makki [مُكِّي] state we must follow restriction [ihram] on our own self as our mind is not stable and lacks knowledge to take decisions. In this state we are forbidden to live a carefree life, its a period of observation, absorption, learning, tolerance,...The word "Mecca" in English has come to be used to refer to any place that draws large numbers of people and in Islamic context it is a house of meditation الْبَيْتَ where throng of thoughts assemble to devote, remain humble, contemplate and bow لِلطَّائِفِينَ وَالْعَاكِفِينَ وَالرُّكَّعِ السُّجُودِ - to the thinking which is important or prominent [Kabah] 

Makkah is the place of development of our commonsense [Mohammed]. In the state of Mecca our thoughts heat up / ignites [Ramadan] and the Quran / Furqan / Hudan is revealed [not the physical book but our own part of the script [Al-Kitab]. Makkah is not a geographical place but is a birthplace of our common sense [Mohammed] i.e the beginning of the journey of our own commonsense along with the struggle with its adversaries. The entire message of the book Quran runs parallel to our own common sense, personified as Mohammedun Rasul Allah, who is present in every generation [3:81].

المدينة المنورة‎ - Al Madinah Al Munawwarah : The word Madeena is the derivative of word Deen [دين] - The basic meaning of Deen is to become obedient or submissive. Madeena is the state of submission to the authority of Mohammed, our common sense. The state of Madeena is always ruled my our common sense [Mohammed] in the atmosphere of enlightenment and illumination. Madeena does not mean the state of blind submission but it is submission to the knowledge of enlightenment. It is the state of a believer of knowledge; a non believer of knowledge cannot attain this state. Madeena is a sound state of peace and tranquility of mind. That's the reason Madeena surah are often addressed by the phrase يأيها اللذين آمنوا  - A believing or a trusting or a submissive mind is must for achieving the state of Madeena.

Once we have conquered the state of Makkah and proceeded towards the state of Madeena we can still go back to the state of Mecca again but only as a pilgrim with certain restrictions. For the state of security, tranquility and peace we have to permanently stay in the state of Madeena ruled by our enlightened common sense know as Mohammed in Quranic terminology. When we remain in the enlightened state of Madeena, we achieve the title of Muslim and Momin and we are recognized as Mohammedi محمدي‎ [my Mohammed / my common sense] or a misnomer Mohammedans in English as we are the consumer of our own common sense.. 

Mohammedi محمدي‎ are followers of their own common sense, not worshipers of Mohammed bin Abdullah. The reason Muslims conquered all the great empires of that era was they were followers of Mohammed [common sense] under the legendary slogan  لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللَّٰهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ ٱللَّٰهِ‎ • (lā ʾilāha ʾillā llāhu muḥammadun rasūlu llāhi) meaning - There is NO GOD / god except the System of Consciousness [Allah] and Common Sense [Mohammed] is the Voice of Allah. 

   

But unfortunately this masterpiece Arabian literature [Quran] became the victim of sectarian history and the timeless message was linked with the selective histories of the respective sects; thus the process of destruction the revolutionary message of the book Quran began and it is continuous till date. This same people are searching Mohammed in Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem, Jordan and Syria but they don't realize that the real Mohammed is in their souls. They keep on fighting in the name of God whereas the basic purpose of Mohammed bin Abdullah and the book Quran was to wipe out Gods of various religions.  

You take care of your Allah and Allah will take care of you, its that simple, you give loan to Allah and He will return it to you. You give trouble to Allah and you will get back the trouble multiplied many times. The only condition is that you have to take the initiative first. Allah helps those who help themselves. Be careful of your system of consciousness. It gives back what we have given it. This is the essence of Deen. Hijrah is for Allah, i.e from unsettle state of Makkah to well established state of mind Madeena; Peaceful State of Mind - [DEEN - E - ISLAM].                                                                                                                                                                                    

What is Surah? The basic lexical meaning of sur سور is leaped or sprang towards or upon him overpowering influence, intoxication, to rise to ascend, overpowering influence upon the head - Surah -  سورة -  Eminence or notable influence revealed or sent down with clear sign so that we remember or take heed - [24:1] - surah has a strong influence on us by the virtue of which we are ready for action.

In the context of the book Quran Surah signifies the influence / impact /  we receive because of our inclination towards our goal [qibla] thus the inspiration [wahi] on our heart through Gibrael [A faculty of mind which decodes the unknown]. The balance of man's mind hangs between stable and unstable state; that is within Makkah and Madeena state. The book Qurah is divided into Makkah and Madeena state of mind that's why the surahs are categorized into two parts, one is Makki [مُكِّي] and the other one is Madani [مدنی] surahs. Literally مُكِّي means my Makkah - مدنی means my Madeena and الهجري means my migration or my journey, between the two states of mind because it made influence on self. In short in the context of the Book Quran, Surah is a sur [influence that makes an impact] we receive from any poem, melody, tune, verse or statement.

Every abstract word of the book Quran is given physical image so that the masses hooked on to it firmly and to retrieve the original meanings becomes a hurricane task for the researchers.

The word Mecca in the Quran does not mean the city of Saudi Arabia,

The word Yathrib does not signify the Modern city of Madeena of Saudi Arabia

The word Musalla in Quran does not represent prayer-mat

The word Maqame Ibrahim is fabricated as foot print of Ibrahim

The word Safaa and Marwa are misconceived as hillocks in “Mecca”

The word Arafat is wrongly inferred as a gathering at granodiorite hill about 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Mecca in the Makkah Province of Saudi Arabia

The list is very long …

Same way the word Masjid in the Quran does not represent Mosque…

The conspirators against the Quran succeeded in replacing / converting and establishing the vibrant words of the Quran to the accounts of history.

NOTE THESE ARE MY PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING BASED ON ARABIC LEXICONS, ISLAMIC THEOLOGY, QURANIC CONTEXT AND COMMON SENSE. ITS A FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO EXPLORE OTHER DIMENSION OF ISLAM. I AM JUST TRYING TO CONNECT THE DOTS OF ISLAMIC THEOLOGY WITH MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE BOOK QURAN. 

THE ESSENCE OF LIFE IS GOD

THE ESSENCE OF LIFE IS GOD. There is nothing except God. The entire Universe is the mirror effect of God or the manifestation of God so that we know / realize His Power (QADEER) - 65:12. 

Wherever we see is God, It is His Face / Countenance (28:88, 55:27). In the Quranic language He is term as ZAHIRU, this means very few people with tremendous empathy can actually see or feel His Presence. There is no such place where we cannot see Him but in the life of a believer His Presence is All Encompassing (WASIUN). A believer can feel / witness / experience His presence in his heart. 

He is manifested in the entire canvas of our life only if we realize it. The entire narration of the book Quran is for Him لَهُ & He هُوَ - The entire book Quran discusses the relation of Rabb with Man’s agitated mind (An-Naas). The personal Rabb is called رَبِّي (my rabb), Rabb of like minded people is called رَبُّنَا (our rabb) and  رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ is Fountainhead of all the Knowledge.

One of His attributes is also Al-BATIN (57:3) because there are many who cannot see Him, they cannot feel His Presence or are not aware of His ZAHIRU (57:3) aspect, for them He is Unfathomable as He is Covered / Concealed / Immanent (Al-BATIN). A sense which requires development is also called BATIN, that is not yet developed to perceive what is Hidden.

No-one has Evolved Him because He Himself is the Evolver (KHALIQ), He is the foremost (AWAL) – 57:3, 

He is not Last but He is unending (AAKHIR), sometimes He Delays (71:4) and He is also Swift (SARīʿU) – 40:17. He is everywhere; He is all encompassing (WASIUN) and He is Everlasting (Al-QAYUM) and Ever-Living (Al-Hayu). No vision can grasp Him He grasps all vision (6:103) that’s why he is also called BASEER (2:110).

God at individual level is called AHAD because He is NOT DIVIDABLE; GOD at COSMIC level is called WAHID (ONE) because wahid is a cardinal number so هُوَ and can be Dividable into any AHADUN (UNITS) -112:1 – the true essence of the interpretation of AHADUN, 

Allah is also called Al-JAAMI (3:9) because He can Accumulate / Gather / Assemble Himself 

The parable that the Malaikah becoming humble (sajda) to the existence of Adam and Satan not becoming humble to Adam, is that because Satan failed recognizes the God or the Spirit of God in Adam.

The Fitrah (natural process of evolution) of God (فِطْرَةَ اللَّهِ) which He has evolved upon it the agitated minds [An-Naas] but most of the An-Naas will never know - 30:30.

The purpose of evolution of the entire Universe is to know His Power – He is intrinsic part of us and we need to know / connect with Him through Zikr (remembrance) and Salat (process of connection) so that we can resurrect Him in our life and shun Satan from our life.

When I say God it does not mean "Sky God" of Religion but the system of our Life or the System of our consciousness.

THE THEORY OF CREATION / ADAM

The theory of creation or a Creator is a Biblical concept sneaked into the interpretation of the Quran; the reason lies in the mythical story of Adam whom God created / formed from clay / soil with his own hand like the potter makes his pottery. 

The word teen طِينًا is wrongly translated as clay under the influence of Bible. To imagine God as an anthropomorphic angry figure is the root cause of our worship. We don't see God as our 24x7 Friend, Companion and Guide. Please understand God at micro level first that is to understand our connection with Him, then only we can realize His True Magnanimity or His Magnum Opus.

The basic meaning of teen طين is to plaster, to coat, the meaning also signify adaptation according to disposition / natural transformation or that can be molded or can be formed like the wet clay. The word طين signifies character of Adam to adapt to situations, circumstances or environment rather than an object clay.

Various forms of creationism and biblical literalism consider Adam to be a historical person. Scientific evidence does not support the idea that the entire human population descends from a single man.

According to the book Quran Humans / Mankind can evolved or survive through adaption[ طين ] if he molds himself according to circumstances. The word طين signifies the quality of Mankind to adapt to situations. It is a major part of evolutionary process.

One must also understand the thin difference between 10 Quranic words in order to understand the concept of Creator / Maker / Evolver / Manufacturer / Originator / Initiator / Fashioner / Construct / Build / Inventor / expander / Producer . 1) فَاطِرِ [fatir] 2) خَالِقُ [khaliq] 3) جَاعِلِ [jaeel] 4) صَنْعَةَ [sanae] 5) بَدِيعُ [badae] 6) الْمُصَوِّرُ [Musawir] 7) ابْنُوا [abnu] 8) الْبَارِئُ [Al-Bari] 9)  اشْرَحْ [ish'raḥ] 10) الْمُنْشِئُونَ [ l-munshiūna]

The translators play between the meanings of these words to justify their understanding of creation. They don't educate the masses the difference between them so that their traditional religion will collapse. The masses are content with whatever they know plus they don't have the time / inclination to research, verify and check the meanings.

We must understand the nuance of the word خَالِقُ normally translated as creator. This word is active participle + nominative in nature and must be understood with the word خُلُقٍ which means character [68:4].

When the word خَالِقُ is active participle and nominative in nature that means no creature is separate from IT. That means He / It is present in every evolutionary species مخلوق - I don't translate the word خَالِقُ as Creator but as Evolver of character because one of its derived meaning is also اخلاق akhlaq / standards of behavior or moral character اخلاقي - 

When we translate خَالِقُ as Creator we make a big gap between the Creator and His creation and thereby ignore His other attributes like Ahadun, Zahiru, Wasiun and Makar... Our focus are only on those attributes that confirm or relate with our faith / belief. These attributes are Wahid, Batin, Rahim, Rahman... If we really want to understand the term Allah we need to understand its overall attributes.

Sorry I too can only point you or give you the clue at this moment as I don't have the time and energy to thoroughly explain it to you all the difference and proper application of each word according to the context.

Have you ever ponder why "God" need our service, servant, devotees, worship, praise or thanks giving? Don't you think by doing this we are lowering the dignity of God. My God does not need this sycophancy. My God says whatever you do it is for your own self for your own good. You do bad it is for you, your own self. My God says I am free from all your sycophancy. Be cautious, don’t let God disappear from your life.

THE PURPOSE OF OUR EVOLUTION

 

The purpose of our evolution is to recognize Allah in us. Satan failed to recognize Allah in Adam thus he failed to become humble [اسْجُدُوا] as he behaved arrogantly [اسْتَكْبَرَ] - We have to recognize Allah / Rabb in us. We all recognize Satan in us but fail to recognize that Allah is also present in us but at micro level and gradually we have to upgrade our level of understanding of Allah so that the Satan in us disappears and we remain forever in Jannah [Hidden garden of enlightenment].

DISTRACTIONS FROM UNDERSTANDING ALLAH.

We will never understand the book Quran or the Deen Islam if we keep on revolving around the geography of Mecca, Madina, Petra or the History of Mohammed, Abu Bakr, Umar, Usman, Ali, Abu Jahal, Abu Lahab, Abu Sufyan, Muawia, Hasan, Hussain, Yezid, Ummayad or Abbassid Dynasties. 

These are the distractions which hinders us from understanding the vibrant message of the Quran.

Those whose understanding of Quran or Islam depend on the above criteria then their Islam will crumble with every new discoveries. If you understand the Quranic Allah, trust me there will be no desire to know anything else; Salam - Peace will be our greetings, Islam will be our cloak and Islam will rule our mind. There will be no fear or anxiety because our Deen will be Islam, not the Arabian religion but the universal philosophy of Peace.

UNDERSTAND QURAN IN THE LIGHT OF COMMONSENSE.

 

WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE BOOK QURAN IF…

 

If the message of the book Quran is divided into the events of two cities (Mecca and Madina) happened some 1442 A.H before, then the vibrant message of the Quran is defunct in current situations. And we are overlooking a very important segregation done by the earlier scholars of Makki and Madni verses on the basis of our two states of mind. 


If Hijrah is considered as escape of Rev. Mohammed bin Abdullah [PBUH] from Mecca to Madina that means we are missing a invaluable instruction and essence of Hijrah in the Quranic context.


If Safa, Marwah is conceived as two hillocks in Mecca and linked to the story of wife of Abraham [هاجره] ran for water for her infant son then again we are missing musical cords of our ever changing life. 


If Arafat is inferred as a gathering at granodiorite hill about 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Mecca in the Makkah Province of Saudi Arabia then we know nothing about knowledge in Quranic sense. 


If Abu Lahab in verse 111:1 is considered as uncle of Rev. Mohammed bin Abdullah [PBUH] then we are missing an important lesson regarding the consequence of our anger, fury, rage and wrath. 

If the word Zayd in the verse 33:37 is considered Zayd ibn Harithah an adopted son of Rev. Mohammed bin Abdullah [PBUH] then we become the supporters of the story that defames Rev. Mohammed bin Abdullah.

The biggest hindrance in understanding the book Quran and Islam is that we assume Mohammed bin Abdullah of History same as Mohammedun Rasul of Quran.