"THE MEANING OF SUBUD" - I THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE ACTION OF SUBUD... (Continued)
"THE MEANING OF SUBUD" - I THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE ACTION OF SUBUD... Continued today Thursday 9/2/10...
Why is it, you may ask, that SUBUD has come only now, and not before?
God Knows why. It has come now because now is the right time for people to Receive it; because all humankind is under very heavy pressure from worldly influences, and cannot resist them.
The penetration of the world's influence into people and its tremendous pressure on them has led, through people's actions, to chaos in this world.
This is the reason why SUBUD has only now Been Sent to us, for God Knows when the time is ripe for people to Receive it in the right way.
It's the same as in the distant past: whenever conditions on earth reached a crisis point God Sent people something they could hold on to; something that enabled them to find the right way to live.
Bapak would like to tell you the Stories of the Prophets.
Long ago, before Abraham Received his Grace from God, human beings were still wild, meaning there were no rules for living; no way of life corresponding to the nature of human beings.
Before that time, they had not yet generally become aware of the nature of human manners, nor of the difference between human beings and animals.
When Abraham Received his Revelation - a Wisdom from God - a certain order entered into the life of human beings on earth. That order is what is called religion.
The first religion came to mankind through the prophet Abraham. And in Indonesia his Holy Book is referred to as the Gabur - Bapak doesn't know what you call it here.
Tradition associates Abraham with the color red, which signifies it was by virtue of his sincere worship and unshakeable faith that he Received Revelations and Gifts from God for the benefit of humankind. Such unshakeable faith in Islam is referred to as tauhid.
The reality of Abraham's faith Was Tested When God Commanded him to kill his young son Ishmael with his own hands.
This Test was only so that Abraham could demonstrate the reality of his worship of God - that it came before whatever his heart was attached to.
Abraham carried it out with an attitude of complete patience and complete acceptance. His love was only for God, greater than for anything his heart desired.
That shows how hard it is for human beings to achieve nobility in their life, both in this world and in the hereafter. The sacrifices demanded are not the easiest.
As for humanity today - never mind a sacrifice of that magnitude - they cannot even make the effort to attend the Latihan when it's raining.
This differs very much from what Abraham Received and carried out in times long ago.
It could be said of him that here was a Prophet who truly worshipped God, and whose love of God exceeded his love of his own body and soul.
But God Knows the state of human beings; He Knows what is true and what is false.
Therefore Abraham didn't really end up killing his son, an Angel Intervened, so what Abraham killed was a goat and not Ishmael.
So, no person who worships with sincerity, with a submitted heart and true surrender to God, will be led by that into misery. On the contrary, they Will Be Raised to their rightful place.
At that time many people were able to put into practice what Abraham taught. Many people followed his teaching, and it enabled them to reach a level of human excellence.
But human beings always remain human beings; they are weak creatures - very easily influenced by what is to the right and left of them, before and behind them.
As time went on, human conduct, which had been in accordance with the advice of Abraham, gradually deteriorated until increasing numbers turned away from the True Worship of God, worshipping instead material objects, in which they imagined power to dwell.
Through this the whole world suffered, for good and bad in this world arise from the actions of human beings.
(To be Continued Monday 9/6/10... here on Muftiah's Facebook Notes Page... as well as on her Blogs... "JIWA TO JIWA"... and "MUFTIAH"... Insha Allah... God Willing... where via the free Google Translate service... on your Browser... it can be read in many other languages... and in much easier and larger to read print...)
Why is it, you may ask, that SUBUD has come only now, and not before?
God Knows why. It has come now because now is the right time for people to Receive it; because all humankind is under very heavy pressure from worldly influences, and cannot resist them.
The penetration of the world's influence into people and its tremendous pressure on them has led, through people's actions, to chaos in this world.
This is the reason why SUBUD has only now Been Sent to us, for God Knows when the time is ripe for people to Receive it in the right way.
It's the same as in the distant past: whenever conditions on earth reached a crisis point God Sent people something they could hold on to; something that enabled them to find the right way to live.
Bapak would like to tell you the Stories of the Prophets.
Long ago, before Abraham Received his Grace from God, human beings were still wild, meaning there were no rules for living; no way of life corresponding to the nature of human beings.
Before that time, they had not yet generally become aware of the nature of human manners, nor of the difference between human beings and animals.
When Abraham Received his Revelation - a Wisdom from God - a certain order entered into the life of human beings on earth. That order is what is called religion.
The first religion came to mankind through the prophet Abraham. And in Indonesia his Holy Book is referred to as the Gabur - Bapak doesn't know what you call it here.
Tradition associates Abraham with the color red, which signifies it was by virtue of his sincere worship and unshakeable faith that he Received Revelations and Gifts from God for the benefit of humankind. Such unshakeable faith in Islam is referred to as tauhid.
The reality of Abraham's faith Was Tested When God Commanded him to kill his young son Ishmael with his own hands.
This Test was only so that Abraham could demonstrate the reality of his worship of God - that it came before whatever his heart was attached to.
Abraham carried it out with an attitude of complete patience and complete acceptance. His love was only for God, greater than for anything his heart desired.
That shows how hard it is for human beings to achieve nobility in their life, both in this world and in the hereafter. The sacrifices demanded are not the easiest.
As for humanity today - never mind a sacrifice of that magnitude - they cannot even make the effort to attend the Latihan when it's raining.
This differs very much from what Abraham Received and carried out in times long ago.
It could be said of him that here was a Prophet who truly worshipped God, and whose love of God exceeded his love of his own body and soul.
But God Knows the state of human beings; He Knows what is true and what is false.
Therefore Abraham didn't really end up killing his son, an Angel Intervened, so what Abraham killed was a goat and not Ishmael.
So, no person who worships with sincerity, with a submitted heart and true surrender to God, will be led by that into misery. On the contrary, they Will Be Raised to their rightful place.
At that time many people were able to put into practice what Abraham taught. Many people followed his teaching, and it enabled them to reach a level of human excellence.
But human beings always remain human beings; they are weak creatures - very easily influenced by what is to the right and left of them, before and behind them.
As time went on, human conduct, which had been in accordance with the advice of Abraham, gradually deteriorated until increasing numbers turned away from the True Worship of God, worshipping instead material objects, in which they imagined power to dwell.
Through this the whole world suffered, for good and bad in this world arise from the actions of human beings.
(To be Continued Monday 9/6/10... here on Muftiah's Facebook Notes Page... as well as on her Blogs... "JIWA TO JIWA"... and "MUFTIAH"... Insha Allah... God Willing... where via the free Google Translate service... on your Browser... it can be read in many other languages... and in much easier and larger to read print...)
SHANTY GUMELAR - HIMAWAN ARIF PARAVEDHA - RAPHAELA SEROY - ISIDRO BLANCO - BENITA MORENO - AKANDA SOHRAB UDDIN - LAABEKA KHAN & MARIA CRISTINA BLANCO BECERRA... like this...
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