"THE MEANING OF SUBUD" Talk 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 Monday 9/13/10...

In order that human beings should not continuously go wrong and plunge yet deeper into the abyss of confusion, Revelation came to them yet again, this time through a man named Muhammad. 

And the Book Muhammad Received is generally called in Islam the Quran.  

Quran means 'The Word Of God', the Commandments or the Words Of God to human beings, Given in order that they should be able to act without deviating from What God Has Laid Down. 

And Muhammad is not spoken of as the Son of God, or the Beloved of God, but as God's Representative on earth. 

This signifies that he was an instrument of the Power of God, Sent to Proclaim to humankind the Commandments He Had Received From God.

And it was made easier for Muhammad to Worship God, because the union of Muhammad and his wife became in truth an Act Of Worship Towards God; The Union Of Man And Woman Was Ordained By God To Be A True Act Of Worship. 

This is shown in the Marriage Ceremony performed in the mosque according to the religion of Islam, in which the man and the woman, in order to proclaim and confirm that they will become truly husband and wife, must recite the Declaration Of Faith: 

'There is no other god but God and Muhammad is His Messenger.' 

By this act the couple acknowledge that they owe their existence to God, and that they are God's witnesses. 

This is how it was put into practice; and many among his followers, as well as many other human beings, Made The Union Of Husband And Wife Pure And An Act Of Worship.  So They Were Able To Worship God In Truth.

But, Bapak says it again, human beings remain human beings. 

In spite of so Wonderful And Blissful An Act Of Worship, they once again forgot that in their enjoyment and pleasure they would always remain subject to the influence and pressure of the environment of this world, and to the infiltration of the low forces, whose natural tendency is to prevent human beings from attaining their pure aims. 

So, for most people, the union of man and woman became once again only a gratification of their passions rather than an Act Of Worship. 

Though in reality, the true nature of the Act Of Union is that of recapitulation, so that through it human beings should be able to be aware of and know their own condition, both before and after they entered into existence.

You too must be aware in this way, otherwise you are like a road along which a car has passed, but you have no idea where it came from or where it went. 

That is really disappointing and truly saddens Almighty God. 

Why is it that human beings aren't able to grasp this? 

So, ladies and gentlemen, you do not know where your child came from or what will happen to it, even though it passed through your being. 

So where did it come from and where will it go? 

But when you do become conscious of this, it will mean that you are also conscious of how was I before I existed?' and 'how will I be when later I depart?'

That's how good the Commandments were, as Received by the Prophets from Abraham to Muhammad. 

(To be Continued Thursday 9/16/10... 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... set up on your Browser...it can be read in many other languages... and in much easier... and larger to read print...)