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Articles by Ahmad Amar
Sovereignty of God is endless
by Ahmad Amar
God Most High is Ar Rahman, The Most Gracious, and Ar Rahim, The Most Merciful. This means He is the Lord of the great sublime mercies. The extent of God’s mercies is infinite. For any given mercy, there are many mercies within it; and that mercy itself multiplies into still many more mercies. In the desert, one would sit under a tree as the tree provided shade. In a modern home, one keeps trees as trees bear fruits, for one thing; and trees are endowed with beauty, for another thing. One mercy is the tree, but the tree, which always goes to heaven –never downwards- subdivides its affair into a great many mercies.
Just as the father and the mother for a child, and for a mature adult, the great many mercies are embodied into one. A father and a mother represent, for the progeny, favours and blessings endless. When you ask yourself, who my father is to me ? Or who my mother is to me ? You will come up with the answer that, he is an unlimited number of things to me. You will come up with the answer that, she is an unlimited number of things to me. One person, that represents infinite blessings and favours. God Most High is with His servant, True, Sincere and Fair. Is there any greater mercy than that, to a human being, one who is very keen on lying, cheating and deceiving ? These are inherent to the human nature. It is part of the self, to try to cheat people, to deceive them. One category of sin come from this aspect of the human self. When the person is willing to fight his laziness, and his love of rest, he will soon fall prey to this way of vices: he will soon become one who cheats, one who deceives people. This is the way of the human self. Hence, we are ordered to fight our selves. What it tells us to do, we must rush to do the opposite. This is critical and most urgent. Whoso obeys his self will meet with calamities and misfortunes, will lose his chances for success in the next world.
God is exalted, far beyond these defects, for these are defects. To cheat and to deceive people is not intelligence, it is weakness, and stupidity. For apart from truth, what is there but error ? God says, “so after the truth, what else can there be, save error” (The Qur'an, 10:32) ? It is certainly not intelligence. Intelligent ones do not deceive people. It is therefore stupidity. It is weakness and lack of confidence, among others. God Most High is never that. He is the summation of all perfections. He is with any given servant, True, Sincere and Fair. How much is this fairness and honesty pleasurable to the human soul ? That human soul knows from humans, so often, the opposite. The taste one has from the fair-dealing and the sincerity of God Most High with himself is a pleasure most great.
The uniqueness of God necessitates that His mercy be unique. One can look at many beautiful paintings and works of arts. But when he looks to the art of God, then he must come to see unique beauty. “The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind; yet, most of mankind know not” (The Qur'an, 40:57). Supreme in beauty are the skies, the stars and the earth. The blue sky, though not blue in reality, but our eyes make it blue; and the shining subtle stars, at night, or the light of the sun and its warmth during the day, there is nothing comparable to it among the works of the greatest artists. The wonderful flowers on earth, the inspiring and soul-pleasing vegetations, the lofty mountains; there is nothing like it. The art of God is unique. Beauty from God is unique among beauties. Likewise, the mercy of God is unique. When other mercies will fall short in some respect or some other, that is when the mercy from God will reveal its perfection. At that time, He is showing His uniqueness, and the uniqueness of His mercy. It will be the cool water in the scorching heat of the desert. It will be the orange tree, which will give every year its beautiful and extremely pleasurable oranges. And from each orange that one eats, he can plant the seed for another orange tree. And for each orange, of each year, of that new orange tree, there will also be a new orange trees. The magnificence of the green and orange colors, is but the beginning of the felicity; then there is the delicious orange in itself, and it never stops.
When one tastes a mercy, he is summoned to the source of mercy. When one experiences something pleasurable, he becomes subjugated to the source of pleasure, to the extent of the pleasure he derives from that source of pleasure. It reaches the point where the individual discards everything, and only keeps to that one thing. That mercy is so great, reaches him so precisely and is so sweet on his heart and soul, that he develops a special bond with the source of mercy. He becomes a servant to that mercifier. Rumi says, “I smelled the scent of the curls of her hair, then did I give up desire for both the worlds.” The mercy of The Most Gracious is unique, the pleasure one derives from it is unparalleled. One who understands that, understands that he belongs to God, as a servant and a created being; and he understands that God is his absolute Lord. When he examines the details of a mercy that came to him from God, he will also understand that it is mercy infinite; and then that God is His absolute Lord.
Whoso knows that God Most High can forgive also knows that He can punish. Whoso understands that God Most High provides extraordinary and complex mercies, also understands that God delivers terrible distress and horrible calamities. We say “I seek the forgiveness of God” everyday a specific number of times, as part of our daily litanies, and that is a cause for us to understand, deep in our hearts, that God has the power to forgive. But that will simultaneously make it clear to us, deep in our hearts, that He has the power to punish mercilessly. For to know something with the mind is one thing. But it is not knowledge until that cognizance comes from deep within the heart. Muhammad, the Master of the First and the Last is the “Mercy for the Worlds” (The Qur'an, 21:107). Whoso does not know this deep in his heart does not know anything of God Almighty. Whoso starts to understand this deep in his heart, starts to understand the great might of the penultimate king, Muhammad, the Prophet of God (peace be upon him and his family). This is the beginning of life. Anything prior to that is not considered life, but death, called life. For that the Might of God is endless, one must only live a life of fear of Him, before Him Who always sees His servant. Remember God at the time of sin, so as not to sin. Imam Ghazali (may God have mercy on him) says that the one who remembers God at the time of sinning is a real man. Just as one who imagines God according to what his mind suggest is a woman, so teaches Imam Ghazali, may God have mercy on him; he who remembers God at the time of sin is a real man. Life should be a life of fear of God. Anything other than that is a tragedy immense.
Wealth and abundance is the salt of our hopes. Whenever it is talked of, we rejoice and pay attention. Whenever one acquires them, he loses his humanity, believing he has become something great, while previously he was not. Of all wealthy ones, the greatest is Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family). One of his names is Sayyidul Kawnayni, the lord of both worlds. We know of this world and its treasures, under the earth, inside the planet. These treasures seem to represent infinite wealth. Sulayman (peace be upon him) was the richest of all mankind. He was shown the location of all the treasures in the earth, and jinns would bring them to him upon his orders. Yet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) is the lord of both worlds. His wealth is greater, to an infinite extent. God Most High is the Rich Without Peer, Al Ghaniyyu bila Mithaalin. God says, “there is not a thing but with Us are the stores thereof, and We send it not down except in a known measure” (The Qur'an, 15:21). God says, “And with Him are the keys of the Unseen, none knows them but He” (The Qur'an, 6:59). Whoso is passionate about money and wealth should turn his attention to The Rich, Al Ghaniyy, The One Who Enriches, Al Mughniyy. That is the only option left for that one, if he has sense. He is miserable enough to fall in love with this vile lower world, yet thanks to the great mercy of God, he has a way out of this evil love. He needs to remember the wealth of God, far greater than that of those of the wealthy of this world, with no comparison possible whatsoever. If he was in love with money, now he will be in love with God Most High. That love, love of God, is exactly what the saints and the prophets call us to. Look how the wretch, thanks to God’s mercy, becomes in the end a favourite of God’s saints.
Love, there is nothing greater. It is greater than fear. Fear of God is code of life for the righteous. This fear leads to love. To love God, Who is The All Knowing, Al Alim, The Beautiful, Al Jamil, or the Living, Al Hayy; this is the rule of the righteous’ life, and its drive. One must love God, The Rich, Al Ghaniyy, for when he strongly loves Him, he will seek Him. He will desire Him, he will want Him, he will obey Him with all his heart and follow His prophet (peace be upon him and his family). God says, “Say (0 Muhammad, pbuh, to mankind): "If you (really) love God then follow me, God will love you and forgive you your sins. And God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful” (The Qur'an, 3:31). The person must make everything in his power to strive to achieve the good-pleasure of God. If there were something greater than love, it would have to be given to God. God is entitled to one’s fear, and then to one’s love. Love also, always goes hand in hand with fear. Love comes from the soul and the heart. It is selfless dedication to God, in absolute dignity that is required of the Muslim. This is what makes one good and wholesome, pleasing to the saints, pleasing to the Prophet and his Companions, pleasing to God Almighty. Love proceeds from the deepest recesses of the heart and from the soul within. Destine it to your Lord, and to your Lord only. This is something He is entitled to, on your part. If there were something more than you could do, He would have required that of you. But this is the most humans can do. Love is the greatest thing that can come from them. Therefore it belongs to God and must be reserved specially for Him. Love, most-certainly, is most noble and most great. It has to be reserved specially for our lord; and it is always something most great, most magnificent, tremendous and most honored.
Articles by Ahmad Amar
Sovereignty of God is endless
by Ahmad Amar
God Most High is Ar Rahman, The Most Gracious, and Ar Rahim, The Most Merciful. This means He is the Lord of the great sublime mercies. The extent of God’s mercies is infinite. For any given mercy, there are many mercies within it; and that mercy itself multiplies into still many more mercies. In the desert, one would sit under a tree as the tree provided shade. In a modern home, one keeps trees as trees bear fruits, for one thing; and trees are endowed with beauty, for another thing. One mercy is the tree, but the tree, which always goes to heaven –never downwards- subdivides its affair into a great many mercies.
Just as the father and the mother for a child, and for a mature adult, the great many mercies are embodied into one. A father and a mother represent, for the progeny, favours and blessings endless. When you ask yourself, who my father is to me ? Or who my mother is to me ? You will come up with the answer that, he is an unlimited number of things to me. You will come up with the answer that, she is an unlimited number of things to me. One person, that represents infinite blessings and favours. God Most High is with His servant, True, Sincere and Fair. Is there any greater mercy than that, to a human being, one who is very keen on lying, cheating and deceiving ? These are inherent to the human nature. It is part of the self, to try to cheat people, to deceive them. One category of sin come from this aspect of the human self. When the person is willing to fight his laziness, and his love of rest, he will soon fall prey to this way of vices: he will soon become one who cheats, one who deceives people. This is the way of the human self. Hence, we are ordered to fight our selves. What it tells us to do, we must rush to do the opposite. This is critical and most urgent. Whoso obeys his self will meet with calamities and misfortunes, will lose his chances for success in the next world.
God is exalted, far beyond these defects, for these are defects. To cheat and to deceive people is not intelligence, it is weakness, and stupidity. For apart from truth, what is there but error ? God says, “so after the truth, what else can there be, save error” (The Qur'an, 10:32) ? It is certainly not intelligence. Intelligent ones do not deceive people. It is therefore stupidity. It is weakness and lack of confidence, among others. God Most High is never that. He is the summation of all perfections. He is with any given servant, True, Sincere and Fair. How much is this fairness and honesty pleasurable to the human soul ? That human soul knows from humans, so often, the opposite. The taste one has from the fair-dealing and the sincerity of God Most High with himself is a pleasure most great.
The uniqueness of God necessitates that His mercy be unique. One can look at many beautiful paintings and works of arts. But when he looks to the art of God, then he must come to see unique beauty. “The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind; yet, most of mankind know not” (The Qur'an, 40:57). Supreme in beauty are the skies, the stars and the earth. The blue sky, though not blue in reality, but our eyes make it blue; and the shining subtle stars, at night, or the light of the sun and its warmth during the day, there is nothing comparable to it among the works of the greatest artists. The wonderful flowers on earth, the inspiring and soul-pleasing vegetations, the lofty mountains; there is nothing like it. The art of God is unique. Beauty from God is unique among beauties. Likewise, the mercy of God is unique. When other mercies will fall short in some respect or some other, that is when the mercy from God will reveal its perfection. At that time, He is showing His uniqueness, and the uniqueness of His mercy. It will be the cool water in the scorching heat of the desert. It will be the orange tree, which will give every year its beautiful and extremely pleasurable oranges. And from each orange that one eats, he can plant the seed for another orange tree. And for each orange, of each year, of that new orange tree, there will also be a new orange trees. The magnificence of the green and orange colors, is but the beginning of the felicity; then there is the delicious orange in itself, and it never stops.
When one tastes a mercy, he is summoned to the source of mercy. When one experiences something pleasurable, he becomes subjugated to the source of pleasure, to the extent of the pleasure he derives from that source of pleasure. It reaches the point where the individual discards everything, and only keeps to that one thing. That mercy is so great, reaches him so precisely and is so sweet on his heart and soul, that he develops a special bond with the source of mercy. He becomes a servant to that mercifier. Rumi says, “I smelled the scent of the curls of her hair, then did I give up desire for both the worlds.” The mercy of The Most Gracious is unique, the pleasure one derives from it is unparalleled. One who understands that, understands that he belongs to God, as a servant and a created being; and he understands that God is his absolute Lord. When he examines the details of a mercy that came to him from God, he will also understand that it is mercy infinite; and then that God is His absolute Lord.
Whoso knows that God Most High can forgive also knows that He can punish. Whoso understands that God Most High provides extraordinary and complex mercies, also understands that God delivers terrible distress and horrible calamities. We say “I seek the forgiveness of God” everyday a specific number of times, as part of our daily litanies, and that is a cause for us to understand, deep in our hearts, that God has the power to forgive. But that will simultaneously make it clear to us, deep in our hearts, that He has the power to punish mercilessly. For to know something with the mind is one thing. But it is not knowledge until that cognizance comes from deep within the heart. Muhammad, the Master of the First and the Last is the “Mercy for the Worlds” (The Qur'an, 21:107). Whoso does not know this deep in his heart does not know anything of God Almighty. Whoso starts to understand this deep in his heart, starts to understand the great might of the penultimate king, Muhammad, the Prophet of God (peace be upon him and his family). This is the beginning of life. Anything prior to that is not considered life, but death, called life. For that the Might of God is endless, one must only live a life of fear of Him, before Him Who always sees His servant. Remember God at the time of sin, so as not to sin. Imam Ghazali (may God have mercy on him) says that the one who remembers God at the time of sinning is a real man. Just as one who imagines God according to what his mind suggest is a woman, so teaches Imam Ghazali, may God have mercy on him; he who remembers God at the time of sin is a real man. Life should be a life of fear of God. Anything other than that is a tragedy immense.
Wealth and abundance is the salt of our hopes. Whenever it is talked of, we rejoice and pay attention. Whenever one acquires them, he loses his humanity, believing he has become something great, while previously he was not. Of all wealthy ones, the greatest is Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family). One of his names is Sayyidul Kawnayni, the lord of both worlds. We know of this world and its treasures, under the earth, inside the planet. These treasures seem to represent infinite wealth. Sulayman (peace be upon him) was the richest of all mankind. He was shown the location of all the treasures in the earth, and jinns would bring them to him upon his orders. Yet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) is the lord of both worlds. His wealth is greater, to an infinite extent. God Most High is the Rich Without Peer, Al Ghaniyyu bila Mithaalin. God says, “there is not a thing but with Us are the stores thereof, and We send it not down except in a known measure” (The Qur'an, 15:21). God says, “And with Him are the keys of the Unseen, none knows them but He” (The Qur'an, 6:59). Whoso is passionate about money and wealth should turn his attention to The Rich, Al Ghaniyy, The One Who Enriches, Al Mughniyy. That is the only option left for that one, if he has sense. He is miserable enough to fall in love with this vile lower world, yet thanks to the great mercy of God, he has a way out of this evil love. He needs to remember the wealth of God, far greater than that of those of the wealthy of this world, with no comparison possible whatsoever. If he was in love with money, now he will be in love with God Most High. That love, love of God, is exactly what the saints and the prophets call us to. Look how the wretch, thanks to God’s mercy, becomes in the end a favourite of God’s saints.
Love, there is nothing greater. It is greater than fear. Fear of God is code of life for the righteous. This fear leads to love. To love God, Who is The All Knowing, Al Alim, The Beautiful, Al Jamil, or the Living, Al Hayy; this is the rule of the righteous’ life, and its drive. One must love God, The Rich, Al Ghaniyy, for when he strongly loves Him, he will seek Him. He will desire Him, he will want Him, he will obey Him with all his heart and follow His prophet (peace be upon him and his family). God says, “Say (0 Muhammad, pbuh, to mankind): "If you (really) love God then follow me, God will love you and forgive you your sins. And God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful” (The Qur'an, 3:31). The person must make everything in his power to strive to achieve the good-pleasure of God. If there were something greater than love, it would have to be given to God. God is entitled to one’s fear, and then to one’s love. Love also, always goes hand in hand with fear. Love comes from the soul and the heart. It is selfless dedication to God, in absolute dignity that is required of the Muslim. This is what makes one good and wholesome, pleasing to the saints, pleasing to the Prophet and his Companions, pleasing to God Almighty. Love proceeds from the deepest recesses of the heart and from the soul within. Destine it to your Lord, and to your Lord only. This is something He is entitled to, on your part. If there were something more than you could do, He would have required that of you. But this is the most humans can do. Love is the greatest thing that can come from them. Therefore it belongs to God and must be reserved specially for Him. Love, most-certainly, is most noble and most great. It has to be reserved specially for our lord; and it is always something most great, most magnificent, tremendous and most honored.
