The Holy Qu'ran cuts through a lot of expedients and points to the the Truth in a DIRECT manner. As the Goal of Truth is one,there are many roads that leads to Rome.
What is shared here is my personal journey in connecting all the dots which are openly declared in the Kithab.
For a start we have to accept that GOD is closer to us than our jugular, and being Omnipresent is everywhere and not limited to place of worship. So I will start with the body given by my parents and for this there can be no distant journey as it involved only from here to here.
How then can we intuit the presence of GOD. For this the 99 names of Allah are splendid road signs. I will not dwell on all the names, but a few that will hint on the ineffable [The Hidden].
I will state the few that demonstrate the Oneness of everything as in the concept of Tawhid as this was declared as The Self Existing.
As we have faith that Allah is within us,but at the same time hidden, can we have confirmation of this FACT?. For this we explore some other names of Allah to try and point and locate its dwelling. The kithab declare that Allah is the All knowing, All Hearing, All Aware and the Light of Vision.
Modern science have proven the eyes and ears are only instruments to capture vibrations of different frequencies to be decoded by the appropriate section of the brain. The brain then create a holographic Images and project it outside the sense organs. Who or what then See and Hear these images?. Thr brain in response generates thoughts. Who is it, that is aware of the thought that arises.
? It can only be the knower, Seer and hearer that is behind the sense organs of every sentient beings. That is, the Entire cosmo is within the borderless ocean of Awareness. As Awareness is everywhere and everywhen, there cannot be a dwelling place [position of fixed co-ordinate in space.]
Our Original sin is to accept the forbidden fruit of knowledge and failed to question the secular knowledge that the eyes see, the ear hears and the brain knows, when on close investigation, this functions have been wrongly attributed to the body. What is seen cannot be the seer and what hears cannot be heard. If the seer can be seen, who then see the seer? The 'I' that see, hear, smell, taste, feel and know must be METAphysical. It is the ONE knower and witness that dwell throughout all space and time, self existing without a cause and yet is the Source and Origin of all things witnessed by the one Light of awareness.
Knowing that we cannot identify 'I' with the body-mind [as it can be seen felt and known] our only option is to submit Totally to that which is only ONE, The 'I' in which all things manifest and disappear within its Light.
In conclusion, all we need is to surrender our EGO [false and impermanent self] and submit to the
Source which is the Originator and Knowing of everything.
As a simple check, can anything ever be known unless there are in the presence of something that Knows and Witness all names and forms in space and events in time.
As all is Dependent on awareness and if we name this knowing as Allah, then Thy will be done or Inshaallah is beyond any doubts.
How does one go about the surrendering? Before we read the kithab we ASSume 'I" to be the body mind [an image with name and form]. After gaining The wisdom given in the Kithab we Know the True identity of 'I' which is HIDDEN. We cannot be different "I' at the same time [we cannot be a servant to two master] In surrendering the EGO[the pseudo "I"] we reclaim our birth right as the ONLY 'I" We stop identifying ourselves as one of the multitudes of ever changing waves, but one with the everpresent OCEAN.
Al-Hallaj on learning his true identity exclaimed 'I AM the Truth' and the ignorant fellow muslim slew him.
