فَتَعَـٰلَى ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡمَلِكُ ٱلۡحَقُّۖ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلۡعَرۡشِ ٱلۡڪَرِيمِ
Bismillahi rahmani raheem, assalamu alaikum
Insha Allah I am going to teach you something about reality and how it works, how the universe is able to accommodate the different realities of every creature in it and how you can make it treat you fairly.
We each create our own reality based on what we learn, think and experience. The term reality basically means how we come to view the world but religion teaches us something deeper it is also how the world treats us, reacts to us as a consequence of our beliefs and actions.
Allah in a Hadith Qudsi explains “I am as my servant thinks I am”, Allah is not saying you are trapped by your own thoughts and you won’t receive better, He explains next in the hadith as you raise yourself so will your reality be raised;
“Allah the Most High said, ‘I am as My servant thinks I am. I am with him when he mentions Me (this is you raising your reality). If he mentions Me to himself, I mention him to Myself; and if he mentions Me in an assembly, I mention him in an assembly greater than it. If he draws near to Me a hand’s length, I draw near to him an arm’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed’” (Bukhari) I go to him at speed means your reality changes at speed.
Allah charges the Mala’ikah with changing people’s realities, how they feel about the world and interpret it, your reality is created not just by what is in yourself but also by what is around you, and what is written in your name “what your right-hand possess” as the expression goes in the Quran.
This is why when a wali wants to rid himself of materialism he gets rid of his possessions and lives a simple life, this clears his perception of everything that was distorting or corrupting it. But this is only the first step, and unfortunately people only know this step, if you gain enough mastery/maturity over your nafs Allah will send you back into the material world to live among people because you have straightened out your inner sight and material things won’t over power you, this happens to people who complete the path, we see this best in the story of the prophet Dawwud, Sulaiman and Yusuf (saws) who were all prophets and given wealth.
Wealth was not going to distort their reality blinding them to the Mala’ikah and Allah in their life.
The universe runs on laws, so does your reality and the Mala’ikah who are in charge of it, naturally the Mala’ikah don’t come down to this earth, therefore their hand is limited in physically moving things around on earth, they rather do things from a distance, but as you come to own things, that changes the degree to which the Mala’ikah can have free or easy access in your life.
I wrote previously how purchasing a book on Angels and their names gave them better access to you, that is because I deliberately made it easier for them to have a presence in my life because I brought their reality into my world by knowing their names.
When you purchase other books, you bring the reality of the knowledge in that book into your life and along with it the ability for the Angel to act on that knowledge in your life with ease.
When Allah says in the Quran “Read: In the name of thy Lord Who createth, (1) Createth man from a clot. (2) Read: And thy Lord is the Most Bounteous, (3) Who teacheth by the pen, (4) Teacheth man that which he knew not. (5)” He is telling us He teaches man with books, that also means He changes their realities with them.
If you would like clearer proofs, it lies in the fact Allah says He is the one teaching man with books not you reading them, as you read you imagine what you are reading and that is you creating the reality of the book in your life, so when Allah says He is teaching you when you are reading He is talking about creating the reality you see when you read because He is the creator of reality the one in charge of creating those images you see and their nature.
This is because Allah is the Haq (reality) of everything, He is saying He is creating your reality with books as you read them and the Angels are charged with doing this work for him.
The Quran is the ultimate book man is taught by, it is the ultimate book man’s reality is created with, because it is the literal words of Allah not someone else’s words on His behalf it creates the purest reality, Imam Al Ghazali regarding this said “The verses of the Quran, in relation to intelligence, have the value of sunlight in relation to the eyesight, to wit, it is by this sunlight that the act of seeing (spiritually) is accomplished.”
Here is a story that illustrates all of this, recently I purchased a book on business ethics, in the reality that modern society has trapped the world under religious texts are given no value, so because they have no value in the reality of the Masses, their spiritual influence on earth has diminished and because of that Jinn are not affected by them like they used to be.
Their reality with Allah is still the same, meaning their ultimately reality in the universe has not changed but man and Jinn are allowed to create delusions, temporary false realities in the world, they will persist and cover the earth as long as people still believe in them and influence life like they are Haq (the truth).
This is all part of the system Allah created to give every creature its freedom to choose its path in life, which is part of Allah’s test for it before the akhira. Essentially every false system on earth, way of life (Deen), is a temporary delusion people have chosen to adopt or become indoctrinated into.
So, in a world like this where religion has no value the closest thing you will find that is acknowledge by this system we all live under, to religion and morality is business ethics, hence the need to own such a book.
As soon as I purchased the book some Jinn started going crazy making trouble and slinging false accusations about the book being nothing, at that point one of Allah’s higher Mala’ikah, from the Angels presence I could tell He was higher than Mala’ikat al Kursi but lessor than Mala’kat al Arsh, referring to the book on ethics said to the Jinn ‘next time you come I am going to hit you there’ (at that distance away from Him, meaning long before you have a chance to come near me, like you are now, because of that book) then I saw how much room in my life this book was going to create between me and the Jinn and how they would be forced to act with better ethics towards me because it was a book the system they lived by (western society) acknowledged.
That is all you need, something the dominant society acknowledges in its institutions and you can be certain it will affect the reality they are dominating the world with at present.
Empires have come and gone in history and along with them their realities and belief systems which shaped this earth, insha Allah you use this to think your way out of your troubles.
Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.