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Lord Of The Noble Throne: Allah’s Kursi

“Those (angels) who bear the Throne (of Allah) and those around it glorify the praises of their Lord, and believe in Him, and ask forgiveness for those who believe (saying): ‘Our Lord! You comprehend all things in mercy and knowledge, so forgive those who repent and follow Your way, and save them from the torment of the blazing Fire!’” (40:7)

The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: “I have been granted permission to speak about one of the angels of Allah, one of the bearers of the Throne. The space between his earlobes and his shoulders is the distance of seven hundred years travelling.” (Abu Dawood)

“The Throne is above the Kursi, and is above all of creation.”(Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar, Fath Al Bari)

“…and above them eight shall bear on that day your Lord’s power.” (The four arch Angels bearing the throne in this life, and the four major Prophets of Allah will join them in the next life. Imam Ibn Arabi)(69:17)

We can’t see the forces that subatomic particles create in our life, they are like an invisible wind moving around us, but we experience them all the time, for example if we place our hand in a fridge it will become cold because of them, temperature and the weather is an easy example because heat, cold and every other climate is created as a result of the particles in the atmosphere, but they do more complex things that make it possible for life to exist. Because the universe is filled with a multitude of particles all doing different things Allah tells us in Surah al Shams (the sun) their major role in man’s spirituality.

Allah also teaches that we influence the subatomic world around us through our actions, and the prophet (saws) explains that this becomes very significant if an entire society is involved together in any type of act good or bad, because it increases the sub atomic impact of its force. As a result of this reality we live under evil acts create evil influence, and good acts create positive influences, Allah explains this in a number of verses in the Quran, religion as a whole teaches us how to have control over that chaos and protect ourselves;

Allah took an oath by this and said, “By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it (by everything mentioned earlier in this surah); Then He inspired it (through the sub atomic world) to understand what is right and wrong for it; He will indeed be successful who purifies it, and he will indeed fail who corrupts it.” (91:7-10)

The question is, to what degree does our body sense into the subatomic world, according to the scholars of Islam and Allah in the Quran, we can sense to the deepest sub atomic depths because of our unique physiology, unlike other creatures, hence through our senses we can understand every kind of quality Allah placed in the universe.

Imam Tustari in his tafsir explained “the nafs (self) has seven celestial veils (hujub samawiyyah) and seven earthly veils (hujub ardiyyah)”, a veil is something that covers our inner perception about things, the imam then explained “when ever man buries his nafs (self) in earth upon earth (ardan ardan), (lowers his esteem and ego), his heart (qalb) is raised up Heaven upon Heaven (sama’an sama’an), And when he (completely) buries the nafs (ego) under the ground (tahta at tara), the heart reaches the throne” (Arsh) .

When man’s self is purified, his inner perception is allowed to reach the throne of Allah because Allah built this ability into man’s physiology and its systems, not just because of his body, but because of the very particles, Allah created him from. This ability of man is only possible because of his unique soul that is created from particles at the deepest sub atomic depth, in a region inside the Arsh. Through the soul, man can sense matters about the universe from inside the place Allah established Himself, so man can know Allah better than any other creature, even the Angels.

Allah states this indirectly in the Quran and because He senses the universe from the place Allah is established, he has the Most complete picture of life with him, almost as if through Allah’s eyes except for the fact Allah sees all things at the same time.

Allah in the Quran said He breathed into man from His own spirit and this is the crux of that meaning; “Then He fashioned him and breathed into him of His (Allah’s) Spirit; and appointed for you hearing and sight and hearts (to take advantage of this unique soul, meaning our faculties revolve around the input of our soul which is different from the souls other creatures were given). Small thanks give ye!” (32:9).

Allah is exalted above creation and only when something represents Him perfectly does He associate it with Himself directly, like Time. The phrase Istawa (established) on the Arsh means this place is equivalent in what it is responsible for to Allah’s own self, therefore verse 32:9 means, since Allah established Himself and His control over the universe on the Arsh, the particles the soul is created from are from the deepest sub atomic depths inside the Arsh, “breathed into him of His (own) Spirit”, of His own nature, of His own qualities, of His own reality, of His own responsibilities.

Ahadith confirm this since we know the point in time Allah created the souls of mankind at the beginning of the universe when nothing else existed except the Arsh and a few other things.

Another fact pointing to this reality is that if the Arsh is the place Allah controls the forces of the universe and its laws from, and Allah said the Soul is “By His command”, it means it behaves like one of the forces and laws of the universe, which He likewise said are His commands (this is the language of science 1400 years ago that we need to understand), therefore if the soul is the force that creates life, just like the Arsh, it is also something that controls the Laws of the universe to produce life.

The forces and Laws of the universe are created by the smallest/deepest particles in existence and they dictate how larger particles behave creating things like Mass in every object or gravity, and so the particles the soul is created from move the universe as other particles are agents for the forces and laws of space. The soul gives life (control/energy) to inanimate matter (our body) and ultimately after we are fully formed gives control of our body to us, our consciousness.

Life is created through forces, laws and systems built on top of each other, all relying on the things that created them. But once the soul’s energy (life force) runs out, we die, science today says this is because of entropy or when the usable energy in a system (our body) becomes unusable.

The soul is a type of pure intellect (not needing a body) which is why it persists after the body dies, but the soul needs a body to grow and effect change in it (either into something good or wretched through our actions in life), once we die the soul is who we were in life and is tainted or blessed by our actions, becoming exceedingly pure or exceedingly dark and foul, it stays in the state we are in at the moment of death until it is given another body when we are resurrected.

“And say not of those who are slain in the way of Allah: ‘They are dead.’ Nay, they are living, though ye perceive

[it] not” (2:154).

Because the soul is unable to effect change within itself without a body Imam al Ghazali explained that a person is punished in the grave with the things he indulged himself in whilst alive. Since he can’t ever acquire them again, his unfulfilled lust for them stays with him torturing him until he is resurrected into a new body.

“and (We) appointed for you hearing and sight and hearts (to take advantage of this unique soul). Small thanks give ye!” (32:9).

If we use the term psychology to describe spirituality it limits the subject we are talking about to our mind and self, but the term spirituality encompasses matters occurring from the depths of subatomic space and the soul, to our world and physiology and how we fit into that larger ecosystem, it is a more comprehensive term. Modern society has cut itself off from understanding the reality we live under, because the soul is from the depths of sub atomic space this is important because explains to us how our actions as a society can have spiritual consequences on the world around us reverberating to the same depths.

The prophet (saws) outlined these consequences in Ahadith when talking about oppression and injustice;

‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar said, “The Prophet, peace be upon him, came to us and said, ‘O Muhajirun, (emigrants from Makkah to al-Madinah) you may be afflicted by five things; God forbid that you should live to see them. If fornication should become widespread, you should realise that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people which their forebears never suffered. If people should begin to cheat in weighing out goods, you should realise that this has never happened without drought and famine befalling the people, and their rulers oppressing them. If people should withhold zakat, you should realise that this has never happened without the rain being stopped from falling; and were it not for the animals’ sake, it would never rain again. If people should break their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, you should realise that his has never happened without Allah sending an enemy against them to take some of their possessions by force. If the leaders do not govern according to the Book of Allah, you should realise that this has never happened without Allah making them into groups and making them fight one another.’ ” [Ibn Majah]

These are all the sub atomic reactions to our actions in life, the cause and effect, the Karma we will suffer.

‘Ali ibn Abi Talib said, “The Prophet said: ‘If my Ummah bears fifteen traits, tribulation will befall it.’ Someone asked, ‘What are they, O Messenger of Allah?’ He said, ‘When any gain is shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor; when a trust becomes a means of making a profit; when paying Zakat becomes a burden; when a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother; and treats his friend kindly whilst shunning his father; when voices are raised in the mosques; when the leader of a people is the worst of them; when people treat a man with respect because they fear some evil he may do; when much wine is drunk; when men wear silk; when female singers and musical instruments become popular; when the last ones of this Ummah curse the first ones – then let them expect a red wind, or the earth to swallow them, or to be transformed into animals.’ ” [At-Tirmidhi]

The Prophet (saws) is teaching us that what we do as a society affects the spiritual part of the universe, Allah said about this, “I swear by time, Most surely mankind is in loss (He exists in a state of Loss in the universe), Except those who believe and do good (these are the only things that negate his state of loss), and enjoin on each other (create a society that adheres to) truth, and enjoin on each other patience (or constancy. Basically society creates a larger influence on the sub atomic world than any individual, so you need to effect positive change as a society).

Allah promised to answer everything about the universe for mankind before the end, and today we are doing exactly that discovering the science behind the universe until “it will become clear unto them that this is indeed the truth”.

But how is all this related to the Arsh of Allah like the verse states, “So exalted is Allah (He is Above the nature of everything), the Sovereign (of the universe), the Reality (of everything); there is no deity except Him (who created the order we see in the universe), Lord of the Noble Throne.” (23:116)

The relationship starts with the human soul because man’s body is like a spiritual lamp that shapes the reality of those around him, whose source of origin and power to affect the universe is the Arsh of Allah;

The Prophet (saws) prayed “Make for me light, and make me light”…and Allah said “O Prophet! surely We have sent you as a witness, and as a bearer of good news and as a summoner (to people) unto Allah by His permission, and as a lamp that giveth light (to others)” (33:46)

Since the Arsh (throne) and Kursi (footstool) are similar in nature the answer comes by first understanding what the Kursi of Allah is because it is clearly explained in ahadith and the Quran. Knowledge of the Kursi (footstool of Allah) makes it clear what the role of the Arsh is in the Haq (Reality) of everyone because it is one of the major building blocks of the universe that is responsible for shaping the creation of everything in it.

The Kursi (footstool) is an area in space and it is given its name because of its distance to the Arsh (Throne) which is the outer most part of space going all the way to the edge of the universe. The name Footstool comes from the relationship between it and the Throne just like a footstool sits at the base of every throne so the King can rest his feet, but because we are talking about science and how the universe was created it also means it forms part of the foundation of what the Arsh is, just like knowledge is needed for wisdom to exist, so if the Kursi is responsible knowledge in the universe the Arsh is responsible for Wisdom.

Our night sky and the visible part of the universe to us are all contained within the Kursi, and that is inside the Arsh. Ahadith explain once we reach the Kursi in the universe there are no more stars in the sky, no galaxies, nebulas, black holes, suns or planets only the Kursi and Arsh and what is in them exist to the edge of the universe and that distance is immense.

Allah’s Messenger (saws) said: “The seven heavens (space) are no more in comparison to the Kursi (footstool) than seven dirhams set in a shield” (this is the same shape as the Milky way which looks like a shield, this tells us the observable universe is inside a seven cluster region that looks like seven coins, more than likely the “coins”are orbiting each other, which is in a larger expanse of space that is the Kursi, and it is shaped like a shield (or the milky way) which itself is surrounded by another larger expanse which begins at sidrat al muntaha in the Quran, the furthest created limit, the Arsh, and it exists to the edge of the universe.

This hadith tells us one more important thing, the blackness of space, dark matter and energy in physics, does not exist to the edge of the universe, it either stops at the Kursi or the Arsh, more than likely the latter since the Kursi is involved in quantum entanglement (the ability of particles to interact with each other and create everything) and the prophet (saws) described the Arsh as surrounding the universe almost like it something different from what is inside.

On top of this Allah describes in the Quran how the Kursi (and by extension the Arsh) are spread throughout all subatomic space, they aren’t just at the end of the universe they are also at the end of all subatomic depths (2:255) because unlike space which contains solid and physical matter governed by gravity, the Kursi and Arsh are entirely made of subatomic particles which are tightly clustered together like photons in visible light, or light coming from a light bulb, it creates a visible field of particles we can see that illuminates the room.

Basically, the universe we know that is filled with planets, suns, stars, black holes and all solid matter, at its edge is surrounded by two large regions made entirely of subatomic particles. Solid matter in the universe seems to have ”gravitated” towards the centre, most likely because of black holes which exist at the centre of each galaxy and act like giant pegs in the universe (the fabric of space) making all the stars and solar systems revolve around them. Some types of mountains on earth act like giant pegs in the earths crust stabilising its tectonic plates and mantle stopping it from quaking, black holes play a similar role in the universe stabilising it and causing all solid matter to stay in the centre.

Abu Zarr (ra) said: “I heard Allah’s Messenger (saws) say: “The Kursi is no more in comparison to the Arsh (Throne) than an iron ring thrown in a vast desert.”

With every deep subject in the Quran Allah teaches us about it in gradual steps through several related verses each describing an aspect of it so the picture can gradually form in your mind, the Kusri and Arsh are no different;

Allah says, “It is Allah Who created the seven heavens (space) and of the earth, it’s like (the other planets in the universe). The command (laws of the universe) comes forth between them (from sub atomic space) so that perhaps you would know that Allah is Powerful over everything (His laws govern everything) and that Allah, truly, enclosed everything in Knowledge (there is a mechanism in sub atomic space that surrounds all things with Allah’s knowledge.” (65:12)

Because of the layered nature of subatomic space, as things form from the depths to the surface, this force of “knowledge” shapes the creation of things, in physics today this “force” is called quantum entanglement.

The Kursi has a purpose in the universe like the laws of physics, and so does the Arsh which relate to how Allah enclosed all things in knowledge, meaning how everything is created with knowledge, purpose and design.

Allah created the Universe from subatomic particles (or “Light” (24:35), a general term for all particles that people of 1400 years ago could understand, He then encompassed the entire universe with His knowledge and created what was in it (65:12) according to the designs we now see in every object and creature.

Deliberate design doesn’t come from repeated accidents and never in the quantity we see around us, which is basically everything created, even in science according to the scientific method when frequency has been established the scientist must conclude there is intent/purpose/direction in what he is looking at, especially with the frequency of complex systems within a single creature. Had everything come from accidents we would have seen half finished creations for every kind of thing in existence, all displaying varying stages of being created, finished and half finished, as matter tried to find its way blindly as it evolved into something meaningful let alone a complex living creature, had this been the true reality of the universe the misery of living things would have been immense.

Allah placed His Blueprint (knowledge) for all things in the Universe so it could shape the evolution of the universe things were being created, today physics is looking at this influence (blueprint) from sub atomic space on life that formed as the universe evolved. The theory of evolution by natural selection was first theorised when they had no idea sub atomic space existed and placed the entire process at the feet of “survival of the fittest”, a competition, which is ridiculous in the face of science since change begins at the subatomic level and not the will of animals.

From the moment the universe came into existence all particles in the universe began to entangle with each other (form links over large distances influencing each other), over time this became more complex as new things began to appear in the universe and it cooled down, a giant web of entangled particles spread through out the entire universe appeared, just like the Kursi described in the Quran, this web is basically the subatomic influence that shaped the evolution (design) of everything, today they call it quantum entanglement and how it shaped the creation of everything is the focus of many research papers.

Entanglement of particles is something many scholars like Imam Ibn Arabi, Imam Ghazali and Imam Rumi understood from its presence and effects in the universe and wrote about in the language of their time to varying degrees. To illustrate this; the heart and body produce a strong electromagnetic field made of subatomic particles that send and receives (signals) information to the world us (which the prophet (saws) mentioned in the hadith of Jabir) just like a mobile/cellular phone, this information directs our instincts and what our body senses, this system is the basis for our spirituality.

It is widely known that Imam Jalal al Deen Rumi used poetry to teach deep subjects on Allah, Islam and the universe to people, He said:

“Don’t feel sad you have the entire universe inside you” (the subatomic world and all its laws)

“Stop acting small you are the universe in ecstatic motion” (subatomic particles and Quantum mechanics).

“Love is the bridge between you and everything else” (Quantum entanglement of all particles).

“Love is the energizing elixir of the universe the cause and effect of all harmonies” (Quantum entanglement through the coherence of waves, the mode/medium through which spiritual communication is possible).

“Love is the religion and the universe is the book”. (Through our physiology man is connected to the universe and impacts it/writes his story/Karma, how your story is written is in your hands.)

“Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. For it (is only) that which it hath earned, and against it (only) that which it hath deserved.” (2:286) This is the universe reacting to our moral choices in life, other religions called it Karma.

If we ask how does a plant know to grow into the shape of a plant, Allah teaches us His knowledge influences its creation at the subatomic level, and this is the role of the Kursi in the universe, which Ahadith and the Quran teach.

Allah encompasses all things with His knowledge (65:12) and Ibn Abbas (ra) explained, “His Kursi is His knowledge” (kursiyyuhu `ilmuhu) (Bukhari).

If we look at the answer sheet and get our answers ahead of time, we would see that the Kursi from its description and role is almost certainly responsible for quantum entanglement in the universe, it is that subatomic layer or depth that makes it happen. Physics teaches that Quantum entanglement is responsible for the existence of all knowledge in the universe and how everything was created, “His Kursi is His knowledge”.

The Quran explains this reality in relation to Allah’s existence very clearly because the qualities of what He created is His will, Him. The following verse called ayat al Kursi (which is the greatest verse in the Quran) is a picture being painted of the Kursi and Allah’s hand in the universe through it. It isn’t individual unrelated statements, it was because of this fact that the Prophet (saws) said by understanding the picture (verse) you can learn Allah’s greatest name/Quality from it by which if He is asked, He answers;

“Allah! There is no deity save Him, the Alive, the Eternal. Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him (the universe like Him has perpetual qualities). Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens (sub atomic space) and whatsoever is in the earth (physical world, hence, every kind of science around us exists because of Him). Who can intercedeth (in the universe) with Him save by His leave? (Who can change the universe, or has control over anything in the universe except through Him and the things He created in it) He knoweth that which is in front of them (death) and that which is behind them (this life they left) [He has complete knowledge of their lives, He is the Span of Time while man’s existence is limited to his own lifespan], while they encompass nothing of His knowledge (over the span of time. Allah is quantifying Knowledge here, giving it dimension, we can’t encompass time in our self or the universe that all knowledge unraveled in) save what He will. (Because) His Kursi (which is His knowledge) encompasses the heavens and the earth (everything. Every subject raised so far in the verse is about the Kursi and is related to its existence in the universe because that was the culminating remark of ayat al Kursi), and He is never weary of preserving them (at every moment of existence). He is the Sublime (Exalted above His creation, the same word is used as verse 23:116, Ali-u), the Tremendous (Azzim/ the vast. Allah’s qualities that He gave to his Kursi).” (2:255)

The verse was called ayat al Kursi by the prophet (saws), the Kursi represents specific qualities of Allah in the universe which He mentions in the verse alongside the Kursi itself to teach us by association.

In the general order that subjects appear, in modern terms the verse is saying; the Kursi is responsible for the Tawheed that every creature senses (our Fitrah, natural disposition), as well as the existence of all life and the persistence of the universe. It is responsible for the perpetual nature of matter, energy, particles in the universe, as well as control of the entire universe. You cannot act in the universe except through what the Kursi is responsible for bringing about and that is everything, it is also responsible for the future of the universe, its evolution and direction, as well as the actions of its past, meaning their consequences in the present.

In physics quantum entanglement is responsible for all of these things including the evolution of the universe based on the consequences of its past (entanglement).

This means that the persistence/result/preservation/karma of all past creature’s actions in the universe and how that impacts life today, the Kursi is responsible for it; “Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. For it (is only) that which it hath earned, and against it (only) that which it hath deserved” (2:286), this is Karma in the language of the Arabs, hence the Kursi is responsible for Karma itself from the beginning of time to our present existence and entanglement is Karma by an ancient name.

When the sacred pen was commanded to write the future of all things by Allah at the beginning of the universe, it was because of the existence of the Kursi that it could do so, everything relies on the things Allah created in the universe to work and the Kursi is responsible for the future of the universe. The Kursi spans the entire universe up to the Arsh (Throne) and preserves everything in the Universe that is within it, hence it is fundamental for the existence of all laws the universe runs by, (this isn’t dissimilar from how the sub atomic Higgs field is responsible for the Mass of all particles, the Kursi is another field at a greater sub atomic depth which is how it is described in ahadith).

Allah mentioned it is Exalted and Tremendous in its nature, in the context of the Quran and Allah, this is what exalted means in the universe in relation to created things they exist at the depths of sub atomic space and Allah says He is above them in the literal sense.

All of this points to an even deeper relationship relating to the fact Allah said He is time and time is created by the entanglement of particles which is at the heart of what reality is created from.

Allah in a hadith Qudsi said “I Am Time”…(“In My Hand” is change in the universe), so the Kursi’s role is almost as important as the Arsh which Allah is established upon, meaning from where He controls all affairs in the Universe, this is the tafsir Allah Himself gave to the word Istiwa in the Quran. The Kursi is Allah’s knowledge in the universe through which everything comes into existence according to how Allah planned it, it is a force that helps mould sub atomic particles according to His will.

Physics explains that quantum entanglement is responsible for how things are created as well as the evolution of the universe, but more deeply entanglement is also responsible for the existence of time itself, since time was created with the first particles to exist, and it came about from their entanglement, or as Allah described in the Hadith Qudsi change/alternation/evolution in the universe is in My hand, and these are its mechanisms.

Allah Is Reality, The Only Lord

The subatomic world explains how Allah is the sovereign and how He is the reality (al Haq), “So exalted is Allah (Above everything in His nature), the Sovereign (of the universe), the Reality (Haq of the universe whose reality is superior to everything else)”.

Just like physics has discovered that space (Matter) and time are connected with each other, matter creates time, when Allah said, He IS the passing of time (Dhuhr), Allah is then associating our reality, which our body creates, with himself to teach us.

Because Allah is the one in control of the universe, there is no deity other than Him to compete with Him on what the laws of the universe should look like, He created the universe according to His fitrah (nature), who He IS. Had other gods existed you would have seen conflicting laws like conflicting opinions, and consequently, nothing would be alive today in such a convoluted universe of laws fighting each other, but everything arose from the fact the universe is in harmony with itself each law relying on another to exist.

Instead of chaos and chance, it was from the calmness of space as the universe cooled down after the initial big bang (explosion) that life came from; “If there had been in them (space and earth) any gods except Allah, they would both (space and earth) have certainly been in a state of disorder (the universe would not function as it should, everything relies on something else in a grand web of interconnectedness, so if one law failed to work or worked against everything else, the things that create life would fall apart, the existence of life requires the existence of harmony); therefore glory be to Allah, the Lord of the dominion (the universe), above what they attribute (associate with His control of the universe through their ignorance of science)” (21:22).

But because the universe functions correctly Allah said; “Exalted is (Allah) who holds all control in His hands (everything that controls the universe, all the laws and forces are in His hand, man looks at the laws and says where is Allah when they move everything, while Allah says all the Laws and forces that move everything are being controlled by Him. He explains how in the Quran when He says He controls the Universe from the Arsh, the deepest sub-atomic layer, exactly as science teaches, everything relies on its building blocks and the Arsh is the “end of the line”); who has power over all things; who created death and life to test you and reveal which of you does best––He is the Mighty, the Forgiving; who created the seven heavens (the seven sub atomic depths), one above the other (from the Arsh to us, “light upon light”, layer upon layer, particle within particle). You will not see any flaw in what the Lord of Mercy creates (we are being asked to look at the sub atomic, to study it in depth). Look again! Can you see any flaw? Look again! And again! (deeper and deeper) Your sight will turn back to you, weak and defeated (by its harmony and depth).” (67:1-4)

This verse explains how Allah controls the universe, we rely on the laws of the universe to exist and they rely on the depths of subatomic space to exist and sub atomic space relies on the Arsh (the boundary protecting the universe from unravelling into nothingness) to exist and Allah established (Istiwa) Himself here controlling all things in the universe;

“VERILY, your Sustainer is Allah, who has created the heavens (subatomic world) and the earth in six periods, and is established on the throne (Arsh) of His almightiness, governing all that exists. There is none that could intercede with Him unless He grants leave therefor. Thus is Allah, your Sustainer (this is how He sustains you, through the subatomic world that He moves everything through, using the Arsh): worship therefore Him: will you not then keep this in mind?” (10:3)

“VERILY, your Sustainer is Allah, who has created the heavens (subatomic world) and the earth in six periods, and is established on the throne of His almightiness (Everything from Him comes from the Arsh, the deepest sub atomic depth). He covers the day with the night in swift pursuit (He is the cause of change in the universe), with the sun and the moon and the stars (All space) subservient to His command (laws): oh, verily, His is all creation and all command (Laws). Blessed is Allah (Tabaruk/Exalted/Hallowed is Allah, this word implies every kind of blessing that life receives comes from the fact Allah is exalted above the universe and is established on the Arsh, which is why the next Quality mentioned is), the Sustainer of all the worlds! (in the universe)” (7:54)

“Clearly does He spell out these ayat (teachings, signs, verses), so that you might be certain in your innermost that you are destined to meet your Sustainer.” (13:2)

To paraphrase Surah al Mulk in our terms (67:1-4); Allah is exalted above the seven heavens (and He is established/Istiwa on the Arsh, which is His centre of control) and from His exaltedness (this location) He controls all things, He created death and life to test us and this test (our reality) is tied with how the universe works (Karma in short). The seven sub atomic depths are created to bring about His will, one layer above the other from the Arsh until we reach our world, what ever happens in the universe its ripples or vibrations pass through all seven layers, we impact sub atomic space (the Prophets tafsir to Surah Luqman) and sub atomic space impacts us (Surah al Shams). We won’t see any flaw in what Allah created no matter how carefully we look into these depths.

Surah al Mulk isn’t asking us to look at outer space as many originally thought, look means study and see if you can find flaws with how the universe is constructed. “You will not see any flaw in what the Lord of Mercy creates. Look again! Can you see any flaw? Look again! And again!” this means subatomic space, Allah is pushing and challenging us to look at the minute details of how things work and are put together.

This passage that began by declaring the exaltedness of Allah explains how understanding space is related to His sovereignty over all things, which is why the surah was called al Mulk, The Dominion (of Allah), all of this is why Allah is the only Lord.

Allah Is The Sovereign

“All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifieth Allah, the Sovereign Lord (Al Malik), the Holy One (Al Qudus), the Mighty, the Wise (Al Aziz).”(62:1)

“He is Allah, other than Whom there is no other God, the Sovereign Lord (Al Malik), the Holy One (Al Qudus), Peace (Al Salam), the Keeper of Faith (Al Mu’min), the Guardian (Al Muhaimin), the Majestic (Al Aziz), the Compeller (Al Jabar), the Superb (Al Mutakabir). Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto His control of the Universe).”(59:23)

After mentioning He is exalted above creation in verse 23:116 Allah says He is “the Sovereign (Malik of everything)”, which means “In My hand is the affair (change in the universe). I alternate the night and the day (I move the universe and create the reality you live with)”.

He is behind every law of the universe sustaining each one and every moment of existence, many throughout history argued that Allah created the universe like a machine, He created it and left it to run according to its laws, then sat back watching everything, this is the furthest thing from the truth, these philosophers lived in a time when science was first developing and had not yet seen the depth of science that exists in our time, which is the first stage of its maturity, in the future as the Prophet (saws) stated so much of the universe will become open to man that he will know how to bring people back to life after killing them.

What Allah clearly states in contrast to this is that “Allah is the One who holds the heavens and the Earth (the universe), lest they cease to exist (he sustains them at every moment, this is the Job of the Arsh He is established upon). And if they vanished no one could then keep hold of them (No one else is keeping everything in existence). Certainly, He is Most Forbearing, Ever-Forgiving (these are His two qualities related to this, He is ever forgiving of a universe that is short of His perfection so He gave it persistent forgiveness and is constantly forbearing with it, constantly involved in it).” (35:41) Allah is constantly intervening and from this verse, we can understand how Allah is the sustainer of every thing and every moment through out time.

Allah’s hand in the universe makes every moment exist and the universe creates time the direction the universe evolves to, Hence He made the relationship He is time itself as it passes and so all change in the universe from one moment to the next is because of Him.

What is stopping us from seeing Allah is understanding the significance of each moment from one to the next, every moment that passes, in order that we can see Him and His Hand in the picture of life.

That understanding and inner sight only comes to the heart by fulfilling the responsibilities Allah placed on us, “My servant draws not near to Me with nothing more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him”, by also fulfilling the responsibilities of other Muslims, fulfilling the needs of all creatures Allah created alongside us, “Lo! We offered the trust (responsibility of others) unto the heavens and the earth and the hills, but they shrank from bearing it and were afraid of it. And man assumed it. Lo! he hath proved a tyrant and a fool.”(33:72), by being a mercy for everything on Allah’s behalf, His Khalifa on earth, “and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory (extra) works so that I shall love him”. By fulfilling this trust Allah placed on you, from it and the many different experiences we will come to live, we gain from each a small piece of the picture that we need.

This is because we have now connected our heart and soul to where Allah is most visible in life, our Heart will put the picture together and come to see Allah in life.

“And whatever wealth you will spend on helping them, Allah will know of it”. (2:273)

“You shall not attain righteousness until you spend out of what you love. Allah knows whatever you spend”. (3:92)

Ibn Abbas related that the Prophet said: Any Muslim who gives a Muslim a garment to wear will be in Allah’s safe keeping as long as a shred of it remains on him. (Ahmad, Tirmidhi)

Safwan ibn Salim related that the Prophet said: “Anyone who looks after and works for a widow and a poor person is like a warrior fighting for Allah’s cause, or like a person who fasts during the day and prays all night”. (Bukhari)

There is no other way to achieve this nearness except by being Allah’s mercy on earth, which is why all the prophets in the Quran are described as Allah’s mercy to the universe, except the Prophet (saws) was sent specifically for that task “And We have not sent you but as a mercy to the worlds.” (21:107)

This is a description usually only associated with the prophets (as), but in the Quran, Allah has also given it to those who reach Him. Imam Suyuti said in His tafsir to surah al Kahf explained; “So

[there] they found one of Our servants, namely, al-Khidr, to whom We had given mercy from Us — according to one opinion this [mercy] was prophethood; according to another it was authority, and this [latter] is the opinion of the majority of scholars — and We had taught him knowledge from Us (‘ilman is the second direct object), in other words, some knowledge of unseen things.”

Understanding Allah, His nature and reality, is another step in the process of seeing Him, in his book ‘Mulhat al-I’tiqad’ Shaykh ‘Izzud-Din Ibn ‘Abdi-Salam (died 660 AH), said: “Allah is not a body and thus Has no form, He is not an entity and thus Has no measured limits. He does not resemble anything and nothing resembles Him. The six directions do not surround Him, nor do the earths and skies enclose Him. He is eternally existent before creating the creations. He created time (change), and He still exists as He eternally was (without a place, or change)”.

When the universe was created that moment was the first lesson Allah began teaching about Himself, He then began populating the universe in the same order He created it, from the sub atomic part first to the Physical part last. Creatures whose bodies are made of subatomic particles came into existence one after the other, from the Angels first, to the Buraq then the Jinn last of all, we came to call them the spiritual creatures of the universe.

Ahmad Ibn Ya’qub al-Thaqafi narrated to us … from Ibn ‘Abbas [that] he said in regards to His (Exalted is He) statement “and of the earth the like thereof”: “Seven earths (Many earths): In every earth (its people were sent) a prophet like your Prophet, an Adam like your Adam, a Nuh like your Nuh, an Ibrahim like your Ibrahim and an ‘Isa like your ‘Isa.”(Mustadrak of Hafiz Abu ‘Abdullah al-Hakim)

Allah began teaching about Himself to the Angels who’s life span would last as long as the universe persisted, then as He populated the planets in space with spiritual creatures of varying kinds, He revealed more about Himself. The first subjects in the universe were about how things are created and the Qualities Allah used in doing this, such as His forbearance which is represented by the fundamental forces of the universe and His forgiveness that overshadows faults which is represented by Jahanam and Jannah, two forces that move and help evolve the universe and stop stagnation, both Qualities of Allah are needed to sustain the universe.

The next lessons to His creatures were about how life can come from lifeless matter a process the Angels would witness and help create for Allah, then as each new creature was created and Allah revealed himself to it the Angels learnt from what they witnessed, a process as old as the universe.

The spiritual creatures that began to appear after the Angels their bodies, one after the next were made of particles closer and closer to the physical world until we reach the Jinn who are made of “a smokeless fire”, one of the outer most particles of the subatomic world that make up the Atom and is responsible for electricity, the electron.

The Prophet said, “Verily, Satan (Jinn) flows through the human being like blood,” a reference to the nervous system they manipulate, it uses electrical impulses to regulate everything in the human body and its organs. Jinn are creatures that manipulate man through his faculties which relies on the nervous system and its electrical impulses.

Each of these creatures would be given a facet of what makes up the complete and perfect intellect because their bodies were limited in what they could experience, a bear doesn’t know what it is like to swim like a fish and a fish doesn’t know what it is like to fly like a bird, and so to are the spiritual creatures of the universe varied in their perspectives on life, each creature responsible for knowing the part of Allah it was capable of learning through its faculties.

The first spiritual creatures after the Angels are the strongest, later spiritual creatures were gradually less and less powerful than the Angels but received a more complete picture of life and the universe, we can see this from the types of Angels that exist, if one Angel is responsible for mercy in the universe and another for punishment, one quality of Allah, lesser spiritual creatures would experience a more complex combination of Allah’s qualities, and mankind was allowed to know all 99 and the combinations that exist by combining them, which as Imam Ibn Arabi explained is how Allah is infinite (the multiplication or combinations of qualities does not stop).

This was the case until we reach the jinn the least powerful of all the spiritual creatures and the most convoluted of them all, a product of seeing to much and not being able to handle knowledge with responsibility. Because of man they would witness what Allah gave Him and the best of them are counted by Allah among the Angels, like Iblis until He rebelled, their spiritual reality through mans existence on earth alongside them became diverse enough to encompass the spiritual reality of man, but most of them became twisted creatures early in life out of their jealousy of him and never developed their potential.

With each new creature, new moral lessons were taught and experienced, and Allah would reveal more about Himself to His creatures in the universe. Over time higher aspects of the perfect intellect where steadily revealed until man came into existence and Allah finally revealed in the universe every possible part of the intellect so it could know Allah completely.

The prophet (saws) said, “The first thing Allah created was the pen, then He created the ‘Nun’ (space) which is an inkwell (for particles). This is what Allah stated (in sura 68:1) ‘Nun and the Pen.’ And He said to it, ‘Write’. So the pen wrote all that will be until judgment day…Then Allah created the intellect and said, ‘By my Glory, I will establish you in those whom you love and I will take you away from those whom you despise.’” (Imam Qurtubi gave the following chain, Narrated by Al-Walid Ibn Muslim, narrated by Malik Ibn Ans, narrated by Sumay son of Abu Bakir, narrated by Abu Salih Al-Samaan, narrated by Abu Hurayrah who heard the prophet (saws))

After creating man Allah then declared nothing but the perfect man, Insan al Kamil, can properly know Him because in man is every facet of the universe and Allah’s qualities, both the physical and spiritual while everything Allah created before man was only an aspect of it and Him.

Imam Ibn Arabi explained that Man is a copy (nuskha) of both realities, the Divine Names and the Universe. “He is made according to two images: his exterior image, his body, is a copy of the cosmic realities, while his interior image, his powers, is the image of the Divine Names (Qualities).

The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: “When any one of you fights his brother, let him avoid the face, for Allah created Adam (mankind) in His image.”

Ibn Umar said: The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: “Do not say ‘May Allah deform your face’ [a form of cursing in Arabic], for the son of Adam (Mankind) was created in the image of the Most Merciful.”

Allah valued knowledge and wisdom over strength, His spiritual creatures had an abundance of intellectual strength and knowledge but a limited capacity to learn and gain wisdom from that, this is because wisdom requires having a more complete type of intellect and the perfect intellect requires having the perfect body and physiology to produce it so it can understand every kind of experience Allah created, a bird can’t understand the life of a fish and fish can’t understand the life of a bear but man could as he delved deeper through his study of each.

Allah gave man the capacity for infinite wisdom but less strength to do anything with that knowledge, unlike Allah’s spiritual creatures, and this was the crux of the problem for the Jinn when they first saw man. They have more mental strength but lesser capacity for wisdom, so their leader Ibliss in his folly and hubris rebelled against Allah as if the creator didn’t know what He created and made a mistake, all because he was stronger than man and could over power Him; “[Allah] said, “O Iblees, what prevented you from prostrating to that which I created with My two hands? (And not just one like you, this statement refers to spiritual and physical in a beings nature, man was the most complete creation of Allah) Were you arrogant [then], or were you [already] among the haughty?”(you never left your arrogance behind when we entered you into Jannah)(38:75).

The universe is change itself, different from the nothing that existed before it, designed to teach about Allah, it will continue to exist until the complete picture of Allah has come into existence, He is the complete span of time, not the snippet of it we see over a single lifetime. Man gets a snap shot of Allah whilst he is alive but the overall picture of who He is, is for the benefit of the Angels who existed from the start and will persist until its end;

Allah said about creatures knowing Him over the span of time; “Who can intercedeth (in the universe) with Him save by His leave? (No one has control over anything in the universe except through the things created in it) He knoweth that which is in front of them (death) and that which is behind them (this life they left) [He has complete knowledge of their lives, He is the Span of Time while man’s existence is limited to his lifespan], while they encompass nothing of His (total) knowledge save what He will” (2:255).

Such statements in the Quran as verse 35:41 are scientific arguments made to the Arabs of 1400 years ago, they are not hollow declarations, they instruct them to compare how they came to exist with what they know about Allah’s existence, and from that you will see How Allah is exalted above everything you know.

The word in the Quran Allah uses for Himself is Ta’aly and Tabaruk in Surah al Mulk (67:1), that verse reads “Exalted is He in whose Hand is the dominion” (universe), this is a scientific argument instructing you to do something, it is literally saying see how the universe (Dominion) works to understand His exaltedness.

What is beautiful about the phrase is that the word Tabaruk usually means to derive blessings from something and so the underlying knowledge in the verse is that barakah (blessings) are derived from the subatomic world and if you control it, you can derive blessings/benefit for your life (think things like nuclear fusion and fission, or healing the body through its natural systems). So Allah is telling us the origin of Baraka/blessings as well as what creates the miracles performed by the prophets and saintly men (as).

Imam Rumi said, “You and I will be together until the universe Dissolves”, when ‘Allah is no longer holding it all together’, in our terms this is when the forces holding every atom together no longer exist.

Imam Rumi also said “Look at every animal from the gnat to the elephant: they all are Allah’s family and dependent on Him for their nourishment (dependant on the way He created nature). What a nourisher is Allah! All these griefs within our hearts arise from the smoke and dust of our existence and vain desires (delusions).”

Understanding how Allah is the sustainer helps us understand how He is the sovereign because the one providing for you is sovereign over you, simply agreeing He is the sovereign of everything when we read the verse is not the same as understanding how if we want to understand what Allah is actually saying to us, and for this we need to know how the systems He created work.

If we say all life needs the sun to exist we understand quickly what this means but in scientific terms what we need from the sun is the photon particles (light) it sends to earth and from this we begin to see the deeper picture of what is going on, especially when we look at how our bodies rely on light.

In verse 23:116 Allah is telling us by pointing at His exaltedness to look at the subtle aspects of the universe. This is because what is exalted above the basic things we see around is everything that makes them work, and since we require knowledge and study to see them, all intellectual pursuits are also spiritually exalted;

The Messenger of Allah (saws) said, “He who follows a path in quest of knowledge, Allah will make the path of Jannah easy to him. The angels lower their wings over the seeker of knowledge, being pleased with what he does. The inhabitants of the heavens and the earth and even the fish in the depth of the oceans seek forgiveness for him. The superiority of the learned man over the devout worshipper is like that of the full moon to the rest of the stars. The learned are the heirs of the Prophets who bequeath neither dinar nor dirham but only that of knowledge; and he who acquires it, has in fact acquired an abundant portion.” (Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi)

Allah gave His prophet knowledge about everything in this universe and the learned scholar is the heir to what the prophet (saws) was given and left behind.

The Messenger of Allah (saws) said, “The world, with all that it contains, is accursed except for the remembrance of Allah, that which pleases Allah; and the religious scholars and seekers of knowledge.” (At- Tirmidhi).

The Prophet (saws) said, “Convey from me even an Ayah of the Qur’an; relate traditions from Banu Israel (Jews), and there is no restriction on that; but he who deliberately forges a lie against me let him have his abode in Hell.” (Bukhari)

Allah is the sovereign (Al Malik) who arranged the creation of His creatures from the depths of subatomic space to the life of this world and gave every creature according to its capacity, the English word sovereignty is derived from the Latin word ‘superaanus’ which means the supremacy of one over the other, Allah’s reality is the most supreme He gave each creature its own unique reality, but man’s reality encompasses them all.

Imam Ibn al Arabi elaborated saying: So if you have understood, I have explained to you what is meant by “man”. Look at his grandeur through the Most Beautiful Names (of Allah, he was given as qualities), and the fact that they seek him (Allah’s spiritual creatures, the Jinn and Angels) Through their seeking him (and their requiring his existence) you will come to understand his majesty, and through his appearance through them (as the Angels and Jinn support Him spiritually), you will understand his lowliness (His requiring them to develop spiritually). So understand!

From this, it is understood that he is a copy of the two forms, Allah, and the Universe. (Imam Ibn al Arabi’s own summary of his work al Fusus al Ahkam).

Allah Is Exalted

This is one of the most important verses in the Quran about reality because Allah tells us the building blocks (causes/asbab) behind reality, Allah says “So exalted is Allah (The way He exists is above the nature of our universe and our reality), the Sovereign (of everything), the Reality (Haq of everything); there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne.” (23:116)

This verse mentions everything responsible for reality itself including the fact there is only one God of the universe which is the first part of the shahadah (oath) required to become a Muslim, when a person takes that oath he is placed on a spiritual path to discover the true nature (reality) of the universe, the oath is the first step to dispelling all illusionary realities upon us which are a result of our delusions and fantasy about life. We can create our own delusions but how do we see the one truth the Universe is created to represent, your on the right path when you dispel your self-delusions and the Shahada, the oath you took, is the first step because oaths are spiritually binding until they are fulfilled.

Therefore, in the Quran Allah places those who have witnessed the reality of the universe like the prophets next in rank; “And whoso obeys Allah and the Messenger, then they will be in the company of those on whom Allah has bestowed His Grace, of the Prophets, the Siddiqun (those who witnessed as the prophets did), the martyrs, and the righteous. The best of company are they! (4:69)

When we look at verse 23:116 everyone can understand the qualities being mentioned individually, but not why they are being mentioned together in the same verse and in relation to the fact Allah is the only Lord and how this is associated with His Arsh (throne) or even how the verse is proof of anything.

But to the Arabs of 1400 years ago, this is the language and phrasing of science and they naturally understood there is a reason why they are being mentioned together, Allah taught about the entire universe in their mother tongue.

The first Quality Allah mentions is his exaltedness, “So exalted is Allah”, Allah in the way He exists is above our creation (universe) but what does this mean. If we look at our body, organs and nervous system they all work together to create our intellect, so we can say man relies on his body and its senses to know anything, but our body, in turn, relies on the stuff it is made of which is the subatomic particles of each Atom to exist, they, in turn, rely on the laws (and forces) of the universe that created them and the forces of the universe rely on the smallest particles in the universe that created them.

The universe is layered, layer upon layer or as Allah says in the verse of light (24:35), “light (particle) upon light (particle)” from the bottom, the Arsh, until we reach the top, earth.

Besides this man also absolutely needs one more thing to exist, and that is time itself, this is because time is the movement (rate of change in the “fabric” of the universe) of everything in the universe, we don’t grow old because the earth moves around the sun but because our body and the matter it is created from is ageing (losing its energy due to entropy) so actual time is something built into the universe while the days and night are just superficial representations of the passing of time which Allah created to make measuring time easier (as He states in the Quran);

“And We have established the night and the day as two symbols (representations); and thereupon We have effaced the symbol of night (everlasting night) and set up

[in its place] the light giving symbol of day, so that you might seek to obtain your Sustainer’s bounty (in the world) and (also) be aware of the passing years and of the reckoning [that is bound to come]. For clearly have We spelt out everything!” (this last statement is telling us there is depth in the Quran when the relationship between the multiple subjects being mentioned in each verse are studied in the light of science) (17:12).

If time didn’t exist, it means nothing is moving or interacting with anything, no reactions are occurring, while with time our Atoms and particles are always in motion. The universe created time when it was created so we can only exist in a place that time exists in. This is an important point to understanding the exaltedness of Allah because, in contrast to us and the universe whose reactions rely on time so they can occur, Allah is timeless, He isn’t bound by time or anything outside the universe which we will see the significance of from Ahadith.

All of this is a matter of science and physics, probably one of the most erroneous ideas that pervaded the ancient world and persists to this day is that time is not real, it is simply the ticking of a clock something we imagine, many famous scholars and philosophers, and consequently because of them educated people today still believe this, but science has conclusively proven that time and space are intertwined together, what ever happens to one happens to the other.

Time is a component of space and everything it is created from so what happens to one happens to the other and vice versa, and physicists now refer to space as space-time, most of modern physics relies on this fact to study subatomic space.

Time and space can stretch, shrink or “jiggle” (as one famous physicist stated), our earth for example because of its giant Mass bends space around it and that creates how much gravity we experience on earth (9.81 m/s), a larger Mass will produce more gravity, which is a measurement of force in one location that differs on other planets and suns, for the exact same reason the Mass of each planet decides the rate at which time flows on each planet and they all differ from the rate it is flowing at in open space, although these differences a minute and we don’t notice them.

Probably the most famous example of this is black holes due to their almost infinite Mass and the amount of gravity they produce, time flows very differently inside black holes.

This led physicists to prove that time and space are connected to each other and the rate of time on earth or in objects with large Mass/Gravity like the sun is slightly different from that in cold space where there is no gravity. They proved this with satellites which need to account for this variation otherwise GPS coordinates will be wrong (we all remember the early days of GPS) and there have been some disastrous and funny consequences in the past because this wasn’t properly understood.

This is because space and all matter in the universe create the flow of time we experience, the universe creates the flow of time on each planet of sun and Allah affirms the tangible existence of time in a famous Hadith Qudsi literally referring to the flow of time as proof.

The Quran itself states that the flow of time can be different in the universe, for example when it speaks about the Isra wal Miraj of the prophet (saws) that occurred in a single night, or the scribe of Sulayman (as) who brought him the throne of the Queen Bilqees from Yemen to Jerusalem in the blink of an eye, the Jinn that was with them said he could do it in a few seconds, and the journey of the Angels to the Arsh that by our estimation on would take 50,000 years but occurs almost instantly so decrees on matters are known at that moment.

Mankind experiences life through time and because of this fact Allah said about Himself He is the passing of Time, this is how His qualities are known, had time been something we invented Allah would not have said He is time itself, He would not have said He is something that man imagines.

Imam Shafii (ra) said; “The Arabs in the time of ignorance, when they were stricken with difficulty, adversity, or tragedy, used to say: “O, the vicissitudes of time!” (Vicissitude means a change in circumstance or fortune) In this way, they would attribute those events to time and curse it on that basis. However, the doer is none other than Allah Almighty, so it was as if they were cursing Allah, for He is, in truth, the one who brought about that situation. It is in consideration of this meaning that cursing time has been prohibited.”

Thus, Allah said to the Arabs: “The son of Adam offends Me when he curses time, for I am (the Passing of) time (Dhuhr). In My hand is the affair (change in the universe). I alternate the night and the day (I move the universe and create the reality, the life you experience).” (Bukhari (4826) and Muslim (2246))

So, what does this have to do with verse 23:116, understanding how the universe works means you understand how your reality exists and Allah is teaching us that through this knowledge you will come to know Him. Allah says He is exalted above the universe, this means He doesn’t rely on the things our body relies on to exist or to know the world around us, which means He has no organs, a body, isn’t in need of Atoms, particles, the laws of the universe that created and sustain them and He doesn’t need the passing of time to exist, and this last point is something enormous in physics because the Atoms and particles we are created from need the passing of time to interact with each other otherwise no sub atomic, atomic, chemical or biological reactions would occur, life can’t exist without time.

He doesn’t need anything in the universe so the manner of His existence is absolutely exalted above our existence in every way. This is what one word, “exalted” above, means in the Quran when talking about Allah and it has everything to do with all things mentioned after it in the verse.

Imam ‘Ali Ibn Abi Talib (died 40 AH), may Allah raise his rank, the eminent and renowned companion and one of the most distinguished in teaching Tawhid (Islamic Creed) said: “Allah is eternally existent and place is not, and He still exists as He eternally was (without a place or time, after He created those things)”. Narrated by Abu Mansur al-Baghdadiyy in his book ‘al-Farq baynal-Firaq’”.

Sayidina Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra) also said: “He who claims that our Lord is limited is ignorant about the Creator who is worshipped” (Hafidh Abu Nu’aym, Hilyatul-Awliya).

Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (died 148 AH), may Allah raise his rank, said: “He who claims that Allah is in anything or on anything or from anything commits shirk (a type of blasphemy). Because, had He been on anything, He would have been carried, had He been in anything, He would have been contained, and had He been from anything, He would have been a creation” (originated). Narrated by Imam al-Qushayriyy in his book ‘ar-Risalah’.

The Building Blocks Of Our Reality

We know the Sun is one giant sub atomic reaction creating particles after particles, in a number of ahadith the prophet mentions its relationship to the Kursi and Arsh;

“It has been related on the authority of Akrama that the sun is one seventieth of a part of the light (particle) of the Footstool (Kursi), and the Footstool (Kursi) is one seventieth of a part of the light (particle) of the Throne.”

The Footstool and the Throne are the deepest sub atomic depths that exist so this hadith tells us where in the universe, relative to earth, the Arsh and Kursi are because of the depths to which the reactions of the sun reach to, and the place of the sun in relation to them.

Because all Laws of the universe are in Allah’s control/hand He said, “Allah is the One who holds the heavens and the Earth (the universe), lest they cease to exist. And if they vanished, no one could then keep hold of them (this is a literal statement about physics). Certainly, He is Most Forbearing, Ever-Forgiving.” (35:41)

The laws of the universe exist because of subatomic space, if they stopped existing Atoms would unravel or come apart just as they formed when the universe began and as a result all space, galaxies, black holes, suns and planets would also cease to exist, as the verse in the Quran states.

al Arsh al Raheem surrounds the universe helping it persist and protects it from what is outside of it, Musa (as) saw a glimpse of this when He asked to see Allah with nothing between them and that power he (as) witnessed disintegrated the particles of the mountain to nothing. What creates physics and other sciences we know of are the subatomic forces that created sub atomic space and all its particles.
By analogy to us a gust of wind is made of small Atoms, this is a force that shapes the weather and landscape on earth, to Atoms and most subatomic particles the forces that created them are made of the smallest and first particles to exist after the big bang and they are like a gust of wind that shaped the subatomic world, so when these forces stop existing everything will fall apart.

These particles exist at the deepest depths of subatomic space, and beyond them is the edge/limit of the universe, many have asked what is outside the universe, the prophet (saws) answered this question when He (saws) spoke about the Arsh (throne).

After first describing the subatomic world, when He (saws) reached the limit of sub atomic space he said “knowledge of creatures stops at the knowledge of the creator”, not even the Angels know and no one has been taught anything about this, this tells us something about the universe indirectly, from the description we can be certain that Allah created the universe with defined limits and it has a size known to Allah and isn’t infinite like some early scholars and philosophers thought.

This is a conclusion Islam’s schools of Aqeedah came to in contradiction to the philosophers that challenged them, Greek philosophy especially which Islam mostly refuted. Truth is universal and it can persist even after a civilisation is gone because Allah said “Truth hath come and falsehood hath vanished away. Lo! falsehood is ever bound to vanish” (17:81) and Islamic scholars have always accepted truth/science no matter which civilisation it came from, therefore what the Greeks got right they accepted and what was wrong they refuted, such as the infinite nature of the universe.

Everything we know is created from things inside the universe, they rely on the forces of the universe to exist, if for example the space surrounding us no longer existed the atoms we are made from can’t survive for long and would disintegrate or unravel back into nothing just as they formed from nothing. So, what ever is outside the universe is like saying the space surrounding us no longer exists, hence, no person, Angel or Jinn can go outside the universe because the Atoms or particles they are created from can’t survive there, they would unravel or disintegrate.

Our atoms need the boundaries of the universe, its laws, sub-atomic layers (depths) and systems that sustain them to continually persist and because of this Allah called Himself the (continuous) sustainer of the universe; “Allah is the One who holds the heavens and the Earth (the universe), lest they cease to exist. And if they vanished (disintegrated) no one could then keep hold of them”. (35:41)

The point of all this is to remove bewilderment about what the universe looks like in people’s minds and how it is relevant to man’s spirituality, because Allah says there is a direct relationship with space and man’s spirituality that we need to understand, when you know what the reality He created looks like you can better understand your situation (reality);

Allah says, “In time We shall make them fully understand Our messages

[through what they perceive] in the utmost horizons [of the universe] and within themselves [the microscopic and sub atomic], so that it will become clear unto them that this [revelation] is indeed the truth.” [Qur’an 41:53] the relationship between space and man’s body will prove Allah’s revelation is the truth because it explains what spirituality is in scientific terms we can understand today.

This is one of the keys in the Quran that spurred mankind to study the world around them through history, Allah is telling us we should use science to understand spirituality. Previous generations of Muslims could only have understood the world to their depth of science. So, Allah placed other verses in the Quran that directed later generations of mankind to the relationships between them and everything around them, they began studying them as their significance became apparent in their time. In fact, this is the most common way Allah teaches in the Quran by associating subjects together in a verse or surah and connecting it with other verses or surah’s.

As we study the universe the more we will come to understand spirituality, but this is a process that would span over a thousand years and mankind faced many trials in history like the fanatical sects or scholars that claimed any new knowledge is bidah or kufr, just as the church banned science in dark ages these groups exist even today.

Allah says: “BY the sun and its radiant brightness (its sub atomic activity), By the moon as it reflects the sun! (It reflects the suns solar activity at night) BY the day…BY the night…BY the sky…BY the earth…BY the Soul (which is made from subatomic particles, as all things are), and how it is formed (from these particles) in accordance with what it is meant to be (it is deliberately formed to give life from these particles) And inspired it (BY everything mentioned so far in the surah, see our tafsir to this surah) with what is wrong for it and right for it. To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes this (soul) to grow in purity, and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness through his actions] (91:1-11).

The subatomic world created the world around us and our reality, but it does one more important thing, it creates our spirituality as well, which surah al Shams (91) outlined, and nearly every world religion on earth and ancient civilisation understood this fact even if sub atomic space wasn’t readily outlined by them as science does so today.

In fact Allah informs us of this in the same surah of the Quran, “TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud”. They followed the celestial bodies and their sub atomic influence on earth like most ancient civilisations but denied the One who created them, what we can learn from their scientific observations and understanding of the universe is that the subatomic forces on earth, follow cycles influenced by the celestial bodies that create the Major forces in our solar system, such as the sun, moon, planets and the distant stars and neighbouring solar systems, like one giant ocean a single wave in one location ripples and travels influencing how the forces in our solar system behave during the seasons of the year, every body in space is in motion and orbit connected sub-atomically creating seasonal effects, and just like the light of those distant stars reaches us so does their subatomic activity.

Our scholars spoke about these things at length and from their understanding developed Islamic sciences surrounding these subjects, for example, Imam Ibn Arabi said in his major work Futuhat al Makkiya that the origin of the universe is the particle (Al Habba), He then goes on to outline the creation of the universe from the subatomic world and how mans spirituality is created by it. All religions understood that there was a subtle (Latif) part to the body finer than the solid matter it was created from, which they identified as being responsible for man’s spirituality, they spoke about this in their books over the past few thousand years in their own scientific vocabulary, even if they didn’t go into detail about the scientific world and how it is constructed that is what they are referring to in their observations and knowledge, how that world impacts us.

Our spirituality is created by the subatomic part of our body, in the language of the Quran, this is the subtle (Lataif) part of our physiology. Things that influence us sub-atomically filter through the body and its systems and create what we feel and experience, all of that is governed by the cycles of the sun, moon, seasons, day, night, orbit of the planets and stars, basically all the cycles we live under on earth are influenced by what is occurring in space.

All these objects create periods of increased and decreased sub atomic activity on earth over a lifetime that influence moulds who you are since you live under these conditions, that is the meaning of surah al Shams.

When Islamic scholars first understood that the origin of man’s spirituality comes from the subtlest parts of his body they researched this and developed the science of the Lataif al Sita, literally the six subtle points of the body, this is a subject that was learnt, taught and developed in every corner of the ancient world, especially China, and Islam played a major part in its development into the modern world.

The Prophet (saws) commanded that His community should “Seek knowledge even as far as China”; In Buddhism and Hinduism this same Islamic science was known as the seven Chakras, a chakra is a subtle (sub atomic) spot or centre in our body (Lataif in Arabic, this is the same vocabulary) that gathers energy from other areas like the organs. The organs take energy from the subatomic world surrounding it because each organ is a focal point for the nervous system which is the electrical wiring of the body, and that wiring is focused in and around each organ. This science is essentially focused on the nervous system of the entire body and it is being explained in their ancient vocabulary.

Unlike Islam, in Buddhist and Hindu medicine and religion, they focused on the spinal cord were the seven chakras are located because the spinal cord takes all the signals (energy) of every organ and sends it to the brain.

In Chinese medicine and religion, this same understanding of the Lataif points are called Meridian points, unlike Buddhism and Hinduism who focused on the spinal cord, they focused on the organs themselves to treat people, in their vocabulary the body takes in Chi energy from the (sub atomic) world around it.

It is very significant that when Allah mentions human perception, consciousness and awareness in the Quran Allah always mentions His quality of being subtly aware (al Latif), hence the subtle parts of our body are closely tied to our reality.

“Vision comprehendeth Him not, but He comprehendeth (all) vision. He is the Subtile, the Aware.” (6:103)

“And (whether you) keep your opinion secret or proclaim it, lo! He is Knower of all that is in the breasts (of men). Should He (Allah) not know what He created? (every part of you and what it is made from) And He is the Subtile, the Aware” (Of all subatomic space. This is the context because subatomic particles are the medium for man’s intellect and secret thoughts, all thoughts are made of particles, hence these subjects are mentioned together starting with the subtle thoughts man keeps hidden in himself) (67:13-14) To a world that didn’t have the scientific tools we do to see in front of us subatomic space, Allah directs man towards it by associating it with what they know and have with them.

The word subtle (Latif) is almost exclusively used in the Quran regarding what occurs sub-atomically in our world, our very thoughts are made of particles (“Should He not know what He created?”), especially the images we see in our mind.

“Seest thou not how Allah sendeth down water from the sky and then the earth becometh green upon the morrow? Lo! Allah is Subtile, Aware (of the particles that nourish and create it).” (22:63)

Unlike the other religions, Islam focused on the subtle (Latif) points in and around the heart directly responsible for man’s reality, spirituality, self and consciousness. Buddhism and Hinduism focused on healing the sick and the points around the spinal cord that take from the body and each organ, Chinese medicine focused on the points around the organs and the body at large to do the same, these are different facets of the same systems in the body all connected with each other which then impact the self last, Islam looked at the areas immediately related to the self around the heart as the prophet (saws) taught them.

The prophet Muhammad (saws) explained the heart is the most top down approach to the body and self. The following hadith is about what harms one spiritually; An-Nu’man bin Bashir (ra) narrated, I heard Allah‘s Messenger (saws) saying, (Nu’man pointed with his two fingers to his ears) ‘Both lawful (Halal) and unlawful things (Haram) are evident but in between them there are doubtful things and most people have no knowledge about them. So, he who saves himself from these doubtful things, saves his religion and his honour (keeps it blameless). And he who indulges in these doubtful things is like a shepherd who pastures (his animals) near the Hima (private pasture) of someone else and at any moment he is liable to get in it (fall into sin). (O people!) Beware! Every king has a Hima (private pasture) and the Hima (private pasture) of Allah on earth is what He declared unlawful (Haram). Beware In the body there is a piece of flesh if it becomes sound and healthy, the whole body becomes sound and healthy but if it gets spoilt, the whole body gets spoilt and that is the heart.” (Agreed upon). (The private pasture of Allah are the Haram things because when you look at them they all relate to power and what dominates people’s self and minds, by different definitions of that).

Just like solar (sub atomic) activity can interfere with the signal satellites send and receive, whatever happens sub-atomically around us interferes and influences the human bodies electrical wiring, the nervous system, it affects our senses and influences our spirituality which Allah explains in surah al Shams (the Sun), “And inspired it (BY everything mentioned so far in the surah) with what is wrong for it and right for it”, but this isn’t intermittent mobile phone interference this is what shapes our lives every day. If it was always cold outside how would we feel about the world, or if it was always hot, or always night, or always dark or always raining what would our life look like over the years under these conditions, except Allah is saying what you experience in life isn’t random it is because of what is happening in space and this alternation between states in the environment helps the soul learn about right and wrong in life.

Imam Jalaludeen Rumi explained this by saying “Allah turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.”

All Religions studied the flow of energy in the human body and what it did, it was called Lataif energy in Islam, Chi in Chinese, Ki in Japanese, Prana in Hinduism, Pneuma in ancient Greek (etc.) they then explained it to the best of their knowledge, but Allah promised we would unravel its mysteries entirely after we first understood space, man’s physiology and the subatomic world (which we are doing in our lifetime essentially).

Religion throughout the world used the general term “energy” to describe all of this, science today calls this energy subatomic particles because each particle is basically a packet of energy, and because of this fact Allah in the Quran called them Nur (Light in the general sense of the word) because all energy and particles are a kind of “light” and in the minds and language of Arabs 1400 years ago light represents all other particles perfectly, so Allah used one thing to describe another by their relationship to each other.

A method the Quran and the prophet (saws) used often especially in ahadith about signs of the hour, for example, ahadith mention satellites, headphones, mobile phones, television, cars, planes but in the vocabulary of 1400 years ago.

Allah said, “Allah is the Nur (particles) of the heavens and the earth” (24:35) because all particles are what guide people’s souls, and He ended that verse by saying “He guides through His Nur (particles) whom He wills” (24:35).

In the words of the scholars ‘Sunlight guides the eyes while spiritual light (Particles) guide the soul’, Imam Al Ghazali said in his Mishqat al Anwar (Niche of Lights) ‘as light is to the eyes the Quran is like a sun to the mind’ it directs our inner self to the spiritual things that it mentions, like Hannah, Jahanam, the Arch, Kursi, sidrat al Muntaha. Man’s inner sight is via subatomic particles just as our eyes use visible light, this process our body takes care of for us when it interacts with the surrounding particles in the atmosphere.

The prophet (saws) used to pray in every prayer for Allah to increase the Light/Particles in each of his organs, which helped Him fulfil His (saws) role as the most spiritually aware person on earth;

He (saws) used to say “O Allah, place light in my heart, and on my tongue light, and in my ears light and in my sight light, and above me light, and below me light, and to my right light, and to my left light, and before me light and behind me light. Place in my soul light. Magnify for me light, and amplify for me light. Make for me light, and make me light. O Allah, grant me light, and place light in my nerves, and in my body light and in my blood light and in my hair light and in my skin light.” (These all relate to the lataif points of the nervous system) (Bukhari, Muslim)

“Make for me light, and make me light”, Allah says in the Quran He sent the Prophet (saws) “as a summoner unto Allah by His permission, and as a lamp that giveth light (to others)” (33:46) not only does the universe create our reality but we shape each other’s reality.

Everything we experience occurs because of what is happening in our bodies, here Allah is telling us the prophet was sent as a prophetic lamp so the light of His (saws) prophet hood could illuminate our realities.

The point of understanding all of this is to understand more complex verses in the Quran that talk about the word Haq (Reality). Because Allah teaches about it and where it comes from in gradual steps from different aspects, so it needs to be explained in gradual steps.

Allah Is Reality (Haq)

Look at where you started and where you ended up, that is Allah, when Allah said I am the passing of time this is what He meant, Sayyidinah Umar (ra) taught us this.

On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Allah said: The sons of Adam inveigh against [the vicissitudes of] Time, and I am Time (Dihr/The Passing Of Time), in My hand is the night and the day (Change). (al-Bukhari, Muslim).

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
” قَالَ اللَّهُ: يَسُبُّ بَنُو آدَمَ الدَّهْرَ، وَأَنَا الدَّهْرُ، بِيَدِي اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ”
رواه البخاري وكذلك مسلم

Nothingness, emptiness, timelessness, eternity, meaninglessness, futility if these words exist in your vocabulary and your state it means you have not seen Allah or how He brings everything together around you. When you feel any of this in life it colours how you see and experience the universe which means how you see Allah because what He created is His will in motion, then that becomes what you think of Him.

Allah the Exalted said about this: “I am as my servant expects me and I am with him as he remembers me” (Bukhari), which means ‘I shape my servant’s reality according to how He thinks I am in himself’. Allah doesn’t change the universe itself or its laws but the universe is versatile enough to shape everyone’s reality individually, and what Allah is ultimately talking about is each persons perception and how the universe reacts to his actions because of it.

If you had all the time in the world to learn how this entire universe was created, how everything works, then you would understand and see How He moves all things through the forces and systems in the Universe and every one of the steps involved, you would see all of that occurring in front of you, and like riding a bicycle once you learn you never forget and know how to see Him instantly, such is the reality of the Angels who are as old as the universe.

If you saw someone creating something in front of you, you would know Him from His work this is how Allah is seen, but because we can’t see Him we look at this process in the opposite direction to see Him.

We look at His work first to see Him in it, then when it becomes familiar to us we see only Him, this is because Allah doesn’t have a body to identify Him with, He isn’t bound by the universe so He gives you signs (Isharat) to know He is there. But how can you see Him if you never study the world around you to know it, if you’re in a state of Ghaflah, heedlessness, paying attention to only what makes you happy that is you sole reality and our focus is blind to every other kind of reality that points to Him.

The Angels who are as old as the universe, Allah created them for this very purpose to witness the universe from the ghayb (subatomic) that everything originates from and saw it being created, from particles to atoms to its bodies taking shape, this is where their knowledge of all things comes from.

They see that time isn’t endless, an infinite loop with no beginning and no end, it is contained within boundaries and Allah began it, everything exists in the space and time He created for it, it all started with Him and it will all return to Him when the universe ends. Beyond Him is nothingness itself, and without Him we would have been truly nothing, His exaltedness defines our worth as we near Him or move away, His perfect qualities give meaning to our character and individuality.

The only infinity that exists is the limits of our perception, because He exists there is no infinity in the universe, what we think, imagine, conjure in these terms is our disconnect from the originator so the infinite we are looking at is the shortsightedness of our vision into the distance, we can’t see its end so it is infinite, but some Human’s reached the end and know what the complete picture of life looks like.

The human mind is not infinite in capacity nor do we think in limitless ways, mans intellect is entirely surrounded by boundaries, limits and the systems of the human body all of which it relies on and they exist according to laws of the universe, His laws.

We can’t experience life in the same away as Angels who are the closest thing to an infinite being, so, Allah asked them to give their knowledge and experience to the prophets and mankind through revelation and inspiration because Allah created the human body to receive knowledge this way, from this we know our reality can be shaped by the experiences and knowledge of others.

Allah said “I Am (the passing of) Time” and because of that many asked, what does Allahu Haq (Reality) mean. The word Haq itself means Truth, Justice and Reality, and each of these words is in the absolute sense referring to the absolute truth/justice/reality of the universe.

Throughout the Quran and many Ahadith whenever something represents Allah without deficiency other than it is a thing created and limited by the boundaries of the universe, Allah associates it with Himself directly to teach us that these things represent His qualities correctly, and through them, we can understand Him.

Allah does this in a few places such as His Arsh (Throne), Kursi (footstool), Time (meaning, the span of time), and the reality (Haq) created by the universe.

The truth and justice Allah is referring to in the word Haq (reality) is the truth and justice of the universe but such meanings are implied in the Quran rather than stated directly. Unlike other religions Islam always teaches about the universe by first teaching about Allah directly, then it asks man to discover how this idea is the workings of the universe. Hence justice in this context was called Karma in other religions, while in the Quran Allah teaches us, “Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. For it (is only) that which it hath earned, and against it (only) that which it hath deserved” (2:286), Allah wants you to focus on Him so you don’t forget Him as you study life around you.

Every action we take in life there is a reaction to it in the universe, and this verse tells us pure actions bring about benefit while evil actions bring about evil, therefore as the prophet (saws) declared “Actions are judged only according to their intentions. Every man will (only) have (according to) what he intends” (Bukhari).

A Muslim ascribes everything to Allah first then to its causes in the universe. Because the reality is that Allah gives through the universe only according to what we intend, many scholars through history used science to explain how the universe works with respect to Allah’s hand in it.

If we ask whose reality are we experiencing the Answer is Allah’s reality because He created the life we experience according to His will and that decided the laws of the universe; “VERILY, your Sustainer is Allah, who has created the heavens and the earth in six aeons (periods), and is established on the throne of His almightiness. He covers the day with the night in swift pursuit (He is responsible for change in the universe), with the sun and the moon and the stars subservient to His command (Laws): oh, verily, His is all creation (Matter) and all command (all Laws that govern). Hallowed is Allah, the Sustainer of all the worlds! (In the Universe)” (7:54)

We are tasked with knowing life to ultimately Know Him; “This is so, because Allah is the Reality (Haq): it is He Who gives life to the dead (creates life from dead matter), and it is He Who has power (through the laws of the universe) over all things.” (22:6) This verse teaches us through the topics it associates with each other that His power over everything means that because He declared He is the reality of the universe it is directly related to the laws of the universe, this is the total picture being drawn from the verses three topics which starts by declaring “this is so (in the universe) because”.

Allah is teaching us that His will and who He is are known by understanding the universe around us.

Haq (truth, justice, reality) in the Quran is reliant on the laws of the universe to bring it about, this is the general subtext of the word, therefore reality exists only because of the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, all the sciences exist, “His is all creation and all command” (7:52).

When we read 22:5 and 22:6 together we see that Allah states this in intricate detail, Allah uses the realities man experiences in life as a metaphor for His control over matter and change in the universe;

“O mankind! if ye have a doubt about the Resurrection (in essence about Him), (consider) that We created you out of dust (consider how your reality came into existence from a mixture of particles), then out of sperm (the first reality man experiences), then out of a leech-like clot (his second reality), then out of a morsel of flesh, partly formed and partly unformed (his third reality), in order that We may manifest to you” (Who we are).

Not only can we resurrect you but we have already created and recreated you multiple times in your mother’s womb. You began as life without will or power to change your situation, a drop of sperm, a creature without a soul helpless against the laws and forces of the universe. In the same manner, as Angels whose subtle bodies live alongside the forces of the universe and earn what they are given because of it, we earn the right to witness Allah’s power in life due to this helpless state that is governed entirely by the forces of the universe dictating our future without a choice. The universe shapes the reality of every creature according to its capacity (2:286) and here the universe is reacting to us in our most helpless state.

Angels have subtle bodies that afford them little freedom from the subatomic forces and reactions of the universe to have a life of their own; and so their entire focus is on the choices of Allah’s creatures whose actions reverberate in their world, and whose bodies are further removed from the subatomic depths giving them more time to act and react. The Angels who move at the speed of light and perceive the world from that perspective, have no time to themselves hence they have no self and are selfless. The prophet (saws) once asked Jibril (as) how strong was his eye sight to which Jibril replied ‘i can count (see) all the leaves on that tree’, Jibril (as) knew how many leaves there were from His first glance at the tree.

Slower creatures have more time to themselves but can’t perceive the universe as clearly as the Angels, hence Allah said in the Quran “Man was created from haste”, he has the least time to perceive the meaning behind things in the universe and reacts to events with haste to keep up.

The first forms we take, because we have no choice has more lasting consequences to our fate, the less freedom you have as a creature the more far reaching your actions spiritually. The prophet (saws) warned His companions, who never wronged anyone, when you go into a town “beware the prayer of the oppressed, there is no barrier (veil) between it and Allah”.

Allah in the verse is telling us, we start life helpless “in order that We may manifest (our power) to you”, so you are capable of seeing it from how this experience shapes your life in the future. This verse is also why spiritual purity of the mother is important, her actions in life shape the fate of her child, fate is entanglement and what she does at this stage entangles her child shaping the rest of its life.

Allah continues; “and We cause whom We will to rest in the wombs for an appointed term (the topic of fate and Allah’s control over matter is emphasised, some are fated to die here others are born), then do We bring you out as babes (the fourth reality man experiences), then (foster you) that ye may reach your age of full strength (the fifth reality man experiences, his full “measure”); and some of you are called to die (young not experiencing more), and some are sent back to the feeblest old age (allowed to witness the last reality of man), so that they know nothing after having known (much), and (further just as) thou seest the earth barren and lifeless (like these states of man it is a slave to the laws of the universe without choice), but when We pour down rain on it, it is stirred (to create life), it swells, and it puts forth every kind of beautiful growth, (this is the resurrection, our next reality and Allah will bring us into it as easy as a seed becomes a plant).” (22:5)

“This is so (you experience this) because Allah is the Reality (that shapes your life. Allah here ties Haq with the laws that govern the universe, He is teaching Muslims science by analogy because elsewhere in the Quran He instructs them to study these similitudes in full, “Do you not see how Allah strikes similitudes? (14:24), (29:42), (16:60), this is direction Allah is giving you. Most creatures only understand their way of life, but man knows Allah by understanding life from different perspectives, through this he puts together in himself the larger picture of the universe and as a result gains wisdom and sees Allah’s greater reality, that life isn’t just the petty squabbles people involve themselves in): it is He Who gives life to the dead (brings change), and it is He Who has power over all things (it is all in His Hand/control).” (22:6)

As we have demonstrated, if we understand some basic statements in the Quran we can explain other more complex and detailed passages in it. This is the nature of the Quran one verse explains another, “Allah bestows from on high the best of all teachings in the shape of a divine writ fully consistent (interconnected) within itself, repeating each statement in manifold forms” (39:23) meaning each topic is dealt with from various aspects over numerous verses. Therefore if you start with simple things you can build upon them and understand the depths of the Quran. This is a unique quality of the Quran, the scholars said it is a rule of tafsir (exegesis) that the Quran explains the Quran, and it was in this regard that the prophet (saws) said the Quran contains six layers of depths, beyond what is apparent to people.

Therefore to understand something as deep as reality (haq) we must understand it from the things that create it, exactly as Allah teaches about it in the Quran.

Reaching The Arsh With Your Heart

Bismillahi rahmani raheem, assalamu alaikum.

This is the complete spiritual path, the complete journey, the complete Tariqah, its aims, goals and everything it is trying to achieve;

Imam Tustari said in his famous Tafsir: “the nafs (self) has seven celestial veils (hujub samawiyyah) and seven earthly veils (hujub ardiyyah)”, veils cover the nafs and our perception about things…“when ever man buries his nafs (self) in earth upon earth (ardan ardan), (lowers his esteem and ego), his heart (qalb) is raised up heaven upon Heaven (sama’an sama’an). And when he (completely) buries the nafs (ego) under the ground (tahta at tara), the heart reaches the throne” (Arsh), in its perception and the place it receives its spiritual nourishment from.

The role of the spiritual heart is to look into ghayb (the unseen) and gather information about your world. As you humble yourself before Allah, place sincerity and humility in your heart before Him, you aren’t, in reality, lowering yourself, you are in reality raising your heart, the thing that controls your senses and how you feel the world around you is being raised closer to Allah, until it reaches the Arsh in the place it receives its information from.

The heart in our chest senses into ghayb, the subatomic part of the universe to gather information about things we are doing in life, we call these insights into matters or moments of wisdom and inspiration. Allah created seven heavens, seven sub atomic depths, a person with a shallow heart can only sense to the first few depths to gather knowledge in his life.

So, his decisions are short sighted since materialism or focusing on material things makes the heart shallow in its decision making, it’s like a chemical reaction and this is the inevitable result for the person. Ghayb is where people gain wisdom from and the prophets receive revelation and ti has seven depths until it reaches the Arsh, sidrat al Muntaha in the Quran, the furthest subatomic depth of the universe.

Allah mentions the heart reaching the Arsh and recieving from that depth in the Quran; “By the Star when it setteth, Your comrade (Muahmmad) erreth not, nor is deceived (by what He saw on the night of Isra wal Miraj); Nor doth he speak of (his own) desire. It is naught save an inspiration that is inspired (into the heart)…When he was on the uppermost horizon (of the universe near the Arsh). Then he drew nigh and came down. Till he was (distant) two bows’ length or even nearer (From Allah), And He (Allah) revealed unto His slave that which He revealed. The heart lied not (in seeing) what it saw. Will ye then dispute with him concerning what he seeth? And verily he saw him yet another time. By (sidrat al muntaha) the lote-tree of the utmost boundary (At the base of the Arsh), Nigh unto which is the Garden of Abode (the seventh Jannah). When that which shroudeth did enshroud the lote-tree (when what covers most peoples inner perception, covered the lote tree), The (prophets) eye turned not aside nor yet was overbold (did not get distracted). Verily he saw one of the greater revelations of his Lord.”(surah – 53)

There is an immense amount of knowledge in each depth of ghayb about everything in life and each of the prophets that Muhammad (saws) saw on the night of Isra wal Miraj, in the different levels of Jannah, was an expert of that depth (that type of knowledge).

“The Prophet (saws) ascended until he reached the first heaven. When the Prophet and Jibril arrived at the first heaven, Jibril requested the gate to be opened. The angel assigned to that gate asked Jibril, “Who is with you?” Jibril answered, “It is Muhammad.” The angel asked Jibril, “Was he dispatched? Is it time for him to ascend to heaven?” Jibril said, “Yes.” So, the gate was opened for him, and the Prophet Muhammad entered the first heaven.”

“There, Prophet Muhammad saw Prophet Adam. To Adam’s right, the Prophet saw some bodies, and to Adam’s left, other bodies. If Adam would look to his right he would laugh, and if he would look to his left he would cry. Adam was seeing the souls of his descendants. Those on his right were his descendants who would die as believers and those on his left were his descendants who would die as non-believers.” (Adam the first man was an expert of the first spiritual depth mans heart would ever perceive after being created. This is the beginning of man’s spiritual journey through time).

“Then the Prophet ascended to the second heaven. In this second heaven was the Prophets Isa and Yahya. Isa and Yahya are cousins; their mothers were sisters. They welcomed the Prophet and made supplication (dua’) for him for good things.” (The place of each prophet from here has to do with their life story, His specific mission from Allah for humanity, and the state of the people He was sent to, and how spiritually advanced or simple they are because He was sent to cure and elevate them. Isa (as) was sent to materialistic people who only understood simple spiritual things, every time He (as) shared His (as) wisdom with them rather than dissect the wisdom or even challenge it with their own wisdom they made fun of His (saws) words like children, this was their mental state. Isa (as) said “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” they were lost in materialism and thus shallow, which is why He (as) and Yahya (as) were experts in the second heaven).

“The Prophet then ascended to the third heaven, where he found the Prophet Yusuf. The Prophet Yusuf was extremely handsome. Allah bestowed half of all beauty on Yusuf. Yusuf received the Prophet with a warm welcome and made supplication (dua’) for him for good things.”(Isa (as) knows how to cure materialism which is why when the Dajjal comes to spread it on earth Allah will send Isa (as) to kill him. Being lost in Materialsim stops you from sensing deeper than the second depth of ghayb, but the beauty we see on this earth, the beauty of nature and the things Allah placed in it, perceiving that and loving it is from the third Jannah and Yusuf was a master of that knowledge. Allah opened for mankind everything relating to the beauty Allah gave to the Prophet Yusuf (as) so they can know it and experience it completely, hence beauty as we know it today is because of Him (as). The wisdom in Beauty is that attraction leads to knowledge, maarifah of that thing and from there deeper wisdom is gained about the world as it is carefully studied. Which leads to the kind of knowledge inspired by the next depth, or Jannah, and that is science and the Prophet (saws) responsible for it).

“Then the Prophet ascended to the fourth heaven, where he found the Prophet Idris. Idris welcomed the Prophet and made supplication (dua’) for him for good things.” (Allah gave Idris (as), who was one of the first prophets, knowledge of outer space, writing, mathematics, the calendar with knowledge of all things relating to it, knowledge of the seasons and many other things we take for granted today. From this we can understand the kind of spiritual depth required for people to master these and similar scientific subjects).

“In the fifth heaven, the Prophet encountered Harun, the brother of Prophet Musa.” (He was the advisor to the Prophet Musa (as) who was the master of spiritual openings, so the fifth heaven or depth of subatomic space is where true spiritual openings begin. These prophets are singled out, even though all prophets reached the Arsh in their hearts, because it was through them that Allah introduced these things to the world for the first time.)

“In the sixth heaven, he encountered the Prophet Musa (saws).” (kalam Allah, the one Allah spoke to directly and sent him to al khidr to learn and master this subject we are discussing in this work, He is an expert of one of the deepest spiritual depths. Reaching the sixth depth of Jannah is where regular spiritual openings occur to a person, that is the meaning behind the story of Musa (as) and al Khidr in the Quran, after learning from al Khidr Musa (as) would have surpassed Him (as) because He is the master of this knowledge in Jannah).

“Each of these Prophets received the Prophet Muhammad with a warm welcome and made supplication (dua’) for him for good things.”

“Then the Prophet ascended to the seventh heaven, and that is where our Messenger saw the Prophet Ibrahim. The Prophet Ibrahim is the best of the prophets after our prophet, Muhammad. The Prophet saw the Prophet Ibrahim with his back against al-Bayt al-Ma’mur (which is like the Kaaba for Angels).” (Ibrahim (as) is the master of the deepest spiritual depth before the Arsh because He became Allah’s friend, so reaching this depth means you are granted friendship with Allah, and the term wali in reality means the friend of Allah. Your heart is now able to put the real picture of what life is meant to be, together to see it clearly, and from that see Allah’s hand in the universe working. Reaching this means you are now able to worship Allah as if you see him, which is the meaning of the word Ihsan (human perfection) that the Prophet (saws) gave to Jibril (as) when the Angel asked Him (saws). From Ibrahim (as) would come the Jews and Arabs, the two people that would achieve the most in the way of Allah from the children of Adam).

“Then the Prophet ascended to what is beyond the seven heavens (into the Arsh, Angels and their knowledge stops at the Arsh, but mankind does not because of the kind of soul Allah gave them).” (Our prophet Muhammad was the beloved of Allah, He (saws) was a master of all spiritual depths and their knowledge, because through him Allah would open for mankind the science behind all things in the universe which was then granted to mankind; “In time We shall make them fully understand Our messages

[everything they perceive] in the utmost horizons [of the universe] and within themselves [the microscopic and sub atomic], so that it will become clear unto them that this [revelation] is indeed the truth.” [Qur’an 41:53] There are some from mankind who Allah allows to reach past the seven heavens and into the Arsh with their heart, which in its depth is larger than the seven heavens combined, this is also what the prophet (saws) saw on the night of Isra wal Miraj, He (saws) saw a youth run ahead of him into the Arsh, reaching this far with your heart means you are now one of Allah’s beloved people.)

“Say, “We have believed in Allah and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Descendants, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction (in rank) between any of them, and we are Muslims [submitting] to Him.”(3:84)

“The messenger believeth in that which hath been revealed unto him from his Lord and (so do the) believers. Each one believeth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His (prior) messengers – We make no distinction between any of His messengers – and they say: We hear, and we obey. (Grant us) Thy forgiveness, our Lord. Unto Thee is the journey.”(2:285)

The Source Of Each Knowledge

Here are the 8 spiritual depths the heart reaches as it moves closer to Allah, which we saw in the example of each prophet (saws).

Allah – Each person is born on a fitrah, Allah has placed in their heart that He exists, and to know Him you have to know what He created so you can see His qualities in order that when you finally see Him you have certainty of what He is like from your experiences in life.
Materialism – Perception and knowledge Of the Physical World around you.
Beauty – Perception of the Universes Natural Beauty, love and Attraction is the source of all openings in the heart.
Science – Attraction leads to in depth study of what you’re interested in or love.
Insight – Beginning of Inspired and deeper thoughts, Wisdom begins here and comes from knowing the details of how things work.
Inspiration – Wisdom is mixed with experience, true Wisdom is gained and your thoughts are guided to the truth by the Angels.
Sainthood – Wilaya, you become the friend of Allah and the Angels walk with you in life, shaping your perception so it is prepared to see Allah. Here you gain deep spiritual insights into matters and see them coming from a distance, thus you begin to put the complete picture of life together from its many spiritual and physical parts, using the knowledge of the previous levels to see the highest form of science (truth, knowledge, the actual reality of matters) in the universe. The closest thing man has to this today in the world is the study of subatomic space and the universe, how it works, how it was created and what it looks like. In the old world, this is the highest science/knowledge in each school of Aqeedah that only the scholars and awliyah studied or understood. “Blessed is He in Whose hand is the Sovereignty (control of the Universe), and, He is Able to do all things (in it). Who hath created life and death (the systems that make them work) that He may try you which of you is best in conduct; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving. Who hath created seven heavens in harmony (the seven regions of subatomic space). Thou canst see no fault in the Beneficent One’s creation; then look again (into subatomic space): Canst thou see any rifts?(tears in the harmony) Then look again and yet again, thy sight will return unto thee weakened and made dim. And verily We have beautified the world’s heaven (so study it)”(67:1-5)
Allah’s beloved – Your heart and soul have now entered the Arsh, a place Angels can’t go, you have completed the picture of the universe, understand what Allah created from the inside out and consequently see Allah in it and worship Him as if He is next to you. Once you complete this path Allah makes you one of His mercies to the worlds, the universe, because its spiritual creatures will now learn from you. This is a description given to the prophets (as) in the Quran but its meaning is the reality of anyone who reaches this far, the prophets reached it with complete perfection and that is their distinction. At this point, the Angels take advice from you because your heart takes input from a place deeper than their existence. The great wali of Allah Abdul Qadir al Jilani said, there are shaykhs to people, shaykhs to Jinn and shaykhs to Angels, those who lead the Angels, and this is the meaning behind Allah asking the Angels to prostrate to Adam and mankind, they now follow His lead in life after Allah demonstrated how He and His progeny would surpass them.

One thing we can see from this is that irrespective of how shallow a person’s heart is, they can still be knowledgeable and shallow at the same time, to what ever extent, but the things they are knowledgeable about are not deep matters because they have no real sense of them.

A person to whom Allah gives wisdom his heart can sense deeper into ghayb, sub atomic space, to gather knowledge about the things he is focusing on in life, and as a result, his decisions have more insight, are more accurate, reveal the truth more often, have more consideration and are wise.

“He granteth wisdom to whom He pleaseth; and he to whom wisdom is granted receiveth indeed a benefit overflowing; but none will grasp the Message but men of understanding (men who have depth).”(2:269) pay attention to the phrasing, wisdom comes from the heart and His gift is overflowing, pouring out of the heart, pouring out of what it senses in ghayb.

This is why when Allah grants prophethood to someone he expands their heart (to ghayb), this means he allows their heart to reach to the deepest depth in ghayb, or sub atomic space, so it can gather information and sense from the depths of the universe about everything spiritually attached to an object or person.

Musa (saws) understood this and asked for it specifically when Allah granted him (saws) prophethood, “(Moses) said: “O my Lord! expand me my breast; Ease my task for me; And remove the impediment from my speech, So they may understand what I say.”(20:25-28)

Allah similarly said to the prophet (saws); “Have We not expanded thee thy breast?- And removed from thee thy burden.”(94:1-2)

As a result of this opening of the heart to new subatomic depths people gain insight and wisdom, but when you reach even deeper your insight becomes so straight and correct it becomes firasa, inspiration about the truth of matters.You see our actions in life shape our future and how we will “look” as we age, “Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. For it (is only) that which it hath earned, and against it (only) that which it hath deserved.”(2:286) this is all a result of our deeds in life, the effects (results) of our actions attach themselves to us spiritually or sub atomically shaping us as we age. This happens to everything in existence as it ages, what it did or occurred to it, its effects are attached to it shaping its appearance and qualities, so Angels, Jinn and those who have firasa can see the truth about matters, its true nature and qualities, that exist in ghayb because of that…Insha Allah, you can see this is all from science and the systems Allah created in the universe.

There are many ahadith and verses that explain this, but we won’t write a tafsir here; “We shall seal your mouths on that Day, and let your hands speak to us and your feet testify to what you had achieved.”, “That Day, We will seal over their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will testify about what they used to earn.” (36:65) what your hands used to earn or what your hands used to achieve from your work is exactly how your actions shaped your limbs as you aged.

The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said, “Ittaqo firasatal Mumine, fa innahu yanzuru be Noorillahi”, “Beware of the intuition (firasa) of the believer. Verily, he sees with the light of Allah.” Then the Prophet recited the verse, “Verily, in that are signs for those of discernment (lil mutawassimeena, those who discern between truth and illusion, fancy, those whose insight is only the truth about matters).” (15:75) (Sunan al-Tirmidhī 3127)Allah describing all of this said in a hadith Qudsi said; “…My servant continues to draw near to Me with voluntary acts of worship so that I shall love him. When I love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him…”

This “is a light that Allah bestows in the heart of his servant by which he distinguishes between truth and falsehood, advantage and disadvantage, and the honest and the liar”, and when the heart reaches the Arsh in its depth it gathers the most amount of information about a thing before drawing the picture for the person.

The Prophet (saws) himself taught us the science behind all of this;

Imam Abd al-Razzaq narrates that Jabir (May Allah be pleased with him) said: “I said: O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you, tell me of the first thing Allah created before all things”. He said: “O Jabir, the first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet from His light (all light is made of particles, so the prophets light was the first particle to come into existence from which Allah created the rest of the universe), and that light remained (lit. “turned” as all particles spin) in the midst of His Power (control) for as long as He wished (shaping it and influencing it. In modern scientific terms entangling it as he wished), and there was not, at that time, a Tablet (that preserves everything) or a Pen (that records and sees the future path of everything, quantum entanglement as we know it now did not exist yet) or a Paradise (that displays Allah’s blessing) or a Fire (that displays Allah’s punishment) or an angel (that works and creates for Allah) or a heaven (sub atomic space) or an earth (any physical thing) or a sun or a moon or a jinn or a man (any creature. This is the first moments of the universe before it expanded and created everything in it).

And when Allah wished to create creation, he divided that Light into four parts (this is exactly as physics calculates today, that particles split and created each other and the first particles were four in number which came from one single particle) and from the first made the Pen (before the Arsh, the boundary of the universe), from the second the Tablet (was created before the Arsh, meaning the shape of the universe we know did not exist yet), from the third the Throne (Allah creates the outer boundary, shape and edge of the universe. The Pen observed everything created after it, and the tablet preserved everything it witnessed after its creation, so they came first and the shape of the universe last), and then he divided the fourth [particle] into four [other] parts and from the first he created the bearer of the Throne (first Angels), from the second the Footstool (Kursi, the second boundary of the universe after the Arsh, or the second sub atomic depth of the seven Allah created, or the location of the 6th Jannah), from the third the rest of the angels (exactly as science teache’s today, everything is created from subatomic particles, but the prophet (saws) taught this in the language of the arabs 1400 years ago).

Then He divided the fourth into four other parts and created from the first the heavens (sub-atomic space as we know it, the universe was cooling at this point and changing, which is why the light particle we know today, the photon, could not exist until after it cooled to this point. This change is also why some ahadith seem to overlap in what they are referring to, but in reality they represent the same thing changing into something else), and from the second the earth (physical matter), and from the third the Paradise (everything in the seven Jannah’s is created after the space that it will exist in, is created first) and the Fire (black holes), and then he divided the fourth into four parts and created from the first the Light in the believers visions (the images we see in our mind, the brain creates its own light), and from the second the light of their hearts (the heart also creates light, an electromagnetic field) which is knowledge of Allah (how the heart knows Allah. The heart gathers knowledge about the world using this electromagnetic field just like animals use it to sense their prey. But this is so we can ultimately know Allah…through the same way we have explained in this article about how the heart works), and from the third the light of their inner harmony (Uns, living harmony between the spirits, the soul of man the light of the Angels and the light of Allah, in physics this is called the coherence of waves. The inner most light inside the heart) which is the Tawheed (the light that allows us to connect with the light of the Angels and His light to receive revelation, inspiration or maarifah, so we can know that) ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, etc…”. (Abd al-Razzaq (d. 211) narrates it in his Musannaf according to Qastallani in al-Mawahib al-laduniyya (1:55) and Zarqani in his Sharh al-mawahib (1:56 of the Matba`a al-`amira edition in Cairo). There is no doubt as to the reliability of `Abd al-Razzaq as a narrator. Bukhari took 120 narrations from him, Muslim 400).

“Allah is the Light (particles) of the heavens and the earth (that our heart senses. His will is carried by the events of the universe and the heart learns from that)…Light upon light (particle within particle). Allah guideth unto His light (Allah guides the heart to see the correct picture) whom He will (the heart achieves correctness as Allah wills, based on our actions). And Allah speaketh to mankind in allegories (to explain science), for Allah is Knower of all things.”(24:35)

إِنَّ الدِّينَ عِندَ اللَّهِ الإِسْلَـمُ

وَارْكَعُوا مَعَ الرَّاكِعِينَ

Salafi’s Excommunicated From Sunni Islam

This past August (2016) well over 200 senior Muslim Scholars from around the world met in Grozny, Chechnya for a 3 day conference to decree what and who Sunni Muslims are, the result was the Excommunication of the Salafi sect from Sunni Islam along with the Islamic universities of Saudi Arabia, which they stated are not teaching orthodox Islam, an issue the Saudi government has acknowledged in the past and unsuccessfully tried to address.

Participants came from 30 countries, including Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Russia, India, Britain, South Africa, Qatar, Kuwait, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, they warned;

“Islam has undergone a dangerous deformation in the wake of efforts by extremists to void its sense in order to take it over and reduce it to their perception.”

The Conference in Grozny was organised in tandem with ulema of Chechnya which is a place with a rich and long tradition of Ahlu Sunnah. It is the place where Sunni ulema initiated Jihad against the Russian occupation but after the jihad was hijacked and distorted by the Salafi/Wahhabiya/Khawarij, they had to take a different approach to the conflict, 52 or more scholars of Ahlus Sunnah were killed by the Khawarij there. Hence the conference is also relevant to the Muslims of Chechnya in conveying who Ahlus Sunnah are as well as dealing with the larger problem of takfiris who have hijacked Sunni Islam and Jihad all over the world.

The forum Also called for the establishment of a Council for Islamic Education, and also a Council of Ulema (Muslim scholars), which would rule on who is and is not a true follower of Sunni Islam in the future.

Shaykh Ahmed El-Tayeb, Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Egypt, defined what mainstream Sunni Islam is and excluded the Salafi Sect from it.

He Defined Sunni Islam As: “Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah are the Ash’arites and Muturidis (adherents of the theological schools of Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi and Imam Abul-Hasan al-Ash’ari). In matters of belief (Aqeedah), they are followers of any of the four schools of Law (Hanafi, Shafi’i, Maliki or Hanbali) and are also the followers of the Sufism of Imam Junaid al-Baghdadi in doctrines, manners and

[spiritual] purification.”

أهل السنة والجماعة هم الأشاعرة والماتريدية في الاعتقاد وأهل المذاهب الأربعة في الفقه، وأهل التصوف الصافي علما وأخلاقا وتزكية على طريقة سيد الطائفة الإمام الجنيد ومن سار على نهجه من أئمة الهدى

Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayeb excluded the “Salafists” from the term of Ahluls Sunna (Sunnis) stating that Salafist’s are not from among the Sunnis and a fatwa by the 200 scholars was issued at the end of the conference to that effect.

This conference by Islam’s leading scholars has made official and cemented what every Sunni scholar has already believed and given fatwa upon over the past 100 years, and as the Prophet (saws) declared the Ijma (consensus) of the Ummah (which this represents) is binding on all muslims around the world.

Abd Allah ibn Mas`ud said about the Ijma of the Umma: Whatever the Muslims deem to be good is good in the eyes of Allah and whatever they consider bad is bad in Allah’s view.

This is because the Prophets (saws) said: “The heart of the believer is between two fingers of the Merciful, He turns it over as He wishes”? so what the Ummah deems evil is, in fact, Allah turning the heart of the Muslim world against it.

He (saws) also said “Verily Allah will not make Muhammad’s community agree on error.” and “My community shall never agree upon misguidance, therefore, if you see divergences (sects like the Salafis), you must follow the greater mass or larger group (of people in the Ummah).” and “Allah’s hand is over the group, and whoever dissents from them departs to hell.”

The Salafi sect is not even 1% of the world Islamic population, the largest group the Prophet (saws) prophesied about are Sunni Muslims as defined by Shaykh al-Azhar above at around 85-90% of all Muslims on earth.

The Mujtahid scholars of Islam cited this verse as a command to follow the Ijma of the Umma; “But him who breaks with the Messenger after guidance has become clear to him, and follows other than the way of the believers (the largest Group of Muslims), him We shall consign to what he had turned to, and roast in Jahannam – an evil home – coming.” [Al-Qur’an 4:115]

All the clerics represented a strong stand against this terrorist sect and asserted that all Islamic scholars should make an effort to awaken the world about this group who are using the name of religion for personal geopolitical agendas.

The fatwa is not only relevant to the Salafis, because of their history of starting sects in every country on earth for 100 years now all under different names, it is also about every group they have created since their inception in Egypt over 100 years ago which includes the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, ISL, Daesh, Hizb al Tahrir, the Tablighi Jammah and many others working under different name in various Muslim countries.

The conference was held on the 25-27 August 2016 in the city of Grozny.

How To Protect Yourself From Sihr Using Knowledge

A long time ago we made a promise to Allah that if he showed us how to teach people to protect themselves from the fitnah of sihr plaguing the world today we would write about it.

Alhamdulillah, Allah showed us what to teach to people, over the years I have learnt many ways to tackle sihr but its knowledge and practice most would find difficult, especially if it means opening your eyes to Jinn in your life which can drive you insane or looking at the source of fitnah in your life directly which could tear families apart, all of which is necessary because you need to know what troubles to tackle and what is causing them.

Knowledge/Knowing is power but for most people, it can be destructive.

So, insha Allah I will share what Allah gave me; most people know taweez is worn around the neck, in the time of the companions and tabiin it was worn on the arm, taweez is simply a paper with verses of the Quran written against a specific issue, that intention against the problem is what gives the taweez its power or effect and directs it at the problem.

Some nefarious salafi’s trying to make life easier for the sihr they practice on people say, “how can a piece of paper affect the real world?”, you should say to them “how can your sihr affect the real world”, so, like them, what they say is a statement of kufr because Allah says the words in the Quran affect the real world;

“And We send down from the Qur’an (through the Quran from the spiritual world) that which is healing and mercy for the believers, but it does not increase the wrongdoers except in loss.”(17:82)

The Quran is words in a book but it isn’t the paper or the ink, it is the systems Allah placed in the universe that are being used to tackle the problem, the words of the Quran will stay in the Quran until they are recited, at that time the universe moves because of your actions.

One of the foundations of Islam as Imam Nawawi and Imam Bukhari taught is the hadith of the Prophet (saws) Allah gives people according to what they intend, Allah is the doer in the universe and as the prophet (saws) teaches He move’s it because of a small silent intention we make in our heart…Subhanallah how Islam is the complete opposite of what Salafi’s teach today.

“And you threw not,

[O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw” (8:17).

The Messenger of Allah sallallaahu`alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention ) said: “Verily actions are by intentions, and for every person is what he intended. So the one whose ‘hijrah’ (migration) was to Allah and His Messenger, then his ‘hijrah’ was to Allah and His Messenger. And the one whose ‘hijrah’ was for the world to gain from it, or a woman to marry her, then his ‘hijrah’ was for what he made ‘hijrah’ for (and Allah will give them accordingly).” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

If I said to you “when you write something on a piece of paper the Angels can read it and make it happen”, would you call me a kafir, no, you say the Angels made it happen there is no shirk. Angels read the taweez you write and make that happen, they are the ones who move the universe for Allah and they can certainly read.

So, an evil person reading the Quran Allah literally says, IT, will increase him in loss, meaning the Angels are commanded to increase Him in loss. While a Prophet reciting the Quran can do miracles because the Angels are instructed to act for Him, and of course, whatever is between these two extremes of good and evil exists and decides how effective something is and what is going to happen. The Angels decide all of this and that is the reality behind the Quran and Taweez, what is missing from the language is the Angels using the laws of the universe to bring things about, they work within the systems Allah created, that is their boundary.

So, this is why the intention behind the taweez is important because the Angels know it and that decides the effectiveness and what is going to happen, Angels measure everything around us with ease to the minutest detail.

The two kiraman katibin (Arabic: كراماً كاتبين‎‎ “honourable scribes”) Allah appoints to every person, are two angels called Raqib and Atid, which record a person’s every action, thought and feeling. The Quran refers to them in two places, in 50:16-18 and by name as ‘Noble Recorders’ in 82:10-12.

“And indeed, [appointed] over you are keepers, Noble and recording; They know whatever you do.” (82:10-12)

“We have created man and know what his soul whispers to him (in secret, Your intension’s), and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein. When the two receivers (Angels) receive, seated on the right and on the left (of Him). Man does not utter any word except that with him is an observer prepared (to act, or move the universe).” (50:16-18)

The sihr itself is essentially words written down that have shaped the universe in various ways against you, so it is better to have words of your own written down to tackle it, the more the better because often a sahir will renew his attack to continuously get what he wants every day and this compounds against you over time, like someone being railroaded into a corner, the longer you do nothing the worse it will get and they are counting on this very fact because you are ignorant of how to deal with them.

The least thing all of this will do is act as a buffer between you and the sihr and decrease the damage in your life, you can be certain of at least this much if it doesn’t break it outright, science itself teaches every action has a reaction in the universe so the universe will react to what you are doing.

Once you have understood this you can now understand when I tell you that you can write taweez on a computer for yourself and it will still be effective.

So here is what Allah showed me would help people:

The first thing you want to do is make a pdf Quran, don’t just download it that is someone else’s work and taken from print, because of that you need to make it personal and the more effort you put in the better for you especially here, this is the power behind your work. Get a word document file from the internet with the Arabic Quran and copy and paste the entire Quran into another word file. Make the Heading inside the file “Quran Taweez Against Them”. The word “Them” is general and meant against everything you use it against, now export it as a pdf and label the file also “Quran Taweez Against Them”. So now instead of a few verses in a taweez you wear around your neck, you are using the entire Quran to help you.

Now make a folder with your name on it, for example, “Rami” or “Taweez For Rami”.

Inside this folder make the following folders;

– My Islam (or Taweez For My Islam, being specific is better but either is fine)
– My Marriage (Or My Marriage To so and so).
– My Work
– My Health
– My Wealth
etc…

You can make these folders for whatever issue you like, be specific or general, start general and if you like then over time be specific. All of this is for yourself but you can do it for another person, just write their full name.

Here is the important part, when I realised the following it made me see that Allah had just given me something to fulfil my promise to Him.

We are now going to use figurative language like Allah uses in the Quran to describe Himself. For example, Allah mentions his hand, which means power, his face which means the highest aspect of Him, His shin which in this context means reaching up to this part of Him in terms of knowledge, but every context in the list has to do with our lives and whatever force comes against us.

With these taweez we are tackling a force we don’t know anything about it, its source, shape or power and because we don’t know anything we have to speak against it in general and figurative terms trying to attack it from every aspect so nothing of it remains, this is how the next list is meant.

Therefore, using the human body to describe aspects of something you know nothing about means you are describing every single part of it like Allah did in the Quran.

I’ll write a few then explain, so, for the folder (subject) of Wealth make a few folders inside it and label them;

– Taweez To Cut Off The Eyes Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth
– Taweez To Cut Off The Face Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth
– Taweez To Cut Off The Knees Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth
– Taweez To Cut Off The Shoulders Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth

The Eyes refer to the fitnah/sihr seeing you and finding you. The Face refers to the highest or most complete aspect of the Fitnah. Knees, there is the saying cutting something off at the knees. Shoulders refer to whatever people carry on their shoulders in life, so whatever the fitnah is carrying with it, you get the idea except to be thorough we are going to use every part of the human body and usually attached to each part there is a saying like the ones above.

When you finish this list you will find you have described every aspect of the sihr or fitnah without knowing much about it and tackled it from every aspect possible, even places you would never have thought of. This is because man and his body represent the entire universe (Imam ibn Arabi) and Allah used it to describe even Himself in such a way.

So, here is the complete list I came up with, most of it you can trace to common sayings like cutting something off at the knees or tackling something head on, or his Achilles heal, or he has a nose for something or an ear for something, they all refer to the fitnah and the forces it has with it.

This is the principle behind the list, so when we mention some of the private parts don’t be surprised because people even use those to describe things about life and they generally mean tackling the unexpected sources of the sihr because the sahir uses weird things to attack you.

We live in strange times with degenerate people using things people could not naturally think of, so using the entire body is a more thorough way of dealing with the issue;

Taweez To Cut Off The Ankles Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Anus Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Aql Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Arms Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Back Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Balls Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Breasts Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Bum Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Clitoris Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Ears Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Elbows Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Eyes Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Face Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Feet Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Fingers Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Hair Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Hands Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Head Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Heart Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Intestine Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Knees Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Liver Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Lungs Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Nervous System Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Nose Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Penis Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Root Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Shoulders Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Spine Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Soul Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth

Taweez To Cut Off The Stomach Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Spine Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Teeth Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Throat Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Toes Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Tounge Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

Taweez To Cut Off The Vagina Of What Ever Comes Against My Wealth.

People use filth to empower their sihr so I hope you don’t mind the vocabulary needed to tackle the issue, Muslims don’t shy away from such things when the intention is scientific, medicinal or for the sake of knowledge. This list is also not comprehensive so you can add to it if you know more.

Now in each folder copy and paste the Taweez Quran you made before. If you want it to be more effective paste the Quran in there three times, in a hadith the Prophet (saws) mentioned that shaytan struggles when dealing with things in multiples of three (or more).

Label the other two Quran Taweez Against Them A, Quran Taweez Against Them B, believe it or not, spiritually, letters are more effective than numbers so writing Quran A is better than writing Quran 1.

You can do this list once and then copy and paste the entire list into the folder of any other subject you like (from My Work to My Marriage for example), with the Qurans in each folder, all you have to do is change the label My work to My Islam, or if it is for someone else, from My Islam to My husbands Islam or My child’s Islam, using their name (using the full name is best because it helps the taweez be more specific).

Everything we have done so far is to tackle the Fitnah head on but you can also use what you have learned as a protection that prevents things, so instead of calling the folder and Quran ‘Taweez against them’, call it Quran Taweez For Them, meaning every person you wish to protect, now you can come up with a list of things to protect your family with or from.

The Sahir often hides his sihr inside something, we can also use this. If you want to be more effective, inside each of these folders, “Taweez To Cut Off The Hair Of What Ever Comes Against My Work”, make another list of Taweez against what every you like, for example, make it a list attacking the shayateen that attack you or evil jinn around you, or sahir jinn, that list should then deal with different issues your worried about or that will help you.

For example, you can use this to make a Barzakh between you and those Jinn, just say “Taweez against Jinn Attacking me “We place between thee and those who believe not in the Hereafter, a hidden barrier” (17.45), or “And between them will be a barrier” (7.46) or “Verily I seek refuge for her and her offspring from the cursed Satan” (3.36), you can write what you like or search the Quran for it.

Quoting the verse or part of it from the Quran in the title is more powerful, but Microsoft Windows has a limit on how long a title can be, MacOs is much longer though.

Hiding Shir within Sihr or multiple Sihr within one object is the trick behind American sihr, you have so many different kinds of sihr hidden within one thing, all affecting you, all compounding on each other that the object starts to get that layered look they are famous for.

Now here is a trick of our own, in the first folder you created labelled with your name, create a folder and call it;

“For Every Taweez In The Above Folders To Take Effect Everyday”

Then paste the three Qurans into it, this will make your taweez perpetual into the future. Angels love to do good work so whatever good you instruct them to do they will do it, this is how the prophets and Awliyah are seen to work miracles, lesser people are helped to a lesser extent but if you saw them moving the universe for you, you would say it was a miracle on your behalf. You can ask them anything and even if you don’t see them working in this life you will meet them on the day of judgment like a person who made a deal with them and they carried it out for him, you will know them and they will know you.

So ask whatever good you want of them for yourself or others, eventually, when this becomes a practice, they will teach you what to ask and what not to, without you even realising where your knowledge came from.

Insha Allah if you benefit from this in your life spread it and teach it to people, you never know who is going to need it in the future, when that time comes this will make certain they won’t be left in the dark to the mercy of the people attacking them, may Allah curse them or bring them back to Islam.

If you’re in the habit of wearing a taweez, and still prefer that, place a copy of your work in a USB drive and wear it around your neck :))

Here are two files I made, one is the Quran in Word document the other is in Pdf in case you need it, but it is better if you put your handiwork in this so the outcome is better directed at you. The image used in the Quran is of the famous Naqshbandi Haq circle, it’s a taweez and its presence ensures you reach a good spiritual standard in your work, you can use whatever you like, such as the seal fo the Prophet (saws) or both, but because this is from a living tariqah Allah is still blessing in life, the benefits will be more pronounced.

Quran Word Document:

https://ghayb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Quran-Taweez-Against-Them.docx

Quran Pdf:

https://ghayb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Quran-Taweez-Against-Them.pdf

The Black Banners Will Appear 6 Years Before Imam Mahdi

The following Ahadith state that an army from the East (from Khorasan) carrying black banners will lay the foundation for the Mahdi’s future dominion, six years before He (ra) appears. The name “Khorasan” is derived from Persian and means “land where the sun rises”. Khorasan is a region that includes Afghanistan, Taijikstan, Northwestern Pakistan, Northeastern Iran, but the prophet specified that the Mahdi’s Army will be people from Bani Israil, of Jewish lineage, and these are the Pashtun and people of Afghanistan who in the time of the Prophet (saws) converted to Islam at the hands of Khalid Ibn Walid (ra).

The fact they converted to Islam through Khalid Ibn Walid (ra), one of histories greatest Generals responsible for the end of two of the world’s greatest empires, the Romans and Persians, is very significant.

This is because what ever the Prophet (saws) and the companions did lay the spiritual foundation for that matter to take root in future generations of Muslims, this is something well known among the scholars. For example, the companion Abu Musa al-Ashari (ra) the Prophet (saws) taught him the depths of Aqeedah and Allah mentioned Him in the Quran, His descendant Abu Hasan al Ashari (as) would found the famous Ashari Madhhab of Aqeedah that most Islamic scholars adopted.

So, the fact Imam Mahdi’s army accepted Islam at the hands of Khalid Ibn Walid (ra) means his spiritual qualities will be found in them; This is seen in ahadith about them both, the Prophet (saws) called Khalid ibn Walid (ra) the drawn sword of Allah, and one of Allah’s many swords, and the Umma said that Allah’s sword never breaks. Likewise, the Prophet (saws) about Imam Mahdi’s Army when they march to set up the Mahdi’s dominion, they will keep on coming generation after generation, until the matter is settled, at their hands Islam is saved.

It’s enough to know about them that they held back the U.S.S.R invasion of their country in 1979 (when Russia was still a superpower that rivalled America) until the U.S.S.R finally admitted defeat in 1989.

Al Zuhari said ” The black flags will come from the East, led by mighty men, with long hair and beards, their last names are taken from the names of their home towns and their first names are from a Kunya (nick name, usually starts with ‘Abu’, which means ‘father of”).” (Nuaim bin Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan)

Abdullah bin Masood narrated that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “A group of people will come from the East with Black Flags and they will ask for some “Khair” (assistance, leadership, stability), but they will not be given what they ask for (the Arabs won’t respond to them). So, they will fight and win against those people (the Arabs causing fitnah). Now, they will be given them what they asked for (leadership and responsibility), but they will not accept it until they hand it over to a person from my Ahl Bayt (Imam Mahdi) who will fill it (the Earth) with justice just as they filled it (the Earth) with oppression. So, whoever of you will be alive at that time should come to them (the Mahdi & People from the East with black flags) even by crawling over snow”. (Ibn Maja, Muhammad Al-Barzanji’s Isha’ah li Ashrat Al-Sa’a)

Ali bin AbuTalib narrated that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said:

قال صلى الله عليه وسلم ( يخرج رجل من وراء النهر يقال له الحارث بن حراث , على مقدمته رجل يقال له منصور , يوطيء او يمكن لال محمد كما مكنت قريش لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وجب على كل مؤمن نصره او قال اجابته

“A man called Al-Harith bin Harrath (Farmer son of a farmer, this is his description) will come forth from Ma Wara an-Nahr (“the place behind the river”. Transoxiana, meaning the region, between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, which includes Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, bordering Afghanistan ). His army (the black banners) will be led by a man called Mansur (His General) who will make matters ready and enabled (Shape the Middle East) for Muhammad’s family as Quraish enabled matters for the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم. Every believer must help him, or he (the Prophet) said: ‘respond to him (to his calls)’.” (Sunan Abu Dawud, Sunan AnNisa-ee, and Al-Buhaiqi)Abdullah bin Al-Harith bin Jiz Al-Zubaidi said that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “People from the East will come to assist the Mahdi in laying the foundation for his dominion (before He emerges).” (Ibn Maja, Tabarani)

Abu Hurairah said that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “(Armies carrying) black flags will come from Khorasan. No power will be able to stop them and they will finally reach إيلياء Eelya (Jerusalem) where they will erect their flags” (they will conquer Israel, America is no longer around to defend them). (Tirmizi)

Amr Bin Marra Al-Jamli said that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: ” ‘Surely, Black Flags will appear from the Khorasan until a group (of them) will tie their horse leashes to the Olive Trees between Beit-Lahia (in Gaza district, Palestine) and Harasta (near Damascus, Syria).’ We asked: ‘Are there any Olive trees between these places?’ He said, ‘If there isn’t any, then, soon (Olive trees) will grow so that those people (of Khorasan) will come and tie their horses there’.” (Nuaim Ibn Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan p. 215)

Buraida said that Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “After me, there will be many expeditions (armies). You should be in the expeditions (armies) of Khorasan.” ( Jalal-uddine AsSuyuti’s Al-Urf Al-Wardi fi Akhbar Al-Mahdi, a part of Al-Hawi li Al-Fatawa)

The next hadith tells us there will be six years from when the black banners head towards Israel and when Imam Mahdi (ra) emerges.

أخرج ( ك ) نعيم بن حماد (894) عن محمد بن الحنفية قال:
تخرج راية سوداء لبني العباس,ثم تخرج من خراسان أخرى سوادء, قلانسهم سود و ثيابهم بيض, على مقدمتهم رجل يقال له : شعيب بن صالح [ بن شعيب ], من تميم, يهزمون أصحاب السفياني حتى ينزل ببيت المقدس , و يوطئ للمهدي سلطانه, ويمد إليه ثلاثمائة من الشام , يكون بين خروجه وبين أن يسلم الأمر للمهدي اثنان وسبعون شهرا

Muhammad bin Al-Hanafia, said: ” A black banner (Army battalion) of Bani Al-Abbas ( family of Prophet Mohammad’s صلى الله عليه وسلم uncle, Al-Abbas) will come out (this was the Abbasid Khalifah in the past). Then, another black banner (Army battalion) will come from Khorasan (in the Future). Their turbans are black and their clothes are white. At their front end will be a man named Shuayb bin Salih (this is the name of al-Harith Ibn Harrath), from Tamim (tribe). They will defeat the supporters of the Sufyani (and proceed further) until he (Shuayb bin Salih) arrives in Jerusalem (where) he will lay the foundation for the Mahdi’s (future) dominion. He will be supplied with three hundred (men) from AshSham (Syria). From the time, he comes out (from Khorasan) until he hands over the matter (rule) to the Mahdi, there will be seventy-two months (six years).” (Nuaim Ibn Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan)Saeed (or Sayyid) bin Al-Musayyab reported: “Black Banners will come from the East from the descendants of Al-Abbas. They will remain for whatsoever Allah wishes (this is the Abbasid Khalifah). Then, small Black Banners from the East will come to fight a man from the descendants of Abu Sufyan (Assad and his tribe in Syria and the Banu Ummayah in Saudi Arabia). They will give their allegiance to the Mahdi.” (Nuaim bin Hammad’s book Kitab Al-Fitan)

حدثنا الوليد بن مسلم عن أبي عبيدة المشجعي عن أبي أمية الكلبي عن شيخ أدرك الجاهلية [ و ] قد سقط حاجباه على عينيه قال
إذا اختلف أهل الرايات السود افترقوا ثلاث فرق فرقة تدعوا لبني فاطمة وفرقة تدعوا لبني العباس وفرقة تدعوا لأنفسها

The following will occur during the time of the second Sufyani in Jerusalem; Al-Walid bin Muslim narrated: “If the black banners split into 3 groups: a group calling for the progeny of Fatima (Ahl al Bayt to rule the Muslims), a group calling for the progeny of the Abbas (tribe of the prophet), and a group calling for (the kingship to be) for themselves…” (Nuaim bin Hammad’s book Kitab Al-Fitan)

حدثنا الوليد ورشدين عن ابن لهيعة عن أبي قبيل عن أبي رومان
عن علي قال إذا إختلفت أصحاب الرايات السود يخسف بقرية من قرى أرم ويسقط جانب مسجدها الغربي ثم تخرج بالشام ثلاث رايات الأصهب والأبقع والسفياني فيخرج السفياني من الشام والأبقع من مصر فيظهر السفياني عليهم

Ali bin Abi Taleb (r.a.) said: “When the black banners differ among each other, a town/city of the towns/cities of Iram and the western side of its Mosque collapses (from the Earthquake). Then, in AshSham, three banners (armies) come out for each (warlord) of the As’Hab (reddish white man), Abqa’, and Sufyani. The Sufyani comes from AshSham and the Abqa’ from Egypt. The Sufyani will defeat them.” (Nuaim bin Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan)

حدثنا سعيد أبو عثمان عن جابر عن أبي جعفر قال يخرج شاب من بني هاشم بكفه اليمنى خال من خراسان برايات سود بين يديه شعيب بن صالح يقاتل أصحاب السفياني فيهزمهم

Abi Ja’far said: “A young man from Bani Hashem (Prophet Mohammad’s صلى الله عليه وسلم family clan) with a mark in the palm of his right hand comes out from Khorasan with black banners (this is Mansur their General). Between his hands (meaning assisting him) will be Shuayb bin Salih (their leader). He fights the followers of the (1st) Sufyani and defeats them.” (Nuaim bin Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan)The next Hadith tells why the people of Afghanistan and the surrounding area will first come out;

حدثنا الوليد بن مسلم ورشدين بن سعد عن ابن لهيعة عن أبي قبيل عن أبي رومان عن علي بن أبي طالب رضى الله عنه قال إذا خرجت خيل السفياني إلى الكوفة بعث في طلب أهل خراسان ويخرج أهل خراسان في طلب المهدي فيلتقي هو والهاشمي برايات سود على مقدمته شعيب بن صالح فيلتقي هو وأصحاب السفياني بباب اصطخر فتكون بينهم ملحمة عظيمة فتظهر الرايات السود وتهرب خيل السفياني فعند ذلك يتمنى الناس المهدي ويطلبونه

Ali bin Abi Taleb (r.a.) said: “If (the 1st) Sufyani’s Cavalry marsh to Kufa (in Iraq), the people of Khorasan will be requested to come to aid. The people of Khorasan will come out seeking the Mahdi (wishing for him to appear, they know the prophecies and what will occur after they go to war). So, the Hashimi (Mansur, the General of the Army) with an army carrying black banners, at its front end is Shuayb bin Salih, He will meet the followers of the Sufyani at Istakhar Gate and a great battle will occur between them. The black banners will be victorious. Sufyani’s Cavalry will run away. At that time, people will wish for the Mahdi (to appear) and ask for him.” (Nuaim bin Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan)The Prophet (saws) said, “At the end of time there will be a trial in which people will be sorted (fitnatul Duhaima, sep-11) in a similar way to that in which gold is sorted from (scrap) metal. Therefore do not rebuke the people of Syria (During this time, between 2001 and 2011 Syria instigated a number of events) rather, rebuke the evil people among them (their leaders, Asad and his tribe), because amongst them are the Abdals (Awliya). Allah will send a flood from Heaven (the Arab spring) that will disperse their groups in a way (cause the civil war) that if foxes were to attack them (ISIS, al Qaeda) they would be victorious (their called foxes because they are Occultists pretending to be Muslims, calling naive Muslims, anyone who is susceptible to their Sihr, to take part in their fake Jihad). Then Allah will send a man (a leader to the people of Syria) from the perfumed musked children of the Messenger amongst approximately 12-15,000 under three banners (3 battalions) and their password is ‘Die, die!’ (you can’t be with them unless your dedicated like them) And they will be fought by the people of 7 banners (7 different armies) under each is a man (Leader) seeking the kingdom (Syria for himself). They will be killed, defeated, then the Hashimite (Mansur leader of the black flags) will appear, so Allah will restore unity and favors to the people and this will be the case until the Dajjaal (the lying, false messiah) comes.”

Ammar binYasir said: “When the Sufyani reaches Kufa (in Iraq) and kills the supporters of the family of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم , the Mahdi will come (his path will begin) and the bearer of his Banner will be Shuayb, the son of Salih (Al Harith ibn Harrath).” (Nuaim bin Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan)

حدثنا رشدين عن ابن لهيعة عن عبد العزيز بن صالح عن علي بن رباح
عن ابن مسعود قال يخرج رجل من الموالي يمر ويدعو إلى بني هاشم يدعى عبد الله يلي أربع سنين ثم يهلك

Ibn Masud said: ” A man from Mawali appears and calls for Bani Hashem (Prophet Mohammad’s صلى الله عليه وسلم family clan, He calls for them to possibly to take charge. They may for a while before Bani Ummaya kill them in the civil war). He is called Abdullah. He will rule for 4 years and then die.” (Nuaim bin Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan)Thawban reported that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, “Three men will be killed at the place where your treasure is (the Ka’ba). Each of them will be the son of a Caliph (Saudi ruler), but none of them will get hold of the treasure (the Kingdom). Then, the Black Banners will come out of the East, and they will slaughter you, in a way that has never been seen before. If you see him (the Mahdi), give him your allegiance, even by crawling over snow, because he is the Khaliph, the Mahdi.” (Ibn Maja, Musnad Ahmad, Al-Haakim’s Sahiha, Al-Zahabi, Ibn Kathir’s Niyaha fi Al-Fitan wa Al-Malahim, Abu Nuaim bin Hammad’s Kitab Al-Fitan, Muhammad Al-Barzanji’s Isha’ah li Ashrat Al-Sa’a)

Because the Hadith starts with the Saudi civil war, this hadith may seem to contradict Ahadith about when Imam Mahdi will first appear or cast doubt on when the Saudi civil war will occur, or when the Black Banners will appear, but the fact the Prophet (saws) said Imam Mahdi may be with them at this point in time means the black banners mentioned in this hadith is a latter battalion from those people that will march on Arabia after they see the Arab nations fighting over the Euphrates treasure, most likely to stabilise the region.

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