The Fasting Month of Ramadan is coming to an end in the next few days, and I feel like I have been through a car wash. Although my external body feels clean, my inner being still needs a major overhaul. I have been bombarded by many Islamic-related videos of late, something that is of recent development. I was not looking for such videos mainly but was more introduced to them out of the blue as though in synchronicity with what I have been listening to, such as Neville Goddard's and Chosen by God among others. I feel it is better to listen to these spiritually uplifting videos than waste my time scrolling for Balinese women in tight sarongs or good samaritans helping the poor on the streets of India. The half an hour or fifteen minute videos at least occupy my mind and steer it away from negative influences of sensual or sexual ones. I am still easily swayed by such temptations every now and then, even at my age; the Ego or the Nafs is here to stay, it will not fade away into the night not without a fight. This fasting month has probed into the very depth of my soul and exposed much of what my ignorance and habitual negligence have been where spirituality is concerned.
It would not be fallacy to say that in this day and age, Allah s.w.t., the Universe, is talking to us/me through these videos if we are consciously listening with awareness even if these videos are AI generated. It is undoubtedly a message from one's Higher Consciousness if one is inclined to look at it from this perspective. Not everyone is exposed to these YouTube videos that have the intention of steering one's consciousness towards a positive direction of healing and uplifting one's spirit, at least not my two adult children, from my personal observation; they seem oblivious to being educated in the spiritual sense. Not everyone has the ears for God's whispers, even if they are manifested in an AI-generated technology. It is a Collective effort and based on historical and religious text that these videos were created for the general public; there is even lesser excuse the Lord might say for one to be ignorant, simply no excuses if one can operate a computer or Iphone. One cannot even say that it was not written or expressed in one's own native language; chances are the AI will work to remedy this lack if asked to. Being ignorant is no more an excuse in these days of AI and Internet technology of the information Super Highway; it is a matter of whether you use it or abuse it.
All one has to do is kickstart your journey towards what the Buddhists term as Liberation or freedom from this human bondage we call life or what the Hindu call Jivan Mukhti, what Muslim view as Al Insan Kamil or the Awakened One is simply to ask the question; Who Am I? Add to that, what is my connection to the rest of the Uninverse? and to God, if one is not an atheist. Incidentally, one has to thoroughly understand religons to become an atheist; one cannot deny something if one has no understanding of its true nature. This is ironically why the Holy Quran started off with the exersion, "IQRAR!" or "READ!" With this opening of the Quran, which was instructed by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet of Allah, p.b.h. The path towards the elimination of ignorance of the Divine Spirit in man began. Ignorance is one of the major causes of human suffering, as the Historical Buddha pointed out, and the Quran provided the solution. The Prophet of Allah p.b.u.h, is said to have said that man should seek knowledge and wisdom even if the effort takes one to China. One can live this life in ignorance like a water buffalo that is led here and there by a rope that is attached to its nose, or one can be free and discover your true nature, that which is Divine.
In childhood, every evening before you go to bed, your parents would ask the same question of you, "Have you done your homework?" Often, one would lie and the next day face the consequences at school. The same happens through our adult life; the homework is left undone, resulting in ignorance as we face life's challenges. Most become disillusioned and succumb to moaning and groaning as to how we are victims of circumstances or worse yet, that God is not fair; there is no God! When there is no God, life becomes cheap, and today, all life is worth the price of a bullet or a scatter bomb; it is happening all over the world, especially in the Ukraine and the Palestine, Sudan, Syria and Somalia. The drain of humanity in its essence of compassion and tolerance has become rampant beyond redemption; yes, the Gods must be Crazy! It cannot be helped that mankind has fallen to worshipping their created idols and deities in the form of ideologies and dictators, those that have the tamesity to lead others by yanking on the rope that is attached to the noses of each and every one of us who surrender to the will of ignorance. We simply ignore the value of our given nature and submit ourselves to our animalistic state of ignorance.
Such Is, WallahuAlam, only God knows.
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