Tag: God Suffices Series
Do You Take Pleasure in the Happiness of Your Friends?
“Also through that insight of belief, connection, relation, bond and brotherhood, I felt and experienced in myself an infinite happiness at the happiness of all my friends –for whose happiness I would willingly sacrifice my life and immortality. For one kind friend is happy and pleased at the happiness of his sincere friend…” Are we […]
If All Will Perish, Does Love Make Sense?
“Also through that insight of belief, and the connection, relation and bond, a brotherhood is formed with all the people of perfection. Thus, through knowing that due to the eternal existence of the Eternally Enduring One those innumerable people of perfection have not gone to nothingness and are not lost, the immortality and continued existence […]
Eternal Life is Only Possible Through Eternal Existence
(Continuation of the Fourth Ray, the First Degree of the Luminous Verse ‘For us God suffices’) “Also, through the insight of belief and that connection and relation, a bond is formed with all beings; a sort of union is attained with them. In this way, apart from one’s personal existence in second place, through the […]
God Suffices – Part 3
“Also, through the insight of belief, one knows the existence of the Absolutely Perfect One, the One Who is absolutely beloved, and the innate, intense love for His Essence is satisfied.” What does the insight of belief entails? Our certainty about the existence of an Ownerà Our conclusion about this Owner. When we are certain […]
God Suffices – Part 2
Our “actions” (amal) fortify our belief. Quran encourages its reader to believe and do good actions. For an action to be “saleh” (good) i.e. meaningful, it must be based on “belief”. Prostrating before God can only be meaningful when we feel the awesome manifestation of an Absolute Source within us. In other words, “actions” need […]
God Suffices – Part 1
We have been focusing on the importance of “establishing belief in the Absolute Being”. The Source of our existence is another realm of existence. Our existence is temporal and contingent and we belong to an Absolute Source. We cannot jump into practicing rituals without first establishing “belief”. The fundamentals of belief encompass believing in angels, […]
