Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00138)

Dear Andrew
I have read that the Quran is a moral and ethical guide for its 
followers. How does the Quran explain Allah? Is Allah a "personal 
god"?
Cass






--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva <silva_cass@y...> 
wrote:
> Said as a true scientific existensialist. If life is so 
meaningless why not eat drink and be merry
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> Andrew Smith <aupanishad@m...> wrote:
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> Neo-Heraclitus Sententiae --- 28 Nov 2004
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> "The Red Sea is our blood"
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> We are in death in life
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> There is no "god" that mankind can "know"
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> "Allah" is the richest conception of a deity
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> The "conception of deity" is not the "conception of deity"
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> Even "Allah" is not "Allah"
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> We cannot "know"
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> Alcohol is bad for mankind, just as is tobacco
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> Coffee and tea is the drink of the Submitters
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> There is no perfect religion just as there is no "god"
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> The nearest thing to a "god" is DNA 
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> We only know divinity microscopically, never macroscopically
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> The "Red Sea" is DNA
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> "Allah" is the aggregate of DNA
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> Allah is our (i.e., all living entities') blood
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> The "Qur'an" is the most perfect scripture
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> "The most perfect scripture" is not "the most perfect scripture"
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> The "Mother Book" is DNA 
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> Muhammad was indeed the last of the Prophets
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> "Threats of hell" are for our heedance to be thankful
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> "Hopes" of Paradise" are to show that we are of the thankful
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> Lack of thankfulness is the greatest sin
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> Denial of Allah alone is lack of thankfulness
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> If we are not "Beneficent" and "Merciful" we are not thankful
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> "Jihad of the nafs" is none other than thankfulness
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> "Thankfulness" is not "thankfulness"
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> The Beneficent and Merciful is not a bloody God
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> Blood pulses in life
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> Life is Allah, He the pulse of pulses
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> He the Life of life
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> When Al-Hallaj was crucified
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> When his hands and feet were cut off
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> Life still lived in him
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> He told the crowd of those who thought they Submitted
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> "Ana al-Haq"
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> He knew that his lifeblood was not the blood of Allah
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> He knew, too, that Allah was his lifeblood
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> He whispered, "Oh Allah, if they knew what I know,
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> They could never shed my blood"
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> What would we shed our blood for?
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> My tomcat sheds my blood profusely
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> I love him still
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> Love and blood purges our Nafs
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> Lay not the "Qur'an aside, it is not bloody as the Salafies would 
have us believe
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> It is love, the love of Allah toward man
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> And, yet Allah is so far and so close that we cannot find Him
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> The Friend is far, but close, Is He not?
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> "The Diamond Sutra" of Buddhism tells us
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> That the truth is not the truth, because we cannot "pin down" the 
Truth
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> And, yet it exists
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> What we can "pin down" is not life
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> It is the death of life
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> --- Al-Hallaj Kabir Ali
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> [pseudonym for Andrew W. Smith]
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> N.B."How can this be? If these Bodhisattvas, Subhuti, should 
perceive either dharma or adharma, they would think of an ego, a 
separate entity, a soul or a personality. Therefore the Tathagata 
has taught this saying with a hidden meaning: 'Those who know that 
the teachings about dharma are like a raft, should renounce dharma 
and, even more, renounce adharma.'" 
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> Buddha asked: "Do you think, Subhuti, that the Tathagata knows any 
dharma as the ultimate and perfect enlightenment? Has the Tathagata 
ever set forth such a teaching?" 
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> Subhuti reponded: "Not according to my understanding of the 
teachings of the Tathagata. Why? The dharma which the Tathagata 
fully knows and has set forth can neither be thought nor formulated 
in words, for it is neither dharma nor adharma." --- From "The 
Diamond Sutra"
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> Al-Hallaj Kabir Ali
> "May you live in interesting times!"
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