[Faith-talk] Refinement of the heart. Introduction.

[Mostafa]

Dear all, peace be with you.

It is indeed the most substantial factor within the human design.

It is the distinct kernel of our structured complex,  either physically or spiritually.

It is the locus of perceptions and intuitions.

Prophet Muhammad taught us that if the heart is refined,  the whole body is refined.

And if the heart is spoilt, the whole body is spoilt.

What contaminates the heart?

Doctors can tell you about multiple diseases that effects the physical side of the heart.

But here, we specifically talk about what contaminates the apparitional part of the heart.

What makes it solicitous and constantly anxious?


In this editorial, we will unveil some of the mental diseases of the heart, and what is the best way to instantly treat them.

With the Will of Allah, we will have this series for the recently commenced week, and we will end this by next Friday.

So with the subject of today.

Have you asked yourself the question, Are you pleased with Allah?

We always ask ourselves if Allah is pleased with us, but today, we are asking the opposite question.

Are we pleased with Allah?

Are we pleased with how He made us?


   Are we pleased with what He gave us?

Are we discontent with Allah?

Many people are quite rebellious with Allah, they are enormously disinclined towards their circumstances, they feel quite denigrated and disposed.

Some of those who infinitely abandoned their faith such as Bart Ehrman are predominantly turbulent with misapprehending the concept of good and evil.

  Bart Ehrman avers what he calls the problem of suffering.

Why Allah allows us to suffer?


It seems to me and Allah knows better, that this was the major motive for him to ultimately turn to Agnosticism.

Well Agnosticism is not more than skepticism so to speak.

Bart Ehrman obstinately challenges the Biblical Theodicy.

He thinks that we cannot determine whether Allah exists or not, and thus, we reserve the right to doubt everything he concludes, because he views his concepts uncertainly.

If he is uncertain whether Allah exists or not, how so he is definite  whether he understands the concept of suffering correctly?

  In the Noble Koran we have the sentimental statement which asserts that we may fell in love with what is evil for us, and we may detest what is good for us.

      And then, it seals by stating that Allah is all knowing and we basicly do not know.

For us as Muslims, the whole argument dissolves by believing in that concept.

Misery is a natural outgrowth of this life, just as felicity is, they both are the creation of Allah glory be to Him.

Allah is the One Who bestows grace or damnation.

As Muslims, we decline the concept of two confronting forces, the force of goodness and its diametrical antagonist, the chief spirit of evilness, the adversary to god.  

Although we believe in mischievous sources from both mankind and jinn, but they definitely are not actual opponents to Allah glory be to Him.
 
The reason why the concept of good and evil appears to be problematic to Bart Ehrman and his apprentices is they do not thoroughly contemplate on its essence, they just study its appearance.

They tend to have this inaccurate assessment of its outward aspect, but they never reflect on its inward significance.

    I think they demand to get into a state of mental intermission for critical reconsideration.

I am prepared to be engaged in public scrutiny with Bart Ehrman if he wills to.

I respect his philosophical contentions, but I think I am adequate to rebuttal  his strident criticism.
Bart Ehrman is an intelligent professor, he is committed to his philosophical opinions.

I listened to many of his taped lectures, and I read dozens of his journals on what he classifys as the problem of suffering and how the biblical tradition failed to properly tackle this issue from his unilateral paradigm.   

   The problem that he ties his comprehension to the biblical answers, whereas the concept of suffering is not sufficiently illustrated within the Bible, in my humble opinion.

Well I would like to ask our respected Professor, how you define the concept of justice?

If Allah is unjust from your perspective, then how would you operate this world if it was your possession?

  If Bart Ehrman confronts the discretion of Allah glory be to Him, then please answer the following questions for me.

1; Did you choose the time in which you were born?

2; Did you choose the way you now are?

3; Can you decide for yourself when to die?

If any of these destinations is possessed within your freewill, then you genuinely are emancipated to create your own universe.

As for tackling cancer which uninterruptedly murders numerous mortals nowadays, why we were able to develop the medical treatment of radiation therapy?  

It is a fundamental premiss of our Islamic Theology, that Allah is the One Who perfectly possesses this universe, and He glory be to Him fully operates it within His Wisdom and Divine Discretionary.

Agnostics and Atheists have to recognize that as we have limited sense of hearing, we have limited sight to look with, and we have limited minds to think with.

Our intellects are not authoritative powers, they can be the source of intellegince sometimes, and in other occasions, they can be the source of this radical disequilibrium that we contemporarily live in.

Each religious tradition has its own doctrinal tennets of interpreting death and afterlife.

I would like to know though, how Agnostics and Atheists look at that subject in particular.

It seems to me and Allah knows better, they cannot find a clear explanation of this mystery, unless this life has a beginning, and thence,  it must come to an end, either temporarily or permanently.

At least it makes sense to think of how is it like in afterlife if they are to believe in afterlife.

Can Agnostics and Atheists prove with scientific testable evidence the decisive improbability of afterlife occurrence? 

I am intrigued to hear what they have to say about that particular question.

I am not attempting to spark a rampage against Agnostics and Atheists.

I am just trying to initiate a discourse.

At the end, I would like to concisely define what an Agnostic and an Atheist is.

An Atheist is someone who does not believe in the existence of a deity, he firmly denys the existence of god.

An Agnostic though is someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about whether God exists.

That is what I have got for the time being.

Thank you for reading, and have a pleasant time.

Peace be with you.

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