has given the human being which is to
recognize the essential unity of Allah
subhanAllah data through the
means of his creation of Allah's
creation now in the Quran says Samuli
him I had been at that I thought they
were film who seen him we will show them
our signs in themselves and on the
horizon until it becomes clear to them
that this is the truth and isn't it
enough for them that your Lord is over
all things witnessing is over all things
witnessing this silence now our and this
surah is a beautiful example of this
these signs are unfolding at such a rate
that there are not enough intellects to
interpret the information coming in that
is how fast information is coming at
this time at this at this juncture in
the human saga there is so much
information coming in to the astronomers
to the biologists to the geneticists to
the psychologists to the geologists all
of these different fields that they
literally cannot synthesize it but what
you will see an underlying threat is
that each in each one of these fields
they are singularly recognizing
fundamental truths that the Quran
articulated to the human being and this
is an uncreated book articulated to the
human being through the band through the
clarification 1400 years ago
so then there is the merciful who has
taught the partner created the human
being and taught him articulation
the human being is placed between these
two things or arm and the ability to
understand the partner if either one of
them is not present then we don't call
this creature a human being we call him
less than human if a person does not
think he is not really a member of the
human race because this is what has made
us human the ability to think you know
Descartes the French philosopher said I
think therefore I am
and a German phenomenologist much later
came along and said no I am therefore I
should think the fact that you have the
ability to think is all the more reason
that you should and yet we live in a
society that is absolutely Bennis it is
bent on preventing people from thinking
and this is an extraordinary thing to me
because they think at a very high level
in this society they think very deeply
they really do I mean you can see it if
you go and look at the stuff there
they're researching what they're
thinking about and yet there is an end
if I was paranoid I would tend to think
that this was really a conspiracy
against the human race that's what I
would think if I was of a paranoid
personality I would definitely think
that there are actually people that
don't want human beings to think they
want to keep them dumb like animals they
want to keep them literally chained in
their own minds
in their own minds like chickens in
Turku I mean this is what one would
would suspect if one looked objectively
at the media at the educational system
in this country there's a beautiful book
that I'd recommend all of you to read
it's by John Taylor Gatto is called
dumbing us down and it's by a man who is
given the award of the Teacher of the
Year award in the state of New York City
one of the toughest states if not the
toughest to teach him and he was given
teacher of the Year award and in this
book he says very clearly I am NOT a
teacher we do not teach we indoctrinate
this is what we do this is what the
educational system is it is a process of
indoctrination it indoctrinates you into
the logic of this system you see now
unfortunately what happens when you come
out at the end of it and for all of you
students I'm going to depress you
when you come out of it at the end you
see you have three choices well one of
them is not really a choice and you make
this choice at some point in your life
you can choose to become what they call
a professional go into malls go into
medicine something like that a
professional field or you can choose to
become a technician go into the
technical fields once you do that when
you make that choice you have chosen to
be co-opted by a system and become a
servant of that system this is it is a
choice that you make it is a conscious
choice that you make to be co-opted by a
system that is bent on exploiting other
people it's bent on
on the continuity of human suffering and
this is not I'm not just making things
up I mean it's all documented I mean you
don't have to look very far to see what
you know the foundations of this society
and that the basis of this society in
the United States of America in
particular and we are in the heart of
darkness I mean this is it we're in it
that this society is in the words of the
Hopi Indian language alikat see it is an
entity that exists by sucking the life
out of others this is how does society
sustains itself by sucking the life
there if you look in creation and Allah
constantly tells us to do this
there are basically three forms there's
more but I'm going to just give like
very rough there are three forms major
life forms there's what's called my
forms based on predation which is
preying on weak and then there's life
forms based on parasitism where they
they're parasites they don't kill the
thing they just suck the life out of it
and use it now some parasites are more
harmful than others you see I mean
somebody you can call for instance
somebody on welfare
many people have made this analogy that
this is a parasite on but see that a
welfare recipient in this country is
like a little mollusk on a whale now
there are big parasites they're called
CEOs and nobody ever talks about them
nobody ever talks about them about how
they suck the life out of the society
they exist and that be that's because
they own all the parents you know when
you own all the parents you can have
anybody say the Arab poet said it
beautifully
he said he said imagine Ana so he
descended in Memphis aha
well he that their hands money wonderful
thing it can ordinate men and make them
look honorable and Noble
it's atone for the one who wants
eloquence and it's a sword for the one
who wants killing things don't change
until perspectives change there's what
you call untested feasibility this is a
beautiful concept a Brazilian educator
articulated which is that there are so
many things that are possible in this
world
they're feasible that people can move
together as we have historical precedent
that that humans of many diverse colors
and cultures and ethnicities have moved
together in a mutual society where they
actually help each other where they
actually don't exploit one another I
mean we have had this and those people
that tell you that that that is altruism
that
never existed they are lying to you and
they're lying to you because it's very
frightening to accept that because of
how ugly we have become so this this
second type of the third type is where
people actually there's mutuality the in
creation you see this I mean Darwin said
it was all survival of the fittest
that's that's like predation everybody's
out to eat everybody else well that is a
false view of nature that is not the
whole picture that is partial there are
many creatures in nature that actually
help each other but they work together
many creatures and any biologist or
ecologist can can tell you that now
after our lives told that is we've lost
this the four iron or our thinking our
cognitive element then we fall into one
of two categories we fall into the
category of Kufa Kufa which is too rigid
to to reject thinking I mean that really
is what kufur is which usually
transcendence disbelief but it is not
disbelief Cooper is rejecting thought
because according to the Quran if you
think you will come up with the same
results with the same conclusion then
Allah says that the result of this
reflection is super Hanukkah not cut off
the head about the other you are perfect
and you have not created this in vain
this is the result of deep reflection
that you can see that this now there's a
beautiful ayah in the Quran that I think
articulates this perspective so well
when allah subhanho wa taala swears by
moaka and the jewel
there are two more Bmore I swear by the
positions of the stars
this is a great oh it's a deep oh it's
not a superficial oh allah doesn't swear
by superficial things I swear by the the
positions of the stars now the beauty of
the Arabic languages that also means the
positions of the ayahs in the Quran
because Lu Xun is revelation ledger
metal ayah means that ayah was revealed
so Milwaukee and resume is not simply
the constellations of the stars but it
is the positions of the ayahs in Iran
itself and this is what Allah is
swearing by and this is a vast oh and
then this is a generous pour on lamisil
in Makaha room the only people that have
access to this book are purified people
who purify themselves through Flickr and
Vicar reflection deep thought and the
remembrance of their Lord they go
together that the remembrance of your
Lord will change your cognitive capacity
it will enhance it it will give you
inspiration it will give you the ability
to see things that you would not see if
you are in a state of what's called the
Buffalo or heedlessness
now if you look take any city child
right and we have millions of them now
take any of them out to to campsite in
say Yosemite to go not too far away and
you can see the Quran says that even
know me Seth when the when the stars are
put out you see they're put out and we
don't even see the stars anymore go
outside right now it's dark you look up
in the sky you don't see any stars Tony
said they're gone now when you go see a
city person literally grows up in that
environment they don't even know the Sun
of those from the west to the east or
that milk comes from a cow or that I
mean really basic things that people
used to reflect on many children in
cities don't even have that perspective
so you take it
it'll look up at the stars and it'll say
wow man check that out city boy
what does it see it just sees chaos I
mean that child won't see any patterns
you won't see constellations you won't
see the Big Dipper he'll just see a
bunch of bright lights up in the sky
now the Nostromo comes along he can stop
pointing out to you see here's the Big
Dipper
and there's three of these and there's
the North Star and now watch there's a
constellation coming up within the next
hour how does he know that because he's
observed it he's watched it you see and
human beings have been watching the
Stars for centuries one of the earliest
human occupations
watching the Stars because they're
fascinating there must be yeah Allah
says their light into the sky was a
gymnast Emma we have ornamented the sky
jinn and we'd love to look at ornaments
so that young child will then begin to
see patterns that he had not seen before
now if you look at the Quran the Quran
and this is a classic thing that Western
people do they open the Quran visit me
this is all jumbled it doesn't make any
sense
it starts not talking is in the first
verse and then it moves to the second
person and then it moves to the third
person Allah says I he says untie me
there's no there's no god but he all
this chick and they say what's this mean
and then they said there's no pattern I
can't discern any pattern here easy
because he's like that city boy looking
up at those stars those ayahs up there
and not seeing any pattern but if a
teacher comes if an astronomer comes
because there are astronomers of the
Quran there's people that have studied
the stars in the Quran and they're
called the dilemma and idea and these
people when they look into the
Quran they see something infinitely
deeper than that they don't see
confusion they see absolute harmony they
see perfection they see a proof of the
truth of this book and this is why I
want says that only the people of
innermost core of loop loop is innermost
core it is the thing in the the fruit
like the apple seed is aluminum and this
is what the human being who understands
the Quran is called looping a possessor
of innermost core but it takes
reflection it takes work thinking is
work you see I mean many people go
through their lives and never think
about anything and it's a it's a mines a
terrible thing to waste
immediately after this and our closes up
himself immediately after this of myself
assumed so what I'm the first man the
Sun and the moon which are creational
opposites are in absolute reckoning they
are where they should be everything is
as it should be
don't mess with it human beings are as
they should be
the deccan and the ones are the male and
the female this is a creational opposite
which they're they're balancing each
other they eat each other one is not
greater than the other but they're not
equal they're opposites we don't say the
Sun is equal to the moon but you need
the moon in the night just as you need
the Sun in the day you can't do one
without the other
this is not the nature of creation and
you need one to know the other you need
a heart to know cold because we haven't
as yet they're upset by opposites things
are known so we know ourselves as a man
I understand myself to be reflection in
woman and this is why the prophet saw my
son and said hopefully better yet that
hath him in dunya I have come to love I
have been made to vote in the passive
form I have been made to love three
things from your world a plea when we
said is Allah sent and women actually
women and he says will be an incense and
the prayer now on one level you could
look at that is that the Prophet Elias M
is articulating the nature of the
greatest physical pleasure that Allah
has made for the human being is in the
mate that Allah has made for them the
Toscano alaihe that you find this Sakina
is tranquility in your mate for the male
in the female for the female in the mail
in spite of san francisco now
if you look when the profits of my
sentence is this what he's saying is
between these two between the most
extreme physical pleasure that Allah has
given us which is an act of worship for
the Muslim if you are a Muslim even that
is an act of worship because everything
is missing now everything is with a
sacred understanding and then to the
other extreme the most spiritual
pleasure is prayer with Allah the most
the greatest physical pleasure is union
with your mate and the greatest
spiritual pleasure is your spiritual
union not any type of union with Allah
but a spiritual connection with Allah
through prayer and between the two is
sent which is a beautiful metaphor
because scent is it has a spiritual
element and a physical element it
elevates the soul but it's also pleasing
to the senses and this is why scent is
always associated with the prophets at
Pajaro massage ethical give sent to your
messages he said we're sent on the day
of Jummah and he wore sense all the time
because it it reminds the soul of
general you see it reminds what I had
but often what it Hanna generous is
succulent and and sent for beautiful
sense and so this
when legible was scheduled yes to Dan
and thus far the ornaments of the
heavens prostrate to Allah and the
ornaments of the earth the foliage of
the earth prostrates to Allah this is
the creational balance the heavens are
in submission to Allah and the earth is
in submission to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
was an and this heaven we have raised up
and we place this absolute perfect
balance between these two opposites
don't destroy this balance don't destroy
the balance by women becoming men by men
becoming women don't destroy this
balance by exploiting people that Allah
has given you as a Rama that you can
hire them that they can do labor for you
don't destroy this balance by charging
interest on poor people that are in dire
straits and Allah has given you the
means of money to facilitate exchange
between you and you use it to create
money you take a means and make it an
end don't destroy this balance this is
the message from Allah Subhan Allah Tala
to humankind in surat ar-rahman don't
destroy this balance that we have set up
this is a divine bond that was set up by
the one Allah wha-hoo lovely for Kabir
doesn't he know the one who created this
thing and he's the all-knowing be all
aware don't destroy this balance don't
upset this balance what opinion wasn't a
better person and established this
balance with justice now just as this
word this has to do with portions giving
people their portion this world if you
look at the sea this planet economics is
based on I give scarcity scarcity is an
illusion it is an illusion the only
thing that is scarce on this planet
with Islam that is the only thing that
is scarce on this planet because if
there was a sarong there would be an
abundance of everything there would be
an abundance of everything the rain
would pour down from the skies as a
mussel panel without it says in what it
was if they would just be upright in
their way we would pour down from the
sky
copious rain and this means not simply
the physical rain but the spiritual
nourishment to make life harmonious to
make life beautiful to make life
continue and so unless the panel of town
is telling us there's not scarcity he is
no woman and Arlene the possessor of
overflowing bounty overflowing bounty
his bounty knows no hands because I knew
somehow I do what I can to Allah is the
storehouses of the heavens and the earth
but the hypocrites have no knowledge
they have no understanding these people
that go out and save in their hearts
what they say with their tongues what
they don't believe we want equity we
want to a see this the world manner it
goes around telling people that we want
to set things right
even that's what you do for other when
it said to them don't sow corruption in
the earth they say even a man that when
whilst at home we're just setting things
right
we're just rectifying we're putting
things straight
that's all we're doing that's why we're
giving you a five-year plan that turns
into a ten-year plan that turns into a
20-year plan and before you know it
people that were once living with human
dignity are now an absolute subjugation
and humiliation so allah subhan allah
tala is telling us that he is the
possessor of overflowing bounty but you
have to
even you have to breathe out in order to
breathe in if you don't give out don't
expect to receive if you don't want to
share the good don't expect to get any
good that is the nature you see the word
for miser in Arabic also means
constipated you see a miser Otto
intoxicates himself you see in other
words because he won't let go of that
foul matter that was good when he when
he swallowed it it was beneficial but
once it's in the bow you have to let it
go
or it's gonna kill you you see but they
don't want to do now it's not for
nothing also that the Arabic word for
pure gold is the same word for the
people matter of the child when the
purpose of my son was offered as a cat
he said Benny Hashim doesn't take their
cut because it's an ass
now all that in the Arabic language
means it's the wealth that have you have
to let go of it in order to get relief
in order to be healthy in order to
maintain your health and so this is what
I want some kind of diners telling
people follow these things and you will
get all of these wondrous things in
return so establish it with us giving
people their proper proportion there do
what is due to them well that took
several me Zack and again reiterating
don't destroy this balance and we have
placed this earth for every living thing
and nm is everything that has a war
according to Imam Khamenei everything
that has a rule and we are Khalifa we
are responsible for this earth we are
responsible for the life-forms on this
earth we are responsible for maintaining
the balance of this earth and Allah
subhanAllah
I said in this forearm in this chapter
that he raised up the heavens and then
he tells us that he placed the earth for
a living thing and between the two is
the museum the balance and he has told
us don't destroy the museum