by Mozaffar
This world is nothing but a veil. You sit on this side of the veil. Allah is, so to speak, on the other side of the veil.
This veil has numerous layers. One layer of the veil cannot be lifted until we die. The exact timing of that lifting of that final veil is already set. But, there are numerous other veils that can be pulled away.
Likewise, as we grow up in life, as life seems to get more complicated, we respond to life accordingly: we get more complicated. But, our own increasing complexity is nothing more than a response to what we perceive as increasing complexity in the life within and around us. The result is that we are adding more and more veils. Again, those veils distance us from the Divine. Those who keep a simple outlook on life seem do not seem to have more difficulty in navigating through life. Many have an easier navigation through the struggles of life.
The point here, is that many (perhaps most) of the veils between ourselves and the Divine are entirely within us. They affect how we interact with Allah. They affect how we interact with others. They affect how we interact with ourselves.
But, they are nothing more than veils, that can be lifted.
7 Comments
November 13, 2008 at 10:37 am
Why, Mozaffar, I am appalled. You always struck me as a man who appreciated a good pardah. All this immodest talk of “unveiling” is just downright shocking.
November 14, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Yet another example of religio-babble.
One really doesn’t expect, even in these debased times, to encounter such clutter on PTH.
November 15, 2008 at 10:50 am
i believe the usage of the “veil” was used symbolically.
November 15, 2008 at 7:52 pm
again a good post. those who feel offended can substitute God with “Being”
The post i think should be studied for ideas and not for terminology
November 15, 2008 at 8:15 pm
@Rizwan Ali
Thanks for your comments, PTH’s stand on Islamic fascism and other form of religious fanaticism is well known and very clear.We have not and will not publish any fascist material. Having said that PTH maintains , that right to have faith is a basic human right. Regarding this post, i dont see it as a “religio-bable”, rather it very clearly speaks of certain mystic realities, which in history of Islam have been quite enlightening. This trend of Islamic thought has been persecuted and suppressed by Mullah establishment.
We support people’s right of having faith or leaving it.
Shaheryar Ali
November 16, 2008 at 5:55 am
Yes, Sherryx (Shaheryar Ali), thank you for correcting me. On re-reading Mozaffer’s piece, I see that he is trying to be mystical rather than “religious”.
Perhaps I have become allergic to the constant, strident invocation of “Allah” by all manner of offensive and patently dishonest people, the very ones who have made this a land of cruelty, lawlessness, corruption, oppression, bestiality, barbarism and vice, all in the name of religion.
All one can say, strictly metaphorically of course, is “Gawd ‘elp us!!”
November 16, 2008 at 6:37 pm
No Problem buddy, its a knee jerk reaction and i go through it many times as well–