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Wholeness and Destiny
The whole universe is a complete, intelligent
system. There is total order to all events; nothing is amiss. From the perspective of this universal intelligence
there are no 'time passages' such as those perceived by human minds. There is
only one, eternal, undivided, universal moment that exists at once. However, as a product of our five senses'
perception, we observe all events taking place in an order in time. By
referring to the wholeness within the essence of everything, we define the
situation by saying that "all events in the universe are organized by
Allah" in a timeless dimension. There is only one, single will-power ruling over the
whole universe. However, there are many, many, dimensional levels of existence
as well as levels of time. What we know as our time is completely relative to
our human perception, and concepts such as before and after are completely
relative to our point of observation within the capability of our senses.
Therefore, something that is observed as happening now for us in our
dimensional level of life may have already happened in another dimension of
time without our knowledge. As an example, just consider a blast of thunder that
you hear seconds after you see a flash of lightning. Your senses' perception
fool you into thinking that the thunder roared sometime after the lightning
occurred. Whereas, in fact, at the point of event by the clouds they both are
the result of the same one event that occurs at once. Our way of observing
creates the perception of a time interval, a duration of time that passes
between events, a perception of time that changes depending upon our distance
from the event. Our future is always of our understanding of future:
it is not future for itself. Therefore, considering the reality of wholeness,
all our future is already foregone. Past, present and future are wholly enfolded within
oneness. Thus, accepting destiny is being open to the reality
beyond the limits of our senses' perception. When
We Refuse Destiny We Are Refusing the Idea Of God "Destiny," the laying out of the entire
universe in deeper dimensions, including all that dwells in it, is totally
ordained by Allah: destiny never changes. When the foreordainment unfolds
within our dimension of life, we observe it as our lifetimes. The future is
future for us only, and in another dimension it is foregone. All events of life
have already happened at some deeper dimensional levels. When we think there is a conflict between having a
free will and having a destiny, we are, in fact, experiencing a conflict
between our sense of personal achievements and the idea of a separate God that
rules the world from outside. Therefore, by refusing this concept of destiny we
are, in fact, refusing the idea of a "separate god" that ordains the
future for us. See how we are right in our refusal. Thinking minds will never settle with the idea of a
destiny controlled by an outer power. Only by understanding the truth that
Hazrat Mohammed revealed to us by the noun Allah is it possible for us to avoid
such confusion. Because, the belief in true destiny is an automatic result of
knowing Allah as the Limitless One. There is not a God-out-there that ordains a future
for any one of us; nor is there a person whose future is laid out by a god. By reversing ego's supposition, we can understand
that it is not we do not manifest (create) our destiny, but it is our destiny
that is manifested (revealed) over time, throughout our lives, through
ourselves, as ordained by Allah from within–whether or not we know it. However,
when we do know it, it means the awareness of that reality is unfolded through
us. From the perspective of ego, destiny is just
impossible to understand and accept, as the ego will never agree to totally
"surrender" and consequently attain the "peace" that means
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