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THE CALL AHMED HULUSI As with all my works, this book is not copyrighted. As long as it remains faithful to the original, it may be freely printed, reproduced, published and translated. For the knowledge of ALLAH, there is no recompense. Copyright © 2016 Ahmed Hulusi All rights reserved. ISBN-10: ISBN-13: THE CALL AHMED HULUSI www.ahmedhulusi.org/en/ Translated by ALIYA ATALAY ABOUT THE COVER The black background of the front cover represents darkness and ignorance, while the white color of the letters represents light and knowledge. The image is a Kufi calligraphy of the Word of Unity: “La ilaha illallah; Muhammad Rasulullah” which means, “There is no concept such as ‘god’, there is only that which is denoted by the name Allah, and Muhammad (SAW) is the Rasul of this understanding.” The placement of the calligraphy, being on top and above everything else on the page, is a symbolic representation of the predominant importance this understanding holds in the author’s life. The green light, reflecting from the window of the Word of Unity, opens up from the darkness into luminosity to illustrate the light of Allah’s Rasul. This light is embodied in the book’s title through the author’s pen and concretized as the color white, to depict the enlightenment the author aims to attain in this field. As the knowledge of Allah’s Rasul disseminates, those who are able to evaluate this knowledge attain enlightenment, which is represented by the white background of the back cover. CONTENTS 1. Intercession And Duality ......................................................... 1 2. Veiled From Reality ............................................................... 7 3. Inquisition .......................................................................... 11 4. No Room For Excuse ........................................................... 15 5. Faith Vs Knowledge Of Faith ................................................ 19 6. Do We Believe In Allah? ...................................................... 23 7. Why Faith? ......................................................................... 27 8. The Spirit Of The Quran And Women In Islam ...................... 31 9. Understanding The Truth ...................................................... 40 10. Reading The Rasul Of Allah ............................................... 44 11. Universal .......................................................................... 48 12. Space ................................................................................ 52 13. Recognizing One’s Vicegerency ............................................. 54 14. Limited Comprehension ....................................................... 58 15. The Divine Scheme And The Darkening Of Hearts ................ 63 16. Love ................................................................................. 69 17. Sight ................................................................................. 73 18. Where Is ‘Inner’ Space? ...................................................... 77 19. “After” ............................................................................. 81 20. How Difficult Is It? ............................................................ 83 21. The Universe Vs Your Cocoon ............................................. 87 22. Outside ............................................................................. 91 23. Cookie-Idols ...................................................................... 95 24. Impossible ......................................................................... 99 25. The Truth Hurts ............................................................... 103 26. To Know Or Not To Know ................................................. 109 27. Were You Not Warned? ..................................................... 114 28. For My Friends… ............................................................ 118 29. Scenario .......................................................................... 122 30. Sooner Or Later ............................................................... 126 31. The Quantum Dimension And The Genes ............................ 130 32. Time ............................................................................... 136 33. Don’t Touch This Book Without Purifying Yourself First ...... 140 34. Him And I ...................................................................... 144 35. Inside Or Outside? ........................................................... 148 36. R.I.P. ............................................................................. 152 37. How Many Cookies Do You Have In Your Closet? .............. 156 38. The Power Of The Cookie ................................................. 160 39. Where Are You Heading? ................................................. 164 40. Who’s Talking? ............................................................... 168 41. Nouveau Riche ................................................................. 172 42. Emotion Vs Intellect ......................................................... 176 43. Stability .......................................................................... 182 44. The Reality ...................................................................... 186 45. Trust In Allah (Tawakkul) ............................................... 190 46. From Here And There ...................................................... 194 47. Dark Clouds ................................................................... 198 48. Awakening ...................................................................... 202 49. Test ................................................................................ 206 50. Paradise – Heaven ............................................................ 210 51. What’s Your Extension? ................................................... 215 52. Sell Yourself To Allah ...................................................... 217 53. For “God’s” Sake! ........................................................... 219 54. Sacrifice .......................................................................... 223 About The Author ................................................................. 227 1 INTERCESSION AND DUALITY The body has an age, but consciousness doesn’t! The age of consciousness is its age of knowledge! One’s age of knowledge depends on a healthy life and contemplation… So, I guess the smart thing to do is increase our age of knowledge as much as we can before we leave this world… As Rumi said, “The past has passed, my dear, today is a new day!” They asked me yesterday about the intercession of the Rasul of Allah (saw) and why it is said to be upon the ‘committers of great sin’. Who are the committers of great sin? I said two things need to be understood first. People think ‘intercession’ is going to take place by someone grabbing hold of your arm and dragging you somewhere! Do you really think someone is going to hold you and take you somewhere? There is intercession in this world, in the life to come, in the place of gathering and in hell… There is the intercession of Rasulullah (saw), and that of the saints and scholars. What is intercession? What is its purpose? Is it only to save people from hell? 1 The Call What is the greatest of sins? The verse says, “Assuredly, duality is a great wrongdoing!”1 That is, to reduce Allah to the concept of a god! This is duality! The Rasul (saw) says “After me, my people will not openly engage in external duality, what I fear on behalf of them is the hidden type of duality.” Then, to worship a god is the biggest of mistakes and the root cause of all other misdoings! Hidden duality or belief in a deity-god lies at the root of all sins. The verse “O believers, believe in Allah” came to the companions who believed in Muhammad (saw) and the Quran, but who had not yet forgone the concept of godhood. If the companions who saw the Rasul of Allah were like this, what about us? The way to believe in Allah and be saved from hell and hidden duality depends on our eligibility to intercession. “Who can intercede in His sight except by the permission of Allah?”2 If we take this as “Who can intercede except by the permission of god” our hellfire will not be extinguished very easily! We’ll continue to burn and suffer! What is the difference between the sentence, “Who can intercede except by the permission of God” and “Who can intercede except by the permission of Allah?” Let us rephrase the latter: “Who can intercede in His sight except by the forces that manifest from the Names in one’s essence?” 1 Quran 31:13 2 Quran 2:255 2 Intercession and Duality To give a parable, can a treasure hidden in your house be found in another building? How can intercession reach us when we are constantly repelling it? So long as the curtain that’s veiling our insight is pulled over us, we cannot attain intercession. How can intercession reach us while we still believe in a deity- god and His ‘Ambassador’ and the Arabic book of commands sent by a god who speaks Arabic! How can we expect intercession while wishfully thinking the saints of god are going to magically save us from hell with their magic wands? If Allah (the forces that manifest from the Names in our essence) does not accept intercession, who can intercede? How will the curtain veiling our insight be removed and allow us to reach intercession? And thus, how can we be cleansed from hidden duality and truly believe in Allah, the essential reality of our being and all things, and duly READ the Quran? Is it