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The Renewal Islam and the New Age THE RENEWAL ISLAM AND THE NEW AGE AHMED HULUSI www.ahmedhulusi.org/en/ 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. 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 © 2019 Ahmed Hulusi All rights reserved. ISBN-10: ISBN-13: THE RENEWAL - ISLAM and THE NEW AGE AHMED HULUSI Publisher: KİTSAN 1st Edition: 2019 Film, Print and Binding: İKON Matbaacılık ve Yayıncılık San. Tic. Ltd. Şti. Çobançeşme Cad. NO: 14 Kağıthane - İstanbul Tel: 0212 3211193, Faks: 0212 2959334 [email protected] www.ikonmatbaa.com Request A Free Copy of The Renewal Islam and The New Age: GYOO Mahmutbey Mah. Taşocağı Yolu Cad. N:25 B Blok K:20 N:173 Bağcılar - İstanbul Tel: 0553 810 82 00 www.kuraniste.com THE RENEWAL ISLAM AND THE NEW AGE AHMED HULUSI www.ahmedhulusi.org/en/ Translated by ALIYA ATALAY TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE “Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.” -Rumi Can new things be said with old words? Can one experience the new without outstripping the old? Can renewal take place with outdated, overused, limiting thoughts and beliefs? While it may be true that we owe the survival of our species to those who were the “fittest” in the past, moving forward, it may be more about our intellectual ability to renew and transform by transcending the known and submitting to the unknown. Perhaps this is why the Rasul of Allah, Muhammad (saw) said, “He whose two days are equal is in loss,” drawing our attention to the importance of constant renewal and growth. If indeed we continue living in the past with the concepts and ideas of yesterday and fail to upgrade and update our understanding to today, how can we expect to advance, let alone last? As nature discards anything that is stagnant and stale, renewal is not just an imperative, indispensable condition for survival but also the most paramount determinant for reaching the elevated states of human potential. After completing the translations of almost a dozen of Ahmed Hulusi’s intriguing and thought provoking books, it has been yet another stimulating experience translating The Renewal - Islam and The New Age. This is for all of us who are committed to elevating their experience through self-growth. ALIYA ATALAY Istanbul, 2019 CONTENTS Are We Renewed Yet? ............................................ 1 1 . My Understanding of Islam ................................... 3 2. Why a Sharia Government is Impossible .................. 9 3. Lets Be Honest ................................................. 19 4. Is God Great? .................................................. 27 5. To Avoid Burning ............................................. 37 6. Taoism– Buddhism– Totemism– Islam ....................... 43 7. The Miraculous Evaluation of Muhammad (Saw) ...... 55 8. Salawat and The Mirror Neurons .......................... 61 9. Why We Don’t Understand The Quran ................... 73 10. The Quran and The New Age ............................. 89 11. The Miracle of The Quran - “Akbariyyah” .......... 101 12. Into the Depths of The Secrets of The Quran ........ 115 13. The Magnificent Source ................................... 127 14. Hidden Truths .............................................. 135 15. Do We Really Have Faith in The Rasul of Allah (Saw)? ............................................................. 143 16. Faith in What? ............................................. 171 17. The Magnificent Disclosure .............................. 179 18. The Form of Knowledge and the Multidimensional Hologram .......................................................... 189 19. Why Data? .................................................. 201 20. The Power Within the Point ............................. 213 21. Renew Yourself! ............................................ 219 22. The Holographic Universe of Your Mind ............. 235 About The Author .............................................. 251 ARE WE RENEWED YET? In this book, I intend to expand on some of the primary points I had covered in The Observing One and The Essence of Man. In the past spiritual enlightenment, intuition, self-discovery and spiritual unveiling (kashf) were literally the only means of attaining and observing the reality for those who couldn’t access scientific knowledge. And these observations were quite inevitably expressed and articulated via metaphors and symbolic language, which left others, who heard of these realities but didn’t actually experience them, to repeat and imitate those who did. Then the command “Renew yourself!” was given… approximately sixty years ago when the atom (matter) was divided! Matter was seen for what it actually was: the brain’s limited projection based on the five senses! But this wasn’t the only thing; we were like fish of consciousness swimming in an “ocean of waves” and when the fish of consciousness dived into the depths of the ocean they encountered the “holographic reality”! Beyond the ocean, the brain itself was a holographic structure! Through the layers of quarks and past the string theories, an indivisible oneness (ahad-samad) was alluring to the ONE. And then another phenomenal recognition took place: the platform where all of this was perceived was simply a lower level of 1 The Renewal - Islam and The New Age a higher, much greater platform! There were universes within universes, and yet all of it was like a single multi-dimensional picture, a “point”, capturing an “instance” of the manifestations of the infinite qualities of the Names of Allah! And this point was merely one point among an infinite array of points in the knowledge of the One referenced by ‘Allah’! “Allahu Akbar!” (Allah is beyond comprehension!) exclaimed those who awakened to the holographic reality, or to put it metaphorically, their essential reality! I try to share this knowledge with you based on the teachings of Muhammad (saw) -the most magnificent brain to have ever manifested, the most sublime Spirit of all times, the most excellent Nur of the dimension known as ‘paradise’- and based on the secrets contained in the Quran -to the best of my capacity to decode and adapt them to today’s modern findings – aiming to present a brand new perspective and perhaps a key for a different dimension of life. With the hope of uniting again in the infinite life termed ‘nur’ after abandoning our bodies in this realm and our spirits in the next… Ahmed Hulusi 4 May 2007 *I thank my wife Cemile and her father Atasay Kamer for providing me the comfort and environment in which I have been able to pen my thoughts in peace and without being in need for many years… 2 1 MY UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAM What did Muhammad (saw), the most magnificent brain to have ever manifested on earth and the most sublime spirit to have embarked on the journey of eternity, grant us? How much of the truths he shared in consideration of the understanding of the age in which he lived, are properly understood and duly evaluated by modern man? How much of the Quran, which comprises offers and advice that are valid and applicable until the doomsday of humanity, and knowledge that can provide eternal bliss, is duly evaluated by mankind? As I feel some of my explanations are misinterpreted I want to recap my understanding of Islam: The teachings of Islam and Muhammad (saw) are understood in either two ways. The general conception is that of a deity-god in space or somewhere far beyond, whom the Muslims call ‘Allah’. This god has created two places in an unknown place called heaven and hell. First, in heaven, he made the shape of a human from soil and then blew his spirit into it, thus creating the 3 The Renewal - Islam and The New Age first man. Then he sent him down to earth. In time as the population of humans increased he started choosing and delegating prophets on earth as couriers and sent books to them with his angel Gabriel. These prophets then, based on the books and revelations given to them via the angel, started warning mankind, telling them, “There is a god in space called Allah, he’s going to resurrect you after you die, and call you to account…” etc. Those who take heed of these warnings and do not commit the sins against which they’ve been warned will go to paradise, while those who don’t, will go to hell. The great majority of those who claim to believe in God and Muhammad (saw) conceive Islam like this, at least in the general sense, some details may be different in different communities. Such people usually do not question or research anything regarding religion, they merely accept what they’re told literally. They believe what they’re asked to believe and apply what they’re told to apply without further thought. On the other hand, the understanding of Hadhrat Ali (ra), Abu Bakr (ra) and other enlightened beings with an in-depth acquisition of Islam, who have deciphered the metaphors contained in the Quran, have a totally different take on things.
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