The saying ‘’Heir to the Prophet’’ covers those people, who
with their science and enlightenement have attained ‘’Perfection of Mohammad’’. Therefore, it is not correct to qualify every person as having the ‘’Perfection
of Mohammad’’.
It is possible to perceive these virtues with ‘’wisdom’’,
which is one of the attributes of the human being that cannot be noticed with our five
senses.
Wisdom cannot be seen, but its achievements (works) can be seen.
The cosmic influences coming from the planet Saturn, form the wisdom
which is in execution all over the World in the material plane. Whereas, the cosmic
influences coming from the planet Uranus, form the wisdom that works and goes beyond the
material plane.
With the higher level of wisdom which is supported by Chiron, the
individual, most probably steps forward into the area of saintship (spiritual closeness to
Allah).
Wisdom, and intelligence have different qualities. Intelligence
works for the short run,whereas wisdom invests for the long run. There are some people who
are wise, and there are some who are intelligent but not wise. Some of them are both wise
and intelligent.
Intelligence is formed in the brain as a result of the
expanded capacity that is formed by the influences coming from the planet Mercury.
The lower dimension of intelligence is foolishness. Giving
advice to a foolish person is useless. To be friends with a foolish person has lots of
drawbacks.
Wisdom is never influenced by the various qualities of the human
being such as the ideas, memory, comprehension and visualisation. The only power
that influences wisdom is the supposition, which is a false evaluation
made because of misperception .
Supposition is the state in which the person thinks that the
things which are non existant are existing, and those that are existing as non-existant.
Supposition functions only on the basis of assumptions and
guesses.(See An’am/Cattle 116, Yunus/Jonah 36)
Supposition, by using the wisdom of the person intensifies the
opinion that the thing called as ‘’me’’ is his physical body only. As a
result of this misperception and false evaluation, the person stops following and
depending on his wisdom and only with the rule of the supposition ‘’passes over to
akhirat (after life realm) without bothering to investigate his origin, his
truth/reality’’.
However, the body that decays and disappears under the ground and
the soul produced by the brain are not the real. Only, the mind that is working towards
its essence can attain the power to understand this.
The root of the word ‘’Wisdom/Akýl’’ is the Arabic
word ‘’ukl’’, meaning ‘’to connect’’. It is the function of
reaching a synthesis by making thesis and anti-thesis.
The dress of wisdom is the conscience. That is the reason why
from time to time it finds the truth even when it is under the influence of the
supposition.
The language of wisdom is the Divine Reason.
Also, the feelings of appreciation and astonishment are the
products of wisdom.
The following hadith of our Rasul sheds light to these concepts;
‘’Oh! Lord, please increase my astonishment about you’’.
Sufism has classified individual wisdom as ‘akl-I meaþ’ and
‘akl-I maad’.
Akl-I meaþ is the level of wisdom related to one’s daily life
and the continuation of this daily life in the explicit sense.
Akl-I maad functions towards the essence, the origin, in
other words it can be said that it is the wisdom which has been returned back.
Wisdom is a bridge which connects the abstract and the material.
When looked from the Origin, wisdom is the Science of the Essence
which has become apparent in the created beings.
Wisdom becomes apparent in the angel, the ginn and the human being.
Out of these three units, the ginns act with intelligence and the other two act with
wisdom.
It is necessary to tell the following alternatives in addition to
what has been told;
Wisdom has a limit, a boundary. The moment wisdom feels that it
is coming close to the boundary and feels insufficient, then it activates the power of
faith.
Wisdom enables to approach the phase of faith ‘’independently
and freely’’ by eliminating any other influence. It investigates the subject of faith.
When the power of faith comes into action, then wisdom makes itself passive.
Wisdom and faith (iman) are different. Faith (iman) is related to
the name ‘’Mu’min’’ which becomes apparent in a unit.
Faith can be obtained through the activities of a certain group of
brain cells that has been programmed by wisdom. Even this is present within the existence
of wisdom.
It is compulsory that faith is transformed into actions. It is not
enough only to say ‘’I am believing’’. It is necessary to perceive with the five
senses the thing that you are believing in.
Regarding this fact a saint of a high level, Hazrat Abddülkadir
Geylani (Abd al-Qadir Geylani) says;
‘’Faith should be certified/proved with the deed (action)’’.
While performing actions pertaining to faith, the brain gains
activity and starts recording onto the soul.
The reason why the Verse (4-136) says ‘’Oh! You, the
possessors of faith, have faith in Allah’’ is to intensify the feeling of faith
and to prevent feeling any lack of faith. When the consciousness gains intensity, it will
definitely be transformed into actions.
That is why the principles of faith are based on the actions.
Those who have faith at the level of imitation will not be able to
find their origin and their truth.
Actually, faith is a step in the ladder which should be overcomed.
Because, faith is not the goal, it is the means. As it is the same in the works of
servitude, the objective is ‘’attaining Allah’’. The goal and the means
should not be confused.
Faith is to accept something that you have not seen. In a sense
it forms the right bridge between mind and contentment (certainty)/iqaan. It ends by
reaching contentment /iqaan. When something is seen with the eyes and is heard with the
ears, then it has passed the stage of faith.(You stop having faith in it.) Now, wisdom has
reached a new stage, which is the dimension of ‘’iqan/contentment’’
The Rasul of Allah, in one of his hadiths says to Hz.Ali
‘’….you should be close to Allah with your wisdom’’. Here, he is pointing out a
wisdom which is different in meaning than the one that is known.
The Rasul(s) and some saints of high levels have ‘’iqaan/
contentment’’ not faith.
‘’The human beings could not have iqaan/contentment to our
verses.’’ (27/82)
When this interpretation of the Koran is evaluated well, then the
wisdom surpasses the feeling of faith and attains the power of knowing one’s origin,
one’s truth and the capacity of solving the system.
Regarding this point, the wisdom that is mentioned is the wisdom
that our Rasul of Allah has. His wisdom is the Universal Wisdom.
We have named the appearance of the Science of Essence in a
human as ‘’wisdom’’.
This wisdom is transformed into ‘’Universal wisdom’’ after
the person sets himself free from the restricting value judgements imposed upon him by the
society, in other words after he pulls himself away from the rule of the suppositions.
In the one who is possessing the Universal wisdom, the unit
is abolished. That is why someone who is living in these conditions obeys only the
pillars.
If the wisdom is towards the being in a perfect, universal
condition, it is called the Universal mind, if it is observing in the science, then
it is called The first mind.
It is the mind as it has been pointed out in the hadith as ‘’Oh!
Cabir, Allah has created my mind first’’. It is the quality that observes the
Names and Qualities Under the condition that it is in Allah’s science.
In another hadith, our Rasul of Allah declares ‘’No
other Nabi has been torchered as I have been’’.
This hadith should be perceived with the inner meaning. The
level of wisdom in his surroundings was very limited in comparison to the special wisdom
that he had, the gap was great, therefore this fact has been interpreted as ‘’being
torchered’’.
Muhyiddin Arabi, in Tedbirat-I Ilahiyye speaks of this
subject in this manner.
Imagine a person using 100% of his brain capacity, living together
with people who can use 3% at the maximium… If you can imagine this, then you will have
a better comprehension of this subject.
‘’The Perfection of Mohammad’’ which I have mentioned
in the beginning of my essay is related to this point. In other words, to the position of
those who have higher levels of mind…
Our Rasul has been affectionate and tolerant to the majority
with a limited level of understanding and has been careful in not offending them.
For example, wherever he saw the blind Abdullah b.Ümmü Mektum, he
used to ask him how he was, and praised him by saying ‘’because of you I have received
a surah’’ (Abasa 1-4).
Among the angels, there are the ones with a normal level of wisdom
(see Baqarah 30-31-32) . Also, there are the angels who live with the existance of the
Universal Wisdom and who possess certitude (certainty); they belong to the group of
angels who have attained Allah, and are very careful in avoiding mistakes within the
system. They are Ezrael, Gabriel, Michael, Seraph Aleyhesselaam, and above them in
the first four are placed Nun, Kalem, Müdebbir and Mufassil
The angels who are among the creators of the system and the Main
Spirit have the First Mind.
In spite of the fact that wisdom takes different names in different
dimensions, the identity of the origin (essence) does not change, because the Origin is
Science.
May Allah be helping and supporting us.
Ahmet F. Yuksel
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