If man fortifies his spiritual power and is always acquiring Insight into God, worshipping Him Almighty and serving God's creatures for the happiness of His Almighty, then the Ego will be improved from the stage of Enjoining-unto-Evil to the stage of At-Peace.

Indeed, the Heart will be really filtered out of the "affection for anything other than Almighty God", and the Soul's True Eye, with its other main attributes, will become active. There, the person becomes able to observe God's Glory and Perfection through the eye of the inner or Soul. It is right during this occasion that the person's hand, eye, ear, foot and all his motions and domination shall belong to His Almighty's particular Hand of Power.

The Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, reports from the Almighty Nourisher in a direct divine transmission.

Glorious God stated: "...The servant makes perseverance in performing volunteer prayers, until, through this, he finds nearness to Me so that I shall make him My Beloved. Thus, the Signs of My Excellency's Nearness to man are that he hears through Me, he sees through the power of My Exalted Sight, and grabs with My Imperceptible Hand, walks with My Particular Power which is not possible for others..." ¹ etc.

This servant's disturbance is the Disturbance of God; his happiness would be the fulfilling of Almighty God's Satisfaction.

Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him." ¹ etc.

These servants of God are the true believers and have succeeded in finding the real position of Islam and humanity. Hence, what the Holy Quran has been trying to teach is this great secret of approach to Almighty God through the establishment of the relationship of the servant to His Holiness Almighty Supremacy.

If the main purpose in this trial abode were not the relationship of mankind to Almighty God, then why would the Holy Quran explain the secrets of Satan's distractions in more than 156 verses? Why would faith and practice in 625 verses synonymously convey the requirements of practical Islam, and may other similar secrets? Among those secrets for example, why would the domination of Solomon, peace be upon him, and his companions be mentioned; where they brought the Throne of Queen of Sheba by just a blink of an eye, from the long distances of more than two months of travel?

Why are similar occurrences mentioned? Take, for example, the following scenarios: a few birds, cut into pieces and mixed, came back to life and rushed towards Abraham, peace be upon him, when he called them. Jesus, peace be upon him, and his companions built statues out of mud, and the statues came to life; there was a revivification of the dead in their hands, and hundreds of other examples.

Why and for what purpose are these occurrences mentioned? Consider the true meaning of what the Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, said:

"The practicing religious scholars among my followers are comparable to the prophets of the Children of Israel." ²

What does this mean?

If we understand what secrets and mysteries are contained in this narration, then we will clearly realize that the practicing and learned believers of this Islamic nation could also have inner secrets and masteries possessed by the prophets of the children of Israel.

While reading these questions you might ask once again; why did Muslims not make any efforts to perceive and find this fortune? We cannot deny their efforts; they discovered secrets many times better in terms of quality and quantity. There are books, such as "Muslim Saints and Mystics" and some other writings, which mention the narration and truths about those people who, were devoted to the Truth.

However, the reason why most of our contemporary believers have fallen short in this search can be accredited to the laziness of our Muslims.

Now, however, through the special Grace of the Glorious Being, the opportunity has arrived where this fortune can be acquired with a lot of ease and simplicity, and without all kinds of hard spiritual work or mortification of Ego. The easy methods and the short path are only related to the excellent perception and knowledgeable understanding of the "Analysis of Man's Atom" ³ and this is it.

Praise be to God, the basic teachings and Epistles of this knowledge with all its ultimate principles, are fully organized, with the help of Great God. They are drafted in accordance with the current age and modern epoch, with a broad worldview. Hence, they are accessible to those interested in the true Islamic movement, so that they can receive them one after the other. Let us hope for the quickest openings in the near future and the gathering of seekers of His Almighty, on land and in the ocean and even on other globes.

With the Grace of Almighty Generous. Amen! O' Cherisher of the Worlds!

1. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is a creature who accepts the existence of many invisible things within objects, with the help of mediating tools and instruments, or by observing their activities. Such invisible things, for example, are the electric currents in electric wires or batteries, or the sound and pictures in the air, noticeable via radio and television. However, some unwise people and those who deny the Truth do not accept the existence of the Soul in the body.

2. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who accepts the storage of electricity in huge transformers and giant electric condensers, even though the electricity itself has no heaviness or lightness of any type which could be regarded as proof of its existence. There are still such deniers however who greatly deny the existence of the Soul in the body, even though the Soul's existence and activities are settled in the body until the last instant of life. After its departure, the body, with all its former qualities such as youth, power, and beauty, becomes totally lifeless.

3. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the vicegerent of Almighty God on the earth, according to the auspicious verse of -

"I will create a vicegerent on Earth" etc. (Quran 2:30)

However, blessed by his Soul, the discovering Intellect, and the Ego that may have reached the station of 'At-Peace', man's full dominance (statues of vicegerency ) will indeed prevail over all material and spiritual things.

4. Question: Who is man? What is the nobility of man's Soul over the other animates' Souls?

Answer: This is an undeniable truth that the verse -

"I breathed something from My Holiness, called the Soul, into man" etc., (Quran 15:29)

is clear evidence of the human spiritual superiority over animals in that Glorious God has ascribed man's Soul to Himself. Therefore, blessed by this Soul, and the nobility of Knowledge, man rules over all existents.

5. Question: Would you please clarify a bit more the superiority of man's Soul!

Answer: Sure! Man's Soul at the beginning, in its natural state, can be equivalent to that of an angel's and of those residing in that station. After purification, however, it rises with the energy of the Ego' atom, which is not available for the noblest of angels. Therefore, the Messenger of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, deigns the common faithful of mankind to be superior to those of the common of angels, and the noble faithful of mankind to be superior to the nobles of the angels.

6. Question: Are there more stations of Soul?

Answer: Truly the Soul is at the level of Jaann at birth. Thus, the angel associates with the infant during its suckling period, when its body has not yet reached the proper physical stature of eye and ear, and the mental stature of alertness and intellect. Most of these associations can be observed in both the asleep and awake states of the child, when he reacts to them with laughter or cries in his cradle.

From here on, however, due to some families' bad education or a corrupt society, Ego may elevate; then Jaann will be transformed into Human-Soul. And if Ego keeps elevating, then the Human-Soul will be transformed to Animal-Soul. Hence, in such a case, man is in the cloth of humanity; he is, however, worse than wolves or other savage beasts, with all kinds of deceitful morals, hundreds of times more cunning. Even when this person knows that he will certainly be departing from this world toward the Permanent World, still, for his own comfort and pleasure, he makes efforts which cause distress to individuals or society. On the contrary, he does not pay enough attention to undertaking actions which are fully for the benefit of social welfare and for the purpose of Almighty God's Happiness, as recommended in the Islamic intact jurisprudence of the Holy Quran.

7. Question: If man's nobility is due to his Soul, then why have animals, all of which have Soul, not had this nobility bestowed upon them?

Answer: Man's nobility is not only due to his excellent Human-Soul, rather, it is due to his God-given exploring Intellect. We should, however, know so much that man's Soul is not of the same kind as that of animals, and it cannot remain in that form, unless he leans toward corruption in which case his Soul is called Animal-Soul or even worse; according to -

"But they are more misguided and miserable than beasts, and they are heedless of practicing upon the truths of the commands of the intact Quran of Islam." (Quran 7:179)

Even though, in its complete form, the above verse is for identifying those signs, which describe the unaware believers of men and jinn, we mention this portion of it as proof of what we have said before, and that is it.

8. Question: What is the difference between the Soul of mankind and the Soul of animals?

Answer: To think of human Soul as similar to that of animal's psyche is a complete mistake, and it comes from narrow-mindedness. For further clarification, it would be appropriate to pay attention to the following example in order to compare the real value of man's Soul to that of animal.

As you know, all mineral substances that have metallic properties are called metal. None, however, is as valuable as white and yellow gold.

9. Question: Would you please give another example explaining the difference between the Soul of mankind and animals! Answer: Likewise among the stones, other stones are not as precious, nor do they have such cherished qualities as turquoise, lapis, ruby, and garnet, even though apparently they are also stones, or from the same class and category of stones.

10. Question: Would you please give another example so that the value of the human being's Soul can be understood more clearly?

Answer: Likewise, opium and its likeness are from the family of plants and grasses. Do other plants have the same qualities and values that they have? No, never! There is also a kind of plant observed along both the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers in North America which, as an animal touches it, sticks to the animal, and melts and digests the animal right away.

11. Question: Is it possible to give us one more example please?

Answer: For thousands of years there have been stars and planets, but they do not have the qualities and properties of the solar stars. Rather, the properties of other firmaments' suns are much better, in their essence, than other stars, whereas they are apparently all spherical, sometimes elliptical, or other forms. In the same way, the station of mankind's Soul and those of other animals is clear in the view of wise people.

12. Question: What is the ultimate frontier of man's growth?

Answer: Man is a being who, while bearing limited physical growth, has unlimited growth of egotistical and/or spiritual powers. The growth cycle for the egotistical and/or spiritual powers will continue even after death; in some cases it continues and strives towards perfection until the day of resurrection.

13. Question: What kind of people are these majestic ones whose inner perfection continues after death as well?

Answer: They are those majesties who have insured the peace of God's creatures through the spreading of Monotheism, the establishment of justice, and other good deeds in the light of Theism. Or, they might have bestowed Sound Children or Continuous Charities upon society; and they might have enlightened people, outwardly and inwardly, through excellent Islamic teachings. The founders and promoters of those Continuous Charities and Ongoing Reward are granted their rewards to the extent that God may will, even after death, so long as their beneficial job lasts. It is given more especially to the doers and promoters of this kind of effort in the present age.

14. Question: Is there any equal punishment for the founder of evil customs?

Answer: Corrupt actions and unlawful traditions harm individuals or society, instantaneously or in the long run. These actions may be imitated by successive generations. This, according to the verses of the holy Quran, is the proof of the evil-mindedness of people who originated or founded them, and the Hadith states the following about it -

"Whosoever introduces a good practice in Islam, there is for him its reward and the reward of those who act upon it after him, without anything being diminished from their own rewards [until the day of judgement]. And whosoever introduces an evil practice in Islam, will shoulder its responsibility and the responsibility of all those who will act upon it after him, without anything being diminished from their own responsibilities [until the day of judgement]." ⁴

Of course that person is responsible for the equivalent punishment of the number of his followers. So long as that evil custom lasts, the punishment of the founder keeps increasing and multiplying. The worst of the evil customs ever to be established are, respectively, the denial of Almighty God, polytheism, and the like. This is actually categorized more accurately by the Islamic jurists.

COMMENT

Now, you are informed about the inherent substance of the Soul and a portion of its authorities. Next, it is necessary to know why human beings, in particular Muslims, have not appropriately used this super power, possessing all kinds of authorities along with the battery of faith which man has had from birth. Hence, it has caused all this backwardness. In answer to this question, you must pay attention to the two main factors of this carelessness.

First: Since Satan is the obvious enemy of mankind, he is always trying to drive mankind from the right path into the dungeon of deviation. He does this through any means and methods. This is according to the commitment he has made and the oath taken in the Presence of Almighty God.

Satan said: "I swear by Thy Greatness and Glory O! Almighty God! That I will indeed make them all rebellious and violent." (Quran 38:82)

Finally, Satan will either cause those actions and obediences of man, which could have taken him to God's Proximity to deteriorate, or he will deprave them in the form of discrete polytheism. If Satan succeeds, he will try to bring man into total denial of Almighty God's Existence. As we see, this corrupt and malicious immorality is intensifying in our age through the cooperators of Satan in a variety of ways and through different tools.

Second: On certain occasions, the Soul has made the body impatient and aware of searching for the Gifts of the Permanent World. The Soul has roared in these occasions and has called up the person to search for Almighty God and the righteousness. Man is still not facing these wishes of the Soul. What is the reason?

It is because, from the beginning, the person had not fortified his spiritual power. Ego, therefore, with the help of Satan, has used these opportunities to draw his attention, like that of a child, toward this perishing world, instead of making efforts to search for the pleasures of the Permanent World's favors. Finally, Ego and Satan try to deceive the person here and there by making use of whichever source, in any possible way.

For this reason, capitalists and people of authority are somewhat uncomfortable, nostalgic, and more distressed. For gathering the worldly materials through unlawful ways is deluding man and the Muslim's spirituality. The fact was mentioned that man's Soul notifies him occasionally to search for the secrets of Proximity to His Presence and to seek the Favors of the Permanent World. This is due to Souls having seen that Place and those Favors at the beginning of the creation of Adam, peace be upon him.

For this reason, man has distress in his inner to prompt him to search for that Place and those Favors, but Satan, using this situation, draws man's attention to the fulfillment of the person's proper requirements of Ego. Namely, Satan makes a kind of parallel inversion and draws man's attention to worldly favors and pleasures. For example, instead of reaching for the Houris and Palaces in the Everlasting Heavens, Satan will make man become obsessed with looking for women, building apartments, and possessing gardens in this world. But the difference is enormous. The person will still not find his heart's satisfaction from these worldly favors; that is, if he ever acquires them.