The Disappearance of the Negative Attributes

Yesterday, when I prayed morning prayer, an inner voice told me something. It was when my mind was contemplating about submission. The voice reminded me about the verse of Allah in relation to the sub topic I wrote earlier on submission as means of union. I am grateful that I was reminded about it. And I think I need to write it here as well because it is also important to understand it.

As previous article said that in the realm of attributes everything is created in pairs; good and bad, high and low, big and small, true and false, right and wrong. To be in harmony both need to submit to each other.

Misunderstanding God has created different religions
when the substance of it is our submission to our Creator 

However, of all the difference attributes there is something we as human being need to understand. This understanding is very important in relation to The Divine Attributes of Allah known as Asmaul Husna (99 attributes of God or Names of God). Misunderstanding it had created what we now know as Hinduism where they have Trimurti of Shiva, Vhisnu and Brahma. Misunderstanding it had also created what we know as Zoroastrian, where it said there is the good God (Ahura Mazda) and bad God (Ahriman) or Hellenism. And to some extend Christianity also affected by it because they couldn't see the truth behind the existence of Jesus which they claimed as the son of God. They paired the existence of evil to God (i.e. Jesus) then created dualism in their way of thinking about good and bad.

The Non-existence of Substance

I was reminded about this by the Quranic verse 'And say "Truth has come and falsehood is departed. Indeed, falsehood by nature is ever bound to depart".' [QS 17:81] This verse said that the submission of the falsehood to the Truth is by their disappearance not by lingering around or mixed up with the Truth.

To understand this, my inner knowledge teacher gave me some simple parable. That is by giving us a rhetoric question about how we could get rid of darkness. Then he said further that when we got rid of darkness we didn't throw out a bucket after bucket of darkness, because that's not the nature of darkness. What we need to do to get rid of darkness is by ushering in light into the room and darkness will disappear. If it's still too dim, we just need to intensify the light to brighten the room.

This situation then tells us that darkness can't mixed up with light because the true nature of darkness is the non-existence of light. It is because the primordial state is light following the attributes of Allah The Light (An Nuur). And how can we understand this? By understanding His Signs in this universe and in our being.

We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves 

until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. 

But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord 

that He is, over all things, a Witness? [QS 41:53]

To the living creatures that live on this planet earth, we all must undergo time change called day and night. We call day because at that time we can see the sun as the source of light up in the sky. It enables us all to see anything around us. And we call night because at that time it is dark and we can't see things around us without the existence of light to help us see things. But the truth is "Is the sun as the source of light not existed at night?" Of course it still exists but we can't see it.

It is the same as the Truth to the falsehood. Falsehood is the non-existence of truthfulness. You see the Truth is ever existed following the attribute of Allah as The Ever Truth (Al-Haq). But when for some reason, Its existence has been ignored, denied, refused, not-understood or misunderstood, then the state of subject or object or situation falls into category of falsehood. This is as mentioned in the Quran 'Those are the ones over whose hearts and hearing and vision Allah has sealed, and it is those who are the heedless.' [QS 16:108]. While their very existence bear witness to their ignorance, denial, refusal or misguidance as mentioned in the Qur'an 'On a Day when their tongues, their hands and their feet will bear witness against them as to what they used to do.' [QS 24:24].

The 'seal' had made the heedless ones can't see, hear, understand and accept the Truth when it is presented to them. And the biggest and the most difficult seal to break and let go is our human self, the state in which we are created as a creature. Again my statement here can be mis-understood by saying that it has similarity to Christian Theology about the 'Original Sin'. It is unlike that concept, distinctly different. Because eventhough in its development the concept then shifted from one aspect to another aspect as mentioned in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin) the truth about the original state of a human 'being sealed' is different, as you may read further on.


The Permanence of the Good

Good bad right wrong in our human mind

It is the same to the good and bad, right and wrong. The origin of state is good and right following the attributes of Allah 'The All Beneficent  (Ar Rahman), The Most Merciful (Ar Rahiim), The All Knowing, the Omniscient  (Al 'Aliim), The Wisest of All (Al Hakim)'.

How many times we experience something bad that at the end of the time what seemed to be bad by then turn up to be good? How many times we experience something wrong but then turn up to be right? Or maybe the other way around? What seemed to be good then turn up to be bad. And what seemed to be right turn up to be wrong?

This happened because we rely our judgment to our humanly perspective which is very relative and judgmental. However there is a state where the good will remind good or once bad then turn to good and remind good, the right will remind right or once wrong then turn to right and remind right for as long as it can be or we call it forever. This permanence happened because the subject or object or situation is rested on the attribute of Allah, The Ever Enduring and Immutable (Al-Baaqi). This is called as the blessing of Allah. So blessing which in arabic is barakah means the permanence of the good upon something or someone or some situation or some time by divinity action.

How do we know that we have been blessed?

As Qur'an used the word of barakah in relation to many things, we then know that there is a blessed location we know as the surrounding of Masjidil Haram and Masjidil Aqsa as mentioned mentioned in QS 17:1 "Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al- Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing.". We also have a blessed time as mentioned in QS 44:3 " Indeed, We sent it down during a blessed night. Indeed, We were to warn [mankind]. ". And we have a blessed item as mentioed in Qur'an QS 6:92 "And this is a Book which We have sent down, blessed and confirming what was before it, that you may warn the Mother of Cities and those around it. Those who believe in the Hereafter believe in it, and they are maintaining their prayers."

Utilizing those special blessing given to certain items, places, and time using certain method is what we can learn to living our life peacefully and blessed so that we can later be ones that can benefits to mankind and universe because we rested on the attribute of Allah, The Peace and Blessing  (As Salam). Insha Allah.