Krsna Consciousness And Islam
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^f Once, in the earliest Meccan period of his preaching, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) had a revelation which apparently permitted the intercession of the most honorable goddesses. One version of this is: Did you consider Al-Lat and Al-Uzza And Al-Manat, the third, the other? Those are the swans exalted; Their intercession is expected. Their likes are not neglected. (The word translated "swan exalted" means that these are a kind of angelic being.) (112, p. 113) The Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) prostrated himself at the end of the discourse, and the congregation prostrated also. (93, p. 387), (153, p. 184), (163, p. 21), (121, p. 137) All these facts show us that factually the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) accepted holy pictures, images, and deity worship but practically completely rejected pictures and images because of time, place and circumstances. According to the Muslim tradition, a part of the "Heavenly Book" which was kept under the Throne of Allah was revealed to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) in the Arabic language. More than this, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) once had miraj -"ascending" to the heaven and after penetrating the 7th layer of heaven, he attended the Throne of Allah . This time he received divine knowledge from Allah. This divine knowledge given by Allah is of three kinds:
3) The knowledge which Allah ordered the Apostle to communicate to all the members of the ummah (community). (62, p. 108) In this way the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) got part of the unlimited spiritual knowledge and at the same time he was ordered by Allah to conceal some parts of this knowledge. But still, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) gave many hints for those people who had some understanding. When the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) ascended to heaven and met Allah, Allah was sitting on the Throne. When people asked the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.), "Have you seen Allah?" The Apostle answered: "I saw only light, a light so intense that Allah sat behind 20,000 curtains. If these curtains were to be removed and someone were to see the face of Allah he would immediately be burned to ashes. (131, p. 108) When the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) stood in front of Allah he felt reassured, but He found it hard to stand his ground when Allah stretched out His hands and placed one on his shoulder and the other on his chest. An icy chill froze his bones and his blood . Then the coldness faded and was succeeded by an ecstatic bliss which seemed to carry the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) out of his body into a state of being so marvelous that it was impossible to describe. (51, p. 114) Muadh-bin-Jabal said: "The Prophet on one occasion, hindered our saying the morning prayers till we were near seeing the sun, then he hastened out of his house, and the Tacbir was called aloud, then the Prophet said prayers in haste, and when he had repeated the Salam, he said, " Sit in your places, and I will inform you the cause of my being so late this morning. I got up early, and performed the Wadu, and said prayers, agreeably to the wishes of Allah, and I felt drowsy in my prayers, after which I awoke, and all of a sudden I saw my 28 Creator in a most lovely form, and he said, "O! Muhammad!" I said, "What do you command?" He said, "What do the angels argue about?" I said, "I do not know." Then I saw my God put the palm of his hand between my two shoulders till I felt my breast cold; then everything in the world appeared clear before me, and I knew the whole. Again He asked about disputations of the angels . I replied, "They dispute about deeds which cover sin." (100, p. 155) It is recorded in tradition from Bukhari and Muslim, that once the Prophet of Islam said, "Allah-Taala (God Most High) created Adam in His own sura (form, image)." (140, p. 45), (99, p. 74) From these clear evidences of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.) himself we can understand that Allah is the Supreme Transcendental Person and has a Spiritual Form . But let us also see what is the opinion of prominent Muslim scholars. The author of Jowhara (p. 107-112) says: "It is possible to see Allah in this world as well as in the next. In this world it has been granted to Muhammad only. In the future world however all believers will see Him; some say only His eyes, others say His whole face, others say every part of His body." (88, p. 55) Many Muslims on the basis of Qur'anic verses: (48.10); (25.60); (7.52); (10.3); (32.3); (11.9); (57.4); (75.22-23); (22.60 and 74); (31.27); (42.9); (58.1) believed that Allah posses a head, mouth, eyes, ears, hands and feet just like those of a human being. In the opinion of Abu Mo'ammar ol-Hodhali, a preacher at Baghdad, anyone who denied this belief was an infidel. Adherents of the school of the famous traditionist and lawyer Ahmad b. Hanbal have the same opinion. The school's chief later exponent, Ahmad b. Taymiya, called the Mo'tazelites infidels and Ghazzali a heretic; on one celebrated occasion, after quoting the Qur'an in a sermon, he said to the congregation as he stepped down from the pulpit of the great mosque at Damascus, "Allah will step down from His Throne in the same way as I am stepping down from this pulpit." (32, pp. 157-158) Abu' Amer ol-Qorashi, a Moor from Majorka declared that it was heretical to understand the sentence, "There is nothing similar to Him (Allah )" in (42.9) as meaning what it says; it meant, in his opinion, that nothing resembles Allah in respect of His divinity, because "Allah possesses limbs and organs like yours and mine." As proof of God's possession of such limbs and organs, Abu' Amer ol-Qorashi cited the description of the Last Judgment in (68.42), and then slapped his thigh and said, "Allah has legs just like mine." (32, p. 159) Thus, considering all the above mentioned points we can understand that the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S. A. W.), like the prophets of ancient times, revealed knowledge according to time, place and circumstances. But because Allah is al-Rahman-ul-Rahim - the Compassionate and Merciful, He simultaneously reveals knowledge for people of all levels of understanding. If someone wants to understand Him as impersonal and formless He reveals suitable knowledge, if someone is ready to accept Him as personal but formless He reveals the corresponding knowledge, but if someone is sufficiently fortunate and intelligent enough to understand Him on the highest level as the Supreme Transcendental Person possessed of a beautiful, charming and indescribable Spiritual Form He has left sufficient hints to understand this. If someone would like to correspond with me and share his opinion or make his own presentation, comment, or criticism I would be most interested and happy to accept them. 3C Albert Road, TEL: 2473757 Calcutta 700017, 247 60 75 INDIA FAX: 91 33 2478515 29
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