There are somethings we understand. For example, I understood from a child, that I eat food, and somehow my body uses it to live. Of course as I learned science I got more knowledge of this issue. Still there are scientists who know more about that on biological level, on biochemistry level, etc.
We don't have to know everything there is to know how morality works, to know somethings about it. Personally, from mystic Islamic background, I understand all greatness and praise to be through God's Name. God's Name is such that if anyone were to truly grasp it in it's core and details, in it's essence, it's complexity and simplicity, they would be able to incredible things like warp an entire throne from one place to another.
Of course people with such power do not display that power except when God permits them, and they bring such authority only by God's permission.
There is no doubt these people have grasped the secret of creation. They know the divine link very well, they are intimate with it, the light is not fuzzy to them, it's clear, and what illuminates, the signs, all of them, they are clear and they see them with sure vision.
Of course that is not to say if we don't have that level of understanding, we cannot have any level of understanding of God's Name. At the very least, we understand morality is linked to God. We understand praise all together is linked to God. We have sort of an idea on the link, but the details, of the descent of each sign of God, is something else all together.
Just like I understood as a child, eating food is something my body makes use of, I understand remembering God is by some divine link. I don't understand the divine link to it's full detail like God's chosen Prophets and their successors, but I understand it to some degree.
Of course I also feel a degree of this link and make use of it's power, draw power from it to a degree, and seek refuge in God from hidden type of evils in this world through this divine link, but this connection is not something that is easily understood it's full detail yet the very truth of it is very evident in that it's obvious that there is a divine link.
Also, it's only through this divine link that we can recite a book from God and come to understand what it's pointing to.
Light all of light, light which by all light get it's reality from, light by which no light is like. That is God.
Your treasured valuable thing you have, that is with God. Every beauty, every glory, every praise, every greatness, every hue that has a positive impression, is with God and from God.
Forms are also all linked to God and are signs of God.
God is everything but nothing in particular. God is every particular at it's ultimate, but he is one, undivided.
Let's take the name "Peace" of God for example. We Muslims say "peace be upon you" to each other, and in Salah, we say "peace be upon us" as well....
The meaning of the taslim (greeting of peace) at the end of the prayer means security, that is, anyone who carries out the command of Allah and the sunnah of His Prophet out of humility to Him and showing fear, has security from the tribulations of this world and freedom from the punishment of the next world. Al-Salam (peace) is one of the names of Allah, which He entrusted to His creation so that they would make use of it in their behaviour, trusts and contracts; in confirming their companies and assemblies; and for the soundness of their social relations.
If you want to establish this salam in its proper place, and to fulfill its meaning, then fear Allah; and make your faith, your heart, and your intellect sound. Do not sully them by the injustice of acts of rebellion. Let your guardians be safe from you; do not weary, or bore or alienate them through your bad behaviour towards them, nor with your friend, nor with your enemy. If those who are close to someone are not safe from him, then those furthest from him are safest. Anyone who does not establish salam on the occasions when it should be established has no peace and no submission: he is a liar in his salam, even if he uses it as a form of greeting among people.
Know that man's existence lies between trials and afflictions in this world. Allah may test him with blessings, to see his thankfulness, or with hardship, to see if he will show steadfastness and nobility by obeying Him, or disgrace in rebelling against Him, although there is no way to reach His good pleasure and mercy except through His grace. The only means to obey Him is when he grants success: none can intercede with Him except with His permission and mercy.
Imam Jaffar Misbahal Shariah (lantern of the code)
We don't have to know everything there is to know how morality works, to know somethings about it. Personally, from mystic Islamic background, I understand all greatness and praise to be through God's Name. God's Name is such that if anyone were to truly grasp it in it's core and details, in it's essence, it's complexity and simplicity, they would be able to incredible things like warp an entire throne from one place to another.
Of course people with such power do not display that power except when God permits them, and they bring such authority only by God's permission.
There is no doubt these people have grasped the secret of creation. They know the divine link very well, they are intimate with it, the light is not fuzzy to them, it's clear, and what illuminates, the signs, all of them, they are clear and they see them with sure vision.
Of course that is not to say if we don't have that level of understanding, we cannot have any level of understanding of God's Name. At the very least, we understand morality is linked to God. We understand praise all together is linked to God. We have sort of an idea on the link, but the details, of the descent of each sign of God, is something else all together.
Just like I understood as a child, eating food is something my body makes use of, I understand remembering God is by some divine link. I don't understand the divine link to it's full detail like God's chosen Prophets and their successors, but I understand it to some degree.
Of course I also feel a degree of this link and make use of it's power, draw power from it to a degree, and seek refuge in God from hidden type of evils in this world through this divine link, but this connection is not something that is easily understood it's full detail yet the very truth of it is very evident in that it's obvious that there is a divine link.
Also, it's only through this divine link that we can recite a book from God and come to understand what it's pointing to.
Light all of light, light which by all light get it's reality from, light by which no light is like. That is God.
Your treasured valuable thing you have, that is with God. Every beauty, every glory, every praise, every greatness, every hue that has a positive impression, is with God and from God.
Forms are also all linked to God and are signs of God.
God is everything but nothing in particular. God is every particular at it's ultimate, but he is one, undivided.
Let's take the name "Peace" of God for example. We Muslims say "peace be upon you" to each other, and in Salah, we say "peace be upon us" as well....
The meaning of the taslim (greeting of peace) at the end of the prayer means security, that is, anyone who carries out the command of Allah and the sunnah of His Prophet out of humility to Him and showing fear, has security from the tribulations of this world and freedom from the punishment of the next world. Al-Salam (peace) is one of the names of Allah, which He entrusted to His creation so that they would make use of it in their behaviour, trusts and contracts; in confirming their companies and assemblies; and for the soundness of their social relations.
If you want to establish this salam in its proper place, and to fulfill its meaning, then fear Allah; and make your faith, your heart, and your intellect sound. Do not sully them by the injustice of acts of rebellion. Let your guardians be safe from you; do not weary, or bore or alienate them through your bad behaviour towards them, nor with your friend, nor with your enemy. If those who are close to someone are not safe from him, then those furthest from him are safest. Anyone who does not establish salam on the occasions when it should be established has no peace and no submission: he is a liar in his salam, even if he uses it as a form of greeting among people.
Know that man's existence lies between trials and afflictions in this world. Allah may test him with blessings, to see his thankfulness, or with hardship, to see if he will show steadfastness and nobility by obeying Him, or disgrace in rebelling against Him, although there is no way to reach His good pleasure and mercy except through His grace. The only means to obey Him is when he grants success: none can intercede with Him except with His permission and mercy.
Imam Jaffar Misbahal Shariah (lantern of the code)
