SHIRK

SHIRK is to divide and divert one’s attention from

Oneness into false associative habits, misapprehensions or
perverted views.

They are to wrongly take (1) what is composed,

conditioned, impermanent for permanent, (2) what is
painful, or conducive to pain, for happiness, (3) what
has no self and is unsubstantial (and therefore does not
rule or control anything – Allah is Ruler alone) for a self
or an abiding substance, and (4) what is impure for
beautiful.

The common trait of all phenomena is that they are

vanishing, disappearing, fleeting, not bound to last. It
would be a mistake to give them any substance, a
prerogative of Allah. We however do in daily life easily
misapprehend and imagine things to have power over
us. Under the influence of fears, desires and interests we
perceive phenomena selectively in a one-sided or
erroneous way, and then empower them by association,
by idolizing and imagination. But the Lordship is rightly
only His.
By repeatedly and continuously applying bare attention
to our perception, at the different sense doors where
these phenomena arise and impress our mind, we can
gradually free mind from these seeming agents
progressing steadily towards the direct vision (Ihsân) of
things as they really are: namely nothing but shrouds of
Allah, sustained only by the Kadr (His Power) over the
spectrum of all things apparent.

In modern times, the understanding of Oneness in the

inner nature of all things was gradually destroyed by
giving importance alone to perceiving the laws of
science and nature outwardly where they are seemingly
governed by a multitude of factors, such as gravity,
magnetism, climate, etc. forgetting that without our act
of being present we could hardly prove their existence.
This is a humbling factor for those insisting that
existence does not depend on perception and an
empowering factor for those desirous to readjust their
field of vision to include their realm of being and action.
This is a decisive prerequisite in order to perceive things
as they really are, and then in all assured calmness can
discover and witness, what is the centre-piece of the
transformation which makes one a Muslim, namely: LA
ILLAHU ILALLAH.
Which can have many translations, but always the same
significance: All relates. Allah relegates. The whole field
of mind and matter is but a hovering vibrational vanity
devoid of the substance we may have thought there is.
Cause and effect are not linear, rather all is relative (as
Einstein and others have proven) to the observer and the
state (of Mercy) he finds himself in.

All is related and orchestrated by Oneness, the Source of

pervasive Mercy, which grows as one submits to it.
Which can only be truly perceived by and received in
Submission (arab. Islam) to It. True vision or observation
of Reality comes about only by the selfless observance of
the servant. As in all religions, the timeless saying holds
that to know God, it is to know oneself. That is how
Islam is rightfully the Perfect Science and all aspects of it
are entirely devoted to maintain and increase awareness
of Oneness. All attempts to divert attention from this or
deny it, is called KUFR.

It becomes self-evident:
To understand Shirk leads to and is equal to complete
Faith in the Ultimate Truth of the Beyond - there cannot
be the slightest doubt about it. One does not look away
anymore from the certainty of the impending Hereafter,
indeed looks forward to it without any haste as it comes
to be. Within oneself are complete peace and serenity
and graceful acceptance of one’s fate, the seemingly
good and bad of it. Because remember, the vibrational
field is what it is, and as it impels on the sense doors:
wholly transitory. It is an emanation within time, and as
its grasp is removed from observation, its clutch lessens
through observation, Time itself tends to collapse.

By such results also Submission is rightly called the

Perfect Science as it leads to complete pacification of the
self and satisfaction of its needs. It does not need to act
out, ascertain or promote its existence in any way,
satisfied as it is by the ease, levity and humility of not
having to be or insist. It fades smoothly away in light of
the coming Light without loss or regret, without sorrow
or woe relinquishing all of it effortlessly.

By this then is Ascension, akin to emancipation, alike to

a promotion, out of combustion, away from the fire of
grim existence.

Rightly therefore, rightly understood, rightly practiced,

Islam is called the Sublime Science, an acquired good.

One may ask why there is such ease, such comfort, as

one does not insist anymore on one’s existence to be. It is
because one gives attention to it, whereas the KAFIR, the
worldling, the one enmeshed and entangled by blind
belief, wrong belief, false assumptions, about the true
Reality of things, what is called Shirk, failing to see their
utter impermanence, does divert his attention from it,
aided and seduced to do so by suggestion. By not paying
attention as he should to himself and his true nature, of
being dependent, he cannot at all be aware of his
transitory nature, and naturally in compensation, out of
existential fear, invests with all of his existential efforts,
into the building of a self, of trying to be in control.

Shirk is a fearful state of mind. It is caused by fear, e.g.

the absence of Imân, Faith. Born of fear, it makes you
fear, a state of hell. Shirk leads to shreek.

This is naturally a very dissatisfying state, to uphold

something which is not in the first place. And should he
look to be weaned from it, he will be told to finally give
attention to him. By giving real generosity to him, he
gives time, to witness the truth of the matter within.
Within himself.

Because we are not so much thinking, but rather being

thought.

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