

The Sources of Spring Water in the World

A Dialogue between the Great Humane Scholar

Mohammad Amin Sheikho

And the Twentieth Century Philosopher

Sir John Godolphin Bennett

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Authored by

The humane eminent scholar

Mohammad Amin Sheikho

God has made his secret sacred

(1890-1964)

Checked and Introduced by Professor

A. K. John Alias Al- Dayrani

Published by

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Praise belongs to God

Praise belongs to God the Provider of the worlds; communication with Al'lah and safety are through Mohammad, the master of prophets. The messengers are sent by the Almighty as a mercy to the worlds and a shining lamp to the divinely inspired. They are sent to bring happiness to humanity and uplift us to a state of thinking, to mightiness and faith, to tolerance, affection, intimacy, brotherhood and self-denial, to a world of perfection and self-devotion, of lofty traits and noble characteristics.

Those who adopt his method and seek enlightenment from him will be pure of heart.

# Chapter 1
## Foreword

Excerpts from the Memoirs of Sir John Godolphin Bennett

As Recorded in His Book, Journeys in Islamic Countries, about the Great Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho

1-Sir John G. Bennett

"As I listen to Emin Bey's[1] explanations about inner work, I marvel; he is a real master. Not only has he achieved being for himself; but he can show others the way and give them the strength and courage to follow it."

"The more I see of him and hear from others of his works, the more convinced I am that he is truly a saint and that his interpretations of the Qur'an are inspired by a Higher Consciousness."

"So, meeting him has been a lesson to me in many ways. I see

what whole-hearted devotion to work can be. I see nobility of

character and an immense power to attract and hold the love

and faith of others."

"Today we started by verifying certain things about work about

which I shall not write, beyond saying that I have no doubt that

Emin Bey has reached a certain level of inner work that I have rarely met before."

"I wrote that his very goodness is the difficulty. If he were an ordinary man, however learned he might be, I should not even trouble to spend hours discussing theology, but Emin Bey is not an ordinary man. He is a saint and he has the supranormal powers of a saint. Therefore, one must accept him and try to understand."

"He is an altogether extraordinary man in himself, and no one who has been as close to him as I have can possibly doubt the reality of the impulses of faith, hope and love within him."

John G. Bennett

## Foreword by Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud

2-Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud

In the introduction to my book A Traveler in Al'lah's World, I previously mentioned that religion has an essential reality which can be described as the ancient love that we bore with us into this world. I referred to the permanent longing that fills our hearts, a longing for the original home from which we came, and to the spiritual thirst that overwhelms our feelings with eagerness for the spring from which we stem. This craving is veiled and concealed from us by the misfortunes, concerns and desires of this worldly life.

When I wrote about this, I was depending on my own sense of it without having any definite proof, but having seen this great book and having read the simple and sublime scientific philosophic dialogue that went on between Sir John Bennett and the scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho, I knew for certain that what I had sensed in my own depths was a fact, proven by the amazing and wonderful logical proof offered by the scholar Sheikho. This human spirit has given birth to a great thing (Trust), which the heavens, the earth, and the mountains feared and refused to bear. This took place before our coming to the present life, which is like a school that was prepared by Al'lah for the teaching of success and great salvation.

Verily, that which the scholar reveals to Sir John Bennett in this dialogue is exactly what I have been looking for throughout my life, for I read the books of all the philosophers: the Greek, Roman, Muslim and the Western, finding that none could approach the truth in the scholar's research, or could explain the difference between the spirit and the soul, between thought and the mind... until I was acquainted with the perfect reality in this book through which all the problems were made clear to me as they had been made clear to Sir John Bennett before me. Indeed, the savant Mohammad Amin Sheikho focuses on the spirit and is concerned with it because the Holy Qur'an stresses it and is concerned with it.

All Qur'anic verses address the spirit, instruct it, and guide it to the path of righteousness in order that it be able to prostrate itself and come near to Al'lah. Thus, the Holy Qur'an as a whole is an address to this human spirit.

Many people take an interest in everything: they concern themselves in building, clothing, eating and drinking. They leave no domain without having a great share of interest in it, all of which is related to the perishing body which will end up as dust. But as for the spirit, they know nothing of it. They take care of the peel and forget about the everlasting true marrow and are blind to it. They taste nothing of Godly love and are deprived of prostration before Al'lah, the Almighty, and being near to Him.

Without the Book of Al'lah, the Almighty, we lack reality, wisdom, and nobility. Most of our sight clings to passing and perishing things in order to partake in pleasures of the body.

In His verses, our Provider indicates that this body will one day separate from the spirit and end up in the earth from which it was created, and moreover, it will bear witness against this spirit on Doomsday, when it shall deny its deeds: **"At length, when they reach it (the fire), their hearing, their sight and their skins will bear witness against them as to all their deeds."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 41[2], Fussilat (Explained), verse 20

There were those who did not think that their hearing, sight, skin, hands, and legs would testify against them one day, but instead they believed that Al'lah, the Almighty, was far from them and did not know what occupied their spirits. It was such false belief which caused them to fall into corruption, and then to be destroyed.

How could they have had knowledge when they did not recognize themselves, and when their chief concern in the present life was this body and no more?

Therefore, you shall find the speech of the savant Sheikho – who is one of the reformers and admonishers – wondrous and strange if you do not recognize yourself... who are you? Where were you before you came to this world? For what did you come? And where are you going after death, when you leave your body?!

But the most magnificent thing is to find the scholar Sheikho draw our attention to the water we drink, and to the sources of those huge springs, such as the springs of the Nile River and the other big and small rivers on this earth.

I became even more amazed when I read the consecutive scientific evidence which demonstrated that the North and South Poles are the sources of these springs. What a great scientific discovery, in which the scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho preceded all geologists and astronomers, despite all their achievements in scientific progress at this time!

How near he was to Al'lah, the Almighty, so that he understood and witnessed those water passages through which water flows constantly, and in strict order, to reach our drinking cups and jugs, without which we cannot live.

In fact, that is what made me say in full truth, verily, the scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho is a man who received revelations from our Provider, and his science is truly derived directly from Al'lah.

God says: **"...be under Al'lah's Light, and then it is Al'lah that teaches you..."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 2, Al-Baqara (The Cow), verse 282

This noble verse manifested in this man as a firm truth, for he turned heads with his explanation of difficult issues, especially those which are raised in the West about the precepts of Islam and its everyday situation.

These precepts appeared to them as problems, such as in the cases of the veil, divorce, and polygamy.

Besides, there is his scientific detailed demonstration of the seven heavens and the six days mentioned in the Holy Qur'an.

So, we are indebted to him for this science, for he dislodged from our shoulders the weight of worry from all the cases which we considered to be puzzles that were difficult to solve.

Dr. Mostafa Mahmoud

Cairo- on 29/1/2000

## Foreword by prof. Dr. Mohammad Kamal abdul-azeez

Professor in the College of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo

Praise is to God, Provider of all the worlds, who has created and proportioned well, who has estimated and guided. Communication with Al'lah and peace are through the master of the messengers, who was sent as a mercy for all creation.

Nour Al-Basheer – the publishing house – is still enriching us with its wonderful issuances and distinguished publications.

Whenever we finish inspecting an example of their valuable and unprecedented scientific research, we witness the birth of another one which excels its predecessor, and a new witness against that age in which materialism prevails over spirituality, and people are ready to believe only in tangible materials or visible or aural phenomena.

Nour Al-Basheer publishing house was never established to collect information from here and there, in order to cut and attach it together in papers and booklets, but rather it is a house of searching and renewal because it always looks for what is new and searches for what is precious, adopting and promoting the scientific Islamic studies which serve the Islamic religion.

This book is overflowing with peerless scientific research, not addressed by many scientists, and covered only in cursory fashion by many researchers without contemplation or thorough, penetrating study.

At the beginning of this book there is research about the essence of the spirit, the soul, the mind, and thought. In the past, these were matters which really confused minds and thoughts. The second research segment in this book clarifies the Holy Qur'an's method of adjusting the laws of life, steering it, and balancing matters amongst the members of humankind, whether they are virtuous or bad, believers or unbelievers, strong or weak.

The third and most miraculous research is that which investigates the source of one of life's secrets. It is the water, from which Al'lah made every living thing. Al'lah says: **"...We made from water every living thing..."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 21, Al-Anbiya' (The Prophets), verse 30

There exists a great, inexhaustible flow of water and an unceasing circle of water that has never dried up. It was brought into existence by Al'lah's Might and Management, and not blindly or haphazardly. If letters from the alphabet were put into a box, and then scattered and mixed, is it rational to believe that they would form themselves into a functional prose chapter or a fluent poem?!

Any reasonable, penetrating consideration of the water circle in nature will surely show that the modern world, despite the highly developed technology it has attained that has spread across the continents and that has dealt with genes in its factories and experiments, still stands powerless and feeble before the omnipotence of the Almighty Creator.

Nour Al-Basheer publishing house has been honored and apportioned with the glory of publishing the research of the venerable scholar and the great teacher, the inspired and eminent Mohammad Amin Sheikho, which has clarified and revealed much of the secrets and wisdom relevant to a lot of Islamic cases. His explanations and evidence have a considerable effect in attracting spirits to the field of true faith, and giving a great flow of doses of faith to those who believe, causing their faith to increase more and more, and removing the doubt from those whose hearts are ill.

He made the decisive judgment in many of these matters, such as cupping, and the wisdom hidden behind purifying the animal before slaughtering it by mentioning Al'lah's Name over it aloud.

As for the book High Schools of Seeing by Al'lah's Light, it truly forms a dash in the world of transparence and Islamic spiritualties that reach the heart, for they really have issued from the heart. May Al'lah bestow on him the greatest recompense and honor his rank, granting him paradise because of what he rendered in service of God's religion.

The comments of the great teacher – Prof. A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani – preface the research of the great scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho, confirming the flow of the light of science through the thoughts and explanations contained in much of his research, and undoubtedly, he obtained a portion of that blessed luminous brilliance.

Thanks to the Nour Al-Basheer publishing house for these strenuous efforts, this abundant science, and their prolonged research... May Al'lah grant those who took on this science the best recompense, as for Him alone we aspire to adopt only His path.

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Kamal Abdul-Azeez

## Foreword by prof. Abdul-Kadir John alias al-Dayrani

Verifier & Publisher of Books of the Humane Scholar M. Amin. Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah)

3-Prof. A.K.John Dayrani

When people want to know the truth and recognize the actual realities of this life – not the imaginary one – what should they do? Should they travel through remote spaces or explore the depths of the earth?!

But if they did, would they think they had attained infallible judgment, brought cogent proof or found a certain source of truth?!

Of course not...

Their sciences have not gone beyond the limits of what can be seen outwardly by the naked eye, while as to the great confusing conundrums, all the results they have reached remain merely suppositions and guesses, although "...conjecture avails nothing against Truth."

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 53, An-Najm (The Star), verse 28

So, where is the Truth? And who will guide us to it?!

Anyone that reads the books of the venerable scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah) will find them filled with many scientific, medical and social facts: great scientific realities that he took from the Holy Book of God, after he witnessed its verses with the eye of the heart and perceived the aim that lies behind the Words of Him, the Almighty. When he sees them they are written in a simple way, which may be simple in words but is profound in thought.

The great scholar dealt with all the facets of investigative study and the realization of the mind.

He wove rules and principles for the universal and medical sciences, and dressed them in a pure garment of morality, so that they became an impregnable ward for this lofty humane construction which is derived from the heavenly mission.

The research of the humane scholar was – and is still – impossible for most people to discover, as it can be studied in various ways.

Even the masters of science and those that are proficient in criticism could not have brought us one word of what he brought to us.

Thus, his science reveals unprecedented facts that none have touched on before.

We do mean what we say, for the facts themselves show this and are visible in all his books.

The studies which the great scholar performed have a different form because they do not follow the method of the sociologists, for they take account of the characteristics of contemporary mankind, portraying their upsurge and superiority in the way of development and progress, to provide means of escape, advancement and success resulting in what is loftier and better for humanity. Therefore, his science is based on tangible reality and amounts to a disclosure of the wondrous vagueness.

Today, civilization has advanced great strides, allowing science to make enormous progress, and this development has led to excellent results in discovery and planning. Yet for many of the past centuries, nothing that was generated or renewed or developed that was in agreement with the truth was in conflict with anything said by the honorable scholar; on the contrary, it came about that the truth of what he had said was proven. That is because the scholar took all his knowledge from a holy heavenly source. It is the Grand God, 'Glory to His Names', the source of all humanity that profited, profits, or will profit.

In this book, the scholar reveals issues about thought, science and life, starting from the 'spirit' and 'thought' to the 'soul' and the concession to the Hand which is in the heavens that directs all in marvelous order, then to the belief in justice as applied on earth, showing that despite all the apparent contradictions that we see, there is no injustice in this universe and that all matters run fairly throughout creation.

After that, there is an astounding mental sailing to the source which supplies us with fresh and pure drinking water; and this revelation was uncovered before the polar circle disclosed its hidden secrets; however, until now, they have not yet shown more than what the scholar (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah) referred to. In all the information he presented to us, there is a bewildering and astonishing mixture of inspiration and wisdom. There is a wide-ranging and spacious appraisal that matches the science of the time, even surpasses it, and draws out illuminative legislation for it.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was Godly inspiration, since the whole of humanity are unable to attain knowledge equal to his.

We do not forget how Al'lah, the Almighty, revealed unprecedented science to him, such as cupping, which was the cure-all of the time that drove away incurable diseases – such as paralysis, cancer, migraine, sterility, hemophilia, heart disease, etc. – until its divine remedial eidolon spread everywhere in this land.[3]

There is also his explanation of the Godly wisdom behind God's Order to pronounce His Name over carcasses, so making them clean of all agents which would cause diseases for those who would eat them. He clarified to us that saying the statement 'Al'lah is Greater' over the animal while it is being slaughtered releases all the germs that exist in its flesh; therefore the carcass becomes pure and free of any impurity or damage. This is not to mention the great mercy shown towards the animal that is to be slaughtered, saving it from suffering the pain of slaughter, and also, the flowing of its condition of contentment to affect the animals of its kind and revive them once again. So, if they are cows they will be cured of their madness as the birds in our dear home – Syria – have been cured of their plague after this Godly Command was carried out[4]

Now, here is this miraculous scientific piece of research which all the scientists of all the world could not discover. It is the book: The Sources of Spring Water in the World.

The Researcher & Islamic Scholar

Prof. Abdul-Kadir John alias Al-Dayrani
This is the age of scientific studies and researches that began not a long time ago, and researchers followed in succession; entrusting one another with the management of research and investigation staying prolonged nights on discovery, spending most of their lives among books, copybooks and volumes and many of them remained troubled by curiosity. Then, they sank in a sea where one of them would not know how he sailed and where he would anchor.

# Chapter 2

## The story of the Great Divine Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho with the British Sir John G. Bennett

"An event from his life since being a Sun"

4-Sir John G. Bennett, in Baghdad 1953

What is the spirit? Where is the centre of its existence? And what is its function?

What is the soul? Where is the centre of its existence? And what is its function?

What is the thought? Where does it exist? And what is its function?

What is the mind? Where is its centre? And what is its function? What is its relation with the Thought? And what are the relations of the above-mentioned items to each other?

These questions are an introduction to a greater question, the British scholar, Sir John G. Bennett asked our Eminent Scholar. Who is Sir Bennett? How was the meeting held? And what was his greater question?

We should know first who Sir John G. Bennett is.

## A Glimpse of the life of Sir John G. Bennett

5-Sir John Bennett in the centre of a group of great scientists

He was a man of knowledge and politics, an intelligent and expert person; he achieved great success and a wide reputation in the diplomatic field. He increased his knowledge and research until he acquired world-wide fame and became a great philosopher, a brilliant astronomer and an author of books that were read internationally. His articles, knowledge and theories were conveyed across all the continents and taught at universities all over the world. He received the title of 'Sir' which is the highest rank that can be granted to a person by the United Kingdom of Great Britain, a title granted only to a person who has undertaken great service to his country.

The author Adrian Gilbert says in his foreword to Sir John Bennett's book, Journeys in Islamic Countries:

6-The cover of 'Journeys in Islamic Countries'

"By September 1953, when Bennett set out on his long journey through Islamic countries, his groups at Coombe Springs had been meeting together for some seven years. Though one cannot doubt his own commitment to the work, one senses his feelings of inadequacy when faced with the awesome responsibility of running an esoteric school. It is little wonder then that he felt the need to make a pilgrimage to the Middle East in search of spiritual nourishment."

"The stories he has recorded for posterity of his encounters with holy men are important records and it is good to see that they are being brought back into print."

"The resolution of J. Bennett in his search led him to be in contact with many of the gurus of the 20th century, including Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Idris Shah, Shiva Bouri Baba, Back Subh, Hassan Effendi, and others. Then, in the last stages of his life, from 1950 until his death, he began to share with others the lessons he had learnt during his life."

"This biography contains one such collection of memoirs about his journey to Central Asia in 1953. It sheds light on the phase which Bennett had reached in his spiritual life at that time, the phase which separated the old man from the new one."

"I first met John Godolphin Bennett or 'Mr. B' as he was more generally known, in 1973. Mathematician, linguist, soldier, businessman, civil servant and guru, his was a wide-ranging life. Though his work is barely known outside of quite a small circle of students and admirers, he was to my mind, without doubt, the greatest British philosopher of the 20th century."

Adrian Gilbert /April 2000

This is a brief account of the life and knowledge of Sir John Bennett.

Let us now return to his meeting with Mohammad Amin Sheikho to learn how they met and how the above-mentioned questions were asked, questions which had bewildered the hearts and minds of thinkers and philosophers throughout the course of generations and centuries.
The Meeting of Sir John G. Bennett with Scholar M. Amin Sheikho

During his service, our honourable scholar had a friend of the upper class-society who had great importance during the French mandate in Syria. He was called prince Abdul-Majeed Hayder. This prince who had a distinguished position and a high reputation was intelligent and well-educated. He had not left a scientific, literary or social field without having a good hand at.

He was a member of Sharif Hussein family in Al-Hijaz (Saudi Arabia), a descendent of the Hashimite progeny whose lineage goes back to Prophet Mohammad, communication with Al'lah and peace are through him.

France, following the example of the British who crowned his relative King Faisal on Iraq and King Abdullah on Jordan, wanted to crown him as a king on Grand Syria. Then, for political reasons we are not interested in, he became the ambassador of Jordan in London. Being in his new post, Fate made him meet Sir Bennett. In one of the meetings, that Prince Hayder attended with Sir Bennett, the latter said to the present scholars:

A question puzzled me, and for forty years I have been inquiring, examining and investigating but with no result, no convincing reply or a conclusive answer. Is the world incapable of revealing this truth?!

**Prince Hayder** : I know your lost end of persistent search. I know who can answer your question, unveil the ambiguity of your questions and uncover the truth for you. I am quite certain and sure of what I am saying.

**Sir Bennett** : "Who is this great man who will quench my thirst? Who is the one who will unveil the ambiguity of my questions?"

"I have left no country, no philosopher or a Meditative scholar in the most and the biggest countries of the world without asking for an answer, but in vain, then I always retrace my step frustrated".

**Prince Hayder** : You can achieve your aim there in the Orient, in Damascus".

**Sir Bennett** : (with his features changed and surprise and curious wonder appeared on his countenance): "in the Orient? In Damascus? And he can answer my question?"

**Prince Hayder** : "Truly I mean what I say. if you are really interested in your question, you had better go to Syria in which there is a city called Damascus, because no one will answer you except that great man."

**Sir Bennett** : "I am ready to go immediately to him."

Indeed, Prince Hayder cabled his friend in Syria and informed him of Sir Bennett's coming. At once Sir Bennett contacted the airport and booked a seat on the first' plane leaving to Damascus.

The plane took off piercing the clouds of the sky to traverse a country after another. Sir Bennett is inside the plane, detached from those inside it, from its noise and from its going up and down, speaking to himself: Who is this great man? and where did he get his knowledge from? He imagined images and images of this great man and (kept asking) himself: Is he actually in Damascus? Is he actual...? What a wonder!

The plane landed onto the ground of the airport and its pilot announced they were in Damascus. Then, Sir Bennett awoke from his speculation and visions. He headed for the Orient Palace Hotel which, until recently, received foreigners for its magnificence and deep-rootedness.

Our Venerable Scholar went to the hotel accompanied by a number of his Disciples for the translation of the dialogue.

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7-Damascus-Umayyad Mosque

In the hotel, Our Venerable Scholar warmly welcomed his guest, and after having their seats, he requested him to ask his question. During the discussion, they both discovered that they spoke Turkish. This made the atmosphere more flexible and comprehensible.

They spared the translators. Sir Bennett asked the aforementioned questions and Our Venerable Scholar answered them saying:

## The Spirit:

It is the immaterial conscious self of man. It is a Godly light and its centre is the chest. Its rays spread to all parts of the body through the nerves. This Spirit, confined in the body, knows the things surrounding it by the senses. It sees by the eye, hears by the ear, smells by the nose, feels and touches by the skin and tastes flavours of things by the tongue, which is also used to express ideas and thoughts.

In details we say that if one stands at the sea shore, undoubtedly, his watching of the sea will make him revere and glorify the scene. This submission and glorification is that of the "Spirit".

If we see someone dear to us with his hand bleeding because it is badly wounded, we feel sorry for this scene and sympathise with him. This pain and grief are those of the "Spirit"

If we hear that one of our dear relatives has returned safely from his long journey, we feel pleased and happy. These pleasure and happiness are those of the "Spirit". Thus, the Spirit is the essential element of man. It glorifies and submits, grieves and annoys, delights and rejoices, feels contented and angry and tastes, enjoys and suffers. It is the centre of existence.

The "Spirit" is always addressed in the Qur'an, it is charged to follow the straight path, and it feels pain when treated to be cured. It enjoys staying in paradise; and does not like to be removed there from.

It is called a "spirit" which is derived in Arabic from the word: Magnificent value.

This is a drop of an ocean of what Our Venerable scholar said about the "Spirit", and then he added introducing to the origin of the "Spirit" saying:

In a holy saying, the prophet (cpth) said about God:

" **I was a hidden treasure then I liked to be Known, so I created the creatures and acquainted them with Me, they knew Me through Me".**

Detailing the meaning of this holy saying I say:

" **The treasure"** : is the beautiful valuable thing. In the Saying, it means that great Godly Beauty and the supreme Perfection.

" **Hidden"** : not known to anyone.

" **I liked to be known"** : refers to the generosity and kindness of the Almighty God because it is the aim of the generous to show his generosity and kindness and to flood his benevolence and charity.

" **I created the creatures"** : It means to enjoy watching that Godly Beauty and to sink into watching that endless Perfection. It indicates that God has created the creatures in that world called "Al-Azal", the pre-material world.

" **acquainted them with Me"** I showed them My Greatness and My Benevolence on them in creating them.

" **they knew Me through Me"** By watching themselves they could know Me, then they enjoyed watching that glorious treasure as they saw a part of My Beauty and Perfection.

When the creatures were first created by Almighty God in that world "Al-Azal", the prematerial world, they were abstract Spirits without shapes and bodies. Man, animals, the sky, the earth, the angels and jinns. That is to say, all creatures were then of one kind and one quality without any difference among them. Then, all these Spirits enjoyed watching that treasure and were very fond of seeing that great Godly Beauty.

The stopping of these creatures at one degree of seeing the Godly Beauty would make them later feel bored of their status. In order to complete happiness and kindness, they should promote in the viewing from a state to a better one endlessly.

To make this understood we say:

"If a man sits in a very beautiful, unequalled orchard and stays there for a long time, he will undoubtedly be bored of it, and he will not see its beauty any more. To have this pleasure continued, he should move to a more beautiful orchard than his".

The creature cannot soar in watching the Godly Beauty from a state to a higher one unless he has done good deeds which make him sure that his Creator is satisfied with him. Such deeds will be as an elevator through which he gets nearer to God. Therefore, God offered to all these spirits an exodus from the world in which they have nothing to do to a world where they have good deeds helping them to come nearer to their Creator and to seek that glorious treasure in order to drink continuously and endlessly from the seas of Beauty and Perfection.

To show the effect of deed in the elevation of the Spirit and its nearness from its Creator, we give this example:

"Let us imagine a commander fighting a battle with his soldiers. When they come back after the battle, will all the soldiers be in the same psychic, and spiritual-status, and on the same footing?

Undoubtedly, they will be at different ranks. The braver soldier who has done well and has sacrificed a lot will come back feeling himself nearer to his commander; having higher position and enjoying a greater share of Spiritual happiness than others.

This example applies to the sons with their father, the students with their teacher, the disciples with their guide and the obedients with their Creator.

One of the firm rules of the Spirit is that it cannot spiritually approach another one unless it has a good deed upon which it can depend, and the greater the sacrifices and good deeds are, the more its approach will be.

This is why the Almighty God made this world an abode of deeds and a path to the other world where the heavens and rivers are in a situation of truth before an Omnipotent King.

Yearning is the stimulus through which taste and happiness are achieved. It gives the act its value and without it the deed has no value in the doer's eye. The more the thing is attractive and desirable to the Spirit, the more valuable the sacrifice will be, and the more effect it has on the Spirit. If man does not like money or does not yearn for it, then charity will have no meaning, and he does not find a spiritual elevation or zeal for spending it. The same case is with aversion of one's gaze and abstinence from doing the forbidden things.

God the Almighty gave us the freedom of choice which makes the creature voluntarily and willingly do the deed without obligation, and in fact any creature cannot approach one step through his deed towards his Creator and does not find it worthy unless such a creature has freedom or "choice."

Originally, the will of the creatures is the possession of their Creator and subject to His Power. Therefore, they have no volition or choice. As God wanted to give the Spirits the most precious gift, He showed the means by which one can reach this gift.

He offered to make the will which is His own- as a trust with the Spirits and made them free to follow the road leading to the achievement of the deeds resulting from their yearning.

The giving of this will and freedom of choice is meant by the word "Trust".

In the world of Al-Azal, the pre-material world, God offered the "Trust" to all the Spirits without discrimination and showed them that the shouldering of the Trust; that is to say, the freedom of choice towards the deeds, is a very dangerous thing. If, by this means, the creature can ascend with his work to the highest rank, his deed might also deteriorate him to the lowest rank.

So, out of God's mercifulness on his creatures He clarified to them that if they accepted to hold the "Trust" and come to existence, He will send them a book to be a light and guidance in their acts. If they get illuminated by His light when they start the act coming out of yearning, seek His guidance and ask Him inspiration to the right in their movement, their way will be straight, their move safe, and their act complying with the path of right shown to them in His Book.

Thus, they are protected from committing evil and from falling in the wrong. Their deeds will be the cause of their rise and sublimation. When they come to God after death, their high humanist acts will be the basis they rely on in their coming near to God, where they win being nearer to Him, rising successively and persistently in the paradises of eternal delight.

If they carry the Trust and come to existence without being guided by His light or seeking His guidance when they start their deeds, they will undoubtedly miss the path of right which leads them to happiness, therefore all their work will be harm and damage to the creatures. When they go out of this world, they will face their Creator ashamed of their wrong acts; despised because of their mean shameful deeds, humiliated by their ungratefulness and baseness which force them to throw themselves in fire. They hope to forget their great pain and spiritual torture by the pain of fire and torture of burning. i.e: escape from Hell to Fire.

In a holy saying, the prophet says:

" **Man will be restricted by the sweat of shame on doomsday that he says: My Provider; relieve me even to Fire"**.

In another saying:

" **Shame will adhere to man on doomsday until he says: Oh My Provider, your sending me to Fire is easier than what I am suffering, although he knows the great torture in it".**

Mankind was called "Al-Nas" in Arabic which means Oblivious or: Mankind in oblivion. The word "Al-Nas" is a gender name of all sons of Adam. They were called so because their coming to this world and their coming out to the world of shapes and bodies made them forget their knowledge of God in the world of "Al-Azal", the world of Spirits, and this physical body became the veil which prevented the "Spirit" from knowing itself concerning its weakness, its complete need to its Creator and the continuity of its former knowledge of The Creator.

The center of "Spirit"

To clarify the center of "Spirit", God says:

" **Say: I seek refuge in the Provider of oblivious mankind, The Leader of oblivious mankind and the Mover of oblivious mankind from the evil of the sneaking whisperer who whispereth evil in the chests of oblivious mankind, of jinns and of oblivious mankind".**

The Holy Qur'an

Fortress (114) An-Nas (Oblivious Mankind, Oblivious Jinn kind), verses (4-5).

" **And verily your Provider knows all what their chests hide as well as all that they reveal".**

The Holy Qur'an

Fortress (27) An-Naml (The Ants), verse (74).

" **Say: If you hide what is in your chests or reveal it, Al'lah is Omniscient of it".**

The Holy Qur'an

_Fortress (3) Al 'Imran (The Family of 'Imran), verse (29)_ _._

The Spirit spreads through the nerves and when the nerves are anesthetized, the Spirit retreats from the place of anesthesia, so the patient does not feel any pain even if one of his limbs is amputated because of the Spirit's escape from the anesthetized place.

God says in the Holy Qur'an:

" **It is Al'lah who takes back the Spirits when dead and those who have not died, during their sleep. He takes back those on whom He has passed the decree of death, but He sends the rest for an appointed term".**

The Holy Qur'an

_Fortress (39) Az-Zumar (The Groups), verse (42)_ _._

The Spirit of the patient leaves his body because of the anesthesia, and the Spirit of the sleeper leaves the body too because of the sleep. The soul remains in the body which moves, and the heart pulses, but he does not hear, understand or see anything.

We go back to the women who cut their hands in the story of Yusuf (Joseph), the prophet. In the Holy Qur'an God says:

" **When she heard of their cunning (their malicious talk), she sent for them and prepared a banquet; she gave each of them a knife and said to Joseph: "Come out before them". When they saw him, they did glorify him and (in their amazement) cut their hands, they said: God Blameless! No mortal is this! This is none but a pure (noble) angel".**

The Holy Qur'an

_Fortress (12) Yusuf (Joseph), verse (31)_ _._

The women cut their hands because their Spirits were shocked when they saw Joseph's beauty (pth)[5].

In this case, the Spirits left their bodies heading for prophet Joseph. So, they cut their hands without feeling that, because they were ravished at the sight of his beauty and were oblivious of all pain.

## The soul

It is the support of the Godly light which flows into the blood. Its centre is this physical heart, and it is the moving power of all the systems and cells of the body. Through it the body nourishes and moves, so the life of the body depends on it.

It is the executive power of the ends, requirements, demands, and desirable things of the Spirit. It is under the command of the Spirit that moves in the nerves through its rays. The Spirit directs and controls all the voluntary and involuntary organs. The soul of the human being, animal and all living creatures is the same, but in the prophets and apostles, it is a sacred soul; that is, far from impurities and low purposes because their souls were not contaminated by the worldly stains of life and its bad dirts. Their souls remained virtuous, pure and sacred, so they only utter the good, right, virtue and perfection, and wherever they settle, goodnesses, bliss, bless, happiness and delightful eternal beatitude of Al'lah spread on all those who direct themselves towards them, and those who are around them.

The prophet Mohammad (cpth) was asked about the soul. He explained the soul and its rays flowing through the body by the blood.

The Holy saying reads:

" **Satan flows through a son of Adam as the blood circulates in the body".**

And that is what the Noble Qur'an Marvellous verse denotes:

" _They ask thee concerning the soul..."_

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (17) Al-Isra' (The Night Journey), verse (85).

They ask you "Mohammad" about the soul. They really asked him about it to frustrate and defeat him, but God the Almighty answered them:

" **...say"** Oh Mohammad: **"...The soul is of the command of my Provider..."**

The word **"the command of my Provider"** indicates Providence and shows that Godly support spreading in the existence. The move and living of a human being as well as all living creatures including man, animal and plants are all by the support of God the Almighty.

A motion does not move except by His Provision and command. If God had withdrawn His support; that is to say, the soul from the creatures, they would have become motionless, lifeless, and nothing.

The soul in the creatures is like the electric current which moves all machines operated by it. If that power is disconnected, the machines stop and become motionless. Similarly, the soul in the body is poured into the heart of the human being and flows by its rays into the blood which carries nourishment and oxygen to all parts of the body and brings back the wastes and poisons to be rejected out of the body through urination and exhaling.

" **...is of the command of my Provider"** in the Qur'anic verse means that supply to the heart and blood so as to complete the circle of life. If that supply is stopped, the living creatures will be lifeless and motionless.

" _...it is only too little omniscience that is got to you"_ _(human beings)._

The statement **"It is only too little omniscience that is got to you"** does not mean the prophet of God but the addressees in this verse are the askers because it comes in plural.

If it means the prophet, it will come in singular. He is the speaker; it comes: Say to them Mohammad: It is only too little omniscience that is got to you, opposers.

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We briefly say that if man thinks deeply and thoroughly of this universe, his speculation and contemplation will lead him to the fact that there is a great Creator and a wise Disposer. Then, he becomes straight, and this straightness generates the good act and trust in God's satisfaction with him.

These become man's means to get nearer to God and he acquires Perfection from his Creator through communication with Him, then he loves the owners of perfection and the master of the perfect, Prophet Mohammad, communication with Al'lah and peace are through him. Thus, his spirit accompanies the spirit of the prophet who always approaches towards Al'lah, then he sees the luminous supply of God prevalent in everything in this existence, and this is what we call the **"Soul".**

From the aforementioned, it is clear to us that there is a great difference and contrast between the soul and the spirit. In fact, this thing was not clarified by anyone after the master of prophets, before this great man.

Now let us speak in details about the Mind. But before that we should differentiate between the Mind and the thought.

All mankind have not differentiated between them. They sometimes say "Thought" and at other times **"Mind".**

Our great Scholar continued his speech saying:

## The Mind & Thought

The Mind

The mind is a spiritual quality attributed to the spirit when it acquires, assimilates and absorbs a certain fact which becomes a garment to it, so the spirit is distinguished and characterised by it, to become a Mind.

The spiritual concepts are what this spirit Minds, assimilates and is marked by. The spirit is like a mirror. When it wholly heads for something, it is imprinted on it. It is originally a blank and pure surface. When something is imprinted on it and preoccupies it, it is then called a Mind. The Mind is spiritual, the Thought is cerebral, the soul is dynamic and the body is but a mount and a vessel to them all. when the spirit cares for something and it is fully true in seeking it, it directs its radiation to the brain which acts accordingly and it is imprinted on it. This imprint on the spirit is called **"the Mind".**

The spirit has a radiation which travels like the sun rays or even faster by far. If you were honest and true to God and strictly loyal to His messenger, you would reach with this ray to eternity as you would go back to "Al-Azal", the pre-material world. By this state, it reaches the thing spiritually before reaching it physically, and this is aslo the Mind. When it believes certainly in death, penetrates through it to the hereafter and then witnesses what goes on there as prophet Muhammad did (cpth); those who see by their hearts and spirits-lights are the companions of the prophets, the true, martyrs and those who have got the ability to do good, and such are good company. Man and animal have the Azali[6] acquired Mind that is to say, the pre-material acquired Mind which Al`lah has imprinted on pages of all spirits before their coming to this world to carry out their missions perfectly.

God says in the Noble Qur`an:

" **Pharaoh said: "Who then, O Moses, is the Provider of you two? He said[7]: "Our provider is He who gave everything its creation, then gave guidance to it."**

The Holy Qur'an,

fortress (20) Taha (Taha = pure), verse (49-50).

For example; let us take the sucking infant: Who guides him to his mother`s breast from the first moment of coming to this life? The duckling swims in the water from the first moment of leaving the egg and the chick digs the ground in search of food.

Who taught the infant and guided him to sucking? Who taught the duckling to swim, and the chick to search for food in the soil?

It is the inspired Mind, that is to say; what has been imprinted on the spirit of each creature since Al-Azal, the world of spirits, in order to perform his task. The animal comes and goes in this life according to the impression on it, and it cannot change its function. But the human being is the only creature, who has the ability to change and modify, to imprint and to perceive new things in this life.

The Mind of man is achieved in two cases:

**1- Minding the pictures and appearances of things.**

**2- Minding the facts and realities of things.**

The Minding for the pictures of things as we previously said comes from the truthfulness and determination of the spirit and its proceeding to the thing it desires.

**An example** : The driver of a car faces difficulties at the beginning of driving and he uses all his senses and talents.

Finally, after he learns well, viz after he minds driving, all the things become very easy for him, and you see him driving and smoking a cigarette or absorbed in talking of important things. But without feeling or concentration, he stops at the red traffic light, and starts at the green light and avoids accidents.

Suppose one has mastered how to swim. While he is asleep at the bank of a river or a pool; he falls into the water. Before knowing where he is, what happened, and what the matter is, you see him moving his hands and legs striking the water to carry him to the surface of water automatically without knowledge, realization or consciousness, so he does not drown. All this happens even before working the wheels of his thought or his will, and that is the Mind. His spirit has minded swimming and it applies it unconsciously.

As regards minding the facts of things, this needs a light stronger than the physical lights seen by us, such as that of the sun, moon electricity and others. It needs the light of the Almighty God, but this depends on man's following the right path, his truthfulness with his Provider, his abidance by and application of the orders of God which he hears from His messengers. Therefore, in many of the Qur'anic Ayat (verses) we see that God addresses his Noble messengers to inform his obedients **"those who mind"**.

Thus, the Mind is what the spirit perceives and contains (holds). In order for the spirit to absorb and achieve, man should direct himself to the thing to be absorbed by his spirit; and his mind will be equivalent to his care, his total self-direction, and tendency.

**For example** : At school, we find that the student who completely and carefully directs himself to his teacher and is interested in lesson, would apprehend what he has been taught; while the distracted one who does not care for the detailing and explanation of the teacher differs widely from the first one.

So, the Mind is not accomplished except after profound contemplative thinking, and this is noticed in many Ayat (verses) of the Holy Qur'an where **"those who think"** is always followed by **"those who mind".**

God says in the Noble Qur`an:

" **And it is He Who Provided the earth and set there on mountains standing firm as anchors, and (flowing) rivers: and fruit of every type He made in pairs, two and two. He draweth the Night as a veil over the Day. Behold! Verily, in these things there are signs for those who think". "And in the earth are tracts (Diverse though) neighbouring, and gardens of vines and plants, and palmtrees-growing out similar and dissimilar: watered with the same water. Yet some of them we make more excellent than others preferable to eat. Behold! Verily, in these things there are signs for those who mind".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (13) Ar-Ra'd (The Thunder), verses (3-4).

" **with it He produces for you plant, olives, date-palms, grapes and every type of fruit. Verily, in this is a sign for those who think". "He has made subject to you the Night and the Day, the Sun and the Moon, and the stars are in subjection, By His Command; Verily in these are signs for men who mind"**.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (16) An-Nahl (The Bees), verses (11-12).

From the above, we conclude that mind cannot be acquired but after profound thinking of the thing.

The Almighty God does not mention **"the Mind"** and **"the Thought"** in vain. There is a difference between them, and we have previously clarified that.

**Other examples** : If the shuttle of a loom is void of thread, it does not weave cloth, and if it has thread, it will weave the silk and woolen cloths embroidered by beautiful colors.

If the printing machine is loaded with ink, the paper will enter blank and come out with news, pictures and stories, but if the machine has no ink, the paper will enter it blank and come out blank.

Similarly, the gathering of the thought with the spirit, out of spirit's fear of death and its horrible consequences, produces the Mind and the spiritual witness, then the spirit tumbles with the witnessing by means of the rotation of the thought-power "with complete use", fully, to see with the heart's eye-vision.

The Holy Qur'an speaks about the presence of the Mind in the spirit.

God says in God says in the Noble Qur`an:

" **Do they not travel (spiritually) through the land, so that they may have hearts by which they might mind"**.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (22) Al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage), verse (46).

This verse shows that the Mind is in the heart; viz, the heart of the spirit, and it is not in the head which contains the mechanism of thinking in the brain.

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Our Venerable Scholar continued his speech about the thought, he said:

The thought

The word "thought" is "Al-Fikr" in Arabic. In idiomatic language, "Al-Fikr" is derived from "Fak'kak and ra'a" which mean "disassemble and see"; that is to say, when things seen by the eye, heard by the ear or perceived by the senses come to the mechanism of the brain, it starts the process of disuniting and assembling viz, analysis and inference.

This happens when the person is true in his Endeavour to achieve something. The ray of the spirit goes up to the brain and then, the spirit sees its demand.

God the Almighty distinguished man from His other creatures by this thought. The centre of the thought is in the brain, and by means of this thought man can disassemble, analyse and perceive. It is the only boat for man's escape and saving from the claws of loving this low world and its fatal things.

Through the thought, man can rise, elevate and tower up the highest rank, and if he neglects his thinking, he will remain heartily blind and incapable of seeing anything except the Reflection of things, so he becomes less than animal in rank. By means of this thought man can guide himself and protect it from the forbidden desires, and elevates and finds bliss and joy in nearing to his Provider; so he towers up.

All we see nowadays of modern inventions, industries and technology are achieved through thinking and truthfulness in achieving them. This is the case for the one who deviated and maintained true determination, by his thinking, in worldly affairs. Thinking and truthfulness in the field of real life and eternal happiness can be achieved only through searching for the Almighty God who is the source of life, real happiness and giving. Our example is the companions of The Noble Prophet Mohammad (cpth) as well as the companions of other Messengers when they were true in searching for the Almighty God. They recognized him, and fully witnessed His bright, and delightful light.

They spread knowledge, happiness, mercy, sympathy and humanity all over the world, and accordingly man became a brother, beloved and a close true friend of the other.

Our example of those who use their thinking for this lower world, with its ends and lusts, is what we hear and see about some European and oriental humanist pretenders.

Out of His Justice and Compassion, God gave this thinking-power to every human being without discrimination.

The Mind is achieved through truthfulness and determination. If man is true in doing something, the ray of the spirit flows up to the brain, then the wheels of the thought rotate and production begins.

The function of the body

Our Venerable Scholar added: The body which consists of flesh, nerves, bones and blood, is the garment of the spirit, its vessel, and its means for achieving its needs, demands, aims, tendencies, deviations or virtues and high good deeds.

This is a drop in an ocean of what Our Venerable Scholar said in reply to the questions of Sir Bennett in a session at the hotel which lasted for several hours.
John G. Bennett said:

In his book (Journeys in Islamic Countries)

After hearing these explanations about the 'spirit' and the 'soul', and the 'mind' and 'thought', Sir John Bennett later said:

"So ended our first discussion. I still do not know what to say except that he is a very good and a very sincere man who is truly turned toward God. But what he understands or does not understand, that I cannot say".

Dear reader:

Don't you think that what we hear is completely new, and totally strange? Have people ever heard anything like this before? Have they heard of such noble meanings? Shouldn't such supreme meanings be adopted by those who have an atom of thinking and who put aside all false desires considering God as their companion!

# Chapter 3

## The Justice of God

8-The house of the great scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho

The First Session Was Over

**Sir Bennett** : After this session, I want you to accept me as a guest in your house. After I had heard a knowledge unknown by humanity before from you, the rules of conduct impose that the junior goes to the senior and the student to the tutor.

**Our great scholar** : You are warmly welcome, but wasn't that your question?

**Sir Bennett** : No. What I asked was test questions I ask to the scholars, If I am answered with logic and wisdom, then I ask my main and important question. If I am not answered well, I suffice myself with what I had heard and withdraw.

Sir Bennett promised to be in the house of our great Scholar at 10 a.m. next morning. The meeting was held on time.

Our great Scholar warmly welcomed him as a dear honorable guest. Then Sir Bennett asked the permission to ask his question which had been very difficult for him and for the other scientists and scholars, saying:

I looked at the sky with a deep contemplation and saw huge celestial bodies, strange stars and planets, a magnificent accurate system of a perfect creation and steering, so I was absolutely sure that there must be a great Creator and an Almighty Steering God who directs and organises all these in a strict discipline.

Then I looked at the earth, and what a terrible situation I saw! great injustice, the rich and the poor, the black and the white, oppressors and oppressed, the tall and the short, the beautiful and the ugly, the healthy and the ill, the happy and the miserable, this encroaches on that, and that steals from this, the strong kills the weak, and states contain states, then I judged that there is no God, no Creator nor Arranger.

If God is there in the sky and He is the Organiser and Controller, why does not He exist on earth as an Organiser and Director? When I see injustice on earth, I deny the existence of God.

Either a God who is supervising, controling, Omniscient, seeing everyone and Omnipresent or injustice.

**"Either there is injustice, and no God, or there is God, and no injustice".**

This is my question. What is your reply?

**Our great Scholar** : Do you want a direct answer and then the details, evidences and events, or shall we conclude the answer as a result?

Since he was interested in his question and keen to have an answer, Sir Bennett wanted to hear a direct answer and then the elucidation and details. Our great Scholar replied him decisively saying:

**"God exists and there is no injustice at all".**

**Sir Bennett** "surprised and astonished":

"What do you say"? There is no injustice at all? Please explain in details.

**Our great Scholar** : The Almighty Creator and the great Director exists in the sky and on earth.

He is in the sky with His Bright Beauty and on earth with His Compassion. Every single motion is by His Omniscience and Direction, and the strict discipline, perfect steering and indefinite precision in the sky exist on earth too, and there is no Creator but God who has created and directed all creatures in heaven and on earth so there is no injustice at all.

God says in the Holy Qur'an:

" **It is He who is God in heaven and God on earth. And He is the All Wise and Omniscient."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (43) Az-Zukhruf (Ornaments of Luxury), verse (84).

Man came to this world after promising his Provider that he would recognize Him, be guided by His light and never stop directing himself towards Him. He would carry out good deeds and charity to all His creatures and the obedients. When man came to this life and God covered his spirit with a bodily garment and gave him the choice, he forgot his promise to God, deviated from his humanity and the straight path which he had promised to follow. God's mercy did not leave this human being in this mess; He provided him with thought and distinguished him from all His creatures. He also provided him with hearing, vision and senses.

He put in his hands cosmic miracles such as the stars, planets, the sun, the moon, rain and fruit to direct him if he thinks and considers. They will guide him to the Almighty God, as they did with Abraham and his brothers, the messengers. Through death which takes away his beloved and relatives, God meant to waken him from his transitory satisfaction and his false arrogance in order to uplift his humanity, achieve his perfection and acquire paradises.

God also sent man the Noble Messengers to remind him, and the angels to warn him. He made man laws and rules to organize all aspects of his life. But, Alas despite the mercy, love and kindness, that God granted to man he deviated from the path leading to his happiness and real eternal life.

He became absorbed in his bohemian lusts, to hurt, kill, steal and rob Al'lah-obedients, yet he wouldn't be able to kill, steal or hurt but those who had previously killed, stolen and hurt the ones weaker than they were.

Therefore, God gives a free hand to the oppressor against an oppressor, while there is no authority to anyone on him who is following strictly the straight path of right and humanity within the orders of the Almighty God.

In the Holy Qur'an, God says:

" **What can Al'lah gain by your punishment if ye are grateful offering good acts, and ye believe yet Al'lah is Thankful and Omniscient"**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (4) An-Nesa (The Women), verse (147).

Out of the Merciful's mercy and the Wise's wisdom, this oppressor is not left to do whatever he wants, so God inflicts him with disasters, hardships, diseases, poverty, hunger, and deprivation.

God the Almighty says:

" **And indeed we will make them taste of the lightest chastisement before the greatest chastisement in order that they may (repent and) return".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (32) As-Sajda (The Prostration), verse (21).

God let these oppressors taste the torture in this world so that they may repent, return to their Provider and stop the injustice they do to themselves. God does not empower an oppressor to himself but on another oppressor to himself too, so that he may awaken from his inadvertence and withdraw from his tyranny and aggression.

All this is done through the Omniscience and wisdom of the Almighty God and in a way similar to the degree of his inadvertence. These disasters are hard enough to make the oppressor to himself awaken from his inadvertence so they are not evil to them, they are mercy and goodness. The situation is similar to that of the teacher or father who lay stresses on their lazy or careless pupils or sons. Such stress and embarrassment are but mercy, kindness and love, they are not oppression, violence or revenge.

God the Almighty says:

" **Say: O God of all! Possessor of the possession (creation of power and rule). Thou givest possession and power to who thou pleasest. And thou strippest off possession and power from whom thou pleasest. Thou enduest with honour whom thou pleasest. And thou bringest low whom thou pleasest. In thy hand is nothing but goodness. Verily, over all things thou hast, Thou are Omnipotent".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (3) Al 'Imran (The Family of 'Imran), verse (26).

I.e. only the goodness is in the hand of God to whom He gives, deprives, cherishes or humiliates, with what suits him for his good.

Similar to this is the doctor who may be forced to cut open the abdomen of his patient to take out his ailment. He sometimes deprives his patient of many pleasures. The behaviour of the father, teacher or doctor towards these, might be seen from two different points of view.

The first is a feeling of injustice, cruelty and mercilessness when we do not know the reasons. The second is a relief and blessing if we know that what they did was but for the benefit of those people.

The hard-working student, obedient son and the Wiseman do not need such harassments, stresses or torture. This is God's aim from disasters.

It is a part of His mercy and a trace of his love to His creatures. Therefore, the pain, suffering and evil seen by the people are but remedies to those sick-spirited people.

The treatment differs according to the disease. Some are greedy for money; they need diet, so God impoverishes them because money cannot make them good. Some like to be arrogant unjustly, and they use their might to oppress others, so God deprives them of that, and if they go far in their infidelity without being able to return to God and the disasters have no good effect, Al'lah opens to them the gates of this world and then He suddenly takes them. After that they discover that they were misled. Some maintain no use in treatment because they desire nothing but the lower life, so God gives them what they want of this world. When God gives them, He gives them their desires, and they completely get involved in their lusts although they do not encroach on the freedom of those who differ with them and they do not oppress the others.

These are the people and masters of this world. They are fully given their demands and desires here, but hereafter they have no share, because they rejected it, and their utmost aim was this world and nothing else.

God says in the Noble Qur`an:

" **But when they forgot the warning they had received, We opened to them the gates of all (good) things until in the midst of their enjoyment of our gifts, on a sudden, We called them to account, when lo! they discovered that they had mistaken the path of paradise for that of hell".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (6) Al-An'am (Livestock), verse (44).

" **Of the bounties of thy Provider, We bestow freely on all these as well as those; the bounties of thy Provider, None are deprived of".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (17) Al-Isra' (The Night Journey), verse (20).

The believer may suffer from some adversities but the aim is expiation and promotion. In order that he does not lean on the lower world, there must have been something wrong done by him, and its evil has recourse on him. If he has not done wrong, he will suffer no harm. God wants this human being to have guidance voluntarily, i.e. by his own will and choice, because there is no use if the human being is driven by force to what he hates. True guidance is achieved when the human being voluntarily and by his own accord accepts what happens to him, and then he sees the goodness and justice of God and feels mercy and love flooding on the whole existence.

God says:

" **Be sure We shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods, lives and the fruits (of your toil) but give glad tidings to those who patiently preserve. Who say when afflicted with calamity, To Al'lah we recourse and to Him is our repentance".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (2) Al-Baqara (The Cow), verses (155-156).

The disaster hits the target and these calamities are afflicted so that this human being resorts to his Provider, thinks why God sends them to him and searches for his sins and wrong doings, then he sees what has been wrong, determines to stop doing evil and repents.

However, there is no injustice in the universe. The one whose funds have been stolen, must have gained this money illegitimately by, fraud and cheating. The killed also must have previously killed someone, and the adulterer is driven to the adulteress, and the oppressor is driven to the oppressor.

God says:

" **The adulterer cannot have sexual relation with any but an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress, none can have sexual relations with her but an adulterer or idolater, to the Believers such a thing is forbidden".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (24) An-Nur (Light), verse (3).

Over the pure good one who does good, no one has control.

God says:

" **What does Al'lah gain by your punishment, If ye are grateful and ye believe?"**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (4) An-Nesa (The Women), verse (147).

" **And women of purity are for men of purity, And men of purity are for women of purity".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (24) An-Nur (Light), verse (26).

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By deeds, mankind is divided into three kinds:

1- Humanist.

2- Those who do wrong to themselves "oppressors" and they act in a brutal way to achieve their whims.

3- Those who do wrong to themselves "oppressors" and they act in a devilish manner to achieve their low and mean whims.

Nowadays, the humanist is very rare, and there remain the oppressor and the more oppressive. God alone has the good for the beneficent and the injurious alike, and the one who does not witness this in this world will witness it hereafter. Since the matter is so, there is no injustice among the people and since there is no injustice, there is no evil.

What we consider as evil is but sheer goodness to the afflicted one, because this evil will save him from a greater one, and this evil would not have occurred to him if he had not done something bad. Opening the belly is an evil to the healthy person, but it is good for the one who suffers from an ailment. Injustice is done only to the one who deserves it, and the oppressor directs his oppression only to someone like him.

God says:

" **Thus We let some of the wrong-doers have power over others because of what they are wont to earn"**.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (6) Al-An'am (Livestock), verse (129).

By that disaster, he might retreat from his tyranny and remember his sin, then totally repent to God. Then injustice vanished, and God the Almighty might let him have power over that who had oppressed him.

This behavior is not only limited to the individuals but also applies to the nations and peoples. The nation which has a capability for faith more than another one, will suffer from the injustice of a more oppressive one by God's order so that it might plead to God and stop its evils, so it returns to God.

God says:

" **Say: He is able to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to bewilder you with dissension and make you taste the tyranny, of one another. See how We display the revelation so that they may understand the truth"**.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (6) Al-An'am (Livestock), verse (65).

Then God changes their sins into good deeds and will give power to the oppressed, not to attack with violence and revenge, but to make it return to the straight path of right and goodness.

God says:

" **And was it so, when a disaster smote you, though ye had smitten (with a disaster) twice (as great) that ye said: How is this? Say (unto them, o Mohammad): It is from yourselves. Lo! Al'lah is Omnipotent."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (3) Al 'Imran (The Fhmily of 'Imran), verse (165).

God's mill grinds slow but sure. When man commits disobedience, its punishment is registered unto him, if he repents and changes the evil inside him, God stops this catastrophe. If he does not repent or does not change what is inside him and continues his aggression, God will send him a greater disaster so that he might stop his evil and return to the path of goodness.

Here are some examples:

If a student is hard working and performs his duties in the best way, does his teacher punish him?

Of course not. He must be granted love, generosity and gifts.

Another student is negligent and does not do anything, he won't thrive, and he is hopeless. The teacher might neglect him as there is no use of making him study. Dismissing him is better, as he may develop a profession.

A third is negligent sometimes and hardworking at other times. The teacher's mercy might require punishment so as to make him work hard and be successful.

Suppose a patient had a dangerous chronic disease and there is no hope of his recovery. Does the doctor take care of him or he says to his family take him away and let him eat and drink whatever he wants until he dies because of his certain death? Another patient who suffers from something curable, the doctor will take care of him, treat him and may deprive him of eating some delicious food, and give him the suitable medicines.

Now, does a doctor give a person who is healthy and stout medicine or bitter cures? Does he make him a surgical operation or deprive him of delicious food and drink?

Of course not.

In the Holy speech, God says:

" **O my obedient, seek Me and you shall find Me. If you find Me, you will find everything, and if you miss Me, you have missed everything and to you, I am the most loved of everything"[8]**

" **O my obedient, be for Me as I wish and I will be for you as you wish"**.

God the Almighty wants us to be straight and thus He protects us from every evil. He will always be with the straight one, supporting, helping and protecting him.

God says in the Noble Qur`an:

" **And Al'lah will not give the disbelievers any way (of success) against the believers".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (4) An-Nesa (The Women), verse (141).

And in verse (147) of the same fortress, God says:

" **What concern hath Al'lah for your punishment if ye are thankful (by good actions for his graces) and believe (in Him)"**?

God says:

" **If ye give good acts thanking Me, I will give you more (of my graceful gifts)."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (14) Ibrahim (Abraham), verse (7).

Thanking in this verse means but good deed.

In verse 13 of (Saba') Fortress, God says:

" **Give good deeds to thank me, O House of David!"**

If man keeps away from his Provider, or denies the graces of God, he will undoubtedly be deprived of the graces of God on the day of Resurrection.

Al'lah wants good for man, and has prepared the paradises for him. By keeping himself away from his Provider, man deprived himself of such gifts and did injustice to it. As he wished for lusts and vices, God gave them to him and expelled him from this world insulted and defeated. The one who wants this lower world is given that, but he will have nothing on the day of Resurrection.

The one who mixes a good act with an evil one, whose faith is weak and his good deeds are very few shall go to hell which is a bad abode. God's mercy requires afflicting them with disasters and trouble and letting others oppress them in order to make them repent and resort to their God Since they have the ability to be good. God then stops their torment and other disasters when they repent and resort to Him, and by that they become happy here and hereafter.

God says:

" **If only there had been a community (of all those that were destroyed of old) that believed and profited by its belief as did the folk of Jonah! When they believed, We drew off from them the torment of shame in the life of this world and gave them comfort for a while"**.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (10) Yunus (Jonah), verse (98).

God does not change people's condition until they themselves change. If they change, they will find a Forgiving and Merciful God, Who will inevitably make them enjoy life in this world and hereafter. God is of great grace over mankind although most of them do not know.

When Quraish asked Prophet Mohammad (cpth) such a question and wondered surprisingly where this great man brought this great indication that there is no God but Al'lah from, although he had not studied at a school or university, where he brought this knowledge and science which had spread all over the world and made him the merciful spiritual father, great tutor, genius leader who built the minds of the leaders and masters of this world, the healing doctor, knowledgeable, perfect social reformer, intelligent politician, the refiner of spirits, manners and morals, the genuine sage, the one who filled this worldly existence and the afterlife with human perfection and noble acts, the perfect, gracious one who was not taught by a human being and was an orphan grazing sheep on Mecca's mountain passes.

His God instructed him: O Mohammad, tell them saying I **"seek refuge in the Provider of oblivious (mankind)"[9].** While you seek refuge in the creature and what a great difference it is! I sought refuge in Him, therefore He taught, supported, guided me and inspired something very weighty to be told to you. If the jinns and mankind assembled to do something similar they will fail.

I take refuge in the King Provider of oblivious (mankind) who created you and gave you hearing, vision, taste and touching, gave you the treasures and fruits of this world, took care of you and brought you up while you were embryos in the wombs of your mothers, gave you all luxury and perfectly brought you up. Then they asked him why God created this man short and that tall, this rich and that poor, this white and that black, this good looking and that ugly. God told the prophet: say to them He is **"The King of oblivious (mankind)"**. They are all fully in His hands, and He gives each what suits him. They said:

Since God is Merciful and He is our Possessor, why does not He make us enter Paradise, and what for fire is. God told him, Say to them He is **"the steering God of the oblivious (mankind)"** who directs them according to their choice to what suits them for their benefit. God directs your deeds according to your choice.

If you pay heed and follow His orders, you will be happy here and hereafter; you will get the blessings hidden for you surpassing all other creatures which are the supreme paradises, but if you disobey and continue committing sins, do what you want and insist on it, He will guide you according to your choice and then you will be responsible for all the results because you will lose everything here and hereafter, and you will choose fire to taste, then, to decrease your spiritual torture and the pain of your eternal loss. How hard will the hopeless life of the hereafter be!

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Sir Bennett admitted the grace of this great man after hearing and witnessing the proofs and evidences, events and stories confirming the truth and rejecting the existence of injustice.

All facts seemed clear to Sir Bennett, who confessed there facts and seemed as if taken by surprise and admiration. All suspicions and contradictions vanished from his mind.

It is time for this deep darkness and absolute ignorance to vanish because sun has risen to enlighten the worlds of earth and heaven. The hearts of the scientists were fascinated by his lights and brightness. The mighty philosophers and scientists of the world were bewildered by his knowledge and great deeds.

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After Sir Bennett had got the reply to his question, he dwelt for many days as a guest in his tutor's house, asking, learning and enquiring about what crossed his mind. He began to ask about Islam and its pillars, about fasting, pilgrimage and Zakat (alms giving) and the wisdom behind each.

Once, he entered his host's room and found him performing the communication with God with some of his disciples. He participated in the communication with God without taking his shoes off. When they finished, his tutor was surprised and asked him about his communication with God with the Muslims without washing his body and without ablution, Sir Bennett:

You spoke to me about communication with God and said it is the link between man and his Provider and the close enlightenment of God illumination. It is a combination of feelings, tastes, scenes and a peerless happiness. I have achieved this kind of communication with God.

His tutor told him that he had really communicated with God and that he was heartedly in communication with Him, but everything has a form and reality. He said to him: you have got the core and the truth, you left the dish and got the food, and God has accepted your communication, but the form helps. Ablution and washing refresh the body and the communication with God becomes complete; the form (the rite) and the reality, reality should have a form and the form should have a reality.

**Sir John Bennett** : I told you how I had been awakened in the night and the conclusions I had reached.

**Scholar Sheikho** : Now I can see that Al'lah really loves you. He sends His angels to direct your path.

He then turned to one of his pupils sitting on the floor beside them and said something in Arabic that Sir John Bennett could not follow.

Then he turned to Sir John Bennett and said:

**Scholar Sheikho** : I told him that I would not exchange my meeting with you for ten million pounds. It does more good to meet a friend of Al'lah than all the wealth in the world.
Sir John Bennett said in his book that he set out to apply the way of belief so as to achieve knowledge of God.

From ( Journeys in Islamic Countries) – J. G. Bennett

He said:

\- Last night I wrestled with all my strength to accomplish the inner work I had given myself. It was as difficult a half hour as I have ever known. When it was over, I went straight to bed and slept until 3:00 a.m. I awoke very clear in my head and decided to meditate upon the chief problem of my existence. For two hours I kept this problem in front of me and prayed most earnestly for light. During that time, many things were shown to me and in the end I could see my way clearly.

\- Among other things, I understood just how far I could go with Emin Bey and where I had to stop and continue on my own way, alone except for the guidance that comes to me from within.

\- The chief difficulty with Emin Bey arises from his very goodness and purity. Here is in truth a saintly man who is utterly obedient to the Will of Al'lah as he understands it. He is doing and has done very much good. He is a faithful guide and example to his murids (pupils).

\- I wrote that his very goodness is the difficulty. If he were an ordinary man, however learned he might be, I should not even trouble to spend hours discussing theology, but Emin Bey is not an ordinary man. He is a saint and he has the supranormal powers of a saint. Therefore, one must accept him and try to understand.
Sir John Bennett talked in his book about this meeting, saying:

From ( Journeys in Islamic Countries) – J. G. Bennett

\- I was indeed very glad because it showed me that Emin himself is a "friend of Al'lah."

\- We spoke first about the inner work, and I was very satisfied with the way he explained a difficulty I have met. Indeed, he put his finger on a great deficiency in my work that I have long wished to remedy. I have no longer any doubt that Emin really knows about work, and that he is able to transmit the teaching to his pupils. All the same, I am forced also to recognize the limitations of his world outlook. As I listen to Emin Bey's explanations about inner work, I marvel; he is a real master. Not only has he achieved being for himself; but he can show others the way and give them the strength and courage to follow it.

\- I watched the murids carefully and could see that they were really impressed by what they heard. I was told afterwards that all of them have passed through secondary school and many have been to the university. About one third are themselves secondary school teachers or university lecturers. I mention this here because it is important to realize that these murids are not ignorant peasants but men who have at least some knowledge of Western thought. Indeed, these murids have risen to their doctrine in all their actions. Even Emin Bey himself bore uncountable troubles for my sake. He is a really good man. The saying that a teacher is known by his pupils is in his favor, for all I have met have a remarkable mutual love and sincerity.

\- Anyhow, tonight he said that he would not exchange 'all London and America' for the joy of having met me. He said that henceforward we are brothers and that I may go away to London, but his heart will go with me.

\- He must have spoken to his pupils about me in fairly strong terms, for I can see the respect they feel toward me. Indeed, he said in front of several of them tonight that in all Damascus, there was not one Muslim as near to God as I am!

\- As an example of his murids' faith in him I will cite what one of his murids told me of a dream he had about a year ago – just at the end of ten years of close work with Emin Bey, whom he always calls 'my guide'. He dreamed that he was sitting in his open court with a few murids, as they do on Fridays, and Emin Bey was, as usual, expounding on the Qur'an. As he was speaking, a young man came in who was very beautiful and took his seat to the right of Emin Bey. That murid said, "I knew that this was our prophet but no one made any special sign, and he began to explain to us the meaning of the word 'takwa' which most of the ulema (religious experts) explain as fear of God. He said that 'takwa' is the state that is reached in prayer when the soul gives itself entirely to God, who then opens its eyes and enables it to see the truth of good and evil. In this state of seeing, the soul cannot commit any wrong action. As I listened to this explanation, I was filled with joy, because our guide has told us exactly the same. So I knew that our guide is a true Teacher, because we are taught that a vision of the prophet must be authentic since Satan can never assume the form of the prophet and deceive men. It is evident, moreover, that he has been inspired by this explanation from God."

\- And yet, in spite of that, this man can inspire belief in his murids. He is an altogether extraordinary man in himself, and no one who has been as close to him as I have can possibly doubt the reality of the impulses of faith, hope and love within him.
Sir Bennett professed Islam and dwelt for 19 days performing the rituals established upon real wisdom of his new faith. Then he went to Britain and began giving lectures elucidating the greatness of this man and his scientific proofs. The hearers were university professors in the universities of Britain and America.

Before leaving to Britain he asked our great Scholar to accompany him and to take over any post, saying that in Britain, they would appreciate his knowledge and give him whatever he wanted.

Our Scholar apologized saying: "It is true you are going to give me everything in this world, but what about the guarantee of the hereafter, do you guarantee it?

Sir Bennett understood that the Scholar's departure was impossible. Sir Bennett then tried with the Scholar's son thinking that if the son left, his father would follow him, but he failed too.

Sir Bennett left Damascus alone by land through Turkey where he met a number of Moslem scholars.

They argued for a long time, and then he requested them to explain and interpret verse (15) of Al-Hajj Fortress (The Pilgrimage):

" **If any thinks that Al'lah will not help him in this world and the Hereafter, let him do the good and the favour and stop the evils and bad acts, then let him see whether his plan and good deed will remove that which enrages him"**

They answered him that the one who thinks that Al'lah will not help him should stretch a rope to his ceiling and put an end to his life by hanging himself and see after that if this would remove what enrages him. They said that this is stated in the famous interpretations.

Here Sir Bennett felt confused and directly sent to our Scholar informing him of what happened to him in Turkey, and asked him to interpret that verse.

Our great Scholar sent him the following reply with the correct meaning of the verse as meant in the Holy Qur'an:

"If you abide by it, God will drive away worries and grief, follow this and you will be happy. You might say: Why does God afflict me with disasters? Imagine a father who had an ill son; would he try his best to cure him or not? God is Merciful and Caring. If you get ill, will He try to cure you or not?

" **If any thinks that Al'lah will not help him in this world and the Hereafter"** If that is his belief **"Let him lend a hand for his supremacy"** i.e. let him do good and favor **"Then to stop"** i.e. committing evil or bad deeds **"Then let him see if that will remove what enrages him"** Doesn't his conduction and good deeds remove what enrages him!"

When Sir Bennett reached his country, he spoke about his visit to Damascus and his meeting with our great Scholar in his first lecture. He praised this honourable man and said that he had heard new and true things which the sciences and scientists all over the world were unable to tell something similar to what he had heard and seen from him.

The speeches of Sir Bennett were published in the British and French magazines and were distributed all over the world.

An edition reached Beirut and a student of our Scholar who was a doctor at the American University got a copy.

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Where did this great Scholar get his scientific knowledge from? He got it from his Creator as he devoted his spirit and sacrificed his soul and body to His creatures.

# Chapter 4

Twentieth Century Miracle

## The Sources of Spring Water in the World

Let us now witness a firebrand of the knowledge of this honourable Scholar relating to the great scientific theory:

Dear reader:

Don`t you like to accompany us in a conceptual, sublime and intellectual journey? Don`t you want to add to your information something new, i.e. a science and a truth which the humankind of the era of atom and the moon visit, could not disclose with all the appliances and electronic equipment? Don`t you like to be with us at the door of a puzzle which astonished the scientists, geographers and researchers?

A puzzle which bewildered them until one began to pray saying: _"O God, where is the answer?"_

This puzzle which made geographers, researchers and scientists unable to dissolve is the water which you and I drink and there is no life without it.

What is the source of this water? Where does it come from? How?

Let us go together and investigate where this fresh water comes from? Who sends it to us and how?

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After science has overtaken us and after civilization has invaded us, it is better to leave the noise and the smoke of the factories and cars and go on a journey on the ship of the mind to investigate the truth at the South and North Poles; the farthest boundaries of our world. It is an interesting exciting journey with good scenes, dazzling whiteness and excellent artistic paintings created by the Almighty God, and nothing disturbs that except the severe cold.

The North Pole is an area of more than 14 million square kilometers. This number is more than 65 times the area of Syria. Vast areas of glacial mountains, ice and glacial deserts. Who has created this wonderful painting?

You are like me, longing to know how these snows were formed. Where did they come from?

Under what circumstances were they formed and who is behind all this?

Were they formed by themselves? Has the East or the West with their sciences and civilizations formed them? Is there a merciful hand that takes care of you and me that has created all this? Is there any movement without a moving hand?

Cannot we say to the scientists of this world and civilization: where are your sciences? Where is your civilization? Answer us before you invade the space and make mass destructive weapons to kill the innocent and dominate the weak. Answer us where this water, which our life and yours depend on comes from before you think and feel proud of sciences which destroy the mankind. Has God created you for destruction and demolition or to fill this world with justice, mercy, tolerance, sympathy, humanity and kindness?

Let us my dear brother continue our journey to the North Pole where there are snows, glacial mountains and deserts, where there we find the severe cold and strong storms. The sun rays are inclined at the North and South Poles in order to give a very low heat. It is very cold and the temperature sometimes goes down to 85 degrees centigrade under zero. Generally snow falls and there are strong winds with severe glacial storms that make visibility come to nothing.

Life is very difficult and almost impossible.

9-Summer solstice at the Antarctic

The day and night last for months every year because of the inclination of the axis of the earth. The sun does not set in the polar summer period.

10-The sun does not set in the polar summer period, and it can even be seen at midnight.

It can be seen at midnight, and when it is summer on one Pole, it is winter on the other. Because there is no sun, darkness prevails in the morning and in the evening for a few months. The Antarctica is wider and colder for ice and snow. The speed of winds is sometimes about 350 Km per hour. Heat average in the Antarctica is few degrees less than it is in the Arctic Pole. Winter is severe and merciless. Many tried to explore the Antarctica but they failed. The Antarctica; the frozen continent, is a waste continent in which snows reach 5000 meters high.

**All these conditions:** the dim light, severe cold and strong storms formed these snows and snowy mountains. Snow continues to fall day and night all the year round. What does this mean? It means that in the course of tens, and hundreds of years great amounts of snow will accumulate until they reach great heights which exceed thousands of meters across the polar area.

We all know that the two polar areas constitute two vast continents of the seven continents of the world. In the course of years, the two polar continents will dominate the other continents and change them into one snowy block, and consequently there will be no life.

Why did not this happen? Why didn`t the polar areas increase in height and expansion? Why did they keep their level and did not exceed it for thousands of years?

A continuous fall of snow and no increase, why? Where does this falling snow go? Where does it hide, and how? No one in the world, a genius scientist or researcher or an ordinary man could disclose the secret of the fate of these snows. Is this reasonable? Yes.
Dear reader:

If you lose precious jewels, is it possible that they disappear by themselves or someone has disposed of them?

What hand has made and disposed of those mountains, glacial steppes and Poles? How do these vast districts of which the area is thousands of square kilometers of ice move? What is that power which moves them? What is it like? Is it mechanical or hydraulic, propellant, sucking or centrifugal?

How great is the astonishing Power that moves them?

All the polar area, with its vastness and volume drifts is carried away.

The Norwegian scientist **"Nansen"** who went to the North Pole area on board the ship **"Fram"** which was detained among the ice there at the end of the 19th century proved this drift[10].

11-The Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen

" **Nansen"** wanted to prove to the world that the polar ice drifts slowly across the North Pole Ocean. This was evidenced to him when his ship **"Fram"** left the ice on the other side of the frozen Ocean in 1896 although it was blocked by ice in 1893. This proved that the whole Pole area drifts.

How does this vast area drift?

Who makes it drift? Why and what for?

Does that happen in play, capriciously or by accident?

In the Holy Qur`an, God says:

" **We created not the heavens, the earth and all between them merely in play"**.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (44) Ad-Dukhan (Smoke), verse (38).

Let us study the books of science so that we may reach something...
Let us go to Greenland

12-Map of Greenland

Natural scientist **"Franklin Russels"** wrote a scientific report about an amazing scientific phenomenon. He and other Eastern and Western scientists noticed that at an area of the North Pole near Greenland Island, 8000 icebergs are formed yearly as evidenced by the computer.

God says in the Noble Qur`an:

"... **Renewing white mountains..."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (35) Fatir (Orignator), verse (27).

They are moved by the winds and storms. 5000 icebergs of them reach Melvil Bay **.**

The human science stood incapable at the disappearance of 3000 icebergs in the unknown under fog and in the very dark winter atmosphere. Where do these icebergs vanish? What is the explanation of the disappearance of 3000 icebergs? The scientists could not find an answer.

13-Eight-ninths of the iceberg remain submerged beneath the surface of the water

Don`t you want to know the answer? Don`t you want to know the source of your drinking water? The installation of these springs from which you drink? This water is sent to you with no change from your Merciful Almighty God.

Where does this ice of which the diameter exceeds 4000 kilometers if there are no drains or ways out? Won`t it cover the earth? Won`t it put an end to life? Does this nature think? Does it arrange its own affairs? Does it evaporate the sea water or grow the plants? Does it make rain and snow fall at certain times? What is this nature, and who made it?

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Dear reader:

14-Picture of some fresh water springs in the high Bsher'ri Mountain in Lebanon

We were in **Greenland** among the mountains, ice and snow and felt cold. We are now in need of the warmth of our country`s sun. Let us go to Lebanon and to the high "Bsharri Mountain" where there are tens of water springs at about 3000 meters high, although the mountain is surrounded by the sea from one side and by hills and areas spreading thousands of Kilometers, they are lower than it, and water cannot ascend to high places. Who feeds these springs? Where do they ascend from?

We do not exaggerate if we say it is a great scientific theory and the human being who tried to solve it and gave an answer to it and to the other questions is really a great man.

15-Jua`ita Cave in Lebanon

Let us also go to "Jeita Grotto" in Lebanon where there are the stalagmites and the stalactites. It is a lake in a high mountain which has boats.

How are such lakes formed, yet what surrounds it is lower than it and water does not ascend from a low place to a high place.

There is also nothing that feeds it.

Then let us come back to our green land, to Damascus, the Land of the forefathers and the place of prophets; to the spring of "Al-Fijeh" where there is that abundant cold water spring. Because of its coldness and clarity, you cannot keep your hand in the water but for seconds. From which refrigerator does it come from? It is from Almighty`s refrigerators.

It is from the Pole, from a Pole of which the area is more than 14 million square kilometers.

How does it come to us? How can we say that it is from the Pole? What is the proof on that? Where does Al-Fijeh spring which supplies the inhabitants of Damascus the capital, take its coldness from?

If the coldness is from the rains, the water will not be so cold, add to that when waterfalls, its temperature will go down one degree in every 100 meters, and these springs come to us from places which may be thousands of meters deep.

Where do these cold springs come from and how do they sometimes come from high places and mountains-tops, yet they are not fed by any tributary?

It is axiomatic that the polar snows always fall because they are fed from the evaporated waters of the seas. Sunrays pour and penetrate into it sucking some of its water in the form of small invisible drops of water vapour driven by the wind to form clouds which fall as rain later on. This means that the seas will lose huge quantities of their waters every year. These waters won`t return again to seas. They will accumulate as ice on the Poles.

In decades the oceans and seas will be dry. Why does not this take place? Have we seen sea withdrawal from Tartous` or Lattakia`s shores?

How to solve this mystery, and has the twentieth century`s civilization solved it? Is it true that the rain water feeds all the springs and rivers?

These questions were answered by our great Scholar who has derived his knowledge and sciences directly from God when he asked Sir Bennett who was a scientist in natural science.

Have you, Eastern and western scientists, known the source of the water you drink and where is your spring provided from?

Sir Bennett replied that the rain waters are the main source of drinking water.

Our great Scholar replied him saying that the rain waters are for the plants and animals.

God says:

"... **He let water fall from the sky. We thereby grew pairs of variable plants. Eat and graze your cattle..."**

While God has made a different arrangement for the human being who is honoured by Him.

What is this arrangement then?

God says:

" **He who made the earth a craddle for you and made under- ground ways of water to you..."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (20) Taha (Taha = pure), verse (53-54).

Our Scholar asked Sir Bennett if there was a big river in Britain. Sir Bennett said of course, it is the Thames River and big ships sail on it.

16-The River Thames in Britain

The Scholar asked: Are the quantities of rain waters falling on Britain enough to feed that river all the year round?

Sir Bennett made some calculation according to the flow of the Thames and found:

Cubic meters × 3600 per hour × 24 hours per day × 365 days per year.

He calculated the average quantity of rain falling on Britain and found that the rain waters falling on Britain will feed the river for only one week.

Here our great Scholar asked him: Where does the river Thames feed in the remaining 51 weeks from?

When Sir Bennett could not reply, our Scholar said:

"From the waters of the snow, bergs and ice of the Pole"

Sir Bennett asked in astonishment: How does this happen?

Our Scholar replied:

You know Sir Bennett that it snows in the Polar areas almost the year long and the sun`s rays are very dim and ineffective like the light of the moon.

If this ice and icebergs have no drains and wide apertures in the bottom of the frozen ocean, ice will accumulate to great heights and life will be impossible, in addition to the great pressure of the ice and icebergs on some parts of the bottom of the North icy ocean which its average depth is more than 3000 meters and also on the Antarctic area.

It is scientifically known that when we go 100 meters under the ground, the temperature increases one degree centigrade. But the spring waters come to us cold, fresh and pure, although they come from under the ground and from great depths that might reach thousands of meters.

According to the scientific laws, these waters should reach us hot because they get heat from the under-ground, but this does not happen. The great pressures of these icebergs on the huge apertures (drains) make the ice near the holes melt and the water goes down these hot passages rapidly. Heat, in the interior of the earth of the North and South Poles, helps the ice to melt and spout rapidly. After it melts, it branches to feed all the springs and rivers on the surface of our earth.

The fast continuous flow through the passages keeps the waters cold, and the high level of the Poles above the ground in addition to the axial inclination of the globe and its daily and yearly rotating around itself explains to us the ascent of water to the top of the mountains in the world which sometimes are more than 3000 meters high.

Some of these springs come to us directly from the Pole to the spring and this explains its high coldness; and some springs are less cold because its passages feed reservoirs in the mountains to feed less cold springs.

God says in the Holy Qur'an, Fortress (21) Al-Anbiya' (The Prophets), verse (31).:

" **We made anchors in the earth lest it tilts them, and We made in it deep passages, so that they might be guided".**

**"We made anchors in the earth"** : mountains. **"lest it tilts them"** : so that its rotating doesn`t deviate and its surface doesn`t crack.

**"We made in it deep passages":** water reservoirs into the mountains which exits according to strict scales. Isn`t that an evidence of Al`lah existence?

" **Passages"** : i.e. springs. Big springs from the rivers, while small ones form springs, who made their underground ways?

**"So that they might"** : if they give thought. **"Be guided":** to Al`lah Himself and to know Him, if you don't give thought you will never be guided.

These springs and rivers keep their flow because they are permanently fed by the Pole through these passages. They come to us with regular fixed levels all the year long. In certain very short periods of time, the water level in the rivers gets high at the end of winter and the coming of spring because they are fed by the rain water and the melting of the ice in spring through the supplying reservoirs and then the river goes back to its level all the year long.

We see from what was mentioned above that there is a wonderful balance and very strict laws, made by the Merciful God, to control all these things without any contradiction in these natural laws.

A continuous flow from the springs and rivers met by a continuous accumulation of snow all the yearlong and within very accurate criteria which the human science could not disclose its secrets.

What great these polar reservoirs are! Who maintains and reforms them yearly for us and for our sake so that we might enjoy them and be honoured. What merciful and a lending hand supervises all this providence! Permanent generosity and pouring of love, compassion and Ruth. All for our sake yet we do not know.

God says:

_"_ **We let water fall from the sky, and made you drink it, yet you are unable of reserving it".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (15) Al-Hijr (Stone Buildings), verse (22).

Do you reserve it? If it rains in winter, whatever reservoirs you maintain, what do you do in summer? Have you thought of springs and the quantities of their water which flow all the yearlong? Don`t you give a thought to its reservoirs? Who has organized them? Where are their locations? Don`t they finish and reach an end? Think of that to achieve true faith.

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This fact surprised Sir Bennett and he replied saying that he wondered how this question had never crossed his mind before.

God Says:

"Hast you not seen how Al`lah hath sent down water from the sky and hath caused it to penetrate the earth as water springs".

The Holy Qur'an

Fortress (39) Az-Zumar (The Groups) verse (42).

This holy verse proves that God sends these polar waters through passages under the ground.

Sweeping currents go under the sea waters, and the one called the North Atlantic Drift of which the speed is between five to six knots and which goes in the north eastern direction after leaving the American coasts does not exceed the waters near the surface.

It has no effect at about 350 meters deep. Also researchers found another great current called Golf Stream in the opposite direction. The currents which have clear limits are called Golf Stream.

The world surface currents go with the clock in the north half of the earth, while they go in the opposite direction in the south half and are called "whirlpools". In the north half of the earth, there are two severe whirlpools in the north of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and in the south half, there are three whirlpools with an opposite direction in the south of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Under the water there are currents of which the direction may be opposite to the salty surface currents. These currents under the salty water across the sea are fresh water.

God the Almighty mentioned in the Holy Qur`an these sea currents of fresh cold waters which go under the salty waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

In The Holy Qur'an, Fortress (24) An-Nur (Light), verse (40). showing that truth with an example denoting or concluding this truth, God says:

" **Or (the unbelievers, state) is like the depth of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds, Depths of darkness above another".**

Al`lah says that the reality of this blind deviating man whose mind eye is not open who remains blind. At the doors of death he looks at his deeds and feels ashamed of them. They turn to be darkness and darkness as veils exactly like this very deep sea.

This holy verse is an example like others mentioned in the Holy Qur`an.

These examples are realities existing in this life, such as this holy verse (13) of Fortress (36) Ya Sin 'Ya-sin', (Safe & Pure):

" **Give them an example, the town inhabitants when God`s messengers were sent to them".**

It is beyond doubt that there was a town where God`s messengers were sent to.

Another holy verse (17) of Fortress (2) Al-Baqara (The Cow), verses (17), is:

" **They are like him who lit a fire".**

And the verse (32) of Fortress (18) Al-Kahf (The Cave), verse (32):

" **Give them an example; two men, we gave one of them two orchards..."**

This verse applies to what takes place in the north and south of the Atlantic and pacific oceans which are the biggest and deepest oceans.

God said **"...the depth of darkness..."** which means very deep. There is no doubt that this is the deepest of the oceans and seas. Since it is known that water, and especially the salty wavy water, reflects the sun light, the deeper one goes; the darker it becomes.

17-Internal waves south of Java, NASA/GSFC-Real pictures of the waves overwhelming deep oceans thousands meters beneath their surfaces. These waves were discovered recently and humanity did not know

The second reference **"overwhelmed with billow topped by billow"** indicates two waves and undoubtedly they differ from each other. The upper waves are the waves of the salty water while the lower which flows fast is cold and fresh. The dark clouds reflect and hide the sun light, the salty water and the sweeping or lower cold water hides the fresh cold water under it. This increases the darkness.

18-A current diagram of the Gulf Stream

Under the Golf stream which goes north east along the eastern part of the USA, there is a big cold current of "Fresh Water" flowing from the North Pole area to the south on the north of the Atlantic Ocean. The Golf stream divides into two branches, the first goes along the east coast of Greenland and north and south Europe, while the other branch goes to the south to continue its whirlpool in the north half of the earth. Surface cold currents usually go to the south.

In the south half of the earth, cold water runs around the polar area while their branches go north toward the tropical and semi tropical areas.

This explains to us the flow of the Nile and Orontes rivers and others opposite the direction of the other rivers. This is quite clear in Syria because the name of "Orontes" in Arabic means "rebellious".

This means that the sources of the springs and river waters partly come from the ice of the North and South Poles. The rivers which flow from north to south come from the North Pole ice, and rivers of the opposite direction from south to north such as the Orontes and the Nile come from the ice of the South Pole.

When these deep currents go across the seas coming from the Poles under deep layers of salty swift water, they pass without mixing and at the same time go to the places of their second spring to be as river, lakes and springs without mixing with the upper and surface salty or warm waters.

Springs of fresh water exist even in the deep areas in the Mediterranean and near the Greek coast of kornif, and in the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of Morocco near Aghadear and in the peninsula of Florida.

In Arwad Island and Latakia area in Syria, fresh water comes from the bottom of the sea, because it is lighter in density and in weight than the salty water with which it does not mix. It goes up to the surface.

The sailors and fishermen use this water to increase their supply of fresh water.

God says:

"It is He who has let free two bodies of flowing water: one palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter, yet He has made a barrier between them. A partition that is not to be passed".

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (25) Al-Furqan (The Criterion), verse (35).

1- Very deep seas and lakes: At the top the salty sea waters while the fresh is below and between them (the partition is solid) which is the soil and the rocks of the crust such as in Arwad Island which is surrounded by the salty waters of the sea. Springs and wells of fresh water spring from under the sea. Here Almighty God made a partition between them. Fresh water is not mixed with the salty one; it goes from the interior of the earth under the salty sea. The partition is the ground of the sea bottom; it is a solid barrier on which the verse says: "...He has made a barrier between them. A partition that is not to be passed" In the mountains surrounding the seas, in the seas and in their interior, the partition is rocks and earth, i.e. solid such as the islands in the salty seas with fresh waters from beneath.

2- The Gulf current and Labrador current, in addition to others of fresh water, the partition is watery, i.e. liquid " It is He who has let free two bodies of flowing water, one palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter".

3- The Arctic; icebergs and fresh snows in the salty seas, the partition is watery, i.e. liquid.

4- The Antarctica, icebergs and fresh snows surrounded by salty seas (solid).

19-Surface ocean current map

The partition is solid consisting of rocks: A solid barrier and a partition that is not to be passed. It is a barrier for the waters to prevent them from mixing and uniting. It is barred by rocks.

Salty seas surround Antarctica while fresh waters go through passages under the ground of Antarctica then they flow through passages under the sea bottom to form big rivers and small springs in other islands, villages and elsewhere.

It is known that the deserts contain vast layers of water underneath. In the Grand Desert which is considered the largest desert of the world of which its area is more than the area of Europe, there is a basin underground containing more than 12000 cubic kilometers of water. This quantity is 40 times bigger than the water of Azov Sea. Where does this basin take its water from? Is it, as they say, from the rain water falling on the coasts of the Mediterranean; although it is 40 times bigger than Azov Sea?

There is no doubt that it takes its water from one of the polar continents.

In the ex-Soviet Union the layers rich in water including the artesian exists in Qara Qoum and Qaizeel Qoum and in other deserts. The largest artesian basin in the world is located on the west of Siberia between the Ural in the west and River Enese in the east. The area of this basin is more than 3 million square kilometers.

The largest artesian basin, also exists in the European side of the Soviet Union (Moscow and Danebro-Dontisk basins and others) **.** The fresh water of these huge basins cannot be logically said to be from the rain falls, but certainly from the adjacent north polar area.

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We can conclude that the polar areas are big reservoirs of our cold and pure drinking water, and the mountains are but branch reservoirs. The spring openings are firm (of changeless, fixed quantities of water) all the year round, and the rain and snow falling on our areas are only for the irrigation of our plants and the animals, but man is honoured by God so he drinks from the pure raging water of the polar areas. Look how much God favours us on many all other creatures.

In Fortress (100) Al-'Adi'yat (The Wind), verse (4-5):

4-"We transferred and maintained by it immersion,"

In Arabic "Atharna" means transferred and maintained; the last letter in Arabic which is (N) denotes the supreme merits of Almighty Al`lah i.e. His supreme Names containing Mercy, Charity, Kindness, Compassion in addition to other Perfect Merits.

"... **by it..."** denotes that discipline that led to rainfall.

"... **.Immersion..."** refers to that gathering water.

5-"We made it in a medium location for all the living creatures".

" **Wasatna",** which in **"made it in a medium location,"**

The last letter in Arabic (N) denotes the supreme merits of Almighty Al`lah.

" **...by it"** refers to the accumulating water. We can interpret this verse as follows:

God speaks about moving and keeping the water by his Mercy, Kindness, Love and Affection and that there is a system through which the rain falls, gathers together and makes that huge polar supply. He tells His creatures that out of HHHis Kindness, Love and Affection He carried the rain water and kept it in those huge reservoirs in the polar areas, He carried that collected water through certain passages running under the ground and at appropriate proportions which made the springs and rivers for your own good. Who maintains, cleans and reforms all these drains and underground passages of these polar waters?

These polar waters are let pass to every island, city and village all over the world with regular proportions all the yearlong for our own use?

None is steering and providing the universe but You, out of Your extreme Favour and abundant Generosity, Oh, Al`lah.

May God reward you, our great scholar all love, honouring, respect and reverence. You really deserve all honouring by your high supremacy, your love to God and your omniscience from God based upon witting. May Generous God lead us to it by His great Favour. He is very near, responding the prayer who is communicating with you. Al`lah says in The Holy Qur'an, Fortress (2) Al-Baqara (The Cow), verses (282):

" **...Be under Al`lah`s light, then it is Al`lah that teaches you..."**

True praise is to You, Provider of all the worlds

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# Chapter 5

## Journeys in Islamic Countries

In his book, Journeys in Islamic Countries, Sir John Bennett mentioned his meeting with the Great Scholar M. Amin Sheikho and he talked very much in praise of his unique character, his humane deeds and his logical dialogue, saying, for example:

\- "So ends the first talk. I still do not know what to say except that he is very good and a very sincere man who is truly turned toward God. But what he understands or does not understand, that I cannot say."

\- "Today we started by verifying certain things about work about which I shall not write, beyond saying that I have no doubt that Emin Chikhou[11] has reached a certain level of inner work that I have rarely met before."

\- "As I listen to Emin Bey's explanations about inner work, I marvel; he is a real master. Not only has he achieved being for himself; but can show others the way and give them the strength and courage to follow it."

\- "The chief difficulty with Emin Bey arises from his very goodness and purity. Here is in truth a saintly man who is utterly obedient to the Will of Al'lah as he understands it. He is doing and has done very much good. He is a faithful guide and example to his murids."

\- "I wrote that his very goodness is the difficulty. If he were an ordinary man, however learned he might be, I should not even trouble to spend hours in discussion of theology. But Emin Bey is not an ordinary man. He is a saint and he has the supernormal power of a saint. Therefore, one must accept him and understand."

\- "I was told that all of them have passed through secondary school and many have been to the university. About one third are themselves secondary school teachers or university lecturers."

\- "I mentioned this because it is important to realize that these murids are not ignorant peasants but men who have at least some knowledge of Western thought."

\- "I have no right to talk to Emin Bey as an equal about questions of religion unless I am prepared to make demands upon myself no less severe than he makes upon himself."

\- "He is a really good man. The saying that a teacher is known by his pupils is in his favor, for all I have met have remarkable mutual love and sincerity."

\- "Now I meet and talk with a real dervish, Emin Bey."

\- "He is an altogether extraordinary man in himself, and of the reality in him of the impulses of faith, hope and love, no one who has seen him as closely as I have, can possibly doubt."

\- "The more I see of him and hear from other of his works, the more convinced I am that he is truly a saint and that his interpretations of the Qur'an are inspired by a higher consciousness."

\- "Meeting him has been a lesson to me in many ways: I see what wholehearted devotion to work can be. I see nobility of character and an immense power to attract and hold the love and faith of others."

\- "Men like Emin Bey are very rare. He has sought God all his life, and he had a real teacher. He is a man with real power of work and from it he has acquired real being."

\- "For all his fundamentalism, Emin Bey is very tolerant and practical in his outlook. I believe that he truly listens to the heart and not to the spoken word."

\- "But with this man I felt such a comradeship and assurance of beingfully understood and accepted that I told him things that I would not tell others."

From Journeys in Islamic Countries

– J. G. Bennett

# Chapter 6

## A Glimpse of the Life of the Eminent Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho

(His soul has been sanctified by Al'lah)

### His honourable birth

20-Damascus city in the nineteenth century

His full moon appeared over Damascus in the year 1890 on a blessed night when a Damascene tradesman had a newborn baby. The father loved his son very much because he resembled the full moon in its beauty, and for his good clever presence.

In his childhood, he was active, clever, full of motion and cheerfulness so as to create a serenity and happiness of life in the hearts of those surrounding him. Day by day he grew, and he showed an increase in cleverness and strength of personality, something which made his position greater before his parents. They venerated him and looked after him with love, affection and sympathy. But death soon snatched his affectionate father in his years of youth after an exhausting illness and tiring pain.

The death of the father had a great effect on the heart of everyone who knew him, for he left behind him a widow and two sons. Mr. Mohammad Amin had not reached seven years of age when he took responsibility for his mother's protection, defending her and keeping her away from the evils which appeared around his family after the departure of his father from this existence, and his older brother Saleem's travel to Turkey.

Even in his orphanage, Mohammad Amin was distinguished by his patience with the difficulties of life. He bore patience that mighty men could never bear, because he was an individual in a small respectable family that had faced many difficulties.

### The sunrise of his youth & a glimpse of his deeds

Because of his honorable lineage that relates to the great messenger (cpth) he could approach the high responsible personalities of the ruling Turkish state at that time so that his family could reside in Sarouja Quarter which was called 'Little Istanbul', a dwelling place for the Turkish statesmen at that time. He also was able to study in the Royal Ottoman Faculty in Damascus, Amber.

He completed his studies when he became eighteen years old. He graduated in the rank of security officer. He surpassed his colleagues in extreme courage, trust, truth, hard work and his perseverance and continuous work with distinction. He headed many police-stations in Damascus and became director of its counties. He was the example, for no sooner had he taken his position than peace and safety prevailed in the region of his work.

He was the sleepless eye and the unmistakable arrow in the state's quiver. Whenever the state was confronted by a criminal or a crime, they used to ask for his help. When fear, killing, corruption and criminality spread over a region, he was the saving hope, who kept off danger and liberated people.

When decay began to bite the body of the Turkish state, and the torch of Islam was quenched, corruption and chaos prevailed all over the country until crime reached an unbearable limit, living became difficult, and the days were encompassed by danger, and the darkness of the night was horrifying: except in Damascus, its countryside and suburbs, for security was prevailing as a vigilant eye was watching and a merciful heart was dedicated to peace.

He faced storms of criminals in his work with courage and boldness, and he besieged many guerrillas and arrested their leaders. All his works were crowned in victory and support until he was surnamed 'Aslan', meaning 'the lion', for his audacity in facing difficulties. By his reliance upon God, he was the only officer who stood in the face of injustice and terrorism so that the criminals and thieves used to surrender to him, fearing his bravery, to offer a plea to his justice, mercy and contentment.

Thus he advanced in the ranks and was moved among the police-stations until he was appointed director of the citadel of Damascus, which contained the warehouses and the prisons. He remained in this position for a very long time during which he achieved glories and displayed bravery that Damascus had never seen before. He was very audacious in freeing thousands of prisoners with capital sentences and putting them in the front lines to defend the country against the infidel enemy. His action was the cause of removing the gallows which were planted by Jamal Pasha, the butcher, in the marketplaces and quarters of the country and which used to swallow hundreds of young men every day. For that reason he was exposed many times to death. Thus Al'lah saved him by His Greatness, His Mercy, and His Assistance.

During the French mandate, as he was a civil security officer, he was returned to his position as the director of a district or the chief of a police-station until the great Syrian revolution took place. Due to his love for God and his noble wish to serve his country, he was the iron arm of the revolutionaries and the aorta of the revolution. Its seal was in his trustworthy hand. He disquieted the French forces with his wonderful experiments in changing retreat into victory and in giving the revolutionaries the greatest arms deal between France and the Greater Syria. He handed these arms, which the French stored in Anjar castle in Lebanon, to the revolutionaries at night. General Catro, the governor of Syria at that time, lost his mind and ordered that Mr. Mohammad Amin be executed, but the Almighty God saved him and his assistant through His Complete Words, and he turned into a very trustworthy man for them despite their error of judgment.

### The stage of guidance & invitation to Al'lah

After he became forty years old, God revealed to him His Omniscience.

He began to see the recitation of the prophet (cpth) in his prayer (communication with God) of 'Al-Fatiha' (the Opening) Fortress in sight and in hearing. After that he began to guide his disciples and he bore the banner of guidance in extreme strength and worthiness.

He used to be called 'Amin Bey' for 'Bey' is a Turkish word meaning 'the pure'. His salon used to embrace the flower of youth of Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, asking for irrigation from his Mohammadan spring, rich and generous in giving an atmosphere of haughtiness, majesty, and sanctity.

If the noble deeds were mentioned...

In our horizons...

In you the example is given...

For all of us...

### A glimpse of his invitation to Al'lah, his revelation and his great guidance

His sanctified assemblies were distinguished by charming and unique revelation in perfect and plain meanings, and complete presence of reality. His words used to hit the target and fall cool and peaceful in the hearts of the listeners, as a light that bewitched them to free their spirits to soar very high.

He drove away darkness, tore asunder contradictions, and finally obliterated the intriguing schools and barren argumentations which created a big gap in the minds of people between themselves and their God. He acquainted people with the reality of God, and the consummation of His Qualities... a Merciful God, Compassionate, Wise, Fair, Conferrer of benefit, Donator, deserved to be worshipped for Himself for He is the Owner of Beauty and Consummation. It is He who is praised for any harm because this harm results in cure and donation. He is Needless of creation, and of our allegiance and our obedience, because He is Rich and we are poor and our obedience is for our own good and benefit. We need to enter His luminous fort of faith, to be protected from misfortune and adversity.

His honorable life history was a high interpretation and a clear constitution for the wonderful revelation that he brought, which contained facts for which heads bowed. The reality was a light, the form was a proof and the true practical application was a guide. His revelation was matchless in world civilizations and the positive laws of present life.

Why are we created?

What is this universe for?

What is the use of religious rituals?

What is hunger for, followed by eating in Ramadan?

What is the output and benefit of prayer?

Why do pilgrimage to a waterless and treeless desert?

Why were we brought into existence?

Where were we?

What is death for? And what is really after it?

What is the spirit?

What is the soul?

What is the mind?

What is paradise?

What is hell?

What about the problem of fate?

What is the pre-material world (the world of spirits)?

Facts and questions have not come to people's minds because they were busy in the tempting world and its deceptions, and they forgot to search in the files of existence and know its secrets.

21-The Humane Scholar M.A. Sheikho & Sir John G.Bennett

The famous coeval English scientist, Sir John Godolphin Bennett, in one of his meetings with western scientists, said: "All the sciences that we have achieved are not equal to the sea of that great eminent scholar in the Orient."

His invitation to God is based on a course that is never mistaken: **"Say: this is my way: I invite to Al'lah with sure insight, I and whosoever follows me. Glorified and Exalted is Al'lah. And I am not of the polytheists."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 12, Yusuf (Joseph), verse 80

In the light of this honorable Ayah (verse), he began to call to God for more than thirty years a call concentrated on the following points:

Acquainting people with the consummation of the Almighty God, and showing His Mercy to His obedient people and His Justice with His creation. He refuted all that remained in human minds and whatever was circulated that contradicted the Godly Justice, Clemency, and Mercy and (all) Godly Consummations, and his guide was the Word of God: **"And all the most Beautiful Names (Attributes) belong to Al'lah, so call on Him by them, and leave the company of those who deny His Names. They will be requited for what they used to do."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 7, Al-A'raf (The Heights), verse 180

Revealing the consummations of the messengers (ptt), of whom God witnessed in His Glorious Book as to their spirits' purity and their impeccability, and made them supreme examples for the worlds to be guided by them as mentioned in his book: The Impeccability of Prophets, – a book the like of which could never have been written by his forerunners. He confuted every fabrication or exegesis that disagreed with their sublimity and their high rank adhering in that to the Word of God **"They are those whom Al'lah has guided, so follow their guidance..."**

The Holy Qur'an

Fortress 6, Al-An'am (Livestock), verse 90

Calling people to adhere to honorable jurisprudence and to attain piety of God truly (witnessing by Al'lah's Light), besides warning people not to let their spirits follow their capricious whims, and not to depend upon vain wishes but turning to the Word of God: **"It will not be in accordance with your desires, nor those of the people of the scripture; whosoever works evil, will have the recompense thereof, and he will not find any protector or helper besides God."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 4, An-Nisa' (Women), verse 123

And also calling to the tradition of the messenger (cpth): "The discerning person is one who accuses himself and works for what is behind death, and the disabled is one who follows his caprices and asks God for wishes."

Guiding people to the steps of true faith as shown by the messenger (cpth) to his noble companions, deriving them from the Book of God. No person has their heart mixed with delight of faith but they straighten for God's Order and have a self-deterrent (from committing sins). God mentioned that in His noble saying: **"...and whosoever believes in God, He guides his heart."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 64, At-Taghabun (The Apparent Loss), verse 11

Revering God's messenger (cpth), glorifying him, and showing his high position with Al'lah, then guiding to the way of his love (cpth) and revealing what fruit comes out of loving that pure chaste spirit, from entering into Al'lah's presence through him, and dying with a believing spirit coupled through him to perfection from God, following the Almighty's saying: **"So those who believe in him, honour him, help him, and follow the light sent down with him, it is them who gain."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 7, Al-A'raf (The Heights), verse 157

It was a valuable age that this pure man had spent striving and seeking nearness to Al'lah. And through this nearness he acquired the high ranks and consummation that he acquired, and realized glories and works charged with holy humane strife, and great humane sacrifices. So that his life was the highest example for the highest behavior, for supporting what is right through matchless heroic deeds that defeated falsehood and made it perishable.

He devoted his valuable life to the service of his human brethren. He competed with the wheel of time in its running and matched the sun in its light. The jet black nights of Damascus were changed at his hands into bright days for the glittering light of his works and the blessing grace of his sacrifices. He joined his night to his day overcoming rest. His eyelids never closed except for little naps to save his human brethren who were in swamps of sorrow and pain, not caring for the dangers of death or capital punishment or for what money or concessions he had paid in the service of God.

Many times he remained penniless despite his previous wealth. It is no wonder that God revealed to him that manifest revelation on a sacred night to let him witness the realm of God and ascend in his spirit into the sacred lofty Mohammadan worlds which were prepared for him because of his truthfulness, effort and sacrifice. Similarly, anyone who strives to attain this and be truthful in their love and their quest for God and the messenger (cpth) shall find the door open for them and for every truthfully desiring follower.

### Joining the Highest Comrade (his death)

In this wonderful way, he spent a valuable life full of knowledge of God, which the heart does not feel safe without, and without which humankind won't achieve happiness. He was the lamp that gave light to generations on their way to happiness through the Book of God, and the cresset that guided mankind to felicity, consummation, virtue and good life from God until he joined the highest Comrade in the first days of Rabi' Thani in the year 1964. He was buried in the cemetery of God's prophet 'Dhi Al-Kifl' in Al-Salhiyeh Quarter.

God says: **"And who is better in speech than him who invites to Al'lah, and works righteous deeds, and proclaims: I am one of the Muslims."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 41, Fussilat (Explained), verse 33

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## A Glimpse of the Life of the Researcher & Islamic Scholar Prof. Abdul-Kadir John Alias Al-Dayrani

Verifier & Publisher of Books of the Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho (His soul has been sanctified by Al'lah)

His light rose on 24 July 1934, and he was lucky to see the light in the Damascene house of his father, a great scholar, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Dayrani (God has mercy upon him), a disciple of the great Sheikh Badrud-Deen Al-Hassani Al-Hussaini (God has mercy upon him), one of the great scholars of Hadith in Damascus at whose hands Professor Abdul-Kadir received a virtuous education full of knowledge. The extent of his learning was such that he left not one of his father's books unread in his youth.

Before he had completed his secondary education, he met with the scholar, M. A. Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah), and was astonished at his greatest of Godly sciences. He then adhered to him like his shadow for nine years, throughout which he was educated as a scholar. These were years full of great science and knowledge.

He finished his secondary education and started university, and got 10 university certificates.

Prof. Abdul-Kadir said:

22-Prof. A. K. Al-Dayrani heading one of the meetings that was held with the scientific medical team supervising the research on cupping

These certificates have availed me no fact; rather, I got all the facts from my guide, the great scholar M. A. Sheikho. I have got a certificate in Arabic literature, but it has never profited me in philology or in understanding the meanings of language. I know the language with its meanings only from the scholar's mouth, and this is so concerning the other sciences.

All the books I have published are inclusively derived from the scholar's sciences, and include facts which have astonished every philosopher and scientist. Certain great sciences and witnessed facts are what I have received and heard from the great scholar's mouth; I have published them literally, as they are Godly revelations that cannot be attained by human science, even if all humanity assembled to aid one another. They are tangible and actual defiance, before which the sciences of humankind have vanished.

Some of these facts came to light and then removed obscurity; for example, the operation of cupping, which incomparably surpassed medicine when it cured diseases that had been considered incurable by the Arabic, Roman and Greek medical sciences for thousands of years. This has been noticed by millions of people who have applied cupping, and therefore, it is considered a miracle of the present age.

Similar to this is the secret of mentioning Al'lah's Name aloud over carcasses while slaughtering them, which was discovered by the great humane scholar and has been a mercy presented to the eaters of humanity and to all cattle slaughtered in this way.

In addition, there is what he presented in physics, such as discovering the sources of spring water, an issue which had not been known before by anyone.

Besides this are the great Qur'anic sciences, such as revealing the meanings of the letters with which the Fortresses start, and his wondrous explanation of the exordium (Al-Fatiha) and of the meanings folded under the verse: "Praise is to God, the Provider of the worlds"; and further, the meanings of each verse of the Holy Qur'an (Al'lah's saying). And there are other sciences of the scholar which contain facts which have not been discovered by anyone before or after him.

I hospitably accept any discussion about these sciences: a scientific impartial discussion far from emotions, seeking the truth and the absolute reality freed from any argument, quackery, or falseness.

Prof. Abdul-Kadir wrote a lot of collections through the Qur'anic lessons of his guide, the humane scholar, and he drank a lot from the spring of his sciences. He heard of the scholar's deeds from those who had witnessed them, just as he himself had viewed a lot of them.

When he devoted himself to guidance and the call to Al'lah, he collected, checked and examined what he had received from his scholar, and then he published these collections in order for their benefits to spread all over the world, in this time when humanity is greatly in need of such science.

The number of books which Prof. Abdul-Kadir Al-Dayrani has checked exceeds fifty-five, and his name has become widely known as being associated with the name of the great humane scholar M. A. Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah). He undertook unique modern scientific research about the operation of cupping which the scholar had taught to his disciples from the right holy prophetic tradition, and he became the head of the Syrian medical team who carried out a modern scientific study of cupping, where all the requirements of research and the application of cupping rules were fulfilled under his auspices and with his guidance and consultation at every step.

This study has been spread widely all over the world so that many Eastern and Western hospitals have seriously adopted it, and it has become the talk of people and their chief concern because of what astonishing cures have been achieved in this way.

He also did more scientific research to prove the wisdom behind mentioning the statement 'in the Name of God, Al'lah is Greater' aloud over cattle when slaughtering them.

This was an astounding modern medical method based on the tests of great scholars of medicine and through which it was confirmed that mentioning the Name of Al'lah results in purifying the cattle's meat from microbes, saving it from the pain of slaughter, and curing it from the incurable dangerous diseases like mad cow disease and bird plague. This was a subject which had been elucidated by scholar M. A. Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah) through giving his Qur'anic lessons to his disciples.

Damascus on 4 Sept 2007

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Excerptions from the Sciences of the Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho (God has sanctified his soul)

Such is the habit of this Venerable Humane Scholar (God has sanctified his soul) concerning all what he had bestowed upon us of the endless knowledge which turn the heads and make the fronts bow glorifying and revering the meanings of the Holy Qur'an. He filled the heavens with what Al'lah the Almighty had revealed to him of the Qur'anic scientifical knowledge, for it is he who acquitted the noble prophets from all what conflicts with their perfection, impeccability and their spirits' purity in his book **Impeccability of Prophets**. As he explained their high deeds by which they deserved receiving the message of their Provider, then they became guides guided by Al'lah's Light.

He also disproved each saying or tale that contradicts the impeccability of our Master Mohammad (cpth) in two books he had singled out about the chosen beloved-prophet Mohammad (cpth) - **The Reality of our Master Mohammad 'cpth'** Appears in the Twentieth Century and Visiting the Prophet's Position 'cpth' and the Effect of his Love in Elevating the Believed Spirit.

As he showed the position of the prophet's pure companions which they had had justly, and their desert of holding caliphate by Al'lah, the Almighty after Master of the creatures, like our Master Abu-Bakr, who triumphed over the apostate Arabs Persians, and Romans, and our Master _Omar Ibn Al-Khattab_ who completed the conquests, supported the orphans, and attached the ties of blood, besides the rest of the four caliphs and the honourable companions. He clarified that their belief in Al'lah the Almighty and their love to His noble messenger (cpth) is the source of their knowledge and the reason beyond their sublimity and authority over the worlds.

He showed the wisdom folded in the verses of the Holy Qur'an, and hidden in every command we have been ordered by the Great and the Almighty, for he disclosed the meaning of the letters reporting in the beginning of the Fortresses, which all the Muslim scholars failed to know.

Besides his wondrous revelation of the exordium _(Al-Fatiha)_ and the secret beyond reading it when communicating with Al'lah, which had bewildered all the scholars and the holy men. All of that is mentioned in his book **Secrets of the Seven Praising Verses** and his book **Al-Amin Interpretation of the Great Qur'an**.

He derived the times of the five prayers _(communicating with Al'lah)_ from the Holy Qur'an, and showed the wisdom behind it 'prayer' and the secret of turning toward the Ka'ba. As he derived the proportion of Zakat (Almsgiving) which is 2.5% from the Qur'anic verses. He explained the meaning of piety _(seeing by Al'lah's Light)_ and how to attain it in Ramadan, as he explicated the meaning of the Night of Qadr and showed the reason of revealing the Qur'an on that blessed Night.

He also revealed the secrets of the rites of pilgrimage and the wisdom beyond each ritual that the pilgrim (Hajji) performs. As he showed the way of true believing and clarified that believing in God is not attained only by saying or admitting, but it is a witnessing in its reality, manifesting the meaning of the statement: _'I witness that there is no God but Al'lah, and I witness that Mohammad is the messenger of Al'lah'_. All of that is stated in his book: **High Schools of Seeing by Al'lah's Light -The Jewels of Rules in Explaining the Pillars of Islam**.

He solved the problem of fate which puzzled the minds of scientists and philosophers of Al Muatazelah, necessitarianism, Greek and Roman, as well as the scholars and philosophers of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Besides his high understanding of the Almighty's Saying: **"...He pardons whoever wills, and torments who ever pleases..."**.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (3) Al 'Imran (The Family of 'Imran), verse (129).

"... **He misguides whoever pleases and gives guidance to whoever wills...".**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (16) An-Nahl (The Bees), verse (93).

Showing that the will is the obedient one's who truly follows the way of believing requesting guidance and avoiding the way of perversity, seeking to reach the reality, the truth and the right religion. As he explained the freedom of choice which every man has in this life.

He explained in detail the meaning of the six days mentioned in the Holy Qur'an: **"Your Provider is Al'lah who created the heavens and the earth in six days then He over controlled their destiny...".**

The Holy Qur'an,

_Fortress (7) Al-A'raf (The Heights), verse (54)_ _._

As he expounded the meaning of 'the Ten Nights' and 'the Seven Heavens' which Muslim, Christian, and Jew scholars could not know. That is in his book: **The Great Scientific Discovery - The Astonishing Reality of the Six Days and the Seven Heavens.**

He elucidated by the sound logical the great praise which God's messenger (cpth) had deserved in 'Abasa Fortress (He Frowned), when the noble messenger, owner of great morals frowned as Abdul-lah Ibn Om Mactoom had come to him, while all the interpreters put God's messenger (cpth) in the wrong position when interpreting the beginning of this noble Fortress.

He clarified the meanings of all the Fortresses reporting in Am'ma part of the Qur'an and explained the word (Am'ma) in inimitable detail in his book Interpretation of Am'ma Part of the Qur'an.

He also showed the reality and the compassion folded in the case of polygamy reporting in the beginning of Al-Nesa' Fortress (Women) when he solved this problematic case and refuted each saying that causes Islam to look as a lustful religion by allowing man to marry four women without returning to the noble verse reading it as a whole and scrutinizing its course. For Muslim is not permitted to marry more than one woman, but as for marrying the second, third, and fourth one, it is not allowed except within the conditions reported in the beginning of the noble verse and have been neglected and put out of use. The noble verse stipulates that the woman should be widow and has orphans, so the purpose beyond polygamy is a humane and lofty one, it is to keep the widows and bring up the orphans then to build a sound society, and it is not a spiritual lustful one as many people interpret and put the verse into effect without returning to the beginning of it, and by that, they have drawn bad reputation on Islam and Muslims for religion has turned to be a lustful, not a humane one in their eyes, because of polygamy.

He also revealed the laws of divorce deriving them form the Holy Qur'an, and the way of fulfilling these stipulations and rules in case of recalcitrance (on the part of the wife) and rising of discord between the two mates. All of that is stated in his book: Islam... What is the Veil for? What is Divorce for? What is Polygamy for?

He elucidated the Almighty's aim beyond creating the creatures, and the reason of creating man and his coming to this world where he indicated Al-Azal World, the first creating, offering the trust and undertaking of man to bear it.

He also answered the puzzling question, which is, why are prophets born as prophets? And what base the Almighty depends on so that He decides them to be prophets and noble messengers before they are born?

He explained the Godly justice and demonstrated it in lofty logic, as he showed the reason of poverty, sickness, afflictions, and all what may befall man in this world of good or evil, besides, he stated the elements which man is composed of in a noticeable explanation, where he spoke about the difference between the soul and the spirit, and between the thought and the mind revealing the quiddity of each.

That was when the famous British scholar Sir John Godolphin Bennett professed Islam at the hands of him as he (Sir John) went to him to ask him his questions which were difficult for him and for all other scientists and scholars.

The meeting was in Damascus city on 1953, where _Sir John Goldophin Bennett_ asked him important questions and inquired about all what crossed his mind concerning Islam and its pillars, and about fasting, pilgrimage, Zakat (almsgiving) and the wisdom beyond each until the scholar asked him saying: Have you, Sir, known the source of the water you drink?

_Sir Bennett_ replied that the rain water is the main source of drinking water. Then the scholar replied him saying that the rain water is for plants and animals, and he revealed to him with the cogent evidence the sources of spring water in the whole world deriving his demonstration from the Holy Qur'an, and that the running of the big and small rivers on the surface of the earth is not ascribed at all to the rain water, a reply which is something unknown by any of the eastern and western scientists.

Rather! It is a great scientific miracle, which tells that the water of these springs has greater and more opulent sources than the rain water, for the scholar demonstrated with more than thirty scientific evidences derived from the noble verses that the ice of the north and south poles is the source of water of all the springs, and when Sir Bennett heard such research from him and discussed with him about it, he immediately confessed Islam and said: 'I wonder how this question has never crossed my mind before!'

And when he returned to his country, he said his famous words before a crowd of scientists and educated professors: _'Indeed, all what we have obtained of the sciences, do not equal the sea of sciences of that Great Scholar in the Orient'_.

He showed the wisdom behind circumcision for males, and the reason for which the Almighty has created this glans while the male embryo is in his mother's womb, then the wisdom behind cutting it after birth. This discovery of the scholar is unprecedented by any of the doctors of this time nor by those of all the previous ages. All of that is mentioned in his book: The Sources of Spring Water in the World - And - A Research on Discoveries of Circumcision Mystery.

He saved the cattle when he showed the use of mentioning Al'lah's Name over them when being slaughtered, by pronouncing the statement: 'In the Name of God, Al'lah is Greater', and clarified that when these cattle hear such great statement when performing the slaughter, their whole blood runs and their bodies shake so that all the blood is released from the carcass and nothing of it remains inside their meat, and by that, the Almighty grants us pure fresh meat, free from any germ. And on the contrary, the germs will remain inside the carcass over which the name of Al'lah was not mentioned so that the one who eats from it will be objected to suffer from diseases. Besides, neglecting mentioning Al'lah's Name over cattle will also expose them to be afflicted with deadly and incurable diseases.

The scholar had derived all that from the Qur'anic verses, and when his speech was subjected to a medical study, a laboratory medical team composed of masters of Medicine and laboratory in the Middle East have executed analysis for cattle slaughtered with mentioning Al'lah's Name over them, and others without this was done, then the results have come out precisely like what the scholar had said, i.e. colonies of germs and viruses remain inside the carcass over which Al'lah's Name was not mentioned.

This scientific tidings was transmitted by broadcastings, magazines, newspapers, satellites and news agencies warning people of neglecting mentioning Al'lah's Name over cattle, but... alas! Though that many people kept ignoring mentioning Al'lah's Name over them and as a result, the world was smitten by Mad Cow Disease, Bird Flu, and Sheep Plague the matter which the scholar had warned of according to the Almighty's saying: **"...and there are cattle over which they do not pronounce the Name of Al'lah, thus inventing a lie about Him. They will be punished for these lies."**

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (6) Al-An'am (Livestock), verse (138).

All that is mentioned in his book: **"God is Greater" is Mercy on Animal**.

He revived the sacred prophetic Sunnah after the books of the ancient had effaced it, when he drove away the incurable diseases by animating the Sunnah of cupping. He clarified its safe and correct conditions saying that it must be performed exclusively on the upper part of the back, in the early morning, without having breakfast, in the spring season, and when the crescent decreases, viz, after the seventeenth day of the lunar month, for the moon has a pull of gravitation effect on the earth.

A big medical team composed of about (350) professors and doctors in the Middle East has studied this operation according to its correct conditions shown by the scholar during three consecutive years, then the outcomes were amazing in the medical circles and there has been an increasing interest in it from year to year until it has spread all over the world because of its great benefits.

Reports of thanks and gratitude followed incessantly by all the world countries thanking him who had recreated this useful technique and all the people, Muslim or not Muslim, have practiced it after they had verified its benefits. All that is mentioned in his book: **The Marvelous Medicine that Cured Heart Disease, Cancer, Paralysis, and Migraine – Cupping, A prophetic Medical Science in its New Perspective**.

Most of the news agencies and the world satellites have broadcasted it, magazines and journals have talked about it, conferences and sessions have been held to discuss it, besides many international medical and hygienic centers... have adopted it seeking its many benefits, for it is a medical vade-mecum containing all cure in one wielded slit from a scalpel.

He also unveiled the reality of charlatans, jugglers, and magicians who work together with devils to cause harm to people through magic, and he explained all the tricks and the imaginary actions which the magicians do to people who know nothing about the reality of magic, such as telling of the false unseen matters as a whole, revealing that it is a close cooperation between the enchanters and the devilish companions. This matter has circulated among most of people in this world to the extent that you can hardly find a home free form these tricks and cunning of the magicians, or from distress and grief resulted from believing the herald of devil, especially those magicians who appear to people through satellites and talk to them about their affairs and diseases then the viewer or the one who phones them believes them unknowing that the magician colludes with his devilish companion to bring him his news.

As he offered the solution and showed the way leading to be released and cured from this spiritual diseases without resorting to any of people, especially those who allege treating people through spells or through reading verses of the Holy Qur'an though they, in fact, know nothing. All of that is clarified in his book: Unveiling the Secrets of the Magicians' Sciences.

He described man's state when death in both cases: when he is a believer or unbeliever, and elucidated his state after death, during the interval between death and the Day of Resurrection.

As he explained the verses relating to account on the Day of Resurrection, and clarified that man's deeds are imprinted on the pages of his spirit in this world so that on the doomsday they shall obviously appear to him.

He revealed the reality of paradise, which is, looking at the Presence (the Enlightening Face) of the Generous Provider, Owner of honouring, beauty and majesty, demonstrating that all what man obtains of pleasures, honouring and bliss are below that lofty Paradise. He proved his saying by logical evidences derived from the Holy Qur'an.

He also clarified that fire, on the Day of Resurrection is as a hospital where owners of spiritual diseases are treated because of what they bring with them from their lower life of the mean deeds which degrade them before Al'lah, the Almighty, so that their shame and disgrace causes them to request fire (the treating) in order to escape from what they suffer of the spiritual pains and spiritual burning that destroy them greatly. God's messenger (cpth) says: _«Shame will adhere to man on doomsday until he says: oh, my Provider, Your sending me to Fire is easier than what I am suffering, though he knows the great torture in it»_.

All that is mentioned in his book: **Interpretation of the Great Qur'an** and his book: **Al-Amin Interpretation of the Great Qur'an**.

He revealed the reality of intercession, which most of the scholars failed to reach, where they thought it an intercession of unjust mediating through which the noble messenger (cpth) gets whoever he likes out of fire, the matter which incites people to commit sins hoping to be interceded on doomsday, so he clarified through the verses of the Holy Qur'an that intercession is got only by the believer and it begins from this world and lasts for him to the afterlife, and that intercession is binding of a spirit to another, derived from the world (couple), which indicates a thing binds to another and couples with it adhering to it. Intercession then, is binding of the believing spirits to the messenger's (cpth) and coupling with him so as to ascend them to the Godly Presence, as the spirits of the honourable companions bound up to and coupled with his pure chaste spirit (cpth) entering into God's through him, so they accompanied him in this world, in the interval between death and doomsday, and shall keep accompanying him in the hereafter.

He, who does not couple with God's messenger (cpth) in this world, will have no intercession in the life to come, yet, it will be no more than hopes of which they indulge their spirits so as to allow themselves committing forbidden things, for the Holy Qur'an as a whole warns man of the consequences of his deeds, and informs him that he will be recompensed for the whit of his action, either with goodness in Paradise, or with getting treatment in Fire.

Besides, it (the Holy Qur'an) indicates that God's messenger (cpth) has nothing to do for a creature except admonishing, yet, he can drive nothing to his noble spirit: **"Say: I have not the power to acquire benefits or to avert evil for myself..."**.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress (10) Yunus (Jonah), verse (49).

" **Say: I have no control over any good or evil that befalls you."**

The Holy Qur'an,

_Fortress (72) Al-Jinn (The Jinn), verse (21)_ _._

" **It is the day when a spirit has nothing to do for another and Al'lah then will reign supreme."**

The Holy Qur'an,

_Fortress (82) Al-Infitar (Bursting Apart), verse (19)_ _._

" **Can you save those who have rightly earned punishment and are doomed to the fire?"**

_The Holy_ _Qur'an_ _,_

_Fortress (39) Az-Zumar (The Groups), verse (19)_ _._

He set forth this important research in detail in most of his books, especially his book: **Reality of Intercession -** **A Calm Dialogue between Dr. Mostafa Mahmood & Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradhawi**.

He also showed the reality of our father Adam's descent from Paradise, the reason beyond his eating from the tree, and the state in which he and our mother Eve (ptt) were before eating from the tree, and that his great love to his Provider had led him to forget the Godly Advice and eat from the tree. All the going on was by an arrangement of Al'lah, the Almighty, so as to let our father Adam (PTH) out of Paradise, and to give him instead of it, together with his offspring, Paradises besides to show him with his sons the enmity of the devil in order for man to know that he has an enemy who lurks to him, then to beware of him and follow the guidance of his Provider by Whom the noble prophets were guided and thereby, he will be preserved from committing sins and from controlling of the devil over him.

He is, as well, the first one who has revealed the reality of believing and the straightway leading to it which the Holy Qur'an has stated, and all the noble messengers and prophets followed.

He manifested the reason behind mentioning the tale of the Israelites (Sons of Israel) frequently in the Holy Qur'an and their arguing with their noble messenger, our Master Moses (PTH), clarifying that if man does not follow the way of faith legislated to him by the Almighty, he will profit nothing from watching miracles and super-natural actions, nor will he be one of the believers whatever you bring him of the signs and cogent evidences, but indeed seeking the truth honestly and using the thought in searching for it is that which guides the spirit and leads it to the sources of real knowledge.

All that is mentioned in his book: **Al-Amin Interpretation of the Great Qur'an**.

As he clarified all the indications of the Hour, and the evidences of returning of the Jesus the Christ (PTH) from the Holy Qur'an in his book **The Second Coming of the Christ**.

All that is a drop of an ocean of what this Great Humane Scholar had revealed, for the researches and the fields of thinking cannot be written down in lines in order to be read, but indeed, it is only to attract attention to what he had offered and revealed to mankind of the knowledge of the Holy Qur'an.

Many venerable scholars have talked about him and praised his knowledge, his deep deriving from the Holy Qur'an and his great understanding of it.

They found trueness and faithfulness in his mission, and that it gathers the whole under the banner of the Holy Qur'an and the sacred Sunnah of God's noble messenger (cpth) so that all the hateful sectarian disputes destroying the religion of our Master Mohammad (cpth) will be driven away by this guidance. These sectarianisms have become mere following of the forefathers instead of following the Holy Qur'an, where the one nation has been divided into many ones and turned away from the right way parted into sects and parties, each party is pleased with its own false beliefs. The interpolator ones deceived them by what they had filled their books with mistakes, infringements, and interpretations contradicting Al'lah's Attributes and the noble prophets' perfection, then Muslim lost his way and sank into the sea of disagreement of sects and parties, and he abstained from religion and inclined to this lower life because of them.

Dr _. Mostafa Mahmood_ said that: _'the Holy Qur'an was deserted before the knowledge of this Great Scholar, for his scientific knowledge is received from Al'lah and his revelation is logical. I have never found, during all my life, one word like his at another one'_.

Dr _. Mostafa_ has appropriated a special book about him under the title of: **Contemplations in the Sciences of the Great Eminent Scholar:** Mohammad Amin Sheikho ' _God has sanctified his soul'_

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## Issued to the Great Humane Eminent Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho

(God has sanctified his soul)

1- Interpretation of Am'ma Part of the Qur'an

2- Visiting the Prophet (cpth) and the Effect of his Love in Elevating the Believed Spirit

3- Impeccability of Prophets

4- High Schools of Seeing by God's Light (the Jewels of Rules in Explaining the Pillars of Islam)

5- The Sources of Spring Water in the World - And - A Research on Discoveries of the Circumcision Mystery

6- Interpretation of the Great Qur'an (Lights of Descending & Realities of Meaning) Volume -1-

7- Interpretation of the Great Qur'an (Lights of Descending & Realities of Meaning) Volume -2-

8- Am'ma Encyclopedia (The Compassionate's Gifts in Interpreting the Qur'an) Volume -1-

9- From the Heros' Careers for Children and Babies (The Courageous Boy and the Female Jinni)

10- From the Heros' Careers for Children and Babies (The Dog that Became a Horse) -2-

11- From the Heros' Careers for Children and Babies (The Brave Boy and his Practical Reply to His Uncle) -3-

12- From the Heros' Careers for Children and Babies (Ring of Wrestling) -4-

13- From the Heros' Careers for Children and Babies (Disciplining of the Greengrocer) -5-

14- From the Heros' Careers for Children and Babies (God Bless you, Cub 'of a Lion' of the Quarter) -6-

15- From the Heros' Careers for Children and Babies (Adventure of the Little Horseman) -7-

16- Al-Amin Interpretation of the Great Qur'an (The Previous Nations) volume -1-

17- The English Translation of (The Sources of Spring Water in 18- The World & A Research on Discoveries of the Circumcision Mystery) Book

19- Pages from the Eternal Glory (Life of the Great Humane Eminent Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho) Volume -1-

20- Reality of Intercession - A calm Dialogue between Dr. Mostafa Mahmood & Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradhawi

21- The Reality of our Master Mohammad (cpth) Appears in the Twentieth Century

22- The Persian Translation of (the Reality of our Master Mohammad 'cpth' Appears in the Twentieth Century) Book

23- God is Greater - Be kind to Animal: A Medical Scientific 24- Study about the Use of Mentioning Al'lah's Name over the Carcass at Slaughtering

25- Islam... What is the Veil for? What is Divorce for? What is Polygamy for?

26- The West has Disenthralled Man from Slavery, so, why Islam has not??

27- The Great Scientific Discovery - the Astonishing Reality of the Six Days and the Seven Heavens

28- The Amazing Miracle of the Fundamental Verses of the Book in the Twenty - First Century

29- Faith (The First of High School of seeing by God's Light)

30- Communication with Al'lah (The Second of High Schools of Seeing by God's Light)

31- Zakat (Almsgiving) (The Third of High Schools of Seeing by God's Light)

32- Fasting (The Forth of High Schools of Seeing by God's Light)

33- Pilgrimage (The Fifth of High Schools of Seeing by God's Light)

34- A Calm Dialogue about the Great Humane Eminent Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho

35- Am'ma Encyclopedia (8) – Interpretation of Alms (Al-Ma'un) Srua

36- Am'ma Encyclopedia (9) – Interpretation of Quraysh Fortress

37- Am'ma Encyclopedia (10) – Interpretation of the Elephant (Al-Fil) Fortress

38- Am'ma Encyclopedia (11) – Interpretation of the Prodder (Al-Humaza) Fortress

39- The Marvellous Medicine that Cured Heart Disease, Paralysis, Hemophilia, Migraine, sterility and Cancer

40- The Great Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho Retorts his Opposers

41- The Glorious Researches

42- The Mohammadan Revelations - (part 1)

43- Interpretation of the Great Qur'an (Light of Descending & Realities of Meaning) volume -3-

44- Unveiling the Secrets of the Magicians' Sciences

45- The Persian Translation of (God is Greater - Be Kind to Animal) Book

46- The Reality of Great Tamerlane Appears in the Twenty - one Century - (part 1)

47- The Second Coming of Christ

48- Secrets of the Seven Double Praiseworthy Verses

49- Good–bye to Doctor of Al-Muqawqass

## Shortly will be issued

1- The Reality of Great Tamerlane Appears in the Twenty – one Century - (part 2)

2- Interpretation of the Great Qur'an (Lights of Descending & Realities of Meaning) Volume -4-

3- Am'ma Encyclopedia (12) - Interpretation of the Age (Al-Asr) Fortress

4- Am'ma Encyclopedia (13) - Interpretation of the Worldly Gain (Al-Takathur) Fortress

5- Am'ma Encyclopedia (14) - Interpretation of the Disaster (Al-Qari'a) Fortress

6- Am'ma Encyclopedia (15) - Interpretation of the Wind (Al-'Adi'yat) Fortress

7- Am'ma Encyclopedia (16) - Interpretation of the Earthquake (Al-Zal'zala) Fortress

8- Am'ma Encyclopedia (17) - Interpretation of the Proof (Al-Ba'yina) Fortress

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# Endnotes

## [1]-M. Emin Bey Chikhou (M. Amin. Sheikho): He used to be called 'Emin Bey' for 'Bey' is a Turkish word meaning 'the pure'

## [2] Fortress' this word means a 'Surah' of the Holy Qur'an

## [3] Kindly, refer to the book of the great humane scholar M. A. Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah), Cupping: the Marvelous Medicine that Cured Heart Disease, Paralysis, Hemophilia, Migrain, sterility and Cancer.

## [4] Kindly, refer to the book of the great humane scholar M. A. Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah), Al'lah is Greater, Be Kind to Animals.

## [5] (pth): "Peace is through him".

## [6] Azali is Pre-material.

## [7] Both Moses and his brother Aaron.

## [8] Al zaboor, (David, Testament, Reviving Religious Sciences, Part 4 Page 469, said "He, who seeketh Me shall find Me and he, who seeketh another doesn't find Me". Abou Al Dar'da said: "I witness I heard God's Messenger say that".

## [9] The Holy Qur'an, Fortress (114) An-Nas (Oblivious Mankind, Oblivious Jinn kind), verses (1).

## [10] See (Lady Bird) series "The two polar Areas".

## [11] Mohammad Amin Sheikho

