Remember Me, I Will Remember You

All praises are due to the Holy One, Allah جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ the Supreme Divine Sovereign Lord and Cherisher of all creations. “He is the Primal [before anything ever existed], and He is the Last [where there is nothing beyond Him]. He is the Manifest [there is nothing more evident than Him], He is the Immanent [there is nothing beyond Him], and He has full knowledge of everything.” (Quran 57:3)

هُوَ الْأَوَّلُ وَالْآخِرُ وَالظَّاهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ ۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ ﴿٣﴾

Allah جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ the Supreme Divine Sovereign Lord of all creations is the Infinite. No fathom can encompass His illimitableness; no creation has knowledge except for what He reveals, and our limitation to know otherwise is acknowledgment of the fact of His Divinity.

Our Lord سُبحَانَهُ وَتَعَالى loves His creation. He alone determines what they need, and He is their sole provider and sustainer. Any attempts to personify or epitomize His Supreme Majesty always fail. He inspires His elite to seek Him and He alone determines what they can perceive of Him. The ranks of the elite are infinite and only He can reckon them. Some never rose from their prostration since He created them. Some may appear colossal to others but remain a token in comparison to the spread of His infiniteness. Some heavenly beings measure galaxies and others are as small as ants.

No one can reciprocate what He alone gives, but since everything originated solely from Him, their value is appreciated many folds and multiplied by Him.

Our Lord’s سُبحَانَهُ وَتَعَالى love for His creations is incomparable and uniquely supreme, and yet, He values greatly and appreciates a token of His creation’s recognition of His Work and their acknowledgement of Him.

My dear son! In this down world, some believers ask for paradise, and others seek nothing besides Him; some aspire for health, wealth and children, and others supplicate intensely for safe crossing back to Him.

He communicates at varying levels with some of His creations, and He is graciously willing to talk to the more intelligent ones, He alone created. He communicates with the heavenly beings of His kingdom according to their level of understanding He alone advances and depending on their ranks, and with other malã’ika angels through subtle orders. Despite that, His Holy Words are always commands. Throughout ages, He spoke to some of His blessed Prophets and Messengers عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلام.  He spoke in Words to our father Adam عَلَيْهِ السَّلام in Paradise as well as on earth. He spoke to Noah, Abraham and to Moses عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلام and such blessed ones, upon all of whom be peace. He raised one hundred and twenty four thousand humans to the station of prophethood, and He sent three hundred and twelve Messengers عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلام to humanity across the ages and lands.

Prior to its creation, when humanity was still resident of the universe of the souls, the souls could orbit a dedicated pre-ordained sphere of the Divine Throne. Their incessant collective utterances then could only celebrate His praises. Otherwise, it was certainly unexpected and rather impossible for souls to express personal thoughts except for what they observe. What the primal souls witnessed resonated as their utterances and with such praises they joined other heavenly beings in adoring their Lord. When the souls transferred to become the embodiment of their earthly form, their pre-natal spiritual experiences were compacted to balance with the biological evolutionary state of their body. Their connection with their primal state became partially limited to the body’s state of sleeping. Otherwise, their conscious awareness may become illumined again when awakened by hearkening, contemplating (arb. zikr – ذِكْر), obeying the Divine commands (arb. tTaa‘a – طَاعَة), adoring their Lord (arb. ‘ibada – عِبَادَة) and learning about His Holy Attributes (arb. ‘ilm – عِلْم). Once their faith (arb. iman – إِيْمَان) becomes certitude (arb. yaqeen – يَقِينْ) and their confidence is fostered by deeds (arb. ‘amal – عَمَلْ), they can earn His blessings, and knowledge of their original state will blossom again; their hopes in receiving the Divine forgiveness and their preparedness to be brought back to their promised then newly created lodge will absorb their aspiration and satiate their hearts with peace.

Most blessed is the Lord of all creations and far He is from forgetting even the minute need of an infinitesimal microscopic cell of His creation. His most complex multifaceted universal observation of each and every creature across the entire heavens and the galactical systems and what they contain, He alone sustains and maintains; the cycle of each life-form He alone can support, be it animate or inanimate, their renewal, revolution, rejuvenation or transformation; as the Originator, Maintainer and Provider of everything, He is praised as ‘Rabbu-l ‘Aalameen’ (رَبُّ العَالَمِيْنَ), the Lord of all creations, and such universal coverage proclaims Him as the sole and unique supreme Divine Sovereign Lord Who has neither associate nor partners, for He never sublet any of His duties to any of His dependents. None can maintain such Divine work except Him جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ. That is Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ the Supreme Divine Lord.

The Holy Attributes He manifested, the universally never interrupted Divine operating powers He revealed and other attributes of His Absolute Omnipotent perfection, all of which will remain eternally unfathomable; the supreme marvels He made known and other Divine Attributes no human thoughts can ever conceive; the secrets of the Divine Light that fills the entire heavens and planets He distributes their stations and allocates their orbit; the secrets of life, death and resurrection He alone maintains, and on this planet earth, not even a leaf can fall from a tree without His knowledge and permission. He even hears the steps of a black ant walking on an opaque stone in a moonless dark night, and He knows its intention and final lodge. He knows what gender the womb of a mother carries as well as the future lot and destiny of that new life to be born and its lifespan. He knows each and every individual thought and intention, and He sees what the eyes look at openly or discretely. Such is the Magnificent Monitoring Lord of all creations. That is Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ the Supreme Divine Lord to Whom we submit. That is Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ the Supreme Divine Lord Whom we are blessed to worship and adore.

The pathway He designated for us is straight forward. Thereat, He prescribed for us what is good and beneficial, and warned us against what is wrong and harmful. His shield is the most effulgent light; He guards with it those who accept His guidance. As to those in oblivion who neglected or refused His guidance and ignored His compassionate warning against a lasting and painful end, He lets them meet with the consequent shock of the forbidden, and to abide in the abyss of darkness they were warned against.

My son! In this life, we marvel at the beautiful sight of stars that decorate the clear skies at night. We marvel at the sight of vast seas, mountains, meadows, birds, flowers and their fragrance, butterflies and their silkworms, ants and their tribes, or even the miracle of colors He created. We marvel at the birth of a baby, and no intelligent human being can never cease to ponder His countless wonders. Not even the collective efforts of all humanity across the ages can stop the miracle of death. Our Lord عَزَّ وَجَلَّ also promised the sure coming miracle of resurrection and a Day of Judgment for all.

A sample point of His unique Divine perfection is most eminently detailed even in the making of a mosquito. The head of each mosquito has one hundred eyes in honeycomb formation, forty eight tooth in its mouthpart, three hearts — one central, and a heart for each wing — that has two common access atriums plus two inner chambers, multilevel heat sensors, blood type analysis capability, transparent anesthetic substance producing cells, blood thinning chemical, a prehensile trunk with six extremely sharp knives — four to cause a square cut in skin, and two knives that join and become a pipe to ease sucking its food. The feet of a mosquito also have claws to climb on rough surfaces, and suction clamps to climb on slippery surfaces. These are just a few of the featured parts of a mosquito, not to mention its life cycle, community and environmental conditions among others. Our Lord says: “Allah does not shy to use a mosquito for a parable, or even a larger creature. The believers know it is the truth from their Lord, while the unbelievers say: ‘What does Allah mean by this parable?’ With it, He lets many people go astray, and with it, He guides many people on the straight path, and He lets only the evildoers stray from the right path.” (Quran 2:26)

Those who deny the truth say: “Is it true that once we and our fathers become dust that we will be raised [from the dead]? We were promised as well as our forefathers were told that before. These are only legends foretold by earlier nations.” (Quran 22:73) Say [to them]: “You wait and see, and here we are also waiting.” (Quran 6:158) “Even if the entire creations muster their efforts, they cannot create even a fly, and should a fly nip something from them, they cannot recover it. Both the seeker and the wanted are equally weak.” (Quran 22:73)

I bear witness that there is no Divine Sovereignty except that of Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ, and I here testify that Muhammad is His Servant and Messenger.  “He sent His Messenger with the correct guidance and the true religion, to proclaim its eminence and superiority over all religions, regardless of what the polytheists don’t like [to see].” (Quran 9:33)

Our Lord, our submission to You is indeed a record of Your favors on us when You removed the veils that distracted our focus from pondering Your reality, and when You said: “I am Allah. There is no Divine Sovereign Lord except Me. Therefore, worship Me and hold regularly to Salat prayers to continue celebrating My praises. The [Last] Hour is certainly coming before too long. I am just about to reveal it, so that each soul receives its just retribution according to its own striving. Therefore, let no one who does not believe in it and who pursues his own obsession divert your focus from its approach, else you will suffer a perilous end.” (Quran 20:14-16)

This Holy Message was revealed a few thousand years back to Allah’s Prophet and Messenger Moses u upon whom be peace, when our Lord spoke to him at the Sacred Valley in Sinai, and then, the same message was rehearsed some fifteen hundred years ago to the Prophet Muhammad صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ, the Seal of Allah’s Prophets and Messengers upon all of whom be peace. The Sacred Message of the Glorious Quran is the sure testimonial of that.