How to create a mental unity

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Now, we engage in studying a part of Islamic sciences and instructions, which can help us in achieving this great objective (creation of mental unity among men):

The principle of monotheism, which forms the basis of all Islamic sciences: Islam has completely washed out the scattered lords as the sign of diversity of thoughts and ideas and also an effective factor for social discords, and even instructs to its followers that there is no disunity and variety in God's essence and attributes. His essence is extensive and His attributes are all exactly the same.

We know that one of the factors of disunity among people in old ages has been belief in several lords, and each tribe, nation, race and sometimes city had their own lord or lords, and after their conquest over the other nations, that lord too triumphed and was recognized, and at the time of defeat, it was forgotten!

As Albermaleh writes in the chapter related to religious beliefs of Chaldaeans:

At first, in Chaldea too, like Egypt, each city had its own lord. After formation of great states, worshipping the lords of different territories was generalized, and the lord of capital city became the Lord of Lords! And thus, at the time of Hamourabi(1), since Babylon was the capital of Chaldea, the lord of this city which was named Mardouk, was considered as the Lord of Lords through Chaldea, and since at the beginning, capital of Assyria's government was Assyria, the lord of this city, which was also called Assyria became the Lord of Lords of Assyrian people.(2)

And he writes about religion of Egyptians:

... It was not so that all Egyptians worship several common lords. Rather, each city had a separate lord, but once worship of some lords (of course, only in Egypt) was circulated throughout Egypt.

Whenever a city became more important and creditable, dignity of its lords was increased.(3)

The sample of this dispersion of lords appeared in the origin of Islam, that is Hejaz, and specially Mecca, and it was the source and sign of all types of mental and social dispersion and disunity, and since it is evident, there is no need to any proof.

Islam terminated this situation with its brilliant instructions and sciences, and the motto of all Moslems became monopoly of deity in the unique God, There is no God, except Allah, and attention to Allah, the unique God.

Quran says: not only deity on the earth is God, rather He is the only rightful deity throughout the world of creation, where it says:

وَ هُوَ الَّذِی فِی السَّماءِ اِلهٌ وَ فِی الاَْرْضِ اِلهٌ).

And it is He who in heaven is God and in earth is God.(4)

And somewhere else it says:

اِنْ کُلُّ مَنْ فِی السَّمواتِ وَ الاَرْضِ اِلاّ آتِی الرَّحْمنِ عَبْداً)

None is there in the heavens and earth but he comes to the All-merciful as a servant.(5)

Islam has also expanded the reality of monotheism to the world of creation in its instructions, and introduces the entire world as a unit, originating from a unique source:

ما تَرى فِی خَلْقِ الرَّحْمنِ مِنْ تَفاوُت فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرى مِنْ فُطُور).

Thou seest not in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection. Return thy gaze; seest thou any fissure?(6)

And also Quran introduces all living creatures from one single source:

مِنَ الْماءِ کُلَّ شَیْءِ حَیٍّ).

Of water We fashioned every living thing?(7)

And thereby Islam rejects one of the other basic foundations of polytheism and belief in the lords of species. Because this belief mostly originates from the point that they assumed each of the world's creatures as an independent and separate unit, and considered an independent creator for each of them.

According to Islamic instructions, the creator and lord of this world is not separate from this world, that is, while it is not the same as them, it is not separate from them too.

وَ نَحْنُ اَقْرَبُ اِلَیْهِ مِنْکُمْ وَلکِنْ لا تُبْصِرُونَ).

And We are nigher him than you, but you do not see Us.(8)

وَ نَحْنُ اَقْرَبُ اِلَیْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِیدِ).

And We are nearer to him than the jugular vein.(9)

«مَعَ کُلِّ شَیْء لا بِمُقارَنَة وَ غَیْرُ کُلِّ شَیء لا بِمُزایَلَة».

He is with everything but not in physical nearness. He is different from everything but not in physical separation.(10)


1- Hamourabi is a well-known conqueror king who is reputable for the interesting rules, which are left by him as memorial.
2- Albermaleh, History of Eastern Nations, 81/1
3- The same document, page 41
4- Ornaments sura (43), verse 84
5- Mary sura (19), verse 93
6- The Kingdom sura (67), verse 3
7- The Prophets sura (21), verse 30
8- The Terror sura (56), verse 85
9- Qaf sura (50), verse 16
10- Nahjol Balaghe, sermon 1

 

 

 

 

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