Surah 29
The Spider
1. A, L, M (aleph, laam, meem)
2. Do people think that they are left to say “we believed”, while they aren’t being tempted?
[This is an answer to all religions, who have guaranteed salvation for themselves, and hell for everyone else,
So they stop saying that believing their clergy and belonging to their parties and religions is faith,
In fact, all people are constantly being challenged and tempted …
Not that there’s a god who wants to check if they’re sincerely loyal to him,
But the events of life will not consider their belief before happening,
Thus, if their moral and intellectual standing is of a short reach: they won’t even notice the challenge,
They commit crimes and obscenities, they act low and selfishly, they behave in an uncivilised manner … while all the way believing they are their god’s favorite creation …
From this perspective, people who have not adopted any belief, and are willing to learn and finetune their character constantly: are in fact closer to faith …
Many people do not want to take the Books as their moral reference,
Those have been turned off by the beliefs and behavior of the pious men of religion,
If a belief doesn’t translate to elevating human standards: it is of no use, and can indeed be harmful,
It wasn’t for nothing that it was said in the Gospel: the tree that bears no fruit ought to be cut off.]
3. We have tempted the ones before them, so God know those who were honest, and knows He the dishonest ones,
4. Or do those who do bad think they are ahead of Us? bad is how they judge,
5. Whoever begs for the Encounter of God: God’s Destiny is coming, is He the Hearer the Knower,
[Qur’anic interpreters read a threat in this verse. By doing so they expose their low station of awareness …
The word that we’ve translated to “beg” is often understood to mean “to fear”.]
6. And whoever strives/exercises jihad, that so, he strives for himself, God is indeed needless of the worlds,
[We are still waiting for an Islamic authority to denounce crime and suicide as a form of jihad,
On the one hand they perhaps feel unsure if crime and suicide aren’t jihad,
On the other hand, they perhaps feel this is the last weapon they have, and they can’t dispense with it …
But the Book tells them unequivocally that killing is crime …
Hence the definition of killing that they have set becomes the measure,
A definition which draws upon the concept of vendetta, which in their understanding, permits the killing of innocent people in revenge for the killing of their innocent people …
In their limited vision: they can’t see that this is a vicious cycle that is being accelerated by such beliefs: on both sides of all their conflicts,
A vicious cycle that will not end by the descent of supernatural armies from the sky to defend them and resolve their wars in their favour …
But indeed, by a total annihilation of all the parties involved …
This is the natural consequence that is only too obvious for anyone with a bare amount of faith in the Law of this world …
But it is also the law of this world, that whoever takes a courageous step out of the cycle of self-destruction: is ethically ahead, and hence closer to faith …
This is their strongest weapon: before which firepower is rendered ineffective …
This Page has written a lot on today’s common understanding of self-defence, across all cultures:
That is the same heathen law of vendetta, written in a modern legal language, represented by modern judicial systems, and panels of judges wearing wigs, and not kufiyahs,
As long as innocent civilians are paying a price, however small, for the wars of religions and nations: rest assured that the primitive laws are still here, however holy or secular their encforcers may believe they are.]
7. And those who believed and did good: We shall pardon their errors, and reward them better than they did,
8. And We commanded man: radiance with his parents, and if both strive to make you affix onto Me what you have no knowledge of: obey not them; to Me is your return, and I inform you of what you were doing,
[As the Ten Commandments were delivered in the First Person Singular, this one is appending to it …
Although at the esoteric level, the Commandment is to look up to the Parents, being Adam the Word and Eve the ray of his emotions …:
At its physical level: the extent to which obedience goes must not impinge upon matters of faith,
This is clearly saying to the followers of all religions: to follow their own judgment, and not to follow what is dictated to them by their religious authorities: which equate faith with race and tribal lineage ...
And the more one reads this Book, the clearer it becomes that in fact it is calling to freedom from parties and religions …:
But after the failure of Judaism and Christianity: Islam followed the same steps of institutional religions, which brand people at birth ...
The Baptist Church and Sikhism are perhaps the only institutional religions which are free from religious determinism.]
9. And those who believed and did good, We shall usher them to the righteous ones,
10. And, of the people are those who say we’ve believed in God; so, if they were harmed in God: they make the dazzlement of people like the suffering of God; and when triumph comes from God they say: “we were with you”; isn’t God the Best Knower of what is in people’s chests?
[The available exegeses all concur on understanding this verse to mean what it is warning not to mean!
Thus, many verses of this Grand Book expose the psyches of religions: without their notice …
It is saying that in difficult times: pious people rush to provide solutions: for example, by fanning the fires of war in their calls to jihad, or by urging everyone to rush to the houses of rituals in order to avoid more of their god’s wrath …
Thus, the trial, which is meant to point to some evil resulting from evil practices and thoughts: turns into more of the evil and suffering, and the purpose is completely missed …
And in peaceful and good times: they rush to say that this is thanks to their rituals and piety …!]
11. God knows those who believed, and knows He the hypocrites,
12. And those who disbelieved say to those who do believe: “follow our way, and so we carry your errors”, and they are not carrying any of their errors, they are liars,
13. So, let them carry their [own] burdens, and burdens with their burdens, and they will be questioned the day to the Up-rise about what they’ve been fretting,
14. And We sent Noah to his people, he sojourned with them one thousand years; except fifty floaters: so the flood took them, while they darkened,
[Every time a long lifespan is mentioned: it’s meant to refer to a number of consecutive lives …
This is clearly the case of the story that is told in Surah 18 of the messengers who were in the “Cave” for hundreds of years, then reborn to remember who they were and where they had met before …
As for the second word, “عامًا”, which was understood to be another word for “years”: it is obviously hinting at the ships which were built to escape an imminent flood …
In previous texts, COB did say that there were a number of ships, not just one …
Incidentally, just last week, NASA released news that a huge meteor hit the earth around twelve thousand ago, leaving a huge crater in Greenland,
Its impact would’ve resulted in a cloud which would’ve covered a great part of the northern hemi-sphere, and the melting of a lot of ice …
All of which is consistent with what COB described ten years ago, as the constant overcast and rain during the last few years of Atlantis, and the gradual rise in sea water level,
So, this is the fourth vision that has been consistent with archeological findings …
The final and complete submersion of the entire island in the water is an event that is yet to be proven …, and the many theories about the whereabouts of Atlantis in the current world map are just speculation …
But I hasten to say that such physical facts do not prove essences, which originate from the Spirit, that is the Cause of all the causes and their causes …,
And by citing them COB doesn’t seek a physical backup to its message,
If such facts prove anything, it is that life is a chain of consecutive lives that can be revisited in one’s own mind: the real time machine,
The purpose of mentioning previous human civilisations that is in the Indian Veda, the Qur’an and the Bible is to remind the people of the continuity of life, and the fruit of their actions, whether sour or sweet, here on earth, and the destiny that they earn by the Law …
The interest in pre-ancient civilisations that has emerged in recent years will result in a total falsification of religious and evolutionary theories of human existence …
And a lesson will hopefully be learnt, that it is better to say: “we don’t know”, than to say: “we know, and if you don’t believe us you are stupid”, and worse still “you are enemy”,
This will be indeed a major leap in human intelligence, which will reveal that cultural, national, racial and religious barriers are in reality inexistent …]
15. So, We rescued him and the people of the ship, and We made it an example to the worlds,
16. And Abraham, when he said to his people: “abide by God, and take refuge in Him, this is all good for you if you know,
17. “You are worshipping totems below Him, and creating falsehood; that those you worship below God reign no providence for you, seek in God the Providence, and do abide in Him, and be thankful to Him, to Him you return,
18. “And if you tell lies, nations before you have told lies, the messenger has only the clear announcement”,
19. Have they not seen how God begins the creation and iterates it? this is indeed to God facile,
20. Say: “walk in the earth, and look how [He] began the creation, then God constructs the final construction, God is Capable of all things”,
21. Makes He whom He will: suffer, and mercifies He whom He will, and to Him you turn over,
22. You are not invincible in the earth nor in the sky, and have not below God a patron or a supporter,
23. Those who disbelieved God’s Paragons and the Encounter with Him, those have despaired from My Compassion, those have a great suffering,
24. His people’s answer was none but they said: “kill him or burn him”, so God rescued him from the fire, in this is indeed an example to a people who believe,
25. And said he: “that so, you took totems below God, as emotional ties between yourselves in the low world, then on the day of the Up-rise: some of you will disbelieve some of you, some of you will curse some of you, your shelter is the hell, and you have no supporters”,
[Indeed, the gods of religions are none but emotional ties between the people, which turn quickly to causes of difference and animosity,
And the perpetual cycle of creation and destruction has never ended. The deniers of it will panic when the evidence is undeniable,
The destruction that is the consequence of people’s unwillingness to look outside the box in which they were born and told that it is their world,
The box that is thrown in a wild ocean,
The current takes it forward and backward, upward and downward, and flips it and turns it …
Inside it they are thrown from one corner to another, to their suffering or their amusement …
So, religion tells them this is the will of a capricious god, and science tells them these are random events …
Those who dare to break the box … and take a look outside it, can see the whole world,
They can get on top of the box and navigate it to a safe shore, thus avoiding a tragic crash.]
26. So Lott believed Him and said: “I am forsaking/abstaining, to my Lord, it is Him the Exalted the Sovereign”,
27. And We bestowed onto him Isaac and Jacob, and We made in his seed the prophethood and the Book, and We brought to him his reward in the low world and in the hereafter, he is of the righteous ones,
[There’s subtle confusion between the two personalities of Lott and Abraham,
In COB’s view this is hinting that the two names are two incarnations of the same soul,
However, separated perhaps by tens of thousands of years,
Jewish authorities have been carrying out archeological investigations to provide evidence to the correctness of their exegesis of the Torah,
Using the flimsiest signs, they build entire theories: working backward from the premise beforehand,
The distortion of history will not erase the facts,
This is a natural law that cannot be bypassed,
And more falsehood will bring on more illusion, and hence more suffering,
People need to understand who they are, not who their religious and political authorities would like them to be …
The farther they are removed from their universal identity, the longer their suffering lingers.]
28. And Lott when he said to his people: “you are committing an obscenity, no one has overtaken you in it in all the worlds,
29. “You are taking men and barring the Way, and in your parties you commit the abhorrible”, so the answer of his people was none but they said: “bring to us the suffering of God, if you are of the honest ones”,
30. Said he: “Lord, do support me over corruptive people”,
[At the present time, when homophobia and discrimination are being rightly put to an end, and although people shouldn’t be made to feel guilty or bad about their sexuality: the swing to the opposite extreme is unadvisable,
Sexual relations that have no purpose other than the sensual pleasure are destined to end in torment and suffering, regardless of the mundane and celestial laws which are thought to legitimise or prohibit them,
Although the participants will claim to have a sincere friendship on top of their physical relation,
The natural outcome of sex, that is the birth of children, and the joy of loving them and caring for them completes the natural cycle …
And although adoption and IVF technology might offer a substitute: the long-term effect on the children is unknown,
Let’s not forget that the children of such relations have had no choice,
It is bad enough that children often resent their destiny which they feel they have no control over.
It is perhaps natural for some people to question their sexuality at their early years of adulthood, but they should not be encouraged to go down the track of same sex relations, and if they do they should not be made to feel bad or guilty,
And often, people who find themselves attracted mainly to their own sex as they get older: might choose living a life of celibacy, as a previous verse has hinted, in order to take time to examine human sexuality altogether, rather than joining the happy-go-lucky crowd …
But if the life of celibacy is only a curtain behind which criminal behaviour is carried out: an ordinary life becomes virtuous by comparison.
And whether people keep their sexual relations private and secret, or decide to be open …: is their choice, and it is a matter of social attitude and tradition, and varies in time and between cultures,
In either case they are neither villains nor heroes,
There is not one immutable rule for such an issue, and nations should constantly finetune their social attitude and traditions.
And although the world has woken up at last to the suffering that children who were victims of sexual abuse have had to endure, it has yet to wake up to that the age gap should always be considered: even if the younger is above a set legal age,
Readiness for sexual relations does not happen upon the clock turn to 12:00 am on a certain date,
Predators are out there, waiting for legal opportunities to pounce.]
31. And when our messengers came to Abraham with the glad tidings, they said: “we are destroyers of this country; indeed, its people have been darkened”,
32. Said he: “Lott is in it”, they said: “we are best knowers of who is in it, we are to rescue him and his family, except his wife was of the crossing/stray ones [we read “عابرين”]”,
33. And when our messengers came to Lott, they were mis-treated, and he became impatient with them, and they said: “fear none and be not sad; we are rescuing you and your family, except your wife is of the crossing/stray ones,
34. “We are dropping damnation from heaven upon the people of this country, by that they were aberrant”,
[This is further pointing to that these are two separate incidences, having the personality of Abraham in common,
Events do re-happen along different time lines,
Their materialisation would have to resolve an issue that was not completely resolved in previous times,
The concept of the “history repeating itself” is not imaginary,
But when the precursors of an event are here, they will translate to a similar event, across the time line,
The events of the present world have almost all: happened before, they did happen before,
Albeit, in different physical circumstances,
But their constituents are overlapping,
And they are meant to highlight the same unresolved issues,
Perhaps, this time the participants will find a solution,
If not, rest assured that they will re-happen … until the lesson is learned.
And as always the case, the messengers are not supernatural beings or winged men …
Abraham’s guests were men,
He either goes to them or they go to him, or are born to each other …
Abraham can learn to stop seeking glory for his nation, wherever it might be in the world …]
35. And We have left of it a conspicuous marvel for a people who discern,
[Hinting to the ruins of pre-ancient civilisations, that only wise people and people of piercing vision can notice …
People cannot process visual information that is not a reflection of essences inside their minds …
Although learning by observation is true: it should be regarded as learning by remembrance, as the great master Plato has been saying, and as this Grand Book constantly reminds.]
36. And to Midyan, their Brother Shu’ayb (perhaps Shuah, one of Abraham’s sons, a brother of Zimran/Imran), as he said: “O people, abide in God, and long for the last day, ravage not in the earth despoiling [it]”,
37. They falsified him, so the tremor took them, and they became in their homes still,
38. And Ad and Thamud, and it has become obvious to you [the people] from their dwellings, the devil decorated their deeds, he barred them from the Way, when they were able to vision,
[COB has said that Midyan was what is called today Tel Amarna,
And that the inhabitants of it were not Nubians, but in fact people who migrated from the Levant,
And recent DNA tests carried out on their remains have proven them to be Levantine, and COB’s vision was thus evidenced,
The entire city was a community which can be said to be the original Israelites, just past the time of Abraham,
Why they chose to migrate there, perhaps because for its proximity to pre-ancient temples, which were built by transcendence and designated for transcendence,
They were the wise people of ancient Egypt,
It was the other groups of Levantines, who were slaves living in the ghettos and the slums around ancient Cairo, who were heathen, and who adopted the Mosaic law …
The lineage of the present Hebrew people does not go straight back to either of those two groups …
The national, racial and religious identities that people assume for themselves, with the direction and persuasion of their clergy and political leaders: might serve them a temporary purpose … to unite them and guarantee them a temporary political and economic advantage …
But as the Hebrew people nowadays struggle to find solid evidence to their presence in ancient times … anywhere in the Middle East: although those lands are awash with their footprints: they pay the price for the mistakes of their ancestors: who, at the time, thought they were doing the right thing by their god and their race …
A similar example can be seen in Arabic speaking Muslims today, who say they are national Arabs … when those lands were inhabited by different people, thousands of years before the Arab conquest,
And the Arabs of “Arabia” themselves: COB argues: most of them were Hebrew tribes, who migrated from Egypt … but again, the Peninsula could not have been an uninhabited land before the Hebrew migration and settlement in it …
The invasions and counter invasions, and the divisions between the followers of Moses and the followers of Aaron … is history that is repeating itself in the wars between Muslims, Jews and Christians …, in their many sects and branches …
The authorities of those have no other purpose but to keep the fires of war flaring, because they don’t know any other purpose …
Each group and subgroup cling to an identity that is referenced only in the books written by the founders of them, using the Books fraudulently as a backup,
Fictitious identities and fictitious nationalities … whether by reference to land, language, race or belief: are an explosive cocktail:
It is only a matter of time until it blows up the entire region, to justify its own power and existence …
While people’s true identity goes unknown and unwanted.]
39. And Aaron [we read “هرون"] (Tut Ankh Amun), and the Pharaoh (Amen Hotep III) and Haman (Horem Heb); and Moses (Tut Mose the sculptor) came to them with evidence, they were prideful in the earth, they were never forerunning,
[A recount of the story of prophet Joseph and our reading of Surah 12 (Joseph) on COB’s website give a remembrance of this critical time in the history of Egypt and of Abrahamic religions …]
40. We have taken each by their sin; to some of them We sent the clouds and the wind, some of them were taken by the sound/cry, some of them We sank the land with them, and some of them We drowned; and God was not to wrong them, but they were themselves wronging,
[Another reminder how pre-ancient civilisations, going back tens of thousands of years or millions of them, as in the case of Ad (Eden): vanished,
By the help of alternative research, evidence pointing to the existence of such civilisations on every continent is becoming more and more compelling,
As COB sees it, a cycle of perhaps six to seven thousand years is perhaps the length of a cycle,
Measured perhaps in lunar years,
But not according to the Chinese lunar year, which pushes the lunar calendar by a number of days every eleven years, to reestablish sychronisation with the Western, i.e. the ancient Sumarian, solar year …
The mention of the “sound” or “cry” (الصيحة) is consistent with what has been mentioned on COB, about a sub-atomic … frequency … which translates to sound to the human consciousness …
It’s the musical note(s) that can be heard inside one’s head in high levels of awareness and meditation …
COB has theorised that those “sounds” can be consciously employed to control matter …
In the cycle of civilisation immediately preceding the present: the position of the planets and the star constellations made it possible for those sounds to be easily audible and usable by humans of advanced races …
This era ended in a loud screeching sound, which caused pain and suffering …
And this was perhaps followed by a cataclysm, the evidence to which is becoming evident …
And until people realise that the events of their lives are directly directed by their passions: of fear, want and grudge …: they will continue blaming the arbitrary god, or the random events of nature.]
41. The model of those who took patrons below God is like the model of a spider that made a house, indeed the frailest of the houses is a spider’s house, if they were knowing,
[There’s more to this than meets the eye:
The spider web is a miraculous structure indeed: perfect for a natural purpose,
Built by the laws of nature, according to the Law …
And by the Law is its construction, build and demise …]
42. And God does know what they invoke of things below Him, is He the Exalted the Sovereign,
43. And these are models that We draw to the people, no one discerns them except the knowledgeable ones,
44. Created He the heavens and the earth by the Law, in this is indeed a Marvel to the believers,
45. Recite what has been inspired to you [addressing the messenger] of the Book, uphold the prayers, indeed the prayers deter from obscenity and the abhorrible, the remembrance of God has effulged [we read “أكبرَ"], God does know what you [the people] make,
[Indeed, prayers do surpass the passions which command obscenity and abhorrible deeds …
And the remembrance of God is Light to the believers, overwhelming everything that is below it …
But the god that is known by comparison, of stone by stone, man by man, ritual by ritual, army by army … is none but a pagan god …:
He stirs up trouble, fuels war, divides the people, preaches irrationality, hatred, arrogance and self-selection …
These are the obscenities and the abhorrible deeds that have not featured in the dictionaries of religious scholars: except that they were glorified as deeds of piety and jihad …]
46. And argue not [addressing the believing people] with the people of the Book, except by what is better, except those of them who were wronged [we read “ظُلموا"], and say: “we believe by what was descended to us and what was descended to you, our God and your God is One, we are all to Him surrenderers/muslims”,
[Two points are noteworthy:
Firstly, the commandment not to argue with people of other Books …:
If people truly believe in the Creator of the world, they know this is a high stage of awareness that debate doesn’t necessarily help, and only God is truly informed about what people harbour in their chests and minds, as this grand Book never ceases to emphasise,
But the verse goes on to except the few who have a shimmer of reason in their minds, and compassion, while they are surrounded by a community of religions … where their spirit is stifled, and their innate good nature is mocked …, because they don’t practise the rituals of religions, and don’t go by their laws and traditions …
Those need to be rescued when they are ready …
In Islamic scholars’ reading: argue with those who did wrong (ظَلموا),
So, even if read like this: the wrong has to be about matters of faith, philosophy and belief …
So, who decides who has done wrong?
Of course, their religious and political leaders, on their podiums of religious sermons and press conferences,
Thus, the debate about matters of religion and politics is mixed up and can never subside,
But can indeed turn quickly into conflict,
And if one issue has been resolved by victory in the battle: a new one can quickly be conjured, to keep the doors of jihad wide open,
This has been the history of Muslims, and indeed all Abrahamic religions, since the death of their prophet, and perhaps before ...
Secondly, it is lucid, clear and obvious: that muslims have been commanded to believe in all the Books. Not only in this verse, but indeed in their very pillars of faith: the belief in all the Books,
So, before they disagree with the people of the Book on their exegesis of their Book: why don’t they agree between one another … on their own Book and religion,
Indeed, their animosities are none but the consequence of the grudge that they harbour: by their tampering with their own Book,
As we've said many times on this Page: no Book has suffered more edging of its word about its location more than the Qur’an,
And we’ll never stop wondering: can Islamic scholars of all persuasions and colours …, the old and the new: can they read Arabic at all …?
A watered-down version of their religions, allowing a new phase of hypocrisy to be kicked off, to give them a chance to rebuild what they’ve ruined: of cities, countries, bodies and souls of people …: will only be a short-lived respite: to regroup and reconsider their international alliances: in preparation for a bigger battle to come …]
47. And We thus descended the Book onto you [addressing the messenger], those who have been given the Book do believe in it, and of those are them who believe in it, no one repudiates Our verses except the disbelievers,
[The blurring of the difference between the Books, by referring to them all as “the Book”: is yet another declaration to the oneness of the Book and its Source and the messenger who delivers it,
The deliberate distortion of the verse by Islamic scholars has been an error: for which a huge price is being paid …
In their exegeses they say that the Book is only the Qur’an,
And those who believe in it are only the Muslims …
The consequence of their forgery has boomeranged back to them as animosities between themselves and divisions: each group claiming to be the exclusive believers in the Book …
Indeed: no one repudiates those verses except the disbelievers …]
48. And what you were [addressing the messenger] reciting of the Book before it, and you do not write it with your right hand: hence the falsifiers are confused,
[As the Book was delivered as a discourse sometimes, as in the case of the Gospel, and some ancient Hebrew texts, and indeed the Buddhist Dharma …: doubtful people, who believe that the Book can only have a certain format, delivered only by a specific prophet or a specific god …: get confused.]
49. Nay, it is the lucid verses in the chests of them who were endowed with knowledge; no one repudiates Our verses except the darkened ones,
[Indeed, to those who can get to the kernel of their hearts and minds … it doesn’t matter, on which ship they are sailing, and by whose wings do they fly …
The journey is a euphoria of mindfulness …
Those, indeed, can read the Book in their hearts: as this very Book has said.]
50. And they said: “if only miracles were dropped onto him from his Lord”; say: “the Miracles are in God, and I am but a clarifying warner”,
51. Does it not suffice that We descended onto you the Book recited to them? Indeed, in this is Compassion and remembrance to a people who believe,
52. Say: “God suffices as a witness between you and me, knows He what is in the heavens and the earth, those who believed falsehood and disbelieved God: those are the losers”,
[And those verses of truth need to be opened, after the millennia of darkness, whether the authorities and the followers of Abrahamic religions like it or not, and whether they think it is useful or not …
So Abrahamic religions are given the reason, and the options are open to them …
Nothing eventuates except by its causes …
A new layer of falsehood and lies will bring on more disasters …
And although painful at the start, the rational and just road delivers them to a bright and peaceful world.]
53. And they hasten you [addressing the messenger] about the suffering, and if it wasn’t for a termed allotment the suffering would’ve come to them, and it will strike them unexpectedly, while they feel not,
54. They hasten you about the suffering, and indeed hell is all around the distant ones,
[This is an answer to the argument that kufar are destined to suffer soon, and as if Islamic experts have been informed about the timing of the end-of-days, when the suffering will strike their enemies …
In this keen anticipation: Islamic sects and religions bring on the suffering equally to themselves and their enemies …, as the verse clearly declares …
The world they live in now is none but the hell that they wish upon each other and the whole world …]
55. The day when the suffering blinds them, from above them and from underneath their legs, and it says: “experience what you were committing”,
[Describing the state of affairs in the Middle East, which is gradually spreading to the rest of the world: very accurately …]
56. O abiders in Me who have believed, My land is vast, do abide in Me,
57. Every self/soul is experiencer of death, then to Us you are returned,
[The death is the very life that religions covet and wish to be in forever …]
58. And those who have believed and did good: We shall lodge them in the Garden in rooms, the days stream underneath them eternally in it, blessed is the reward of the strivers,
[The description of higher worlds and planets is consistent across all known religions, and even ancient philosophies which pre-date Abrahamic religions,
The invitation to such worlds has been highjacked by religions and claimed to be exclusive to their followers or their races …
The worst version of such promises is certainly the Islamic one, which paints those worlds as sex markets that have no rival in the sex markets in the world,
Unaware that such an aspiration reduces the minds of people to those of the apes …
The Qur’an is worlds above the low morality of the claimants of its ownership,
It is about time it is opened to the world, free from all religions: which hate it or falsely worship it.]
59. Those who are forbearing, and upon their Lord they rely,
60. And whichever walker [in the earth of human or other forms of life]: carries not its providence; God provides it and provides you [the people], is He the Hearer the Knower,
[Even existential facts have been reduced to religious concepts … by the interpretations of religions …
This is saying that a living being cannot survive on its own, and hence the dependence on one another and on the laws of nature,
This is the basic law of cooperation of life on any planet …
And if we can imagine a species that can exist independently of other species … it would need the resources of nature anyway …]
61. And if you asked them: “who created the heavens and the earth, and dedicated the sun and the moon?”, they’ll say: “God”, so how come they lie,
[From this perspective: religions and atheists speak from the same level of understanding, whereby a mosaic law is thought to rule the world,
The existential anarchy thus perceived requires the local laws which suit and maintain exclusive survival,
And the interest in allowing a measured activity of other entities is thus motivated by a selfish need, rather than an existential reality …
Their moral standards are hence practically and demonstrably equal …]
62. God lays out the providence for whom He will of the abiders in Him, and measures He [we read “يُقدّر"], God is of everything Knower,
63. And if you asked them: “who dropped water from the sky, with it He enlivened the earth after its death?”, they’ll say: “God”, say: “the homage/ubiquity is to God”, but most of them do not reason,
[The word “حمد", although it encompasses the concept of gratitude, its usage in the Qur’an is often implicative to Ubiquity.]
64. And those low lives are none but a play and distraction, and the other home/circle is life, if they were knowledgeable,
[Few choices of English words need to be explained …
Firstly, we’ve always translated “دنيا" to "low", hence the expression “low lives”,
The root in Arabic is “دنى", which, in its intransitive usage, points to coming close to something,
So, the “low lives” should literally translate to “near lives”,
Yet, there’s another root, that is “دنأ", which points to being low … figuratively, in character and deed …
I see that the esoteric aspect of the Arabic language lends more essence to “low lives” than it does to “near lives”,
The aim is to point out that life in this world, which is the immediate state of consciousness to us: is the lowest form of existence.
Secondly, the spelling of “prayers” and “lives”: “حيوة، صلوة” is basically wrong in the standard Qur’anic script,
A theory that emerged in recent times about a possible Aramaic origin was perhaps initiated by Western scholars, who ask the questions that Islamic scholars don’t dare - out of fear of disrepute and takfir (accusations of heresy) by Islamic institutes, which claim the monopoly of understanding the Qur’an,
If it is the case that the spelling is Aramaic, the word “زكوة" must have an Aramaic origin as well …
Not being an expert in Aramaic, I have to ask the question: is “زكوة" an Aramaic word?
In any case, I wonder, why, out of all the Arabic vocabulary, only those two or three words have been given an Aramaic spelling?
It’s a random choice that does not fit the grandeur of the message of the Qur’an,
But indeed, fits the pettiness of intellectual guesswork!
In the Hikmah, the two words are spelled correctly as “حيوات، صلوات”, thus the Aramaic spelling can be evidentially dismissed,
In Islamic scholars’ minds, the life of an individual cannot be said in the plural form,
In this case: every theory or interpretation would have to veer around the true meaning of this word,
And this indeed can be said about every word in the grand Book.]
65. So, when they ride the orbiting planets, they invoke God, devoting to Him [their] redemption; so, when He veered [we read “نحّاهم"] them to the land: there they were affixing [things to God],
66. In order to repudiate what We bestowed on them and to have fun, and they will be informed,
[If you read in the first part of this verse: trial and abandonment,
And if you read in the second one: deliverance:
Then, of course you’re reading the Abrahamic religious understanding of monotheism and the allegiance to the supposed god who created mankind in the land ...
The esoteric level cannot be expressed, but in the memories … that have been purified by the practice of zakat.]
67. Have they not seen that We’ve made a safe Sanctuary, while people are being kidnapped around them? so is it by falsehood that they believe, and God’s Providence that they repudiate?
[I can assure you that the safe Sanctuary is the Trust in the Law of the world …
As for the place where pagan rituals were being performed:
I can assure you that the Qur’an was delivered only to stop all pagan practices …
And I can assure you that the abidance in God: cannot be achieved by circulating around stones and bowing to them …
And, of course, neither can it be achieved by bowing to statues or to the footprints of messengers …
And I can also assure you that all the Books of Abrahamic religions were delivered to stop pagan practices, since it was said in the Ten Commandments: thou shalt not take a graven image …
And I can assure you that a small amount of such practices is not OK, and that the minutest amount of them will numb your mind and suffocate your spirit,
And I can assure you that you cannot have high moral and behavioral standards if you believe that pagan rituals are a form of worship and spiritual purification …
They are only the worship of the things to which you prostrate and around which you circulate, no more and no less,
And however holy you believe those things to be, the act of worshipping them is inexcusable, and will only increase you in stupor and sink you deeper in materialism.]
68. And who is darker than him who fretted falsehood on God, or falsified the Law when he came to him? isn’t there a lodgement in hell for the disbelievers?
[The messenger Gabriel being the deliverer of the Law to all the prophets.]
69. And those who strove in Us, We shall guide them to our Ways, God is with the radiant ones
