In my last blog (The Definition of Religion), I defined religion based on my understanding, research, and experience. I am positive that no one can live without a religion or God, and everyone have beliefs based on what they can accept, but this doesn't mean that the idea isn't one, it is exactly like a novel of an unknown Author that all people read but each one understand it in a different way, among these people there are a few who can Identify the author and gives an acceptable understanding to a large group of people.
So who is the author?
Some identifiers say he had never been existed and the book came by itself through a long process of formation took million of years, and only our understanding can give us the answers that we need. looks an interesting theory and making a lot of sense, but I simply rejected it because not everyone can make the same understanding that the "identifiers" made, also all the cases built on this scenario have failed on the large scale groupings, and the most thing made me reject this understanding is making me under submission to people like me even if they were extra genius.
Other identifiers stated that an honored human fought for freedom and just, who wrote the book and I should believe in him as the one who can save me from all of my bad actions and evil desires I have done. But I see a lot of drama around this understanding and the strict commitment to the "identifiers" made me reject this scenario too!
I'm not going to speak about the understanding of multiple authors, because I have always believed the Idea/Author is One. Also I cannot identify the author by myself because the novel is just too long and very deep, complicated and perfect in a way I can never give a prediction who wrote it!
But I find myself so comfortable with the understanding that gave me the freedom to think about the author the way I want but in a way makes me respect myself , and to be respected i have to be a follower of great values , I thought what is the value that is greater than Mercy , Pride , Patience , Justice …? , and the values can overreach 99 different values. and about the identifier who gave me this understanding, he denied himself as an author, he has just mentioned that he is a follower to the author and a messenger to him and he proved that because his act extended for hundreds of years until now, which is perfectly matching the novel's events, and the most thing made me accept this understanding that it liberated me from the fellowship of "Identifiers" to the fellowship of the Value.. To the Idea... to the Author!
Namely , I chose Islam as an understanding to the life and its purpose , I chose the concept of God which is free from any fellowship to any objects or humans , and chose Prophet Muhammad as the perfect word of God and the absolute perfect example of a human being to follow , even if it doesn't seem true to many people !
Even though I was born as a Muslim , I kept researching about the true meaning of this path and I have tried to compare it to other paths maybe I would find something looks more perfect than Islam however , I failed and with every time I try I explore a new dimension of Islam .
For example the arguments about the Islamic pilgrim (Hajj) as a pagan ritual just like any religion else made me truly confuse , but when I made my study about the Hajj I have discovered that the all the rituals of the Hajj is symbolic , for example the circumambulation around the black box (Kabba) is only a symbol of unity on God's word of peace and respect among all Muslim as there's no difference between any of the Muslims except in showing respect to God's will which all about saving peace . While stoning the column which represents the Satan is a symbol of unity between all Muslims in stop the evil from spreading to them or to everyone!
I know that the fact maybe shows the total reverse of what I am saying , but it is all back to Muslims' understanding to the book and how far they have applied what they understand . But it wasn't according to what the book said.
After all it is my choice which gave me the most convincing answers and freed my will from doubts. And it doesn't mean that I show myself better than anyone because finally I don't care about what people think about what I believe , and I know that everyone at the end of the day will have their own choice and they will be totally responsible about in this life or the next !
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