Thursday 25 February 2021

An Originating Force



Plato taught that there are generalities and ideals that outlast specifics, and so hinted at things eternal. 


Aristotle defied his teacher and in his search for the reality of all things delved into embryology. For if you could understand a thing in its infancy then you could understand it all together. But there he found a life force so clear and evident: that there is some power that causes us to grow out, and thrive, and become whole that cannot be explained away by a replicating molecule. 


That we tend, as all things do, to an ultimate end. But that end is not a. shrivelling into our own selves, unless we let that happen, but a fulfilment fully looked forward to.  


The aim of all men and women should be happiness. 


For God does not deny us happiness, rather our Messenger (saw) taught us that He is the source of all of our love, camaraderie and friendship. 


And it is for this reason and much more that all praise and thanks are due to Him, who gives in abundance out of the most beautiful of things. 


The happiest of men and women are those that die happy. 


Death is a return to GOD, the one that created us all. 

And the happiest of us are those that return to HIM before they die. 


Of all of the sciences mentioned or hinted at in the Qur’an it is embryology and cosmology that figure the greatest. 


For in the study of both you find an originating force and power that cannot be denied.


And if you believe that there is a merciful GOD who created, and then placed us in families and communities, and showers us both with love and companionship then do you think HE would have left us without sure guidance?


2 comments:

Shafeesthoughts said...

A great introduction to Platonic and Aristotelian ideas about the nature of things can be found in Rupert Sheldrake’s “Presence of the Past”

Shafeesthoughts said...

Penned for my best friend. Who also just happens to be very intelligent. 😂

“May God make easy your path to the paths of ease.”

The path that extends far beyond the sphere of our lives, let alone the current difficulties that we each face. And when conviction born of contemplation comes to you, then know that conventions are there to be broke.