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Appendix: Section 1
Kamāl (Perfection)
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Demanding the Kamāl
(Perfection) is desiring other than IT!
And constantly inclined towards
attaining the Kamāl (Perfection) for one’s Self, gains nothing but
(spiritual) diminution & deficiency. Allah’s Kamāl (Perfection) is
the transcendence & completion for all beingness and allowing any
deprivation of ITs
Kamāl (Perfection) results in disruption in
governance of the universe and obsoleteness of the world or allowing
for the absence of Allah the abolishment & inactivity of the
universe is ensued. Therefore if you conceptualize Allah and seeking
the bounds of ITs
nature all (spiritual) benefits would leave you. In
other words (only) conceptualize the notions about the actions of Allah
[1]. When you attempt to imagine concepts about Allah
you can not understand why no (spiritual) benefits come your way!? And
no matter what you imagine, that concept is not Allah.
In conclusion, fall in love
with IT
and seek IT
but forsake all conceptualization about ITs
(illimitable) limits and (indescribable) nature, do avoid all these in
ITs
presence so that you may be able to attain the Kamāl (Perfection).
End.
You wonder why so far you have
not attained any Kamāl (Perfection)? You read the books and did the
Dhikrs (Remembrances) and worships and still you are no further than
when you started! What you proposed by attempting to assign the Kamāl
(Perfection) to your Self is equivalent to reducing ITs
Kamāl
(Perfection) in the universe. Yes! The Kamāl (Perfection) is endowed
and not achieved and ITs
Divine Benevolence has already granted every
particle, every moment of time, every creature and every human being
their portion of the Kamāl (Perfection).
Fool your Self not! You
control nothing of ITs
Divine Munificence. What went wrong? When you
tried to understand IT
by controlling and limiting IT
e.g. reading this
book or doing that chant or performing that nightly prayer I SHOULD
reach the Kamāl (Perfection). This is when you tried to understand and
imagine how IT
bestows blessings. This is when you attempted to
intervene in the fashion IT
is and attempted to limit IT
by exerting
control upon ITs
Kamāl (Perfection).
How about this: STOP &
HALT this very moment imagining controls & bounds placed upon IT.
STOP & HALT and the Kamāl (Perfection) may suddenly flood the gates
of your arrogant Self. Look at the animation, one cell nucleus in your
body in a single moment of time; can you imagine all your cells during
your lifetime? No? Then STOP & HALT conceptualizing IT.
[1] IT has
allowed to be understood, somewhat, by ITs
actions and some of ITs
Divine
Attributes e.g. you can understand the operations taking place on
this planet, the biology within yourself. Indeed these are the things
IT
does. You may also understand Mercy or Kamāl (Perfection), these are
ITs
Attributes allowed for you to discern and comprehend, again to some
degree. But you cannot discern or comprehend WHAT IT IS? Or imagine or
conceptualize IT.
If you attempt doing the latter the Kamāl
(Perfection) vanishes and you are left all to your Self.
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2004-2002, Dara O. Shayda