Are you a blessing or a punishment?

It is certainly not very innocent, this " Innocence of Islam" movie. 

What a waste of effort making such movie that causing unnecessary deaths and stirring unrest around the world.

To the very least, do understand that the status of Muhammad (peace be upon him) in Islam is in no way equal to any Tom, Dick and Harry all the time. He is, according to the holy book, a blessing for the whole universe. In Semitic term it is "rahmat an lil 'alamin".

A lowly depiction of him is absolutely uncalled for. That is the basic No-No for more than one billion people on Earth. Cross the line, and triggering anger among Muslims is a near certainty.

I'm not going to say anything more. RIP for all those died because of the hatred it sparks.

But the phrase,  blessing for the whole universe. That is one end of a line.

For Genghis Khan, it is totally a different story.

It was reported that after conquering the great city of Bukhara, he entered the Friday congregation in a city mosque and declared, "O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."

A punishment.

A punishment for the whole universe? Not so.

But in comparison to blessing, the word punishment is sure the other end of a line.

And speaking of a small universe of self, a cosmos. What are you to people that you care for, people that you love with. Are you a blessing or a punishment?

The Seeker's Path 3: The Beautiful Universe Inside You

“no matter how empty you feel the life that makes kinda to better-die-than-to-live situation, wait till the drought season to pass before your life back on track”

YOU. Yes, you.

You are actually a complete world. 

A complete universe on your own.

Within yourself.

Deep inside.



I’m talking about real world, and real universe. And this is not about the mumbo jumbo word’s sweet play. The realm of the inside universe, we called it as ‘microcosm’. Medieval Arab scholars called it as ‘alam al-saghir’ - The small universe. While, the universe that we known of or taught in school is known as ‘alam al-kabir’ - The big universe.

In English, the two known as microcosm, and macrocosm.

I quote the Arabic terms because there are huge collection of in-depth studies by Arab scholars on this subject. Not only that they studied it, but it becomes part and parcel of their life. They believed in it and experience it beforehand. Abd al-Qadir Al-Gilani (1077–1166), Muḥyiddin ibn ‘Arabī (1165-1240), and Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207-1273) are the leading trio, perhaps.



So, this small universe thing. A universe albeit a small one, it has everything that are in the possession of the big universe.

Whaat, you smoke too much weed, man? Nope, I don’t. But Yes.

There are calm weather inside you.

There are bad weather in side you.

There are wet seasons inside you.

There are drought seasons inside you.

Mountains, valleys, rivers, skies, everything.



It is pertinent that you to bear with all the climate changes inside. There is no such thing as good timing, by the way. When it comes, it comes, so to speak.

No matter how sad and painful it is, you will need to wait until the rainy season pass before it goes.

No matter how empty your pocket is, or,  no matter how empty you feel the life is due to some unforeseen circumstances that make you feel not worth living anymore, or better-die-than-to-live situation, you need to wait till the drought season to pass, before the life back on track.



But come again, can’t you see that this life is so beautiful?

You have knowing this inside universe for several decades of living. Having passed through all climate changes back and forth, and crossing the seasons that keep moving in cyclic way inside you.

Really, your life is worth living for. And life is both so beautiful, and bountiful.

The Seeker's Path 1: A Prologue

First of all, let me clarify myself.



This writing is not about Uncle Seeker a.k.a Habib Abdullah, a blogger who are still under Malaysian Police custody due to some appeared to be nasty postings about HRH the Sultan of Johor. Neither this is an Uncle Seeker’s alternative blog, nor that I’m exploiting his instant fame or about para normal phenomenon of any kind.

(And I wrongly pressed publish button while trying to save this article, so you may have to refresh your browser in order to properly read the finished work)

I picked the word ‘seeker’ because I can’t think of any other words to match the arabic word ‘salikin’. After all, ‘seeker’ seems to be widely used as the translation  in many related texts on this subject.

Salikin on the other hand, is a description about someone who is looking for something. And in religious context, it is to describe a tireless effort of seeking one’s true self.

It is about the journey within microcosm of self and  macrocosm of world and,  the contact between the two.

As far as I can understand, it is a science albeit the border line between science and metaphysics at a time or another is hardly to be seen. Nevertheless, studies in this field fall into parapshchology and psychoanalysis.

Years ago, this is among my reading interests. I wasn’t really into Max Dessoir, Henry Sidgwick and Arthur Balfour works. Instead, I was focus and digging into Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and Carl Jung’s Dream Theories.

In searching for one’s true self. 

The big  ’I’ and the small ‘i’. 

Or the force behind it. The libido or whatever.

Sound complicated or rather, absurd? I don’t blame you anyway.

In a materialistic view, it warrant question in an instant, what benefit shall I get out of learning this thing?

Well, if you think you become rich out of this, it is outbound for sure.

But to grasp a different level of understanding about life, yes.

To be continued.