English Language - Secular Audience

 It is very sad that in our current age we do not really know how our Creator is.  So as this is a missing or erroneous piece of info that we carry today I have decided to write about how I think our Creator really is. The current image of God in Western minds is that of an old man in the sky somewhere, who may have sent his son to earth to die for us and cleanse our sins, and for Jesus (peace be upon him) to be part god and part human somehow. While the Arabic version of God, Allah maybe the image of some big dictator who wants to punish people for some reason. Both of these images are completely false in my view. Firstly the Maker has no gender , so is neither male nor female. This is because He/It is the creator of gender and because It is a unique entity and there is only one of its kind. So assigning It creature-like qualities doesnt make sense. Because It is the creator of those creatures and thus their qualities. The best we can say maybe is that It is unknown and undef...

 Allah/God is a truly amazing and beautiful entity. Of course , for various reasons, some may not see this. They may not really have thought much about the entity. However I believe the truth is that it is truly beautiful and amazing, no doubt. We can go into the reasons for this later on but for now this is my direction. However having said It (ie God/Allah) is amazing , it does not mean that it does not test us and give us some very tough tests. But I believe those tests are only to those It knows can cope with the tests. The purpose of this testing is to raise our positions so that in our final eternal lives we have got the highest of positions for ourselves. Here I am talking about the testing it gives to believers. For those who intentionally have chosen to disbelieve It doesnt test them but allows them to enjoy their life before they are placed into the bad eternal life. It does not consider the goods and enjoyments of this limited life as something of significance. As for th...

Islam is so good because it is rational and it makes sense. On top of that the entity that sent it ( ie our maker) is a really good entity and being. The point of these messages it has been sending us through its many messengers/prophets is to let us know the truth of our existence. Why it made us and why it sent us (ie our souls) here to this planet for a limited period of time.  What does it want from us, if anything, and what it wants us to do here. It’s a universal message spanning all messengers and all time. And all this from a beautiful entity that if we knew well we would fall in love with because of its amazing nature. But alas we have been gripped by deep ignorance and lies have been spread about it. So we live in darkness whilst believing we are in light.  The central message is that there is another life that we have been created for and that this one is just a transit station for it. This transit life is where we learn and question and ask about the important ques...

 Very useful hadith (saying of the prophet) reported by imam ali when he asked the prophet (pbuh) what are your main character traits.  Knowledge (of God) is my Capital; Reason is the Root of my Faith;  Love is my Foundation;  Enthusiasm is my Horse;  Remembrance (of God) is my Friend;  Firmness is my Treasure;  Sorrow is my Companion; Science is my weapon; Patience is my mantle; Contentment is my reward; Poverty is my pride; Devotion is my art; Conviction is my power; Truth is my redeemer; Obedience is my sufficiency; Struggle is my manner and my pleasure is in my prayer. In Arabic: حديث مفيد جدا عن الرسول الطيب محمد نقله الامام علي حين سأله عن اهم أوصاف  شخصيته، فقال صلى الله عليه و سلم : المعرفة رأسمالي ، والعقل أصل ديني ، والحب أساسي ، والشوق مركبي ، وذِكْر الله أنيسي ، والثقة كَنْزي ، والحزن رفيقي ، والعلم سلاحي ، والصبر ردائي ، والرضا غنيمتي ، والزُهد حرفتي ، واليقين قوَّتي ، والصدق شفيعي ، والطاعة حَسْبي ، والجهاد خلقي، وجعلت قرة عيني في ال...

Point 1: It is true there are some muslims who think that if someone curses their prophet that he should be killed. And some may even think that beheading maybe ok, despite us being in this modern time where such behaviour is completely reviled. So what’s going on with Muslims and Islam ? Is it really a barbaric religion with barbaric adherents or what ? Maybe what the media is telling us is true. Maybe the demonisation is justified. My answer is the following: I believe there are problems in the mindsets of some muslims. And I think this has come from the hijacking of true Islam by the ruling class. They wanted islam to be used as a means of sustaining their illegitimate rule ( after they usurped it) rather than to be a means for developing the human mind and freeing humanity from illegitimate control. So the intellectual freeing power of true Islam was cancelled out and muslims were turned into sheep. They accepted what the government controlled priests ( aka fake sheikhs) would tell...

 When I first came from Iraq fleeing from Saddam Hossein I believed that in the West there really was freedom of expression. However I discovered recently that things are no were near that. That there is deep fear of criticising anything Jewish in case the big smear of anti semetism is cast upon a person. And that even not believing in a certain something isn’t allowed. So you can disbelieve in God or Christianity or nearly anything you like but you are not allowed to disbelieve in something called the Holocaust. Because apparently disbelieving in that is beyond anything acceptable. Even though it’s just a belief ie a thought. So that means freedom of belief doesn’t really exist. So obviously there is something wrong in the West. So in case theoretical example you are not saying anything negative about the Holocaust but simply saying that you don’t believe it happened and yet it would be considered a crime. Isn’t this thought control ? And probably even me writing an article exposi...

In the UK it’s definitely time for all people to become real. Being real is being our true selves. Not who we think we should project ourselves to be. Forget about self projection and just be the real and genuine you, with all your weaknesses and imperfections. Why ? Because only through being real can we advance ourselves. Otherwise we end up advancing our projections and not our true selves. This means we end up wasting the time given to us to self improve and self develop.  However there is a difficulty in being our real selves. The people around us may not like us anymore. If you can live with that then this is the first step of self development. Be you regardless of who is pleased or not pleased. You will then have level 1 courage. Level 2 is when you are able to speak out and state your opinions and views on things without checking if people will be happy. Then you will have made yourself into a target for attack. If you can live with that then you are at level 3 courage. Lev...

Dear people, in my 50 or so years of life I have done much deep thinking about life and what is behind it etc. I have looked at religion and spirituality as a whole and have reached a good understanding ( this proves that those who say you cannot find the truth are wrong ).  My analysis thus far is that in the West, what is pumped out through the mass media outlets is a huge amount of Materialism ( this is effectively Materialism Propaganda). This has the effect of diminishing our spirituality. I believe we are spiritual beings in essence and not solely material. I believe we are souls having a physical experience. This life is a stage ( the theatrical kind) in which manifests our physical interactions with each other. Our souls enter into this stage through the foetus in our mothers wombs and they depart out of this stage in an event called death ( by that time the foetus would have normally left the womb and developed to the shape of a human adult). We , the souls, still continue...

Spirituality is coming in and taking over. Materialism (M) is soon to go down i believe. Very interesting times we will be going through i believe, starting from the corona virus and moving to new political transformations such as Turkey rising back to power and leading the Muslim world, and bringing the good light of Islam to the world (as opposed to the dark wahabi light held by Saudi). The Turkish light being Sufi based, which is a very peaceful and deep school of Islam. The famous Sufi poet, Rumi, is buried there, among others. Also Israel is predicted to no longer be there by 2023 (and this is from the Muslim holy book and the Jewish holy book).  So we are in very interesting times indeed I believe. The world is about to change big time I think. Ali Twaij 23 Jul 2020

Greetings ! The Enlightened Culture (EC) is that which I believe is coming in the future. Based on a balanced spiritual/material content. A spirito-material culture if you like. Today Current Western Culture (CWC) is extremely material. Here is the comparison: 1- EC is into seeking Truth about reality, CWC doesnt really care about Truth, it just wants to live the life it sees and enjoy it to the max. 2- EC wants to make sense of this life, asking itself why it has been created, for what purpose, while CWC is just about consuming and enjoying. There is no room for meaning in its life. 3- EC takes its time and is calm and rational , CWC is rushing to the next rush of happiness that it can experience. The above points show that when EC does start to appear it will completely outwit CWC. People should clearly be able to see which is superior. However the problem is that there are many different types of enlightened people, each ascribing to a different religion or way. Its as if the...

Greetings ! Having written my article ' Towards Spirituality for 21st Century UK ' I want to now also analyse it from many angles.  How likely is it to stir or affect people ? I am not sure it will stir very many. This is because people have gone of religion or spirituality. They may find it difficult to imagine anything good coming from it again. Or from anything that is close to it. Plus they may now be set in their ways , and so it is too late to bring up this topic again. But all a writer can do is try to call people to that which he or she believes will help them awaken. And many may resent being labelled unawake. So I think its very hard to approach this topic from this normal door. Its as if a lot of barriers have been piled in to prevent access to people from this doorway. To keep them subdued and asleep, living a life of material consumption and focus. To bring people back to look at the basic questions of life (like why we are here) has become meaningless I think....

Hello again. In this part I will give a glance into my own personal spiritual journey as an example of what the potential is in going out of Materialism, and heading into Spirituality. Hoping to show that this transition is highly transformative. First where has this search taken me so far ? Regarding the story of our existence here it isn't that we just popped out of nowhere and found ourselves inside a universe (which also popped out of nowhere) and that we have no clue what happened except that there was a bang and Voila, everything is here ! Nope, it is that there is an amazing Entity that is very strange and yet loving and caring. It has decided to give us something very special: Freedom. And wanted to observe us to see what we do with this freedom. Will we start using the minds it gave us to become curious and ask whats going on, why are we here? What are we? What is a human? Or will we just copy what everyone around us is doing and do what they do. Will some of us be b...

Why would anyone want to move the UK towards spirituality? Did we not get enough of it during the dark ages? Do we really want to go back to religion? What is wrong with our current path? I will attempt to answer all these questions in this article. Why Spirituality? By moving away from spirituality towards materialism we left something very important in life: Meaning.  We no longer could search for meaning to our life. To understand why we, as souls, have been sent here. And why we must leave this planet, and where do we go afterwards. This is what we lost by going to materialism (M). M sounds great, and full of fun, but in reality it turns us into meaningless objects that for some reason appear and then for another reason disappear. Is this really the reality of the situation? Is this the truth of our life ? Or is this simply how we wanted it to be. We decided that this is the truth and are now trying to live this projection. How has our life gone so far under this framework ...

Assume that after we died we are brought back into the earth and we see that it is the day of judgement on us humans. What kind of thoughts will pass through our minds? My analysis is the following: People from this current era ( who mostly don’t spend time searching for truth or caring about whether the truth exists or not) will be a bit surprised to see themselves back on the earth in such a scene ( amongst humans from other nations and eras and generations ). They may recall that there were amongst them in their time people who were concerned about searching for truth and found their paths in life and travelled them, many of them having adopted a belief in an eternal life and started to prepare for this eternity through good deeds and applying the guidance available from their Creator. They accepted that many around them were not interested in listening and were fixated on living their limited first life as if it was the only life available to them. So they let them go about the...

Well , it’s June 2020, and the shock and strangeness of things has gone away and we have all become accustomed to this new and different way of living. We are now thinking about how to start relaxing our lockdowns and how to live with the virus whilst returning , in very limited extents, back to our previous normal. We have accepted that the virus is here to stay for a while and won’t be going away anytime soon.  Many seem to be looking at conspiracy theories and there seems to be sufficient evidence for them to make you wonder, although the state will stay in denial as normal. But it seems that plenty are thinking that way and there isn’t much trust of those in power. This is how it looks for me at least.  Regarding why the virus is here , one can either point to conspiracy ( eg population control issues ) or that our Creator (God) is intervening and sending us a message that he isn’t happy with humanity at the moment. If the latter is true then it means th...

Who is going to win? We hear plenty of Fear coming from the news on a daily basis these days. Fear is on the up. Yes there is a global virus and yes its dangerous, but what shall we do about the Fear? Surely it will start harming us emotionally or mentally if we keep absorbing it? And it may start spreading fast too. Some may say that fear is good as it will get people to take good precautions and follow the recommended guidelines. This is true but we dont need to continuously live on fear in order to do that. If we do and it starts controlling our lives then it will affect us negatively i think. So my solution is to cast out the fear once we have applied all the responsible precautions. Because by then we would have done the best we can to minimise the spread of the physical virus. So now we dont need the Fear virus to keep spreading to us anymore. We can now extinguish that virus and live in a new fear free realm. In this fear free realm you can look at other aspects of life. ...

Plus side maybe equal to minus side Need to discover the plus side and exploit it fully God is kind to us and has provided for us in this difficult time with enough money to survive on and plenty of food availability as well as beautiful weather to look at. Assume we will be in this situation of home stay for several months and think about how you want to use your time in it. Assume also that there will be adequate support for you and that you will be able to survive this strange and interesting period. Look at it as a gift from God for you to do some special things in it. Also as long as you are taking precautions for you and your family then you no longer need to worry too much about the virus issue. Instead focus on discovering its plus side. Plus sides : 1- Good quality family time can be had. Can use it to straighten relationships and mend broken ones. 2- Its an opportunity to break out of the rat race and think differently and develop new interests. 3- Try to see wh...

I think Europeans have focussed on fighting it without reflecting on the bigger issue of divine intervention and the message being sent. That to continue on this current path of ungodly living has resulted in this message being sent. But I don’t think they are aware of this unfortunately. And posting such a message may just increase their distance away from the divine. We basically need to return to godly living. Chastity modesty humbleness purity decency connectedness to our maker should return. Removing greed and replacing it with love and charity. Helping the weak , being kind to neighbors and so on. Thinking about why we are here, what the big picture is and so fourth. Truth seeking.  We have been made materialistic in mind frame and our spiritual side has been sucked out. Many of us have become almost empty spiritually unfortunately. This has led to the spread of material greed and also the lack of inner peace and inner stability I think. We can reverse all this if we re...

For many people this statement may be considered so so wrong. Because today religion has become such a backward word, with plenty of extremely negative connotations. So how could religion be right for us? It doesn’t seem right does it. Well here is my take. What was religion originally? In my view it’s about an entity connecting with us and transmitting messages to us. It would use specially selected people and use them as the explainers of its message. These people are commonly referred to as messengers or prophets or teachers. Spiritual teachers. The essence of the message is about our situation. About how this entity created us, why it created us and why it put us to live finite lives on this planet and where do we go after leaving the planet ( during death ). The answers to the big questions that we stopped asking. As well as what is the best way ( and right way) to live life whilst here. These are the topics it’s messages address. And there are books it sends down to us that ex...

My analysis of the enlightenment period in Europe is showing me that it was not a proper enlightenment unfortunately but only half of one. It did give rise to democracy, secularism (separating religion from the state) and freedom of belief which are all great things but it missed out on one major thing unfortunately. It should have adopted the idea that religion is good and that man is bad. What is meant by this is that the Creator is good and loving,   and sends us good guidance and teachings but that man then chooses to change that message to suit his interests and brings harm to mankind as a result. So the priesthood becomes a corrupt entity in all religions and end up working to secure the interests of those in power instead of actually following the wishes of the Creator. The priesthood is man and so the problem is with man and not religion. This is when we define religion as the teachings sent down by the Creator and not the distortions added to the teachings of the Creato...