"The central weakness of these religions today, as we pointed out, lies in their growing irrelevancy for modern life. Once upon a time they exercised absolute dominance, at least for their adherents. They offered explanations which were received as authoritative. They elaborated these explanations into socio-political institutions where possible. Bit by bit, decade by decade, their hold on men's minds and lives is diminishing. We find, on careful scrutiny, that it is fundamentally their explanations which are found wanting. They purpose a way to think and speak about man's world which man cannot accept. He cannot accept it because in some cases it is out of tune with what man knows as certainly as he knows anything; and in other cases and concepts used in the explanations are unintelligible to modern man. If unintelligible, they are inapplicable. They are irrelevant.

This lack of intelligibility and its consequent irrelevance affect not merely peripheral elements of the religions but the very stuff and matter out of which the religions are made. The garments are not merely worn and outmoded. The bodies themselves are effete and aged, beyond apparent hope of recall to youth and vigor ... It must be noted that very often this lack of intelligibility arises, not precisely because the concepts are old, but because they reflect a mentality which has been rejected by modern man, and because they no longer correspond to the realities with which modern man must cope ...

The dominance of each religion, besides being set by common problems outlined above, suffers from particular strains and pains of its own. Judaism and Christianity resemble each other on many points of pain and setback; but Judaism suffers from internal polarization, and Christianity suffers from a prolonged insistence on being what it need not be. Islam is apart. Still trussed and strait-jacketed in outworn ways and inept approaches to the 20^th century world, Islam's agony is what Christianity might be between 10^th and 12^th centuries A.D.: total inability even to grapple with its circumambient world. For while Judaism and Christianity are at grips with their world but losing steadily, Islam has never even started, and is in danger of cultural and civilizational mummification ...

To state that a concept or an idea is unintelligible, is not to state that the reality which men have tried to express in that concept has no validity. Our concept of God may be unintelligible. God may, nevertheless, exist."       
                                                                           

"TRUTH AND REVELATION

Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), one of the greatest Catholic theologians of the middle ages, made a clear distinction between truth which could be deducted by reason (for example, the existence of God and the moral law) and truth which must be given by revelation (for example, the way to salvation). #2 (Historical Selections in the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Ninian Smart, page 62) Essentially, if God is one, there must be One 'truth'. Do we conclude that there must be one revelation? The answer to this is that 'truth' and revelation are not absolutely equivalent terms. Because 'truth' is an absolute term it is situated independent of form, whereas revelations are related to time, people and a place, and thus require a form. But to speak of form is to speak of diversity and thus plurality.

Mankind has gone through enormous changes through the ages physically, mentally and spiritually, that there was always the need for various revelations at different times and for different peoples. Because of these diversities God never addresses identical revelations to two different people. This being so, it can be said that the diverse revelation do not, and should not contradict one another, for although they differ in form, the 'truth' in all of them is one. In fact, they supplement one another, one revelation preparing for what is to follow, each revelation being one further chapter in the same book. The book as a whole advocates one message, and one 'truth'.

If there appears any apparent contradictions between different revelations, they are in human receptacles and not in the divine message. This is manifested in the human inability to interpret such revelations and more importantly the failure to preserve the 'truth' contained in the revelation, which always tends to be impaired and altered with the passing of time.

God, when He speaks, expresses Himself in an absolute mode, but this absoluteness relates to the universal content rather than to the form. Revelation speaks in an absolute language because God is absolute, not because the form is. In other words, the absoluteness of the revelation is absolute in itself, but relative regarding its form.

The language of the sacred Scripture is divine but at the same time it is necessarily the language of men. It is made for men and could be divine only in an indirect manner. Is our language or indeed our understanding adequate to attain the divine meaning? Because the answer tends to be more negative than positive, the need for various revelations in parallel with human progress across the ages was always necessary."        
                                                                           

"The mystic in relation to the transcendent God, then, is the searcher for that which was lost, the seer of visions, the humble penitent seeking the great 'other.' But mysticism has also another conception of God, that of immanence - the God within. In this view, every living moment contains the possibility of the spiritual; we always can be what we may be, we can always cooperate with the spiritual and with our inner vision. The mystic does not have a long hard road to travel to an immanent God: all he or she needs is to remember, to realize the presence in the soul and in the universe....

In psychosynthesis, immanence is contained in the notion of the 'I' being in direct line with the Higher Self, which is a spark of the spiritual reality: but the assumption is that not everyone is in touch with their own centre or their own soul: in fact, few may realize their own potential in the world... . It is precisely to the possibility of this awakening that psychosynthesis addresses itself."       
                                                                           

"Yes, Laila has confirmed me 
by confirming my promises 
with the pledge of all 
and she has returned me from my state of sobriety
to state of intoxication.
My Dawn with her is the midday 
My day with her is like a life time. 
My lifetime is like a moment

Oh seeker of Gnosis,
Know that it's expression is from me
And oh seeker of the reality
Know that my reality is from her.
I attained her from the places of Hattim and Zemzem
And when I arrived at the house
She disqualified my pilgrimage to the house
She loaned them eyes by which she sees them by
When reality becomes manifest in them
Their bodies disappeared.

Oh seeker of realization, Oh seeker of realization,
Know that I draw my reality from her.
Laila has bewildered the mind,
the most excellent mind,
And also those living in the highest abode 
and the highest realms of angels. 
Listen to the song of existence,
there is no other than you in existence.
So stay within it and enjoy the bliss.
Let go of the ugly quality
And let go of its banner 
And resist living in the dunya.
And discard all ugliness.
Let go of yourself and lowly desires
and remain prostrate with no ruku following it. 
And no such ruku would have the taste of sweetness
And there is no other than Allah as a sign for this knowledge. 
So eliminate its existence
And you will follow and catch up
with the wine of expression 
And then you will gain all the bliss. 
To absent yourself from everything but her. 
She is the essence of life 
And the essence from the beginning of creation.
You are the essence of creation,
there is no other.

Stay in remembrance
in every moment
and every seclusion
and you will find love and compassion
and you will arrive from the everlasting essence 
and then your creation will be realized in Him. 
So give thanks for the existence of Allah
and pray my beloved for the presence of the essence.
A gift bestowed to Him,
the most beloved of Allah. 
Allah's prayers and peace be upon Him
And his family and those that follow Him.
that gave us this song
from the individual essence for seekers 
on the path of love
from the exalted and from the face.
Bow down and you will gain in every direction. 
There is no rest for the beloved in the Beloved
except by this.
Know that Allah is the secret of existence in totality. 
Her beloved is the essence of the essence. 
There is nothing for eyes to gaze on but His face. 
I pray to Allah to keep them in their hearts and Spirit 
in all times of intoxication. 
We are drunk with everlasting wine 
and we have drunk from exalted cups. 
Eternal cups destined for now. 

My Lord give me to sing Your song 
and give me permission to explain to those who are thirsty for You 
and those who are very hungry for Your food. 
And give me Your knowledge from Your spirit 
to explain more about Yourself and Your heart and Your spirit. 
My Lord I look to You and see there is nothing before You or after You or around You.

Those beloveds around me are very thirst and hungry for Your love. 
It is my pleasure to wash every feet of my beloveds 
and to make everyone ready to carry Your face in the right way. 
I am slave for everyone who loves You. 
This is the real meaning about the guide
to be slave for everyone through Your way. 
To be only for Your face. 
Help to walk through all Your stations 
like what You give from the first light. 
Excuse me if my language is poor and not enough
but the tears in my heart and my crying from my heart she explain more
Make them enough to help these. 
I am nothing
only Your slave
I am nothing without You
I am like the dish............

Give me Your mercy my Lord 
to everyone who is crying. 
Your life, Your love is like the jewel. 
Give the healing for every heart 
to understand and Your song. 
Your circle contains everything. 
Destroy me to be food
for those crying for Your food 
from beginning to end. 
Destroy me to be a slave only for You 
meaning sacrifice for You. 
And everyone is ready to eat me 
in Your perfect way. 
Those real food for everything. 

Beloveds listen to the flute of David 
who cries for the voice of God 
in the middle of the night
to stop the fire ......

Your song sweet like the honey. 
No words to contain Your sweetness, 
can not explain the love, the real self,
What You give for everyone,
only the heart of Your faithful beloved. 
Clean yourself, myself,
to walk through all the stations 
until when your devils surrender."