Mansur al hallaj biography of albert einstein

Part – II

In the 1 part of ‘Understanding Islam, we tried to understand the history of Islam, and the structure of the Islamic religion. We tried to understand how the Divine Power, unleashed by the 7 century Avatara Mohammad, has spread all over the world, and the incredible inputs this Power has given to the progress of mankind. We have based this multi-part article on an important observation of Swami Vivekananda: And then comes Mohammed, the Messenger of equality. You ask, “What good can there be in his religion?” If there were no good, how could it live? The good alone lives, that alone survives; because the good alone is strong, therefore it survives. How long is the life of an impure man, even in this life? Is not the life of the pure man much longer? Without doubt, for purity is strength, goodness is strength. How could Islam have lived, had there been nothing good in its teaching? There is much good. [1]

We will now continue our efforts to unravel this amazing statement of Swamiji regarding Prophet Mohammad and Islam.

Nivedita records: On one occasion Swami Vivekananda saw a Muslim saint, a Paramahamsa, “whose every line and curve told that he was a Paramahamsa,” and this was the occasion of a great hour. ‘Sometimes naked, sometimes mad, Now as a scholar, again as a fool, Here a rebel, there a saint, Thus they appear on the earth, the Paramahamsas.’ – So repeating ‘The Marks of the Paramahamsas’ from the Vivekachudamani of Shankaracharya, there passed, as the disciple would put it, ‘a whole night fermenting’. [2]

Far, far away from the visible, obnoxious, misanthropic form of Islam, way beyond the din & bustle of the Fiqh, Fatwa & Sharia, there exists, even today, a dazzling form of Islamic spirituality. Islamic spirituality began with Mohammad himself. He initiated his cousin and son-in-law Ali, the 4 Caliph into its secrets. And that chain of spiritual transmission continues unbroken to this day. God does not incarnate i

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times

Abū ‘l-Muġīth Al-Ḥusayn bin Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj was a Persian mystic, poet and teacher of Sufism. Al-Hallaj gained a wide following as a preacher before he became implicated in power struggles of the Abbasid court and was executed on 26th of March 922 after a long period of confinement on religious and political charges. The legend has it that he was killed for saying that I am the Truth, Anāl-Ḥaqq, some thought that he is suggesting that he is god!

I have no desire to be a martyr, yet I have the audacity to declare that I am the second coming of Al Hallaj. Because, I believe that no one has a better commentary of the Al-Haqq attribute of Allah than I do, as I have worked on the ‘Religion and Science‘ theme in Islam and the Quran for more than two decades now: A Century of Scholarship for Quran and Science.

The second coming of Al-Hallaj may be more luminous this time around, because the description that Allah being the Truth will be more poignant, as I present the attribute with scientific and mathematical clarity, given the scientific developments in the last millennium.

Additionally, I want to do better than my first appearance, and learn from his destiny and avoid getting killed by the political elite, who are capable of mixing their religion with their political agenda.

However, this article is not as much about me, as my Muslim readers, as you will get to see in the last paragraph of this article. Please, don’t be carried away by the symbolism or the metaphors in this article.

My fear is that my commentary of the attribute of Al-Haqq can be taken as blasphemy by the established, as it may have implications for their political agenda and ambitions.

So, I just checked which countries have capital punishment for blasphemy charges. The countries that cannot be on my bucket list for traveling

[close] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma, 12 January 1918[2] – 5 February 2008) was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways, including as a new religious movement and as non-religious.[3][4] He became known as Maharishi (meaning "great seer")[1][5] and Yogi as an adult.[6][7]

After earning a degree in physics at Allahabad University in 1942, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became an assistant and disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (also known as Guru Dev), the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of the Jyotir Math in the Indian Himalayas. The Maharishi credits Brahmananda Saraswati with inspiring his teachings. In 1955, the Maharishi began to introduce his Transcendental Deep Meditation (later renamed Transcendental Meditation) to India and the world. His first global tour began in 1958.[8] His devotees referred to him as His Holiness,[9] and