Matter — Doctrine (Religion) — Miracle

مادہ — مذہب — معجزہ

Matter (Mādda): Come now! Let us examine this matter — what is it? What are the properties and necessities of matter? The properties and necessities of matter are as follows: (1) It occupies space — i.e., it has extension; it has length, breadth, and depth. (2) It has weight. (3) It has attraction — because it has parts with mutual pulling and attraction. (4) It is continuous — i.e., it is always in motion as long as nothing external stops it. Static — it is always static when nothing external sets it in motion.

The matter — the character of this is that it is one thing of the World of Witnessing — from it, by the happening of things, the spiritual phenomena become patterned — matter opposes spiritual phenomena on the religious people, yet matter can be negated — because there is no necessity for matter to have any will — to have good knowledge, to have intention, to be able to enter inside — therefore necessarily for the external world there is no matter that can be said to be a thing — look carefully! Who am I — what are my parts and body? Which am I? Hands, feet, head, blood, flesh, brain — never — what comes out of the hands and feet every week — at birth how much weight was it, now how much is it — analysis and change — in seven (7) or twelve (12) years the whole body is new. For 57 years of life I have changed 8 times — but the things I knew then and the events are still equally remembered in my knowledge now. That means my 'self' (anā'iyya) is the same — it came, something happened — nothing changed.

I rise from my chair, I sit, I walk — I am without the material will and material does not move at its own will — matter that is at rest requires a force — that force that acts on it becomes its own — and it becomes active. Such action without the will of the body does not happen — because it is the will that sets matter in motion.

What about the matter and its parts and the relationships with spiritual phenomena? The one who is outside his circle of knowledge and practice is a stranger — the work of the wanderer (jaulahā bāstar) becomes impossible — he quarrels with his physician out of shame and here it is helplessness. Every one of the arts has boundaries and the one who knows one art is helpless and foolish in the other art's domain — stupidity is helplessness.

Doctrine (Mazhab/Religion): Understanding the secrets of Divine Power — and to achieve the perfection of the human being without formal instruction is religion's purpose. Allah Most High gave the intellect to understand material and sensory things; for understanding what lies beyond the material and sensory, Allah Most High sends a teacher — the Prophet or Messenger. This person's natural constitution is extraordinary — he is one who takes from the suprasensory and gives to the sensory — whose natural constitution is related to both the sensory and suprasensory — which is of an extraordinary kind — thus his constitution is of an extraordinary kind that is related to both the sensory and suprasensory. He receives from the suprasensory and conveys it to the sensory.