Facing Mecca is any direction you wish to choose, if your mind is focussed on God.
That essential immediate experience of what Mohammed
underwent on his favorite private mountain ridge
where he often stopped in~route to meditate
is what Mohammed , in his heart
would have you experience too.
I suspect he waivered afterwords in sustaining
the experience.
So enter Mohammed playing the Moses upon the mountain.
Buddha under the Boddhi Tree, their Zorroaster.
Every tribe must finally have there messenger
from God and so Mohammed succeded in awakening
and solidifying an identity of that sense of the
divine in those tribes, at last , with his
"New" vision . Except the vision was/is not new.
A people/race/tribes that had finally found their own
validation/identity and vision of order
within a universe of total being at last.
In a language, prose, and code of laws they
could understand .
It all started with the experience of "enlightenment"
of one man alone in the desert . But it is in another
way something sensed within all men , of many ages
before . Islam and the tribes of Islam were fresh
to the idea of this singular Higher Power , and perhaps
while other religions languished and lapsed into
ennui and stagnated a little, Islam and it's followers totally flashed upon the
scene with it's fresh holy visions of salvation
and energies with a war cry and will to merge
others with Allah or die.
The monstrous events that were to follow in Islam's
Jhiads had little to do with that original vision ,
but greed mixed with a fanaticism of an almost Nordic
warrior code of the promise of heaven , some close
to Mohammed encouraged . Killing infidels is justified
for if they don't convert , they are useless to God
anyways ....
This is how man awakens , stage by stage until he
arrives back on the doorstep of democracy, where the
ultimate test and freedom of ethics and moral choice
will test every belief, creed and code, and
the individual is finally free to experience
his own union with the infinite , just as Mohammed
had his ...or I had mine in Yosemite.
It all starts with one man under a Bodhi Tree...
or one meditating alone on a desert ridge or high
up on the mountain
...but the drama doesn't end with them , ever.
Islam was very exciting while it lasted ,and still
is a vital force of thought , but like all religions it tried to can an experience that can't be canned .
Mars
PS: Islam ...meaning "Service" , an idea as old as
the oldest religion known on earth . In Hinduism
called SEVA. Allah is great ...but the experience
of Allah is greater. What you call God , is known
by many names. |
