AT TAKWIR
(That which is wrapped)
SUMMARY
#looking_at_oneself
Surah At Takwir described how impurities wrap our mind, cloud our perception and distort our understanding of reality. These impurities wrap around the mind like a veil, conditioning our mind, blocking our ability to see things clearly and manifest negatives thoughts and actions such as worldly attachments, ignorance, ego and so on.
Our basis of understanding the truth is reliance on the truth, the empirical and factual knowledge from our Rabb. The truth is from our Rabb. With this empirical and factual knowledge, we can analyse and comprehend the guidance and content of lower consciousness and higher consciousness. The initial signal that our pure mind is losing the light of guidance is when the light is diminishing and slowly showing less clarity on the guidance due to barriers formed by the impurities. When this happen, the light of guidance begin to sparkle indicating the light will be totally diminished if nothing is done to remove the increasing barriers of impurities. When the light of guidance is totally diminished, there will be no light and and no more guidance for the an-nas / agitated mind. When there is no guidance from your Rabb, then you will resort guidance from your own thinking derive from information in memory and thinking derive from sensory inputs. But thoughts given birth from memory and sensory inputs are limited in nature, incomplete. Life will be difficult when such pattern of living become a habit and way of life. The separate self become dominant with its individualism and the true self becomes inactive, buried. Allah question why is it the true self wrapped / buried and dead in the state of wakefulness ? What sin that the true self is killed ?
There will come a time by the grace of Allah that there are reminders to the self to turn and seek the truth. We must rely on the truth based on facts with empirical evidence. Allah sends His rasul, inner voice that deliver the message, and it is our duty to obey the rasul by trusting the message delivered. You will see the germination of the truth. Allah makes a confirmation that our will is Allah's will. There is oneness of will.
All praise is for Allah, the Rabb who is the possessor, the owner, the nourisher, the regulator, the Lord, the Master, the Indivisible, He bringing up and fashion to maturity, He rules, He governs, He takes care, the Guardian of the knowledgeable consciousness as pure knowing to all awareness.
By the (divine and all comprehensive) name Allah (that carries an elevated hidden meaning to its name), the Rahmaan, the Raheem. (The Rahmaan is the abstract education system of Allah that provide abundant knowledge of facts and the Raheem is the approval given to those who seek education through Ar Rahman).
81.1 When the source of the light / clarity is slowly wrapped. The source of the light is emitting continuously its light for clarity to whosoever want to receive the light and the hidden knowledge will be made clear and unobscured. To some, the source of the light appear to have a wrap around it that make the light to slowly diminishing and slowly ceasing to shower clarity to the observed by the observer. Something is slowly wrapping the source of the light. What is it ? Where does it comes from?
81.2 And when the sparkling of the stars slowly fade away. This state resemble an alarming state when just before the light of revelation is totally diminished, the sparkling gives a frightening alarm that the self is heading towards loosing totally the visibility of the light of revelation. This frightening state is an alarm to the self for self awareness. Will there be awareness ? Who will see this alarm taking place and finally be aware of the danger ?
81.3 And when the extreme difficulties / harshness / coarseness moved along. The state of mind is experiencing fixed / extreme state that is almost impossible to correct for the better. When the light is diminished, there will be no more guidance available to the agitated mind. Whatever guidance that come after the light is diminished will be whatever is produced by human mind either own thoughts or thoughts derived from sensory inputs. Life will be facing fear, sorrow, anxiety, conflicts, fake beauty, fake happiness, unfulfillment when there are so many mistakes, wrong-doings, misunderstandings, sins, arguments, discrimination, prejudice committed and experienced on a daily basis for a long period of time. Such pattern of difficult life will become a habit and a way of life. In this state of life the movements of the worldly pleasures as well as difficulties from one to the other, become the same pattern of life and that such movements become a fix pattern like mountain.
81.4 And when the final appearance neglected ( the light and the source diminished). The worldly pleasures and difficult life appear beautiful when the self has been conditioned to accept such life after long period of time. This fake beauty and pleasure will cover the source of light, layers after layers that will make the self cease to be aware of the existence of the source and the light. Finally the self will turn away from the light and its source completely.
81.5 And when the burden are forcefully gathered. At this stage, life becomes a burden to oneself, to family, relatives and community. The fake beauty and pleasure do not create any benefits, security and happiness to oneself and to others. So it will come to a stage where all the burden will be forcefully gathered and the fixed pattern may come to its ending. The self will scramble to seek the true security and happiness but how much more can the self absorb such beastly burden?
81.6 And when the crisis filled with intensity. At this state, life is full of crisis at an acute and intense level. Life will not be at peace and there is no peace for the self. There will be no love and there will be no happiness. Whatever actions and reactions of the self at this state, will only worsen the crisis and create severe outcome of pain, sufferings, sorrow and psychological hurt.
81.7 And when the souls / selves are paired. The actions and reactions that are portrayed out of the acute crisis of life will create a separate self that govern one’s life. This separate self carries negative ingredients and damaging egoistic content embedded all products of the mind that fashion one’s own character, personality and behaviour such as anxiety, fear, cruelty, self centred activities, discrimination, prejudice, injustice, ego centric activities and so on. So when the souls are paired, the separate self will be alive governing the self and the true self will be asleep inactive.
81.8 And when the true self (that is) buried is asked. Essentially the separate self does not exist but the mind / center / controller is heavily conditioned to believe that the separate self is the reality of the self. As a result, the true self will always be wrapped / buried alive by the separate self. So in the state of wakefulness, the separate self is alive and the true self is wrapped or dead while in the state of deep sleep the true self is alive and the separate self is dead. Allah question why is the true self wrapped / buried and dead in the state of wakefulness.
81.9 What sin the true self was killed ? This question is addressed to the self and the self is accountable to answer. This verse also create awareness and shivers should run through the spine after knowing that such question will be asked. This verse serves as a powerful tool to awaken oneself and to commit to the process of transforming oneself before actual death come. Come back to your true self before actual death come which by then, it will be too late.
81.10 And when the shuhufu / discernment (of inherent scripts) are spread opened. This verse foretells that all the content of the soul / self will be spread opened for one to see. The content of the said soul / self which will be shown in detail and clarity include among others one’s personality that has been created, one’s judgment that has been exercised, what one likes and dislikes, one’s believes that are formulated, habits, one’s attachment, one’s pattern of life and so on. All these content will be laid open for oneself to see.
81.11 And when the higher level consciousness is stripped off. In this state, the true self does not have access to the higher level consciousness that is the self is barred from receiving the divine judgment and consequentially the consciousness is dominantly filled by the products of human thoughts. There is no true guidance that is accessible in order to ascertain the straight / upright path. The guidance that is available and accessible will be those that will lead the self to conflicts.
81.12 And when internal conflict is ignited. In this state, the self will be forced by his own actions to focus towards resolving conflicts that arise. All his energy and other resources will be channeled in that direction, away from Allah and presumably at the end of the day no resources will be channeled towards knowing oneself and knowing Allah.
81.13 And when hidden garden of true knowledge is made near. There will come a time by the grace of Allah that there are reminders to the self to seek the truth. These reminders act as light of the hidden garden of true knowledge or jannah that is made near to the self. It is analagous that its door is brought near for the self to open and giving the opportunity for the self to get access again to the higher consciousness.
81.14 Every soul / self will know what it had done! The reminders will give awareness to the self. Now what is the self going to do? Does the self wants to take the first step towards reform or the attachments of the duniya is still strong tying him down from reform?
81.15 So I do swear by the collapsing flickering light of truth. Such awareness require attention. Do not ignore or take the reminder lightly. Pay attention and you will see clearer the facts and the burden. Do not turn away but to increase your awareness.
81.16 Those that run disappear. With the head on attention and increase in awareness, the internal conflicts will disappear. You will recognize the internal conflicts are nothing but illusions. There is no ultimate existence to it. Allah will surely help those who will and it is easy for Allah to fulfill your will. Kun fayakun!
81.17 And the laili / darkness when it passes. The darkness is veiled by the conditioned mind. The conditioned mind is enveloped by our own implicit built-in assumptions and prejudices about the nature of reality. So when there is clarity, the darkness will go away. Forthwith, the knowledge is replaced by empirical and factual understanding.
81.18 And the swim (in the abundant knowledge from your Rabb) when it breathes (signify the breathing in of the discernment of truth taking it deep into the consciousness). When the darkness that veil the light slowly disappear, the clarity of the mind will slowly discern the truth in the consciousness marking marked changes to our discernment of the truth with our direct experience of it.
81.19 It is the saying of an honorable rasulin / inner voice (that deliver the message). It is the duty of a rasul, which is our own inner voice that recite the signs and deliver the knowledge of Al Kitab. It is our duty to obey and do not turn back from the rasul when we hear the message.
81.20 Possessor of power and influence from the nearnest of the Owner of the secure arshi / structure of truth. The ultimate owner of the truth is Allah and the rasul / inner voice possesses the power and influence, which is known as surah in Al Quran so that we trust and take security of the signs.
81.21 Obeyed, and trustworthy. We have to associate our mind with Allah's command by obeying and trusting the message that is delivered. The signs are the manifestation of the reality so in essence the underlying reality depicted by the signs are the ones that is obeyed and trusted. We do not literally obey and trust the signs literally.
81.22 And your sohibu / companions of the same cloud of thoughts, with majnun / a soul hidden from awareness. There are other thoughts as a product of the same cloud of thinking that are agitated or restless, arise from being dissociated with Allah's command. We have to be aware of such thoughts. They form the veils that hide the soul from awareness.
81.23 And surely he saw him with the clear 'ufuki / germination (of truth). With the awareness, the other agitated thoughts become clear and be able to see the germination of the truth. Detach the attachments and unbecome the become is the main consideration at this point.
81.24 And he has no knowledge of the ghaibi / knowledge of the hidden. The fatherly support of your own mind will not give birth to the knowledge of the hidden. The knowledge of the hidden is not perceivable. They are revealed by Allah through the Rahman / Allah's abstract system of rducation. Your mind is grasp for understanding when the interpretation is received.
81.25 And it is not the saying of an outcast shaytan / acts from state of despair. There is the inner voice of the rasul and there is whisper of shaytan. Know which to obey and to trust. Surely, the inner voice is not the whisper of shaytan because of the tranquility and peace nature of the mind.
81.26 So where will you go? The understanding is clear and what to choose is known when you know the difference between inner voice of rasul and whispers of shaytan. The knowing is pure and pure knowing lead to unity of consciousness.
81.27 It is but a reminder for the aalamin / all empirical and factual knowledge. This verse convey that majority of human are not engaging themselves with empirical and factual knowledge in their comprehension of knowing oneself and knowing Allah. So Allah reminds us that He is the Rabb of all the empirical and factual knowledge and and it is this knowledge that we have to obey and follow.
81.28 For whoever of you wishes to go straight. This verse affirmed that those who wish to go on a straight path must rely wholly on the facts with empirical evidence revealed by your Rabb. Do not yukminu / take security with conjectures, innovaions, inventions, myth, unfounded believes and all other products of human thoughts.
81.29 And you cannot will anything except if it is also willed by Allah, Rabb / Lord of the aalamain / all empirical and factual knowledge. Do we really have free will to go on the straight path ? Here in this verse, Allah makes a confirmation that our will is Allah's will. There is oneness of will. Our pure knowing is knowledge from Allah so what we will in essence is what Allah wills.
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