What
is life, the truely good life worth living? Leaders of states
are creating armies, amassing modern weaponry, training how to
kill, when will they teach how to live? When will they learn how
to avoid conflict, resolving conflicts by peaceful means, seeking
justice and forgiveness?
We
present here some information from a traditional Islamic point
of view, non-sectarian, non-modernistic point of view.
Modernism
is
a deviation from truth. Societies were built and maintained in
denial of any higher principles. (see: Modernism
And Modern Thought).
Tradition however, (from lat. tradere) relies and depends on knowledge
of Divine origin, which is from a supra-human level, transmitted
over the times by exceptional persons, who are the prophets (be
peace upon them) and best preserved in the Islamic Tradition.
This
introduction is meant to be a hint from where to start - dear
reader - if you wish to enter - by the grace of God - into a new
spiritual world, which is truely splendid and sublime - referring
to what God - Allah has indicated in His Holy Book of the Quran
and what His Messenger ﷺ
has transmitted and which has come to us through reliable chains
of transmission.
Many
are those who have an inner inclination of bringing their lives
into order and into harmony with the Source of Life, the Eternal
Source of Good and Compassion.
But they don't know how do go about it, and many are the false
leaders. When it becomes obvious that rationality is not enough
in this quest, one will come to realize that only an authentic
tradition of Divine origine - which is best preserved in the Islamic
Tradition - can be the key for spiritual advancement.
But
first of all it takes His - Allah's - forgiveness and guidance
to bring you there. Then ..