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LIGHT IN THE HOLY QUR'AN:
Then shaped him in proper form, and BREATHED (LIFE) INTO HIM FROM HIS SPIRIT; and invested you with the gift of hearing and seeing and feeling. Little thanks do ye offer (for all these favours).
THROUGH OUT THE MOVEMENT IS A CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT - VIDE CHAPTER 67 - 2.
Again Chapter 66, Section 2, Verse 8 reads as:
8. O ye who believe! Turn to God sincerely repentant. Haply God will overlook your lapses, and cause you to enter into gardens wherein flow streams. On that day God will not let the Prophet and those who believe with him feel humiliated. (On the other hand, they will be honoured, since) THEIR LIGHT SHALL RUN BEFORE THEM TO THEIR RIGHT SIDE, while they say, - "Our Lord! Perfect for us OUR LIGHT AND GRANT US PROTECTION: Verily, Thou hath Power over all things."
The Ideology of the Qur'an is based on 'Believe' and 'Work righteously'. One has to believe in the unity of God by recognizing that the entire universe, both visible and invisible, owes its existence to but one Supreme Being and is sustained by Him. This is the basic concept into which the Qur'an desires to initiate the mind of man in order that he might feel one with the rest of the world created by Him and adjust his life accordingly. The Qur'an promotes Monotheism, the meaning being "the doctrine that there is only One God". There is no deity but Allah. This is the first pillar of Islam declaring the Oneness of God, the Supreme and Eternal, the infinite and the mighty, the merciful and the compassionate, the creator and the provider. Again Qur'an says, He is Allah, the one. Allah is eternal and absolute, none is born of Him nor is He born. And there is none like Him. All these qualities indirectly indicate the Supreme Self, Khudaa, which, usually we call as Allah, satisfies the attributes, such as, the all pervasiveness etc. And the explanation in Qur'an implies the transcendental self coming as immanent and identifying with all the creation from the gross to the subtle. This we have discussed in the text by replacing the indefinable Self by words, such as, the Lord, Allah, etc.
THE WORD KHUD AND KHUDAA MEANS THE SELF, AND THE PERSONIFIED SUPREME SELF, NAMED AS ALLAH | | |
