I have been working on this & in process. This is just a part of descriptions. Please Note: My understanding of Al-Quran is all Interior, Inside in the human structure's (manufactured) by Allah (swt). Exterior is a different class of Intellectual understanding. Before trying to understand the Book Quran it is important to know the dialogue or the theophanical format of its manuscript. In Quranic context Allah /Rabb is the Consciousness portrayed as the amphitheater, while mind is the lower stage or lower consciousness ( Al-Aradh ) in which different actors ( thoughts & senses )perform to keep the show in the theater alive. As Samawaat is the higher consciousness from where we get guidance. The important term al-aradh & as-samawaat combine with its dervative have occurred 461 times and 379 times respectively. Its correct understanding is very important for inferring the entire theme of the book Quran. Confining its meaning as Earth or Sky or Heaven will take us nowhere. The topic of the book Quran is Human psychology or psyche, commonly known as NAFS. The entire book revolves around human psyche and we must understand the entire Quran in that specific context only. Allah, Malaikah, Shaitaan, Iblees, Rasul, Nabi, Firaun, Kitab, Quran, Ardh, Samawaat, Qaum, Masjid i Haram, Jannah, Jahannum, Noor, Naar, etc. must be inferred in the context of the human mind or psyche as they are metaphysical aspect of our own mind / nafs. There is nothing materialistic or physical in the entire Quran. The message of the book is antidote for those who can think, ponder, imagine, use logic, contemplate, visualize, reason and can experience / witness the abstract / esoteric (gayab) happenings / activity inside our mind / nafs more specifially our lower consciousness ( fil -ardh ). There are various kinds of thoughts that inhabits in our lower consciousness. We all know that our thoughts can speak volumes in the language we understand (Arabic). The settlement of right thoughts eventually becomes our Furqan, Quran, Kitab, Noor, Hidayah that is dictated upon us day and night. Everyone is not blessed to understand their compilation of thoughts or their inherent Quran / Kitab. Without proper or sincere Taqwa ( Logical obeservation, diligence, precaution and caution ) our thoughts can not connect with our Allah, Rasul, Quran, Kitab and obtain noor ( light ) to direct us in the right direction ( Siratal Mustaqeem ) proper focus / direction (Qiblah) or devotion and direction is important to establish connection (Salat) with our Allah, Rasul, Kitab, Quran. Proper connections help us to grow, develop and purify (Zakat) ourselves (Nafs) The real character is the one who follows his inherent script ( Al-Kitab ) to his best potentials without imitating or copying the role of other actors. Our own thoughts are depicted or personified as protagonists of the play. The entire problem starts when one fails to identify / recognize our own embedded script ( Al-Kitab or Kitab Allahi ) and inherent voice of Allah ( Rasul Allah, I understand it as our own common sense ) We often try to emulate / copy other actors as we fail to recognize or follow our own script or inner voice. The act of emulating others is term of shirk in Quranic parlance that is mixing or adulterating our original role or thought process with roles of thought process of others. Everyone has there unique role to play; adapting others role is the biggest injustice to the self. The entire narration of the book Quran is internal conversation that exists in our embedded or nafs or script but we can not see ( Bil-Gayab) only feel it. TBC.
Nassiri Abraham
Just one QUESTION for you brother.
For how long were you engaging in the segments?
So, I can give you benefit of a doubt.
Peer Khan Baloch
I joined a month. Prior I watch Dr. Hany Video's.
عطاء اَلحیّ احمد | Attaulhai Ahmed
Salaamun Alaykum.
If you follow the logic of mentalism, the lower consciousness is more closer to the Quranic terms:
Hayati Dunya: The lower “life” (or lower outlook on “life”).
Zeena: The superficial and low layer of understanding, that constraints one’s understanding and awareness to a low degree.
Argument for Al-Ardh related to language:
1)
The term Al-Ardh is related to mind’s ability to form and use language. The Ayat are not on paper, but in the mind. Without knowing how to read, the Quran would appear as paper with ink on it. If you even don’t know what written words are, you couldn’t even tell, that the Quran is built by using words.
So the mental trees like the prophetic stories and the mature concepts, are not on the paper, but first: linguistic awareness allows you to perceive the Zeena level of Al-Ardh. Then methodology provides you an awareness for other layers - such as the Wahiyy.
2)
All this is still in your head. Not the eyes read the letters - the mind does. The eyes only see the ink. The perception of shape happens in the mind. Why? Because if you have Agnosia, you don’t perceive any shape at all.
Quote: “Agnosia is the inability to process sensory information. Often there is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss.”
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosia
So Al-Ardh is related to mind’s ability to form and use language. Otherwise the letters of the Quran would be random, meaningless ink.
3)
From this stage of perceiving language, the mental trees, like the prophetic stories and the mature concepts can grow mentally.
So Al-Ardh in the theory of mentalism is not the lower consciousness but the nutritional soil for higher concepts to form in Al-3arsh and catalyse higher insights and evidence based knowledge. The Al-Ardh is closer to a catalyst like instrument to enable every capable of engaging with it, lower consciousness/awareness to evolve to a higher consciousness/awareness with the layers of understanding.
I hope this argument provides a more clear picture to the mentalistic interpretation of the Quran.
Salaamun Alaykum.
عطاء اَلحیّ احمد | Attaulhai Ahmed
Salaamun Alaykum. Seemed not to work as expected, but Peer Khan Baloch seemed to already responded to it in an another post
Salaamun Alaykum.