Chezr – Zielony Prorok

Chezer – the Green Prophet Khadir, or Khwaja Khadir (Khizr, Khezr, Arabic: “green”, “greenish”), Green Prophet (green symbolising “freshness” and new life) is a popular and familiar fi gure across Arabic countries, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, India and the Far East. The complex and mysterious fi gure of Khezr is connected with Idris, Elijah, Enoch, Saint George, and Skanda, and is associated with the water, cave, and immortality (he lives on an island or upon a green carpet in the heart of the sea, or else in the far northern country called Yuh, which seems to be an earthly paradise). Khezr is reputedly the only soul who has gained life immortal from tasting the Fountain of Life. He is still alive and continues to guide those who invoke his name. In popular Islamic lore Green Prophet is also the mysterious guide, an angel, the immortal saint and the hidden initiator of those who walk the mystical path. He appears in Sura 18, 66 (Al Kalf, “The Cave”) where together with Moses he goes on a long journey to a point where two rivers met. But his wisdom surpasses that of Moses, and has rather a tinge of gnosis, the character of divine wisdom imparted by God to the Prophet Muhammad and the Prophet Khidr

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Unity and Multiplicity Philosophical discourse in Islam revolves around God, and God’s manifestation in the world. This article attempts to describe the philosophical concept, and especially the Sufi concept, of God. For Muslim philosophers the question “how does unity give rise to multiplicity?” had a crucial meaning. In Islam God is One, and everything else is two or more. The Oneness of being remains inaccessible to people. However, Sufis tried to give an answer to the question “What is Reality? What is the ‘face of God’, and what does this notion really mean?” And also “what veils separate Him from His creation?” Sufis tried to find the answer to all these questions not in the calm of a library but in deep religious experience. Because God in His mercy revealed the Laws in order that people would be able to make choices which lead directly to their felicity in the next stage of their experience. This was a difficult and dangerous process, and it required from neophytes a love of God. In their searches, the Sufis try to answer the question of what one sees when one throws off the inhibiting shackles of the mind and senses, what does one feel when one crosses the border of the phenomenal world? What kind of world does one observe when one wakes up from a dream which is life? What does one see in the state of illumination

The idea of God and Absolute in Islam

Sufism is a very broad notion. We can speak about Turkish sufism, about Arabic or Iranian sufism. About sufism of different schools or even different masters. Sufism, though leaning on common base as is Koran, and the common declaration of being a moslem which is expressed in the words La ilaha ilia ’ Llah - "No God then God" and Muhammad rasula 'Llah - "Muhammad is the Prophet of God", thus sufism, is not one way but a great number of ways, which people followed to seek the God. What does a man see when he throws away cramping him fetters of mind and senses, what does he feel when he crosses the border of the phenomenal world and through the gossamer of sensorial things he can see what is hidden behind them? What kind of world does he observe when he wakes up from the dream which is the life and opens his eyes in the completely different world in the state of illumination - baqa? The article attempts to describe the philosophical Sufi concepts as well as Reality which was describe during mystical experience. God is One, we and everything other is two or more. The Oneness of being remains inaccessible to people. It corresponds to knowledge of the Essence. Though the Essence remains unknowable and God is incomparable but in any case it is not the practical concern of mystic. His goal is to annihilate all claims to independence and to become the perfect servant. All this process is very difficult and it required from adepts knowledge and love. The best we can do is approximate it (this is known as tawhid). Knowledge is identical to the divine friendship whereby God takes charge of His servants and ennobles them. Through knowledge they come to know that He cannot be know. But if not love mystics had not enough strength in searching to grasp God. Love is fire that keeps mystic heart warm and this helps to keep mind alert

Chezer - the Green Prophet

Khadir, or Khwaja Khadir (Khizr, Khezr, Arabic: "green", "greenish"), Green Prophet (green symbolising "freshness" and new life) is a popular and familiar fi gure across Arabic countries, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, India and the Far East. The complex and mysterious fi gure of Khezr is connected with Idris, Elijah, Enoch, Saint George, and Skanda, and is associated with the water, cave, and immortality (he lives on an island or upon a green carpet in the heart of the sea, or else in the far northern country called Yuh, which seems to be an earthly paradise). Khezr is reputedly the only soul who has gained life immortal from tasting the Fountain of Life. He is still alive and continues to guide those who invoke his name. In popular Islamic lore Green Prophet is also the mysterious guide, an angel, the immortal saint and the hidden initiator of those who walk the mystical path. He appears in Sura 18, 66 (Al Kalf, "The Cave") where together with Moses he goes on a long journey to a point where two rivers met. But his wisdom surpasses that of Moses, and has rather a tinge of gnosis, the character of divine wisdom imparted by God to the Prophet Muhammad and the Prophet Khidr

Unity and Multiplicity

Philosophical discourse in Islam revolves around God, and God’s manifestation in the world. This article attempts to describe the philosophical concept, and especially the Sufi concept, of God. For Muslim philosophers the question "how does unity give rise to multiplicity?" had a crucial meaning. In Islam God is One, and everything else is two or more. The Oneness of being remains inaccessible to people. However, Sufi s tried to give an answer to the question "What is Reality? What is the "face of God", and what does this notion really mean?" And also "what veils separate Him from His creation?" Sufi s tried to fi nd the answer to all these questions not in the calm of a library but in deep religious experience. Because God in His mercy revealed the Laws in order that people would be able to make choices which lead directly to their felicity in the next stage of their experience. This was a diffi cult and dangerous process, and it required from neophytes a love of God. In their searches, the Sufi s try to answer the question of what one sees when one throws off the inhibiting shackles of the mind and senses, what does one feel when one crosses the border of the phenomenal world? What kind of world does one observe when one wakes up from a dream which is life? What does one see in the state of illumination