The Qur'an, The Key

The Qur'an makes it possible for the human intellect to connect back with the creation as Al­lah intended for the intellect to be connected with the creation. The Qur'an is therefore the key, the miftah; the key that opens up the crea­tion again for man to get the proper benefit that Allah, his G-d, his Lord, his Creator intended for him. That's a great mercy! The Arabs, when they understood the attribute, Ar-Rahman, in their intellects as scholars, they became so ex­cited about that attribute of G-d that they started saying, "Ar-Rahman", more than they said, "Allah". And it's mentioned in the Qur'an because the others ques­tioned that. They were thinking that they were doing wrong. They complained to the Prophet that the others were saying Ar-Rahman in­stead of Allah. So, Allah revealed to Muhammed, "Call on G-d by Ar-Rahman or any other name. For to G-d belongs the most beautiful names." That was the answer, which means they were not condemned for pleading to G-d saying, "Ar-Rahmanu, Ar-Rahmanu!" But that was approved because G-d is Ar-Rahman and over and over in the Qur'an you hear G-d referred to as "Ar-Rahman, Ar-Raheem!

We want you to appreciate the perception of yourself and the per­ception of the world outside your learning environment as G-d wantsyou to appreciate it. Once you do that we can go home. We don't have to worry about you anymore. You're going to live and progress. We know it. It is guaranteed. Once you feel comfortable with that, nobody has to worry about your mind anymore. You're going to live and pro­gress. That is what Muhammed came to do and that is what he did. He gave the Qur'an in the right way to those people, his first followers, and they became the teachers that revived the intellect and brought back the sciences that were lost; and introduced what we have today as the world of modern sciences.

The word of G-d is our life! Our life is not this body, this flesh and blood, my own intelligence and my own emotional makeup. The life is not really that. I need G-d's word to come into that life, to make it really a life, the life that Allah wants. So our life is human. But what makes it really alive, gives it life, gives it vigor, gives it will power and everything that G-d wants for that life, the life that G-d wants has to come with the word of G-d; and that's the life. That's the only life! That is the real life! Until then, we are dead or sleeping. We have to have the word of G-d in us to be alive, really alive as G-d wants us to be alive; the life that Allah intended for us, highly praised and glorified is He.

So we know the Qur'an is the life and we're anxious. Our own bio­logical body knows, "That is the real life, not this life I have; not this biological life. But the real life is what comes into me when Wallace is listening to the Qur'an and feeling the Qur'an, and he's digesting the Qur'an. That is the real life!" This body, this physical body, it gets its life from the material world and the material world you know every­thing that's there. The water and all the elements that are in the material world that we take into our body (a hundred and eight or so elements that we have to take from the material world into our body) give our body its physical form and keep the physical form for us.