Man is created in Virtue naturally

 The natural state of man is virtueous, knowing God, knowling his Lord falling into sin and repenting. So those "normal" people who you see who are "nice and good" it's only one part of their nature they are following. The other part is to Sumbit to God and to worship Him.

Russel Brands Recovery Book promoting New Age Paganism

1) Taking attributes and connecting them not to God , such as "confession", "worship" etc.. 

For example "confession", "worship", "forgiveness" should all be connected to God Alone. Whereas in the pagan realm and of Russel brands consciousness movement it is connected to other than God in purity, humility, sincerity and submission.

 Only the pure ways and means of worship of God can be understood via ISLAM. Islam finely details the ways and means you FALL into various shades of Pagan/Satanic practices. If offers a cure and deep understanding of this.

2) The Prophets came with a message to submit to God and by following the  prophets way to know God

3) Prophets of God came with a message from God and warned  against other forms/means of Submission to God i.e. idolatry paganism.

4) New Age submission is to  Force, other than God, connection to it via Energy

5) New age is going against Gods will in terms of decree and usually relies on "you" "yourself" having the ability to create "breaking" your connection to Gods "will" 

Pre-Awake state (ruh and nafs) and the Jinn

A lot of people experience (visually) the power of the Dua' real of the unseen via the states "not entirely awake nor asleep. This maybe due to the link between consciousness, the ruh, nafs (soul/spirit) and its connection to the body, the ruh/nafs debated as to whether they are the same thing or not within Islamic discourse.

Why does God Allow Natural disasters ? (The First PRINCIPLE)

Why does God Allow Natural disasters ? (The First PRINCIPLE)

Excerpts from : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8467755.stm

"As the philosopher David Hume (echoing Epicurus) put it in 1776: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?"

Faced with this question, Archbishop of York John Sentamu said he had "nothing to say to make sense of this horror", while another clergyman, Canon Giles Fraser, preferred to respond "not with clever argument but with prayer".

I have nothing to say that makes sense of this horror - all I know is that the message of the death and resurrection of Jesus is that he is with us

Archbishop of York, John Sentamu

Perhaps their stance is understandable. ....[End Quote]"

First of all i am surprised at the Bishops Sentamu falling victim to such a frightened, confused/defensive almost media friendly answer ...

Understanding "Why?" Is a question that will depend "First" on the understanding of

God (his Will, Attribute, Mercy... etc).... Without this First principle the latter question becomes almost redundant ?! Nay, even more so, i say "It all depends on this first princple" ... Like so many things the first is the start to the End !

Why?

Question of Philosophy? Some principles pf Wittgensten can be brought into play here ..

Even though Wittgenstein dismisses "prepositions that take the form of "A believes P"

we will not go into detail here but let us borrow some logic ...

If someone (call him X) believes God to be a subservient "fatherly" Figure with the creation as his children.

Then from this we can derive that this disaster by its mere occurrence is abhorrent ... hence, God is allowing his children to suffer.

But again, i think what is hidden and subtle in the "God-Disaster" Controversy is the

Reverse, What is the Reverse ?.... What people are actually trying to say is

"If God actually does exist he wouldnt allow this to happen, so because it has happened he does not Exist?"

That people derive the existence of Non-Existence of God via the events occurring, which is a damning almost arrogant assumption ....

But surely the logic is flawed here since we NEED TO UNDERSTAND GOD FIRST (OR THE EVEN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD) before embarking on the "Why such things occur?" The Logic that people follow is almost blind and condemning without remorse... as Wittgenstein-esc style ... We need to use philosophy to sharpen and gain clarity in our thoughts ...

if my Motorbike broke down i would say "How can i a great engineer build this bike if it has broken down for me"? Then i find out that i had to top up the oil ?! Suddenly my proposition "How can a great engineer build this bike?" Has fallen apart ...?

The first principle is fundemental here .... !

Mega-machine, Life and God

The denial of God has lead man to seek marvel at oneself and at the creation by man by his own hands The building of structures of Marvel starting with the Pyramids of Egypt to the mega-machines of the modern day; i would argue has added to the arrogance of man.

 Jumping forward a few thousand years and to the modern industrial revolution of a couple of Hundred years ago, mixing this with Liberalism and the secular world order philosophy negating God-and-the-natural-law.

 Lewis Mumford is a scholar of Philosophy and Technics and civilization and ontologically maps the evolution of technology and civilization (see: Pentagon of Power)

 This evolution of technology and civilization has continued but I would argue to disastrous conclusions! That Man suddenly marvelled at the Mechanics and science and it has become "the God" to all the mechanistic modes of life, seeing and understanding the world purely in a scientific or rational mind, the "Clock in Clock out" nature of work etc. are all proof of this and embodiment of this principle.

 Humankind mapping the mechanistic machines to ourselves, we, replicating, mimicking the Machines we have built! In a reflexive manner.  Creating, shaping and feeding off the machine, the machine shaping us, dictating! Has the Machine become our God! Are we a slave to the machine?

Lo! Certainly, the machine is bigger; being a slave to the machine is no erroneous position!

I say the debt (Usury) slave is real! In addition, a modern social norm for humankind!

The machine has become bigger, we are living in the machine, the way we live, our morality i would argue is defined, dictated, shackled, and humankind easily exploited in all forms including philosophically and morally by this machine

The "City" is a modern mechanistic articulation of Engineering for society, the modern work-life balance is an expression of the machine! The tall cubicle structured-buildings that we live in in the city is a machine like (anti-natural) expression of a mechanistic nature.

 I would argue that Liberalism/Atheism breeds this (mechanistic type of) expression and will continually do so to the detriment of quality of life (if left uncontrolled) the speed at which technology is developed, speeds up the pace of mankind at which it works !

Left uncontrolled, how much more will we have to give our lives to the Machine! 60 hour workweeks are already practiced is their room for more sacrifice.

Capitalism, Liberalism and atheism are all intertwined into this mechanistic mode....

I believe in best practices in living life Some of the natural ways of the God-Worshipping way is in harmony with obeying the natural way differs remarkably in the fundamentals of the mechanistic way.

 

On the truth of Religion and God

Surely any truth must be universal and simplistic based on a principal inline with human nature ..

added Complexity should be dismissed as untruth.

Truth should encompass all social classes.

Truth should adhere to a simple principle.