Digital Dirhams And Arabic Trading

So this very close associate, family member (what of it still exists! LOL) says to me the day before yesterday: 'Calvin, at our age, we have just one run at it left."

W-a-a-a?!

I said - Whaaaaaaat?!

So I quickly resorted to some old cricketing parlance - 'Nah, we are the nightwatchmen here. We are batting till morning and after as well. We're winning this game, dude!'

One of the greatest 'thought experiments' ever made was by a gentleman of the 10th Century, Abu Ali Sina, widely regarded as one of the most significant physicians, philosophers, astronomers, and writers of all time. He devised the 'floating man' thought experiment through which he deduced the nature of the human soul - and I must add, the actual texts that he wrote about this are all largely obscured from examination these days and all we are left with is a summary and a distillation of what he wrote. 

Most Muslims - even the most highly trained modern Islamic literature and religious belief scholars are ignorant of the real understanding behind what is presently repeated as 'Qul huwallahu ahad' which is supposedly directly from the Quran. Well look, nobody knows exactly WHAT the rendering of the symbols in there really ought to be in the modern world because there are no grammar points available in the original source texts from the ancient world - which were made from a sound, IE aural/oral recitation from someone's memory only. ...Other than the explanations from great scholars like Abu Ali Sina.

Abu Ali Sina, however, explains it thus... 'mahiyya, wujud, WAHID AHAD.' No essence other than its own existence, and unique. UNIQUE - 'wahid' + 'ahad;' it is 'One of' 'One.' The present-day rendering of the Quran that most people say, makes it appear that 'God' is 'one of...' But nothing else. One of what then, exactly? They don't understand that the verse really says and intends to convey uniqueness - exactly as Abu Ali Sina outlines.

Abu Ali Sina

Abu Ali Sina was moreover, not exactly a Muslim in the present-day sense of the word, and the Emir at the time where he lived tried variously to dispose of him, although he had to keep relenting when he himself - the Emir - fell ill and required the services of this great doctor. At the same time it is clear from historical accounts, that Abu Ali Sina practiced Islamic religious rituals and praying and he was an expert in Islamic textual recitation and jurisprudence. 

Abu Ali Sina is an occult figure, by which I mean to tell you that there is considerable mystery in open records about him and his life - he was trained by some 'roaming healer' whose name is never given, and apparently, his mind was next opened to the mysteries of metaphysics from reading a book by al-Farabi that he purchased for the tiny sum at the time (for these sorts of books) of three dirhams.

Abu Ali Sina was regarded by Bacon and Newton and the Earl of Oxford as having scientifically demonstrated both the existence of God, and of the human soul...

These 'proofs' exist today but are never talked about at Universities. Abu Ali Sina's works on this matter are written as mathematical 'proofs' and not simply 'arguments' but they are referred to in common sources - by those who have never actually read them - as 'arguments.' And this is a quite deliberate and malicious deceit. Even during the lifetime of Abu Ali Sina, major library sources for his studies were burned by those who opposed his ideas - because a wider exposure of them would have undermined their political standing and power.

And so, we have an example of the narrow gate.

What did Abu Ali Sina know, that most of the rest of the whole world did not...
  
As we all get older, we assume that we have a lesser chance to 'make it' materially speaking. Whereas in fact - and since no one really knows that we are the Abu Ali Sina's of our day - we have the knowledge, the power, the capacities and real status of esteemed physicians (by any who really wish to be cured), the mathematics, the dynamic mind, to procure material wealth; but we also can make the necessary transition from the banal and simplistic, to the sophisticated and 'un-Earthly' at which point we also have to place a 'cover' or cloak across our activities and knowledge, for fear of being presumed witches and sorcerers!

Abu ibn Kenobi