And how!
If you could just go to some museum, or gallery, and just see the truth of what is otherwise and everywhere else completely hidden...
This is Muhammad's bow, his sword, and his walking stick - all at the Topkapi |
Maybe then people would not have to 'dispute' among themselves about the meaning of this or that particular obscure thing.
Alas, though - maybe not. More than likely, they would - some of them, maybe many of them - still want to argue and hold completely ridiculous ideas and beliefs and maintain these long and loud and hard to anyone passing by; nay, they would even grab people by the collars and drag them to listen.
One of our close associates here just sent me some pics of the palace of Topkapi in Turkey. I think he wants me to forward these to Crown Prince Salman, so that, in place of the sword (Ref: Sahih al-Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52 'know that Paradise is under the shades of swords.') Salman can produce an innovation and stick a plastic bag onto the new Arabian Flag, and also change his name and the name of the country to 'Plastic (petrochemical) Bag Arabia.' I'm sure Erdogan of Turkey would approve, seeing that he has this audio tape of Jamal Khashoggi being suffocated (quote: "I'm being suffocated!") by a plastic bag being pulled over his head.
Crown Prince Salman can even create some calligraphy for his new 'tughra.'
Now...
When you take a word like 'paradise' that someone lifted off the compilation of sacred global writings made under the orders of Ptolemy II of Alexandria, then you'd better be cautious about what that actual original word is and what it means in the language you found it first in that place. (Not forgetting, that the actual orders of Ptolemy were to compile a single archive from ALL the sacred writings of THE WHOLE KNOWN WORLD...)
The word in what we today call 'the Book of Genesis' is not the Hebrew word for heaven, and 'paradise' is in any case - the way we say it, and translate it into English - a Persian phrase with a meaning like 'eternal gardens.' And that is not what it says in Genesis at the part where 'Eve' and Adam' are said to 'enjoy Paradise with the Elohim...'
The word in the Book of Genesis, is - 'gan.' And it is a Sanskrit word.
When we look at the Muslim narrative account, we see that 'Heaven' - or 'Paradise' is divided into several strata, one of them being the 'Jannat al-Adn:' aka Garden of Eden.
And... here's a box of jewels from Topkapi |
Why we all say 'Eden' I don't know because none of the original texts actually say it exactly like that - what they say is: 'a cultivation which is permanent and eternal, that is known to us FROM THE PAST OF TIME.' 'From' or 'In the East' (which everyone says, be they Muslim or Jewish or Christian - namely, that 'the Garden is situated somewhere IN THE EAST') is incorrect. What it says is 'from out of where PAST TIME COMES' or 'is.'
So - 'Gan - Ate (that's the correct Hebrew word for 'garden'/'Ates') al- Nud,' or, as it is in Egyptian 'Neid' or 'Nud.' We even say this today in the English vernacular - 'in the land of Nod.'
Since 'Adam' was apparently ejected from this 'Garden of Eden' nobody can 'know it' anymore as a direct experience, but only as a remembrance of the deep and distant mythic past.