Zaynab Ansari – The Art of Contemplation

			In Nafi, chaluca, Samya will or
waktha Layli, when Nahar, la
		

			ayati, Lil Bab, that there are
truly in the creation of the
		

			heavens and the earth and in the
alternation of night and day,
		

			signs for those endued with
understanding
		

			the high priests of materialism
and disbelief, the Stephen
		

			Hawkings of the world are
scientists.
		

			Hawking was a physicist. These are
people who spent their entire
		

			career studying the natural world,
the physical world, seeking the
		

			meaning of existence through the
methodologies of secular academia.
		

			For him, the laws of physics may
have been nearly immutable, but
		

			Allah, to Allah showed in
Hawking's life how the laws of
		

			medicine could be defied. But what
made Hawking disbelief? What made
		

			him call belief in an afterlife?
Quote, unquote, wishful thinking,
		

			and to proclaim that quote, When
we die, we return to dust,
		

			unquote. What made a man who
devoted years of study and
		

			research to the most existential
of existential questions come to
		

			epitomize disbelief.
		

			Was he not endued with
understanding.
		

			Could he not be contemplative?
		

			Why did the ability to fall into
the category of Ullal Bab Why did
		

			it evade and elude someone like
Stephen Hawking? Scientific
		

			knowledge alone cannot be the
final arbiter of truth we really
		

			ought to be seeking is a
transformation, a deliverance from
		

			the errors of over reliance on the
intellect, a deliverance from the
		

			unmitigated arrogance of kufr and
A deliverance into a state of
		

			thankfulness or shukr,
		

			we need to understand the reality
and the true gifts of
		

			contemplation. We need to
understand the connection between
		

			zikr thought silence and spiritual
growth. We need to be quiet so we
		

			can listen you.