Briefing the Enablers of "Islamic Imagination" (2)
Enablers of the "slamic imaignation" are the basic dogmatic facts, that establish that unique imagination about :
1.Being, and what is beyond it, of such creative Power & purposeful Will,
2. the relations established between this Being, and that
Will & Creativity .
the beauty of this unique imagination is represented at first, in its totalitarianism … in its internal integration and homogeneousness. It is neither a group of separated themes, nor a disonnected facts. When you give it a profound look, you would find that each of the facts upon which it stands… each of its enablers, play its own role within the integrated & homogeneous whole. For that, it (meaning that unique Imagination) loses the foundation and spirit of its truth, if any of these facts or those enablers was extracted. It it not parts or fractions that could be studied alone or away of the other homogeneous parts, this would inevitably wastes its beauty, and the beauty of the whole too. Wastes its truth, and the truth of the whole too.
For that, you can't study a single part of that "Imagination" alone, nor any of its Enablers alone. Neither you can compare it with any philosophical or scientific one. Because then, it does not represent it self as it does within the whole, neither gives its truth as it does within that whole.
Let us take the manefistaion of the "truth about deity" as example:
The Quranic manner manefists that truth through its active effects in the existence. Either in the subjection of Night and Day, sun and moon, stars ….etc. or in insertion of the Night into the Day, in sending Winds as seads bearer and in bringing the alive from the dead and vice versa. And in giving and depriving, in gracing and disguising, in rewarding and punishing, in every movement, in every change and transformation in the visible or invisible, seen or unseen worlds. And so, quran rarely talks about the "Deity's self" the way philosophy, theology or what so-called christology do.
"He is who gave every thing its form, then instructed them"
So what if we disconnected this truth aboud Godhead in our imagination, from that existence?
Sure it would never reveal it self in its active manner, which inspires the human conscience. And so , it loses all its aims and effects.
Existence, is the living display within which this Truth about Godhead manefists, but manefists the way it is in the islamic imagination.
When quran talks about Man, it does not talk about a creature of which life starts with being delivered, and ends with death. No. it talks about the Creator's plan of creating a being that has the freedom of choice, of doing both Good and Evil. (kindly review verse : 2/32)
For the purposes of honoring this creature for his mission, Allah, the Creator, brings all his honored angels, then command them to prostrate to that Human.
Not only that, the respectful Creator brings that creature, then teaches him all the names (point of discussion). But the matter does not end here or that way, meaning he does not just teach him then send him for his assigned mission….. No .
he brings back all angels, those who objected at first on creating such a creature for such a mission. Then he (his greatness) askes them …: at first, you objected on creating him for such a mission. But now after what I taught him. Look what he bacame. Can you (angels) tell what are the names of these (every thing)? Angels answer: No.
And the conversation or the matter does not end here too, the Great Creator brings that creature that represents his wisdom, and then, allows him for the first time to talk …. O' Adam, tell them the names of these. Then, after the total Wisdom of Allah revealed and uncovered, here is the response: you (angels, objected only on the thing that is seen to you, but my wisdom include much more of unseed).
Kindly review here (2-33)
Then the second chapter goes on depicting the subjection of the face of the earth to make the fulfillment of that mission easire, then the talk about the hereafter and the rewarding, side by side with the punishment.
As you see, all are reforming one context. so how can you talk about that human in that blind way (mentioned first above) without indicating how all the universe was subjected to him, how he was created for a specific mission, and how he had been from the beginning taken care of (directly by the Creator him self), taught by him …etc? how ?
That way the story must include all these items, side by side, to draw the whole picture.
It’s a unique imagination drawn from a unique book. Never existed before and will never exist again. It’s the talk of the Creator him self, directly about his self .