The Hidden Treasure

By Natasa Jevtovic

How to become a friend of God and reach the highest levels of human understanding? A Sufi teacher from the Qadiriyya order gives lessons of spirituality to a group of medical students and foreign diplomats.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Natasa Jevtovic
• Release date: Aug 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370440818

Natasa Jevtovic

Natasha Jevtovic is a graduate in oriental studies, holds a Master’s Degree in political economy and works as a financial analyst. She is also a correspondent of the Serbian daily Politika and the French libertarian site Contrepoints.

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THE HIDDEN TREASURE

By Nataša Jevtović and Naveed Yar Khan

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Copyright 2017 Nataša Jevtović

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PROLOGUE

In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful!

"World is a stage. Life is a drama. The God is the Writer, Producer and Director of the play. Original theme of the play is love, peace and happiness. Original scripts of the play are the Books of God and the part every character is supposed to play is that of a prophet or saint. Materialistic wishes, selfish desires and unholy thoughts are those devils that want to flop the play. Prophets and friends of God are those assistants of Director that make their contributions towards making the play a success. Directions of the Director are the advice of His assistants and the voice of conscience. There is so much chaos on the stage of the world because original theme of the play is not being followed. And characters, the people, though they do accept God as the Producer or Creator of the play in one way or the other, they do not want to accept His directions. Instead, people have made desires their director. That is why life on earth has become a tragedy drama of hatred, war, misery, sickness and sadness... Life would become a song of love if all the characters, the people, could discover this Ultimate Reality of life and finally God, back-stage with love for the Greatest Producer Who staged this drama of life so that each character could have a share of his or her happiness by utilizing the treasures of cosmos..."

Every religion is giving us a check that we can cash on the next world. Can your religion give you something that you can cash on this world? What can it offer? In Islam, we can get the reward in this world, and that is, to see the reflection of God.

The greatest truth about life, may it be in any form, is that we needed the Creator, we need the Creator, and we will need the Creator, to be and to live, because we are the extension of His knowledge, His imagination, His intention, His command, the command Be!, His voice and His soul.

Naveed Yar Khan

FOREWORD

Bismillahir-rahmaanir-raheem, all praise belongs to Allah, the Master of all the worlds. May His peace and blessing be upon our noble Prophet Mohammed, upon his family and companions!

When the last Prophet of God, Mohammed (ﺺ), was forty years old, Allah started revealing to him the Noble Koran, His last message to the mankind. He sent His angel of revelation, Gabriel, to recite His words in pure, miraculous and perfect Arabic language which would not be modified until the end of time. Before receiving the Revelation of God, Mohammed (ﺺ) had lived an honest and noble life, he had been known by the name Al-Amîn, the Trustworthy, he had been married to his beloved wife Khadija and had been earning his living as a merchant. To the ordinary man, the things that he had would be more than enough to feel the heights of happiness and unspeakable satisfaction in this world, but not to Mohammed (ﺺ). He needed more.

In pre-Islamic Mecca, the people had been worshiping idols, bowing down before statues of three hundred and sixty useless idols placed in Kaabah, the house of Allah built by the prophets Abraham and Ishmael (ﻉ) so long ago. Mohammed’s (ﺺ) heart was breaking as he watched the moral degradation of his people and their cult of wooden or stone deities. Sometimes, the Bedouins would even make their idols out of fruits, never hesitating to eat them in case of food or water shortages during their long journeys through the desert sand. He had to watch injustice, slave abuse, barbaric killings of female infants due to the proverbial Arab preference for the males, and other heathen practices that occur in every society that turns its back on God.

There had been a small number of people in Makkah of that time, known by the name of al-hanîf (i.e. the Pure ones), who had a monotheist concept of God. Nevertheless, most people had been blind when faith was concerned, and they had forgotten all about Allah. Mohammed (ﺺ) therefore liked to dwell alone in the cave called Hira and devote himself to meditations. It was exactly in this way that his soul became permissive to revelation of the Glorious Koran.

For the Muslims, the Koran is the most perfect Book of all the times because it comes from the Master of all the worlds Himself. There is absolutely no proof that it had ever been changed or rewritten during all those fourteen hundred years that we have the honour to read it. The Koran had been kept in three ways:

1. By being written down during the time of revelation; Mohammed (ﺺ) would recite its verses to people who would write them down, as he himself was illiterate; conversely, the New Testament or the Bible had been written by the people who never met Jesus (ﻉ) and it happened almost one hundred years after he had left this world;

2. The Muslims have always been learning the whole text of the Koran by heart, from cover to cover. He who learns it by heart earns the honor of carrying a special title, hâfiz, i.e. the Keeper of the Koran;

3. Allah Himself is keeping the Koran from modifications, as He said in it (15:9), "It is We who have sent down the Remembrance (the Koran), and We watch over it."

On top of all that, there are numerous scientific facts, well known to the modern man, that are mentioned in the Koran, which could not have been possibly known by Mohammed (ﺺ) fourteen centuries ago:

The Koran says that the Earth is moving, which is something that was unthinkable to utter out loud in medieval Europe, even one thousand years after the Koran had been revealed. Pretending that the Earth moved would mean a terrible death, such as the one that suffered Galileo Galilei in 1642 AD. The Catholic Church burned him at the stake together with thousands of other scientists, because the Bible says that the Earth does not move at all:"He(God)set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved"(Psalm 104:5). Conversely, the Koran says exactly what the scientists know in our age, that the Earth moves.And thou shallt see the mountains, that thou supposest fixed, passing by like clouds – God’s handiwork, Who has created everything very well(27:88).

The Koran says that the Earth has an elliptic shape,"And then He gave the earth an oval form(the shape of an ostrich egg)" (79:30).

The universe was created by a big bang, and it