Religious Fantasies and its Fatal Consequences

Religions have always been subject to Imagination and Religious Fantasies

When we talk about personalities that came into this world and worked in this world in the capacity of prophets and messengers and the saints, we only read about them and we talk about them and we hear about them we never get a chance to see them in real life. And we are living in the last episode of this world. All the prophets sent by God and all the messengers have already been to this world and they have returned to God, all we have now are books which were revealed onto them and their tradition, their teachings their advice and we have so many religions. Although as most religious clerics in Islam interpret the Ayah of Quran regarding the safeguard of Quran, that God would protect the Holy Quran, and no alteration and modification can possibly be made in the original text of the Holy Quran, this is what we have been told.

I would like you to see reality in the mirror of reality. Individuals of high spiritual designation and calibre who came into the world and did their job and returned to God, and we do not have access to them, we only hear about them; their stories, their works. And we think very high of them and we do not have any limit as to how high can we think of them, in love and admiration to whichever Prophet or Messenger we have our inclination to we begin to think of them really high and we set no boundaries and we fantasise about their character to such a degree where it becomes really impossible for us to relate to them, to relate to their tradition, to relate to their teachings. And we just live in a fantasy world and we think of them so highly and we think that they have some kind of magical authority and power and they would move mountains, they would change the course of the world. This is what we think. Such is the case with Imam Mehdi AS. We have heard, many people said many stories and many different concepts about Imam Mehdi are conceived and perceived by many denominations within Islam. And we have attributed and assigned such a fantasy job for Imam Mehdi that we would never find such an attribute in the Imam Mehdi appointed and anointed by God.

If you look at the world today, how many people out there in the world are looking for God? How many religious people are seeking God's pleasure, God's love? How many people in all religions have spirituality in their life? How many people among all these religions have negated their Ego, their Self? How many of them have made any sort of endeavour or effort to purify the inner negativity, the inner dirt, and the inner impurities? 

What we see today on the face of the world is that some people in all these religions are very rigid in their respective belief and they have made a habit of performing rituals of their respective religions, and most of them have commercialised the religion. 

Money has become an important factor and if you go further deep, you will see that most religious people, religious scholars have made religion and industry. Without a hint of doubt people all over the world do talk about religions, they do talk about God but their mention of God is confined to lip service only, it does not go beyond phraseology, they are not truly seeking God's pleasure, they are not truly seeking Gods Love. 

I am not disputing on the authenticity of the original text of the Quran, what I am trying to raise the awareness of in front of you today is the fact that the meaning of the original text have been derived by all individuals of all the denomination in Islam that fit in their agenda. It's not about changing r altering the words, words are spoken to convey the thoughts, if the thoughts are muddled up, if the thoughts are altered, if the thoughts are deviated you can keep the original text of the Quran clung to your heart and still you will be misguided! And this is the problem today. 

There is no doubt that Quran said, "Nahlu Nazzalna" We have sent down this Quran and we will protect it. 

But, the problem is the book of Quran that we are holding in our hands today, which is printed, this Ayah is not alluding to it at all, God is the protector of the Quran which was sent n to the heart of Prophet Mohammad. And from the heart of Prophet Mohammad into whichever heart it was transferred that also comes under the Divine Protection however this Quran which is now printed on to a piece of a paper they are out of the protection of God.

How we see things depends on how we perceive them, it's about the point of view. One man's cup of tea is another man's poison. Your mind is like a cow, always looking for newer meaning to please yourself and please others and you do not know the source where this new thought is coming from, was it originated in the mind of God or was it originated in the mind of the Devil?

People will come and tell you different meanings of the Quran. This is the problem this is why we have more than 73 different meanings of the Quran, if all these denominations in Islam would have the same meaning of Quran they would not have diversified. Muslims today say, 'Imam Mehdi AS will convert every single individual into Islam.' With all due respect to all learned spiritual and religious scholars, may put a question to them: Did Prophet Mohammad convert all the individuals in his era into Islam? And why didn’t he do it? Come on! Come out of this shell and come out of this fabrication, come out of this fantasy world! Do not fantasise the concept of Imam Mehdi AS.

We have history and according to which, prophets came into this world and some of the early prophets lived as long as 100-1000 years and they gave the message of God to as many number of people as they possibly could, however what was the result? Only a handful of people believed in what they said to them. A majority of human beings have always shown rejection to every messenger to every prophet that came into this world. We have Prophet Adam who lived for 1000 year, but the result was not very satisfactory, then we had prophet Noah, don’t you know what happened? People refused to obey him and with a handful of people in the boat, he escaped the torment of God. And then came Prophet Jonah, his nation refused to obey him and he got so fed up with his nation that he literally ran away from them and he did not even wait for God's orders or instructions. Then we have Prophet Lot, he gave them the message of God, but what did they do? They wanted to do nothing but homosexuality. Then we had Abraham and Isaac and Aaron and Moses, he went to the Mount of Sinai in order to receive tablets form God and people who gathered around him who said they believed in him and within 3 days of time they reverted from that religion they made a calf of gold and started to worship it.

Come on, wake up! You give too much respect to these prophets and these messengers and look at their assignments, their job and their work and the success of their time in this world and you don’t want to give a little respect to Imam Mehdi AS and you expect Imam Mehdi to turn every single individual into Islam or Hinduism? Is it not fantasy? Are you being realistic? You are living in a fantasy world!

Look at the mighty personalities, if you ask a Muslim, 'Is Imam Mehdi better than Moses?' (They say) 'God forbid!' What kind of learning and religiosity is this? Jesus Christ, 'Son of God' as they say: his ministry did not last more than 40 months more or less. God invested in him his power, he would touch the blind and the blinds were able to see, he healed people who suffered from incurable diseases. How many people believed in him? Only a handful of people. And Jesus was made subject to a great deal of physical abuse, he was tormented and he was put on the cross and big mighty nails were pierced into his palms and legs. This is what people saw, and 600 years later when Quran said, 'Neither was Jesus crucified, nor was he killed,' it was too late. 600 years later! For example, on 27th November 2001 we witnessed His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi physically disappeared and people didn’t believe it and now if after 600 years God sends somebody and he says, "No, HDE Gohar Shahi physically rose." What is the point? After 600 years you are sending some instructions to people that 'your belief system is corrupted!" Were you asleep all this time for 600 years in the skies when the wrong belief system was being conceived in the minds of corrupt people? Why did you not interrupt them? Why did you let them introduce a corrupt system in the religion? Why are you seeking for the rectification after the damage is done? Strike while the iron is still hot! Timing is very important. If a patient needs a certain medicine and you do not give the medicine to the patient in time and on time and the patient dies, are you going to give the medicine to the dead body?

Look at the might of Lord Jesus Christ, he was made subject to physical abuse, he was tormented, he was tarnished and he had to go through an unbearable physical turmoil. And let's talk about Prophet Mohammad, Head of all Messengers and all Prophets. Today the way people talk about Imam Mehdi it appears to me they are talking about a magician. When Imam Mehdi would come he would turn everybody into Muslim and he would be offering Salat and many 100,000 enemies would be standing outside the mosque and after the Salat he would come out and kill them all. This is all fantasy! You will never ever have the fantasised concept of Imam Mehdi.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE REAL IMAM MEHDI!

The reason why people do not relate to the teachings of Prophet and Messengers is because they have fantasized thoughts, they have thought very high of every prophet, like the prophet wasn’t walking on land he was flying and everywhere he would go he would take with him peace and tranquillity and blessings of God. This is fantasy my friend this has nothing to do with real life. In real life Prophet Mohammad had to include himself in the war against Kuffar, and two of his teeth were broken. Ask many Muslims, especially Barelvi and Sunni, 'If Prophet Mohammad is standing next to you and somebody pelts a stone towards you, would you be hurt?' (They say) 'God forbid! In the presence of almighty Prophet Mohammad how can I be hurt? But, my friend, Prophet Mohammad was hurt!

What is this? This is a fantasy. You live in a fantasy world. You can say anything about Prophet Mohammad, Prophet Adam, Prophet Abraham, Moses you can make any claims. Someone can come and say nobody can love Prophet Mohammad more than I do. Alright, fair enough, we believe you, we don’t have to believe, but we believe you because there is nothing that can prove whether or not you love Prophet Mohammad and he also knows that he loves him. This is just hearsay; it's just one way traffic.

Bibi Aisha, the wife of Prophet Mohammad said, "Ya Rasool Allah you are Imam ul Ambiya, Khatimun Nabiyeen and you are greater than all the prophets and messengers but I do not see the majesty on your face," and she said "When Moses would come from the Mt of Sinai after he had spoken with God there was so much Divine Light in his face he had to wear a veil on his face otherwise people were not able to look at his face and they would faint, but I don’t see any majesty on your face." And while she was saying this she noticed a spark burst out from the majestic face of Prophet Mohammad and she fainted. Prophet Mohammad smiled, maybe laughed in his heart, and sprinkled some water on her face and when she returned to her senses, asked her what happened, innocently. She said, "The moment I was talking to you, I noticed a spark was coming out from your face and I went through a near death experience." And then Prophet Mohammad said, "O' Aisha my Lord my God has put 70,000 veils upon the beauty of my face, I bear witness to my lord, only one veil out of 70,000 was removed and this is what happened and you were complaining there is no majesty on my face." So, even people like Prophet Mohammad's wife lived an imaginary world, a fantasy world.

Today if you go to Pakistan, Barelvi and Sunni, they think Prophet Mohammad has tube lights on his head and when he would walk in the dark everything will be illuminated. There is no such thing as this! You think every time Prophet Mohammad walked one earth he performed miracles. If he had so much physical power and miracles would come out from his hands, his legs and from his mouth every now and then why would people oppose him so fiercely and come into war against him? My friends, all these spiritual dignitaries have spiritual powers and those powers are used to connect people to God, not to do silly things! Not to destroy people! Not to make a scene out of the spiritual power. But people do not want to understand it because they live in a fantasy world. And these pope who today talk about Imam Mehdi and say Mehdi would turn all individuals into Islam, is there any prophet, any messenger who was sent by God and he converted every single individual of his era into the religion that he prophesised? There is not one singular example in the entire human history and then today people think Imam Mehdi would come and this would happen and that would happen! It's not an easy job. Imam Mehdi is not going to be a superman flying in the clouds going here and there. The spiritual power that Imam Mehdi has, is to connect people to God who are destined to see God, to love God. And this is what Prophet Mohammad did. This is what all messengers and all prophets have done.

Is it possible that all the individuals of the world can be converted into any religion?

It is not possible! Why? Only those people would manage to love God who chose to love God in the primordial times. People who opted for the luxuries of the world they would not embrace any religion, not Islam or Divine Love or other religions, their religion is money and the wicked guys they will not embrace any religion. Why? Because their religion is Devil. Imam Mehdi AS would fill the hearts of people with Divine Love, not all the people of the world only those who chose to love God, not those who opted the luxuries of the world or paradise. Imam Mehdi is not going to convert every single individual into Divine Love, only those who chose to love God in the primordial times. 

On behalf of Mehdi Foundation International®
14 April 2013