God
had sent prophets all over the world. God says in Qur'an that there had not been
any community without a prophet chosen from them. The most important message
and lesson of prophets was not to worship anything other than God, the one who
is not imaginable, who is above any other thing, who is infinite. Consider the
names of God in different religions, they didn’t have any meaning. God even didn’t
want to let people worship those names.
Were the prophets successful?
When
we look at the history around the Earth, we see that most people have worshiped
and still worship something imaginable. Some of them worship man-made or legendary
gods, some other worship their heroes or holy characters or leaders, some other
worship money or job or esteem, etc. They even worship God’s names instead of
infinity. History is full of wars between followers of one name and followers
of another name.
God
had sent prophets one after another to remind people that they should not
worship those imaginable and bounded things. But people either didn’t accept or
accepted jut for a short period; and now, having access to all those messages
and histories, still few people on the Earth worship infinity. Why?
Well,
a very quick answer is that because always there are ones who profit from this deviation.
However, I think this is not the only answer. Worshiping the infinity has too
many effects on our lives. It means that anything non-infinite cannot be our
goal. It cannot panic us. It cannot be too much important for us. We cannot believe
in something because some holy one has done that or said that. We have to prove
everything and believe by our minds. We have to obtain wisdom. We have to look
inside ourselves, find the truth by ourselves, know ourselves, and flourish.
As
we are infinite, as we are gods on the Earth, we can obtain whatever we want.
The more we know our capabilities and the more we want, the more we obtain. We’ll
be responsible for our condition and what we are. We cannot soothe ourselves by
things like destiny. If we had some bounded and imaginable god in front of us,
we could not expect ourselves more than that; so, we would be satisfied by our
condition. By having the infinity in front of us, we always expect more from ourselves.
Our condition would be the result of our thoughts and doings. We’ll be free and
freemen.
Being
free and unbounded is not easy. Human beings tend to search for bounded
support. It gives them sense of safety.
They like to think there are some imaginable thinks above them and consider them
responsible for what happens and what they want.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
says the real believes are the most active people. They are those who have
known themselves and their capabilities.
