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Thu 30 Mar, 2006 02:47 pm
This article is about Satan and Satanic actions in our life..
''Investigative scholars and the people of illumination have agreed that non-existence is pure evil and existence, pure good. Yes, in the great majority of cases, good, virtues, and perfections are based on existence and are related to it. Even if they are superficially negative and hint of non-existence, their basis is in existence and pertains to it. While the basis and leaven of all ugliness, like misguidance, evil, calamities, and sins, is non-existence and denial. Their badness and ugliness arise from non-existence. Even if they appear superficially to be positive and pertaining to existence, at basis they are non-existence and denial.
Also, observedly, the existence of something like a building is established through the existence of all its parts. While its destruction, non-existence, and annihilation occurs through the non-being of one of its main parts. Furthermore, existence requires an existent cause, it is based on a cause which has an actual reality. Whereas non-existence may be based on things which pertain to non-existence. Such things may be the cause of something non-existent.
It is as a consequence of this rule that despite the awesome destruction in the universe of devils from among jinn and men, and the varieties of unbelief, misguidance, evil, and destruction they perpetrate, just as they do not interfere one iota in creation, so too they can have no share in Divine sovereignty. And they do not carry out those works through any power or ability; rather than power and action in many of the things they do, it is neglect and abstaining from action. They commit evils through not allowing good to be done, that is, they become evil. For since bad and evil are a sort of destruction, their causes do not have to be an existent power and active creativity. Rather, vast destruction comes about through one command pertaining to non-existence and one condition being spoilt.
It is because the Zoroastrians did not develop this mystery that they believed that there was a creator of good in the universe, called Yazdan, and a creator of evil, called Ahriman. However, the imaginary god of evil they called Ahriman was Satan, who causes evil through the power of choice and the power to act, which possess no ability to create.
(13.Flashes BSN)
I, for one, don't buy the premise that non-existence is eveil and existence is good. What's the evidence for that?
Merry Andrew wrote:I, for one, don't buy the premise that non-existence is eveil and existence is good. What's the evidence for that?
First step :
''One of the most cunning of Iblis's wiles is to make those who follow him deny himself. Since at this time those whose minds have been tainted by materialist philosophy in particular have been hesitant in these self-evident matters, we shall say one or two things in the face of this stratagem of Satan's. They are as follows:
There are self-evidently corporeal evil spirits who perform Satan's functions. So too it is certain to the same degree that there are evil spirits without bodies from the jinns.
If they were clothed in physical bodies, they would be the same as those evil human beings. Also, if those evil spirits in human form were able to leave aside their bodies, they would be those jinn-satans.
Even, it is as a consequence of this terrible relationship that one false school pronounced: "After they have died, excessively evil spirits in human form become devils."
It is well-known that when something of high quality is corrupted it becomes more corrupted than something of less quality. For example, if yoghurt and milk go bad they may still be eaten, but if oil goes bad it becomes inedible, and even like poison.
Similarly, if the most noble, indeed the highest of creatures, man, is corrupted, he becomes more so than a corrupted animal. Like vermin who enjoy the stink of putrifying matter and snakes who take pleasure at biting and poisoning, they take pride and pleasure at the evils and corrupt morality of the swamp of misguidance, being gratified at the harms and crimes of the darkness of evil-doing; quite simply they take on the nature of Satan. '' 13.flashes 10. indication BSN
Could you comment on this lack of creativity without the cut and paste jobs?
''1.A decisive indication of the existence of devils from the jinn, is the existence of human satans.
2.All the hundreds of decisive evidences proving the existence of angels and spirit beings.
3.The existence of the angels, who are like the representatives and supervisors of the laws of the good matters in the universe, are established and agreed upon by all the religions. So too, the existence of evil and satanic spirits, who are the representatives and ushers of evil matters and the means of the laws of such matters, is required by wisdom and reality, and is certain. Indeed, in evil matters, a conscious screen is more necessary.
Since everyone cannot see the true good of everything, the All-Glorious Creator has made apparent intermediaries as a screen in respect of apparent evils and defects, so that objections should not be levelled at Him, nor His mercy be accused, nor his wisdom criticized or unjustly complained about, and so that objections, criticisms, and complaints should be directed at the screen, and not turned to the Generous Creator, the Absolutely Wise One.
Just as He has made illness a screen to the appointed hour of death in order to save Azra'il from the complaints of His servants who die, so too He has made Azra'il a screen to the seizing of the spirits of the dying so that the complaints at that situation, which is fancied to be lacking in compassion, should not be directed to Almighty God.
And even more certainly, dominical wisdom demanded the existence of Satan, so that objections and criticisms in the face of evils and bad things should not be directed to the All-Glorious Creator.
4.As man is a small world, the microcosm, so is the world a large human being, the macroanthropos.
Small man is an index and summary of the macroanthropos. The large originals of the samples in man will necessarily be found in the macroanthropos.
For example, the existence of man's faculty of memory is a certain indication of the existence of the Preserved Tablet in the world.
So too everyone has experienced in himself the inner faculty situated in a corner of the heart which is the means to diabolical suggestions and temptations and a satanic tongue which speaks through the promptings of the imagination and the corrupted power of imagination, which becomes like a small Satan and acts contrary to its owner's will and opposed to his desires?-these are certain evidences to the existence of great satans in the world.
And since the inner faculty which is the means to diabolical suggestions and the power of imagination are an ear and a tongue, they infer the existence of an external evil individual who blows on the one and makes the other speak.'' BSN
roger wrote:Could you comment on this lack of creativity without the cut and paste jobs?
ok. If you look to the world you see a lots of power center. People give so much importance them. Such as terrorist groups. They only destruct but in reality they ve no power..
If you may set fire forest with one match .. It is only one action but to get grow forest takes hundred years.. so non-existence of a forest don't need any power only one match is quite enough. So satan and satanic verbs r like that and doesn't need so much power.
kevnmoon wrote:
It is well-known that when something of high quality is corrupted it becomes more corrupted than something of less quality. For example, if yoghurt and milk go bad they may still be eaten, but if oil goes bad it becomes inedible, and even like poison.
so oil is a higher quality product than milk or yoghurt, what the hell does that mean
can you say apples and oranges
<takes deep breath>, so you're saying that extra virgin olive oil that goes bad, will go more bad than virgin olive oil, i'd have to see more proof of that
But satanic results r so shining and looks so big. In reality they r based on only destruction. Also in our life we brake each other heart so easily.
Mr djjd..
If you look to some leader in all history who killed many people you see humanbeing could be more harmfull than all kinds of animals.. But animals r so stabil.. But human capacity is so big also bigger than satans.. Also human capacity for good things is bigger than angels.. Because angel levels r so stabil. But humanbeing was created to be best mirror of GOD NAMES. So best and worst is humanbeing..