Through faith and certainty...

Through faith and certainty, he had attained release and a void and now, little by little, new edges of faith and certainty but clear, large, deep, conscious, that which he himself chooses!Under the rain of thought which incessantly grows stronger and stronger, he sensed that springs open to him in the dark, dry and thirsty inner desert and now, ‘the sound of the steps of water!’ and every moment, faster and faster; it rises high and higher and acquires all of his inner self; he is filled by it.

In the painful inflammation and anguishing ardency of a birth, alone in the world, a shadow alone in the desert, in the night, under the conversant sky of the desert, all of his existence addressed to ‘Him!’, he suddenly falls upon the dust, head in prostration upon the earth and the sound of impatient, ancient complexes came undone, crying! And this was the first real prayer of Abu Dharr.

“Three years before I met the Prophet of God, I prayed to God.” “To which direction did you turn?” “To the direction in which He made me aware of Himself.” Three years later he heard that a man had appeared in Makkah who makes fun of the people’s religion; who calls the sacred things of the people, ‘false’; who names all of the great idols of the Ka’bah, ‘mute and foolish stones’; who has placed the One God for the gods of all.

The Ghifar wayfarers and travelers received this news as if it were a tragedy for religion and Arab ethics. They spoke of him with words filled with ridicule and aversion, but Jundab, in the midst, found his lost self.

He knew that whatever the fossil-worshippers, who connect their multitheist, polluted, ignorant superstitions to Abraham, the idol-destroyer, condemn, call kufr, interpret as the cause for: discord in society, the lethargy of beliefs, the deviation of the thoughts of the youth, the boldness of the lowly people of society, the shaking of the base of morality and faith, the cause of the pessimism and separation amidst a boy and a girl and his or her mother and father, the cause of the scorn of nobles, glories and religious personalities, the disappearance of respect for the ancients, the authenticity of early myths and customs of ancestors and grandfathers and ...

all are clear signals of a salvation-giving Revolution and firm signs of a Divine truth.