The Philosophy of Death

When we speak of connection, and even of separation, we are speaking only in approximations. Language may fail us in expressing these two states. In the truth as I see it, the matter goes beyond these concepts taken literally; but these descriptions are the nearest we have at the level of consciousness through which we are now travelling. With that understood, existential connection is the real secret of an absolute tranquillity that no anxiety can shake. When the illusion of separation falls, the fear of the unknown falls with it, for the unknown itself is not outside the circle. It rests in God’s knowledge and is sown in His mercy. I have understood that death is not a journey to a distant planet or an unknown place. It is a change of vision, a shift in the frequencies of reception within the same divine Encompassing. We pass from a dense earthly Concretion that depends on the senses of matter into a subtle Abstraction in the Barzakh, joined to the spirit of meaning — and all of it happens “within Him”, for Him, from Him and by Him. This discovery gives consciousness its character of eternal abiding. Whoever is certain that there is no place in which he could “leave” the Dominion of God is certain that he rests in God’s keeping and His infinite safety. The message I want to establish in this Inquiry is an open invitation to every Self that longs for the truth to purify its spatial and mental scales, and to begin seeing existence with a more abstract eye. We do not live on a planet lost in a cold and desolate void. We are “words”, tended and governed at every moment within God’s two Names, the Manifest and the Hidden. This is the covenant, and this is the path of authentic building towards the perfection of knowledge. True sovereignty is to know where you really are, and to realise that you rest in the outpouring of the Real, where the servant’s will becomes one with his Lord’s will in the stillness of transcendence and the grandeur of witnessing. Hashem Nassar All rights reserved