Reclaiming the Trust: From Concretion to the Freedom of Abstraction

I want every mind that travels through these words, whatever its origin or destination, to understand with certainty that reclaiming the great Trust of vicegerency requires us to go beyond the limits of the rigid letter and reach the essence of the living spirit. The bitter gap we see today in our own world — a sharp divorce between excessive formal religiosity and an alarming moral collapse — is nothing but glaring proof that we are drowning in material Concretion and lost among outward husks that neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. We are in urgent need of a comprehensive revolution of Abstraction, one that returns the human being to a luminous and free primordial nature, far from the fetters of imitation and the blind dependence that have turned substance into passing accident. The existential task that falls to us today is to move from deifying human understanding and freezing truth in bygone eras, to contemplating the Lord’s code — living, all-encompassing and able to speak to every horizon of knowledge in every age. The shock I lived through in those old sanctuaries was not a passing disappointment. It was the spark that launched my journey towards pure truth: a truth beyond the reach of eyes sunk in material Concretion and intellectual anthropomorphism, a truth touched only by hearts that have freed themselves from all that is other than God and turned their faces sincerely towards the Absolute, in a state of exalted Abstraction. From the very heart of that moral gap I began to build a philosophical bridge of knowledge towards ontological perfection. I set out to found a school that will not let itself be lost in the labyrinths of detail and the tedious particulars of Concretion; a school in which the light of certainty shines out in the majesty of God’s transcendence and in the grandeur of the human being in his original state. The aim of this philosophy is to transform consciousness from a mere container of inert data into a creative energy that knows the whole of existence to be swimming in the outpouring of divine mercy, uniting rightness of thought with nobility of practice. To reclaim sovereignty over knowledge means for the human being to become once again a ḥanīf, stripped of every idol, who sees in revelation a light by which to build, cultivate and purify the Self — so that the cry “Glory be to You” becomes the note that retunes the rhythm of existence to its full beauty and perfection. Hashem Nassar All rights reserved