MUSLIMS/ISLAM/AL-SALAM - A CONTEMPORARY SEMANTICS FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE
MUSLIMS/ISLAM/AL-SALAM - A CONTEMPORARY SEMANTICS FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE

Summary/Abstract: The signs in the self and on the horizons are of God. He reminds us of them in the Recitation, which was revealed in language. Given that He comprehends everything in His knowledge and mercy, one language is the same as all languages, and so He has warned us all of the reason and purpose for which we are in the world, of His unity, of our capacity as human beings and of return to Him. To be actively muslim is to accept our responsibility to existence as a whole and so to counter the necessarily unjustified ghettoization of awareness and knowledge into mutually exclusive ways of life based on closed systems of metaphysics, cosmology, or anthropology. To be muslim (at-peace) is to be literally connected to God, al-Salam (absolute Peace), by islam (being-at-and-in-peace). We are reminded of this connection by everything on the horizons and in the self, which make up the teeming and constantly changing flow of the self-revelation of the One. Multiplicity is contingent, Unity absolute. Unity ceaselessly reveals Itself in multiplicity, in all the languages of humankind, in which Unity’s prophets have discoursed, and in the return of all things to It, as revelation and affirmation of the absolutely One.

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