Christmas - time to illumine hearts with love
At
the end of another year we are back again to celebrate Christmas, the
day when Jesus was born as an ordinary man and who led a simple life. He
was a traveller; during his travels his motive was never to amass wealth
but to educate the masses by instilling the purpose of life on earth
mainly by cultivating tolerance, forbearance, love and compassion.
He was fully aware of the fact that ‘out of the heart of man surface
evil thought of murder, adultery, fornication, wickedness, deceit,
recklessness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. “All evil things come
from within to defile man unless the heart is pure and the mind is
cleansed’ (Mar 7:21-23)
December 25, 336 AD, was assigned to celebrate Christmas in the West
partly to replace the pagan sun worshiping. Since the end of fourth
century, Christmas Day became universally accepted and the 'jolly old
man with white whiskers and the red sack' has been bringing joy to
children at every Christmas.
Natural disasters
We are almost half way through the first quarter of the 21st century
and this year people are sure to experience a different Christmas as the
devil has taken over man’s mind to make him erratic and encourage man to
kill his own kind without batting an eye lid - as easy as squashing
mosquitoes. Perhaps it is prudent to think that even Santa Claus is
certainly going to be a worried old man at his headquarters in the
Lapland this Christmas.
Future forecasts for the world tend to vary, and to a greater extent
fear-provoking as the man has descended below the animal level.
Everything in this world is governed by birth and a death; certain seers
have predicted the world too will come to an end at the end of the 21st
century.
Natural disasters that man has created out of his ill will are
already causing sub zero temperatures affecting the West and unbearable
warm conditions in the tropics. During profound daily spiritual
discourses by Sultan Ul Awliya Mowlana Sheikh Nazim Al Haqqani in Lefke,
Cyprus (regarded as the last living saint of the Naqshbandi order
(http://sheiknazim2.com) through www.saltanat.org, people all over the
world are being warned of the imminent disasters in the coming months.
Mowlana who has met Pope Benedict XVI personally states openly on a
worldwide video that “21st century is the last of this Universe.
‘Shaytan’ (Satan) has become very active at the present time that almost
every human being is taken over ‘by this evil force', which seemingly is
heading towards chaotic conditions which might end up with the World War
III (in an attempt to defeat ‘Shaytan').
Generally the ego of people is so immense that they always tend to
discard any precautionary advice or take it with a pinch of salt, till
such time they are confronted with disaster. Two earthquakes predicted
by Mowlana in Turkey last month in advance and his prophecy that
'Tyrants in all Arab countries are going to leave' is happening right in
front of our eyes today.
Political eye
Looking at today’s world through a political eye, it is apparent that
the Americans and Israelis are planning to light the torch of disaster
with nuclear fire to show their supremacy and might. Iran, on their
part, in no uncertain terms have warned Israel not to ‘play with fire’.
The mist is thinning out in the horizon on war front whilst under false
pretenses American war tanks are hovering the ocean around Syria and
Russians tanks are queuing up in a similar fashion to support Syria in
case of an American invasion. Will there be a sea of blood flowing from
Syria all the way to Istanbul while millions perish?
Any attempts by Israel ‘to wipe out’ Iran’s nuclear bases’ will be
countered and assisted by Chinese who are Iranian allies, which means
all these will boil down to major powers in the world with their
egotistical superiority clashing with each other. And this time, unlike
in previous wars, there will hardly be any time to think if the nuclear
arsenal is used by one party and reciprocated by the other, namely
Israel and Iran respectively.
Should such a catastrophe occur (hope not!) the Third World War will
be quite different with nuclear weapons replacing the traditional
warfare. Are we going to witness what we saw in the film Armageddon
quicker than expected? Will some parts of the world be turned into piles
of ash? Will we see tower blocks collapsing like pack of cards,
meteorites coming down and hitting everywhere and causing earth
earthquakes and floods killing millions of people? It is also said that,
‘Oppressors in the world will be wiped out and those who are impregnated
with celestial fire only will be saved from perishing’. This may sound
abrasive or unsympathetic, even to think, but the reality is that will
the spared remaining one third of the ‘holy’ sorts have the courage and
the nerve to absorb what they would be seeing right in front of their
eyes? - For instance people falling dead to the ground right in front of
their eyes while walking on streets, or peoples’ skins getting stretched
like elastic! Sounds like a horror film!!
This is Christmas time. Every year millions celebrate X'mas around
the world, making X'mas one of the world’s biggest religious and
commercial festivities. In such a backdrop irrespective of our religious
and cultural differences, theories and beliefs, let us come together and
decorate our hearts with love, compassion and human feeling for one
another by which at least we, as human beings, might be able to ward off
some of the worst impending disasters which are predicted to affect us
in the near future.
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