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Addressee

Addressee. The Human Being. God’s Addressee. Every human is the addressee of God. Through the holy scriptures, prophets, inspiration, etc... If this is to continue in the hereafter, we must attain the suitable awareness, knowledge, appearance, etc... So what must we attain?. Short-List.

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Addressee

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  1. Addressee The Human Being

  2. God’s Addressee • Every human is the addressee of God. • Through the holy scriptures, prophets, inspiration, etc... • If this is to continue in the hereafter, we must attain the suitable awareness, knowledge, appearance, etc... • So what must we attain?

  3. Short-List • Belief • Worship • Behaviour • Preferences

  4. Example for the Selection Process • Mangoes • Two = 1 kilo • Five = 1 kilo • Eight = 1 kilo • Box of mangoes for $8

  5. Belief = Choice • God through his name of Hadi, manifests belief. • God through his name of Mudil, manifests unbelief. • God provides life and assures you with its continuation. • God has promised that your basic needs will be met.

  6. Belief = Choice cont. • God wishes all humans to enter heaven and continue to be his addressee. • He does not however intervene with what they choose. • Through our choice, passion, love and desire, we need to ask God to continue to make us his addressee.

  7. Belief = Choice cont. • Strong belief is synonymous for correct desires. • Strong belief is synonymous for self-control. • Strong belief is synonymous for sound preferences. • Strong belief is synonymous for right choices. • “Religion is synonymous for choice.” • “You have the freedom to choose, so choose!”

  8. Example • Television: • Soccer • Politics • Martial Arts • Music

  9. Example cont. • Sat-Sun • Watches the games • Mon-Wed • Analyses the games. • Thu-Fri • Selects the players for the coming week’s games. • During Summer • Transfers and trades players.

  10. Example cont. • Orators, speakers, commentators... • Joe Rogan, J Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, Franklin Roosevelt, etc... • They gave inspirational speeches for decades. • They die and God without question puts them in heaven.

  11. Example cont. • What are they going to do there? What are they going to speak about? • Heaven is the residence for the 124,000 prophets. • Heaven is the residence for 124,000,000 scholars. • What are these famous speakers going to converse with the prophets and the scholars?

  12. Example cont. • UFC? Information? Politics? Poetry? • These speakers will become mute, autistic, etc... • It will be torture for them to be there. • They will be hating themselves everyday.

  13. Experiences in Heaven • “The experience of the lay in comparison to the prophets will be like that of cats to humans.” Said Nursi. • Example... “You decide to watch the channel nine news at 6pm. Then a fly places itself on the TV screen. Would it be plausible to think that the fly is listening and paying full attention to the news? What would the fly understand from the news!”

  14. Addressee • The whole purpose of prophets and scholars is to bring about addressees. • The whole purpose of universities is to bring about addressees for that particular science. • Takes approximately ten years to attain a PhD in Economics. • Could one take a primary school student to a postgraduate lecture and assume that he would take something away from that lecture?

  15. Addressee cont. • It is the same reason why we are here on earth. • To attain a suitable form to be the addressees of God. • Examples: • The prophet speaking to Ebu Bekir. • The meat example. • Ustad’s example. • Disabled girls example.

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