Letter to a Muslim Friend,

Your Allah knows the truth of the Matter We shall discuss, my Muslim friend.  The capacity of a man is not determined by blood, it is derived of his reasoning mind.  For what is a soul if not the Reason of a Man?  Can a Man; can a woman; can a Muslim enjoin the Good or forbid the Evil without the capacity of his Reason – his personal, internal tablet upon which lessons of this life build toward the proclamation of prayer as that which best fits a man?  Without Reason as the bedrock upon which the First Pillar stands, my Muslim friend, Prayer is impossible.  Therefore, nothing befits a man more than his ability to achieve the thought and understanding surrounding his prayer. 

I ask you, honestly…for your Allah knows the truth.  What value is the Mother Book without the words encanted in plain Arabic by the Prophet Muhammad, without the words enscribed by the shaken hand of the enraptured mind of Muhammad’s witness?  Can the Prophetic Transmissions’ Grace be properly perceived or grasped by the mind of the simpleton?  This gift, this mega event, can only be translated to the Reasoning Mind of a Witness.  In truth, the faith can only be strengthened if Allah’s ayat are the source of Reason’s strength.  The Gravity of Islam, afterall, is only measurable in terms of Allah’s Rights – these Rights hold supremacy.  Does this blanket, does this veil of supremacy fit well with the prayer of a reasoning man?

The capacity of a man’s Reason, then…determines the intellectual property of prayer.  It has been taught for generations of Muslim Faithful, that no one holds power of intercession between a Man and Allah.  Intercession, then is at the mercy of the capacity of reason beheld by the man at prayer.  For the prayer is a creation of thoughts in the Rapture of Allah’s Unity.  Is it not, thus, my Muslim Friend?  If this be true, that which best befits a man is the creation of a thought in communion with Allah – and this right of man to his destiny upon Allah’s Path is sanctified – Allah is the Judge, not you…not I.  To hasten his judgement is not within your capacity nor mine…for all are judged on the last day, it is taught – in the final hour.  In this frame, commanding the Good and Forbidding the evil seems a task which must be thought on, gravely…  For Reason is prayer’s tinker.  Moreover, a devoted thought holds a physical manifestation in Allah’s sight.

Allah may hold supremacy, but Reason holds primacy.  Without Reason, a created prayer’s physical manifestation will hold no weight upon the scales of Justice in any hour, much less the finality.  Allah claims no ownership of your prayer or my prayer…He merely holds the weighty matter in trust, and when enough weight has mounted, Allah says “Before me stands a man. Did he but Worship Me?”

Regardless of what your Imams and education have taught you, a destructive rationale, my Muslim friend, is not the basis for prayer.  Only creative reason can navigate the disorderly path and attain form as your head contacts the mat, devoted one.  Do not doubt that Allah knows the truth of your reasoning mind’s capacity to achieve creation and innovation.  Wait, my Muslim friend, do not fear this internal seed of Allah within you…this reason.

Do not doubt your Allah knows the truth of this matter.  Do not doubt your faith at my behest.  Fear not the ideas and machinations of one man…one Western Mahdi.  For what are these fears in comparison with the vast abyss facing those who approach prayer from the wrong orientation to the New Knowledge gained directly from the Mother Book?  In your conscience and your pain is the rise of that integral part of a man, that you have stifled, my Muslim friend.  No integrity can be had without the Reasoned Bedrock upon which Prayer’s Pillar rests.

Pray on this mustard seed.  From it shall a mountain of thought and doubt and surety arise. To the peak, Muslim friend – let us seek the climbs and calumnies of reason..let us rise to the brink and beyond.  Prayer, afterall, is the summit of Reason, my Muslim Friend.  Do not step beyond your capacity and conceive of your knowledge of the truth in your rush to judgment or incitement or detonation.  Cut your teeth on this kernel of Allah’s Western Justice, this Truth – which Allah undoubtedly knows best of all.  Proclaiming Reason as Prayer’s Crucible is Man’s choice to personally reflect on Allah’s turning.

Struggle on this seed, My Muslim Friend – all others lead you to the Banyan lands of despair.

-Imam al Mahdi Zed ibn Yahia