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3.2.11 - Contentment and the Re-Creation Principle

One of the typical Sufi topics in which the Greatest Shaykh cites the words of his Shaykh Abu Madyan is the subject of Contentment: “rayy”, where he says that Contentment is what happens due to the sufficiency and inability to accept any more (of witnessing for example). Then he goes on to say that those who accept Contentment are only those who believe that there is an end to the world. Those are the people to whom had been revealed the world of this life and the end of its duration, or they are the people of disclosure who have witnessed the preserved tablet and they are still retreating to consider it, or those to whom had been revealed the existence as it is in their view and then they were veiled at that what has come into this existence is finite, but they do not have a share in witnessing the eschatological disclosure.

Therefore, those who have witnessed that existence is finite, they accept Contentment, so they are attracted to their end. These are whom Shaykh Abu Madyan described as nostalgic to their beginning, because God did not reveal to them the reality of the way as it is, such as those who say that the Sun returns after the length of the day, but that in fact is not returning (as it may appear). So those who accept Contentment are those who witness the cycles due to what they see of the frequency of the days in weeks and months.

On the other hand, those who do not accept Contentment are those who call the day and night al-jadîdân: the two (ever)new, because they don’t see any repetition at all. Therefore, there is no beginning and no end, but there are goals according to certain concerns of some knowledgeable people, then from their things are renewed for them again, for other goals, without repeating, but then they miss a whole many goodness and great knowledge in the divinity (when they see things repeating). In fact, they miss many goodness from the science of nature whose composition does not accept any repetition, in this world and in the hereafter.

Then the Greatest Shaykh adds that the real reason for Contentment is the lack of more acceptance from the Real, due to their limited willingness, otherwise in reality and there is no prohibition, because the Real is in ever new manifestation, but Contentment is achieved because of satisfaction in what it has been accepted with no more capacity for any increase, so that who has this kind of witnessing will say: “I am contented”. But that who accept Contentment is only that who has halted with his time only looking at his own willingness [Futuhat: II.552].

This concept just explained above, that there is in fact no repetition at all, is of extreme importance, and it has been demonstrated in the Single Monad Model of the Cosmos that this leads to the Re-Creation Principle which is the only way we could explain the quantum behavior of the microscopic world. In turn, this later led to the Duality of Time Theory that was able to provide the first logical interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, as well as explaining many other persisting problems in physics and cosmology.

The Re-creation Principle implies that the forms of manifestation cease to exist intrinsically right after the instant of their creation, and then they are re-created again by the Single Monad in every original creative “Week” that corresponds to moment of the time that we count. This perpetual re-creation happens in the “six Days” of creation from Sunday to Friday, which accounts for the three dimensions of space. But we do not witness this creation process as such; instead we only witness the created world on the “last Day” of Saturday. So the seven Days of the divine Week are in all one point of space-time (6 Days for space and 1 for time) which then — by repeating manifestations — manifests the space-time container, that is “the Age”, which encompasses the world both spatially and temporally.