The Legend of God - The Spirit of Certainty and Contentment

Author's name: Ahmad ibn Khalil al-Hamdani

O man, son of Adam, O reader, you who heard the first call: May your Lord have mercy on you… Read in the name of your Lord who created.

Now you are opening the door to the second covenant, a covenant not written with ink, but with light. You are stepping from the call to certainty, from knowledge to contentment, from the word by which you were created to the word that brings you back to God.

This book does not take you back to the beginning... but to the origin, to the first covenant, the day when you were asked in the world of pre-existence: Am I not your Lord? And you said: Yes. And since that answer, the journey began that has not yet ended.

Here you discover that Adam was not a story to be told, but rather the name that dwells within you, which you carry every morning, forgetting that its letters are your eternal answers: A = God is your Lord, D = your religion is Islam, M = Muhammad ﷺ is your Prophet and Messenger.

But Adam's secret is incomplete without what came from him: his father and mother. Your father is the invocation with which you begin every step in your life, the hand that taught you to say "In the name of God" before you walk, before you speak, before you dream. He is the support that sustained you, the shade that protected you, the beginning that showed you that every beginning is only through God. And your mother... she is the gate to Paradise. She was the first to teach you the meaning of mercy before you knew the letters of the alphabet. She is the prayer that watches over you as you sleep. She is the door that remains open, even if the world closes its doors. And even if you fall a thousand times, her door reminds you that God never closes a door to one who returns to Him in tears.

From your father you received the Basmala (the opening phrase of the Quran), and from your mother you opened the gates of Paradise. Between them, the first covenant was born within you—the covenant of the human being in whom God dwells. But this covenant is not tested by light alone, but also by darkness. Just as Gabriel was sent with light to teach you to "Read," Satan emerged from among the ranks, embellishing the word to distort its meaning, cloaking falsehood in the guise of truth, concealing falsehood beneath the garment of mercy, and selling adornment as light, until the face of truth became indistinguishable from the face of desire. After him came the Antichrist, bearing a face resembling light, but in his eyes the darkness of deception. He says to the people: "I am salvation, I am light, I am the one who teaches you piety without a book!" So those who forget the commandment are deceived by him, while those who cling to the Book remain steadfast, as Gabriel first said: "The Trustworthy Spirit has brought it down upon your heart, that you may be among the warners." In a single moment, the eternal struggle unfolds: the light of Gabriel confronts the darkness of Satan, and the voice of the Quran rises above the clamor of discord. Hearts prostrate, screens are silenced, and a single phrase fills the earth and the heavens: God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. Here, you realize that the opening chapter (Al-Fatihah) is not merely a chapter to be recited, but a ladder of seven steps to the face of God. Every verse is a gateway, every letter a light, and every "Amen" a tear with which you sign your eternal covenant. The straight path is not a road on earth, but a thread of light extending from your brow to the Throne. Every prostration is a return to the beginning, to the moment when Adam first said: "Praise be to God." If Al-Fatihah is your covenant, then Adam is the gateway, and the circle of contentment is the conclusion: where the heart finds peace, fearing nothing and hoping only for the face of God, which never fades.

There, certainty is revealed, and you realize that God's promise is never delayed. Contentment blossoms, and you understand that destiny is another facet of God's mercy. There, in the presence of light, Gabriel stands on your highest horizon, spreading his wings over your heart, whispering as he whispered to Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the cave: "Read, and your Lord is the Most Generous, Who taught by the pen." You weep because you now know that the light that descended upon the Prophet (peace be upon him) is the same light offered to you to fulfill the trust, the final commandment with which revelation was sealed: "I enjoin you to adhere to the Book of God... and I enjoin you to fear God." For piety is not fear of Hellfire, but rather a constant awareness of God's presence, a love that guides your steps, and a light that dwells within your heart so that you do not wrong anyone. It is an unbreakable covenant, an unpiercing shield, and a light that never fades. In this journey, you progress from "Read" to "Amen," from the clot to the opening chapter of the Quran, from dust to light, and from trial to contentment. You see Moses parting the sea before your heart, Jesus extending his hand in mercy to wipe away your fear, Gabriel surrounding you from above, and Muhammad ﷺ smiling in your face and saying to you: “I advise you to adhere to the Book of God, I advise you to fear God.”

When you close this book, you won't truly close it; you'll close the page on the old world to begin your own. You'll feel your heart reborn, and the journey you thought was a search outside yourself was all a path back to your inner self, to the point where you began: God.

O human being, O son of Adam, O reader, this book does not teach you how to believe, but rather reminds you of the One in whom you believed before you were born. It is a mirror in which you see yourself when you are cleansed of all names, and remain before the one name that is uttered only with reverence: God.

O you who heard the first call, here is God calling you again: Be certain, be content, and live in the fear of God.

Between the beginning and the end, nothing remains but the covenant, nothing lasts on earth but contentment, and nothing remains in heaven but those who feared God and were guided by His light.

The Islamic Corner from the Book_Fannar website