Exactly.
God will love the crazy sheep until the end of time.



Well, people compare all the time, search for the best engine, the best car.

Many people reject others completely, just because they do not belong to the same group (which can also be a nation, a religious group or even a culture).

Not a long time ago people in my very enlightened and very civilized and extremely reasonable Germany were deeply convinced of the superiority of the Aryan race and the superiority of their nation.

But they learned a lot from the bitter experience and things are not static in history.

People should never place anything above God!

I think it was very remarkable, that Mohammed (pbuh) did not tell the Arabs: you are Gods special darlings now.

And you can be sure, that the Arabs would have loved to hear this. Some Arabs actually behaved like this, for example after the conquest of Persia, but educated Muslims could then tell them: you betray the message of Mohammed (pbuh)!

People are often blinded by physical differences, like skin colour.

But what is really important about a human being?

For me it is the ability to love and search for love and the enormous possibilities of the human mind.

I once found two numbers in a scientific magazine. This was in 1997, so I do not know, if they are still actual:

10^82 - This number gives you an idea of the number of elementary particles in the known material universe.

10^3000 - this is the estimated number of different possible functional states in one single human brain.

Isn´t this amazing!

There is a greater universe inside of a human being, a world of unique ideas, constructions of ideas, hope, imaginations, memories ...

Of cause we should all know this, but are people really aware of this?


I like these three quotes:

Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.

Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:8 (37a)

On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.

Qur´an 5.032

You (humans) think that you are insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.

(Ali ibn Abu-Talib)

People can easily create arguments like: "Look, he looks different, so he must be also dangerous. Let´s kill them, before they kill us!"

People can convince themsleves, that the "other" is just an ugly caricature. In a ocnflict this is almost inevitable.

People feel often threatened by "others", if they can´t understand them, if smart propaganda people tell them simple stories.

I looked into all the four Abrahamic religions, which are based on authentic revelation (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bahá'í Faith) and the last messenger of God for example, who appeared in the 19th century AD was deeply opposed to racism and the message of the Bahá'í Faith is like the perfect antithesis to the man-made ideologies of the 20th century, especially Nazism.

It´s all about unity - but the man-made ideologies and ambitions are usually about separation.

God always sends a messenger, if the crazy sheep are making a serious mistake.

All the ideologies of the 20th century have their roots in the 19th century.

So the human beings had a choice.




Well, I´m a descendant of Mohammed (pbuh) and he was the champion when it comes to "heaven and hell" - type arguments. It´s all over the Qur´an.

But I believe, that human beings should worship God not because of fear.

I like this old anecdote about Rabia al Basri, a female Sufi saint, who lived just a few decades after Mohammed (pbuh):


One day, she was seen running through the streets of Basra carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When asked what she was doing, she said:

I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to God. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabi%27a_al-%27Adawiyya


I also like this quote from Imam Ali (pbuh):

There are people who worship God to gain His Favors, this is the worship of traders; while there are some who worship Him to keep themselves free from His Wrath, this is the worship of slaves; a few who obey Him out' of their sense of gratitude and obligations, this is the worship of free and noble men.

(from wikiquote)

For me it is simply an inner contradiction, to believe in punishment after death.

The message of the prophets allows for both possibilities. There is also this terrible knowledge, that the human beings are not really free, that you can´t really blame them.

They are like prisoners for me, slaves of their instincts, prisoners of the mood of the time, the wrong certainties ...

If God is perfect, why should He punish the crazy sheep?

Look at this quote from Jeremiah:


10:23 Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny.
It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.
10:24 Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure.
Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.


But in the end, what is the difference?

For me hell is here on earth.

I am sorry for the long messages.