ISLAM HAS ONLY ONE GOD
They
picked as their aim the Caucasians and ‘Islamic terrorists’. This
facilitated rallying the frightened Orthodox Russians under the wing of
‘Westerners’. Slavophiles once again had no luck and, having got no
intelligible social doctrine from the Orthodox Church, turned from
religious utopias to political geography – geopolitics.
A
bright representative of this trend, Alexander Dugin, managed to give
this American-fostered science an anti-Western direction. His writings
happened to become the guidebooks not only for the Orthodox Communists,
Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party and the military, who dream of
crushing the NATO, but also for the ‘Our Home – Russia’ political
movement. However, no one seriously thought about the core issue, the
world view, that is the basis of any ideology, including geopolitics.
A
world view is a way of life, that sets the scale of moral values and
the behavioral guidelines system of the individual in society.
Therefore, it incorporates the criteria that form the state political
structure, or, more scientifically, the criteria for political
legitimacy. Russian ex-Soviet politicians usually dismiss this issue and
say: “Well, we're Orthodox. Here is our criticism of Alexander Dugin's
foundations of geopolitics. (This refers to Vol.: A. Dugin ‘Geopolitics
Does not Involve a Third Force’ / / Muslim Courier, 1999. № 1.28)”
Though none of them can explain what it means in practice, besides
ceremonial meetings with the Church bishops. Unlike them, Mr. Dugin
emphasizes philosophical and religious dualism as his concept
fundamentals. On the whole, a world view may be based on two
qualitatively different baselines:
•
belief in the self-sufficient, unattainable for human will and
empirical knowledge Almighty Creator of the universe, One God, Who
created the world out of His mercy for the sake of the eternal happiness
of His creations, and teaches man about Himself and His Will through
prophets. This is Abrahamic monotheism (transcendent monotheism);
•
belief in the attainable for human will and empirical knowledge One
Supreme Being, that exists either as a rational being in a variety of
supernatural forms, gods, deity manifestations, ghosts, or as an
impersonal life-bearing substance. This is pantheism.
Abrahamic
monotheist confessions are Islam, Judaism (if in line with its own
prophets) and Christianity (if in line with the Hebrew prophets).
Pantheism can be divided into four main types:
2.1)
heathen monism intrinsic to the developed religions. The universe has
no personal Creator, it comes from the Supreme Eternal Being. A supreme
deity tops the hierarchical pyramid of life. It is completely
independent and reigns over the lower deities, only partially
independent: inferior deities, angels, demons, spirits of the dead and
the living priests. All of these act as intermediaries between the
supreme deity and man, and through them the supreme God sends down His
grace or anger to all living beings in the world;
2.2)
polytheism, (usually called heathenism, folk beliefs). The Supreme
Absolute Being is divided into many entities and lives on in a multitude
of gods, demons, spirits, etc., relatively independent in their own
decisions. The Supreme deity is merely first among equals;
2.3)
dualism. The Supreme Absolute Being is divided into two mutually
exclusive and antagonistic kinds, fully autonomous. Their varied
perpetual dialectic struggle creates evolution;
2.4)
non-theistic religion and atheism. The Supreme Absolute Being has no
personal manifestation. It is a material substance, deified nature,
which gives birth to the human mind. The latter further gets control of
the nature and becomes the master of the universe. The five-pointed
star, a pentagram, became the official symbol of the American Freemasons
and the Soviet Communists as a sign of a superman victorious over
nature. This division is conditional, as in life they rarely occur in
pure form, but rather in various combinations (religious syncretism).
In
our monotheism there is no dualism. God is One, and there is no one
equal or opposed to Him. Satan is opposed not to the Almighty God, but
to man. The universe as a whole, throughout the history is driven solely
by the Will of the Almighty One God. Evil social behavior comes from
common people, not from the deities, as the heathen deem. According to
the Holy Qur’an, man is created free. He has free choice, which means
that a human soul is divided between belief and disbelief, devotion to
God and spiritual decadence. God calls a person to freely pick a direct
path to the Truth, to choose good and reject evil. Therefore a free man’
soul is a hard struggle between good and evil – the ‘great Jihad’.
However,
the inner inclination to good must be manifested. Based on this, Islam
calls for equitable society and state structure. You cannot seek only
inner perfection, “the kingdom of God within yourself”, turning your
“other cheek” to someone who slaps you. You should drastically prevent
evil in society and state. This is the effort of people to establish
just laws, and steadily abide by them, and not belief in the mystical
struggle of the deified light with the deified darkness, long-hour rites
for the good gods to defeat evil gods.
For
this purpose God created man and gave him free will. What is the
dualist world view like? In philosophy, dualists believe, that the
dialectical “struggle of opposites” is not in the consciousness of man,
but in the whole existence; it defines the historical evolution. This
antagonistic struggle can be abstract, as in Hegel's philosophy, or full
of “materialistic meaning”, as in Marxism-Leninism. In the latter case,
this struggle acquires a religious sense and seeks the final victory
over the “reactionary forces”.
Here is a famous Bolshevik song: .
“Whirlwinds
of danger are raging around us,| Overwhelming forces of darkness
assail.| Still in the fight advancing before us,| Red flag of liberty
that yet shall prevail.” This is no abstract dualistic philosophy,
but a religious hymn dedicated to the relentless struggle of the ‘sons
of light’ against the blind fate. Religious dualism is associated with
the moral division between good and evil projected outside by analogy
with the inner world, not only onto nature, but even the Divine world,
which makes it humanlike.
Images
that exist only in one’s mind are mystified, personified and endowed
with their own autonomous existence. This is the same as if you believe
that Tolkien’s Middle Earth is a real otherworldly country with real
elves, orcs and wizards. Man creates his own fictional world with a
struggle between the good and evil gods, about equal in strength, i.e.
not all-powerful: Horus and Seth in Egyptian mythology, Ahura-Mazda and
Ahriman in Zoroastrianism, Christ, ‘King of the Jews’ and the Devil in
Christianity, “the sons of light” with “dark reactionary forces” in
Communism, etc.
Thus, man excludes himself from the omnipotence of the One God, “Sustainer of the worlds”, “Master of the Day of Judgment.” (see:
Quran, Surah “Al-Fatiha”). As heathenism eagerly deifies not only
powerful people, fauna and flora, but also abstract concepts, it can
easily idolize the government, the state, turn it into an independent
heavenly deity incarnated on earth as a king, the tribe chief, Secretary
General, etc.
In
ancient Egypt, Horus, the son of a deity, defeated evil Seth.
Zoroastrianism, six centuries before Christianity taught about the
Savior of the world (Saoshyant), who was to be miraculously born by a
virgin and defeat the evil at the end of time. Israel also had the
teachings about the Savior. The Jews wanted to destroy heathen Rome.
Like the Persian Saviour, Moshiyah, who came in the flesh (Christ in
Greek) was to fight ‘the prince of this world’, the Devil, and with the
heathen emperor, personifying the world’s evil, defeat him, restore the
greatness of Israel and David’s descendants on the throne of Jerusalem
and establish peace in the world (the Jews refused to worship Jesus as
the Messiah due to the lack of apparent signs: in 70 AD the Romans
defeated Jerusalem, completely destroyed it, and the Jews scattered
around the world). Communists proclaimed the proletariat the “party of
truth”, headed by a leader and a savior, all in one, who was later
buried in an ‘ancient Egyptian’ tomb, erected in the center of Moscow.
The
Spirit of God was the deified Revolution, and the “world imperialism”
was assigned the role of satan. Although the dualistic scheme of the
world has always been more suitable for the revolutionary restructuring
of the world, the conservatives also sometimes resorted to it (as Russia
today). Thus, in the II - III centuries AD the emperor of Rome was
proclaimed the earthly incarnation of the sun god Mithra, and all his
opponents and even the critics became the worshippers of the evil god,
opposing him. However, Mithraism did not become the confession of the
whole empire. Many people continued to worship their own gods.
They
did not view the emperor as a religious savior of their own people and
the whole humanity, which led to the disastrous separatist trends within
the Empire. During this period Alexandrian Neoplatonic school
(especially the heathen philosopher Plotinus, a Christian Church
theologist Origen, and the priest Iamblichus) helped the Roman Empire
and aligned the Judeo-Christian doctrine of Moshiyah – the Savior of
Israel with:
• Zoroastrian doctrine of the Savior of the world (the sixth century B.C.),
•
Jewish mysterious teachings, including ‘Zohar’, which became the basis
of the Kabbalah (the first century B.C. – the third century A.D.),
• the teachings of the Gnostics and Ascetics and the Sybils’ books (the first – fourth centuries A.D.)
• esoteric writings of Hermes Trismegistus Thoth (the third century A.D.)
•
Egyptian, Eleusinian and Mithraic cults (the third-fifth centuries
A.D.) The name Joshua (pronounced as ‘Jesus’ in Greek) in Russian means
‘Jehovah saves’. In Gospel Joshua saves only “lost sheep of the house of
Israel” because, as we have already mentioned above, “It is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs” (Matt.
15:24, 26). However, thanks to the efforts of Neoplatonic Christians
the teachings of a rabbi visiting Palestinian villages were absolutized
and offered to the humanity as a model of the universe.
A
regional history turned into a myth about the global salvation of the
whole mankind in the Hereafter. The entry into Paradise was on the
condition of the absolute obedience of individuals and peoples to the
will of the Roman dictator, miraculously transformed into the ‘earthly
representative of Christ’, and the humble acceptance of all his
injustice in this life. The One and Almighty God the Creator, to Whom
everyone can address directly and immediately, was replaced by the
opposition of ‘Christ-Moshiyah, the King not of this World’ – ‘The
Devil, the Prince of this world’, whose struggle has not yet revealed
the winner.
Religion
was presented as a linear relationship of the opposing sides – no
vertical connection between man and the Creator of the universe. The
dogma of the consubstantiality of man and God totally left out the
Almighty Creator out of the scheme, whose participation in this world
was solely through his “only begotten son”. Our Creator, according to
these views, was either powerless before the god of evil, or unable to
do without the evil for His own plan of the mankind evolution. Thus,
even the very notion of the omnipotence of the One God hampered with
heathen dualist mythmakers creating a fascinating world-historical
series about the struggle of the Superman and his team with the Zionist
mafia, plotting global conspiracy. To fill the niche of the Almighty
Creator, Jesus Christ was declared “consubstantial with the Creator”,
and all the doubters were called heretic, which entailed their torture
and execution.
The
Roman-Byzantine Christian priests shut down the direct path of man to
the Creator. Without a special priest initiation into the mysteries, the
direct way to God was impossible, like in heathenism. The symbolic keys
to the doors of Heaven, handed by Moshiyah to St. Peter, made people
completely dependent on the priestly caste, the exclusive keeper of
those keys. Rejecting the authorities of Peter and his successors over
the keys of Paradise was interpreted as serving the Devil and entailed
the respective punishment.
Thus,
Roman Christianity absorbed the dualistic model, heavily spiced with
eastern mysticism and esoteric flavour. Only we, Muslims who have
revelation through the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), view Jesus (PBUH) not as
a second God, or His “incarnation”, or a myth, but as a real righteous
man whom Almighty God sent to his countrymen, the Jews with the
salvatory prophetic mission of the Gospel. For Muslims, the evil becomes
real only after the man himself starts to follow it. As for Alexander
Dugin, his philosophic, religious and ideological dualism is clearly
close to the later Zoroastrianism. He divides his model of the world
into two opposing poles: Land vs Sea, Atlanticism vs Eurasianism,
coastal vs continental zones, etc.
In his most comprehensive work “The Foundations of Geopolitics” he writes: “The
basic law of geopolitics is the manifest dualism in the planetary
geography and historical typology of civilizations. This dualism is
expressed in the opposition ‘tellurocracy’ (land power) and <...>
‘thalassocracy’ (sea power). <...> This dualism is initially
marked by hostility between its two alternative poles”
(2).
The author considers these poles so self-sufficient that they determine
the social motivation of people, their actions, and thus the whole
history: “Land power "<...> on the civilization level is
embodied in the Settlement, conservatism, in the strict legal
regulations that govern the major groups of people – family, tribes,
peoples, nations, empires. <...> Land nations have no sense of
individualism and entrepreneurial spirit. They are characterized by
collectivism and hierarchy. <...> ‘Sea power’ is a type of
civilization with the opposite basic principles. <...>
Geopolitical
vision of history is planetary dualism developed to the max. Land and
Sea originally impact the whole world. Human history is nothing but a
manifestation of this struggle and its absolutism” (3). Alexander
Dugin called himself a Christian Orthodox Old Believer in an interview
to the ‘Muslim courier’. His views comply with the fourth century
version of Christianity, which established pantheistic dualism. He can
definitely identify himself as Orthodox, if he categorizes the ‘Sea
zone’, the ‘free trade’, ‘individualism’ and ‘liberal capitalism’ as the
devil’s rule (Ahriman, the Antichrist, etc.), and ‘conservative
tradition’, ‘collectivism’, moral stability, Marxism to the Savior’s
kingdom (Saoshyant, Moshiyah, Christ).
In
the dualistic model of the universe changing names affects nothing. In
its belief in the struggle between the two driving forces of deified
Nature: fire and water, land and sea, light and darkness, and so forth,
the religious mind may personify these forces and attribute each of them
an iconic image of God (the God-man, the angel), struggling with the
demon. Rational mind regards them only as the struggle of the human mind
with the shapeless substance. However it can after a bit of hesitation
admit some deities in the dark past not yet illuminated by science and
invite ‘patriotic’ priests as temporary travel companions. That is why
today we see the remarkable ideological bond between the ex-Communist
officials and Orthodox ‘patriots’. (2 A. Dugin The Foundations of
Geopolitics: the Geopolitical Future of Russia. - M. Arctogeia, 1997.,
However,
the pure original Christianity personifies nature forces and gives them
Jewish or Greco-Roman names. This is the link between Christianity
(according to its followers) and the Jewish ‘sacred history’, with the
tradition of the Israeli prophets. Without its reference to the latter,
Christianity does not differ from other pantheistic mythologies.
Therefore,
Dugin has the moral right to call himself Orthodox Christian only if he
publicly swears on the Bible, that his ‘land area’ are also the
‘canonical territory of the Christian Orthodox faith’, strictly
subordinated to the respective priest group with its dogmas and saints,
and ‘free trade, individualism, and democracy’ is a habitat of
Antichrist, Satan and his demons, as well as Catholics, Protestants and
other ‘heretics’. We leave, however, the issue to the church mentors of
Alexander Dugin. Noteworthily, methodologically his book is closer to
the pre-Christian interpretation of the two poles of existence as
chthonic (impersonal, natural) forces. His Land and Sea are powerful
underground forces that encourage people to various social actions as
inevitably, as the full moon lures a lunatic to the roof (and Dugin’s
dualist to the water).
‘Holy State’ Idol.
As
freedom of choice, granted to man by the Creator, is curtailed by two
blind forces, or two deities, hence logically, the state intended by
people to secure them, is vulnerable to these forces, or deities. The
state depends on destiny, fate, and, as a product of these forces, or
deities, it behaves as a ‘living organism’ (4), i.e., as a real (4 ibid,
pp. 34. 35) political subject (‘a subject’ is an autonomous entity).
This approach is actually no novelty. Ancient Sumeria, Babylonia and
Egypt had a similar, heathen-like, concept of the state.
It
has been the cornerstone of all the dictatorships. Dualism, based on
the belief in the linear relationship between supernatural forces,
rejects the vertical relationship between the Almighty God and humans.
And without this vertical, without a direct path to God, mortal and
imperfect human beings lose all they are worth. Moreover, in their quite
earthly world-rule plans (to drive out the ‘Prince of this world’ and
become the ‘King of the future world’) the two rival deities need man to
achieve their material goal – to defeat the enemy.
Therefore,
man involuntarily joins either the army of the Light, or the army of
the evil. The followers of the other deity, who are currently in power,
can always declare him an enemy of the people, the Church and the ‘holy
state’. Therefore, in heathenism, especially in dualism, throughout
human history, we see utter inhumanity toward a human life. A man is
nothing but a slave of the king, who is a mediator between people and
the deity, and leads them to victory with his ‘iron hand’.
There
is no personality. In fact, there is only a ‘brick’, or submissive
building material for the ‘brighter tomorrow’. That is why the deity and
its earthly representative have easily sacrificed the dignity and lives
of millions people for their major goal – a heathen paradise, the
communist ‘brighter tomorrow’. The main instrument to turn free human
beings into eternal slaves has always been the forcibly implanted faith
in the ‘holy state’. The deification of the state and its sanctification
is through the following myths:
• the earthly state is a reflection of the celestial ‘City of God’ (the ‘heaven’ variant of Egypt, Babylon, Jerusalem, etc.);
• the celestial icon has an earthly manifestation through mediators, delegated ‘holy’ priests and ‘divine-human’ rulers.
Deification of State.
“In
Heraclitus’ times ‘Logos’ was a law code, a real, earthly social
contract, binding upon all the citizens of the polis. Similarly, in
ancient Rome, the term ‘law’ (‘lex’) is derived from ‘lego’ (‘speak’),
which, in turn, comes from the Latin word for ‘acorn’: people gathered
under a tree and talked about the 36 general rules of life, resulting in
a law. Yet Heraclitus mystified the concept and transferred it to the
entire space and formulated the concept of ‘the divine Logos’. Plato
turned the ‘logos’ into some ideal form, according to which all the
world is shaped.
Philo
Judaeus and the Christian Neoplatonists personified the ‘logos’ and
identified it with Moshiyah – the Savior of Israel. Emperor Constantine,
dedicated to Mithra’s cult, identified the Jewish Moshiyah with the
Zoroastrian Savior – the defeater of the world evil. Thus, in the
Greco-Roman tradition, the concept of the real law code, ‘social
contract’ transformed into the concept of personalized representative of
the ‘Heavenly will’. <...>The concept of the state as ‘the
collective sovereignty of citizens’ was substituted by the notion of
autocratic power of the person ‘anointed bin Heaven’ - the monarch,
sovereign, who took away the freedom of the people.
And
the priests invented these myths and ideology from the ancient
mythology of the Middle East” (5). To give the state a God-representing
function, image-making priests in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome
created a myth of the heavenly prototype of their capital cities. The
city on Earth turned out to be merely a reflection of the heavenly city.
As Mircea Eliade noted: “... each church <...> each sacred
city or royal palace is the “holy mountain” and becomes the center. As
the World Axis, the city or the sacred temple is regarded as the gate to
Heaven, Underearth or Hell” (6).
The
concepts of Heavenly Babylon, Celestial Egypt, Heavenly Jerusalem,
Eternal Rome that were mere images of the human mind, replaced the
concept of a real nation over the real land. Indicative names of the
temples in Babylon are (Babylon means ‘Heaven's Gate’): ‘House
between Heaven and Earth’, ‘Link between Heaven and Earth’, ‘House of
the Scepter of Life’ (7). ‘The Holy City with the temple between its
battlements (6), also became the center of the world. Its residents
magically assumed the status of the divine hosts of the Center, the
deities. <...> (5) Polosin V. op.cit. - pp. 286 - 287. 6 M. Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return / / Eliade, M.
The
Asian Alchemy. M.: Ladomir, 1998. p. 25. 7 ibid. p. 88. S)). The
Battlements of the Kremlin are consistent with the Chaldean tradition
(37). All the languages have retained the popular definition of the
Centre – ‘the hub of the universe’ <...> Jewish hub of the
universe is Jerusalem and the Holy Land as a whole” (9). The Jews
suffering from the Roman rule found consolation in Heavenly Jerusalem.
The Old Believers’ City of Kitezh sank under the mirror-like lake
surface, as a symbol of the underground Heaven ‘behind the looking
glass’.
As
in the heathen mythology man is created specifically for the benefit of
the deities, his purpose is to serve them. Therefore, no human
institution can have the welfare of its members as its primary goal. It
must firstly promote the welfare of the deities. <...> City-states
are secondary structures within the real State, a stronghold, the
estate of one of the great deities. A national state <...> can
also be seen as an extension of the executive bodies of the world state,
as a police force (10). Who needs the ‘holy state’ idol? – First of
all, the ruling elite unwilling to take personal responsibility for
their immoral actions and to give up power.
To
declare itself in absolute power, legally immune, uncontrollable and
non-electable, to prevent the restoration of the people’s political
sovereignty, the ruling elite in alliance with the priests creates the
idol of a ‘holy state’. It claims the idol represents Heaven and
themselves are the exclusive owners of the keys to the Kingdom of
Heaven. The idol of the state replaces the natural concept of the
nation, so that people who believe in this myth, have nothing to do but
endure humbly all the injustice until the Judgment Day - as if for ‘the
good of the Fatherland’.
Deification of Ruler. For
the mystification of the state’s ruler, he should be endowed with
special sacred features, priestly rank (or be ‘anointed’ by church). It
means a combination of secular and religious functions in the governor’s
position. This heathen totalitarian government scheme was used in the
late Roman Empire, when the governor was called “the Emperor, the divine
Caesar Augustus” (i.e.: commander-in-chief, dictator, divine-human
ruler, priest). After the collapse of Rome, the title still remained for
1,000 years in Christian Byzantium and was cultivated in Russia with
the help of the Church.
Thus,
the Moscow Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666 set forward
the Orthodox understanding (9 M. Eliade, op.cit., p. 90. 10 T. Jacobsen,
Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian religion. – M. 1995 –
pp. 172 - 173. 38), of the Tsar: “The Tsar will be also the Eparch,
the way we praise Constantine the Great, devoted to the faith of Christ,
at Great Vespers – as a priest and Tsar. The Romans, like the
Egyptians, endowed their emperor with the combined power of the
priesthood and the kinghood. <...> By this and likewise reasons,
the Tsar is named God. And you, God-like Alexis Mikhalovich, have the
right to be called God.” This entitled the autocrat to be not just the ruler, but also the Savior of all his people.
The
first Christian Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the official document
- a letter to Andrew Kurbsky - declared himself infallible in matters
of governance, i.e, de facto a divine son, and consistently pursued this
ideology in practice: “...we have always been free to bestow grace on our slaves, or execute them.”
Besides, he tells Kurbsky: “Why
do you ignore the words of the Apostle Paul, who wrote: “Let every soul
be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resists the
power, resists the ordinance of God”. And it is stated about every power, even procured through blood and war.
Apostle Paul also says: “Slaves,
obey your human masters in all things, not only when they are watching
you because you want to gain their approval; but do it with a sincere
heart because of your reverence for the Lord.” Apostle Peter likewise says: “Be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.”<...>
If you are righteous and goodly, why were you unwilling to be punished
by me, your cross-grained master, and win the crown of eternal life?”Thus,
the Tsar ousted the image of the Almighty God and became the ‘earth
god’ whose actions cannot be tried by anyone – he became the ultimate
authority.
A
human being created by God is nothing against this ‘cross-grained
master’. As with the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, he determines a man’s
fate not only in this world, but also Hereafter. So there are no more
free citizens, but only slaves or loyal servants. With this religion and
ideology Russia sank in royal treason, bloody Bacchanalia, that
destroyed and divided people..
It
naturally led to several years of chaos, i.e., the complete destruction
of the Moscow state. A vivid symbol of the ‘holy state’ is a picture by
Ilya Repin, ‘Ivan the Terrible Kills his Son’. Alexander Dugin, too,
has no idea of the unreachable for human desire and experience Almighty
Creator and the One Master of the universe. He only believes
(Correspondence of Ivan the Terrible with Andrew Kurbski. — M.: Nauka,
1993. – pp. 124, 136. 39) in one world and the two deities of this world
are part of the same world, even though the most influential and
powerful one.
It
logically yields that everyone who has mastered the esoteric art or
gained the approval of the priests can contact these deities and share
their energy, or as Christians say, reach "deification" [Gr. ‘Teosis’), a
natural unification with the deity. Whatever the hierarchy of the gods,
however many they are, the main thing is they are not omnipotent,
because an omnipotent heathen deity, once entered and acting within this
world, has to simultaneously realize its omnipotence and set its total
rule everywhere. If it does not, then it overcomes the difficulties and
undergoes changes, and hence it is not omnipotent.
Two
deities are in mortal struggle. They engage the whole world in it. The
blood flows like rivers. Life is not worth a penny. The concepts of
freedom and dignity cause nothing but resentment. There is no positive
ideal, but a victory over arch-enemy. The bloody ideology of Ivan the
Terrible is once again revived and imposed upon modern Russia under the
name of the Orthodox monarchy, Eurasianism, geopolitics.
Abrahamic Monotheistic Doctrine.
Muslims
have a completely different worldview. We believe that the One
Self-Sufficient God is above the world and unreachable for His
creatures. He needs no earthly means to realize his Omnipotence: no
hands, legs, wings, miraculous amulet or a hand-made images of Himself
or His saints. He has no personification or incarnations of any sort.
His desire is inseparable from the realization. He wanted so, and it
became so. He created man as an object of existence, the supreme value
of the created world, precious as he is, not as a means to achieve His
own plans.
He
allowed the man to arrange his life on earth until the Judgment Day and
the new age. The man is a warrior of God on this earth, and he has
enemies. But these enemies are not deities, and they cannot resist the
Almighty God. His struggle with the god of darkness does not determine
the history. God tolerates the evil, because He has given man free will.
As long as man has not reached the final point in his earthly journey
of constant choices, he can act for the evil of himself and others. But
the man who has chosen (40) the Truth is no less entitled and even
obligated to respond adequately to evil and counteract it.
Islam
is a socially active religion. It is about a strong-willed
transformation of the world in accordance with the principle of justice,
freedom, equality and fraternity. These principles, adopted by
Europeans from Islam, due to the medieval Sufism, let them in the
eighteenth-nineteenth centuries overthrow the rule of the Christian
Inquisition and make a giant leap in their spiritual, cultural,
scientific and technological development. The heathen worldview, where
there is no main protagonist, the Unreachable Creator, fails to give an
adequate description of events.
The
struggle of the opposing forces is inherent to this world. For us it is
only the mechanism of evolution, whereas to Alexander Dugin it is a
self-sufficient source of everything. His Land and Sea together are the
substitute for God, a certain fate for mankind, curtailers of the
freedom of choice. Only elite can alter the fate. It is the mediator
between man and inevitable fate.
These
elites are also of two origins. One stands at the helm, admires the
Statue of Liberty and deifies private property, the other obliges
everyone to join the ‘overland’ party and threatens all lovers of sea
journeys, such as the free-spirit Sadko, with the deathly realm of ‘sea
king’. ‘The third force’, according to Mr. Dugin, does not exist. But in
our point of view, both his parties, the kings of the land and sea, are
the united heathen party, which always fights for the power over
people, whose lives are devoid of any value.
In
Islam, the supreme authority on earth belongs to Him Who is absent in
Dugin’s scheme – the One God. And it is quite reasonable. People entrust
themselves to (41) God and rely on His guidance. Here is another
argument. When your superior is slacking at work, how to influence him? –
Report to an even higher superior. Who can I complain to about the
supreme authority in the state or a senior official, if they do not
perform their duties, or misuse them? – Only to God. People voluntarily
enter into a contract with God. This agreement sets out the moral values
and priorities that neither rulers, nor law-abiding citizens can
violate.
There
is a hierarchy from God to people. If people deem themselves the only
agent of politics and history, they become a nation, the master, the
sovereign, who has voluntarily signed a contract with God, and projects
it on the society as laws. ‘Sovereign’ is the one who has the right and
opportunity to act of his own volition.
The
ancient Russian tradition, interrupted in the Middle Ages by the
Byzantine-Mongol invasion, was to call the people the lord: ‘Lord Novgorod the Great’, ‘Lord Pskov’. ‘Sovereignty’
is a derivative of the word ‘sovereign’, an abstract concept that
exists only in people’s minds, and indicates the mechanism of putting
the political will into action – namely, the functional structure of
society control. Sovereignty is a social status that gives people the
opportunity to use their natural right as a single collective agent of
history and politics. It is the tool and means of realizing of the
collective will of the people, safeguarding their life and traditions,
educating future generations.
We
can say that the state is people’s sense of sovereignty. The most
representative international organization is not by chance called the
United Nations, not states, because the nations have created it. The
people set the highest public control over the activities of all earthly
institutions of the state according to the commandments of the One God,
that is, from a moral point of view.
Theologians
are not a substitute for government officials. Yet they have the right
to the spiritual judgment in cases where public morality is in question.
It protects against clericalism, the substitution of authorities by
religious figures, who allude to the supernatural forces in their work.
By the way, we see similar cases in some modern countries. In the U.S.,
for example, senators have the right to reject on moral grounds the
Minister candidacy presented by the president for approval. It appears
to be the influence of Protestant monotheism.
Thus, in Islam we have two parties described in the Holy Quran (58:19 - 22) asthe party of Allah and the Party of satan. But
these are not mystical forces, but purely earthly associations of
people, one of whom voluntarily decided to follow the final revelation
of God through the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), while others decided to
invent their own mythological world model with breath-taking battles of
deities, spirits and people between them. We do not see in the usual
geography some fatal forces, enslaving a free person and forcing him to
follow either the darkness or the light deities.
Man focused on his heart and says to God, himself and others: “I have a free intention to glorify God – the Creator and Master of the Worlds, and I am stating my intention.” And
this statement shows the spirit of a free and powerful man, free of the
‘geographical dependence’ and not in need of priests’ support. A Muslim
is a person created by God to become superhuman on his own, without the
help of magical cults, and souls of the dead, who says: “Behold,
Allah, I commit myself solely to You, the Almighty, and obey Your will,
and bring to the Earth, created by You, the truth and justice, opened
to me by You! Ameen.”
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