Water is a miraculous liquid they say, they say it's healing, yes it is, it's just water, try having a shower and you will feel like you have been reborn out of your own life and into a new life, which is the same life. This is how baptism and other water rituals work. you go from a state of feeling tired to feeling alert and awake, but in the religious context it's entering a new faith, but it's just your body doing the homeostasis function, that's all it is most simply.
The miracle is in the water and how it reacts to any skin at all, it cools it and makes it works around sadly religion has found ways to incorporate specific rituals but if you get rid of the water element to it you are left with nothing but exercises and empty words.
If you do not believe my challenge then go do it yourself in the comfort of your own home. Splash water on your face in the morning it will wake you up, place your feet in the water and it will give you a great feeling, have a shower or a bath and you will feel refreshed once again, try it out and you will see that they have no monopoly at all, it's absurd and a control system but it is just the water that’s doing it all. its nature that can be appreciated by everyone despite your religion/creed/race etc.
There is also the baptism of the earth if you want to see it that way, the rain falls and the earth is refreshed again and again and again. It's just water from the skies that comes down to land to wake it up and get it going, again this is an uncanny resemblance to how the mechanism of water interacting on earth is how water has an affinity to the human skin. we are like evolved forms of plants if you look at it deeply enough.
They have taken simple human science that can be attached to any human being on the planet and made it into an entire ritualistic movement of religions that use this underlying method to tell its adherents it is miraculous and amazing but you can achieve this in your bathroom if you ever care to wake up and search for the truth.
Religion doesn't dictate it, the mechanism does, if you don't believe me do the rituals without water and you will feel nothing at all because it is empty without the water element - they figured it out and incorporated it into their religion and made it seem its the truth but its empty without the nature element.
it is the water element which is the effect, not the religion, the religion isn't true because the water splashing worked, you could have splashed water normally and your skin would react the same, It's human nature, my brother and sisters it's nothing to do with the religion or the rituals, it is how your human body was designed by the creator. it makes you alert that's why they add it to their rituals to keep you on an alert level to then feed your ideas faster into your mind as you are more awake after the ritual itself.
However there has to be moderation with water as it can get rid of natural oils on your skin, and hair if it is overdone, you have to figure it out yourself, your body will tell you if you listen to it.
No matter what religion you think you follow, they all seem to indicate that water is some potent miraculous force and is special to each of the religions, but if you strip the religion from the water, you are left with the truth, water is water, that affects every single person on the planet. It's not special it is normal and natural, It's the force of life, Water from rain, water in the seas, water in underground springs. the water we drink, the water we use to grow our plants, the water vapour in the clouds.
I'll even drop some of my own experiences for you to verify yourself.
* if you are sleepy - you should splash cold water on your face and it will wake you up. this you can extrapolate to a morning ritual to wake you up in the morning, however, it should be avoided late at night as this may wake you up. (I have tried this at night and it keeps me awake. )
* if you can't sleep late at night, have a warm shower and see how your body relaxes and drops in to sleep much better than before.
try it out my brothers and sisters and free yourself from the indoctrination and shackles of ritualised programming from your religious fathers. If you feel tired splash some cold water on your face and see how you wake up, it won't matter what religion you follow it will always work because you are human and that's how your skin is intelligently designed to be in symbiosis with nature in this case water. It shall bring you back to life.
I challenge all Religious authorities to do their religious rituals without the water element. Will you not critically think and reason my brothers and sisters? do you not see that it's the water? its just water? is your religion correct because water is miraculous or is water miraculous without your religion anyway?
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: Sustainer of the heavens and the earth.
Inspiration from the Quran.
* فَإِذَا أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهَا الْمَاءَ اهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ وَأَنبَتَتْ مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍ بَهِيجٍ [Quran 22:5]
* And you see the earth barren, but when We send down upon it rain, it quivers and swells and grows [something] of every beautiful kind.
* أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَنزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَسَلَكَهُ يَنَابِيعَ فِي الْأَرْضِ [Quran 39:2]
* Do you not see that GOD sends down rain from the sky and makes it flow as springs [and rivers] in the earth;
* أَمَّنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَأَنْزَلَ لَكُمْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَنْبَتْنَا بِهِ حَدَائِقَ ذَاتَ بَهْجَةٍ مَا كَانَ لَكُمْ أَنْ تُنْبِتُوا شَجَرَهَا ۗ أَإِلَٰهٌ مَعَ اللَّهِ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ يَعْدِلُونَ[Quran 27:60]
* Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth, and sends down for you water (rain) from the sky, whereby We cause to grow wonderful gardens full of beauty and delight? It is not in your ability to cause the growth of their trees. Are there any deities other than GOD Nay, but they are a people who ascribe equals to him?
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I am not saying that this is the truth, and I am not claiming this is false either, I am saying that everyone will one day experience this stage, this stage of how everything seems to just pass away, and whatever emotions, feelings, hatred, and passion you have now will all pass and become your history, it almost like we end up being a witness to our past constantly. A neutral witness over all our memories, fellings and events of life.
The list below is a few examples of our temporary nature of us as humans.
* That exam pressure you facing.
* That butterfly feeling you get when you see what you like.
* You finally figured it out and reached your destination.
* The struggles you make with those who hate you.
* One day you will be over the moon and reach your goal and then the next day be searching for another one.
* The loss you made in your business this year.
* The profit you made in your business this year.
* The friend who became an enemy.
* The epic sale that you made
* The enemy became a friend.
* The breakfast you had.
* The invigorating conversation.
* Situations that fall apart and then fix themselves again.
* Compliments that boost you up.
* Insults that put you down.
* The sale that was lost
* The Mondays turn into Fridays.
* the Fridays that disappear and become Mondays.
* The days into nights, the nights into days.
* The boredom at work on slow days.
* the false promises people make.
* Completing Work out at the gym
* The sunny days
* The cold days
* The cup of coffee
It’s not only the good times but even the bad times that will all pass away, What friends will you love and which enemies will you hate when they will perish too along with yourself? How can you hold on to any compliments or any insults in the end as they too will pass? It’s like we are constantly moving forward slow or fast it’s constant and it just keeps going day after day, night after night.
Life is not only them going but constantly in motion, today, tomorrow, next year, and entire centuries went into the past, the forward trajectory of life leaving the snail trail of the past in distant memories that can’t be visited but only seen in your imagination. Entire generations gone in the wind too, Civilisations destroyed and entire nations finished.
I’m not saying that only positive experiences fade away but the negative ones fade away too, your first insult, heartbreak, meeting oppressive people, and your losses all faded away into a distant memory, it sort of makes sense why they say time heals all wounds...
What will you hold on to when everything fades, what will you fight for when everything is gone, what will you prize when it’s all faded away? What do you want to own in the end when it all perishes away? do you want to be the richest person in the grave? Do you think you are going to live forever? Do you want to idolise those who have already died?
How can we be so deluded that it shall stay fixed, it all changes constantly and In the end, everything fades away. What friends will you love and which enemies will you hate when they will perish too along with yourself? Even to the end, they struggle for good into bad and bad into good, One day you shall see your self the hero and on another stage the enemy.
It doesn’t matter if it's positive or negative, that too shall passway. it is all fleeting and in the end, one deeply learns the lesson: life goes on with or without you.
In the end, my brothers and sisters the show must go on as only change and death are the universal truths of this fleeting life. Despite my deepest love for life, I still feel hatred towards its fleeting nature.
I am also glad in a deep way that things end and that there is an end to this life, who in the right mind would want to live forever? waking up early, getting to work, earning money, dealing with people we don't care about, in what universe would I want eternal life but that's the beauty of it, its all we have, once it's gone it is all over, which makes to so much dear to us to experience in total surrender and goodness.
I know you have probably come across the saying that nothing last forever, let me tell you it's true, nothing does last forever, everything else is just this extra on top. when it's not there its back to nothing / square one.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: The Witness over All.
Notes
Inspired by
-Quran 5: - let not this present life delude you.
-Quran 29:64 This worldly life is no more than play and amusement. But the Hereafter is indeed the real life if only they knew.
-Quran: 40:39. O, my people, this worldly life is only enjoyment, and indeed, the Hereafter - that is the home of settlement.
Older References
* -‘’ Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone or not yet revealed.’’ Meditations, Marcus Aurelius.
* - “Gam zeh ya'avor" (Hebrew: גַּם זֶה יַעֲבֹר, gam zeh yaavor), "this too shall pass."
* - Eccesliastices - it's all vanities / feeling vanities.
* - Pslam 39 - "Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life.
* - James: 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life like? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
* - Bagwatgita: The pleasures that arise from contact with the sense objects, though appearing as enjoyable to worldly-minded people, are verily a source of misery. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, so the wise do not delight in them. ( the temporary nature of life and its sense of limited desires)
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Islamic Universe
* Shia - Imam Ali as the Amir - ul -mumeen.
* Sunni - The prophet Muhammad himself
* Khalifat System as umer Umar ibn Khattab
* Aga Khan is the Title of the Sectarian form of an ‘’Amir -ul - mumeeneen’’
Chrisitan Universe
* Jesus Christ himself was the King / Commander of believers but keep in mind jesus christ himself was not Christian but that will be elaborated on further.
Jewish / Israelite Universe
* Moses was the leader of the Israelites hence the King hence the Amir of the people but when he left his brother Aaron / Haroon with the Israelites , Haroon became the Amir of the people when Moses was away.
* Prophetess Miriam was The Queen of the Women believers leading them with Moses and Haroon.
Quranic Universe
* Abraham / Ibraheem - As the faith leader of his time
* (Ibraheem / ismial and Isaq as a trio if seen as one sysytem)
* Moses / Mushe / Musa - as the Leader of his time along with his brother Aaron / Haroon
* King David / Daud as the King of believers
* King Solomon / Sulayman as a King of believers
In essence, the Amir -ul - Mumeeneen are the prophets themselves as the commander of believers if you reside in the quranic universe. It depends on which universe you reside in to figure out who your commander is. In the end, one must realise that it is a title, rather than a definite article, and in my understanding, God himself has to be the amir ul mumineen as he is the first and last.
I struggled to grasp this as a youngster because they all spoke of their whims and different sectarian forms of religious associations, as I result in I referred back to the Quran and found nothing at all except that if there is an amir ul mumeneen then its GOD Almighty himself and who he dictates as his viceroy would be the amir ul muemeneedn on earth. It's a unique attachment, never found in the scripture itself but rather an inaction of a leader/ Imam figure. Al Mahdi is of a similar concept which I shall elaborate on as a title in further articles.
God almighty is the true commander and king, in essence, and simple truth God almighty is the King/commander of the believers in all ages/moments/years and all universes.
Exacalted is God Almighty the True King.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God: King of all Universes.
Inspired by -Quran : فَتَعَـٰلَى ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡمَلِكُ ٱلۡحَقُّۖ لَاۤ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلۡعَرۡشِ ٱلۡكَرِیمِ : So exalted is God, the King, the Truth; there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne.
-Quran : هُوَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلْمَلِكُ ٱلْقُدُّوسُ ٱلسَّلَـٰمُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُ ٱلْمُهَيْمِنُ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْجَبَّارُ ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرُ ۚ سُبْحَـٰنَ ٱللَّهِ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ ٢٣ : He is God , other than whom there is no deity, the King, the Pure, the Perfection, the Bestower of Faith, the Overseer, the Exalted in Might, the Compeller, the Superior. Exalted is God almighty above whatever they associate with Him.
Older Scipture References
-Jeremiah 10:10- But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath, the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
-Psalm 24 : 10 -Who is he, this King of glory? The LORD Almighty— he is the King of glory.
Tradtional Narrations
Majlesi, Bahar al-Anwar, Vol. 37, P. 339, hadith 81
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Dear Humans
I have come across so many other human beings who say things that they believe are facts, astonishes my mind how they can’t seem to see that its an opinion and not a fact, its like they truly and sincerely believe that everything they think is a fact and makes you wonder if anybody has ever pointed it out to them that its an opinion, not a fact or it’s just a commonplace assertion. This dawned on me in my late teen years as I started questioning my thoughts and when I wrote them out I realised that they were opinions, not facts, hence the illumination. It was a struggle at first trying to figure out the difference but afterwards, it became easier to see what is rooted in fact, opinion or just a common assertion we have learned growing up.
A fact is something that can be proven to be true or false and an opinion can be based on an emotion or fact itself, it’s absurd how many individuals I meet who talk like they are saying facts but in reality, are speaking opinions / Perceptions or commonplace assertions.
if you read my revelations article before you will know how I show that personal revelations are opinions and can be emotion-based / human-based whereas universal revelations are facts, but I meet so many humans who can’t seem to see the difference between them at all and muddle up perceptions/opinions and facts.
I will start with a basic example to get your mind working.
Fact: we ordered a pizza last night.
Opinion: Pizza is the best food in the world.
Fact: This cake was purchased today at midnight.
Opinion: This Cake is to die for.
Fact: My parent’s house was built in 1967
Opinion: My parent’s house is like a funfair.
Fact: Wristwatches are worn on wrists.
Opinion: I think wristwatches are useless.
Fact: The sun and moon are in circulation every single day.
Opinion: The sun is my friend and the moon is my enemy.
Fact: Most of the perfume oils I sell are made with a sandalwood base.
Opinion: Sandalwood smells too strong for me.
Now for Common Assertions.
Commonplace assertion: School makes you smart
Correct Assertion: School is an institution of learning.
Commonplace Assertion: A apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Correct assertion: A apple is a false fruit.
Commonplace Assertion: Knowledge is power
Correct Assertion: Knowledge is Potential Power
Common Place Assertion: Money is the root of Evil
Correct assertion: Money is a tool; a Medium of exchange. ( the lack of money is the root of evil )
Common Place assertion: mice love cheese.
Correct assertion: mice eat other foods too.
Opinions can be changed and altered but a fact cannot be changed, it can be studied and re-investigated but not changed. If you can catch the differences in your thoughts you will see that most of what we think are our own opinions/perceptions and that what people usually say and express, is their opinions/perceptions and very rarely facts. If you drown yourself in their opinions/perceptions you shall never see life as it is but rather from their skewed lenses of experience.
if you can discern between opinion and fact you will see more of life and how the world is based on so many opinions rather than facts themselves. Religions fascinate me the most because they have mixtures of facts, opinions, and commonplace assertions mixed into one. You have to study them deeply before you can even tell what is a fact, fiction, opinions, hearsay or just straight-up lies / Bullshit.
On a deeper level, once you figure out that mostly everyone functions on opinions, you will understand that whole life is just a series of opinions and potential ideals/perceptions. You have to go out yourself and look for the facts to figure out what is true. The only way to surpass opinion states of thought is to study and increase your knowledge of facts and then use this lens to find the truth that you seek out.
I shall leave you with a Marcus Aurelius quote from Meditations to ponder on: ‘ Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
This quote should give you a kick start on your journey to finding out what thoughts in your mind are opinions, facts or lies you have been taught by other people around you and have ingested over the years from this simulation we call life.
This will in turn improve your judging and perceptive skills.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: The Judge , Jury and Executioner.
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We come into the world with nothing and we will leave with nothing, I always find solace in nakedness. As that is the natural state, you see when we are born we come with nothing at all, no pen, no socks, no clothes, just bare, nothing at all, no possessions, no assets, no titles no brands, we are born with nothing. If you look at it deeply then even our names are given to us to label us. Then over time, we put on clothes, tops and fashionable items, then grow up, and want books, and possessions to attain and assets and cars and all sorts, even houses,Forge relationships and meaningfull alliances and then in the end when we are close to death, we just want to live again, some people end up becoming children, some lose the plot entirely. But our possessions either possess us entirely or they become a faint memory of the past which we try and live again by purchasing more and more and more because we are hooked to accumulation and to show off to others till we are six feet in the ground.
It doesn’t matter if you are born into a rich family or a poor family, we are all naked when we come out. this led me to the idea that life is not fair because if it was then we would all be born in the same families, with efficient wealth and upbringing and everyone would start with the same intellect and have the same upbringing, but this isn’t the truth we are all born different and at different times, to different biological parents, with different surrounding and its not fair at all. We are born the same but our circumstances are different, our upbringing different, our values different, so no we are not equal at all, in life’s eyes are all different and diverse which in turn makes life balanced and diverse. It’s like human beings are like plants seeded by God, different mixtures of genetics walking around the planet formed at different times , in different surroundings and with different resources all struggling to survive and then ultimately die.
The intense beauty however in life not being fair for everyone makes it fair overall right?
Another way to look at the nakedness of life is we win some and lose some, we gain sometimes, we sometimes we lose, we attain in some aspects of our lives and in other aspects we don’t get anything at all, but if you can still accept all your gains and accept all your loses too then my brothers and sisters you have understood the rollercoaster of life.
I am not saying you cannot buy and own anything you want , but the day it owns you is the day it’s over for you, ill put it a better way for you, the day your items possess you to the extent it ruins your relationships, friendships and what’s important, it's game over.
it’s all over for you if you worried about the contents of your cupboard and your one thousand outfits, your 500 pairs of shoes, 200 watches over the relationships and connections you have with people then you have already lost, as items can be replaced, money earned again but the relationships will die away and goals will vanish if not worked on.
If you still have trife over broken items , cupboards , suitcases , cups , watches , broken possesions with those you love and care about then you my beloved human are still blind and attached to items that can be replaced.
As for me, ‘’I came into life naked and I shall leave naked , the rest is already a bonus’’
Kindly
Afzal: The Grateful Wanderer.
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]]>Please note If you get easily offended this is not for you at all and will hurt you deeply.
I do not recommend reading this. My warning is explicit and firm , Please proceed only if you have an open-minded approach to life and gaining knowledge and see life beyond religious structures and the teachings of organised religion.
I shall elaborate and show you it’s a part of a religious system that you ascribe to that brings out the holy perception. I trade and meet people regularly, from Muslims to Christians, Hindus to many other people from various religions and they all have this common theme of sacredness / holiness to a particular building or a place. And even human beings , but in my mind, everything is between the heavens and the earth so it’s limited by a place or a time. Holiness is limited to the faith you ascribe to and a particular construction made by the people before us.
In basic terms, you make holy / Sacred / Valuable / Set Apart what your religion teaches you to make, it’s sacred if you believe it’s sacred, it’s of value if you have value ascribed to it, and it is only as valuable as people believe to be. I call this view the ‘’Sacred Perception”.
You only make it holy/sanctified / because you are made to believe it so - an adherent of the religion underlay.
Basic Religious Associations with sacredness / Holyness
* Traditional Muslim - Mecca / Madina / Holy month - Holy Quran - Holy Prophet
* Shia Muslim - Mecca / Madina / Najaf / Karbala / Family of Prophet- Holy Quran - Holy Prophet
* Sufi Muslim - Mecca / Madina / Sufi holy grave sights -Holy Quran - Holy Prophet
* Hinduism - Temples, Yatra Sights etc - holy Bhagavad Gita - Holy Sages - Sacred Rivers
* Sikhism.- Holy Golden Temple, Holy Guru Granth Sahib - Holy Gurus
* Christianity - Churches, Temple Mount, Holy Bible - Particularly the New testament
* Judaism - Holy temple in Jerusalem, Holy Prophets, synagogues, and Holy Bible, particularly the Old Testament.
The pattern in every single religion is similar. There is a holy book, a holy person, a holy place, holy events, and even holy days. So every single building out there on planet earth is made by the very hands of man, from bricks, stone or clay and once you figure this out and see through the religious facade you will be able to see how it can not be sacred / Pure / Holy but made to appear to those who are taught it to be.
I find nature, the sun and the moon, the rain, the stars, the winds the mountains more majestic than any building or construct I have seen and had the pleasure of visiting. Nature itself encompasses us no matter where we go and how far we travel, it’s everywhere and has been present since I was born and shall be here even after I die, I would still not consider them holy / Sacred / Pure, but rather the handy work of God Almighty.
Another way to see it is It’s a little like sentimental value, a present from a family member or lover, has value and sentiment to you, it is similar to the circle of religion, the religion you follow dictates what is sacred and holy to consider, even if it goes against other religions. I have particular places which have sentimental value to me but wouldnt apply to everyone.
The exception is the atheist mind which would not consider anything of holy essence, but that’s for a different topic entirely and discussion.
For me, the criteria for holiness has to be transcendent above time and space, above the notion of capture and eternal and beyond the cycles of life and death and not made or structured by any human being in the past or the present or the near future. It has to be greater than any religion of any kind.
Another way to see this is that the wilderness has no place, no buildings or structures at all, it’s just nature, then man builds shops, houses , roads , buildings, churches, altars, stone structures, and gates and ascribes the holy quality only to god to the structures around him. If they are all sacred then we have to define what holy truly is, as they are holy to the people who believe them to be sacred. As for me, no place, no books, no persons, or buildings made by human beings’ very hands, nothing is sacred/holy to me except God Almighty. why would you hold and worship something created, rather than the creator himself?
Another way to look at it is that the earth is very vast and has many cities and countries around the world and they are all over the place, its just people around the globe around and around all making idols and structures around the globe then claiming that god resides in these idols made of clay and stone, and claiming that the entire lord of the universe chooses to live inside your building or idol that you have made your self or someone in the past did and told you god is there. It’s a form of idol worship extrapolated from an idol in your hand to a building on earth. The principle of idol worship is the same, just on a larger scale.
If you look deeply into it you see that it’s a ‘’faith perception’’ and due to my faith in God, hence the holiness is linked to god for me and as for others its places, books, items, structures and even other human beings.
In its simplest terms, I do not believe that the God of the Entire Universe lives in a building/book/place / Idol made by the very hands of human beings and there is nothing HOLY except GOD Almighty. There is no stone to pray to, there is no building to pray to, there are no people to pray to, and there is only you connected to your creator who is with you at all times. Why bother praying and connecting to items, books, buildings and people when you can connect to the Almighty yourself.
To summarise most simply: Only God Almighty is Holy / Sacred / Pure / Set Apart / Special.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: The Holy / Transcendent / Set Apart / Distinct / Unique One.
Inspiration
*Inspired by the Surah Hashr: Quran (59:21-24) - Attributes of God Almighty - particularly ‘Qudoos’
*Inspired by surah Iqlas: Quran (112: 1) - God Almighty is Unique / One of a Kind.
*Inspired by surah Al Ambiya: Quran (21:51-71) - Abraham fought with idol worshippers for the almighty.
*Inspired by Surah Al An’am: Quran (50:16) - God is closer to you than your jugular vein.
*Inspired by Surah Al Fatiha: Quran (1:4) - Only serve and submit to the Almighty.
*Inpsired by Surah Baqarah : Quran (2:115) - God Is all Encompassing.
External Older Inscriptions and notes.
*Yajurveda 40:9 - They enter darkness those who worship natural things. They sink deeper into darkness those who worship sambhuti (created things)
*Bhagavad Gita ( Songs of the Lord) 7:24 - The unintelligent, not knowing my unmanifest, supreme, incomparable and imperishable nature, believe that I assume a human form.
*Arabic word Qudoos is Holy / Sacred / Pure. ‘’Ruh ul Qudoos’’ - ‘’Holy’’ spirit / ‘’Sacred’’ Spirit / ‘’Pure’’ Spirit.
*Derivatives in Hebrew as Kodesh / e.g Ruach Ha-Kodesh - ‘’Holy’’ spirit / ‘’Sacred’’ Spirit / ‘’Pure’’ Spirit.
*Isiah: Holy Holy Holy is the Lord Almighty.
*Psalms of David - 99.9 - For the LORD our God is HOLY / ‘’Set Apart’’
*Samuel 2.2 - There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
*Leviticus - For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
*Acts 17: 24 - God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
*Hebrew word Kodesh (קֹדֶשׁ) is used in the Torah to mean 'set-apartness' and 'distinct’, ’Sacred’
*The main theme - GOD is always ‘’set apart’’ / ‘’Pure’’ / ‘’Holy’’ / Distinct / Transcendent / Supreme
*Exodus 20-25 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them."
*Leviticus 26.1 You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
*Habakkuk 2:18“What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his creation when he makes speechless idols!
*Leviticus 19-4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.
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2)Friend Circle - Mainly ideas/behaviours from friends and relationships ( relationship experience)
3)Schooling / College / University - mainly studies related / academia ( Specialisation experience)
4)Work - Learning about customers' needs ( Providing services experience)
4)Life - Life lessons, experiences and your place in life as a whole. ( collective personnel experiences)
5)Travelling - learning from different cultures, religions/traditions and social aspects of life ( universal experiences)
6) Self-learning - Teaching yourself, going out and studying by yourself. (Self Learning)
The main five forms: most people will learn and achieve over time as they will be around us in work life, love life, and with family and the common day to day grind, but what I want to illustrate is the aspect of self-learning, it the last one that most people don't reach because they just don't have the passion to study outside of the circle that they live in and hence the knowledge is always limited to the first five grouping. They will only tend to read the books the religion teaches them to read, or study only what their friends recommend, never really going deep inside themselves to see what they truly want to know more about and have a better understanding of.
In the day of libraries and the era of modern technology, one does not need to travel to China or around the globe to increase their knowledge base, you can increase it by studying, purchasing books, taking out a course and let us not forget the entire universe of google/youtube that has immense information ready for your consumption, from tutorials to entire documentaries to improve your understanding of life and the world around you. I come across individuals who tell me knowledge is bad but it’s not true, how can any knowledge be bad at all, it’s how you use it that defines your intentions and your purpose in life. The way you can learn to be good, you can learn to be evil and use the knowledge to oppress or liberate, the choice, in the end, is yours. How can any knowledge be bad except how you apply it.
I am aware some humans study to do well in the field they work in but then they don’t have any knowledge about other parts of their lives, their relationships, communication, philosophies, ideas and even religious thoughts have no essence and are just stuck in a single system of information because that is all they know, they only follow one thought of binding information instead of expanding on various topics of life.
If I say to ‘’increase your knowledge base’’ am I saying to only read Islamic books, if I say to increase your knowledge am I saying only to read Hinduism books, if I say to increase your knowledge am I saying only read philosophies, when I say to increase your knowledge do I mean only to study your field? no, my brothers and sisters, it's about increasing your knowledge base on various subjects of life, e.g biology, nutrition, philosophy, ideologies, behaviour patterns, religious studies, scriptural studies, economics etc
Who wants to eat terrible food for the rest of their lives?
Who wants to spend life with somebody who doesn’t love them?
Who wants to be doing things that destroy their health?
How long do you want to live in silly land trying to figure the truth out and not searching for it for yourself?
in contrast,
do you wish to have intelligent and mind-expanding conversations?
do you want to be able to understand the perceptions of religion and ideas?
do you want to improve yourself and learn new skills?
do you want to find happiness and enjoy your life to the fullest?
do you wish to understand yourself and others better?
do you want to find hobbies that match you as a person?
do you wish to illuminate yourself and those around you?
do you wish to be comfortable in your skin?
do you wish to become open-minded?
If your answer stems from an agreement with the above statements then you should increase your knowledge base. I advise all human beings no matter what religion you follow, and no matter where you are in the journey of life, you need to study and equip yourself with as much information and study as possible as knowledge breeds enlightenment and freedom, whereas ignorance and lack of understanding keep humans in darkness and turmoil.
Increasing your knowledge will increase your mind’s capacity to process information, increase your knowledge and you will understand others, increase your knowledge and you can understand humanity. Increase your knowledge and break the shackles that hold your mind and thinking down. Increase your knowledge and it will improve your perceptions. Increase your knowledge and you will make better decisions for your goals. Increase your knowledge and you will be able to give better advice. Increase your knowledge and you will live a better and fulfilled life, increase your knowledge base, it shall improve your worldview. it shall even improve your personality and improve your conversations along with learning about your own self.
There is also another saying ‘’knowledge is power’’ but it isn't correct - it is a ‘’half-truth’’, (common assertion) its what you do with the knowledge that becomes powerful for you, knowledge is potential power, its how you utilise the knowledge you have gained that gives you the power to push your dream or goal. It's the accumulation of knowledge and action that provides you with the power and liberation to live a fulfilled and good life.
There is also a hidden eternal beauty to seeking knowledge. You see, seeking knowledge has a beginning to pursue but it will never end, you will never know everything ever, but that's the beauty of it, is it will keep you in constant strive, a constant hobby, a constant learning experience, a constant motion to increase our knowledge base, and if you make it a hobby, you will never see the end even when you get old, there will be more to learn and grasp so you shall never feel bored and the hobby will be ongoing forever as it is eternal and an entire conquest in itself.
I hope this message inspires all who read it to spark a thirst for knowledge. I would almost phrase it as an eternal commandment and will apply to anyone at any time in life. hence ‘’Increasing your knowledge’’ is like saying having an eternal hobby, way beyond the normal aspects of your day to day life.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant Of God Almighty: The Source of All Knowledge.
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Inspired by *Conversation of Moses with God Almighty: Quran (20:114)
External Reference points
*Proverbs: For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
*Proverbs: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
*Proverbs: An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
*Dale Carnegie once stated that “Knowledge is not power until it’s applied”.
*Yama, Katha Upanishad, 1.2.1-1.2.2 - Pursuit of Knowledge and Wisdom.
*Bhagavad Gita 9.1-3: Knowledge of Liberation.
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]]>Revelations are such a hidden topic people are not willing to talk about but I would like to shed some light on what a revelation is and how we formulate revelations and the types of revelations that can expand your mind and your Weltanschauung (comprehensive worldview).
I will start with what the general definition of a revelation is.
1a: an act of revealing or communicating divine truth.
1b: something that is revealed by God to humans.
2a: an act of revealing to view or making known.
2b: something that is revealed especially: an enlightening or astonishing disclosure of shocking revelations.
I have complied a broader range of revelations I have sorted out over the years to help humans see the types that are present in life that fall under the definition of a revelation. A metaphorical way of looking at a revelation is being in the dark and lighting up a fire which lights up everything around and now you can see what’s around you because of the fire.
Subjective / Self-revelations
This one is quite easy, it’s something you learn about yourself over time, or you develop skills and ideas that you didn’t have before that become manifested in your personality or character. This can range from finding the exact amount of sleep you need to function to what food works for you, however, this needs a lot of self-reflection.
Personal Examples include
* Avoiding caffeine at night helps me sleep deeper and better.* I look scarier when I have a beard than when I don’t.
* I prefer silence to music.
* I don’t mind being misunderstood anymore as I cannot please everyone all the time.
* I prefer to be alone than be in the company of people who make me feel alone.
* I am fine in knowing I will not be accepted by many.
* I prefer eating by myself than with others.
* I find peace in a minimalistic approach to life.
* I have loved the colour black since I was a child and over time it has manifested into everything I wear and purchase now.
* I don’t seem to enjoy sugary foods just like other people do.
* I have an immense love for food which leads to gaining weight and comfort eating.
* I am Introverted and a socially recluse individual by nature.
* I am secular on a religious level.
* Studying and reading books are far more interesting to me than programs and serials.
* I am moody but over time I have learned to understand the rollercoaster.
General Subjective examples.
* A light bulb moment.
* A daunting feeling which changes your perception.
* What you thought about someone or something that becomes something else with new information present.
* Freeing yourself from past traumatic experiences and not bringing them into your future.
* Most people feelings change as quick as seasons do so it’s always good to be updated on recent events and feelings.
* Change in personality or character due to experiences gathered under the belt over a while.
The fastest way to pick up on personal revelations is
* To listen to judgments people make towards you and compare that to what you know about yourself already.
* Self-reflection on your beliefs and attitudes.
* Question everything you have ever been taught and believe in.
* To learn from previous experiences.
If you see that pattern you will see the personal revelations are pinpointed to yourself specifically. They may not fit the general trend of humanity or major religious beliefs at all as they are personal to you and vary from person to person to entire races and types of people. This can be progressive or regressive depending on what information you take to yourself and what is revealed to you.
Objective / Universal Revelations
Universal revelations apply to everyone no matter what religion, tribe or caste, gender or sexuality you ascribe to, they tend to be from facts rather than personal views, feelings and religious agendas.
Examples include but not limited to
* water is beneficial for all humans.
* nature encompasses all humans.
* eating good food is healthy for all human beings.
* having harmful products destroy the immune system.
* Walking is beneficial to all humans.
* Time waits for no human being at all.
* Everyone is a mixture of their father and mother.
* All humans feel emotions- This can be from love, anger, betrayal, hatred, greed and lust unless, of course, they are psychopathic.
* All humans want money.
* we all have a creative force within us.
* We will all die one day and get old.
* All food that comes from the ground and the rain that falls from the sky can be eaten and felt by all humans regardless of faith, religion, caste or character, ( nature provides universally for everyone )
* Similarities in cultural views.
* Suffering is inevitable.
* The human species is the predator in the life cycle
If you see that pattern you will see the universal revelations are pinpointed to being a human being. They will apply to almost every single person on the planet at any given time in life but may limit if they suffer from mental illnesses or diseases or are delusional by too much advertising or hyped social constructs. They tend to apply to all walks of life and are based on fact, rather than feeling, religious agendas or personal opinions.
The fastest way to pick up on Universal revelations is
* To study outside of one’s religion and traditional view.
* To read factual books instead of fiction.
Religious / Divine Revelations
These are more constrained to the religion you follow and keeps you in the religion but still can be revealed according to what material is studied and where the limitation is proposed. You can say that the holy books are written revelations if you are broad enough to see this, Others claims to have talked to an angel or spirit which reveal information to them which fall under the divine/religious revelation. Some would even go to the extent and state that only selected individuals within the constraint of religion get revelations and others are not capable of it at all even though in all respect they were human beings to start with, all born on earth and lived here on majestic earth at some point in time. I cannot provide examples of this as most of these are already in the books that people who follow the religion, you can study the books in your own time and figure out whether they are divine or are based on feelings and perceptions of the author who wrote them in the first place.Another sub-topic in religious and divine revelations is prophecies and being able to predict the future. However, I have no set of information to share on this topic at the moment.
In the end, the purpose of a revelation is to illuminate or gain knowledge and enlightenment about something you did not know before, this could be religious, individual, specific or even universal. The aim is to reveal and expand and re-evaluate and expand the human spirit with incoming and revealing information.
In the famous words of one of my favourite philosophers, Socrates says ‘’ I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think’. hence my aim is not to teach but to make you think and figure out your revelations yourself. You can use the above templates to find out what kind of revelations you have figured out not only personally but also on a universal level and expand your comprehensive worldview.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: The Revealer.
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]]>I am sure you have heard of breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch and all sorts of words dedicated to eating at specific times, but let me break this down for you, it’s made up, you can eat when you like, how you like, how much you like to eat, what to eat, how to eat. They are all perceptions made up by the people who lived before us and we still continue with this everywhere we go. Try it out, eat at a time you wouldn’t usually eat, you will figure out, you were not even hungry to start with or don’t eat when your hungry and the timings of your hunger will change.
The feeding programming is epic, it’s positioned so well into the human being, we are like cattle feeding and snacking at specific times invented by people before us and programming of certain traditions and social norms, that turn into entire ways of life and religious rulings. Come on we even make times to eat with our family friends and people we want to go out and eat with, This enough should be an indication that it’s made up. The real kicker is when you realise that when you focus on if you are hungry or not then the whole charade of eating at a specific time on a daily basis just dies out and you feed when you are hungry.
I will show you the common forms of examples to broaden my point
The above mentioned will have no objection to most people because they don’t fall under the guise of religion but if you follow a religion then they will give you guidelines of when to eat and fast accordingly.
The way I see it is If you can choose when to eat then you can choose when to fast too. If you can wake up at 4 am and have a glass of milk or order a late-night pizza, heck has a coffee late at night then you’ve figured it out already.
Another way to look at it is through the business lens. How would restaurants works if there was no need to eat a large meal and share it with your friends and family, how would breakfast places work with there was no need to eat in the morning, it’s a system you ascribe to, but my brothers and sisters you are never forced to eat or fast at any time you do not want or need to and should find out your personal needs to nourish your body.
I’ll give you two striking examples that are overlooked when the benefits of fasting are mentioned and how it applies collectively to the masses as they tend to eat several times a day but doesn’t really work for everyone.
Person A eats food four times a day and Person B eats food one time a day, Do you think prescribing the same fasting method would work for both or would you position it individually for them?
Person A would benefit from cutting out one meal per day to lower calories and lose weight and get benefits because they are not gorging themselves anymore. but let’s apply the same ruling of eating one time a day to person B who already eats one time a day, it will show no benefits at all and would be nothing of value to them.
If you can understand the simple reasoning in this scenario then you will understand the concept of water fasting, ritual fasting, eating habits and religious spins on eating time frames and non-eating time frames.
A personal example is for me eating at night was the best during my time at university due to lectures and now eating in the morning has become a ritual as I have time in the morning to feed and get on with my day. The early mornings give me enough time to eat in the morning and get on in the day but during university, I ended up usually late at night as that seemed to suit me. Some days I enjoy snacking rather than eating a large meal at a specific time, it’s all dependent on your hunger levels and how you want to feed yourself and nourish your body.
I can even go to the extent and state that eating a large meal at night doesn’t make me hungry in the morning and I tend to miss breakfast because of it, but if I sleep on an empty stomach then, without doubt, I have to feast when I wake up in the morning. you can explore this yourself and will be shocked to find out half the time it’s convenient or just mainly habit.
Religions have also their ways of eating, and particular times and all, but useful for those who follow or ascribe to the religion of their choice but let me show you that you can eat any time you want, any day you want to too. , it’s to do so with hunger! And nobody has the same hunger vibes and if we did, we would all be eating at the same time, every single day and at the same time. You can do water fasts, intermittent fasts, Junk food fast, vegetable fasts, even migraine fasts to the extent have an entire month dedicated to fasting once a year. I am just saying if you want to fast then why wait for all the way next year to do it, or next month, you can start tomorrow and do it for as long as you need to, what is really stopping you from eating or not eating beside the act itself, but they are just systems in place, certain fasting rituals and food rituals put and injected into society via religion, its rulings and those who keep promoting the same thing over and over again to keep us bound in yearly, monthly and even our entire families for generations under the scope of ritualising food times and fast times.
One of my favourites to show the concept of fasting/not eating is that everyone fasts every day. When you go to sleep till when you wake up you have completed a fast, every single day of your life you complete a fast, think about that for a while and let that set in before you really understand what fasting actually is and how there are no set regulations at all. Then you wake up and ‘Break your Fast ‘ Hence the term breakfast. In the history of the human species, fasting is not special to any religion or any form of ideology but can be found in various methods around the world, it just has to do with when you want to eat or not to eat and how long you want to wait before you feed your self again.
In the end, you can eat when you like, at whatever time you like to eat at, you are not obliged to follow a social construct of the timing of feeding, it tends to boil down to convenience, social standing and your religious programming that needs to be questioned along with your appetite.
I will leave you with something that has plagued my mind on fasting and eating rituals for a very long time.
“If God Almighty did not dictate a time for you to nourish your body then what makes you think he dedicated a time for you to fast.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: The Liberator
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]]>Nature has provided you with both hands: your right hand and your left hand, yet it still doesn’t fail to amaze me how human beings can be so judgmental and draw out evil conclusions from using one's hands.
The bias towards left-handed people is an absolute disregard for human design and the discrimination is just pathetic. It's the lack of knowledge about the left side and right side of the body that leads to such narrow-minded and humiliating perceptions.
Let me elaborate on this for your understanding, If the left hand is so evil, why is it limited to just the hand, what about your left foot, your left eye, The left side of the body. , why don’t we just get rid of our left side entirely, chop off the hand etc and live with only our right side.
If you have never used your left hand at all and if you can prove this I shall follow your way of judgement and reasoning and disregard my mind- But you know deep inside this isn’t possible at all, so why the judgment, why the higher sense of morality and integrity because you use your right hand and others use their left.
Let’s do a small experiment to show you how foolish this concept is, place both your hand’s in front of you and tell me which hand is evil and which hand is not, tell me which hand you associated with evil deeds and good deeds or have you figured out that both your hands are connected to you! , do you see they both belong to you, do you see they are inverted images of each other, do you see how you use one more than the other because you are dominant in that side.
If I haven’t convinced you well enough then let me introduce you to people who are fluent in both the right and left hands, would they be considered good and evil, 50% good: 50 % evil? I’ll even give you something personal to interject my point, I write and eat with my right hand but use my left hand for drinking and picking up things, have I entered the realm of evil because I used my left hand? Of course not.
Therefore my brothers and sisters, throw away such silly notions of judgements and wake up to utilise your hands, find out where this ideology has crept into your mind and made you hate someone because they won’t use the same hand as you, let go of this need of creating a dominant side when any side is of good use. Accept your right hand and your left hand and hopefully, you shall accept the hands of others.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God almighty, The Most High
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]]>Studying history has opened my ability to many thinking patterns of the mind, from what my purpose in my life is to what I want to achieve in the end and how I want to leave this planet. I have spent time studying history and getting an insight into the mind of humans who have come here before us and hoping they could share some insight into this simulation.
I would therefore like to introduce you to a famous saying listed below, you may or may not have heard of it but it gets thrown around as an expression that is not studied well enough.
The Latin phrase ''Veni, vidi, vici '' ( I came, I saw, I conquered ) saying of achieving conquest in battle by Julius Caesar the military strategist is one of my favourite sayings. Another alteration of the saying is '' I came saw and I lived '' by the French poet Victor Hugo’s.
The variations regarding these phases opened an entire can of worms in my mind to how we all as human beings come to something in our lives may it be love, marriage, jobs, careers and even our hidden away struggles, but in the overall picture of life, We are born and then one day we shall die, so what I’ve expanded on why is this saying limited to events when we can expand it to our entire lives and develop an entire state of living and philosophy from these inspired words.
These three words paved an entire section of thinking in every situation on a personal level for me., I am here and one day I shall not be, the same way I have come, I have seen and but what have I done? Did I conquer as per caesars mind, did I live as per victor Hugos mind, or will I make my mind up, to see how this makes me be?
I have listed examples below to show you the thinking pattern of the devised philosophy as follows.
I came, I saw and I was ‘’horrible’’.
I came, I saw and I was ‘’kind’’.
I came, I saw and I was ‘’grateful’’.
I came, I saw and I was ‘’deceptive’’.
I came, I saw and I was ‘’foolish’’.
I came, I saw and was ‘’happy’’.
I came I saw and I ‘’destroyed’’.
I came, I saw I ‘’suffered’’.
I came, I saw I ‘’did nothing’’.
I came, I saw and I ‘’Hated’’
I came, I saw and I ‘’Loved’’
we can choose how to portray this in our lives, you see you can choose the negative side of you and follow through or choose the positive side and inject it into the phrase to keep our inner fire burning and reach the peak of ourselves. Over 30 years here on planet earth I would say I have come to survive at the least and at the most to have lived a good and peaceful life. If I was to put my shoes in Ceaser’s mind of conquest I would say to conquer myself. I am sure you get the picture by now and see how three phrases can broaden the entire mind.
I will therefore leave you with an open question, how will you phrase this in your lifetime, I came, I saw and I ……..
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: The Univeral Teacher
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I would like to start with a quote by Carl Sagan the American astronomer about books.
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Books are truly a valuable resource for mankind, they provide us with instruction, knowledge , entertainment and even insight, however not all books are made equal and not all books can be guidance serving, This is why I have an immense love but an immense hatred for books all at the same time as they are not your perceptions but the perceptions of the author. It’s like this article you are reading right now, it’s in the perception and wording of me and my mind which you are reading and digesting into your mind to see my thought patterns with the words I am using. It's amazing, isn’t it? It’s coming out of my mind, turning into words and then entering your mind. You’re not thinking, I am thinking for you…as you read you are entering my mind are you not….is this not magical.
Reading gives us the power to understand people and keeps us open-minded to this simulation we call life , it shows us the thinking of the various writers that lived on the planet and what they had to say about any given theme or topic depending on when they wrote the words and what they experienced. Books take us back to the perceptions of the writer and give us ways to explore with them even to the extent that we see what they saw. Some books they say are inspired - This can be debated in non-ending cycles, e.g by god, or an angel, or written on golden tablets , scribes etcetera but the truth is they all come from the hands of human beings and had to be written at some point by humans themselves, someone, somewhere had to write it down at some point imprinted on paper or in my case on a notepad then transferred onto a computer in a format of an article.
If you have ever read fiction you will know how your imagination fills in the perceptions of the characters and how characters develop and how you can make them your own over a while or you have a liking to them even when they don’t exist outside of the book or your mind. No two people will have the same conception of characters in the book even if they are reading the same book. This should be enough to make you realise that books are books and humans are humans and humans vary in imagination.
A prime example is the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling which I enjoyed over the years, the details, the characters, the storyline, an entire world build in the imagination of a 7 book series was entertaining and enjoyable. The same aspect applied to one of my favourite as a child, Kensuke's Island by Micheal mapargo. A story of survival , friendship and ultimately about loss, which are all aspects of human life.
Books not only can guide us but have the power to change our minds but can make us good or bad... because over the past years I have noticed people change according to the books they read but never tend to sit down and think if the writer had ulterior motives, motives based on lies and not truths but its accepted as truth because it is in a book and their own experiences they throw away and insights for what is written by others instead of investigating the claims and searching for the truth themselves and testing out the claims.
The most common observation is how people can read a certain book and then assume nobody else has read it and implement its ideals and live in this bubble of delusion that they are the only ones with the specialised insight, yet millions of other people have read it before and know what principle is being applied. They take on the book an ingest it so fast in to the mind never thinking , is is actually beneficial to me ? Does it actually make sense ? Is this the author’s opinion on his life ? Is it what they experienced ? Is it true ? Does the claim match what I see in my own life ? Will this make me a better or worse person ? No let’s just take it in an apply it instead of thinking and engaging our minds.
The worst delusion I have seen is when people follow books to the teeth and the opposition is also using the same ideas and they both using the same techniques from the book and messing each other up because the book tells them to behave a certain way so they are in this mini mindset will the same people over and over again thinking the same thing and behaving as the book tells them too because they believe it will give them what it shows without testing it out for themselves to see if it matches themselves first. It’s like if you read the books that everyone else is reading, then you will think and behave just like everyone else is consuming, so you have wasted your entire faculty of thinking and reasoning and experience of life because the book is you now, you have become the book instead of becoming you. Everyone then around you is the simulation of the book they have in printed into their own minds. It like having everyone else’s mind except for your own.
Religions have managed to do this to a certain extent. Religions that are made around books are just truly a spectacle to see. Religion has an amazing monopoly around books which makes you wonder what is going on and how people assume that if they have a particular book then it belongs to them alone and nobody else can read it and understand it because only they can because they ascribe to the faith. Even though if you ever go to a book store, eg Waterstones, you will see all the books lined up on one stack of shelves under religion. , open to anybody of any faith to read and consume. Fact or fiction, Religious or just self-help. You name it, it is just there for you to read and illuminate your mind with, but if you enter the scope of religion then you are limited to what you can read hence the monopoly over books , reading the same ones over and over and over again , until the words mean nothing and nobody has a clue what is being said , you wouldn’t do that with a cook book would you ? Would you read a brownie recipe three times day or actually go make the brownie…food for thought or at least try and figure out what the ingredients are ?
The fuss people make with ownership and reading of a book baffles me too, for example, If you have the Quran - you must be a Muslim, if you have the old testament, you must be Jewish, if you have the Guru Granth Sahib then you must be a Sikh if you have the Bhagwat Gita you must be a Hindu, If you have the New Testament you must be a Christian and so on, but I say to you my brothers and sisters what if I own all these books, I have them all, what does that make me? , I study them all, I read them all, how shall you brand me now, In your mind, how will you treat me knowing I have read your books and your inspired thinking patterns by your mystical and wise authors., what brand of faith will you stamp on me with knowing I have read your holy books and know your characters and stories very intimately and to an extent your inspired ideologies.
In the end, you should read to study, learn and reflect, but don’t be forced to believe it as true as then your own experiences would be nullified, your insight tarnished and your life experiences on this planet right now redundant. Take account of your own experiences, instinct and self-value and live this life your way and remember just because the person existed in the past doesn’t mean you have to follow them and just because it happened in the past does not mean it will happen to you , they are the perceptions of the author's mindset and you have to live your perceptions now as this is all you truly have , You are here now …
In the simplest of terms, read everything you can, illuminate with all there is but in the end, take what is good , beneficial and Inspect it for your own self. if you see it deeply then books are truly magical, with words you can change entire nations, create and destroy with a single stroke of stringed words, leading people to enlightenment, entertainment or even to worst cases to utter darkness and ruin.
I hope this inspires us to learn and develop ourselves and push you to read very carefully what you consume and what you have already have consumed in life. I have devised a book reading lens I want to share with anyone who reads and wants to inspect what they read rather than blindly follow it.
Book inspection Lens
The book lens then can be adjusted to your personality and individual taste as a person.
You can add for example.
The lens above can be adjusted over time to suit your reading perception and your own values and experiences.
I would like to end with an outstanding quote by George RR Martin to ponder upon…
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: The Most High
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Associations have always fascinated me from a young age, I have ended up realising that not only did I develop innate links but I also took on others likes, dislikes and preferences to my own and pictured them as my own. It varies from religious ideas, traditional thoughts forms to entire likes and dislikes that make an imprint on the human psyche. I say nobody is immune to this, it can come from parents, siblings, friends, adverts, the books we read and the experiences we have even to the films we watch.
I, therefore, devised a way to find associations, pick them out and figure out if I wanted to keep them or not, This came out as when was younger I struggled with trying to find out what I actually liked and what I truly enjoyed rather than what others proposed to me and what I saw in my environment. from likes, people, feelings, even to the extent on why I developed a favourite colour. This then evolved into an entire method that I believe can help any human being with the ability to reflect and has a thirst for self awareness.
The process is as follows
Conclusion : This Association is fine and beneficial to me as I like the watches my self.
I hope the process above helps you discover and give you insight into how clingy the human spirit can be and how we pick up on so many links not even due to our likings but the programming and persuasions of the people and external environment around us.
As one of my favourite Greek Philosophers Thales of Miletus said, “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”. This brought no essence to me when I was younger but growing up made me realise that it is very difficult to know oneself because we are never taught to see inside ourselves and figure out who we truly are and what we truly desire in this life, the rush of the constant grind keeps us away from self-discovery.
Please note I am not a phycologist of any kind, I have written this based on my experience of always being attached to certain ideas when I was a child but couldn’t figure out where they came from, so I devised a way to find this out my self. The process above can be used not only with likings but with dislikes, feelings and even habits. Use it wisely and illuminate yourself in the process. I hope you enjoy the process of figuring out yourself as it's difficult at first but very liberating in the end.
As for me ''I am free from everything you associate with me whether its in the past, the present or the future’’.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant Of God Alimighty and Merciful : The Illuminator
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I am aware this is such a morbid topic and how death is treated as a grievous event in many peoples lives and causes a lot of pain and grief but I want to express it and open it up for anyone who seeks awareness. Religions and cultures have their rituals, spins and even interpretations of death - my favourite being the grim reaper. They have many ways to look after death, a Hearse, prayers, events and aims to appease them even prayers after they have died, if not days, but months and years after they have passed away. Some even want us to worship those who are already dead and we have never met, can you imagine how death has played upon the human spirit then even thousands of years later we hold dead individuals we have never met as part of our lives and in high esteem instead of living our lives? It cannot be washed over, death is such a powerful force ingrained in human conciseness that it hinders the mind to life. It is double-sided, if you think about death then you don’t live, and if you live then death has no hold on you and you can accept you are going to expire at some point.
The funniest aspect of death is how people get honoured after they die which is useless, you should have made an effort when they were alive but what use is your compliments and kind words now, what use are your empty words now, why didn’t you see them when you could, why didn’t you mend your relationship with them when they were alive. The emphasis after they have gone is just a losing battle and frankly, I have no affinity to it. However, once you realise that anyone you have ever met including your parents, siblings and friends will one day not exist and this universal truth should be like a splinter in your eye. Death is Imminent and the only thing guaranteed in this life along with change is death but that’s for another topic.
You can observe this in nature if you ever spend time in the garden or parks, in summer everything is living and bearing fruits but when the winter months come in a blanket of death is present. Nature hints out the cycles of life and death every year yet as human beings loss create such an impact on us, we only see the loss but rather it is a balancing act between life and death, a constant cycle in constant motion every single day. Waking up and sleeping is also like life and death, when we wake up we come to life and when we go to sleep it is like we are going to die, Can you not see that even in our daily routine we are being hinted about life and death.
The first question that seems to bubble up in my mind is not what is death but rather the method of death, for example, being hit by a bus, heart failures, cancers and in worst cases murder. One sees the agent of death manifesting in many forms which makes one see that death is inevitable but the methods are diverse and it is constantly around us, What exactly are you fearing about it when it shows you hints of it day in and day out my brothers and sisters.
The second question the seem to bubble n up in my mind is when it is always lurking around the corner say today, tomorrow, in 10 years, in 20 years, it's open-ended. So why fear death, it should be a source of relief to one's mind if they get over the truth that one day you will not exist just like others before you are no longer here and others won’t be either. So why would you not take this opportunity to be the best version of yourself you can be before all this is over and our bodies are deep in the ground. Why would you not consider being kind to those around you?
I have already passed 30 years of my life on earth and I see life and death everywhere I go, and once you get past the notion of the method of death and how it's a certain aspect of life then you come to a simple conclusion of how you can love deeply or hate deeply anyone in this life and one day they will not exist and if not thousands but millions of people before you are dead and thousands after you will die too. I have also even made scenarios of how I would die and the best one so far I have made in my mind is that I hope I go sleep and never wake up but if I was to ever lose the plot and feel adventurous I would want to disappear into a forest or a mountain and never come back.
As my favourite philosopher Marcus Aurelius stated in Meditations ( yes I am aware he is dead ), “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. If you fully understand this concept, you will want to spend your precious time on this earth with the full essence of living rather than wasting time fearing death because before you know it, it will be all gone and you to will be part of the dead.
Another quote by him is “Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.” I shall not explain the ones above but leave it to you to see how it permeates into your mind.
Sometimes I get this eerie feeling that everyone wants you to forget that you are going to die so that they can convince you to waste your time doing what they want you to do, it is almost like they gloss over the fact to keep you in the bondage of doing things they want like slaves to their desires when you can have your desires once you realise you are limited too. Would you want to hang around with anybody who does not offer anything, would you respect people who waste time and offer nothing, would you want to waste your energy on deaf ears. Do you want to waste away at a job you hate or do things that bring you no joy when you know it’s all going to be over? do you not value your life a tiny bit more after realising it's limited and it's going to end?
Lastly, everyone born is going to die, death does not discriminate, status, colour, caste, education or religion, it kills everyone and none is immune to the agent of death. Hence I leave you with something that gives me great peace and acceptance when I first realised I was going to die too.
“I am at peace knowing death is seeking me and I welcome it and embrace it with open arms for I have understood for I was born and I shall die too. So I am going to live before I die and I hope you do too as well.”
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty : The giver of life and Death
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A prime example is the S&P 500 which consists of 500 of the largest U.S. publicly traded companies that have returned 6% to 10% per year. At that rate, only $9,000 invested in the stock market 50 years ago would have grown into more than $370,000 today. In the long term gains, the stock market is truly epic.
I have compiled reasons to help you understand why the stock market can be your vehicle for creating wealth over a long period.
Grow your money
This one is pretty simple. If you have £500 saved up in the bank. In 10 years, it will still be £500 but if you can invest your £500 in a company that provides services and is in constant demand, your money will make more money as the cash will flow and the money will be at work.
Building a Portfolio of Wealth.
Money in one basket is dangerous and should be avoided, Your investments should cover a broad range of markets e.g staples, electronics, travel services and others to keep your money flowing in all sectors of services and development. In that case, your portfolio will build up over time in various sectors and a wealth portfolio will be achieved. The stock market can be a way to increase your financial portfolio if you already have a business and rental properties in your portfolio.
Avoiding Inflation.
Inflation is in a constant battle with money. Savings will always be eaten up every year if not invested or put to good use. I would like to share a personal example from my childhood for this, back when I was in school my mother gave me £1 to spend as a snack during lunchtime and I would always get a Freddo chocolate bar. At the time it was only 5p, if I had saved that same £1 today and used it now at the corner shop to purchase a Freddo which is now at 25p, I would have lost five times as much value in the £1 I saved up for almost 15 years of my life. You can see from my experience that the rise in goods over some time erodes purchasing power. However, if this £1 is put to use in the economy as an investment it can constantly be working rather than sitting idle. This is where the stock market can help by putting that £1 to use rather than sitting in a jar collecting dust.
Dividend Growth for a steady income
Dividends are payments made by the company over a year and can range from 2% to 10%, Some are stable and others are not but this can be researched and invested accordingly. You can almost say dividends are your money making money and if you get it primed well you can be getting money for your money whilst you sleep. Dividend stocks also help to beat the inflation rates and show the health of a company.
Diversification.
Money flows in all sectors of life, from mobile services to food to even water supply, money is flowing constantly around us in various sectors, so instead of your money being stuck in one particular product or service which may or may not be in demand. The stock market gives you access to various systems which can be invested to push the economy as people are already working day and night in the companies listed on the market.
Owning a company you love.
The stock market gives you a chance to own a piece in a company you love and would like your money to be a part of. I use eBay, Etsy and Shopify daily so owning a piece of them sounds amazing to me as an investor.
Joining the economy.
I believe that investing in companies helps move the economy and keep it in flow, Money sitting around is doing nothing and just collecting dust instead of being part of the system, The stock Market provides this door to keep services, paychecks and wages in flux and constant movement of services around the world.
Giving something back
I always believe that it's good to give back to the community that provides services around you as a way to be grateful for it. I enjoy a Starbucks coffee, My iPhone and clothing from Primark. This way I can give back to the companies that have given to me over the years. I can invest in their services and products as I use them too and appreciate them throughout my life.
it is easy and fast.
I have had the chance to invest in Two upcoming platform that does not charge and are very easy to set and use.
I would also like to offer my tips on this journey as follows.
1. Do not put the money you are not willing to lose and have an emotional connection to.
2. Do not put all your savings in as this would be terrible for your sustenance in everyday life.
3. Accept volatile prices that go and up and down daily but rather focus on the projection of 5,10, 15 years in terms of growth, that way your decision will be more are stable.
4. Study the company and the investor documents to see where your money is going and to what use your hard cash is being put forward.
5. If you do not agree with the companies moral or ethical standards then just leave it out.
6. The trick is to figure out what companies will be worth a lot more than they are today and put your money into them. It's a mixture of being able to predict the future, collective human behaviour and economical trends.
7. Not all stocks will rise over time so keeping up with the latest trends and company news is ideal to optimise your portfolio and cut down on losses.
Lastly, enjoy the process and keep an open-minded approach to the profits and losses of your stock portfolio. Please also keep in mind this is not financial advice but rather an article to expand awareness of the business structures around us.
Kindly
Afzal
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Dear Humans
If you are new to selling online and your pockets don’t run deep but the craze of being able to sell online is magical to you, I would look no further than opening up an eBay account and start listing like there is no tomorrow. I have been personally selling on eBay since I was almost 14 years old, it started with just getting rid of old clothes and then morphed into cosmetics, Furniture and perfume oils over time.
However to answer your question on why you should sell on eBay? Here are my top 8 reasons why you should.
1.Worldwide scope
eBay is a global marketplace for sellers and buyers alike. You can start by selling from the UK and your listing could end up showing to potential customers in the USA. The exposure is vast and Limitless.
2.Fixed price listings and Auction style
Fixed price listings are great for buy it now products. (The Standard Gig), However, if you have something rare, collectable or limited an auction for your product will bring in customers who will pay a higher price for your item.
3.New items as well as used items
Not only can you stock up on new products on eBay but you can also sell used items provided you list the item as used and provide the customer with as much detail as possible.
4.Trust Factor
eBay has been around for almost 25 years, and has seller protection; this includes customer support and middleman service to help out with disputes, returns and customer complaints.
5.Free Advertising
Millions flock to eBay for purchases every single day, It has over 153 million active users. Starting up a website and building traffic could take its time, but eBay has the traffic already, it just needs your products.
6.Do it yourself
You don’t need anyone to show you how, if you know how to use a computer, fill in details and follow simple instructions you can do it.
7.Low-Cost Pricing
When you sell you will be charged around 10% of the final sale price, and since eBay is no longer using Paypal as its money service then the selling cost is much cheaper than it has ever been.
8.Free Listings monthly
eBay gives out free monthly listings to put up your items, so the only charge you are facing is when it sells, you should therefore take advantage of this and get your items in front of as many eyeballs on the earth as possible.
I have written this article to show my gratitude to eBay for all the years it has provided for me, and I hope with my words and this article I can inspire anyone who wants an extra income or is looking to start an online business they can use eBay as a starting point for it and prosper.
Kindly
Afzal : The Businessman
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Oral health is vital for every human being on the planet including my self so the search for great oral health has always been present and continuous for me. You would wonder if nature has provided for us with food and water then is there anything out there for oral health right?
Let me introduce you to Miswak a traditional chewing stick made from the roots, twigs, and stem of Salvadora persica. This twig pencil-sized stick wonder has been used by many civilisations of the world to aid in oral health. It is still being used in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central and Southeast Asia and I hope one day the entire world can reap its benefits.
Several scientific studies have demonstrated that the Salvadora persica possesses antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral, anti-cariogenic, and anti-plaque properties due to its composition of
Alkaloids—Salvadorine, Trimethylamine— (antibacterial effect)
Essential oils—For mild taste and fragrance, stimulate the production of saliva and help relieve flatulence.
Silica—natural abrasive that removes stains
Resins—Form a protective layer over the enamel to prevent the formation of caries.
Calcium, Chlorides, Fluoride that helps in remineralising the tooth structure.
Tannins—Functions as a natural astringent, stimulate saliva production
Saponins, Flavonoids, and Sterols in small amounts.
The combination of active ingredients listed above with the mechanical movements like a toothbrush makes it a powerhouse for dental care.
So if you are looking to
Fight tooth decay and Cavities
Reduce Plaque.
Eliminate bad bacteria.
Protect and strengthen the gums.
See what nature has provided for us.
Use a toothbrush that doesn't need toothpaste or water
To add a tool to your dental hygiene system.
Then I believe purchasing a Miswak stick from us would be ideal for you.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty
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]]>Caffeine is a unregulated widely consumed psychoactive drug hidden in plain sight that is found naturally in coffee, tea and cocoa. Talk about not being a drug user right , I am already guilty of using this drug on many occasions.
In plants, caffeine acts as a natural pesticide that paralyses and kills many insects feeding upon them. So yes in the plants perspective its a defence mechanism.However there are also evolved plants that have been lacing their nectar with small doses of caffeine to keep bees coming back for the loyal goodness. Talk about being a junkie , the bees have been reeled in too.
Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant, having the effect of warding off tiredness and restoring alertness. which is a adenosine receptor antagonist: with a similar structure to adenosine, caffeine binds to the adenosine receptors, acting as an imposter and blocking the actions of adenosine, leading to feelings of wakefulness. The natural chemical found in plants mimics the structures in the brain - Once again the uncanny connection between the nature around us and the composition of our brain is present.
If you are from an caffeine laced culture you will be at first hand with this drug , Tea with breakfast , Tea at dinner , tea when your bored , tea when you take a break, tea with rusks, tea when family is over , tea ,tea ,tea, its more like addiction , addiction, addiction and more addiction ! we are slaves to the junkie traditions of our forefathers that has to be removed for our awareness to rise and see that this habit is killing us and making us mad.
Anyways back to the topic at hand I am going to point out the main advantages of this along with the disadvantages of the natural stimulant.
Advantages
1) Increased Performance
Many controlled studies show that coffee improves various aspects of brain function — including mood memory, vigilance, energy levels, reaction times and general mental function.
2) Contains Essential Nutrients.
A cup of coffee Contains the following in small amounts
3) Boosts metabolism and fat burning.
Drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee can gently raise your metabolic rate which in turn burns more fat and generates more heat.
4) Medicinal Additive.
Caffeine is the most commonly used medication for treatment of apnea of prematurity. Its effect has been well established in reducing the frequency of apnea, in preterm infants. (basically breathing assistance)
It is also used by combination with OTC painkillers (such as aspirin and Ibuprofen) to increase uptake of the active ingredient in the blood.
Disadvantages
1) Anxiety
Due to the increase in blood pressure and the increased blockage of adenosine receptors in the brain - large amounts have shown to increase stress and elevate anxiety.
2) Fatigue
This is due to the caffeine leaving your body and not crossing through your brain anymore.The receptors do not get the kick so they slow down and you get tired.
3) Frequent urination
Caffeine has mild diuretic effects - makes you want to go to the toilet more often however this is found more prevalent at high levels.
4) Addiction
This is one of the worst parts about that cup , caffeine works similar to cocaine in the brain and keeps you hooked. Studies have shown psychological or physical withdrawal e.g headaches , fatigue but not true addiction. Dependancy is more based on the effects it causes hence when you do not get that hit you want it more.
Overall
So far according to the research I have found caffeine at low levels has been found to be promising to health but in higher doses is a complete health nightmare especially if you also suffer from anxiety or have present mental illnesses. There are even studies found that in high concentrations it can lead to hallucinations and even death.So the next time you pick up that cup of coffee , tea or hot chocolate and your brains races like you are seated on a rollercoaster and you want to fight everyone you meet just remember its the caffeine speaking within you.
In low doses there is brain enhancement but in large doses a hidden killer is present with no advantages. Nature is the natural drug dealer enticing us with its supply but if we get hooked on for too long its leads us straight to death.
Kindly
Afzal : Servant of God
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Water is a colourless and odourless liquid found everywhere in nature - it not only around us but in us too. This liquid is the essential driving force of life and is often considered a universal solvent, but are we using it well enough? Are you reaping its benefits in your life? , Have you considered making it an essential part of your dietary system yet? If not then I say your missing out and have to start today.
Did you know water makes 60% of the human body and 71% of the Earth surface - its almost uncanny how the human body is indirectly reflective of the nature around us.
As human beings we can survive 30 days without food but 3 days without water and life is over. Water is and always will be the very key ingredient to the establishment to life it self and you should be making a conscious effort to drink it. The benefits of water are numerous to mention but here are a few examples below to help you out with your water discovery.
If you are searching for a beverage with the up most benefit for your life and well being then I have only one commandment for you today " though shall drink water". Please keep in mind that this is not medical advice. This is my dedication to writing about how nature has provided for us a beverage to help us survive in life.
Kindly
Afzal: Servant of God Almighty: The Lord of the heavens and the Earth.
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One of my favourite online platforms has to be Etsy .The community for creative individuals who want to showcase handmade items to mankind. I have personally been selling on the Etsy platform since last year and it has been a blast. If you want to check my handmade product sections for perfume oils., Handmade necklaces and occasional vintage product collections please visit Scentoils.
These are my top 10 reasons on why you should also start your own shop on Etsy and join the creative community if you want to share your creative spirit to the world.
1. You can do it alone
One of the biggest benefits of setting up a Etsy store is the fact that i can do it alone and in my own time and pace , you post your items up with great images and write compelling descriptions all in your own time and all by your self, be your own boss , your own shop and your own time and effort on your own vibes.
2. Work from home
The beauty about this is you can literally work in your own space as it is set up online and i can do this in my spare time after work. No office needed , no rent to pay.
3. Low cost Margin
This has to be one of the best aspects of etsy and how the cost is only $0.20 for a listing that lasts up to four months ! ( 5% Transaction Fee).
4. Creative Spirit
The platform is literally oozing with creative spirits around the world who showcase there items for everyone to have a look at and purchase. Do you have socks you Knit , jumpers or even make soaps and candles , do you have a creative spirit that needs to be shown to the world !. This is the platform for you !
5. Large customer base
Building a business from scratch can be a daunting experience but Etsy removes that aspect instantly as millions of people visit Etsy. When I posted out my perfume oil as just one product last year i instantly got a sale ! Kudos really ! I hadn't even labelled it just put it in a roll on bottle , added a small description and got a customer from the united States !
6. Easy to use
I cannot express this point any further , from opening the shop to putting up listings to even starting advertising its just very easy to use and post up. Etsy does all the extra handling for you. a few clicks here , a few button pressed here and bang you have shop ! welcome ladies and gentlemen to the world of creative entrepreneurship.
7. Finical Freedom
We all work jobs , 9-5 , 10 to 6 you name it , we are all working but wouldn't it be great to create products and get paid for them too. Get that second income in the system rolling, Help out with the bills or save for that holiday your dreaming of.
10. Customers Trust Etsy
Trust is very important and Etsy does that for you. A lot of individuals purchase products online as well as my self and this just helps a lot when you have customer support at hand and a middle service that can help out if there are issues.
8. Worldwide Scope
the local community can have views that are not aligned with your products even in some cases the locals do not even have an interest. However the fact that etsy shows it to the world it gets easier to hone in on a larger market around the world who are aligned to your product philosophy and are looking for what you provide.
9. Anyone Can do it.
I believe anyone can set up a shop with the mindset of great customer service and having handmade products they want to share with the world.
I have written this article to show gratitude to etsy and a way for anyone who wants to aim to sell handmade products .Thank you Etsy for being there for us and making my mini dream come true.
Kindly
Afzal : Servant of God
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]]>Fragrance oils typically are sold in Roll on Bottles - which is the optimum way to use oils and get the most out of them especially when applied to pulse points.
Perfume Oils can however be different in viscosity depending on what oil is being used. E,g our Snow - Royal White Musk is very gel like and sticky where are our other perfume oils are thinner and can be applied very easily.
I have found two ways that work best with perfume oils and either way is up to you to experiment with.
1.Skin Contact
This method is used on various parts of the body. The roll on bottle inverted can be applied to the various parts mentioned below in slow moving motions.
Notes : The skin contact method is the optimum way of using oils as it blends in with the skin and disperses over time. This tends to make the perfume oil last longer but can be varied depending on skin type and the type of oil used.
2.Traditional Clothes Contact.
This method is based around using the oil on the clothing rather than the skin. The oil roll on bottle is inverted and applied to the palms of the hands , rubbed slightly together and gently striking the fabric on the arms , the chest and around the body. This helps the oil to be dispersed around the clothing rather than the skin.
Notes : This is ideal for individuals who suffer from dry skin or just want to smell good without the hassle of skin contact. it should also be noted however dark oils can leave residue on clothing.
Both methods work well depending on how you want to work with your perfume oil roll on.One thing I have learned with perfume oils is that rubbing the oils over the skin destroys the top notes very quickly so the best way to keep this going is to dab the oil rather than rub the oil on the skin - this way the top notes are always intact and can be enjoyed.
Kindly
Afzal : The Perfumer
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1. Very Long Lasting
Yes you have read that correctly - they are very long lasting , due to the nature of oils mixing with the sweat present on your skin they stick better and slowly disperse over time. Contrary to alcohol mixtures which evaporate fast and have to be applied to the clothing rather than the skin.
2. Sensitive To Skin
Due to the nature of oils having moisturising capabilities they even work sell on sensitive skin. The addition of Fractionated coconut oil in base oils even helps keep the skin intact and supple.
3. No Alcohol or Harsh Chemicals
Perfume oils do not use alcohol bases or chemical bases to keep intact hence if you are against the use of alcohol and chemicals , Oils would be best suited to you if you have a religious background or even just want to enjoy what nature has to offer.
4. Money Worthy
Oils are typically sold in roll on application form as this is the best way to apply oils on the skin , temples and wrists, this makes sure every drop of the oil is used rather than a spray formulation which would loose its essence in to the air.
5. Concentrated
Due to the natural consistency of oils they are concentrated and packed with a richer and stronger aroma than the alcohol based vapours which diminish and have to be constantly be sprayed over and over to keep them going.You also get the bonus of several note changes during the day !.
6. Mood Enhancement
Perfume oils have various herbs and essential oils integrated with in them that have shown mood enhancement when applied. e.g Peppermint for energy boosting , Jasmine for calming the nerves and many more others that supplement oils.
7. Unique Mixture
Oils by them selves are all the same but over time I have noticed that the same oil product on different people smells slightly different - my best guess is the oil reacts with the sweat and skin type and creates a unique fragrance depending on who you are , which makes your fragrance unique to you as everyone sweats differently.
If i have won you over with my reasoning and persuasive skills ;) , we have a 40 perfume oils collection here for you to try out.
Kindly
Afzal : The Perfumer
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