Jahada & Ysrael
by Volker Doormann

There is a spiritual similarity to recognize in the Kuran and Torah, which is not well known to the worshippers of the religions.
The warrior of god, who struggles with god is only to understand as an inner process, where the soul has to fight against the (own) person.

Here Israel is the later name of Jacob, who has struggled with god, as well as Muhammad, who spoke of Jahada (29,69).

Abu ' Ali Husein Ibn ' Abdu'llah Ibn Sina

Abu ' Ali Husein Ibn ' Abdu'llah Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna says: "God is first, the compelling its end: from it the multitude of the material world develops. The human soul, which has a school in its body nature for training, exists after physical death, which always makes an end for the body, in close or distant connection with the world spirit after that away. This combination with the spirit - which is not a complete oneness - is the blessedness of the good, knowing soul.

The soul of a true wise is like a bird: with large trouble it escapes from the terrestrial cords and flies through the world areas, until the angel of death solves it the last chains.

All doing and event are born from the love for God. And this mental love, this clean-mental blessedness can not understand by the crowd, for it is therefore still the law of the religion obligating. Because Muhammed wanted his desert Arabs to educate to higher realization, however, because of their lack of understanding for purely mental things with the prospect physical suffering or joys in the other world with the regulations of the religion to hold.

With this sensual crowd, whose service exists in the observation of outside forms, the ascetics agrees, although they want to renounce straight to the world and the sense completely and, because also they exercise only regarding the sky as wages their pious works. More highly than the crowd and the pious ascetic, the true servant of mental love, which do not want the anything, stands as God, without hope, without fear. Their property is the liberty of the spirit. This secret one is to never reveal however to the crowd, only its pupils entrusts it the way."
(after T.J. de Boer) 

 Jahada

The Arabic word Jihad is derived from the root word Jahada (struggle, to strive). 'Jehad' (Jihad) literally means 'endeavor'.

"And those who strive in Our (cause),- We will certainly guide them to Our Paths: For verily Allah is with those who do right."
(29:69)

YSRAEL


Genesis 32

"And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok ("emptying").
And he took them, and passed over the river and passd over
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel ("facing God"): for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh."
(KJV)

 
Kalki
 
Kalki comes from an Indian myth and is desribed as a warrier of God.  Kalki is mentioned in  the Agni Purana as part of the "mahAbahArata"  

Kalki Purana, I[2]  As per I[2] V.4, the mission of Kalki's life is to destroy Koli. Koli signifies a person as well as the vices which are peculiar to this age.

"Acclaimedly, towards the end of Kaliyuga, when righteousness turns into unrighteousness, light into darkness, good into evil, virtues into vices,
believers into non-believing profanes, community of man into thieves and evil doers and the faith in God is lost and the Vedas are misinterpreted to serve adharma,
Kalki would be born in the house of Vishnuyashas, a Brahmin and the priest of Yajnavalkya, at the village Shambhala." 





 

volker doormann - 2008