The Three Levels of Evidence

Certainly ALLAH The Most High do not share His Majesty with anyone. For He is The Creator and we are the created. For it is indeed wrongful for anyone to have a share in His Divinity. The mere thought of it puts one into the abyss of disbelieve whose redemption lies with the sincere admittance of His Oneness. What more for those who ascribe to themselves status of the exalted. May ALLAH The Most Forgiving accept our repentance. For ALLAH's Majesty encompasses the universe and He is seated in a Throne High Above. Thus it is by His Will that He expounds unto man the three levels of evidence to state the truth of His Message and The Power that He Possesses. But many still do not subscribe to true believe.

The first level of that message is in the form of empirical evidence (bayyinah) which man is able to see, feel and hear. ALLAH The Loving sent His beloved messengers as proofs of His Compassion on mankind. These prophets recite to men divine words which intent to make man realise that he is minute in comparison to the power that ALLAH has. It serves as a source of reminder and hopefully humility to those who have erred. Yet some of the prophets were killed only for the fact that they asked men to acknowledge ALLAH's Superiority over His creations. And they remained in the state of rejection and disbelieve.

Hence ALLAH swt provides the second level of evidence (burhan) which is meant to give a sterner reminder of the foolishness to those who ascribe anything else above ALLAH. ALLAH Azza Wa Jalla give His Permission to the prophets the ability to demonstrate a penetrating evidence (burhan) which higher that the first (bayan) and serves as the incumbent possibility of the third (sultan). Prophets demonstrated that penetrating evidence (burhan) through means of healing men, overcoming obstacles, seeking of final judgement and wisdom of governance. Moses with his ability to subdue the magic of pharoah's magicians, Jesus with his ability to heal the sick and give life to the dead, Sulaiman and Yusuf with their strength in governance and Ibrahim's supplication (doa') for the sanctuary of Mekka to succeed beyond him became true in time. These are but a few examples of the penetrating evidence (burhan) of the prophets which some saints (auliya) and pious men (salihin) do acquire especially on the aspect of supplication (doa')that is granted with immediate effect such as the asking for rain.

But when ALLAH The Exalted passes down his third level of evidence which could not in anyway redeem any man, from His Thrust, this evidence known as the ultimate evidence (sultan) serves as the final arbitar to the earlier evidences shown. It is His Final Decision on the matter. Hence it is up to us today to know that though the final hour (qiyamah) is with Him, we are certain that it is not far by His Measurement. For if the earlier people were shown the ultimate evidence (sultan) by way of local destructions, regional troubles and collapse of empires, perhaps the future of our world that is infested with evil (fasad) of every kind throughout, will not have recourses of bayan and burhan because it has already been demonstrated aforehand.

Hence it is to our own detrimental that ALLAH Azza Wa Jalla has made prophets, syuhada, auliya and solihin to return to Him. We in the modern world are unable to find those esteemed personalities anymore among believers. We are engulfed by the temporal glittering of this world when indeed the esteemed position (karamah) of these prophets, syuhada, auliya and solihin would tamper our souls which is in the constant state of ambivalent (lawwamah) and temperament (amarah). We in the modern world has lost the benefits of witnessing bayyinah and burhan as to what the earlier people had witnessed. Thus we have lost our linkage with the real existence which is the realm of the soul, as our bodily existence impresses us with the life of this world that is truly temporal and fake. What the shall be the state of our return to Him?

O ALLAH, forgive us and save us from the difficulties of the afterlife for verily You are the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful. Amin Ya Rabbal 'Alamin.