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Vadim Platun The only right way

Introduction

It is inherent in every human being to evolve, to change, be it intellectually, physically, or spiritually. Everything in a person changes with time, with age. Everything takes years.

This work is written during a period of transformation in personal development that is in everyone's life. It is about one aspect of life, and at the same time, it is about all of life, because without exaggeration this aspect affects absolutely everything. Some people try to quickly close their eyes to this phase and go back to their old lives, turning around periodically. Some either come to terms with this time and live in this stage for the rest of their lives, or they cling to it and evolve in it. This is the main period of life that each person has in his own time. Some have it earlier, some later.

This book is for everyone, regardless of their position in society, age, or religious affiliation. And I'm sure it will prepare people for this most important stage of life, or help them when they are in it. This work will motivate those who have decided not to turn a blind eye to this time, but on the contrary, to improve in their development.

This publication should be perceived as a reflection through simple logic and analysis of the facts of life, based on my own experience and acquired knowledge, which allows one to prove the obvious existence of the only right way. What that path is, you will find out by reading the book in its entirety. Living your life on this path, you will never make a mistake, but you will live your best life.

This book is a philosophical and logical inference on how to become truly happy by living the only right way.

Alpha and Omega

One day the thought of death comes to everyone. The thought that one day everything will end.

This thought also visited me and did not let go for a long time. Eventually, I got tired of it and wanted to stop these negative thoughts. But how? I didn't want to put them out of my mind, and I couldn't. I realized that the end is inevitable, and why not think more deeply, maybe I would understand something and accept everything as it is, throwing away all the negativity. Since these thoughts, which only brought inner apathy, became so intrusive, I came to the conclusion that the only way to get rid of them was to try to understand them logically, without resorting to emotions and any spiritual theories, prejudices, and the like (although I have trusted in God since childhood — it's a family thing), using only the real mind and simple human logic.

What do we have in the real world we live in? First of all — myself, secondly — my family and all the people on Earth, finally — the whole Earth and everything on it and in it, the cosmos and everything in it, and beyond that. And beyond the Earth and the cosmos, I don't know what there is. I only know that everything I have listed, that is, everything that exists and that I can realize, is material. There may be immaterial, but there is no evidence for that as we understand it.

All of the above comes from some reaction at some point. We humans are from humans, plants are from plants, planets are from other major planets, and so on. This is obvious to everyone today. But how did the first humans arise from whom all others arose? From apes? Or from aliens? How did the first animals arise? From their dinosaur ancestors? Insects, continents, planets — all came from something before, much before, and that which was much before also came from something. And that also came from something. And this chain can be continued endlessly. And it doesn't matter whether we originated from an ape or aliens, or whether we were created by a big mighty man. And the monkey and the aliens and the mighty man all came from somewhere, didn't they?

After all, even a microbe, even a molecule, even an atom, the most elementary particles known to mankind, somehow came into being. From nothing?

Even if there was nothing in the beginning, and if everything is from nothing, then nothing is material, and it also came from somewhere, or someone created it, so the chain is not closed.

But nothing is not material; nothing can come from nothing. Even the only thing that is infinite and eternal in our perception — time — is an illusion, that is, created by someone. For what is time? Time is motion. Stop everything around us, freeze everything, and time disappears. So it is not eternal, and it appeared somehow. Accordingly, time is impossible without space, just as motion is impossible without space. This shows that space is primary, it is material, so it did not appear by itself.

And it means that there could not always have been an atom, there could not have been an alien, a monkey, or a big man. Or could there have been somebody? And this is where the impasse comes in. It's clear that there's always something or someone that everything came from! This is the only correct answer.

However, it does not fit with the real perception of the world of most people and it does not fit with reality and modern scientific data. We are limited, so why is it that our insignificance and our limitation do not occur to us? The example of the above definition of time, which is eternal to human beings, but in reality is an illusion, makes our limitation obvious. It is necessary to realize that the seemingly impossible is possible.

I come to the conclusion that there is a Primary Source from which everything has come. There are two options, two ways of developing thought. The Primary Source is either nothing or some being that is always there.

Both must be either material or immaterial. And at this stage of thinking, this conclusion is obvious! Even though science has not generally arrived at it — it is obvious to any sane mind by the simple logic described above. But, if you think about it, both the first and second options actually lead to the same conclusion! And here I had a certain epiphany and even joy. Namely: Nothing is nothing, it is even impossible to explain it, and it is not worth it. After all, nothing is nothing in any sense (both material and non-material), it does not exist and has never existed, and there is nothing in it. And if someone comes out of nothing, it means that he created himself. He always exists, and everything that exists, everything that is, comes from him. He is the Original Source, so he is always there!

There is a Primary Source that created itself out of nothing! And here again, doubt arises! Could such a Great One, who is the Original Source of everything, come out of nowhere, out of nothing? After all, nothing is nothing. It does not exist and never has existed. And in that moment I realized that the truth is that the Primary Source is and always has been, He did not come out of nowhere — He is eternal. In essence, He is everything, everything that can exist, live, and be if you will. Time does not exist for Him, time exists only for us; and time and space and pain and pleasure — absolutely everything. For Him, there is only Him, everything else is His creation as if a man were to make something fictitious out of clay, and the reality, the truth, is completely different. It became obvious, but how it is possible, we cannot see with our human understanding, it is only possible to believe in it, realizing that it is so and no other way. There are no other options, all logical reflections lead to one end. There is the Primary Source of everything — He is eternal. How this is possible is beyond our comprehension, given by the Original Source Himself. We can only realize that it is so, even with our real earthly minds. All we are given is to believe what we have realized through logical reflection.

I have come to realize that there is a Primary Source that is always there, from which everything has come into being, including human beings; beyond the Primary Source there is nothing and there never has been anything. Because He is everything that has always been and will be, the Original, the Creator of everything. This is a logical inference, a realization that can be called faith, because there is no real proof in our understanding of all this, and there never will be unless the Original Source Himself wills it. This is the foundation of everything. Further, everything will be based on this conclusion.

The Universe

Let us think not only about our origins but also about the organization of the world around us. Everything around us is incredibly ordered and has its causes. For example, a building does not build itself. It requires someone alive to want to build it, to have the knowledge of how to do it, and finally to begin construction. And only by this logic can a building be built. And thus, everything in the Universe has such a cause-and-effect chain of occurrence. Both the human mind and science talk about it.

Everybody knows the Big Bang Theory. This theory says that the Universe is not eternal and had its beginning from a small point that exploded, creating space, matter, time, energy — everything.

The Universe is not eternal — that's been proven for a long time. But like any structure, it didn't just appear for no reason. If there was this explosion of a point, it had ideal parameters and characteristics, otherwise everything that exists would not have appeared. This shows first of all that someone wanted to make that explosion, and then it was carefully designed and thought out, otherwise the explosion would be ugly and disorderly. We've all seen what happens when something explodes. But it takes incredible strength and power to organize such an explosion.

It turns out that someone has boundless power, knowledge, and authority, and the presence of a desire to do something tells us that he is alive. Again I conclude that everything has a Creator, a Primary Source.

Some more reasoning about everything being externally created. The argument for this is the orderliness in everything.

It is obvious to everyone that in reality any order is established by someone: in the apartment, in the closet, in the refrigerator, and so on. It does not happen by chance; only disorder can be created in this way.

To organize order, first of all, it is necessary to know how to do it, to calculate everything and think it over, using certain knowledge. Second, it is necessary to make an effort to move things to the right places. Third, it is necessary to have the desire to do all of this.

I come to the fact that order is always created by a living, reasonable, strong being, and cannot be made suddenly, especially on the scale of the Universe. And finally, in nature, everything around us has cyclicity and order. Day is replaced by night and night by day. A day is accompanied by the sun and a night by the moon. When the weather is good, the sky is clear, and when there is a storm, the sky is strewn with countless clouds. The motion of each celestial body is so ordered that man can determine its trajectory and travel time. Humans are born, grow up, grow old, and die, just like all life on Earth. Seasons come one after another: winter, spring, summer, fall. Everything in the world has an order, so everything is created by the Creator.

Everyone has a subconscious knowledge of the existence of the Creator, without any proof. Even an atheist utters the words, "Prove that there is a Creator of everything," and "Prove God to me". He is actually referring to the same Creator, Original Source, God, Who is known by all those who have come to the conclusion that there is a Creator of all things, and who is known to all believing, religious people. Why is this so? At all times, in every society, in every faith and religion, there has been, is, and will be the worship of God. This is the way human nature is set up by the Creator Himself. Everyone knows from childhood that love and kindness are good and death and evil are bad. The knowledge of the existence of the Creator is an innate ability, just like the knowledge of good and evil. In addition to this knowledge, a person can come to the same conclusion through the simple logic described above.

But it is impossible to prove the opposite, that there is no God, the Creator.

In search of the beyond

The need to plunge into reflection on the immaterial world is self-evident. If we assume that there is another world, a world of the intangible, the spiritual, or something else about which we have no idea, an infinite number of questions can be deduced from this assumption. How did that world come into being, who is the Primary Source there? We will never get an answer to all the questions about the immaterial world by reasoning based on some assumptions. But I am not going to do that, because there is no logic in that way of thinking. I cannot deny the existence of the spiritual world, but to find the answer to all questions about it, we need the help of something very authoritative, and worthy of our faith. It must be just as worthy of our faith as our realization of the existence of the eternal Original Source of all things. It is faith because we, humans, cannot understand the spiritual world visually, with physical evidence, any more than we can understand that the Original Source is eternal. I come to these conclusions through logical reasoning. We need the help of the most authoritative source of information about the spiritual, the best that mankind has in this matter, but in this source, the basis should be the axiom already proven above of the undoubted existence of the eternal Creator who created everything. All these criteria are undoubtedly met only by the so-called Holy Scriptures, and they alone are the books on which the monotheistic Abrahamic religions, or simply Abrahamic religions, are based. Monotheistic means based on the belief in one Original Source of all things, God. Abrahamic means originating with the prophet Abraham. By definition, these books are written according to the Word of the Supreme Intelligence, our Creator, the same eternal Original Source. That is why they are as worthy of people's faith as faith in the Original Source itself. It was with the descendants of the prophet Abraham that the transmission of information from the Creator to human beings began. This is the Holy Bible, which in its modern context consists of 66 books and the Holy Qur'an. I am not going to emphasize the different Abrahamic religions now, we will dwell on this issue a little later. The important thing is that we have something to start with when discussing the subject of spiritual, non-material things.

The question arises as to why these books are the best and most authoritative. And you try to find something more comprehensive, more orderly, more logical, more true in every matter, more famous all over the world than the Holy Scriptures. Believe me, they do not exist today. More authoritative, more intimate, more great works, in which everything is based on the axiom that there is one eternal Primary Source, I do not know.

Just as I came to the main logical inference at the beginning of this book about the existence of one eternal Primary Source, so the Scriptures say this. God is the one eternal Creator. And He is the Source not only of all material things, but also of what we humans call spiritual, and in general of everything that exists. Mankind always uses the best that is created, and it is right. Try to give up computers, television, the Internet, cars, and everything modern, and accessible, that simplifies our lives. That is why, I will take the best in the field of this information is the Scriptures. There are answers to all questions. Who is the Creator? What is the spiritual world? Why did He create us and everything around us, and for what purpose? And so on. It should be noted, as described above, that there is incredible orderliness in the Universe, such as the planets moving in their orbits in an orderly manner, entire cosmic systems being orderly to each other, everything on Earth being incredibly orderly, and also everything in the Scriptures being incredibly orderly, comprehensive, and majestic in every line.

Our earthly minds cannot answer all the questions that arise about the spiritual and the intangible. It is given to each of us to logically prove the most important thing — there is an eternal Creator of all material things, and indeed of everything our brains can imagine. After all, our brain is also created by the same Source. The logic described above is justified and clear, and besides, there is no more accurate, factual alternative to it. It is sufficient. Faith and contemplation (the process of knowledge) begin deeper than this inference.

And no matter how incredibly intelligent a person may be, no matter what heights humanity as a whole has reached in its development, no one will ever find answers to the infinite number of questions that arise deeper than this conclusion. Speaking of which, there is a phrase in the Holy Books that says, "A man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun." That is why we are given faith, which is exactly what begins after this point of cognition. Man cannot know all things, prove all things, see all things. He can come to a certain point with his mind, and from there he can only continue his journey with faith.

Obviously, there is no other information in the world today that is better known and more trustworthy, that has the answers to all questions, except the Holy Scriptures. Everyone has a choice, starting from the understanding of the existence of the one eternal Creator: either to search forever for answers to endless questions or to believe in the most organized and authoritative information — the Holy Scriptures, where there are answers to all questions. For me, there were no more reasons not to believe. In these Books, by the way, faith is the foundation of the basics, a kind of test, like a spouse's test of fidelity. And you have the choice to cheat or not, to believe or not. The only difference is that you can hide adultery from your wife or husband, but you cannot hide the fact of unbelief in the Original Source, God, from Him.

Outcomes

Let's go back to where I started the book — to the death we all keep going to as we live our fleeting, hectic lives. And so, if you are realistic, we can distinguish two possible variations of existence, two outcomes of this life, as harsh as it may sound. The first is to live, just to live in this world, on earth, to live in the way that everyone will choose for themselves, based on the surrounding circumstances. At the end of this life, or existence, to be more precise, there will be an ordinary death of matter, the disappearance of biomaterial, in the understanding that is supported by modern science. That is, man will simply disappear as if he never existed. And it does not matter what path he chose or how he lived, everyone will just disappear.

The second possible variant of the actual reality is the transition to another world after death (spiritual or material, or spiritual-material) through resurrection. Such a statement is presented in all books of the Holy Scriptures.

Based on the only logical conclusion drawn in the first chapters about the existence of the Creator of all things, and the fact that the second option of our outcome is prescribed to us in the Holy Books worthy of our faith, my sound mind inclines to the truth of the second option. This leads me to believe in it and the Scriptures.

I will analyze a situation in which a person still cannot determine the most correct option for himself. The logical conclusions described above are not enough for him. For example, an unbeliever assumes that everything is primitive according to the Darwinian view. Humans live, then die, decay, and disappear. Let's try to find all the pros and cons for a person who has chosen this way of believing to analyze how true it is.

If this is true, then everything is meaningless. This approach contradicts the order and organization of the universe described above. Such people don't care how they live this life, they have no boundaries of morality and ethics. And with such a truth, according to Darwin, it would be appropriate. Appropriate, but that doesn't mean that such an approach would have any real advantages. For in such a mindset, everything is meaningless, and life is so short that even a hundred years would pass like a single day. Elderly people now will understand me. Even though a life of wealth and abundance is actually just a grain of sand of wealth. It is as if you do not exist. You exist for a brief moment in the Universe, being a millionaire or a pauper, happy or suffering, predator or prey. It is just a moment — and you are gone. In such a situation, there is no sense in anything — neither in life nor in people themselves. In such a case, it's better not to live at all.

And so you die, that's your end. And why do you need your billions, why do you need fame, why did you fight, why did you kill, steal, disrespect, achieve, or just do nothing, or tolerate, suffer, maybe love, enjoy? Why do you need all your emotions and feelings and actions — all this vanity, all this meaningless, all that energy? You will just disappear and you will never exist again, as if you never existed. Just think about it for a moment, realize it — it is a very important moment. And this disappearance, the end, can happen in a minute, it can happen tomorrow, it can happen in a hundred years, any second. Realize that in this case, no matter how you have lived, it is as if you have not lived, as if you have always been dead, so there is no difference in how you have lived and what you have done.

Also, imagine for a moment that the second version of existence is true. The option that is described in the books of the Abrahamic religions and that I have come to logically. The transition to the next true reality, the eternal reality, is the resurrection. In this case, our earthly life is immediately filled with meaning. First, because there is no death, and second, because in the resurrection, according to the Holy Books, everyone will answer for the way he has lived this earthly life. And then it becomes clear how, if you do not believe in this statement, you run the risk of living like an animal, like a plant that exists only biologically and then dies. It is we humans who think that we are very intelligent and evolved compared to animals, for example. In fact, on the scale of the entire Universe, we are insignificant, and our intelligence and development are insignificant. The risk is that if everything that is written in the Scriptures is true and you don't believe it and you live as a biomaterial, as an animal, without believing it, you will lose everything. You will be among those who are not favorable to your Creator, you will really die, disappear, and be separated from your relatives and close people forever. In fact, after death, you and all your loved ones (if they are also unbelievers) may go to hell (I think everyone knows what this place is). You will lose eternal true life and receive eternal torment. This is the risk of unbelief.

If there is no way to eternal true life if what is written in the Scriptures is not true, but you believe in it, do you risk anything? No — absolutely nothing. There is only one end for everyone in such a case — you will disappear. And your life, even a hundred years, is a grain of sand in this Universe.

So if you don't believe, there are only risks. If you believe, you either risk nothing, or you get eternal life, where you come prepared, knowing that you will have to answer for your earthly way. And maybe you go to Paradise (I think everyone knows what that place is).

It is logical to hedge the risk that there is with the possible truth of the Holy Scriptures, for the people who do not believe in them. After all, this risk is infinitely dangerous; it is worth the fear of even the most desperate and fearless people. So why would one take such an infinitely great risk, realizing the possible torment? No one would dare expose themselves to it, the only question is the realization that it is real. Again, dry calculation and logic lead even a non-believer to believe.

The logic of the apparent existence of the Original Source and the infinitely unattainable order on Earth and in the Universe, as well as in the Scriptures, inclines me to believe in the truth of the Bible and the Qur'an, not to be reassured, but because of the obviousness that I have realized by applying simple logic.

If you don't believe, then you just haven't tried to realize, you are just lazy or afraid to realize the infinite danger of the future. It's everyone's choice to believe or not to believe. I choose to realize that death is a transition to another life, as the Scriptures say. This gives meaning, great hope, and joy, removes the fear of death, and motivates one to learn about the Original Source through the Holy Books. And the conscious reading of these Books makes the faith even stronger and gives not hope but a real, clear realization that everything it says is true.

The path of unbelief leads only to death. To constant mental disorders, to depression, to nightmares. To thoughts that your end and the end of all your loved ones is the same — death, cessation of existence. This way leads to the formation of a personality with a worldview of death, not of life. I emphasize — leads to the formation, which does not mean that it is good. Paradoxically, this worldview is formed precisely because people do not think about death and ignore the fact of its existence as if it were somewhere infinitely far away.

Think of any significant, important, exciting, and memorable day in your life. For example, the day you graduated from elementary school, the day you graduated from college, the day you got married, the day a child was born, or, unfortunately, the day that someone close and dear to you died. So it happened once, and it can never happen again. And once you either looked forward to the event, worried about it the day before, or suffered agonizingly the day you heard about it. Once, before all these events, we didn't even think about them, then they suddenly came, and now it's all behind us as if nothing had happened. In childhood, we don't think about death, and in adolescence, many people don't think about it at all, but it will come to you, just like all the events mentioned above, and this is a fact that most people ignore throughout their lives. But think about it for a moment, maybe it will happen tomorrow or a hundred years from now, but it will inevitably happen, just like all your important, exciting events that have already happened. I'm 37 years old now, I used to think that was an unattainable age, but lo and behold, school, university and so much more are behind me. And that Day will come incredibly quickly. This is a fact, this is our reality, and this is what awaits us very soon. Earthly life is very fast. And when that day comes, the day of death, everything material, everything living, ceases to exist for you, and you think about what comes next, but it is too late to think.

All this is just to say that our life is very short and the end is very near. There is little time to doubt faith, much less to live the right way.

The difference is that for the unbeliever, death is death, but for the believer, death is resurrection, the passage in eternal life.

The right questions and meanings

Many people do not know what they are living for. This statement is true even for mature people who have lived quite a long life and who work in serious companies in high positions. I am talking about businessmen with considerable life experience. Can you imagine them not knowing what is worth living for? I can sort of understand why that is. It's probably because there are too many imperfections in the world, and they're disappointed in everything and everyone. Today wives cheat, friends cheat, and even family members betray. It is clear to any reasonable person that neither friends, nor work, nor even family can be the only meaning of life as such. All of these are goals that we want to achieve. We want to make our family happy and not in need of anything, we want to not betray our friends, and we want to not cheat on our wives. These are just our goals, which we do not always achieve, and often many people change their priorities in such goals. But neither wealth, nor the opposite sex, nor fame — nothing can be meaningful by definition. A person is satiated by everything if he has it. Either the most terrible question is the question of death. Many people think that either there is nothing in it or there is something, but they do not want to find out what it is. Also, the most difficult question is the question of God, and they do not think about it. It is as if they are ashamed to acknowledge Him or afraid to prove His existence or non-existence. They are afraid that if He is discovered, it will change everything, or if it becomes clear that He does not exist, everything will become even more confusing. The strange thing is that many people have a hard time accepting simple truths. We're ready to believe anything. Any kind of fairy tale, any kind of hypothesis. Even the monkey we all came from. We're willing to believe anything but the simple truth. It's like we have trouble living with common sense. It seems clear to everyone that "GOD" is the most common and natural concept. There isn't a person on earth who doesn't know about Him. Or death? Well, no man will avoid it. And whether we like it or not, it's everyone's immediate future. Or maybe you don't care about these questions? But indifference is a very scary thing. Indifferent people are more dead than alive. They have no interest in living. That's a terrible thing. If you want to have healthy views and not live in blindness and indifference, you have to understand the most important things. For example, what you live for. You have to know what the soul is, who is that being inside us that we are always talking about, arguing about, judging. Why do some people get everything and others get nothing? Where is justice in life? If there is a God. Why do billions of people believe in religions? If there is life after death. If there are rules for a happy life. What true success in life is. How to achieve basic mental harmony. What is the sense of life in general? A sane person should at least be concerned about these questions.

If a person does not fill himself with such meanings, he should force himself to do so, think again about the risks mentioned in the previous chapter, and realize that he will soon disappear, and not only he but also his dearest and closest people will one day disappear forever, as if they did not exist at all. Then try to accept these events as if they were happening today because it is inevitable anyway. Maybe then you'll start asking the right questions and looking for the right meanings. Maybe then you will wonder if the path of faith you have chosen is true. For most non-believers, truly, realistically accepting this will be much more difficult than believing in the Original Source and His Word — the Scriptures. For me, the truthfulness of the Holy Books is obvious. We do not leave "as if we never existed". And according to the holy texts, we are inscribed in the eternal book of life, where it is recorded how we have passed our earthly journey. And we will enter the true and eternal world of God, where we will be held accountable for how we have lived our lives. This is the truth, whether you choose the way of unbelief or the way of faith that is logically justified!

If that day come

If today was the last day of your life.

Would you do what you're doing? For in the face of death, everything loses its meaning. That is, when you realize that you have 2–3 days to live, no more, the value of time in your mind increases so much that you start to focus exclusively on the important things. You don't care what kind of car you have, what kind of clothes you wear, what your co-workers are gossiping about, and in general, you don't care about anything at all. You don't even care about your loved ones, because you know that your family and friends will stay here without you. And they will go on living, breeding, and having fun, and you will not be here anymore. You're going away, and no one from this world is going to go to the grave with you. No one will lie in the grave with you, no one will want to hug your body and be buried with you. This is not a judgment on anyone; it is the truth, our nature. But when you realize things like that, whether you like it or not, the priorities in your mind change dramatically. In general, you know, death can be compared to an awakening. Because a person, just before death, looks back on his life and realizes that it passed like in a mist. So fast, so instantaneous, not clear, like in a dream. And now it is time to wake up. But in the case of death, awakening is a complete disconnection from the outside world and a transition to the world beyond, to another reality, to another dimension, where absolutely everything is different. So you no longer care about what happens here on earth. You only care about what will happen to you after death. And this is a very important question in human life. You can find many pre-death interviews of celebrities or bloody criminals. What's interesting is that when death came to any of them, it was like magic. They started to say things that were contrary to their life path as if they'd been replaced. They put aside all their philosophy, all their false theories about life, about nothingness, about God. It was as if they forgot, did not notice or remember everything they had done all their lives, how they had lived, and what they had done. Just look at the latest interviews of famous godless people, atheists, and criminals. What silly excuses they come up with to justify their godless existence. Their minds are clear and sharp, their pupils dilated. Now they see everything perfectly, hear everything, feel everything, understand everything, and are not as bold as they used to be. Why is that? Because they know what awaits them now and who they will be facing. Every soul knows — that's why. In modern society, it is not common to talk about death. It's a difficult subject for everyone. As one poet said, "Do not spoil our celebration of life." I'm not comfortable with that option at all, and I don't want to hide my head in the sand from our reality. I know everyone doesn't like death, but I don't want to push those thoughts away. I think it's silly to do that. Besides, I think that everyone should be reminded of their end periodically in life to realize the truth. This will help you go through life in the right way, the only right way. Death is inevitable, no one can avoid it, and therefore I will think and reason about it. I want to be clear about where I am going, what awaits me, and what I need to prepare for. That makes sense, doesn't it? Well, for example, before you move to another city, you pack your suitcases with everything you need in advance, find out the routes, and book hotels, and you consider that a reasonable approach to the question of moving. In this case, it's the same, so what's the difference? Even in the case of death, it would make more sense to have the most serious preparation and knowledge than in any other case. You're not going for a weekend, you're going for eternity. Where am I wrong? Doesn't logic just evaporate for most people when it comes to death reasoning? In fact, a lot of people are very contradictory on this subject for some reason. Everyone seems to be trying to advocate logic, rationalism, and sanity. But as soon as it comes to their immediate future, all these people behave like little unreasonable children. They just cling to some dreams of billions, companies, and mansions, or they just drown in alcoholism, drug addiction, idleness, debauchery, indulge in false dreams, and think that everything will be fine. And what about your impending danger, your future "bankruptcy"? Do you not care at all? How can you call such people reasonable? No one wants to think about death: neither young nor old. You can call this attitude short-sightedness, stupidity, cowardice, or whatever you want, but it is not at all reasonable, rational, or sane.

So death is a kind of obstacle, a barrier that everyone has to overcome because it stands in front of every soul and the object of its aspirations. Death is what separates every living soul from its Creator. The Creator is the one who made you, He is infinitely more dear to you than even your parents. And if I am true to myself, if I sincerely love my Creator — I cannot understand how I can hate death. If you sincerely love someone, you rush to meet him, despite obstacles and distances. And who can be loved more than the Creator of you and everything — God? No one. So maybe I should love death instead of hating it? The only thing that should be frightening is to come to Him empty-handed and with a huge baggage of sins that I have managed to commit in such a short time. Without the stockpile of works that He has commanded us to do in the Scriptures. This is the only thing everyone should be afraid of. The logical conclusion of this reasoning is that every person should direct all his forces, all his thoughts and actions to be pleasing to our Creator, to please Him, and to collect the best stock of good deeds before death comes. After all, you will have to answer for your life's path afterward. I believe that the goal of every rational person should be to prepare for the most important meeting of his life — the meeting with the Lord, the Creator. And everything else is just a speck of dust.

Inexplicable logic

I often communicate with unbelievers, whether for work or just with old acquaintances. I study their lives and their psychology, and I talk to them about various subjects. As sad as it may sound, in the absolute majority of cases I see that they are, unfortunately, mostly very unhappy people. But at least in my whole life, I have never met a really happy unbeliever, not even one! I try to explain all kinds of things to them, but as soon as they hear the word "God," their faces change, they are disgusted. I can see that it is not because they do not believe in God. A person who does not believe in something does not resent it and does not feel disgusted by it, because he does not care about it. He just doesn't believe in it, that's all, and it doesn't affect him in any way. But in this case, they have some kind of hatred and disgust. It's like a riot. But such a behavior is not impartial, it is the opposite. Besides, I don't know where they get such beliefs from: whether they are indoctrinated on TV, or whether atheist friends have made them so inclined, I don't know. But most non-believers consider people of faith to be second-rate and ignorant. They have convinced themselves that religion was created for a poor and stupid society. And in the ranks of the intelligentsia, to which they for some reason count themselves, faith seems to them something unacceptable or a relic of the past. I say, "Okay if you are so intelligent, highly cultured, civilized, why are you so unhappy?" After all, the goal of any normal person is happiness. Read any intelligent person. I don't know anyone who consciously wants to be unhappy. So if you have understood everything, if you are so intelligent, knowledgeable, and successful, explain to us "fools" why you are so unhappy. Is this your thing, or am I misunderstanding again? They are silent, they have no answer.

You know what else I've noticed — extremes. When a person is in ignorance and disobedience to his Creator, or when he is not limited by any norms — he does not know the circle of his duties to the Original. "Live as you wish" is what they call it. In such cases, people begin to go to extremes and go crazy. I've watched their attempts to cheer up their existence. They always end up with them professing some kind of animalistic lifestyle. Lots of attempts to justify their godless existence and living without limits, that's all. Drinking, partying, lying, careerism. At home there are always scandals, all family members do absolutely whatever they want. The husband does not report to the wife, the wife does not report to the husband, and children with the latest iPhones slam the door in their faces — there are no common rules, no common laws at all. Everyone has their own personal value system and their truth. It is chaos, total lawlessness. They think that believers are ignorant. Isn't that ridiculous, do you really think that this lifestyle is a worthy alternative to the life of a believer? Well, let's compare, everything is a comparison. The unbeliever eats and the believer eats, both get married, work, travel, and have fun. It seems like all the same things, doesn't it? But in the case of believers, they try to do all these things according to the reasonable, helpful, wise laws of the Scriptures that protect them from anything that contains harm. And unbelievers accept absolutely everything indiscriminately and without analysis. Who is more reasonable? Believers abstain from things that it would be logical to abstain from for the good of the family and others. For example, adultery between spouses, gossip, slander, lying, alcoholism, drug addiction, disrespect for elders, breaking kinship ties, indifference to the poor and needy, exposure of body parts, lewdness, shamelessness, immorality, and the like. And for the unbelievers there is no refusal at all: neither good nor bad nor harmful nor destructive nor disgusting — everything is allowed to them. Everyone may do what he wants, how he wants, and, as they say, it is his right. What are these beliefs based on?

A man was asked, "How did you come to believe in the Lord God?" He replied that he did not see any prohibition of the Lord God that he thought, "It had better be allowed." And also that he saw no commandment in the Scriptures of which he thought to himself, "It had better not be commanded." Maybe you will find unreasonable laws in the Holy Books, then you will offer a reasonable alternative, and then I will agree with you on something. Don't you think it's better to be a believer and live under the protection of a perfect Creator? What is the catch with non-believers? They probably don't have the patience to wait. They ask for and want everything at once. But everything will only happen if it is for good. And people's pride rebels: "I believe and want this, so why is it taking me so long to get it?" And they rebel, they rebel because of their pride and impatience. They lack spiritual fear. The fear and the realization of the greatness of God. Any sane person would realize that there is no better system for man. And even if there were no next life, it would still be more logical and reasonable, more profitable and correct to live according to the laws of the Lord God, and not according to the laws of man. But, thank God, there is a next life for all that. Therefore, to be a believer is actually doubly profitable, it means to be in favor not only in this life but also in the next life.

In this life, you will live with ease and peace in your heart, as a great human being, not as an animal. And by keeping the laws described in the Scriptures, you and your family will be protected from all that is harmful and destructive. That's in this life. And in the next life, on top of all that, you will also receive the eternal pleasures of Paradise. What could be better than that? You will get eternal youth, palaces, and bliss in the gardens of Eden, in Paradise, where there will be everything your soul desires. And you will not be cast out there. There will be no suffering, no pain, no imperfections of body and soul, but only eternal vacations, fun, health, and joy. What more do you need?

What do unbelievers gain? I honestly don't understand you. Don't you think there is a contradiction in your argument? On the one hand, you talk about the reasonableness of godlessness and the unreasonableness of faith. Okay. But on the other hand, your way of life, your misfortunes, and your depressions themselves testify to the unreasonableness of the godless, animal existence and the reasonableness of the happy life of the righteous. And the most interesting thing is that many people look at them and even envy them. Beautiful photos on social networks, gifts, resorts — it is like a kind of idyll, "a model of family happiness and well-being". But nobody sees what's behind the scenes. It's different in real life. In the photo they are smiling, but behind the photo they are fighting. So why are family psychologists so prevalent in their midst? Among non-believers, there is a huge percentage of suicide, divorce, adultery, drug addiction, depression, and unhappiness. Most people do not understand what they are living for and how to live it. If there is no God, if there is no next life, if there is no hell, if there is no Heaven, what are you living for, unbelievers? What is the point of enduring pain, suffering, and humiliation in this life? Okay, if you were all billionaires and bathed in pleasure from dawn to dusk, then at least it would be somehow possible to justify your choice for a life without faith. But even if you are a billionaire without faith, it makes no sense, everything will soon be over forever and more, your end will be even more painful, and you will have to answer for everything. You have been given all this for the glory of your Creator, not the other way around.

But most people are ordinary office workers or employees of some middle-class companies. What do you live for if you do not believe in God? To eat, to drink, to sleep, to satisfy your needs?

You should seriously think about the fact that despite your education, despite the many mentors you have had in your life, despite the many life skills you have learned, despite the many books you have read, despite the many motivators you have had — all of this has not helped you to be happy in your life, to make up your mind, to gain inner peace, to be yourself, to be clear about what you are living for. Maybe it's time to try something else. Why don't you recognize your own experience? Look at your bookshelves. A bunch of foreign authors, beautiful covers, fancy titles, and names, alluring slogans. But there's not much truth in them. Maybe it's time to think about it, or are you going back to sleep? Even if you become very rich and buy everything you want and solve all your everyday problems, it will not make you happy. A few pleasant feelings and that's it. Happiness is not achieved by covering a momentary desire. Happiness is a permanent human state. We will reflect on this a little later, in a separate chapter.

The upshot of all this is one — the unbeliever has logic without logic, and the way of faith he has chosen is not true.

Material prosperity

Let's talk about what helps you succeed in material life. I guess everybody thinks about that. Many people believe in it, in material success. Is it true that this belief will help you achieve it?

In reality, everything contradicts those fairy tales that you have already been told by these modern coaches, mentors, business gurus, and so on. About how they supposedly work 24/7, sleep little, eat little. How they were very poor, but they had the mindset of billionaires and they fought and they didn't give up and they succeeded in the end. And in reality, you know, every single one of these stories always ends up about how one's father was the mayor of the city, another's uncle, I don't know, gave them a 0 % century loan. It's all nonsense, and the reality is completely different. Ask any honest rich man where he got his worldly wealth, his money. He will tell you that he just got lucky at some point in his life, that's all. And he didn't even know how or why. He just found the right people, chose the right contract, and everything just kind of fell into place, and things started going well. That is, circumstances beyond their control happened to them that led them to success and wealth. Think about it. If financial well-being depended on ability, hard work, knowledge, and so on. Then, first of all, smart, energetic, high-spirited people would be the richest people in the world. Second, we would see the obvious superiority of some people over others because of their peculiarities and characteristics. Third, there would be tangible, real, controllable tools to force external circumstances to work for us. Fourth, everyone who knew about these tools would use them and become the richest man. But as we can see, there is no such thing — everything is just the opposite. Some toothless, unpleasant, unkempt, dirty man, who has not finished two grades, buys a tomato, sells a tomato, and is richer than all of us put together. And the same genius with three higher education, training, sales funnel, studying Robert Kiyosaki, with cryptos and tons of empty information, he just sits on such a man's salary and he can't do anything about it. That's how it is, can you explain that? I know a lot of smart, active people who are considered losers by today's standards. I also know a lot of hardened, inert, lazy people who have weak brains, and yet they are all rich. Even though none of them know what a sales funnel is, none of them have read Kiyosaki, and none of them have taken any training, they all have money.

Here is my example. I graduated from the university and I got a good education. And after graduation, I had the impression that some invisible force had triggered a mechanism, I do not know, of liquidation. Everything I did fell apart, I changed a bunch of different jobs, and I always set some goals and never achieved any of them. All my plans were doomed to failure. And the interesting thing is this. I thought, well, it's okay, I have more experience, more knowledge, more connections, and I know certain niches very well. And that means I can easily organize my business in a certain area. I was wrong, seriously wrong. I tried to start a business for six months, I did, believe me, everything possible and impossible. I juggled with reasons, but nothing worked for me, absolutely nothing. Meetings were canceled, roads were blocked, people disappeared, I don't know, accounts were blocked, no money, and cars broke down. That's what was happening, and it was all to my disadvantage. And then I realized for the first time that it's not even about me or the quality of my attempts. There is clearly a force against me that I cannot overcome, no matter how much I want to. I was even sure that if I came to a spring to drink water and this power was not favorable to it, the spring would just dry up in front of my eyes. I realized then that there is a power that you can't just deal with, and He is against my intentions today, that's all. And that was the first wake-up call for me. Time went on and, as they say, you want to eat. I went to get a job, I was about 23 years old, I think. I changed a lot of jobs, I worked as a civil servant, as an economist in a private company, as a sales manager and fitness instructor, as a security guard in several institutions, and even as a loader for a few days part-time. I was in this mode for about 4 years. Until one day I was sitting at work and I had the idea, the desire to try my luck in business again. I had the strongest confidence and motivation. I was sure I would succeed. I had no idea what I was going to do. But I just knew with a hundred percent certainty that the very force that was against me even then, 4 years ago, was on my side today for some reason, that's all I was sure of. Anyway, I quit my job. I met my friend the same evening. And I suggested that we start a business together. He asked what kind of business, and I said I had no idea. Guess what? My friend immediately told me that he wanted to offer me something to consider. He immediately gave me a proposal. He had it all figured out and he had a business plan. Literally the next day, we agreed on a deal with our future business partners. You will be surprised, but after about 5 months everything fell apart. We had unforeseen problems. Our business was gone, literally, in a day. Just like it started, it was over just as quickly as it started. But for some reason, I wasn't discouraged. On the contrary, I had a kind of enthusiasm that was not peculiar to me, and I managed to make some money during that time. There was no long break and now, after a few days, I came up with the next business idea by myself and offered it to another friend. He gladly accepted. We are still working together today. And the most interesting thing is that I, an economist by education, had nothing to do with the kind of business we decided to do. And it all worked out well for us.

I am convinced that it is all from the Almighty. Both my friend and I were in a very difficult financial situation at that time. There were no prospects, but we both had strong faith. In all of this, you know what's amazing? I began to follow the actions of the very invisible force that was helping us move forward in our work. I began to analyze what was going on around me, and I began to notice certain patterns, because this force was subservient to absolutely everything around me, from the smallest to the largest: how clients were found, how problems were solved, and so on. In the beginning, it seemed that they were unsolvable, that we had to give up, but every time, somehow, everything was solved by itself, thanks to some miraculous reasons. And that was the second call in my mind. I remembered that this power had once shown me its might, its omnipotence. It had already proved to me that absolutely everything depended on it, and only it gave success and defeat not only in work but absolutely in everything. I thought, if this power wants to, it will help me even now. And if it doesn't, even if I kill myself day and night, I won't succeed. There was no point in killing myself. My friend and I literally came to stable growth in a few months, and everything was so easy that we didn't even have to try to think of anything or learn anything. The Lord has given us just enough so that we do not depend on anyone and do not have to ask anyone for anything. All praise to the Lord, the Creator. We didn't have to be crazy or nervous or fussy. We just had to rely on our Creator and do our best, that's all. After all, as the Scriptures say, if a person's main concern is worldly life, the Almighty will make him torn between a hundred affairs. But for those who want eternal life, God will make them focus on the main thing, fill their hearts with spiritual happiness and self-sufficiency, and worldly life will fall at their feet whether they want it or not. So the point is that ideally, you should be out of finance. Not that you should turn away from finances, but you should not run after them like a madman. Ideally, their absence or presence should not affect your inner world, your inner state, or your mood. In this regard, I can tell you from personal experience that if you do not change your attitude toward money, you will become a slave to money and spend your whole life, your only precious life, in a rat race for a balloon. So don't go crazy, don't let money influence your mood or your inner world, moderate your appetite. You really need very little to be happy. The problem is that we surround ourselves with people who dictate our way of life and try to impose their rules, their judgments, and the level to which we should supposedly conform. And that's why we think that if we don't have money, or not enough of it, or if we don't have the cars that our friends drive, or if we don't have the clothes of a famous brand, or a new house, or a modern apartment, then we are supposedly humiliated. But in reality, it is not like that. We simply put ourselves in a frame, we are influenced by our environment, that's all. I want to emphasize once again that I am not calling for giving up money and not trying to earn it. You should do that, but you should not put that goal in the first place, you should not dwell on it. If you give in to the influence of others, to their pressure, and you are financially poorer than they are, you are preventing yourself even more from concentrating on making money. All your energies go into thinking that you are something that you are not, that you do not fit into your social circle, all these worries are not only wrong but destructive in every way. The problem with most people is that they have bad friends and a sinful social circle. All kinds of clubs and hangouts, constant hookahs, coffee shops, restaurants, sitting in cars, drugs, alcohol. This is not the life God created us for. We all need to learn how to really live, learn how to get useful knowledge, and start worshipping our Primary Source, the Creator. We must learn to please our loved ones more, to find mutual understanding, and to make them happy. We will be specifically asked for them. Engage in sports, see how you can be useful to people around you, go to charity funds, help those in need, work as a volunteer, and do what you can in the way of good. You will soon need just such a supply of things to do. But not money or earthly riches. You're not taking any of that with you. To change anything in your life — change yourself.

Heaven on earth

Everyone understands that in our world a lot depends on money, on success. I know the frenetic rhythm of life in the cities, and I also understand the hard work in the villages to live as well as possible, in prosperity. This is the daily life of the people. People don't have time for anything but living to make money. Most of them would probably not understand what it is like to live a different way, a way of learning, of contemplation, a way of believing and limiting oneself in many things. In a really cruel life, this can make you a victim.

If all people lived in the same rhythm, under the same laws (for all without exception), and if all these laws were not by compulsion but by mutual desire — everyone would live with one purpose. This one purpose would eliminate social inequality and remove injustice and negativity in society (from crime to psychological problems). And all because this goal would not be wealth and the single-minded pursuit of success.

Unfortunately, in general, all the laws of almost all the countries of the world are created for the enrichment and inviolability of a separate number of people, a minority. That is why these laws do not bring the result that the majority of people, the ordinary people, so much want. All this is because they are not created for the real benefits. If these laws cannot overcome poverty in the world, if they cannot overcome crime and inequality, then they have the wrong purpose from the beginning. So the real laws, the true and universal laws, are written in the Holy Books.

Mankind has a chance to live in Paradise and in this life. Why doesn't one nation, or better yet, the whole world, try, just try, for a few months, to function fully according to the laws of the Scriptures? Just a few months. I'm sure absolutely everything would be transformed. The causal links for the growth of poverty, crime, and injustice would disappear. There would be economic growth as everyone operated under these laws. Honest rulers would have nothing to fear from such laws. Even more. The Holy Books are on their side, they say that a ruler should not be crossed, he should be supported and obeyed.

If nations lived by these laws, all problems would disappear immediately. I will say more. Based on the above logic, if the structure of a separate state, or better the whole world, would be the Worship of God, and if finally, the ruler will be the person who directs his power to the realization of all the laws of the Bible and the Qur'an, then such a society will be provided with justice, general equality, and benefits for absolutely everyone.

In such a society, the basis is faith in the soul of each citizen, voluntarily, not by compulsion, and as a consequence, the fulfillment of the laws of the Scriptures by each person.

The modern structure of practically the whole world is the right of the strong. But this power is not real, it is not true, and it is temporary. People's priorities are confused. They regard temporary material wealth as success. And it doesn't matter how it was acquired. It's Darwin's theory. In such a world, the successful one is the physically stronger one, who is better at deception, who is more cunning, who has more connections, who has more power, who is the most cruel, who has better weapons, and so on. It is all simple, cruel, and uncompromising. One can write endlessly about such a world order, everything is extremely primitive and clear, but at the same time, it is absolutely unacceptable to normal people, people who have realized the truth, who see the path on which real success awaits.

And in fact, this world order suits most of the inhabitants of the planet. After all, the right of the strong is everywhere, everywhere on earth. How do you fix it, how do you make the right of the good, the right of the just, the right of the faithful?

Start with yourself. It starts with the family. The more believing families there are, the greater the proportion of people who are committed to believing the truth, and the greater the chance that the ruler of the state will be a truly believing man, a man of God. The Scriptures tell us that every society has the ruler it deserves.

Each person chooses his way, the masses choose their ruler, and the ruler chooses the way for the state. The state, in turn, returns the fruits to the people: bitter or sweet, depending on whether each person has chosen the right path.

Unfortunately, many people live according to the principle of "as they please" without thinking long about the consequences. Of course, at first glance, it seems easy and beautiful to live without sweating, to live with pleasure. But when you see the results of this way of life — it is injustice, problems, poverty, mutual failure, disease, dirt, immorality. The way of just satisfying one's desires is slavery. Slavery to one's weaknesses, to the abominations rooted in the human soul, and to the influence of society. Such slavery leads to slavery in the ordinary sense, because a person who lives only by satisfying his needs and lusts will never achieve anything worthwhile.

To realize the difference between living according to the principle of "as I will" and living according to the laws of the Holy Books, ask yourself the question, "What guides your actions?" Are you influenced by the habits your society has instilled in you? Perhaps a soul that is already drowning in its abominations and you don't know how to get out? Or by a healthy human mind? Considering that all people have different opinions, that something is good for one and bad for another, can public opinion be the right choice? No, it can't. It is either in conflict within itself, or the collective mind is controlled from without. It cannot just create eternal laws, and if it cannot, then it has no right to do so.

I once went to a private event where everyone was drinking alcohol. In the strange company, I met an old acquaintance, just an acquaintance, nothing more. I had known him for many years, but we had never talked closely, I had a normal opinion of him, nothing special. This event made me ready for an open personal conversation with him. We talked about life, we also talked about death and the attitude of each of us towards it. He said that he was not afraid of death, and at one point I heard something that shocked me. He said that his dream was to kill a man and look into his eyes at that moment. I immediately sobered up, pulled myself together, told him everything I thought about him in his eyes, and left the event. I realized that I was looking at a demon who has no piety — a terrible fate awaits him. He is not afraid of death because he has been dead inside for a long time, and his eyes are empty and faceless. There was no more of this man in my life. I gave up alcohol forever, having made a vow to God. Only troubles come from this poison. The point is that many people we don't even know are demons inside. The dark side of the modern world order suits them.

Money is needed in today's world, but no one appreciates the effort, the sacrifices, by which it is earned and achieved. Perhaps they are not worth it? Maybe the way to monetary wealth takes away much more than the money gives. Often people lose their health and even their lives in the pursuit of money. It is necessary to have enough, not too much, just enough to provide for yourself, your family, and, if possible, as many people as possible. First, you will be doing good deeds, which is commanded to us in the Law of the Creator. Second, by providing someone with wealth, you will help him concentrate on knowing and fulfilling the laws of the Scriptures, if he is a believer.

Many fear that wealth is not enough in our complex and fickle world, and many want to be capitalists. But as it is said, he who is righteous and pure is under the protection of the Lord Himself.

Rulers, calm down, don't look for physical proof of God to choose the path of faith, and hedge your risks. Faith has no such proof, for you will not find it. Money and power will dull every brain and soul unless you first believe. You are crazy about it, but it is all temporary and meaningless. The Bible says, "He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver."

If people concentrate on money, they will always be slaves of that money, modern slaves, because there will always be someone who has more money or power, there will always be someone to obey. And the truth is that both power and money, even the most powerful men, live out their lives very quickly. Because everything on earth is temporary. It's a vicious circle. A slave is one who does not control himself, and who does not refuse temptation.

Only those who do not chase after temptation become free. It is only through faith that one can get out of the state matrix system, the system that has enslaved the world and made everyone a slave: someone is a slave of money, someone is a slave of power, lust, drugs, and crime. And all for the luxurious life of the minority, the earthly rulers.

The wealth that remains with you forever is how many times you have overcome temptation, how many times you have suffered unjustly, and how many good deeds you have done. This is the wealth that no one can take away from you; it remains with you forever. It is the pursuit of such wealth that can create Paradise on earth. It is only in this race that the lust for victory will put a person, his family, and the whole state on the path of success and true prosperity.

Life climate factors

Of course, money is by no means the only factor in securing contemplation-a quiet life of faith, knowledge, and fulfillment of the laws of Scripture-for oneself and others. And money does not mean that if you have enough of it, you will just get by and live your peaceful life. We should not forget that each one of us has been given something, some skills, some abilities, some talents. We have to use them for good, we have to work, and we have to do what is given for good.

Another factor that provides us humans with a quiet and secure life of faith and ministry is fear. It is what keeps us away from bad and dangerous things. It is an unconscious fear, an earthly fear. But people of faith have a spiritual fear — the fear of doing wrong, of straying from the true path. It is this fear that helps to overcome many of the temptations we face. It is this fear that helps to remain faithful to the laws written in the sacred texts.

The factors that help to give one the peace of mind and security to live according to the laws of the Holy Scriptures, the laws of the Original Source, are many and can be described at length. But the most important factor is faith. It should be our main tool.

Security is also one of the most important factors for a happy, peaceful, and successful life in faith and righteousness.

Anything is possible in these difficult times. Sometimes danger strikes. What should you do if your family is in danger? After all, a believer is a peaceful, calm, and thinking person. It is necessary to take advantage of all the factors that will help you to protect yourself and your loved ones from any kind of difficulties and dangers. It is very important to be aware of the possible consequences of your actions. All of this should be taken seriously and with great responsibility. First of all, based on common sense, any danger should be avoided if there is even the slightest possibility of it. Risk should never be underestimated. And it does not matter how strong you are. It is necessary to build a life position, avoiding provocations and dangerous situations because it is a waste of energy, which is necessary for the application in really important cases. It is necessary to get rid of emotions that do not allow you to avoid provocations or negative situations: pride, anger, envy, jealousy, irritability, etc. — this is unnecessary for normal life. You will lose much more by giving in to these emotions. There is no point in proving anything to anyone. You just have to draw conclusions and learn lessons from such moments so that you will not encounter such things again in the future. Sometimes it is not easy to get rid of such feelings, but you have to work on it. For example, in order not to get angry with someone who has offended you, you should first think of that person in a good light. And if someone has offended you in any way, you should first try to justify what they've done so that you can forgive them. After all, the cause of his rudeness may be an illness or just a black streak in his life. In this way, you can put an end to all negative emotions. And you get rid of those thoughts when you forgive someone.

You only need to act decisively when you are backed into a corner. There are no options left when your family is in physical danger and you are, as they say, cornered. This is the time when you must be able to overcome your fear and battle to the death. It is necessary to be able to mobilize all your forces 100 % in such moments. Doing sports or solving intellectual problems on time develops this ability. No matter how bad it sounds, in extreme moments it is necessary to be able to do it, but only in such moments. At the same time, you should have even more faith and trust in God, so that God will help you make the right decision, the right action.

If you think about it, no one alive is 100 % protected. Not even the heads of state, or even just the rich and influential people. There is always the probability of danger to any person at any time. It doesn't take a great mind to realize that a negative, dangerous incident is always likely to happen to absolutely anyone. So how do you protect yourself and your loved ones? I come back to faith. Only with unwavering faith and purity in one's actions, not contradicting the laws of the Holy Scriptures, with prayers to the Original Source, can any person find His protection from all negative, bad things. It is necessary to believe in it, obviously, unwaveringly. There is no other way. But do not forget the famous saying: "God helps those who help themselves." Only the observance of the laws and commandments of the Bible and the Qur'an will keep you from the dangers of living. As you can see, all paths and considerations logically lead to one thing — trust in the Primary Source.

Now let's talk a little bit about the factor that will help develop faith. It is not easy at all to believe clearly. You have to work hard at it, and the best help is the Scriptures. Why do you go to school, spend a dozen years in school, then 5 years in university, and maybe even more, go to various courses to improve your skills? Yes, all to have a good job that allows you to live a good life at a certain level. What could be more important than striving for a perfect life, an eternal life? I guess nothing. So why do so many people think you don't have to do anything for this? Well, since it is the most important thing, it requires the most doing, and the most effort. But even in this most difficult case, the Lord helped man: He structured and gave us a plan for what is necessary to do. This plan is the Holy Books of the Bible and the Holy Qur'an.

How much time does each of us waste daily, distracted by useless information or just plain idleness? It may seem to many that they simply don't have the opportunity to engage in anything that could be beneficial. Nothing will benefit you more than studying the Holy Books. Even 20 minutes a day is nothing compared to the time you waste.

When you read these great Books, your soul is immediately filled, the feeling of wasted time disappears, and you are occupying it at that moment with the most valuable information in the world. Here is the main factor for a quiet, righteous, successful life. This is where everything begins and everything depends on it.

Happiness

Let us continue with a topic touched on earlier in the book.

Happiness is the permanent state of man, which comes through tranquility, harmony, and joy, which in turn comes through feeling close to the Guarantor of all, the Creator, God.

When a person is calm because he has fulfilled his duties to his Creator, when he feels the Lord's contentment and closeness to Him, and when he can justifiably hope to be protected from the punishment of Hell and to receive an invitation to the gardens of Paradise, that is the kind of person who will certainly be happy. A slave of money, a slave of women, a slave of alcohol, a slave of drugs, a slave of power, a slave of lust, a slave of his desires and illusions cannot be happy. There's no way he can be happy. If you are prudent and want to find true, unfading, radiant happiness, be sure that there is no other way to happiness than the one your Creator has pointed out. All other paths are wrong. We are unhappy only because we disobey our Creator and seek happiness outside of Him when happiness is within Him. Your salvation, your happiness, your contentment, your peace of mind, your joy — all of these are with your Creator. No one can give you what the Lord can give you. He has all the keys to the treasures, and only those who believe, trust, and worship Him alone will receive them. The person who trusts in the Lord in all his affairs is self-sufficient, complete, fulfilled, happy, strong, steadfast, healthy, and prudent in every way. And such people are at an advantage because the Creator and His Guidance are with them.

Black and white

Everything that was predicted in the Scriptures many hundreds of years ago is actually happening now. We live in difficult times. Today chaos and demonic forces are running rampant throughout the world. There is no otherway to describe what we see around us every day, what the news tells us. There are conflicts, wars, deaths, tragedies, bankruptcies, crimes, prisons. So many horrors and catastrophes happen every day. Some will say that everything is going around in circles or that it has always been this way. But I am living now, not then. There are many lies in history and we will never know the real truth. There have always been wars, conflicts, and criminals, but in terms of the destructive effect on humanity, in terms of the terrible cruelty with which all this is being done in our time, no time can compare to the present. Because in our time, people's ability to do bad things has increased. It is possible to commit a crime from a distance, using computer technology, modern machinery, psychological techniques, modern scientific data, and even rockets. People are crazy about money, power, or vanity and will do anything for it. They believe only in money as if they would never die. Many tragedies and crimes can only be explained by evil. The truly good people are in the minority. This should motivate everyone to believe because the Holy Books say that when these things begin to take place, the end of the world is near, and everyone will be judged for the life he or she has lived. All that remains for believers, regardless of the circumstances around them, is to remain committed to their faith to the end and every day. It is necessary to be patient. It's one of the most important characteristics required by the Scriptures.

The sooner a person realizes what is happening now, the sooner he sees where the truth is, the better his chances of not falling into such devilry, and the better his chances of salvation.

There will probably be many dissenting or confused people who have read this book. This is normal. All of us are constantly in different states of mind, different moods, different emotions, and different circumstances throughout our lives. I will speak for myself. Everything I write here came to me in moments when I was as calm as possible when I thought about nothing but the meaning of life, about death, about what will happen next. When I was in a state of complete abstraction from my day-to-day problems and the hustle and bustle of life. The same thoughts came to me in moments of deepest stress, when I was ill or severely traumatized, in difficult circumstances, after a serious illness, in times of loss and despair. Helplessness, humility, and the realization that you cannot influence the situation make you look at the world with different eyes: impartial, humble, not proud. The need to prove anything to anyone disappears. There comes the realization of the need to apologize for everything, to forgive everyone, and the desire to just live, not to prove anything. I do not think that I am something special, on the contrary, I believe, I am even sure that healthy human nature is like this for everyone. The state of the soul, mind, and body at such moments is as close as possible to the true, right state. It leads us to the right path. There comes humility, purification through suffering, or through abstraction and consciousness. And much more often a person comes to such a state through suffering, not through consciousness.

Have you ever asked yourself why? We are created in such a way that we can see the truth and the fallacy of our sinful lives in a very powerful way at a certain moment. This is the only way a person can learn and clearly realize the truth. To see the truth of our being, the essence of our Creator.

If you do not realize it on your own, it will come in severe trials. There are such trials in the life of absolutely every person who has not independently come to an understanding of God, His laws, and truth. In the end, death awaits us all — is it not a trial, the last one in life, the last test and event in this life? Why put ourselves through these trials when the truth can be felt, understood, and realized in calm circumstances? The Holy Books prescribe eternal torment in addition to suffering in this life for those who have not believed and realized even during such hardships of fate.

If a person is tempted by grief, he is more likely to turn to God; if he is successful in life and has an easy life, then he is less likely.

This book will be more easily understood by those who have had trials in their lives or are in that time. By those who, at least for a minute, have a clear understanding of the hour of our death in this world, the insignificance and finiteness, the mortality of everything that exists in it, what is the rightness, the truth. For it is said in the sacred texts that without the store of deeds that God has commanded us, all is vanity.

One must be faithful to God's covenant and not violate it (the laws of the Bible and the Qur'an). It is necessary to realize death in this life as clearly as possible and to treat everything very seriously, with fear: from one's deeds, intentions, and actions to the clear realization that there will be a resurrection and that one will be held accountable for everything one does. There is no way to avoid this judgment, just as there is no way to avoid death in this world. It is necessary to understand this, and this understanding comes to a person only when a person experiences some misfortune or a very important responsible event. Emotions, when you realize the hopelessness of the situation, also give that understanding.

But it is necessary to have this understanding even without such important events and misfortunes, it is necessary to realize every day the reality that death is inevitable, that the answer is inevitable, that the Lord God exists, and He is so great that we are infinitely far from realizing His true greatness. We need to take this as seriously as possible.

So many people have left this world in my lifetime: friends, relatives, close acquaintances. Sometimes you remember the bright moments of your life with them: how much emotion there was, how much energy, life, happiness, positivity. It seemed to be forever, endlessly, how good it was, how much goodwill and joy was with them. And now — they are gone. This reality leads us to pay attention to the infinite, to the eternal, to the spiritual.

People live as if they were immortal, with pride, with the desire to humiliate someone, to exalt themselves, to prove, directly or indirectly, their superiority, their importance. Stop for a moment and realize your insignificance in the whole ocean of creation. You were not here, and you will soon disappear, so what importance do you want to prove? Show patience in all things and humility in the face of reality. Our body is a test, it causes us to sin, to be proud, and to satisfy dirty desires. That is why it is written to hate your flesh and to curb temptation. Isn't it enough for you that man is the image of the living God? Why do you need to assert yourself and emphasize your importance?

Billions try to justify what they like, to give it meaning and eternity. Many seek meaning based on their opinions and pride, but we should simply submit to the Word, which is the most authoritative and accessible to everyone.

Billions of people have visited this life and left, quietly closing the door behind them. They lived, they felt, and they loved, just like we do. Every single one of them disappeared. If every person on this planet understood this and clearly comprehended it, would we have time for nonsense, unloved work, people alien in spirit, hatred, envy, longing, disbelief, boredom, weakness, cynicism, contempt, or revenge? Would we waste precious months of our lives fulfilling the dreams of others? Would we be tormented by the fear of what the crowd will think of us?

Why conflict, struggle, and accuse each other of wrongness or unrighteousness? This is what the Qur'an and the Bible forbid.

On the edge

Sometimes it can be very hard, incredibly hard. I have been in those situations myself. You have to remember that many people have much more difficult circumstances in life. Everything is known in comparison. I have experienced extremes in my life where I wanted to end everything. There were intentions to end my life. Thank God I pulled through.

Time has passed since that difficult period in my life, and my life has changed dramatically. If I had shown patience in a difficult moment, time would have led me to a beautiful present without suffering and torment. I have had a family, my beloved daughter Diana was born. Other priorities emerged and positive emotions that are like nothing else.

And not so long ago it seemed to me that everything had collapsed, everything was lost and there was a moment of despair when I thought about how to cut short this great gift called life. I am ashamed of my stupidity and weakness. And I thank God for all that I have, for the fact that He did not give up on me and did not let me commit this, one of the most serious sins, I ask God's forgiveness for my weaknesses and sins.

If you live with faith, God will not let you fall in life. If you ask for something and it does not come, do not be upset; on the contrary, you should realize that man does not know what is good and what is bad for him. If something does not come, but you ask for it and want it very much, it means that you have another reward. Just keep on living and believing, and everything will be fine.

Once I was asleep and I saw a dream with a snake near my house trying to hide in a large puddle of water. I tried to catch it with a pitchfork for a long time and with great effort, and in the end, I caught it.

After that dream, my life began to turn black. My family began to collapse, my wife left with my child for no reason. It was as if she was possessed by an evil spirit. Otherwise, I can't explain what she did. And all of this happened at a time when I was in high-risk loans and working around the clock. I was doing 100 percent of what I could do for a better life. At that moment, everything was cut off from me again for I was trying to live according to righteous statutes. I did not expect this, especially since I had not committed any serious sins. I turned the switch in my head for a while, and with a great burden on my soul, I threw myself into all kinds of sins. That's my weakness, I gave up in times of trouble, which is something you should never do. It seemed to me that I was no longer worthy of faith and the Lord's attention. As time passed, things began to get better, but sin cannot be erased-it is there.

I can tell you one thing from my experience. Never despair of the Lord's mercy. Always expect the best from Him. Sincerely recognize your mistake, repent from your heart, and start with a clean slate. When you have drifted away from God, when it seems that there is no way back — stop, remember death, remember, and realize the moment of the end in this world: yours and all the people dear to you. This will make you turn to the right path, for which it is never too late, even if you are a great sinner. Better late than never. It is never too late, even in the hour of death, for sincere repentance to God and recognition of your sins to save your soul.

This is where my weakness, my human imperfection, was revealed. If we all feared the Creator like death, like an incurable disease, there would be no trouble and no misfortune on earth, for "Everything is in the hands of Allah." This is the name of the Lord God, according to the Holy Qur'an. And yet God is infinitely more terrible in His wrath. According to the Holy Scriptures, if there is no doubt in our faith, we will have trials absolutely according to our strength or none at all. And if a person is not faithful enough to God, he will certainly be tested beyond his ability. But the one who really wants to reform himself after such a test, having concluded that his faith and righteousness are insufficient, will start a new path, more righteous, more pure. One should never give up the way of being faithful to God. In trouble as well as in joy, one should give thanks to the Lord. This is what worthy people do, even when it seems that all is lost and you are a complete sinner.

There is a theory that the Earth is a prison for souls. After all, life on earth is difficult for people. From this point of view, if life after the grave is better, one should try even harder to reform oneself in this prison by fulfilling the commandments of the Scriptures. If it is even worse there than it is here, one might think that it is too cruel for such a weak creature as man, and then the Creator is cruelty itself. But if that were true, there would be nothing good in this world. But how much good and joy there is in this world, how much happiness and positivity, suggests otherwise. On the contrary, the Creator is goodness and love. And if it is hard out there, it is only for those who deserve it.

Sometimes reality hits you in the head with a deceptive realization of the true gravity of the present moment. When life is very hard, when misfortune strikes in such extreme moments, the brain takes everything literally. A person begins to think, "Here it is, reality, everything has already happened, what to do, who will help, nothing is getting better, it is getting worse, there is no light for improvement, there is no strength, you are about to give up. There's no way to fix it. It's a dead end, there's no way out.

These are the most responsible moments, the most difficult, and at the same time the most favorable, in which you should not give up your spirit. Do not disappoint God with all your strength, show how devoted you are to Him and how much you believe in Him without seeing Him. Keep the commandments during these times and do not doubt your expectations or your faith. The reward will come soon. Everything will be recompensed a hundredfold to the righteous. It is difficult, but have confidence in the result as in your reflection in the mirror. It is not for nothing that there is a saying on earth: "When difficulties increase and multiply, then victory is near." The Holy Books say that patience is one of the most important qualities of a righteous person. The Qur'an says: "Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship]. And to your Lord direct [your] longing."

It is also important to realize that no matter how hard this life is, eternal happiness in Paradise is infinite and worth a thousand hard lives, but the Lord tests us with one.

Both good and trial, calamity, and prosperity come from the mouth of the Almighty, but a man must only lament the sins he has committed and not reason about what he thinks he has gained by good deeds. That's the biblical meaning.

Man is given the freedom to choose good or evil in his way of life, but it is written that all foreknowledge comes from the mouth of the Lord. You are not to guess what foreknowledge is intended for you — you are given only one thing for your good — to strive for good and to fulfill the covenant laws of the Scriptures.

Life

I do not mean to sound pessimistic — it is not. There's a lot of talk about death. I am sorry, but that is the truth, and death is inevitable. Death should be seen as a ticket to meet the Lord, and it should only make us happy, because there is no greater happiness, and we cannot even realize it. And this is not about pessimism, quite the opposite. Where the book began was exactly how to accept this truth, our end in this world, more simply and more easily. Through logical reasoning, it all led to the fact that death is not as frightening as people imagine it to be and inflate it with their emotions, it sometimes needs to be remembered to go the right way. Much more important is what you will receive for your deeds after death, whether the scales will be heavy with your good deeds. Death is only a transition to the real eternal life, and the whole earthly life is an examination for which each of us will receive a grade. The earthly life is the enjoyment of seduction. The Holy Qur'an says, "Surely We have made all that is on the earth an embellishment for it to test people as to who of them is better in conduct." So for man not to be deceived, he must thank God every day sincerely for everything that surrounds him and not go against His will. Life is the greatest gift, there is nothing more precious than life; life, and love.

It is necessary to enjoy every moment of life, to rejoice in the air we breathe, in the ability to see everything around us, to touch, to feel good emotions, to think, to rejoice in everything we can and have. It is necessary to live each day to the fullest and to accept that we are chosen because we are given to live and to feel. All this could not have happened, but the Creator chose us, and that says a lot. It is also said that man is made in the image of God. And what is the Universe before man, if man is the image of the Original Source? There is no need to fear anything, but to rejoice that God has chosen us to be His image. And we are obligated to become an acceptable image, to live according to the laws of our Creator, and to glorify Him for all that we have been given. There is only one thing to be afraid of — going the wrong way. The main thing is to believe explicitly, with absolute conviction, without any doubt.

If we pay attention to simple things every day: how pleasant it is to breathe fresh air, how happy the blue, clear sky, bright sun, sea, lakes, forests, and mountains are to the eye, how happy to hear and see loved ones in good health and good mood — this series can be continued endlessly; then everyone will soon realize what a great gift it is to live! And everything around you will become much more valuable every day, infinitely more valuable, and will give a person more and more happiness and joy every day. That's when a person is truly living a full life and making the most of it.

Energy

Movement sharpens the joy of life.

You can feel the joy of life very vividly by doing sports. When I was seriously involved in sports, when I had a specific goal to achieve a great result in sports, I experienced incredible life and joy even while waiting for a training session. I can't describe it any other way. Simply great happiness. I don't know how to describe this feeling in detail, science describes it as a fusion of the basic hormones of happiness, I can say this: a clear strong desire to achieve and present a sporting result, which is movement, freedom of movement, lightness, youth and simply life. For me, sport is Life with a capital L. For many years I have dedicated myself to sports, to high-performance sports. Sport is always with me, it is part of my life. Why am I writing this? I realized that sport is one of the best ways to describe the joy of life. I have experienced true happiness in training, in competitions, and even in dreaming of achieving a sporting result, which is true freedom. Sport is the highest manifestation of the satisfaction of movement. And movement is life, no matter how banal it may sound. Such feelings are most vividly experienced at a young age when the body is completely healthy. If you have the opportunity to do sports or just any physical exercise, do not put it off for later, live today. Go for a run, jump around, or play some kind of sports game. You will immediately feel a great deal of joy. All of this will make you more aware of the gifts of life around you, and you will love and appreciate life even more. You will simply feel more and more every day the desire to live, to simply exist on this planet for the sake of movement. And you will be right. Life, movement, freedom, lightness — this is a great gift for each of us. So do not kill yourself with anything, live, be happy, move with joy, and do sports. This will bring you closer to the Original Source and strengthen your faith. Live today and every second, remembering that all this can end at any moment. Live with joy.

Right knowledge

The world really is a beautiful place. For a bright and happy life, education is equally important, proper education improves your mind. It is very essential for human development. It is wonderful that we have science, literature, art, and technology. Intelligent people have tried to understand how our world works. How to achieve happiness. They just tried to understand how to live right. But here's the strange thing. In all this time, no philosopher, no science, no one has been able to derive the ideal rules for a happy life. And that's very strange. For several thousand years people have been racking their brains and still, there are no rules. People don't have the answers. That's why they have a demand for coaches and mentors who capitalize on the questions of how to achieve success, how to achieve happiness, and how to achieve peace of mind. History is full of attempts to create an ideal, just state, where the minority would not exploit the majority, and everyone would be for each other's benefit. But it all turned out to be in vain. Today, society is divided. Some believe that happiness lies in pleasure and lack of restrictions, others in detachment from the world, the third in money and recognition, and the fourth says that happiness lies in the influence of power. Many have also taken the position that "it's neither my headache nor my piece of cake," and they don't want anything. The fact that we have not been able to come to a common opinion just shows that we are not able to create such a set of rules. First, our brains are very limited, and second, we're all different. Third, our thoughts are formed differently depending on our character, level of knowledge, upbringing, social environment, individual characteristics, diseases, mood, life experience, and environment. Our thoughts are influenced by absolutely everything. We cannot find the way to a happy life on our own, because we do not know where it will lead. We cannot take into account all the peculiarities of every person on earth to create a common set of rules for everyone. We cannot see the future. Only the One who can see all the possible outcomes, the One who knows everyone in detail, the One who created everyone, can do that. It's logical — it's the Original Source, the Creator. And He gave people the Scriptures that contain these rules, rules for a correct and happy life.

Once I was talking to a great lover of reading, who had read a lot of books. There was hardly a famous writer whose works he did not know. I asked him the question, "What have you learned from literature?" He hesitated, there was a pause, then a short answer: "Nothing, exactly nothing". We began to discuss and concluded that every writer tries to understand life. That is, each writer offers a different vision of the truth. Each writer sees in his way the concepts of good, evil, morality, and the laws by which everyone should live. Each offers his or her vision of the meaning of life, each tries to understand life for himself or herself. All of them do not have unambiguous, clear-cut answers. They have different versions, which contradict the version of another, no less outstanding writer. But what is the greatness of all these outstanding people? The fact that they have never understood anything? In any case, one of them is wrong, because there are no two truths. So in a conversation with my friend, he told me that he had spent half his life, an enormous amount of strength and energy, studying all those tons of books. Now, looking back, he said that he does not understand where he got so much desire and energy to study and delve into all this for eight, ten hours a day.

What was the point of our conversation? He said that he did not regret the time he had spent. On the contrary, he had come to ideal, exhaustive conclusions that freed him once and for all from false ideals and the captivity of human thought. We finally agreed that neither philosophy, nor literature, nor wise men, scientists, or anyone else has the answers to the elementary but most important questions. None of them knows what the soul is, who we are, where we come from, where we are going, how we should live, what our happiness is, what is good, what is bad, what is death, what is after death, they know nothing at all. So what is their greatness? If their greatness is that they have spent their whole lives searching for answers and have not found them, then I would agree. Or maybe they are considered great because those around them think they are great? That's more likely. But none of these greats know absolutely nothing about the nature and essence of the soul, the laws of the Universe, none of them, least of all Robert Kiyosaki. Besides, none of them even came close to figuring it out. The problem is not that all writers are so stupid and some are smart, no. The problem is that even if they were a thousand times smarter and tried for millions of years, they would still not be able to comprehend with their minds what is beyond the mind, beyond the human mind, beyond the material world, beyond our universe. All that people and writers can have are opinions, but no reliable knowledge about the soul, death, and the meaning of life. It turns out that we spend a lot of time with the opinions of people, ordinary people, and mortals like any of us.

So why do we read so much and study so much? School, then university more. Tons of information, thousands of books. Great names and the desire to study their works. However, there is very little useful knowledge in these works. And why do you need knowledge if it will never be useful to you in your life, or if it will be useful, but it will not benefit you or society? If we understand which science and which knowledge has the greatest and most useful impact on our lives and the world around us, then we will understand which knowledge is most useful and paramount to study. So the greatest influence on us and the world around us is only the Source, the Creator of everything. So what kind of knowledge are you seeking, who or what do you want to know about? There is no knowledge more useful and important than the knowledge of our Creator. His Word — the Scriptures — is the most precious thing that mankind has. I am not saying that other knowledge is not needed, only that it must be secondary, but also applicable to life, otherwise what is it for?

Every education begins with the ability to read and write. These are the basic skills of a modern person. Reading is a basic, fundamental tool for self-education, on par with communication. It must be used to acquire a sharp mind capable of always seeing the truth, of discerning what is right and what is wrong.

Since my childhood, I was not very fond of reading. I read all the books and works in school in a shortened version. Maybe it was because I did not like reading. It takes a lot of time. And I was a very active child, very fond of movement and sports. And all my free time I wanted to play soccer until late at night, ride my bike, climb trees, and play with my dog (we had a dog of the breed "boxer" — it was a friend of my childhood and I loved him very much) and just communicate, play with peers. I just really wanted to move, to live. My childhood was just like that, it was very active. But that just means that I loved life very much. It didn't stop me from getting good grades and enjoying both sports and studying, it was a great time, a time of dreaming and the joy of movement. We were given the task of reading as many books as possible every summer vacation. Of course, I made it my goal to read as many as I could. But when I started reading, it usually took me an hour, two hours, or even a whole day, and I just felt sorry for the lost time. After all, it was beautiful weather outside, summer, and I wanted to exercise, adrenaline, and positivity. A few days later I found an abridged version of the book and read the abridged version. I can only think of a few books that I have read from beginning to end. They were few, to my shame, everything else I read in the abridged version just to get a sense of the story. I have a technical mind and have always been good at math. I read a lot of fiction, but almost all of it in abridged form. For example, one of the few books I read in its original form in one sitting was Hemingway's THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. I literally read it in one day, that's how gripping it was. This, of course, speaks to the soul that is put into the information. You can feel it right away. The Bible, for example, is a much more voluminous book, incomparably more voluminous. I've always wanted to read it, ever since I was a kid, but I was put off by the sheer amount of information. Compared to Hemingway, however, it drew me in and immersed me far more. Realizing this great book opened up a different perspective and a different vision. Words cannot describe it. It is not reading with my eyes, but reading with my soul, because when you read some lines, you say to yourself: "That's right, that's exactly what I need. And a kind of relief comes over you. You can only compare it to something that is revealed to you in secret, and you get happier with every line because you feel chosen, lucky, and enlightened.

Due to my busy and active lifestyle, I hardly had any free time. One day, when I came home, I decided to sort out old and unnecessary books, and among all the books I found a Bible that had once been given to me as a birthday present. That's when I started reading it. It fascinated me so much with life wisdom and revelation that I wanted to go on and learn it all. Often, after work, my eyes were very tired, and due to fatigue, the pace of reading was different, which made it difficult to understand the essence of what was written and to concentrate, and I wanted to read in a rhythm. I decided to listen to the audio version of the Bible. It was a great solution. I could go on a long trip and listen to the Bible, come home, and listen before bed or first thing in the morning. It's important to have the same audiobook reader, so you get used to the pace and the voice, and everything is heard in the same breath. You're completely immersed in the holy text and it's like touching something invisible, something true. With each line my faith grew stronger, it's impossible to describe how clear and powerful that feeling was. Everyone should do it — read or listen from beginning to end, in silence, alone with oneself, with God, and with faith. The Holy Books (Bible and Qur'an) touch absolutely everything in the world, they are incredibly comprehensive and organized, with much obviously not written by man.

Therefore, there is no more perfect information for a man than the Holy Scriptures. After the Bible, I decided to read the Holy Qur'an. I did not see any difference in essence from the Bible, which is what I expected, because God is One and so is His Word. We will talk about this later. In every sentence of the Bible and the Qur'an, there are such deep meanings and fundamental principles that one wonders how it was possible to present the whole essence and meaning so succinctly, concisely, eloquently, and clearly. This is because the holy text contains obvious truth and vast knowledge, and they create a strong conviction in people, without which a person will not be able to follow the straight path. And that is why these Books are called faithful guides because they point the way to everything that can benefit people. This means that the Scriptures are the right guide for mankind in all matters great and small. They are the most useful and correct knowledge. After some time, I regularly listened to the Holy Bible and the Holy Qur'an and read them from time to time. I can definitely say that reading is more informative than listening. But it is better to combine the two.

The subconscious mind is true

Absolutely everything in our imagination, and even much, infinitely more, will manifest in this world: either something was already there, or is there, or will be there. Humans have invented the age of the Universe and have invented scientific justifications for the creation of everything, which are based on assumptions under which they have placed fictitious scientific concepts, formulas, and laws. In fact, there is no one hundred percent evidence to support a scientific justification for the origin of the Universe. Not only that, but even science only goes so far as to say that it exploded. It also emphasizes that this is not certain. But where did the point come from, there is no answer, what was before the point and around the point? Perhaps our brains are not even capable of realizing such concepts and measurements. After all, time and space are also scientific definitions that emerged from the moment of "explosion" after the expansion of the Universe. The question, "Where did it come from?" can be asked endlessly about every subsequent answer to the chronological origin of everything. This means that we will never get an answer. There is enough reason for that.

The probability of the origin of everything in the imagination and far beyond is infinitely high, based on the thoughts described above. What are we talking about when even the oceans of our planet are only 3.5 % explored? There is no obvious proven data point of reference for anything.

For man, both time and space are infinite, because he is finite, or to be more precise, much faster finite. But in fact, it is easy to prove the opposite, that time is an illusion, and space is created, so it is also finite. Earlier in the book I pondered this. What is beyond space and time? It is even impossible for our brain to perceive such dimensions, but they are there, and beyond such dimensions, there can be an infinite number of other, more complex dimensions. Therefore, the probability of everything is infinitely high.

As for us, human beings, considering the insignificance of man and everything that happens in his instantaneous life from birth to death, compared to everything that exists in the Universe and beyond, the probability of our resurrection and transition to the next life is infinitely great. For people who have accepted the truth (that everything is created by the Creator), there is no doubt about it. Our resurrection is inevitable. This means that man is not finite. We must face the truth boldly: do not turn away from the truth and do not be afraid of the most seemingly unrealistic expectations. This is essentially faith. Any mathematician will tell you that if the probability is infinite, then it is true, so our resurrection is real. In this case, the transition to the next life is instantaneous: if the soul does not go immediately to another world, then after we die, no matter how much time passes, we will not feel time, and for us, the resurrection is immediately after death, in any case. In addition to the logical possibility of resurrection, both the Bible and the Qur'an tell us about it.

I once thought to myself, "It's just like you think. I first had this thought when I was a child. I remember the moment very well. I did not realize what I was thinking, but I felt very strongly and vividly a kind of rush of power and emotion similar to great happiness. For some reason, I was sure at that moment that I had been given something very important to know.

Now I understand why I had such an emotional state, and what knowledge my subconscious mind was telling me at that time. Everyone can understand and realize the essence of everything. The only problem is that people do not believe. To them, everything seems inaccessible and distant.

Eliminate the emotions and thoughts that a person's greatness is measured in money or power, because it is not true. Each of us is a great being. When the feeling of deficiency disappears, you begin to live honestly about yourself. And whatever you think about, you can clearly visualize and understand how it is possible, how it works, and realize the essence. It is important not to be afraid of innate thoughts — everything is exactly as the subconscious says if, of course, your mind is healthy. Following this principle, you will surely come to the most important thing — the knowledge of God. This knowledge encompasses absolutely everything.

The inner conviction in God gives rise to an unshakable certainty that everything is bound to be all right in one way or another.

I am absolutely sure that it is given to every human being to realize the truth, and every individual correctly perceives and realizes reality from birth. It is just that the majority are led by the wrong people and their teachings, even the government systems that already exist on Earth. Man has to calm down and ask himself the question: "Why am I following some temporary trends of humanity or the crowd, why am I afraid to believe in what is actually obvious? Many times I have observed in 5-10-15 years that what is happening now is exactly what I had previously envisioned. We are afraid to go against the false human game. Afraid of what we don't have. We have to look at the bottom line, never doubt, and be a righteous person, everything else is secondary. In reality, there are no trends or directions of human teachings that are true, there is one essence, one truth. And you either follow it or you don't. The strong one is the one who is unshakable and unaffected by false information.

Nothing stimulates the power of the spirit like the reality of circumstances that you have not doubted for many years. It simply takes patience and humility. It does not all come at once.

But for a person of strong conviction, waiting is not a chore, but a time of joy, because he knows for sure that it will be so soon, and no other way.

Just be honest with yourself and don't be afraid to follow that truth within you. This will keep you out of many bad situations in life because you will be following the right way. You don't have to get into stressful and dangerous circumstances that force you to clear your mind. It is better to come to this before because in the end there is a truth that awaits you.

How important it is to boldly walk the path of life that your subconscious, your soul if you will, tells you is right.

Everything has already been and everything goes in a circle, nothing new will be. The book of ECCLESIASTES in the Bible tells us that "everything is meaningless," "what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again, and there is nothing new under the sun," and "what is lacking cannot be counted." All you can do that is truly great and worthwhile is simply to live by the statutes and laws of the Scriptures-a ready-made guide to life. That is what you have to put first, not following someone else's opinion, making something up, or proving something to someone else. In this way, you will always be able to distinguish the right decision, the good from the bad.

The stumbling blocks and grains of consolidation

In this chapter we will reflect on religious disagreements, we will try to understand why there are many religions and how it can be if there is only one Creator.

There are a lot of religious directions and just beliefs in something higher, supernatural in the world and the whole history of its existence. Each faith has its own philosophy and its revered man-made texts. But everyone understands only one thing, there cannot be a thousand beliefs with different truths, because there can be only one truth. How can we find it and decide for ourselves in which texts we can see it? The answer can only be found in those texts that were not created by man, but by the Higher Mind that created us. These are the Holy Scriptures — monotheistic, divinely inspired Books containing a revelation of the Creator Himself, the Lord God, to mankind. Let me say right away that I will argue my thoughts with specific words from the Bible and the Qur'an. It may be a difficult subject for some, and all the meanings can be found in the Holy Books. However, it is necessary to argue with words from the primary source in order to understand the issue.

All religions that came from the Prophet Abraham, or that came later from these religions, have a foundation that is solid, eternal, and unshakable. All these religions are based on the Bible and the Qur'an. These Holy Books were sent down from on high to the prophets, who transmitted the holy texts to the people. All of these prophets were descendants of Abraham, the chosen prophet with whom God made a covenant that if his people would obey God's laws, God would bless them forever. That is why all these monotheistic religions, led by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are called Abrahamic religions.

For example, the oldest monotheistic religion, Judaism, is based on the Tanakh (part of the modern Bible). Christianity and all its denominations do not abolish the Tanakh and the Old Testament as a whole but include and emphasize the Gospel that came later. Islam also accepts both the Torah of Moses (also part of the modern Bible) and the Gospel but includes the Qur'an, which came even later and is the foundation of Islam. The reason for this in the Gospel is that the New Testament does not abolish the truth of the Old Testament, but comes to replace it for new generations of humanity. That is, the new means clarifying, but not abolishing.

Abraham was a prophet, and the Pentateuch, which is the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible), says that he preached one God and His laws and statutes, which are eternal for posterity, that is, for all Abrahamic religions. The Lord promised Abraham that his descendants would be priests and kings, an eternal line blessed by God Himself. The only requirement is to keep the commandments, laws, and ordinances of the Lord, which is what believers in God have in common.

Just as in ancient times two sons of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael, were divided, so today the Abrahamic religions are divided, but their root is the same, and the Law is the same for them.

The main figures of Christianity, Islam, and the entire religious world are Jesus Christ and the Prophet Mohammad. They are also Abraham's descendants. Jesus Christ is from the lineage of the Prophet Abraham on His mother Mary's side, and Mohammad (the last and main Prophet of Islam) is from the lineage of the Prophet Abraham on His father's side.

The first miracle of the life of Jesus was His birth, which was created by the Holy Spirit.

Why do some followers of one religion categorically deny the faith of people of another religion? We are only talking about the monotheistic religions that originated with the prophet Abraham.

It is not logical, because there are many truly righteous people among the followers of any religion. Faith is the foundation of a person who is pleasing to God, his core. If you pray incessantly and there is no faith, it will be useless. It is like a farce in the modern world: you do not have a penny to your name, but you have the latest model cell phone in your hands or a new car bought on credit. Such people are just pretending, but they are not real. I would not divide Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and all monotheistic Abrahamic religions in general, but unite them all into one — the worship of God, simply people who believe in the One God and have the intention to be His pleasers. All these people are already united by the Holy Bible and the Holy Qur'an.

Why limit and cut off anyone from belonging to the faith by putting some kind of stigma on them? A person of any nationality and any religion to which he has been introduced by the society in which he lives can be a true believer.

No one can take away anyone's right to strive for a perfect next life. Everyone has a chance to enter the real life where the Lord God Himself rules. In our reality, everyone wants to stand out, to win, to prove their worth, but in God's world, everyone is one. That's what it says. And there is no such thing as one succeeding and the others lagging behind, there, if one succeeds, everyone succeeds, and there is no need to succeed, everyone who is there has already succeeded.

Also, I do not understand how one can not recognize the Bible, but only the Qur'an, and vice versa, because both are from God. There are many arguments for this in the book. There is no need to claim that this or that has changed over time, we will never know for sure.

It is logical to accept all believers: Muslims, Christians, Jews, and in general all monotheists who believe in one Lord God. By no means do I consider anyone unworthy to be called a believer, only the Lord determines that. There is no point in measuring who prays or believes better, and it is a sin to do so. God will judge everyone, not men.

For some reason, people have seized on the minimal differences in various religions, as it seemed to them, and blown them up into irreconcilable opposites. It is not necessary to look for differences and points of conflict but to focus on what is common. The emphasis must be on what is fully accepted in all monotheistic religions based on the Holy Scriptures.

There are many religions, but there is a paradoxical commonality of basic rules of morality and human life in all existing monotheistic faiths.

All the stumbling blocks between different religions come from different interpretations of the sacred texts and from not emphasizing the most important things.

I just want to argue logically. Let us assume the truth of the Holy Qur'an. The Bible was written long before the Holy Qur'an, much earlier. And if we do not accept the concept of the Bible about the existence of the Lord God: the Father-God, the Son, in whom is the Spirit of God, and the Holy Spirit, who is also the Lord, then it means that the whole Bible was written by fraudsters, because the testimony of various prophets about the Son of God, Jesus, is written in various books of the Old Testament long before the Gospel. Then everything in the Bible is untrue. However, when we compare the Qur'an and the Bible, it becomes clear that much is essentially the same. Moreover, many passages in the text are absolutely identical in meaning, as are many, if not most, names and historical events. So how could the "impostors" have written the divine text in the Bible long before the Holy Qur'an was written? It becomes clear that both books should not be questioned. The laws and rules of the Holy Qur'an are fully accepted and not denied by the books that make up the Bible. I will try to argue this in more detail below.

Everything I say about the common ground between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism certainly applies to the denominations of the major religions. For example, the Christians: Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism.

The eternal dispute between religions and their denominations is who is the most correct.

And the most correct is the one who lives closest to the laws of the Holy Scriptures (the Bible and the Qur'an).

After all, there are stories in the Holy Books of people who had no idea what religion and faith were, who simply lived by the commandments without knowing and were counted among the righteous.

Because of the stumbling blocks discussed in this chapter, religions fall into disagreement. Is it not written in both the Qur'an and the Bible that because of such disagreements, pagans, criminals, great sinners, and whole nations were destroyed as punishment?

What we fall into disagreement is a temptation for us. Why do people keep comparing themselves to demonstrate who is more true, more righteous, and so on? Competing to see who is the proudest and most arrogant! That's just the way it is.

We can only speculate. Our disagreements are based only on suppositions. Anything other than the pure truth (one Lord God) can be disputed, either justified or somehow proven not to be as it is written.

One can speculate that both the Qur'an and the Bible were not accurately translated into other languages. So many hundreds of years have passed. So many people have rewritten and retold these books. The translation can be misinterpreted and the meaning can be distorted. A mistranslation of just the words "son," "slave," or "love," which can have several meanings in one language, changes the understanding of the true meaning. Lots of different cultures and nations. You can speculate endlessly, and you can prove and find differences based on nuances, and make a big deal out of it. It's utopian.

For example, the Qur'an rejects all religions except Islam but recognizes righteous people within each religion, i.e., actions and ways of life that conform to the statutes of the Holy Qur'an. If a person is righteous, he is accepted by Islam as well as by Christianity.

There is a Sura (chapter) in the Qur'an that glorifies the Christians, and it says: "You will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, 'We are Christians.' That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant."

It is not the affiliation to a religion that counts, but the personal actions and the life path of an individual.

Do not Judaism, Islam, and Christianity know that one of the greatest sins is to dispute? This is what the Qur'an and the Bible say, God's covenant with believers, an unshakable set of rules for life.

So why should the monotheistic religions, which began with God's covenant with Abraham, the first true pleaser (who unswervingly did God's will), not rely on this common ground, which is much greater than that which prevents them from finding common points?

There is much debate and disagreement among religions about the semantic meaning of certain words. For example, what the Bible or the Qur'an calls Jesus. "Prophet" in the Qur'an, "Lord" in the Gospel. Is this what we should emphasize? It is not the words that are important, but the meaning given to them, which is always the same, but defined differently depending on what is written. But instead of focusing on common meanings that do not cause disputes and rejection in different religions (and such meanings are most likely to be true), the opposite happens. Most people look only for differences and reasons to question and reject one religion or another, not realizing that all Abrahamic religions are branches of the same tree.

Due to translations and multiple rewrites of the Holy Books, the meaning of the same word can be lost. After all, Jesus could have been called "Lord" as a person, which could have been spelled "the Lord" by the translator's hundredth author. But Jesus could have been called "the Lord," and thus God Almighty could have been addressed through Him. People appealed to God through prophets and messengers.

Should this bother the believer? It doesn't matter — Lord, son, slave, or prophet — the laws don't change for people because the laws and statutes of the Scriptures come from the Beginningless Creator Himself.

The main source of disagreement is over the Trinity and the person of Jesus Christ.

The Qur'an says, "Associate none with Allah" and "He is far above having a son!

In the Bible, God says of Jesus, "My servant the Branch.

Where is the disagreement?

In the Qur'an, Jesus is the Great Prophet, the Messenger, the Great Servant of Allah, the Word of Allah, and the Spirit from Him. In the Bible, He is the Spirit of God in the flesh in the image of God. I think there are common meanings here as well.

I should immediately point out that Jesus did not call Himself God in the Bible, neither did He call His mother Mary God. He called to "worship only the Lord God and serve Him alone." Jesus gave the first and greatest commandment: "The Lord our God, the Lord is one."

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was told by an angel: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the holy one who will be born will be called the Son of God." This is a Son of the Spirit, not of the flesh as we tend to understand.

The Bible also calls Jesus the Son of God with the same authority. What is meant is that God Himself acted and worked on earth through Jesus. Christ had a mission to keep those who believe in God from sin for their forgiveness and resurrection. It is said that only those who believe in Jesus' sacrifice to the Lord God for the forgiveness of sins for all who repent and believe will receive eternal life in Paradise.

There are many times in the Bible when Jesus stops people when they start to worship Him personally as God. He said, "No one is good but One, that is, God." Another thing is when people worshiped the Lord God through Jesus Christ.

"My Father is greater than I," that is what Jesus says, and everything He does is all by the will of God, not by Jesus Himself, and the power that is in Him is given by God. That's what the Bible says.

God Himself says about Jesus in the Gospel: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"; "My Beloved".

If someone does not like the word "son," this word is applied in the Bible not only to Jesus, but also to all believers and the favored, which proves once again that the meaning of the word "son" is not our ordinary one: not a son of the flesh, but a son of the Spirit, a person who belongs to the people of God. Jesus told the apostles that He would ascend "to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God". The Bible also says, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Also, the words "Father" and "Son" can be mistranslated or misinterpreted and convey the wrong meaning. For example, one can be a son by the flesh, or one can be a son by the spirit. Finally, in GENESIS (the first book of the Bible), at the creation of man, it says that God "breathed into his (Adam's) nostrils the breath of life."

In conclusion, not only Jesus but all those who are acceptable to God are sons of the Lord because the Holy Spirit is in them. This is confirmed by the examples of the above sayings.

It is also said that there are people of God who are predestined even before birth, that is, believing people. They are all endowed with the Spirit of God and are also called the sons of God in the Bible.

If the Bible calls all these people sons, what confuses those who think it is unacceptable to call Jesus the Son of the only God, after all, He proved by His deeds that they were accomplished by the power given from above, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

King David said in the PSALMS (one of the books of the Bible) that the Lord also called him a son.

Even the most important prayer in the Bible begins with the words "Our Father," indicating that all who believe and turn to God are children of God (not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit).

In the Gospel, Jesus commented on David's phrase about Him ("The Lord said to my Lord"): "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, 'You are gods'?" This law is the Law of Moses, the first books of the Bible, which are also recognized by Islam and Judaism. If the Almighty called those to whom the Word of God (the Bible) was given "gods," should the One whom the Lord sanctified by the power of the Holy Spirit and sent into the world (Jesus) be accused of blasphemy for saying, "I am the Son of God"?

"Though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know," says Jesus. And there is certainly logic in this because the miracles that Jesus did are certainly from God. Both the Bible and the Qur'an talk about these miracles. The Qur'an says, "We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear proofs and supported him with the Holy Spirit."

How can you quibble with the fact that the Bible calls Jesus "the Son"?

What about the fact that the Bible, back in the Torah, through Moses, calls Jesus a prophet, that all are brothers and sisters in faith, and that Jesus is the Teacher? Isn't that what the Holy Qur'an says? And that prophets are to be listened to and obeyed?

Jesus equates the word "son" with the word "servant" and says, "Servant does not know what his master is doing," but what the Lord is doing, no one knows in advance. So all are servants before the Lord, and we can say that the word "son" is the equal of the word "servant". The only difference is that only acceptable slaves who did righteousness were called sons, and this removes one of the major stumbling blocks between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

All are servants of the Lord God, especially among believers, and it is the highest reward to be honored as an acceptable servant of the Most High God. In this regard, the Bible fully conveys the meanings of the Qur'an and vice versa, and unequivocally says that everyone is a servant of the Lord God, from ordinary people to Jesus.

The oldest religion, Judaism, recognizes and is based on the Tanakh (part of the Old Testament of the Bible) and does not deny the existence of Jesus. Judaism objects to Jesus being considered God. But, as noted above, Jesus did not call Himself God. On the contrary, He immediately corrected those who addressed Him incorrectly. He warned that there is only one God and that one should worship, give thanks, and pray only to Him.

If we follow the logic of Muslims who do not recognize Christianity, they, like Christians, confess the Trinity.

The Christian understanding of Jesus and the Islamic understanding of the Qur'an are similar.

Islam sees the recognition of Jesus as the Son of God and the belief in the Holy Trinity as a departure from monotheism. But this is only a superficial understanding.

There are more similarities than differences between Christians and Muslims as well as Jews.

The Holy Qur'an, like Jesus, who was born in the flesh, is sacred and eternal in nature.

For Muslims, Jesus is a prophet. For Christians, Jesus is not a prophet, but He is the Son of God. And that's a huge difference if you look at the words and not the meanings. Treating Christ as a prophet in the eyes of many Christians is about the same as calling the Qur'an a collection of Muhammad's sermons.

But the Bible itself calls Jesus the Servant, the Son, and the Word — with many definitions. The point is that all who have the Holy Spirit are one unity. It is the same Spirit, but each one has a different role: Moses had his, Abraham had his, Elijah had his, Jesus had his, and Mohammad had his. Why play human maximalism with words, who is greater, who is less, and sow discord among people of different religions who sincerely want to be with God? After all, many people do not choose a religion but are born into one or another, depending on the state or society in which they live.

The Trinity in Christianity does not mean pagan polytheism. God in three persons is like the three social roles of man: son-husband-father or daughter-wife-mother. The roles are different, but the person is one. Or like mind, thought, and spirit performing different functions in one person.

It is because of their misunderstanding of the difference between nature and personality that Muslims do not understand the essence of the idea of the Trinity.

The Qur'an is the Word of God incarnate, not in the form of a human being, but as a Book of eternal truth. In other words, the Christian understanding of Jesus and the Islamic understanding of the Qur'an are essentially identical.

Thus, Muslims themselves, without realizing it, confess a Trinity, if we follow their logic in accusing Christians: God the Father is Allah, God the Son is the Qur'an, and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Gabriel, who brought the revelation from God to the Prophet Muhammad.

It is very important to pay attention to all these parallels today in order to emphasize that Christians and Muslims, as well as Jews, have much more in common than they have differences. They belong to a single monotheistic tradition.

Also, many Muslims, if not most, honor Muhammad as highly and even more than Christians honor Jesus, despite the rebuke to Christians for worshiping Jesus as well as God. Yes, Muslims do not worship Muhammad, but they honor him as highly and majestically as most Christians do not honor Jesus. But true Christians also worship only one God, as the Bible commands.

You can say whatever you want, but you have to look at actions and meanings, not at literal words.

The Qur'an says, "Do not say, 'Trinity. Stop! — for your own good." "Allah is only one God." True believing Christians agree with this and do not say that Allah is the third of the Trinity. The Bible also says: "There are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one." Are these associates or other gods? No, they are the One Lord God. That's why Christians do not ascribe associates to God (and the Qur'an forbids this). They do not say "Third in the Trinity."

So where is the incompatibility in all this? What stumbling blocks might there be?

In the book of ISAIAH in the Old Testament, there is a prediction of the birth of a great servant who will be called God and who will be the judge of men.

More than once in the New Testament, Jesus is referred to as the Judge.

It's written, "No one has seen God at any time" (of those who live on earth). But some, chosen ones, were honored to communicate with Him. For example, some spoke to the Almighty through angels. Jacob wrestled with an angel, not with God. The Bible is specific about this because there are phrases describing this event that can be interpreted to mean directly with God. Moses, for example, spoke directly to the Lord, but he did not see His face. Finally, it is said that "God is Spirit.

The Torah in the Bible says that God appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with the name "God Almighty," not with the name "the Lord". This means that God communicated with them from the highest and most almighty position without revealing Himself to them. This shows that the communication with God was not as we understand it literally.

All Abrahamic religions have an absolutely identical understanding of God Himself. They all agree that there is one Supreme God, Whose name in the Qur'an is Allah, and in the Bible — the Being, the Beginningless, the Creator — God has many names.

"Obey Allah and obey the Messenger," says the Qur'an. There is no contradiction with the Bible. Christians do not worship Jesus but obey Him and believe in His sacrifice for the sins of mankind.

It can also be said that Jesus is mentioned very often in the Qur'an. The Gospel is written about Jesus. The Gospel itself, and the Torah are confessed in the Qur'an. There are also prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament. So there is no doubt about Jesus, the fact that He was, the fact that He had the Holy Spirit, and the fact that He performed miracles.

There are also many prophecies in the Bible about a great prophet. Geographical locations and many facts about him, including his lineage, are strongly associated with Muhammad. If we take the non-canonical scriptures of the Bible, there is a direct prophecy about Muhammad.

In confirmation of the above, I quote some sayings from the Holy Qur'an that fully correspond to the meanings in the Bible.

The Qur'an: "There is no god except Allah."

The Bible: "I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me."

Jesus says in the Qur'an: "Whoever obeys the Messenger has truly obeyed Allah"; "So fear Allah and obey me"; "Surely Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him [alone]. This is the Straight Path.

The Bible: "You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve"; "This is My beloved Son (Jesus), in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

The main thing is that these sayings have absolutely the same views on the most important — the worship of one God.

The Qur'an denies the death of Jesus on the cross, stating, "They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, though it was made to appear like that to them," and Jesus was taken up to heaven, and another was killed in His place. This contradiction between the Bible and the Qur'an must not be emphasized. The point is intention: people wanted to do it and did it, even if it seemed so. Jesus had the Holy Spirit in Him and no wonder He was taken up to heaven. The point doesn't change at all.

All this also shows that the Qur'an does not refute the Bible, but in the essence of the most important point, delivers the same truth.

In the book of ZECHARIAH from the Bible, Jesus is the greatest High Priest and will build His temple with the congregation, that is, the believing people, the people of God, who will follow Him.

The Gospel says, "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him (resurrect) those who sleep in Jesus (by believing in Him)."

Now the Qur'an, in which God Himself says: "O Jesus! I will take you and raise you up to Myself. I will deliver you from those who disbelieve, and elevate your followers above the disbelievers until the Day of Judgment." Where is the contradiction?

Since the Gospel speaks of the atonement for the sins of all who believe in Jesus, accept His teachings, and obey His commandments, then any rational person who believes in God will believe in Jesus.

The Bible says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God," which is the same as "sons by the Spirit" and "servants of the Lord," and thus co-heirs with Christ (will also receive the resurrection), "If indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together."

What does it mean to "suffer with Him"?

Christ sacrificed Himself for the sins of mankind. We are all sinners, and we sin every day. So we all need forgiveness, we need Christ (to accept Him, to believe in Him) to be forgiven. This doesn't mean that we should just believe, but we should obey His commandments, which is difficult in real life, but this is how we will be compassionate with Jesus. These commandments are common to all Abrahamic religions.

Christians are baptized in the name of God the Father (the Creator), the Son (the Messenger in the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit as a sign of belonging to the people of God, a believing people. Baptism is a sign of faith that Jesus Christ consciously went to the crucifixion as a sacrifice to the Lord God for the forgiveness of sins for all who sincerely repent and believe in this great sacrifice.

The cross in Christianity is the symbol of the baptized Christian believer. It is the symbol of those who have worthily accepted their trial in earthly life and bear their cross in compassion with Jesus, who have chosen to live according to God's Word, according His commandments. The cross means, "I acknowledge the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to God for our sins."

Another stumbling block might be mentioned. The Torah in the Bible says that if someone hurts the righteous, "your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." But in the Gospel (the New Testament of the Bible), Jesus calls us to turn the right cheek when we are struck on the left, and to love one another, even to love our enemies, and to pray for them, thereby increasing our reward from the Lord ("Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but give place to wrath; for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay,' says the Lord"). But no word says that returning evil is a sin. However, the Qur'an says that it is good to retaliate against evil, to defend yourself against it, but if you bear it or forgive it, it will be better for you. The Holy Qur'an confirms and does not refute the above mentioned in the Bible: "A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth — and for wounds equal retaliation. But whoever waives it charitably, it will be atonement for them."

This is the common level in seemingly irreconcilable laws.

In the same way, all the laws of the Qur'an and the Bible have common meanings, and most of them are essentially identical.

A law from the Bible covers another from the Qur'an and vice versa and does not exclude one from the other. It may be ranked higher or lower than another law, but it is not rejected, it is accepted just the same, and for us human beings, what is the difference — we are obligated to fulfill all the laws written in the Scriptures.

Every monotheistic religion based on the belief in one God, the Creator of all things, inevitably comes to the same laws and moral and ethical statutes.

Even if there were no Scriptures, no religions, it is given to the human mind to realize by simple logic the existence of God, the Creator of all things. The knowledge of God is inherent in man by nature, by the Creator Himself. It is given to man to distinguish "black from white," what is bad and what is good, what is impossible and what is possible. In fact, this is enough to live without violating the laws of the Holy Scriptures, which we have today in both the Bible and the Qur'an.

Moreover, the five basic principles of Buddhism do not contradict the laws of the holy texts.

Nevertheless, the religions of the Holy Books still have different interpretations on some issues, but they are united in the main thing — belief in and worship of one God and moral guidelines. Today we must not discredit or weaken each other, but be conscious that believers of all Abrahamic religions are allies who must unite in the face of a common challenge — the mass rejection of the idea of faith as such and the total destruction of all moral ideals.

Why argue about who is greater: Muhammad or Jesus, son or prophet or slave; dead or not; Trinity or not; rightly believed or not; Bible or Qur'an? Muhammad and Jesus — they both came from the Lord God and their mission is the same — to bring the truth to the people, to save the people, to make them acceptable to God, to cleanse them from sin. God is one. The laws are the same for all.

It seems that some influential people in or outside of religions artificially create tension and discord between religions by emphasizing the wrong things.

I conclude that there is no point in dividing all the Abrahamic religions — one should focus on what they have in common. All meaning adds up and differences disappear when you focus on what is common without looking for points of contention. The point is that God is one for all religions, for everyone and everything, and the right way that God approves is to live according to the laws of the common canons in the Holy Qur’an and the Holy Bible in worship of one God. This is monotheism.

The goal of every believer is the same — it is the goal of true success, about which there is a separate chapter in the book.

The temple

In the light of the previous chapter, and based on the logical conclusions drawn, it is possible to determine for oneself another controversial issue about which many have long been confused.

Thus. A temple is a holy house, cleansed of sin in all its manifestations during its construction and the worship of the Only God in it. This is what makes such a house holy and worthy of God's attention.

Today there are many questions about the situation in temples of different religions where there are many icons, pictures, statues, and portraits in front of which people kneel and pray. Many temples have inscriptions on the walls that are not from the Scriptures, and many temples are engaged in the trade of various kinds of religious accessories and not only.

The Bible says that the true temple is the human body, in which there is a soul. It is important to keep the body, like a temple, clean from sinful dirt. Then it will be honored by God's attention.

Therefore, any believer can go into any church, mosque, place of worship — any temple — and see what the atmosphere is like and whether that temple meets his definition. It can be any temple of the Abrahamic religions; I do not divide them as I do the religions themselves, for their definition and purpose are absolutely the same from the beginning.

How do you understand which temples are true? It's the one that awakens in the believer the power of faith and feelings of connection with the Lord God, the one that awakens the desire to speak, to address God directly with awe and great fear. The temple is where there is nothing but the worship of God and the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. One will act righteously in any temple only in pure worship of the Lord God.

Even if you address God in any other place, you will be communicating with God from your temple, called the body, and if it is purified, you will experience the same grace as in any other real temple.

Beam in the eye

I am often struck by how difficult it is just to have an adequate and logical conversation with people, even with those who are closest to me. There are some subjects where it is difficult to get anyone to participate in an open conversation. One such topic is the greatest sin according to the Qur'an and the Bible — idolatry.

Everybody knows it's bad. And when I bring it up with them, they're convinced they have nothing to do with it. People usually do not realize that they believe in omens, wear medallions, worship icons, pictures, statuettes, a piece of bread, water — the list goes on and on. I want to emphasize the word "worship". It is precisely the worship of these things, the belief in their miraculous power, and the asking for their help. This is fundamental because, for example, just wearing a cross as a sign of belonging to Christianity, as a sign that you are a believer, and having a cross to worship it — these are fundamentally different things. You can stand in front of an icon, in front of a cross, in front of a mosque, in front of a church — it doesn't matter, but when you pray, you have to turn to God and only to Him. You can see that almost everybody is worshipping something. And what is that but idolatry? You should only believe in the power of God and His Word. That's what the Scriptures are. The sacred texts tell us to worship only God. And yet there is no alternative to these Books. They are the very word of God. As it is said, do not take away or add to what is written, otherwise, false information will lead you in the wrong direction and you will not find the right way. Anything that is an addition or subtraction to the text of the Holy Books is a delusion. And whoever does it, he makes it a sin.

I'll say more. People put the church and the house of worship above the holy laws of God. And when you begin to argue logically in conversation that every temple, every priest, every person, every creature on the planet — all of them have to live according to the laws of the Bible and the Qur'an, then people get stuck. It's like they're blinded for the Scriptures are above everything. They are the Word of God, the beginning and the end, the law for everything. And every temple, every priest is a mediator, a means of clarification, correct explanation, and instruction. No temple ordinance, no other, absolutely no rule, statute, or constitution comes first. And if anything contradicts the wordsof the sacred texts, it is not from God. The Word of God is the one and only, and you should proceed from it in all your actions, thoughts, and intentions. In this way, you will find the right path, organize everything in your mind, and live peacefully.

Laws

Commandments and moral standards are what is common to all believers in the One Creator, the Lord God. The commandments of the Bible, almost all of them, are duplicated in the moral standards of the Qur'an, and vice versa. Moreover, even Buddhism, which has no belief in the Lord God, has 5 vows in the Buddhist code of ethics that do not contradict the laws of the Abrahamic religions. This shows that a healthy human brain arrives at the only true laws through logical reflection.

God is the Source, the One, and His laws are one and true for all. Therefore, it does not matter what religion or nationality one is.

It is easy to find the moral rules and commandments themselves in the Holy Books. I am sure everyone has heard of the 1 °Commandments of Christianity. I will mention only the simplest laws, which are common to all religions, and at the same time the most important ones: You shall have no other gods before the Lord your God; you shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything; you shall not take the name of the Lord in vain. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the gravest sin. Suicide, murder (especially of the innocent), pride, lying, malice, adultery, theft, and envy are grave sins.

According to the sacred texts, the only holidays, laws, and customs to be observed are those specified therein, and no others.

The most important characteristics a believer should have are love, mercy ("For all else comes from it, and mercy comes from love"), repentance ("Repent of your sins and encourage others to do the same"), humility, patience, and forgiveness.

Do not doubt your faith, have a clear conviction. Never be discouraged and drive away despair.

Think of the following sayings, they say it all and commentary is unnecessary.

"Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil."

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge."

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding."

"Do not despise the chastening of the LORD, nor detest His correction. For whom the LORD loves He corrects."

"Keep your father's command, and do not forsake the law of your mother."

"But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant."

"And do not walk on the earth arrogantly."

"Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin."

"Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation."

"Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake."

"Never say that there is no sin upon you, for it is a lie."

It is written that when a man sins grievously, evil clings to him.

The sacred text tells us to fight against the temptations in life and to get rid of passions ("Do not tempt anyone and do not tempt yourself"), to keep promises and oaths to the Lord ("Do not swear at all", but if you do, "You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn").

Always thank God for everything and don't forget Him when you get what you asked for! Some sacred lines say that in a dispute between believers, the one who gives in is always right.

Do not add to or subtract from the words of the Scriptures.

Always pronounce after expressing or thinking about your plans, assumptions, and desires: "If the Lord God will."

Give alms from what you have.

Do not forget the Qur'anic saying, "The reward of an evil deed is its equivalent." But whoever pardons and seeks reconciliation, then their reward is with Allah.

The Bible also says the same thing: "Love your enemies. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?"

And this is a logical thing. A person will get his reward for injustice, effort, and suffering. If you reciprocate, you are simply giving back. But if you respond to evil with good, then you have made a loan.

If someone is a danger to you, stay away from him, but it would be beneficial to forgive him. This is the formula of righteousness. In this way, you will remain without sin, and the Creator will give retribution to the enemy for everything. It is not that you want your enemies to be punished, but that they should understand and be aware of the evil they have done. In this way, you will cleanse yourself from sin, and "you will heap coals of fire on his head."

This is a micro-summary of the laws of the Scriptures.

There are many more detailed instructions in the Holy Books that touch absolutely every aspect of our lives. For example, regarding food: "Keep yourselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled."

By obeying the holy laws and commandments of God Himself, you will be a righteous person, part of God's people, whom God watches over as the best of His servants.

As you study the Bible and the Qur'an, you must always remember that these laws are universal and common to both of these great Books.

Purpose and true success

The goal of everything in our material earthly life: work, sports, business, politics, study, personal life, and every life activity is to enjoy the results of our efforts, and it is right. There is only one misconception: you can wish for anything (which is not evil), but to lust is only to please God, only then you will have everything harmonious and good.

You must not put anything or anyone first in your life except God, and you must worship and serve Him only. Everything else should be secondary at best.

The ability to succeed in one area of life or another is your gift from above. Let this ability bring you a lot of money, fame — any good thing. But you have this success only to glorify your Creator who has given you all this. Otherwise, you will not have this success for long. Millions of destinies prove that. Never boast or take credit for your achievements — all praise to God.

Many atheists are millionaires, billionaires, soulless and unprincipled people, also cruel criminals who live a luxurious life until their last day on earth. The Holy Qur'an says about such people: "And let neither their wealth nor children impress you. Allah only intends to torment them through these things in this world, and [then] their souls will depart while they are disbelievers."

These people have put the most important thing at stake — their souls. They have risked everything, and there is no need to look at them as an example. Let alone envy them. You should not envy anyone. The lives of such people will also fly by very quickly. The pleasure will be temporary, and then eternity awaits them, perhaps a cruel eternity that rewards them according to their deeds.

Perhaps the Almighty is giving them a chance to overcome the temptation of wealth: either to give it up, to sacrifice it, or to lose it in great trouble, and to get on the right path by repenting.

No one knows how a person's life will turn out: he may seem to be rich and have everything he wants, but in reality, he's deeply unhappy and has many difficulties, worries, and sorrows.

I am far from being righteous, I have acted quite badly in many situations in my life. It is not easy to be righteous in reality, and only the strongest, even the saints, can do it. But it is at least necessary to strive for it with all one's soul, to have an intention, and to do everything possible that depends on one in every concrete situation of life so that one does not deviate from the laws of the Holy Books.

Perhaps then you will join the number of those who succeed.

One should remember that the Creator loves absolutely everyone, not only holy people. Everyone will receive according to his efforts. One should always believe only in the best, for God gives only the best. Prophet Muhammad said: "Always expect the best from Allah."

So the highest pleasure and reward of effort comes from what comes first, the goal. That reward is eternal life in the revealed greatness of God. One must believe in this with absolute clarity and conviction, without doubting it for a second. It is difficult because many people want a sign, an omen, a phenomenon, or a vivid dream — proof that God exists. But what is your merit if you believe only after the sign? It is the same as a cheating wife who knew in advance that her husband was coming and canceled the meeting with her lover. It doesn't make her reliable, at least. And that's the logic of it. That is the essence of faith: To be faithful no matter what. Married couples want the same kind of commitment from each other: that each will be faithful to the other, regardless of distance or the temptations of life. Fidelity to God must be infinitely greater.

As the Gospel says, "He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much." Your success in everything depends on your faithfulness to God, not false success, but real success. Real success can only come from God.

The result of the effort to achieve this higher goal is not money and fame, but good deeds, fighting temptation, and fighting evil with the help of the fear of God that arises from faith — true power. This is true wealth. That is what leads to true success. It is clearly defined in the Holy Qur'an: "For whoever You protect from the evil of their deeds on that Day [on the Day of Judgment] will have been shown Your mercy. That is [truly] the ultimate triumph."

The intentions, desires, and dreams of every human being are to obtain a boon, and of the believing human being to obtain a deserved blessing from the Most High, and to praise Him for it. For all things are according to His Will and not according to man's efforts. Your efforts should be to fulfill the laws of the Scriptures and to overcome obstacles in the only right way. Only that should come first.

To achieve such a goal, you should observe yourself from the outside: your intentions, thoughts, and actions (which are the most important things for a human being). Eventually, you will get to the point where you stop forcing yourself and just live righteously naturally. Also, don't forget to thank the Creator for everything and appreciate what you have, and you have a lot: your life is a win in the biggest lottery with a chance of one for infinity, think about it. You will see that no matter how many trials there are, all will be well in the end, just have the patience to wait in righteousness, for hardship is inevitable.

People's desire to accumulate earthly goods: expensive cars, jewelry, clothes, and luxurious houses are just the result of our imperfection. Everyone has a need to prove something, to win someone over, or to please someone. And there is no point in proving anything to anyone. It is a waste of energy and just pride — a grave sin. It is necessary to please only the Creator. It is necessary to have the elimination of all negative emotions, the realization of the end in this world, and the belief in the truth of everything that is written in the Holy Scriptures.

Of course, if you have a talent for something, you should develop that talent if it does not bring evil. And on the contrary, if you see that it is bad — do not do it under any circumstances. Maybe you just really like something — do the same: make it better for yourself, for your family, and for others. I also hope that my gift of writing this book will do some good.

It is important to believe and do what you sincerely consider to be right, without any doubt, to do it from the heart, that is, not to force yourself, but to live it so naturally. But if a person feels that he is used to living differently, it is better to force himself to live righteously — not sincerely, but it is better to do so than to drown in sins.

Thus, pleasing God is the goal of the believer in every Abrahamic religion. Faith itself in God is at the heart of this goal. And as it is said he who believes without evident proof is blessed. Such a man pleases the Creator, for that is what faith is — a test of faithfulness.

It is necessary to remain faithful to God in difficult times. Not to lose heart under these circumstances is the way to success. In this way you will please the Creator, and the reward will not be long in coming. It is enough to always ask only for mercy and forgiveness.

One day everything will be fine, there will be a white streak. But if a person renounces faith at a difficult time, he is like one of those spouses who vowed great love and betrayed it at a temporary difficulty.

The consequence of faith is the fear of God. It helps to achieve the main goal — to be an acceptable servant of the Almighty. The fear of God is to realize the infinite greatness of the Creator every moment so that every temptation in life pales before the understanding of Whom you can upset. At the same time, it is necessary to realize Whom you can please with your good deeds. The reward for this will also be infinitely great. God must be loved sincerely from the bottom of your heart, soul, and mind — He is your Creator!

Some people do not think of the Most High because of a lack of information from any religion, but if such people live naturally without breaking the commandments and laws of the Holy Scriptures, they will also be pleasers. So the most important thing is intention and action.

Let's talk a little about the soul. The soul is eternal, and the fact that it exists is even proven by science (when a person dies, the weight of the deceased decreases by 21 grams). The holy texts say that the soul is in the blood. The soul is you. When you leave your earthly body, as if you were moving from one car to another, you take with you the accumulated energy 'baggage', your true DNA, that you have acquired on earth. This DNA is prescribed based on your intentions, thoughts, actions, efforts, and sufferings during your earthly life. It is the imprint you leave behind forever. It is the path you have traveled, which cannot be changed after death. This path is the book of your deeds mentioned in the holy texts. You will receive the reward you deserve based on this book.

Therefore, while you are alive, take action. As it is written, "Each person will only have what they endeavored towards, and that [the outcome of] their endeavors will be seen [in their record]."

Choose the right goals and the right, true way, and strive for true success.

Logically, there is no point in setting goals, because we will all be gone. The point is only to be pleasing to God and to enter eternal life by successfully passing this exam — earthly life.

Don't rush the time

In the previous chapter, we found out what we should put first in life — the greatest and purest pursuit — to be pleasing to God. One must never abandon this path, not even in the hour of death; on the contrary, it is precisely in the hour of death that one must believe, repent, and ask for forgiveness.

In fact, everything that exists is distinguished in the holy texts by only two criteria: bad and good, good and evil, and acceptable and unacceptable.

Man is the greatest creation; it is enough that we are the image of the invisible God, according to the Scriptures. Because if man is insignificant, then so are the stars and the cosmos and the whole Universe and even what is beyond it. Everything has a period of stay in this world, some shorter, some longer. Everything, like people, came from somewhere, and once it did not exist, and once it will die, and once it will be resurrected. So everything that exists is a unity, connected by a common Source. But really there is only one difference and it is not material — you are either a favorable creature to your Creator or you are not. Because what is not pleasing to the Creator does not exist or will not exist soon, but what is pleasing will always exist.

All God-inspired books, as well as the common human mind and logic, tell us this in unison.

Striving to please the Most High defines a true believer from any religion, or simply a person who believes in the One Lord God. This is what unites all the books of the Holy Scriptures and all the Abrahamic religions, and what consolidates believers from all over the world.

To please your Creator, regularly replenish your supply of good deeds that don't need to be publicized, and don't expect any reward for them. Remember that you are preparing for the most important meeting of your life — a meeting with the Lord God. It is at this meeting that you will receive your reckoning for the whole of your life. Good deeds are not only a physical help, but also an emotional effort. To do this, you must focus on faith and service every day. Serving God does not have to be conspicuous. It is, as they say, a way of life. It is important to put the right information, the true information, and the false information in the right place in your mind. After that, live, try not to violate God's laws, and work on yourself in spiritual efforts: restrain anger, pray, meditate, learn the Bible and the Qur'an in peace and quiet, and worship the Most High. Act wisely and do not make mistakes in life.

In the book of ECCLESIASTES in the Bible, there is a very memorable and thought-provoking phrase: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is mańs all". So vast, so profound, that the subconscious mind, if not the soul, shudders when read in the context of the Bible. A clear understanding and realization of inevitability comes. Everything in life pales into insignificance before the mere thought that one day it will all come to an end here and you will stand in front of your Creator. You will be shown all that you have done, and you will be held accountable. And your life in eternity will depend on that moment. There comes the realization of the need to fight every kind of temptation in life: physical, mental, and spiritual. There comes the understanding that earthly riches are dust, nothing more. Appropriately, there is a saying in the Holy Qur'an: "The most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most God-fearing among you."

A godly servant is God-fearing, patient, humble, alms-giving, and forgiveness-seeking. And to leave this world godly is the highest reward and gift from the Almighty.

No matter how difficult it may be, always try to please God, realizing at every moment that He is looking at you. And it will be difficult, for it is said, "You [believers] will surely be tested in your wealth and yourselves."

God's ways are mysterious: "How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!" You can never be sure how righteous a person is. Sometimes people think that someone is a criminal, an unbeliever, just a bad person who is doing well in life, and they agonize over the question: "How can God give good things to such a person? In fact, that person may be more righteous than many who think that way.

Don't look around, don't judge, and don't put a stigma on anyone. After all, you don't know if you, given the opportunity and the power, would have done any better than the one you're judging. Perhaps someone else in his place would be incomparably worse.

Be righteous and you will see that in time you will be truly happy. Happiness is given only to those who are faithful to God.

Everyone has the opportunity to be happy in this life and forever in the next. Do not miss this opportunity, for all the rules are prescribed and they are very simple. Live according to the laws sent to us by our Creator. Be acceptable to God and do not rush the time — you will see what you get.

The clear sign

God created us all "to test which of you is best in deeds" (Qur'an). For this purpose, the Creator made us "micro-gods" endowed with freedom of thought, intention, and action. Everyone always has a choice, if not physically, then mentally, morally, and spiritually. To this end, we are placed in an environment where many have become unbelievers. Our reality is overflowing with temptations and trials in which we are free to make choices. Choices between good and evil. We are boiling in our human cauldron called the Earth. We see no clear evidence, no signs, no angels. Humans make their own choices in everything, including faith. Only in this way can God's purpose of seeing which of us is more righteous be realized.

We can assume that the Almighty could have determined everything in the first place, so why check? And you try to realize even a fraction of God's infinite greatness. You will come to the fact that we live in the thought of God, our whole life, the Universe and the present are defined, it is the thought of God out of the infinite number of other thoughts, and we live in it.

Everything is already defined and verified. The Creator is so great that man can only live his life in His thoughts in which He has already verified our souls. Life is a long journey for us, but in the true divine reality, it is only a moment.

Many fall into confusion and dispute, and so remain unbelievers. They say they want clear proof: to see with their own eyes, or to hear, or to see in a dream.

We need to realize that God is the true perfection. He grants us this favor — the opportunity to become righteous, to become part of God's shining, chosen people. Because of His perfection, the Creator should not forgive us if we see a clear, obvious sign, a vision (given to a chosen few out of many billions of people), and only then believe. Man is the image of God, so he must not doubt his Creator and must earn this definition.

We must first believe, and then perhaps we will see the signs, see them only because of our faith. Faith is primary, then understanding the signs around you. Only in this way can righteousness be imputed to you according to your faith. So you will not grieve God.

The Bible also says that you must not make up or dream up (this is a sin) that you have seen something from God. Do not invent predestination without absolutely clear evidence, and do not exalt yourself.

You have to see directly and realistically: if it's a vision, it's clear and real, if it's a dream, it's as clear as reality, and so on. Everything that is of God comes true and is manifest, otherwise it is not of God. "God's judgments and His ways past finding out!" (the Bible), and perhaps after a clear sign someone will believe and be forgiven.

But according to the Scriptures, you should not even think about it, there is a heavy penalty for it. One should only dream and desire to strengthen one's faith, but to desire an apparition, a vision is a great sin. Do not tempt the Almighty.

Only in ancient times did the righteous chosen by God receive the highest reward in this world — great faith and mercy from the Creator in a good, real appearance to man (through an angel or a prophet). Such people were just as faithful and unshakable in their faith even in the absence of such an appearance.

There is no sinless person on earth, but man can and should strive to be one. Therefore, all man has to do is fear God and be humble in the circumstances of life. All that is in a man's power at any time in his life is to repent and ask for forgiveness and mercy from the Most High, and that will lead to the best. To believe in simplicity and humility, not to ask for anything, and not to be tempted by the desire for a vision. Study the Holy Scriptures carefully and do not fall into temptation. Then you can be happy.

Many people think that if they saw it, they would believe it.

There have been signs before, but people did not believe.

Jesus Christ did many miracles, but people always found excuses and did not believe. They either said that there was a demon in Him or that He was a friend of sinners. There have been many miracles in history, people have been tested, but only the elect have believed, and that is why we do not see obvious miracles in our time.

The Holy Qur'an says: "Signs are only with Allah. What will make you [believers] realize that even if a sign were to come to them, they still would not believe?"; "Even if We had sent them the angels, made the dead speak to them, and assembled before their own eyes every sign [they demanded], they still would not have believed-unless Allah so willed."

Many said they would believe if they saw, but they did not. Open the heavens to an unbeliever, and he will say that it is witchcraft.

The words of the great Holy Books describe as accurately as possible the essence of the answer to every question.

Every soul will receive what it seeks.

Dream world

Based on all the information I have studied and considered, I see that our present world and our stay in it were created to purify us human beings, just as one purifies a precious metal so that the ingot becomes homogeneous. We are sinful from the beginning. Perhaps God intended for us to be tested by this sinful life, to be purified by our efforts to overcome sin and to be honored as one with God's world in Paradise. God is unreachably great, and when I write about a whole, I mean a world where all are reunited through the Holy Spirit, where all are equal. This is the next eternal life after the resurrection.

Holiness is one for all. We human beings are infinitely insignificant before God and even before the saints, but this does not prevent us from entering the Kingdom of God. That is, to become one with the infinitely great. This shows that everyone should try, and he will be rewarded according to his efforts and endeavors, compared to his opportunities and difficulties.

And our real life is the litmus test of whether we become part of the whole or go to the trash.

The Scriptures

The Scriptures are unquestionable. Let us think about it. There is a God — it is an axiom, an obvious and logically provable fact. The truth is in Him alone. This is where all reasoning and guidance to the true path begins.

The knowledge of the Creator is embedded in everyone from birth. So are the Bible and the Qur'an really the Word of God? Are the laws of the Scriptures true? We would not have such questions if something from the Lord had appeared to us and confirmed the answers to them clearly and visibly. That's what almost everybody thinks. But would it truly help? Hardly. The reason for this has already been discussed above, in the chapter "The CLEAR SIGN".

Let us start with what we have. And today we have the most authoritative and unique scriptures, from very distant times, which we have no right to question. All that is in our power is to reason logically and believe or disbelieve, for there is no direct evidence in our hands in our day, nor will there be; there are no alternative more authoritative texts for them to prove or disprove anything.

For example, the New Testament of the Bible was written almost two thousand years ago, and the Old Testament began to be written more than three and a half thousand years ago. This means that the Bible as a whole was created over a period of about 1600 years (from the 15th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.), and it is all connected and consistent.

It is strange that 2000 years after the Bible was written, people all over the world have not changed their ideas about God and the world order. How could these people know everything and know it in such detail, touching every aspect of life that exists, describing, structuring, and creating a set of rules with specific historical examples that are duplicated in both the Bible and the Qur'an? These rules are relevant at all times, there is nothing in them that contradicts common sense. How is it that 2000 years after the creation of the Bible and 1400 years after the creation of the Qur'an, nothing similar to these Holy Books has been created? There is no doubt — what is written in them must be believed.

We can also assume that the Bible has been rewritten many times by unscrupulous people who have changed the text or the meaning of the Scriptures, maybe by not all of them, but some specific ones, but maybe not. But the same can be said of the Qur'an because there is no 100 % proof of the original version. After all, 1400 years have passed. We are not going to get direct proofs in our time, too many possible variants of events could occur over such a long period of time. We have to start with what is indisputable — the recognition of a single God: both in the Bible and in the Qur'an. This is the foundation of truth. This truth can be understood and proven even by our earthly mind and logic. Everything in these Holy Books is based on it.

And how would the Lord allow unscrupulous sinners to change the text of His Word or make another book more famous and authoritative? It is obvious to a believer that such a thing cannot happen.

I'll say more. There is no point in seeking answers to questions about the authenticity of these Books, for there is no argument for not believing in the truth of Scripture since there is no more popular, perfect, orderly alternative with the same concept — of One Creator, the Lord God. As you can see, based on the logic we applied earlier in the book, if there is no clear evidence that something is not true, it would be more advantageous and less risky to believe it.

As it is said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." This means that to whom it is given will hear the truth and the essence. A righteous person will understand everything as soon as he begins to read the sacred texts; such a person is given to "hear".

In many ways, the Bible and the Qur'an are almost word-for-word, conveying meanings and historical events that complement each other harmoniously and do not contradict each other in the essence of the laws. We discussed this earlier in this book.

Many people doubt whether they should study the Holy Scriptures, or whether they should believe in their own truth. Why do you believe your mentors, teachers, preachers, priests, and other authority figures? Why do you go to them for advice, why do you listen to everything they say, why do you dance to their tune?

Just remember that you are listening to the word of ordinary people and there is the Word of God. What could be more authoritative?

Everything that exists in this world and the Universe has its origin in the Word of the Creator. Read the Holy Books and believe only in them. Live by the Word of God and not a step to the left or the right. And all the people and institutions to whom you turn for religious advice — they cannot speak for themselves, they can only help you to explain the Holy Texts.

It is the same with religions: when in doubt, go to the source and read and study the sacred texts for yourself.

I have included sayings from the Bible and the Qur'an in this book to support the argument.

The words of these Books must be handled with care, they are sacred.

Trust the Scriptures, there are no other divine texts known to mankind today. If they do appear, I am sure that in the 21st century of technology, we will be able to tell whether they are true or whether they are lies created by man.

To follow the right path in life, you should first study the Holy Scriptures and read the Bible and the Qur'an from beginning to end at least once in your life. Read them with faith, with acceptance, not with denial, but with humility. Then you will understand everything the first time, and you will not have to study and try to understand it all your life. You will find the truth, and then you will just live it and contemplate it. Otherwise, your life will not be enough for you to find the truth, and sooner or later you will seek it. Scripture, like faith, is either accepted or not. The choice is ours.

For those who have come to know the truth of the Bible and the Qur'an for themselves, it is abundantly clear that it is a guide to life. I did not find any fundamental semantic differences between the Bible and the Qur'an; on the contrary, I saw only similarities between them. I saw the same true laws and norms. These are the basis for serving and pleasing God.

For example, the 10 biblical commandments are the foundation of the Gospel. None of these commandments are rejected in the Qur'an. On the contrary, the same laws are preached in the Qur'an, and they are also fundamental and most important there. The definition of the worst sins, the so-called mortal sins, is absolutely identical in these two great Books. It is equally negative. The most important qualities of man are love, forgiveness, mutual respect, humility, patience, mercy, persuasion, hospitality, favor to the disadvantaged, and moderation in everything — all these fundamental qualities of a believing man are equally important in both the Bible and the Qur'an. Everything is identical, from the rules of life in certain circumstances to the smallest details of a person's personality.

As for believers of different Abrahamic religions, I can only say one thing. Study both the Bible and the Qur'an, emphasizing the points they have in common. Base your understanding on the meaning that is universal to both the Bible and the Qur'an.

Even the word "kill" (unbelievers) can mean not the taking of life, but the killing of sin in them. For example, the suppression of hypocrisy, the suppression of lying, the suppression of lust.

Turn to the Creator, turn to Him every day and for the whole of your life, in the morning and the evening. Do not expect any benefit from your requests and appeals to the Creator, but simply believe in them every day, obviously, absolutely convinced, as if you already have everything you ask for. One thing you must realize is that no one knows if what they ask for will be beneficial in the future.

Many more thoughts, theories, and beliefs about our universe and our existence may arise over time. In about 100 years, there will be virtually none of the people living on the planet today. Then there will be thousands more generations, each of which will have different theories about the origin of everything, different meanings, and so on, just as it was before our generation. But for some reason, of all the thousands of theories and assumptions, only one has proven to be viable over the centuries: there is God, He is one, and above all, He was and will be, only He should be worshipped, one should trust Him, ask Him, fear Him, love Him, fulfill His will by studying His Word — the Bible and the Qur'an. So maybe it's not a theory after all? Think about it.

Is this knowledge not worthy of being taught in educational institutions, since it is the basis of man, his meaning, and his purpose?

Faith and love

So faith is the foundation of the individual, the main test, like the fidelity test of a wife or husband. Everyone has the choice to change or not to change, to believe or not to believe.

There are many things in life that tend to push a person away from believing when things don't go the way they want. Life is a trial, from the first breath you take to the last. Poverty and wealth, sickness and health, tears and joy, love and hatred — absolutely everything in this life is a test. It is necessary to always remember this and treat this or that situation accordingly, to look at your life from the outside and analyze it. Because, as is often the case, when a person is poor, he or she is always trying to get out of the "pit" and it does not work — then the person falls. Know that if you have food in your refrigerator, clothes in your closet, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep, you are already richer than 75 % of the people. If you are healthy and don't have a terminal illness, you are luckier than the millions of people who will not survive this week. If you are reading or listening to these words right now, you are luckier than the millions of deaf and blind people. So don't complain. There are thousands of reasons to believe, to love, to live, to be grateful, and to be happy. You just have to see them. And what you don't have, you can make.

Both sorrow and joy are your test. You must have patience in your faith. Do everything according to the laws of the holy texts, and so be it. This is the only way to obtain the best for your future. Your suffering can be a blessing for you. It is the Creator's way of saving you from further suffering. How can you be sure that you will stand the test of prosperity, that your end will not be a tragedy, a drowning in sin? Many years ago, my grandmother said something that I still remember: "Man can endure any sorrow, but joy and wealth cannot." This expression fits in here as well as it can, because you never know what is going to be good for you and what is not.

Faith is an absolute conviction at the level of awareness of the truth, a constant certainty of the realization of the expected and the certainty of the unseen. "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God" (Bible).

A believer is one who has believed and then has no doubt and fights the battle on his way with works, possessions, soul, mind, and heart. He is one who is certain without seeing and faithful without seeing.

And, as it is said, blessed is he who has believed without any apparent proof and has passed the test of faithfulness.

The consequence of faith is the fear of God. This is what makes a person live righteously.

Faith in God and His Word (the Scriptures) must be the highest and most important quality of man.

True faith implies a dedication to it for the rest of one's life and at every moment, regardless of the circumstances that surround us.

The process of believing is the perfection of an unquestionable, clear, absolutely convinced, even explicit recognition, as in seeing, of the existence of God, the recognition of His greatness, and the great importance of the fear of displeasing the Lord.

It's up to us whether we have faith or not. Everyone must make his own choice. Whether that choice leads to the right path or not depends on the person. That is the only thing that is entirely up to us, even though everything is predetermined, but as it is written, a man has to make that choice. A righteous person has to ask the Creator for it is he who is predestined to have this choice, the choice of faith. It is either the way of faith or the futile eternal search for truth.

There is no need for a reason to believe or not to believe. Faith, like love, is far more useful and life-giving than any other human quality. Neither self-confidence, nor willpower, nor perseverance, nor cheerfulness and positivity, nor even patience, nor intelligence, nor physical strength — nothing can compare in power to faith for a human being. It is the power of the mind and the most powerful thing in man. Therefore, a person should not choose it but should strive for it with all his strength, strive, and ask the Almighty to strengthen it, because there is nothing more useful for a person than faith.

It is also said in the Holy Books that everyone can be with God by believing and loving. If we love one another, that is, if we do good to one another, then "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him" (the Bible). So the presence of love in your life is proof that God is with you. And you don't have to wait for a sign or a vision to prove God's presence. Faith and love in your soul is enough, as it says: "Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

The word "love" has many meanings. When I say love, I mean kindness to everything around me. There is a higher love. It is when you are willing to sacrifice your soul for someone. This is God's love revealed to us when He sent Christ to suffer for us.

You could say that love comes from faith, and you could say that faith comes from love. Both are logical, but it is said: "The greatest of these is love."

Love is called the queen of the virtues. Without it, the other virtues cannot exist. Without love, they simply become vices and passions.

Faith without love becomes fanaticism and ritualism. Hope without love is despair, it is sadness and despondency. Intelligence without love is cunning, but intelligence with love is wisdom. A heart without love is a stone or a block of ice.

Above the law there can only be love, above the truth, there can only be mercy, and above justice, there can only be forgiveness!

Love is above the law, above truth, and above justice, because the foundation of mercy and forgiveness is love, on which these virtues are based. For this reason, justice without love becomes cruelty, mercy becomes condemnation, and humility without love becomes hypocrisy.

Love binds souls together, both in this world and in the next. In the Bible, God commanded us through Jesus Christ to love one another and to do good, but the one who has loved God above all else is already an eternally successful person.

With your unwavering faith and righteous deeds, you will accumulate real wealth, imperishable and eternal, with which, at the hour of death, you will not suffer in agony, but will leave with a smile on your face and a clear belief in entering eternal life as your reward.

There is such a parable.

One infant asks the other, "Do you believe in life after birth?

The believer says, "Of course, there is life after birth, and we are here to become strong and ready for what comes after.

"This is all nonsense. There is no life after birth. Can you imagine what such a life might be like?" asks the unbeliever.

The believer: "Well, I don't know all the details, but there would be more light and joy, and we would eat with our mouths, for example.

"That's ridiculous, we have our own umbilical cord and it feeds us. And no one has ever come back from there. Life simply ends with birth."

Believer: "No, I don't know exactly what our life will be like after we are born, but one way or another we will see our mom and she will take care of us."

"Mommy?" asked the unbeliever. "Do you believe in Mommy? And where is she?"

"She is everywhere, she is all around us. Because of her, we live, and without her we are nothing."

An unbelieving child, "That's nonsense. I haven't seen a mother, so obviously she doesn't exist".

"No, I don't agree. In fact, sometimes, when everything around us is quiet, you can hear her singing or feel her caressing our world. I believe that our real life doesn't begin until we are born!"

And do you?

The primer of life

Every cruelty, every sin, the more serious ones, from theft and murder to waging war, all these are meaningless. These "victories" are not to be boasted about, they are not to be wished for, because even war ends in peace, and the perpetrators will still have to answer for what they have done, both in this world and the next. Strength is not in war, or in proving one's superiority, but strength is in faith, in piety, and pleasing God — in what is true and eternal. Here is the answer to the age-old question: "Who is the strongest?" He who is with God.

It is important to first decide whether you are on the side of good or evil, true power or false power, life or death, the Lord or nothingness. If you are on the side of God, then you must obey His Word, otherwise, you are just like any other unbelieving sinner, it's all about intention and action. Jesus said, "Believe my works." The Bible says, "For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who are righteous."

Therefore, fighting the real enemy — your passions — is your real war. The sacred texts say, "You should reign over sin." This is actually the answer to the question of how to pass through this life with dignity. The answer to the question of how to please your Creator, to Whom there is soon to be a sojourn. Perhaps the reward in this world will not be long in coming.

Before entering eternal life, it is important to sincerely repent of all sins before the Lord, recognizing that the Lord God is one and the same for all and that there is no other God.

At the end of earthly life, man should fill his soul by doing good, not by satisfying earthly wants and needs. The accumulation of wealth in heaven is a worthwhile thing to do in this life.

If you have this kind of baggage in your life, without any heavy sins, then your end in this world will be easy and beautiful with the knowledge that you did your best. It is as if you were about to take the most important exam of your life, and you know for sure that you are 100 % prepared for it.

I would like to emphasize one bad human quality that, in my experience, has caused the most trouble on earth. Pride, vanity, and ego are among the greatest sins in the Qur'an and the Bible. In my opinion, this is the first thing we all need to work on. Pride is the root of sin! It is necessary to restrain the mind from superiority over others, from exaggerating one's personal importance, to work on self-control, and much more. After all, self-control is a false concept: in spite of your outward tranquility, you are capable of holding back everything inward. This is good, but it is better to change yourself on the level of awareness and conviction, not on the level of self-control, and simply be a person without such a vice.

There is no need to judge each other in anything ("Judge not that you be not judged") — not to exalt oneself or to diminish anyone. This is the Creator's right and power. We are all different. Each of us is given strength for one aspect of life or another to a different degree. Some are psychologically stronger, some are physically stronger, some are gifted in mathematics and some in linguistics, some in negotiations, some in IT. Every believer must do his best not to upset God. Therefore, there should be no diminishing or devaluing of any person. He may be doing the best he can with the little you can see of him. And you, who do much as you think, use only a small part of the strength the Lord has given you. And in essence, you are less than this man before God. Yet you allow yourselves to condemn him.

All the more so never complain that your parents could not give you anything. It was probably the best they could do. They did their best. I come from a simple family, far from rich, but I am immensely grateful to my parents for everything. I know they work as hard as they can, 100 percent, all my life. And I thank God for giving me such parents.

Do not give up praying. There is no need to ask for anything but forgiveness and mercy. The Creator knows better than you what you need.

Prayer (conversation with God) and penance (sincere regret) should be done as seriously as possible, in the full awareness that the Lord is close to you and is listening to you attentively. He is the Creator of everything, not a big boss or even a president! It is impossible for us to comprehend even a little of His greatness and power. Just bow down and ask for forgiveness. When you realize even a little bit of the greatness of God, which is what the righteous and believing people come to, then you will happily fall face down on the ground, stretch out your hands, and ask for forgiveness. This realization will reveal your need for love and fear of the Lord.

In the book of ECCLESIASTES in the Bible, it is written that man should do what is given from above, do it for the good of mankind, and enjoy what he has done.

The most vivid examples of people who were pleasing to God and who lived according to the laws of the Scriptures were the prophets.

A man can spend his whole life searching for the meaning of life, trying to understand the innermost things, and trying to live according to different teachings, directions, maybe even some sects, but he will not find what he wanted to find and he will not do what the One he was searching for expects of him. And the other will simply trust in the Lord and obey His commandments, and he will be greater to God than the thousands who have searched all their lives.

No regrets

If a person has faith in God the Creator, the One, it is illogical to accuse such a person of unbelief or false faith or false religion. First, only God can see and judge whether a person believes or not. Second, that person may be better than you. Third, he may belong to any religious denomination because he was born into a certain society, certain traditions, and circumstances beyond his control that led him to this or that religion. Fourth, what is religion? It is not just complicity. It is, first of all, a way of life: intentions, thoughts, emotions, actions, and, finally, a connection with God. The mere fact of belonging to a religion doesn't fully reveal one's personality. One can be a Buddhist but live according to Islamic law, is such a person unrighteous? Fifth, if you are sure that this is the case, then as a believer you should first try to guide such a person in the right direction, but do not rush to judgment. Sixth, the commandments and laws of every Abrahamic religion say that you are not to exalt yourself above others. And that is exactly what a person who accuses someone of bad faith is doing. Why do many Muslims, Christians, and Jews do this? They think they are righteous, or more righteous than others, and so they tarnish themselves with sin. After all, as the Scriptures say, do not exalt yourself before anyone. In time, when such a person turns to God, he will realize that he has been acting arrogantly. Why should we not simply carry out the injunctions of the Holy Books? That would certainly be the right kind of faith.

It's even worse when people are arrogant toward their relatives. This happens for several reasons. One of them is being exposed to the influence of society. In such a case, regrets are inevitable.

Don't worry about what society thinks of you. Spend more time with your loved ones.

Imagine that when you talk to each other, it may be the last time you meet. This may be your last embrace. And then, all of a sudden, you pass away in a quarrel, in resentment, or pride. The reason for this haughtiness can be a perfect trifle. A deed not done in time. Therefore, you should live as if it were the last day of your life. Then there will be no place for pride and arrogance. It will not be difficult for you to say "Thank you." It will not be difficult for you to say, "I am sorry." You will have no desire to offend anyone, you will have no desire to laugh at anyone. You will just be happy.

Man begins all his actions with a thought. Our mind is given to us from above for this very purpose. Thinking leads to intending, and intending leads to feelings and emotions, which can be different for the same action. At this point, the mind intervenes to choose the emotion that suits it best. Simply put, it chooses between good and bad. Bad means harming the soul, and good means benefiting the soul. Often our flesh causes our mind to make bad choices in order to satisfy its earthly desires. Therefore, to do right, that is, for the benefit of our true self, for the benefit of our soul, it is necessary to control our mind in choosing the right emotion. This is called emotional control in life. It is easy when you remember that by making the wrong choices (anger, greed, lies, alcohol, lust, etc.) you are only harming yourself and only yourself.

On the road!

So, first of all, the realization of death, of leaving this life, gives one a clear vision of the truth of the existence of the Creator of all things, the Original Source.

The next step is the realization of the necessity to accept His Word — the Holy Scriptures.

Then, weighing the possible risks that may exist after this life, a person makes the most important choice — to have faith or not.

The best help in this decision is the remembrance of death. It gives rise to true faith based on piety.

This is followed by an understanding of the need to study and analyze all the books of the Holy Scriptures without exception. Belief in these books comes from recognizing the obvious fact that there is a Lord God. It is on this reality that the concept of the Scriptures is based. The holy texts give a real, clear realization that everything that is said in them is true.

Each of us has a choice to make from an infinite number of paths.

No one is forcing you to follow any one of them. The choice is yours. But remember that the present life is only an ordeal for which you'll have to answer.

Following this comes the acceptance of life from the perspective of the sacred texts.

The beginning of the true path is faith. Then it is the fear of God that produces the qualities that enable one to be righteous and wise. This, in turn, teaches you how to manage your own life.

To be pleasing to the Most High becomes the goal of man. This is the true purpose of life for every soul.

It is the beginning of ministry, the formation of a way of life. It is learning God's Word and using it to guide your life. Therefore, the most important thing is to live according to the laws of the Scriptures.

It is worth repeating once again that the law of the Lord God is undeniably the only true law. All the rest is vanity.

The only right way is the way of faith in the Primary Sourse, our Creator, the Lord God, and the way of observing His laws along with your earthly virtues according to your abilities for the benefit of mankind and the glory of God. It is the way of thinking with the cognition of the real, the true. The way that will bring an end to wars and suffering, the establishment of justice, and the reign of love. The way that will be the source of happiness for everyone in this world and the way to eternal Paradise life.

There is very little time left. Study the law of your Creator. Enforce it soon. And everything else you need for a happy life, both this life and the next, the Lord God will give you. Don't even doubt it.

I sincerely say that the purpose of creating this book was and is to make people happier, and to make the world spiritually cleaner and kinder, to please our Creator. That is my desire and that is my ultimate goal. I am absolutely convinced that the only way to make people happy is to guide them to follow the path that leads to pleasing the Most High!

If the Lord wills it and my book succeeds in leading at least one person to the only right way, then it is a success! This path can only be traveled with the Word of the Creator. This is the Guidance — the Holy Bible, and the Holy Qur'an.

I wish you all to follow this straight way! I wish you happiness and eternal true life in the one Holy Spirit! Be acceptable to the Lord God Most High, both by your deeds and by your repentance, and let Him forgive you.

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Introduction

Alpha and Omega

The Universe

In search of the beyond

Outcomes

The right questions and meanings

If that day come

Inexplicable logic

Material prosperity

Heaven on earth

Life climate factors

Happiness

Black and white

On the edge

Life

Energy

Right knowledge

The subconscious mind is true

The stumbling blocks and grains of consolidation

The temple

Beam in the eye

Laws

Purpose and true success

Don't rush the time

The clear sign

Dream world

The Scriptures

Faith and love

The primer of life

No regrets

On the road!