I am a miracle of rationality.

Junoon in my head
I cried

Hey,
I am in love.
Now I love you.
Whosoever you are?
Whatever your religion and race is.
Now I love Jews (Muslims hate Jews as part of their faith)
Now I love Shias (my father was a Sunni Muslim)
Now I love Christians.

Sunnis hate Shias and Christians

Now I love Hindus (Muslims hate polytheists)
Earlier, I hated them all.
There is no the permanent other.
We are all children of the mother earth.
We are all earthlings.
All division, whether racial, political, ethnic, national are arbitrary and secondary.

I no longer feel loneliness and alienation
as love helps me to relate with my fellow human beings meaningfully,
as a dignified autonomous individual,
Without turning the society into a crowd or a herd

My love for my fellow human beings embeds the other within myself.
They cease to be strangers.
They are my friends, brothers and sisters.

When I took my beloved in my arms, she cried.

puchho na pucha mujhe kya milega, teri baahon mein aakar yeh ishq haaye baithe bithaaye, jannat dikhaaye haan

(ask me what happened to me when you took me in your arms, love makes one crazy, I felt as if I am in heaven)
On hearing the word paradise rationality smiled.
It said nothing
all along Rationality opposed vehemently the concept of life after death and paradise as a false hope,

Just to tease rationality
My beloved had a cheek to cheek dance with me
she cried I am in heaven.
It made rationality laugh.

Rationality said if you want to make earth a paradise with your love
by living in peace with others, most welcome
art and literature, imagination and dreams are what makes man different than animals and a machine
your Junoon is an act of freedom deep rooted moral commitment for the good for the humanity.
It is an intense faith in her creative powers in her being and in her becoming
your Junoon is not madness, I call it radical subjectivity
your Junoon creates
and religious madness destroys.
Religion breeds madness.
Religion kills dreams.
Religion kills creativity.
Religion bans imagination.
Religion is the scum of the earth.
It imbues human hearts with hatred.
Talks of the permanent other

Talks of the perpetual war
Breeds fear in the hearts of its believers.
Fear of the unknown
Fear of the death
Fear of the other
Fear of the truth
Enough is enough.
Organized religion is scum of the earth should be put to the dust bin of history.

After this Junoon and rationality kissed each other.
It turned me to tears.
These were tears of joy.
Seeing the union of yin and yang
Seeing the union of the East and the West
It made me happy.
After this I lived in peace with myself and with my fellow human beings
It was after rationality freed my heart from hateful religion that love could make its nest in my heart.
Earlier, I was incapable of loving.

It took a long time to reach this stage.
I imbibed western thought.
I got rationality

from great Iranian traditions, I got Junoon
it taught me
az harchi aqal kul shudi
be junoon mabash
if you have absolute knowledge do not be without a little madness.
I call Iran Kishouwri aashiqani admaiyet
the country of lovers of humanity.
the greatness of the Iranian traditions has mesmerized me
I would like to call it my Mecca.
and Iraq of Al hallaj my Medina
but the present mullah regime has degraded Iran into backwardness and ignorance, into abyss of bigotry and Aryanism
it does not reflect its great traditions any more.

The Indian traditions
the Great sons of soil
Buddha, nanak, kabir, mahavir taught me.
Koai nahi haai geer
(there is no the other)
ho sab ka bala sab kay baly main ho mere bala
(wish good for all; seek your good in the good to the other )
These are the great Indian intellectual traditions.

The Chinese’s intellectual thought taught me.
Dialectics of nature the yin-yang concept
It taught me change is the essence of everything
it taught me the other is embedded inside you.
I had learnt from the cybernetics.
The Observed is embedded inside the observer
both are related with each other through the feedbacks
if A caused b and b causes c
through the feedback c causes a,
then a essentially causes itself.

This circularity of causation is exactly what Persian poet Rumi has said
this world and yonder world are incessantly giving birth
every cause is a mother its effect the child
when the effect is born it too becomes a cause
gives birth to wonder’s effects,
but it needs insight to see the links in the chain.
This helped me to understand what Jesus Christ has allegedly said.
Love your enemyIf someone slaps you offer the other cheek.

Now I can understand what he wanted to tell us.
do not be like your enemy.

When a person hates you,
he wants to make you a hateful person.
Hate is inside his mind.
By slapping you, he wants to make you like himself.
However, if you offer him, another cheek.
It will be a statement that you refuse to be like him
he is wrong if he thinks, you also hate him.
By doing so you remove the hate inside him
you will win a heart and fill it with love.If you slap him, his self-fulfilling prediction will come true
you will prove him right
do not let the other determine the terms and conditions of engagement
by slapping him, you cease to be an actor your response becomes reactive.

I no longer fear death
I no longer need to have false hope of life after death
I am unthreatened
I am un frightened.
I am fearless.
I have understood myself who am I.
I am not only my physical being a standalone individual.
I am a part of human population.
I am a social as well as a biosocial being
death at the micro level, at organismic level might seem opposite of life.
However, at the macro level, at the level of population, Death gives life to whole population
renews it makes it healthier
socially my death will give space for a human being better than me
thus humanity evolves to a higher degree.