Perspectives on the Human Being Dr.

Hanaan Balala The microcosm reflects the macrocosm; the created reflects the Creator; the I represent the All; Each Human Being Represents the Whole of Humanity. Thus, I am of the perspective that the status and significance given to one person over others, such as Prophets or Messiah, is misconstrued. The perspective I prefer is that they were only prophets or messengers because they understood and delivered the message of Oneness; the message that All of human kind IS One and that they represented the whole of humanity. These individuals we glorify and/or call prophets were simply human beings who understood the essence of Life, the essence from which we all emanate and that each human being represents the rest of Humanity psychologically; that each one represents the whole. In short, each human being is a microcosm of the macrocosm. Once this is understood, really and deeply within the very being of a human, then one is totally responsible in life. Second hand living or dependency on another human being or any other external authority is no longer an option. One sees clearly that he/she IS the authority; he/she is part of everything there is and thus everything in Life is simply a mirror through which one sees and understands ones self. Those we have called prophets knew and spoke of this. They lived lives of total responsibility, that is, with the profound ability to respond to whatever is in each moment. This was the

miraculous quality they exuded. They questioned everything and everyone, they refused to recognize or follow any external authority and thus, embodied independence and freedom. Likewise, they did not encourage or condone the psychological dependence of any other human being. The Quran says, Muhammad is a human being, if he is killed or dies, do you turn back on what you are? It defies the very Greatness we impute on such characters we call prophets that they would completely reject any form of physical or psychological control then proceed to form a new dogmatic system that would control their followers and subject them to their external control as the prophet of God to the rest of human kind. The Quran attests the fallacy of this premise in Ali-Imran. Quite the contrary, these individuals in the real sense of the word that they were indivisible; whole and complete human beings not fragmented by race, colour, creed, gender or any other such division that human existence is and has always been rife with rejected any form of authority imputed upon themselves. They stressed that they were human and they only pointed to Truth but that Truth was personal; and revealed itself to one upon deep enquiry and introspection much like that which Muhammad, Jesus, Moses and all those we call prophets underwent and emerged as. They were messengers in so much as they understood the Truth and Lived it and thus their words and deeds were signs that pointed out the Truth that was available for all to live upon deep enquiry that would cause an inward/psychological revolution and a shift in reality.

None of those we call prophets asked for followers or set up an organized following called a religion. They abhorred the very concept of an organized religion and following because it enslaved one to a creed, to a set of rules and rituals whilst the essence of their message was to set human kind, each human being, free.